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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
12/24/2005	6majik9	In Mara's Glove	CDR	$10.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	reissue of first 6majik9 disc , previously available on foxglove.
12/24/2005	6majik9	The Human Hand	CDR	$10.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"the companion release to 'majik - in mara's glove' to be released on foxglove in may. the collective madness unleashed in various forms , sparked by awareness of the infinite , sunburned minds ornamental disasters trapped on magnetic fiber.....or ink"
4/10/2009	M.C. Carpet	This is an MC Carpet Sample	cassette	$5.99		"Mankato, Minnesota's first rapper. A local legend whom had made maybe 10 tapes in the mid 90's & tried to sell them at high school football games. This may be the only MC Carpet tape not thrown in a trash. Incrediblly bizarre LONER BASEMENT RAP. side B is instrumental. KICKIN A STYLE FOR 96!!! Somewhat comparable to the "Sheriff Jake Fields" cs"
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.
11/15/2008	Magen, Anthony	Pourquoi	3" CDR	$10.99	Black Petal	"A guy from melbourne doing some very nice loner blues stuff; then versioning it 4 times in a very obscure take on dub tactics."
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
8/2/2008	Magic Aum Gigi	Starring Keiko	LP	$28.99	Fractal	"Magic Aum Gigi 2nd solo album after his first raga-metal-drone opus " My Metal Machine Music " released in 2004 on SSW label. Started since 3 years, this new project due to be released on CD by a japanese label has finally saw a terminal issue on vinyl produced by Fractal. " Starring Keiko " with it's pastiche cover from Ash Ra Tempel 5th album is a deep cosmic " Chant d'Amour " concept album turned around an ensemble of 4 tracks for 4 instruments : a piece for jew's harp, a piece for voice, a piece for synthesizer and a piece for guitar. Space music highly repetitive. Limited numbered vinyl edition 200 copies."
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!"
	Magic Hour	Heads Down	7"	$7.99	Twisted Village	1993 recordings from Kate Biggar, Damon Krukowski, Wayne Rogers, & Naomi Yang.
10/25/2008	Magic Lantern	High Beams	LP	$15.99	Not Not Fun	"After far, far too long lost in the merch-less dark, the LBC's most married band, Magic Lantern, finally beam down the blinding full-length psych-statement we always knew they had hidden inside. It only took the Southern California sector a single 5-song demo plus a handful of incense-dense komische live flights to fully fall under the spell of ML's oncoming headlights, but now the rest of the globe can hop on the band's wild wagon. Hold on. High Beams throws out the total 20-sided die of the their illuminative powers, from stomping, storming show staples like 'Deathshead Hawkmoth' and 'Vampires In Heat' through to Sun Araw-vibed chime trancers ('Feasting On Energy') and even a good time acid-addled feedback boogie ('Cactus Raga'). These are all of the Lanterns' classic long-form anthems, captured in glorious high-def, thanks to Bobb Bruno's attuned production/recording capabilities and a radiant mastering job courtesy of James Plotkin. The riffs rip, the drums destroy, and the organ burns a hole in the sun. Walk into the light. Black vinyl LPs (with full color center labels) in glossy jackets with flag photography by Cameron & Erica Stallones, plus a fried-eyed, full-color 11x17 poster. Edition of 500."
2/21/2009	Magic Lantern / Hop-Frog Kollectiv	Underwater Dynasty / Somba	LP	$11.99	Urck Records	"Through a mutual admiration of each other's work Magic Lantern & The Hop-Frog Kollectiv have created two stunning masterpieces for a collaborative release. The Hop-Frog Kollectiv's Somba is based on recordings on Silvertone and Hammond organs donated by Shea M. Gauer of OPEN Books and features Yanqin (Chinese dulcimer), Ruan (moon guitar), Been, electric guitar, midi guitar & flutes. The title comes from the regionally known name of three clans in the Atakora Mountains of the Sahara desert who's ancestral and family ties govern their society through their belief that the dead are permanently among us and constantly influencing us. Magic Lantern's Underwater Dynasty was recorded for Ukelele, Guitar, Flute, Piano, Bells, Hand Drums & Voices. This piece could alternatively be titled Underwater Raga. The magic created by the interweaving flute and string melodies creates and epic soundtrack to an Atlantis like Hesse-esque world that'll take you to the outer places you've always needed to explore. This is Magic Lantern's follow up to their highly acclaimed wax release on Not Not Fun entitled High Beams. This LP is limited to 300 copies."
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."
5/1/2009	Magik Markers	Balf Quarry	CD	$13.99	Drag City	"Oh, Magik Markers -- you dirty fuckers! You look like a reasonably intelligent young woman and man -- perhaps a bit intense, but who isn't in these end times? Then the needle drops and you're amok, dusting us from the git-go, wild-eyed in a china shop where stop keeps meaning more. Ah, if it were only music -- but it would appear you've rethought that too. And would it kill you to crack a smile? When an album begins with a song called 'Risperdal,' one should assume a mind-and-body-slamming forty-five minutes or so are underway. And 'one' wouldn't be wrong, dickhead. Sure, Balf Quarry has moody space in its soul, melodies whether stretched over rock, ululating rhythm, chimes 'n piano and/or wah-wah. Regardless of the configuration, Elisa Ambrogio and Pete Nolan are locked together, beating it out, listening to feeling the sound of their earth quake. And slicing through all the atmosphere, Elisa's voice is a spear of light, splashes of mud, an acid purple flashback. The Balf Quarry libretto reads like an inner monologue of some poor bastard from The Stand: desperate and vengeful musings from the head of a witness to and survivor of an apocalypse, in a world they never made, dreaming helplessly of the demons out west. 'Safe before their life sets in' might mean hope in this landscape. The world's not broken -- people ruin it every time. Working with engineer Scott Colburn (Sun City Girls, Animal Collective, Sir Richard Bishop), Magik Markers have captured a lot of different moods and twitches on Balf Quarry. Tremoring mid-rhythms form the body, with a couple showers of hardcore, high flying free-duo style and several clinking music boxes of woe as well. On slower tunes, the mass of brooding guitar tone generated is Elisa's signature, a carving all of her own. Fills, licks and other touches move the songs a broken arm's length away from a fundament of chaos and horror. When colors actually match and you have grey music for grey days, it's great -- but what about grey music for cherry red lava days, or rainbow sounds goes -- and just your luck, Magik Markers have brought anything with them on Balf Quarry -- a multicolored projectile of vomit you can sing along to! If psychosis is your thing, Balf Quarry is like a jukebox just for you. The only thing it's missing is a brick attached to the LP/CD to facilitate throwing it through your window! No, we're not talking about you, asshole. This is the royal 'you' -- the 'you' of all Magik Markers fandom, the 'you' of anyone with ears and the guts for this shit. Wot fun! Prepare for the birth of the second sun, y'all."
5/1/2009	Magik Markers	Balf Quarry	LP	$15.99	Drag City	"Oh, Magik Markers -- you dirty fuckers! You look like a reasonably intelligent young woman and man -- perhaps a bit intense, but who isn't in these end times? Then the needle drops and you're amok, dusting us from the git-go, wild-eyed in a china shop where stop keeps meaning more. Ah, if it were only music -- but it would appear you've rethought that too. And would it kill you to crack a smile? When an album begins with a song called 'Risperdal,' one should assume a mind-and-body-slamming forty-five minutes or so are underway. And 'one' wouldn't be wrong, dickhead. Sure, Balf Quarry has moody space in its soul, melodies whether stretched over rock, ululating rhythm, chimes 'n piano and/or wah-wah. Regardless of the configuration, Elisa Ambrogio and Pete Nolan are locked together, beating it out, listening to feeling the sound of their earth quake. And slicing through all the atmosphere, Elisa's voice is a spear of light, splashes of mud, an acid purple flashback. The Balf Quarry libretto reads like an inner monologue of some poor bastard from The Stand: desperate and vengeful musings from the head of a witness to and survivor of an apocalypse, in a world they never made, dreaming helplessly of the demons out west. 'Safe before their life sets in' might mean hope in this landscape. The world's not broken -- people ruin it every time. Working with engineer Scott Colburn (Sun City Girls, Animal Collective, Sir Richard Bishop), Magik Markers have captured a lot of different moods and twitches on Balf Quarry. Tremoring mid-rhythms form the body, with a couple showers of hardcore, high flying free-duo style and several clinking music boxes of woe as well. On slower tunes, the mass of brooding guitar tone generated is Elisa's signature, a carving all of her own. Fills, licks and other touches move the songs a broken arm's length away from a fundament of chaos and horror. When colors actually match and you have grey music for grey days, it's great -- but what about grey music for cherry red lava days, or rainbow sounds goes -- and just your luck, Magik Markers have brought anything with them on Balf Quarry -- a multicolored projectile of vomit you can sing along to! If psychosis is your thing, Balf Quarry is like a jukebox just for you. The only thing it's missing is a brick attached to the LP/CD to facilitate throwing it through your window! No, we're not talking about you, asshole. This is the royal 'you' -- the 'you' of all Magik Markers fandom, the 'you' of anyone with ears and the guts for this shit. Wot fun! Prepare for the birth of the second sun, y'all."
3/5/2009	Magik Markers	Baltimore Trust	CDR	$10.99	Arbitrary Signs	"Super quality recording of a great I trust my guitar era Magik Markers show in Baltimore back in 2003. The early band were in full effect here, creating tight organic instant no wave compositions each night out of naive guitar, rocking/shambling beats, screams and whatever happened to be going through Elisa Ambrogio's mind each night. This is a really cohesive show and it kind of sets the record straight about what the early Markers actually sounded like. The banter's on point too. Cool document."
8/2/2008	Magik Markers	Danau Blues	CDR	$11.99	Arbitrary Signs	"Awesome quality board recording of a live show the Markers played in Austria where even with the biggest monitors on earth we were completely unable to hear each other. It was an enourmous stage and it felt like piloting a very large hovering aircraft without knowing how to turn the lights on. Inspite of this, the recording bore out very nicely. I think its Japanese sounding in a jam sense as well as a togetherness way. hand-penned covers."
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."
8/2/2008	Magik Markers	Pwtre Ser	CDR	$11.99	Arbitrary Signs	"Recorded in San Francisco a few months ago in a home studio zone.. Moves like some kind of deep space taffy pull.. Haz from Jazzfinger really likes this one... screened covers."
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.
6/5/2009	Magik Markers	Shame Mask	CDR	$10.99	Arbitrary Signs	"New limited self-released studio album from the Markers duo of Elisa Ambrogio and Pete Nolan. For me, this one blows away their recent Drag City album, continuing that wild, psychedelic Japanese underground sound of the past few CD-Rs. There are epic, beautiful, fuzz and F/X-soaked instrumentals that ride the slipstream between Bardo Pond and Overhang Party, weird dub/punk tracks that orbit the whole Slits/PIL take on delay-damaged guitar/vocal narcosis and expansive, psychedelic takes on the early Patti/Kaye jams. Dunno how they do it, but this duo side is actually their biggest 'sounding' release to date, with a choice use of F/X and raggedy-ass guitar textures pushing the whole thing into a more beautiful and genuinely affecting zone than anything that has come before. Pretty much the perfect balance of guitar bombast and up-tight street hassle style. Comes in the usual screened envelopes. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue.
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.
3/21/2009	Magnetic North Duo	Static Fields Forever	CDR	$7.99	Tape Drift	"Debut release from Norwegian unit comprised of Sindre Bjerga on bass, electronics, tapes, and Nils Rostad on guitar. A zoned and droned out blast of a journey into other worlds yet unexplored. True mastery over sound is the goal here and these two have a stellar set of techniques helping them rise to the challenge. A mesmerizing and very rich sounding sculpture of auditory bliss. From a live set recorded in Norway, this is a project we are incredibly proud to be releasing."
3/5/2009	Magneticring	Magneticring	LP	$18.99	Uzu Audio	"Magneticring is the solo project of Josh Stevenson, member of Staked Plain (est. 1993), Von Bingen, B.C.V.C.O. and formerly Jackie-O Motherfucker. Not to mention contributions to a Kemialliset Ystävät recording, touring as a member of Samara Lubelski's live band, Pink Mountaintops, numerous mastering credits, and is currently working on recordings with Montreal's Sam Shalabi's 'Land of Kush Orchestra' and Steven Wray Lobdell (Faust, Davis Redford Trio) After a couple of cassette releases, we are pleased to present his first long playing LP. Three tracks of hazy vintage synth pieces. This album is a one time pressing of 449 copies of clear 180 gram vinyl packaged in a Tip-on style gatefold jacket with custom silk screened art." Nice!
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."
9/6/2002	Maher Shalal Hash Baz	Maher On Water	10"	$14.99	Geographic	"Free thinking Japanese phenomenon & the inspiration behind the Pastel's Geographic label release their latest material on this '10 tracks in 17 minutes' EP. Now Maher On Water introduces a new concept, Blues De Jour, whereby band leader Kudo will reflect his feelings of the day in whatever fragments of song come to mind, sketches of where the Maher sound is about to go."
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."
6/5/2009	Maher Shalal Hash Baz with Masami Shinoda	Koshi Kudake No Inu	DVD	$19.99	PSF	"Enticing archival document of an early (1987) show by wide-eyed mystics Maher Shalal Hash Baz at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo. The visuals provide a rare and valuable opportunity to pick apart the working methods of one of the Japanese underground's most truly original and agile thinkers, Tori Kudo. In Maher Shalal Hash Baz, he took the heterophonic voicings, the deliberately fluctuating rhythmic mis-steps and the non-unison unison so characteristic of Japanese traditional music and re-applied them to idiot savant mini-hymns arranged for electric guitar, euphonium, ocarina and organ. It's a music that exists in a unique world of its own, alternately donning and shedding the armor of rock and jazz. Another major draw is the presence of the late Masami Shinoda on alto sax. Shinoda was an important, though largely unsung, figure in the history of the Tokyo underground during the '80s and '90s, showing up in all manner of groups from punk iconoclasts Jagatara and Pungo, to his own experiments with chindon marching advertising bands. He spent a few years in Maher in the '80s and this DVD captures the innocent joy and rapturous invention he brought to their music. 24 tracks, 75 minutes. Color, NTSC Region Free (says Region 2 on the package, but that is a typo, it plays Region Free), Stereo, 08.09.21." - FE
4/22/2009	Mahikari	Mahikari	LP	$15.99	Birdman	"A chance meeting around an axe-wound-shaped microphone and MAHIKARI is born. On one side, world-famous ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE guitar god MAKOTO KAWABATA. Showblazing on stage other is SEIICHI YAMAMOTO, the guitarist ending THE BOREDOMS' sound from the beginning to Vision Creation Newsun. Two of the greatest guitar players of all time cut mind-churning psychedelic meltdowns with ex-THIN WHITE ROPE drumer STOO ODOM, following the path paved by their respective bands as well as Fushitsusha, Solmania, CCCC, KK Null, and Highrise. The first Mahikari record is a blistering colossal attack of legendary proportions, available on super-limited-edition vinyl." Highly recommended!
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."
	Mainliner	Imaginative Plain	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Fourth 'real' album (after two on Charnel Music, and the anomalous Psychedelic Polyhedron on Fractal, and discounting a ton of self-released cassettes and CD-Rs on the existentially dubious La Musica label) from Tokyo underground freaks Mainliner. The group's leader, legendary Tokyo speed freak Asahito Nanjo is best known as the bass-playing, shades-wearing polymath behind High Rise and Musica Transonic. Stylistically, this is just where you would want it to be - exactly half-way between the acceleration-obsessed garage psych of High Rise, and the more spastic time shifts of Musica Transonic. There is a seriously sticky gloopiness to the Mainliner psych-as-group-mind universe, which even the hydrochloric guitar of Acid Mother Kawabata only momentarily manages to extricate itself from. The rest is cemented down by the straight pounding of new member Koji Shimura (ex-White Heaven) on drums, and Nanjo's usual sterling bass work. The five tracks of super-heavy, super-dense rock-psych improv are all liberally smothered in the trademark Nanjo pile-driving needles-in-the-red production aesthetic. In terms of rock, this is the most truly satisfying album that this group has made since Mellow Out. Heavier than anything else you're likely to listen to this week." - Alan Cummings
4/22/2009	Mainliner	Mainliner Sonic	CD	$15.99	Collapsar Records	Reissue of Mainliner's killer 2nd album from 1997 - Mainliner Sonic - featuring the relentless line-up of Makoto Kawabata (guitar), Asahito Nanjo (bass) and Yoshida Tatsuya (drums). Limited edition of only 500 copies on Hong Kong's Collapsar label. "Mainliners Sonic merrily operates under the principle that nothing is not worth doing if not done in ways that make amplifiers sound like they are melting rapidly. Which is something that can be said about a variety of such groups from said country, but with Makoto Kawabata credited as playing "motor psycho guitar" - and it sounds just like that from the get go, thanks to the feedback crackle that kicks of "Mainliner Sonic" itself - one can rest assured that it's probably going to sound pretty good. Bassist Asahito Nanjo takes care of such vocals as can be heard - his bass work easily competes with Kawabata's string abuse in terms how best to let overdriven volume do the talking. Tatsuya Yoshida's drumming creates a clattering bed for further huge rampages, and the whole balances out a clear sense of structure - Mainliner isn't simply flailing, but finding grooves and throttling them until they bleed -- with acid freakout chaos. "Tsukisasuru" in particular sounds like what must have been going on inside Hendrix's head in 1967 - only let loose beyond description - while the immediately following "Last Day" is no less frenetic and arguably even more spooked out, thanks to Nanjo's ghostlike wails deep in the mix. "Mainliner Sonic II" could almost be called sedate in comparison - at the least, it sounds like there's a little less extra distortion in comparison to the other cut of that title - but it still makes for one loud-as-heck way to end this brief but overpowering release." - Ned Raggett, All Music Guide. Highly recommended!
12/21/2004	Mainliner	Psychedelic Polyhedron	CD	$17.99	Fractal	"First CD reissue of the long time deleted Mainliner's second album featuring the legendary heavy psychedelic trio : Asahito Nanjo (bass, vocal), Makoto Kawabata (guitar), Tatsuya Yoshida (drums). Warning : including an unreleased 10 minutes ultra killer track as bonus. An absolute must for all fans of this unique Japanese Underground scene from the late 90's."
6/19/2002	Major Stars	Distant Effects	LP	$15.99	Squealer	"Distant Effects is the third full length release from Cambridge, MA-based Major Stars. Combining an interest in mid-60's folk rock, free jazz and Hendrix-oid guitar riffage, the Major Stars create tuneful compositions that rapidly lift into the stratosphere on the waves of guitar amperage supplied by Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar. Wayne and Kate have been purveyors of obscure musics for over a decade, first off in the bands Crystalized Movements and Magic Hour, then as operators of the Twisted Village label and store."
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."
2/7/2009	Majutsu no Niwa	At the End of Summer	CD	$15.99	There	"Majutsu no Niwa is the new psychedelic rock band which Rinji Fukuoka of OVERHANG PARTY which stopped the activity at the beginning of 2008 leads. This album extracted from live show in the last year have variety, from deep song and more vivid rock instrumental to heavy feedback drone."
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
3/21/2009	Maleficia	Maleficia	lP	$14.99	Isounderscore	"Well in the works for over a year is the debut LP of Oakland experimental/noise duo Maleficia with Ilysea Viles Sunderman on vocals/viola and Andy Way (also of French Radio, NF Orchest, Carrion) on electronics. Two side-long tracks, "Making" and "Remaking" produce an exquisite and carefully balanced binary system of torrential noise along with beautiful vocals/viola; ultimately the result is an impressive record from one of the most original and interesting noise groups to come out of Oakland over the last couple of years. Recorded at Earhammer Studios in Fall 2007 by Greg Wilkinson (Chronicles of Lemur Mutation, Carrion, Laudanum), and mastered in Winter 2008 by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Studios in San Francisco. Limited to 400 copies."
	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
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'?"
7/11/2008	Mammatus	Mammatus	LP	$14.99	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'? Packaged with mind-blowing, Roger Dean-inspired cover art by ARIK MOONHAWK ROPER."
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
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."
8/31/2008	Manço, Baris	Dünden Bugüne	LP	$34.99	Turkuola	"Limited edition of 500, 180 gr. Vinyl. Mostly from Baris Manco's first Sayan LP this compilation gives the great early works of Manco's career."
5/1/2009	Manço, Baris	Dünden Bugüne	LP	$26.99	Guerssen	"Baržs Manço was one of the leading, most influential and most beloved Turkish rock musicians, along with Erkin Koray, Edip Akbayram and Cem Karaca, and this is his first long-player, released in 1971 by Sayan Productions. It's a compilation of tracks taken from previously-released 45s, plus the track "Lory" that only appears on this album. Killer psych-rock with a strong Turkish flavor, this features Baris' all-time classics like "Derule" and "Daglar Daglar," as well as the brutal, wah-wah flooded "Küçük Bir Gece Müzigi," with its infectious drumming that drives anyone searching for sampling stuff mad. Not to be confused with two different releases with the same name that actually have different tracklistings and artwork, this is the real album as it was originally released. Reissued on vinyl for the first time, and including an insert with great photos of Baržs as well as detailed liner notes."
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.”
2/21/2009	Mania / Bloomer	Ready To Do Damage	LP	$13.99	SNSE	"Ready To Do Damage is an album that seethes with malevolence. Sustained piercing feedback. Crashing and ripping metal. Distortion flaking off every corner. Dank. Violent. The A side contains a live collaboration (first ever for Mania) between these two artists, while side B holds a solo track from each. Mania has terrorized the noise/PE world since 2002 with releases on his own imprint, Bitewerks, as well as Freak Animal, Harsh Head Rituals, Abisko, Vemod, and others. He resides in Texas in near total isolation and is certainly armed. Ryan Bloomer is currently a member of industrial scuzz unit Piss Horn. He lives in Canada, surrounded by amplifiers, and heads up the Traumatone organization, makers of noise devices most vile." Pressed on black vinyl; pasted-on matte white LP jackets; pro-printed 11x17 glossy full color poster; edition of 300.
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!"
8/31/2008	Maniacs Dream	Zanzibar	LP	$14.99	Arbor	"Finland is the epicenter of collective music making. Under the name Maniacs Dream, members of Finnish bands such as Avarus, Fricara Pacchu, Kemialliset Ystävät, and more come together to create blown out free rock. Their unique/bizarre approach to music making, constantly questioning the construction/deconstruction of sound creates songs at times recalling the electro acoustic clatter drone of Avarus crossed with tribal rhythms and intergalactic kraut rock guitar zones. Total sonic freedom with a punk ethos directly influenced by a trip to Zanzibar prior to recording this record (which is a reissue of the long sold out tape originally released on Lal Lal Lal in 2006). In an edition of 450 records on light blue vinyl with printed labels and full color proprinted foldover sleeves with art by Benjamin Bergman and an insert."
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	$15.99	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.
1/24/2009	Marhaug / Feiler	No More Drama	LP	$15.99	No Fun	"Edited live recordings, sometimes sounds like a borbetomagus storm, sometimes sounds like being in the middle of a bombing in Palestine. A Picture of this record should be next to every definition of Noise music. Lasse Marhaug plays in Jazkamer and has at least 300 other great projects solo and with other people. Dror Feiler served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and refused to serve in the occupied territories in the early 70's. He is now a Swedish-Israeli musician and artist and has been living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1973. He is active as a composer of modern music and enjoys giving ear problems and headaches to classically trained musicians. The most brutal vinyl record you will hear this year. Limited to 300 copies."
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.
2/21/2009	Married in Berdichev	Married in Berdichev	7"	$5.99	Gilgongo	"Married in Berdichev is Brittany Gould, and is a vocal-based sound / noise project that spans the terrain between soft and soothing and jagged and abrasive. Voices and organic sounds are looped and layered over each other, sometimes providing the back bone of a GROUPER or INCA ORE type piece, but at other times, ricocheting into scathing movements that tear through speakers and pierce ear drums, simultaneously beautiful and powerful. This two song 7" is Married in Berdichev's first release outside of several self-released CDrs and an appearance on the 2008 DEATHBOMB ARC TAPE CLUB (w/ Lucky Dragons, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Hawnay Troof and more), and features art created by and hand-screened by Brittany herself, is released alongside an October 2008 European tour with Kevin Shields, and is limited to 300 copies. Brittany is a former member of TRANSISTOR RADIO SOUND and has played a huge role in the Denver collective venue / space RHINOCEROPOLIS and as Married in Berdichev, she has collaborated with other artists such as JANDEK (live), KEVIN SHEILDS (as a duo called CALDERA LAKES), GLOCHIDS (live) and JAMES FELLA (of TENT/CITY, SOFT SHOULDER). She has done various album and poster art for artists such as FRENCH QUARTER and FOOT VILLAGE." - label
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.
3/21/2009	Mathieu, Stephan	The Key To The Kingdom	10"	$12.99	Dekorder	"The Key to the Kingdom" is Stephan Mathieu's tribute to the great gospel preacher Washington Phillips and the world of raw, early gospel on 78rpm platters. The 2-part suite, presented in the classic 10" vinyl format that comes in an authentic, individually stamped and numbered 78rpm archive sleeve, has been performed on a historic Phonoharp No.2 zither from the 1890s utilizing five E-Bows and entropic and convolution processes. "The Key to the Kingdom" is a spin-off of Mathieu's "Virginals" project, a solo recital of contemporary classics performed on historic instruments. Stephan Mathieu is a musician and sound artist based in Saarbrücken, Germany. During the last decade his music has been released on 16 critical acclaimed CDs, both solo and in collaboration with Douglas Benford, Ekkehard Ehlers, John Hudak, Janek Schaefer and Akira Rabelais on some of the finest electronic music labels worldwide (Die Schachtel, Häpna, Ritornell, Lucky Kitchen, HeadzŠ). His sound is largely based on early instruments, environmental sound and obsolete media which are recorded and transformed by means of experimental microphony, re-editing techniques and software processes involving spectral analysis and convolution and has been compared to the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and the work of Colorfield artists Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly. Stephan is a collector of 78rpm records from the 1910s and 20s, the era of acoustic and early electronic audio recording. His most recent album "Radioland" made it into "Best of 2008" lists in The Wire, Dusted, Boomkat, Milkfactory and many others. Limited numbered edition of 400 copies!"
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'."
4/10/2009	Maths Balance Volumes	Information is Pain	cassette	$5.99		"a truly weird blend of smoked out psychedelic rumble played by a guitar player and a tapeplayer, my mind tripped out so heavily on their live / life information that i couldn't resist to hassle them into a tape release asap. and this is it. this is mississippi blues played in the local arcade. this is a collage of synchronicity. these are the workings of Babalon... and when i was playing the mastertape for J C Scanner, his individual scannercells collectively popped out as well, so this album is co-released with the Zeikzak" -tapedsounds
11/15/2008	Maths Balance Volumes	Lower Forms	LP	$13.99		"Couple of guys from shithole Minnesota catch lurking & hulking things on spools of tape. Back of the brain singing from their recently acquired girl collaborator, and some growls too." - Weirdo records. Edition of 300 copies - self-released.
2/21/2009	Maths Balance Volumes	Tried To Make A Call	cassette	$5.99	Bumtapes	"Fractured vocal vignettes, broken organ melodies, squelchy stunted phrases and echoey grunted rhythms.an entropic and mathsy meltdown. edition of 50."
9/30/2008	Maths Balance Volumes + Endless	Sad Blues	cassette	$6.99	Earjerk	"Endless and the boys from Maths Balance Volumes lay down some slanky, off center grooves. Eternal. Hand packaged in nice stickered envelope. Labeled, green, pro-dubbed c40 cassette. Limited to 45 hand numbered copies."
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."
11/15/2008	Maths Balance Volumes / Sejayno	split	cassette	$8.99	8mm	"Following the tradition of great basement recordings on 8mm, Minnesota's Maths Balance Volumes and Baltimore's Sejayno share the tape for this nicely packaged split cassette. Six shots full of mysterious vibes and smoked abstract atmospheres are provided by MBV, while side B is one long suite for handmade instruments, percussions, voices and god-only-knows-what-else, from the fenomenal project of Peter/Ciat Lonbarde, Severiano Martinez and C Garhart. Both bands are incredibiley inspiring on this album. Very good for the spirit as well. A great surprise. 120 copies. Numbered."
4/10/2009	Maths Balance Volumes / Sejayno	split	cassette	$5.99		"Following the tradition of great basement recordings on 8mm, Minnesota's Maths Balance Volumes and Baltimore's Sejayno share the tape for this nicely packaged split cassette. Six shots full of mysterious vibes and smoked abstract atmospheres are provided by MBV, while side B is one long suite for handmade instruments, percussions, voices and god-only-knows-what-else, from the fenomenal project of Peter/Ciat Lonbarde, Severiano Martinez and C Garhart. Both bands are incredibiley inspiring on this album. Very good for the spirit as well. A great surprise." -8MM
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."
1/24/2009	Matomeri	I'm Spitting on My Grave	cassette	$6.99	Oms-b	"Finland's avant-garde never seems to disappoint. swirling feedback, drones, faint tribe beats, and all kinds of drugged out madness echo from the beginning to the end of the cassette. A great example of free music. Hand painted art work and block print by Megan Diddie." Edition of 60 copies.
5/31/2009	Matrix Metals	Flamingo Breeze	cassette	$6.99	Not Not Fun	"The Southern California mythology glints in the irises of certain dreamers more radiantly than it does in others, and few crews have begun capturing the imaginary high life of neon Corvette rides, Ray-Bans at night, and sea-breeze mind-surfing better than the Outer Limits Recordings collective. They operate under most radars but their output is a radical Rubik's Cube of riddles, tape hiss, and tranced pop utopias. Matrix Metals is casually referred to as an "alien lounge music" project, but that's not even the half of it. A hotwired collection of fringe-vision vignettes that roves from ghost club beats to astral 80s TV theme songs to loopy interdimensional dub-funk and beyond, Flamingo Breeze is a capitalized question mark in the NNF canon, and a recent obsession of ours. Anonymous pro-dubbed white tapes in cases with full-color "VHS box collage" J-cards designed by the artist, plus an insert and 2 tickets to a Matrix Metals performance at a fictional club in the future. Edition of 125."
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
9/30/2008	Mattin / Junko / Michel Henritzi	Je t' Aime!	CDR	$9.99	Absurd	"It happened as usual, one day in the mail pops up a cdr from michel, during those 'audio news' trades that usually happens in absurd's universe... curious as usual, started listening the live recording of mattin (guitar), junko (voice) & michel henritzi (lapsteel, harmonica) from the 'densites' festival of 2007... after an (almost) 6 minute silence the first guitar chord tears the air and a destructed improvised / noisy (supposed it is 'blues(ey) feeling) racket accompanied by junko's voice is unleashed in the air, a marvellous improvisation that soon is also joined by mattin's bassy guitar throbs on the background make it an even more adventurous experience that is highly recommended to be listened as loud as possible to create a more intense atmosphere!"
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
5/22/2009	Mayet, Hisham (Director)	Palace Of The Winds	DVD	$20.99	Sublime Frequencies	"Shot over the course of two years (2006-2008) by Hisham Mayet, Palace Of The Winds is an intimate and dream-like journey exploring the music of Saharawi culture from Guelmim in Southern Morocco to the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott. With spectacular images from inhospitable landscapes, chimerical phenomena that transpire by the sheer remoteness of the land, and haunting indigenous music from a people that have long been shrouded in mystery, this is a genre-defying film of profound beauty. Explore the intoxicating tapestry of sight and sound that this obscure region has to offer through its most awe-inspiring musicians. Featuring live performances by Group Doueh, Group Marwani, Sadoum Oueld Aida and Group Bab Sahara. Color; 52 minutes; digipack; all-region DVD; NTSC format. Limited edition pressing of 1,000 copies."
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."
2/7/2009	McCann, Sean	The Truth Is Marching In	cassette	$5.99	Peasant Magik	"Blistering circus whirl and warble. Reminiscent of wandering around a casino in the early morning. Slot machine melodies pan in and out of focus, all memories of the outside world fade, and everything around you is covered in a smokey haze." Edition of 100
5/31/2009	McCann, Sean / Black Eagle Child	New Molluska	c-66 cassette	$5.99	Roll Over Rover	"Another 'twofer here, this one being the second in a (hopefully) long chain of splits between Sean McCann and Mike Jantz (BEC). SM's side features squished synth and dripping strings, while BEC's side journeys to new lands, sailing from peninsula to peninsula until sundown. Produbbed, purple shells - limited to 100 copies.
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	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
4/10/2009	Me Con	Me Con	CDR	$6.99	Oms-B	"Amazing noise punk group with Megan Remy from U.S. Girls and Dan who does Bird customs."
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 expand and grow draws an even more colourful result, as if a swarm of insects spreads the pollen in our garden, helping it grow even more beautiful and even more colourful, lasting in a flabbergasting droning result... or at least, such was the atmosphere last march in halandri where yiorgis sakellariou (aka mecha/orga) premiered this piece for us. and it was john pallas, who by the time the set ended proposed absurd the cd release and didn't leave until we 3 shook hands... such also was our life in our 2006, like a fertile garden, with lots of releases and trips here and there, always ending with our occasional meetings at cafe amarrylis in kifissia for coffee (mecha/orga) & shitloads of alcohol (absurd) or at 'varsos kifissia' to enjoy our sweets & cofee (mecha/orga), hot/cold chocolate (absurd). and as a friend wondered of how the future will look like, we thought nice to picture mecha/orga on the cd's front cover sleeve, as a middle aged man, thinking of how he'll create his next piece/live set and a grey haired absurd on the cd label, probably in a meeting w/ someone to discuss an upcoming release or project in one of editions_zero's side/ghost labels, book publishing houses, etc etc etc... comes highly recommended if you fancy instant trips to colourful droning soundgardens!!!"
4/24/2006	Mecha / Orga	Holder	CDR	$12.99	Absurd	'it was the evening of sunday the 22nd of january, when tziritas called... a couple of days ago i know that komnas had phoned and asked him for a special cdr project for 'a question of re_entry' but didn't know myself much 'bout what the fuck they talked 'bout. instead of that he sounded as if he was reading me a telegram, 'mecha/orga's in the hospital, faded 2 days ago at while being at the dentist's'... that was all. i called yiorgis immediately thinking it was a joke, though unfortunately it wasn't. being late at night and no visitors were allowed anymore we postponed it for next evening in order to get'im some bananafishes to read and kill time... however a severe snowstorm changed plans, while he was already connected on the 'holder' machine to check his hear's biorhythms... out of blue striked us the idea of stealing the tape of it (being nothing but a simple tdk d60 recording in ultra slow speed) as happened actually less than 24 hours later... and that's what you get, the original 'holder' mecha/orga's recordings plus his impressions in a short piece around the what for fun we call his 'near death experience'."
3/5/2009	Mechanical Children	Blue Mouth	CDR	$12.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Mechanical Children is Sarah Sullivan and Ben "The Touch" Jones ( two thirds of the legendary Jazzfinger ) and this is their debut album. Utilizing two knackered old drum machines ( though you'd never know it ) the duo take the listener on a molten ramble through a scrapyard of silver ghosts. The pacing and unspoken rythms of the thing are, not surprisingly, in keeping with much of the 'Finger back-catalogue, but this is a bolder, starker affair, more straight lines, black light, none of that fog, that rusting mist, no, no, no, this is more akin to the drawn-out sex-moan of a dilapidated robot-king. It's bloody awesome, and quite bonkers. Comes in an LP-sized, hand-made card sleeve, and it's of course hideously limited' - Richard Dawson aka Eyeballs. First edition of 85 copies in 12" sleeve - out of print from label.
5/31/2009	Mechanical Children	I Rise To Cover All	LP	$17.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Debut vinyl release from this new duo that makes up two thirds of Jazzfinger (Ben Jones and Sarah Sullivan). Based around the idea of used broken keyboards, Ben and Sarah make some totally fucked and pretty heavy noise jams, there's some searing moments in this beast, particularly across the two part 'Burning of the Light Fields' which spans all side A, and most of side B... the closer is 'Planatary Wasp', which pretty much would be what Jeff Goldblum would have sounded like if he'd turned into some kind of rancid badass wasp instead of that pussy fly! Turn it up and get ready for your neighbors to come knocking with an ASBO for ya. Limited to 300."
3/21/2009	Medroxy Progesterone Acetate	Mar'ah	CDR	$8.99	Ruralfaune	"Mar'ah is a warm coat that you've had for years with notes in the pockets from friends you don't know anymore, it's a rainy day at the airport watching people waiting for their lives to resume, it's Hebrew for mirror and for vision (as in to have a), it's a pillow heavy with old dreams, it's Joe Hicks singing if it feels good it's alright, it's sunlight through the window across a slow afternoon, it's Arabic for the woman, it's threadbare tape hiss florescent hum and jackdaws in leafless trees, it's a half-remembered song bound to something she once whispered, it's a sullen Sunday morning with your headphones on and your quilt around your shoulders, it's frost on the window and the blood like black syrup in the chest and it feels so good inside yourself don't wanna move." Limited edition of 79 copies.
3/21/2007	Medroxy Progesterone Acetate	Supplications	cassette	$7.99	Black Horizons	"A reissue of a tape that was initially an edition of only 5 copies. Blending homemade synths, field recordings, and vocals, an epic recording that requires a closer listen. Buried under the tape hiss and piercing highs there is many details that could easily be overlooked, minimal beats, cryptic vocals, radio interference and insect song. Isolationist psychedelic noise. Color cover on black shimmer cardstock, with an insert containing texts / collage, on silver paper, clear labels. Hi-bias chrome tapes in an edition of 56."
3/31/2008	Medroxy Prrogesterone Acetate	Blearyeared	cassette	$7.99	Tipped Bowler Tapes	"A sixty-five minute soundtrack to MPA’s Satanic babysitter cult film. I pray to God no one has to see that thing. This tape alone will produce night sweats. MPA is up to his usual business, making absolutely uncomprising and unclassifiable sound, composed of horribly mutated mystery samples, tape mutilations, and malevolent synthesizer. DB summons a depth unmatched by most of the drone and community. You don’t want to live here, and you probably shouldn’t visit for long. Full-color glossy foldover prints with insert and hand-painted tapes." Edition of 93 copies.
	Meelkop, Roel	6 Mailcop Rules	CD	$12.99	Intransitive	"With his first ever US release, Dutch composer Roel Meelkop presents a ten year retrospective of music beginning way back in 1985. Meelkop is known for his work with the ensemble THU20 (Staalplaat) as well as the rhythm-based trio Goem (Noton/Rastermusic/Mego/Microwave) and the live version of Kapotte Muziek along with Frans de Waard and Peter Duimelinks. With "6", he collects six tracks representing his diverse musical interests, from minimal manipulation of ticking clocks and somber drone to furious noise and austere concrete tape work. The result demonstrates a unity of vision which belies the broad range of material, a strong album from one of contemporary electro-acoustic music's most exciting new voices."
4/24/2006	Meerk Puffy	Nung	LP	$10.99	Animal Disguise	"PROVIDENCE, RI'S MEERK PUFFY BRINGS THE THROB AND BOUNCE TO A BOIL IN YOUR PORES. OBSERVE THE ACID DRENCHED ASHES WHILE HEARING THE MELTING TEMPLES MELT IN TEMPLES OVER AND OVER AGAIN. EDITION OF 500 WITH SILKSCREENED COVERS AND POSTER BY MEERK HIMSELF. EX-FORCEFIELD."
5/14/2007	Mêlée	Bare Those Excellent Teeth pt. 2	LP	$18.99	editionbrokenresearch	"The second in the series of compositions from the Graveboys dis-rhythm section of Hell and Bunny this time with Nate Wooley doing the duty on trumpet while Olson maintains his Wolf-obligations. Perhaps darker and more trance-inducing than the first "Bare" it sounds very much like chamber music played by stamping machines which ain't exactly a bad thing." Edition of 200 copies - color covers printed on sandpaper.
4/16/2007	Mêlée	Violent Forms Of Laughter	cassette	$9.99	Meudiademorte Records	"New stuff by the Graveyards arrhythmia section of Hans Buetow and Ben Hall with Nate Woley on trumpet. " If Graveyards looks like just the skeleton than this looks like just the muscle." cover by p.h. lim to 200"
2/19/2007	Mêlée	Violent Forms Of Laughter Pt. 2	cassette	$6.99	Arbor	"If there were noise bands in the roaring twenties, they would sound just like this. Melee creates creaky drones with traditional jazz instruments. The percussion sounds like rain and rakes scraping against the wall(if the wall were a giant snare drum). The cello strings squeal sending chills up the spine. The trumpet cuts through basement asbestos fog choked under concentration. The whole mess progresses almost cinematically, totally full of suspense. Features members of Graveyards. Pt. 1 forthcoming on Meudia Morte label out of Germany. In a numbered edition of 100 in sprayed tape cases with paste-on cover and printed/painted tape labels."
7/16/2004	Mellow Candle	Swaddling Songs	CD	$19.99	Acme	"From Dublin, Ireland, Mellow Candle specialised in imaginative psychedelic folk rock and early progressive rock, with the singing talents of two ladies (Alison Williams and Clodagh Simonds), in addition to bassist Frank Boylan, drummer William Murray and guitarist Dave Williams. They covered both ballad and rock domains equally well. The music displayed a prodigious degree of natural talent for songwriting, harmonizing, and arrangement. A folk-rock in the vein of Fairport Convention or Fotheringay. 'Swaddling Songs' debut album is rich in varied and a true sonic marvel of beauty and simple melodies, and, most of all, a blending of two of the most beautiful voices in all of music. This is a fantastic album that deserves new discovery. A second album, 'The Virgin Prophet', featuring unreleased and different versions of songs found on 'Swaddling Songs', was released in the mid nineties. In some respects, I think this ranks with the best Fairport Convention, Pentangle, and Renaissance albums at the top of the folk rock genre." Features 2 cuts from a 1968 7" release as bonus tracks.
7/16/2004	Mellow Candle	Swaddling Songs	LP	$29.99	Acme	"From Dublin, Ireland, Mellow Candle specialised in imaginative psychedelic folk rock and early progressive rock, with the singing talents of two ladies (Alison Williams and Clodagh Simonds), in addition to bassist Frank Boylan, drummer William Murray and guitarist Dave Williams. They covered both ballad and rock domains equally well. The music displayed a prodigious degree of natural talent for songwriting, harmonizing, and arrangement. A folk-rock in the vein of Fairport Convention or Fotheringay. 'Swaddling Songs' debut album is rich in varied and a true sonic marvel of beauty and simple melodies, and, most of all, a blending of two of the most beautiful voices in all of music. This is a fantastic album that deserves new discovery. A second album, 'The Virgin Prophet', featuring unreleased and different versions of songs found on 'Swaddling Songs', was released in the mid nineties. In some respects, I think this ranks with the best Fairport Convention, Pentangle, and Renaissance albums at the top of the folk rock genre."
12/21/2004	Mellow Candle	The Virgin Prophet	CD	$24.99	Kissing Spell	Unreleased tracks from 1969-1970. "Virgin Prophet adds up to a collection of Mellow Candle gems that keep up the incredible standard of the material on 'Swaddling Song's'. Their more rough and ready state only add to the uniqueness of the band, their talent and inventiveness. Mellow Candle couldn't ask for a better way to be remembered."
11/2/2008	Melodie Du Kronk	Melodie Du Kronk	LP	$15.99	Great Pop Supplement	"It's not often that the GPS delves into the full length market, but here's a stormer. 11 totally whacked out, fried nuggets of space-age electronic psychedelia from Scouse moog maniacs Melodie Du Kronk. Opening with the glorious "Morgiana", which rolls out like some lost 1971 hallucinatory goth horror disco track, the album then runs over 10 more pulsing gems that play out like the soundtrack to some aborted, early '70s iron bloc horror flick. Bubbling moogs and constantly evolving, meandering motorik rhythms recall the groove of Cluster and Harmonia mangled with prime "Neu! era" Stereolab and Add N to X at their zonked out best, with a twist of Holy Fuck to bootŠ.200 numbered copies on vinyl only in suitably lurid 'neon skullz' designed, linen card sleeves. strict "play loud" policy on this one!"
7/10/2008	Meneguar	The In Hour	LP	$12.99	Woodsist	"Switching instruments and experimenting with recording techniques, Meneguar has cooked up a totally unique(and surprising) record. The In Hour channels the spontaneity and aesthetics of Swell Maps, the pop hooks of the Zombies, and lyrical collage of Guided By Voices. Everything was home recorded at their little Xanadu in Brooklyn, Rear House, home base to the Woodsist label and the changing roster of Meneguar's alter egos(Woods, Shepherds). Only six months since their last record, The In Hour represents a serious departure that still holds true to the band's undeniable pop sensibility. limited edition with full color jackets."
8/22/2008	Menstruation Sisters	MA	LP	$15.99	No Fun Productions	"Reissue of their legendary first LP, released originally in an edition of 100 in Australia only. Best band ever? limited to 500 copies."
5/11/2009	Menstruation Sisters	Should Sisters Suck?	LP	$29.99	Ultra Eczema	"A rabbi who yells at a higher pitch and more psycho than Nik Rizili, and a guitarist other than Oren Ambarchi who can make strings yell in Yiddish yelling-about as rare as, according to Ultra Eczema, "ladies [who] have their period nonstop, since five years [and] are 456 km away from the hospital while the head of a baby is forcing it's way out of a mangina." So much stress, guitar strings so loose you can put your legs and arms between them, a hyperactive and creepy and slow carnival of absolute madness. Reminiscent to the more sparse parts of Harry Pussy, the screaming of Hanatarashi. 300 copies, with an insert, a small poster, a sticker, an etching on the B-side, and found footage cover art by Dennis Tyfus."
11/15/2008	Merda, Rosso / Cheap Machines	Next to Nothing	cassette	$7.99	Fag Tapes	"collaborative cassette. real real sick synth. or so it seems, until audio hallucinations cause horrific unmoving thought patterns. lines of violence are blurred. Old World style! European import! hand-numbered edition 77."
11/17/2007	Merrell / Baker / Jordan	Nagual	CD	$13.99	Archive	"Long playing ambient dronescape focusing the combined efforts of Todd Merrell on shortwave radio and electronics, Patrick Jordan on shortwave radio and processing and Aidan Baker (Nadja) on guitar. Recorded live in 04 in Hartford. Comes packed in heavy stock center open sleeve with environmental mirror image landscape artwork courtesy of Seldon Hunt. Pressing of 600 copies."
	Merthiolate	Merthiolate	CDR	$3.99	Last Visible Dog	Improvised music using electric guitar, slide guitar, bass, drums, antique synthesizer, accordian, computer sax, and vocals. Hard to describe the sounds but it's pretty cool.
7/29/2003	Merzbow	Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux	DBL CD	$16.99	Important Records	"Artists were asked to use Merzbow's album Amlux as an instrument in an original composition, rather than to perform the conventional remix. We hoped that this would allow the artist to flourish with greater creative freedom and a less restrictive context. We didn't want to fit this project into any sub-genre of music. We wanted it to simply exist. Perhaps the beat oriented tracks, record scratching and vocals will annoy some Noise purists, and perhaps the noisy sound collages will irritate others, but hopefully this collection of tracks from some of the best electronic artists working today will enlighten the listener. Music is sound and sound is everywhere, regardless of classification." Remixers include: Jack Dangers, DJ Spooky, Luke Vibert, Alec Empire, Kawabata Makoto, Cornelius, Kid 606, Negativland, Nobukazu Takemura, Atom, Chicks On Speed, Experimental Audio Research, Bola, Kim Hiorthoy, Staalplaat Sound System, Lasse Marhaug, Kim Cascone, Freiband, Nau-zee-aun, Kurt Weisman, Raub Roy, Instavoid, Custom Drummer, John Wiese, Zipperspy, DJ Rupture.
1/1/2008	Merzbow	Live Destruction at No Fun 2007	CD	$10.99	No Fun	"At this year's No Fun Fest, the legendary Japanese noise king Merzbow gave a blistering performance that stunningly brought together both his classic analog and recently-explored digital concerns. Keeping pace between two laptops and an amplified sheet-metal instrument, the walls of computerized droning distortion and psyched-out metallic scarping easily reminded those attending to the world of noise that even icons with twenty-plus year careers under their belts can still vivaciously channel the advancements they helped build as well as compose stunning untried sounds. Along with the recent Pain Jerk/Incapacitants split CD and the upcoming Aaron Dilloway/Carlos Giffoni split LP, Live Destruction at No Fun 2007 manifests itself as an essential audio document of one of many striking performances at this year's festival. Often considered a genre best experienced live, the gargantuan walls of outer-region sonics set forth by noise were aptly spawned in-the-moment and afresh by their performers, and the variety, sheer power, and unrelenting confidence of Merzbow's set in particular no doubt left longtime followers thoroughly fulfilled while those who've only heard the name thrown around in mythical regard were bound to have been left with a hearty appreciation of his genius."
5/14/2007	Merzbow / Carlos Giffoni / Jim O'Rourke	Electric Dress	CD	$11.99	No Fun	"Electric Dress covers the full spectrum of sound color possibility, from totally brutal walls of destructive noise to beautiful minimal synthetic interplay, analog drone and shifting alien electronics. A total face melting collaboration recorded live in Tokyo using an array of analog synths and a variety of custom analog equipment,including Merzbows classic home made spring/junk metal instrument. Warm, varied, and obsessive this is what industrial music should have been, the sound of infinite machines demolishing a planet and creating a new structure where live organisms have been eradicated. Edited and mastered by Jim for maximum sonic annihilation. comes in our deluxe mini-gatefold package." - No Fun.
	Mesmer	s/t	7"	$3.99		No idea what this San Francisco band is like. Each sleeve is unique in that is in spray painted and has a picture glued to it.
5/1/2003	Metabolismus	Sprießwärtsdrall	CD	$12.99	Amish	"This full length is firmly rooted in the rich German experimental music tradition of such bands as Can, Amon Duul and Popol Vuh. The album begins with subtle tones that shift and eventually build into a Silver Apples psychedelic groove. Things move back and forth through layers of analog synthesizer orchestration, electronics and droning violin, eventually accentuated by ambient recordings of wind chimes, cow bells, birds, crickets, barking dogs and the sounds of Stuttgart. An absolutely stunning record, which Bananafish claims, has '24-7 potential.' Vivid full color artwork by German animation artist Petra Kolitsch. Edition of 600."
2/4/2007	Metal Islands	Ghost Road	CDR	$7.99	American Grizzly	"Canadian duo conjure lo-fi scum skronk and psychedelic guitar dirge reminiscent of Open City, The Dead C and Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music'."
5/20/2009	Metal Rouge	Ephemeroptera IV	CDR	$7.99	Seymour Records	This is the fourth in a series of five, released on Seymour Records, limited to 50 copies. Drawing of a whirligig beetle on a copper-colored background.
5/31/2009	Metal Rouge	Republican Trees	LP	$19.99	Digitalis Limited	"The duo of Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott has quietly become a force in the world of darkside improvisation. Over the years, their sound has evolved like amoebas from the ooze, growing and expanding into something otherworldly. Walls of guitar sherds blast through blackened holes in the cosmic continuum searching out another eye to gouge or another heart to pierce. This is metallic bliss pushed to eleven. Where "Republican Trees" hits it stride is when the lines between beautiful and abrasive get smudged. Scott's guitar playing becomes a torrent of aural hell blowing fuses from here to his native Auckland. Fassonaki takes this in stride and the two push each other back and forth finding a natural rhythm that simultaneously enchants and disturbs. By the time Helga starts wailing on the final track of the album you've been rocked from your foundation, left to flounder alone in the muck. You can't really ask for more than that, can you? LP comes in fold-out silkscreened poster-style sleeve and is strictly limited to 100 copies."
2/21/2009	Metal Rouge	Salt Stones	CDR	$7.99	Stunned Records	"Andrew Scott and Helga Fassonaki's Metal Rouge have been it for a few years now, I believe. They've had releases all over the place but perhaps none quite so well presented as this. Salt Stones represents over 45 minutes of their opaque sound just soft enough to expose the fragile details within. The disc opens with "Aligning Mud with Salt," whose interweaving clouds of guitar annihilation are, like a swarm of insects, insurmountable in their density but highly mobile and active. Squalling riffs interlace as vocals seem to ooze out of the mix in one cacophonous wave after another. Definitely some Dead C and even some Harry Pussy in there, but so dense as to melt those influences down into a molten lead. "Embryonic Bird Zero" opens with sharp guitar strums over Helga's distant moans. As Andrew shoots off high end electrical wire fuzz, Helga's voice adds an ominous, near Pocahaunted singing style, though hers is one of fits and starts rather than the longer, chant-like vocalizings of Pocahaunted. Before too long the proceedings drift into a slower and more minimal metallic slant. Electronic arpeggiations interweave with strums and gestures from Andrew as washes of fuzz coalesce with Helga's atmospheric vocal shudders. Soon the fuzz builds back as Helga's vocals subside. Slow and dizzy blues twangs and slides bend over one another while synthesized guitar insanity lurches on in the background. Blips and squelches emerge from the dust of the dense layer of fuzz which lies below all of the proceedings here, soon moving into bassier and more obtuse territory that nearly sounds like some monk chant stuff or something. That Metal Rouge are able to wield such heavy axes without losing any lushness or detail of activity is wonderful. Rather than pushing its listener into a dark cavern they merely seem to suggest a number of paths at any given moment, opportuning you the ability to peak down each of them before they choose one. "None People," recorded live at, fittingly, Frank's Power Plant, though I suspect that's probably a club and not an emitter of cold electric energy, though it sure would be fitting if it were. The duo tone things down a bit for the crowd here, opening with a steady three-note pulse while guitar wails pummel about as softly as the simmering hum of electric lines underneath various discursive events in the audience. As the work crescendos over its length, it begins to merge more and more with its surroundings, seemingly melding with the very air in the room and just hovering, static and warmed by the friction of its minute vibrations. Small details begin to break off and make statement; feedback, cries, equipment battles, all add to its organic and fluid sound world. Metal Rouge, clearly with a knack for finding the inner rhythms of a work and letting them unfold as they will, have released another great one with Salt Stones. The package, yet another step for Stunned, is a beautiful CD-R with sari cloth and gorgeous liner notes. The CD too is printed, and it all fits right together to make this one of the most beautiful looking Stunned releases yet. Sold out at source, but probably available everywhere else." - Henry Smith, ear conditioned nightmare
11/15/2008	Metal Rouge	Three For Malachi Ritscher	CD	$12.99	Root Strata	"The first proper CD from LA (by way of New Zealand) duo Metal Rouge. Full on high wire melt down as Helga & Andrew channel dark waves from pedal steel & electric guitar. Trio era Charlambides with a good dose of LA DIY crud is getting somewhere close. Offset print, black on black." Edition of 300 copies.
9/14/2004	Metal Tech	Sounds Through Fishing Lines	3" CDR	$5.99	Foxglove	“An appropriate title if there ever was one. These loose, noisy improvisations from head Unread records honcho, Chris Fischer (also of Naturaliste) dangle in the air, communicating in the way of the old world. Telegraph lines hang in the balance, hoping not to snap under the pressure. Claustrophobic whirs and buzzes sit next to fuzzy drones, all hoping that their imminent death isn't just around the corner. There's a subtle, fragile beauty here, too. But I find that in all things chaotic.” Edition of 95 copies.
6/17/2004	Metalux	Waiting for Armadillo	CD	$10.99	Load	"Clipped and chopped radio beamings from a Middle American bunker, METALUX bring a rodeo of galactic proportions home to your speakers. M.V. CÄRBON and J. GRAF play a dual synth/tape soundtrack to an uneasy nation. The vibe is dark and alien and the recording on this record is top-notch. Crazy voices and spectacle mounting live action! Ballpark reference points include CHROME and the RESIDENTS in the same thought as Chicago form shapers from the early 90's MILK OF BURGUNDY scene like DUOTRON, SCISSOR GIRLS et al. Both members were in the now defunct BRIDE OF NO NO, a fixture of Chicago uneasy culture. TWIG HARPER of NAUTICAL ALMANAC, occasionally records with METALUX and contributed 4 tracks to this record."
6/17/2004	Metalux	Waiting for Armadillo	LP	$9.99	Load	"Clipped and chopped radio beamings from a Middle American bunker, METALUX bring a rodeo of galactic proportions home to your speakers. M.V. CÄRBON and J. GRAF play a dual synth/tape soundtrack to an uneasy nation. The vibe is dark and alien and the recording on this record is top-notch. Crazy voices and spectacle mounting live action! Ballpark reference points include CHROME and the RESIDENTS in the same thought as Chicago form shapers from the early 90's MILK OF BURGUNDY scene like DUOTRON, SCISSOR GIRLS et al. Both members were in the now defunct BRIDE OF NO NO, a fixture of Chicago uneasy culture. TWIG HARPER of NAUTICAL ALMANAC, occasionally records with METALUX and contributed 4 tracks to this record."
7/10/2008	Methadrone	Final Skull	double cassette	$7.99	905 Tapes	"Methadrone was an early moniker of joe brietenbach, who now grows organic drones under the name of gallows. before he unplugged the laptop, a small amount of output made it's way into the public realm in the form a few splits (w/ yes collapse, dance wounds, and wether) a c20 ("the sun cocaine" on lovers tapes) and a collab 12" w/ wether (forthcoming in snakefork/blue sky writing). these are the remaining tracks that have been collecting virtual dust in some moldy folder. four sides, five shots. oscillating, slightly processed, chloroformed doses that blend mechanical rhythms and natural elements with each other. packaged in clamshell cases."
	Metropolitan	Down For You Is Up	CD	$10.99	Crank Automotive	"Hurtling forward from the rough-but-beautiful streets of the Washington DC metropolia are the equally raw-but-harmonious sounds of Metropolitan, wrestled to perfection on their second full-length recording, Down For You Is Up. The follow-up to 1999’s Side Effects finds the band in revitalized trio mode, connecting the dots between the fiery, T.Moore-esque guitar work of John Masters, the fluidly unpredictable bass tones of Shyam Telikicherla, and the bounding drum-slaps of kit-master Saadat Awan. Hypnotically mixing curving hooks, sliding chords, untamed basement-jam energy, and tightrope-walking precision, Down For You Is Up is a mesmerizing mind-trip through tunnels previously carved by master- diggers like the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, Pavement, and Yo La Tengo."
	Metropolitan	Side Effects	CD	$9.99	Crank Automotive	2 guys, 2 guitars, vocals, bass, and drums. Influences: Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3, Dead C. Very good!
4/24/2006	Metsämorfeus	Draco	CDR	$9.99	Outa	"Metsämorfeus turned in one of the most promising performances on the Out001 compilation CD-R that Outa put out last year. Their contributions there had me quite curious to see what they'd do on a longer release. "Draco" is their first full-length and it is promising. While it goes on too long for my tastes (it's just a hair over 60 minutes), there are some great elements here. Mostly made up of ambient electronics with various loops, this is well put together synth-based music. The additional instrumentation is also good. This is a very subtle release that works as perfect background music (I mean that as a compliment). It's non-intrusive, but has a soothing quality to it that will help your brain focus. "Draco" is a good debut and has me looking forward to where this Finnish outfit will head next." - Brad Rose.
1/24/2009	Metzger, Paul	Anamnestic Tincture	LP	$15.99	Roaratorio	"Anamnestic Tincture is a live album by virtuosic musical carpenter Paul Metzger, culled from many hours of concert recordings. Side one comprises Metzger's public debut on his modified banjo, recorded in 2002 at a former church-turned-underground art space in Minneapolis. One of his most memorable compositions, "After Milo" later turned up as an untitled improvisation on his CD for the Chairkickers label. Jumping ahead six years (and several more banjo alterations later) to side two, the glittering "Orans" gets a workout at a memorial show for the artist Matt Zaun. As an acknowledgment of the occasion, Metzger also gave a one-time-only performance -- "Dark Green Water" -- on another of his mutant instruments: an acoustic guitar with the body drilled out to accommodate a cymbal set into its face, and ten assorted strings of varying lengths laid over the top, giving it a particularly metallic and dissonant sound. Anamnestic Tincture is released in an edition of 425 copies, with an original vintage snapshot mounted on each cover."
7/11/2008	Metzger, Paul	Canticle of Ignat / All Glass	CD	$14.99	Archive	"One track played on modified acoustic guitar and one track played on modified Banjo. For those unfamiliar with Saint Paul's Mr. Metzger his works offer and amazing mix of Indian ragas crossed with a junk yard band feel, highly evolved and incredible unique. Recorded by myself in 2007 at BigJar in Philly a fantastic piece of documentation offered in unaltered form. The CD edition comes housed in a slightly taller sleeve with two color silk screen work by Alan Sherry of SIWA on a heavyweight 140lb paper. The front cover is die cut with and inserted picture from the performance printed on vellum, all hand glued and assembled by myself. Graphic work by Demian Johnston." Edition of 500 copies.
3/2/2008	Metzger, Paul	Deliverance	LP	$19.99	Locust	"Minnesota's Paul Metzger is an unsung hero of the unaccompanied string instrument and a master musician of an instrument of his own invention. On Deliverance - a real time performance on his overhauled 21-string banjo - you'll be treated to some of the most deeply satisfying & impulsive outer cosmos ragadelia you're ever likely to hear. Clocking in at nearly 60 colossal minutes, Deliverance is 3 tracks of unfiltered aural transcendence; a hypnotic raga epic that's by turns a slow-burning meditation & an urgent mind/body duel. Paul's playing may summon up the spirits of Sandy Bull's searching inventiveness, Billy Faier's out Tacoma sides, J.P. Pickens' tweaked Americana, Henry Flynt's searing harmonic drones or Big Jim Sullivan's psychedelic exotica, but at the end of the day, Metzger is no idolater and we're all a little luckier to have him around to occupy his own singular post in this post-Fahey world."
4/11/2008	Metzger, Paul	Gedanken Splitter	LP	$12.99	Roaratorio	"Paul Metzger continues to pile up the plaudits from critics and peers alike for his virtuosic string-slinging, gaining notice through his CD on Chairkickers and his split LP with Ben Chasny and Chris Corsano on Roaratorio. Metzger's modified banjo is tricked out with additional sympathetic raga strings, although the compositions on Gedanken Splitter are informed by much more than Eastern drone music alone. Recorded in the same period as 2007's Deliverance on Locust Music, this is a more jagged and aggressive (although no less accessible) affair. Metzger winds these improvisations around thornier threads than on his previous releases, and while never turning completely abstract, Gedanken Splitter moves even further away from anything resembling typical banjo fare. This is mesmerizing and singular playing."
2/7/2009	Meyers, Justin	Permanent Pressure	cassette	$8.99	Tone Filth	"A study in pressure; the effects, affects, & practice of. Sounds sources both acoustic & electronic. Issued on cassette tape to specifically dull certain frequencies. Edition of 100 with 2 color screen printed inserts and professional printed chrome cassettes."
5/29/2008	Meyers, Justin	Private Life	cassette	$7.99	Chondritic Sound	"One of the most awkward things i've ever considered releasing, and no surprise that it comes from the man better known as Devillock & Panther Skull. uncomfortable atmosphere that seems to be a melding of those two projects modi operandi with a highly voyeuristic bend." Edition of 95 copies.
2/21/2009	MFHS	A House Painter's Manual	CDR	$10.99	Black Petal	"Although MHFS (Mark Sadgrove) is mainly solo he gets help from various people (Andrew Scott, Ben Spiers and Sam Hamilton) in seven of the ten short pieces. Lyrics were written while driving a car through rural New Zealand, and then record the songs on battery powered electric guitar on a dictaphone. How lo(fi) can you go? Sadgrove strums his guitar and sings songs which I don't really understand, but there is an attractive low, outsider character with these recordings that I like very much. At just under thirty minutes this is very fine music. Was this released on a limited LP twenty years ago, it would now go as a lost classic of weirdness. Great cover on this release, as usual with Black Petal." - FdW, Vital Weekly
6/11/2006	MHFS	Driving to Rawene	3" CDR	$7.99	Pseudoarcana	"Along with Tim Coster (see below) Mark Sadgrove is a key member of a recently very dynamic and productive experimental electronic scene in Auckland. (Indeed he is a member of the brilliant 'Plains' amongst other ensembles). MHFS is Sadgroves solo project. Using home-made electronics, self-authored software, field recordings, guitar and voice MHFS produces austere and abstract soundscapes that through a peculiar personal magic are rendered intimate and human. 'Driving to Rawene' was recorded in Sydney, Dresden and Vienna during 2005, and mixed at home in Auckland. I am deeply concerned that it may in fact be a work of genius..."
3/21/2007	Mi, Kim Jung	Kim Jung Mi	CD	$24.99	Jigu	"Groovy Korean psychedelic pop with slight English folk flavors from Kim Jung Mi - known throughout as the the "Francois Hardy of Korean pop." "This 1974 album shows a different side of the delectable Korean singer's personality, as she is called upon to front slinky mid-tempo rockers instead of the folk-inflected tracks of both the Nowand Wind records; this makes for some interesting music, including a cover version of Janis Joplin's 'Move Over'; the tracks all sound more than a year removed from Now and Wind, in part because of drastically better production values (this album was made for Jigu, unlike Kim Jung Mi's other releases), plus the addition of horns, organ, and even a string section; Shin Jung Hyun is still backing his protégé with characteristic guitar lines, so no loss of musical quality is evident." World Psychedelia label has reissued this but this is the original cd pressing from Korea on Jigu. Recommended!
3/3/2005	Micht	Ysms	3" CDR	$6.99	Imvated	"Perfect for lying flat on the ground when your lungs are about to collapse. Micht never blossoms into giant garden bliss yet strangely strips noise down to it's bare necessities. Tape hiss maggots crawl. Sticky covers buried in Imvated's rotten backyard, dodgy stuff. They've been sent to our medical research laboratories to check how toxic they truely are. No wonder nobody can keep track of Imvated's continuous stream of quality dirt style!"
7/14/2007	Microblind Harvestmen	Songs & Instruments From Death Bottom Slide	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"After 2 1/2 years of a seemingly endless stream of releases, Robert Horton shows no signs of slowing down. The inevitable question of "What next?" may crop up from time to time, but with the launch of Microblind Harvestmen's debut album, "Songs & Instruments From Death Bottom Slide," Horton punches back with resounding fury. Joining up with long-time collaborator and fiddler-extraordinaire, Hal Huges, this duo is plowing through fresh, new ground on their way to a mud-soaked heaven. "Songs & Instruments From Death Bottom Slide" has been in the works for over 20 years now, with the first remnants begun as far back as 1983. This is music that is lost in time, however, spanning countless eras and cultures, and melting them all together into a giant, boiling mess. As with most things Robert Horton does, his hand is the guiding force that keeps the album flowing. But Hughes' contributions are just as vital: stunning fiddle work that is a perfect slice of Americana along with drops of mandolin and banjo to light the leaf-covered path. Horton and Hughes mix a range of originals with a number of traditional tunes turned completely on their heads. "Hellblazer" may have its root in the Old West, but Microblind's version is a spastic exorcism of wailing horns and screeching violins, flowing like a river of sound underneath the duo's parched vocals. This raucous romp through burning crops and the backwoods blows up into the harmonica-tinged, banjo tune "Innermost Friend." It sounds like an unearthed document from 75 years ago, left to rot in a bourbon cellar in Tennessee. Music like this doesn't just appear, it takes time to properly age. Microblind Harvestmen are the rare creature, like those only found in a few places in nature, that manages to avoid simple classification. This is drone. This is raga. This is bluegrass. This is folk. This is free-jazz. This is pure, covered-in-dirt, dancing-in-the-rain psychedelia. The death bottom slide is a riveting world, finally unleashed after years in the barren wilderness."
2/10/2004	Midwich	Procedures	CDR	$12.99	Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon	"From the peripheries of the Leeds-based ‘no fans’ scene comes Rob Hayler’s Midwich. Those of you who have made friends with his Fencing Flatworm label will already be hip to the greatness this cascading, breathing, hypno-bliss represents. Precariously suspended clouds of audio bubble bath that drip all over the floor yet never stain the carpet. Two thumbs up."
1/23/2003	Migrantes	Monsoon Moods	LP	$10.99	Eclipse	This is the 2nd LP by Migrantes (Jason Bill {guitar, air organ, Hammond organ, cymbal} & Caroline Vickers {Hammond organ & vocals}) of Tucson, AZ. Pressed in an edition of 536 copies and housed in a lovely printed full color jacket, this is a sublime record! "For those that have never been there, the desert signifies space, sand, and nothing. When I (who live nowhere near any deserts) first visited Jason & Caroline (who live smack in the middle of one), that was what I had thought too. I was a bit surprised that the desert in fact looks nothing like its platonic counterpart - it is in fact interlaced with ropy thorned plants, crawls with life of every species, and is inevitably circumscribed by distant mountains. For some, Monsoon Moods may capture the real desert, the one where home fires burn under looming stone, where love and life flourish in austerity. For me though this LP somehow encompasses sweaty nights in 100 degree summer warehouses, ghostly drives through Norfolk shipyards, the slow crack of datura pods drying in the sun, and all the other things that have grown inside j&c to buoy them up into this warmly inviting space illuminated by their big hearts. A stunning record that camouflages the simplicity of its ingredients with songs of glowing precision and vox-laced Hammond drones of vertical majesty." – Tom Carter
	Mikami, Kan / Moto Yoshizawa / Keiji Haino	Live In The First Year of Heisei Vol II	CD	$15.99	PSF	Kan Mikami (guitar, vocal), Moto Yoshizawa (bass), & Keiji Haino (guitar). Described as "twisted folksongs, harsh voice and noise guitar passage. Very strange atmosphere."
	Mikami, Kan /Kazuki Tomokawa	Go-en	CD	$15.99	PSF	Recorded live.
2/19/2004	Mike Rep & The Quotas	Mama Was a Schitzo Daddy Was a Vegetable Man	7"	$5.99	Old Age	“Both songs recorded around the same time as the legendary ‘Rocket to Nowhere’ that came out on Moxie. Nice cover and insert be Rep himself.”
12/26/2005	Mikel Dimmick Spiral Joy Band	Searing Float	CDR	$10.99	Klang	"A mix of duo, trio and quartet recordings from a variety of lineups that include Amy Shea, Karl Precoda, Jack Sutherland and Isak of the Black Twigs (along with, of course, the main duo from Pelt - Mikel Dimmick and Mike Gangloff), and is wrapped in the usual snazzy Mikel Dimmick cover. It doesn't have the horn and piano of the vhf disc (but does have gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, sruti and esraj), though it does have night recordings from our back porch, some singing and a half-hour thing called "Osmanthus" that's pretty mammoth." 9 tracks - 77 minutes. This was sold on tour recently and all the remaining copies are now here at Eclipse HQ. Killer disc - highly recommended!
10/9/2003	Mikroknytes	Live_SRC	CD	$9.99	Crank Automtive	"The follow-up to their self-titled 2001 CD, which was tagged by scribes as 'eerily drifting,' 'interestingly extreme,' and 'memorably glazed-eyed,'live_src sees the Washington D.C. duo Mikronkytes taking a further step into dense, planet-sized soundscapes, while retaining the bubbling spontanaiety and kitchen-sink invention of their debut. Culled from a huge library of innovative live performances, then run through a maniacally-detailed process of mixes, overdubs, and manipulations, live_src echoes the wavy drones of Can and Cluster, the clicking minimalism of Pole and Microstoria, and the ambient soundtracks of Labradford and Stars of the Lid. But ultimately, live_src is the sound of two hyperactive brains ­ Derek Morton (electronics, effects, software wrestling) and John Coursey (violin, electronics, skull massage) - discovering new ways to directly translate thought into action. Pouncing right into the heart of the matter with the windy, earth-ending 'valentia,' live_src never lets up, piling up layers of stirring violin hum, cracked electronic pulse, and sheer sonic invention. Meditative, hallucinatory pieces like 'artsace' and 'amelioride' paint ghostly pictures, like the lost scores to movies projected in the background of dreams, while choppy, clipping workouts like 'w.e.k.' and the scary robot revolt 'xeh' melt shards of beats and cuts into rivers of lava-like drone. Throughout, the duo’s patient, infintiely inventive approach to building huge galaxies out of small sounds remains hypnotic. Besides recording and performing as Mikroknytes, Morton and Coursey remain active in a number of experimental aural pursuits. Both have contributed to Morton's D.C. electronics series Tech Club (www.techclub-dc.com), while Morton is hard at work organizing D.C.'s Sonic Circuits Festival. He has also been commissioned to compose sound for a living installation based on the life cycle of silkworms."
	Mikroknytes	Mikroknytes	CD	$9.99	Crank Automotive	"Cross-breeding minimalist droning, abstract electronic channeling, concrete machine-shop sampling and meditative improvisation, Mikroknytes are a brain-rearranging Washington, D.C. duo whose patient radar waves and aggressive sound blitzes are the results of years of sonic architectural research. Firing thought-lasers into the gaps between analog and digital, programming and spontaneity, and computers and instruments, Derek Morton (electronics, effects, mind control) and John Coursey (violin, electronics, idea manufacturing) sift massive mono-tones through a barbed-wire filter of cracked electronics and random codes, without ever breaking apart their eternal drone. Imagine Hrvatski if his dad was Tony Conrad, or Phill Niblock if he was quarterback of a football team made of Microstoria 12-inches."
6/11/2006	Milan, Jerzy	Milianalia- Free Conversations With Myself	LP	$24.99	Obuh	"New album from outstanding jazzy composer and vibraphonist presenting intimate face of the artist - on the one hand incorrect lyrist, on the other indefatigable joker and improvising experimentalist. You may hear here 60's modern and free jazz spirit, Middle and Far East influences, avant experiments, lots of airy vibes. Recorded in our studio on classic tube equipment from the golden analog era. Limited to 350 numbered copies in black and white, laminated covers."
9/29/2005	Milk From Cheltenham	Triptych Of Poisoners	CD	$18.99	Alga Marghen	"Milk fron Cheltenham is the first in a series of alga marghen editions documenting the activities of the It's War Boys underground label, founded by Amos (of The Homosexuals fame) in the late 1970s. The original LP was issued in an edition limited to 300 copies (most are on blue vinyl but there are some on pink vinyl and a few on black). The material was recorded from 1979 to 1981 but wasn't released until 1983 due to problems with the silkscreened sleeve. The band only put out this record, a real hidden gem. Lepke said that he wanted it to sound like a Beach Boys LP by using lots of different studios but it was mostly done on a cassette machine with a primitive 'surround' function. LEPKE is the man who does the impossible everytime he picks up a tin, carton, bottle or instrument. The first person with enough originality to adopt 'anything' to his own idiosyncratic style. Retired to an obscure basement, still without peers in the world. LOUNGE makes rhythms that by this time need no words of praise with a wallop, that when left, makes the usual praise words disintegrate. A mix of inestimable ability with feelings as wild as it is rare. SALAMANDER has that certain something that most people can never have even if they practice for an eternity. Most important in his influence most endearing in his emotional impact and most convincing in his new found authority. If The Homosexuals were a strange prospect and their music should fit into a similar spot as that of angry young men like Wire and Magazine who carried their penchants for art-school angst in the midst of proto-thug posturing, Milk from Cheltenham were even a more extreme band. Not only progressive with a certain artistic notion (a reference could be found in This Heat, Family Fodder and Chris Cutler's bands Henry Cow and the Art Bears) but also closer to more primitive sound experimentations of a cryptic and sinister Residential perspective. This release finally documents one of the most important projects developed in the scene explored by The Homosexuals. Amos&Sara, Sara Goes Pop, Nancy Sesay & The Melodaires and more hidden misterious activities will soon be available through alga marghen. First compact disc edition including a previously unreleased track titled "The Geek". Graphics reproducing the original graphic material from the early 1980s. Digipak first edition limited to 500 copies."
11/15/2008	Miller, Evan	Three Improvisations	cassette	$8.99	Digitalis Limited	"Evan Miller has been a staple around digitalis hq for the past few years since he busted onto the scene via too many killer night people tapes. over the course of many, many releases, miller has traversed all manner of different landscapes. perhaps he's best known for his post-takoma acoustic jaunts, but there's always been elements and vague hints of drones that circle underneath his picking like tonal sharks, looking for any sort of bait to jump out at. well, "three improvisations" puts it all together one in fine package. side a features two short songs for six-string guitar. to the point, they pull in melodies and keep them caged up until the exact, perfect moment when they are set free. it's deceptive in its simplicity. side b adds electric elements (c/o phil ochs) and field recordings to jumble millers various sides into a cohesive whole. 95 copies with coffee-dyed tape labels." Out of print.
2/21/2009	Miller, Evan	Transfigurations on Lap-Steel Guitar	LP	$11.99	Arbor	"Iowa City's Evan Miller is never one to stay in the same rut for too long. His earlier releases were composed of Fahey-esque spells, heavily emotional acoustic guitar work emanating tones of nostalgia and simplicity. On "Transfigurations" a new zone is crafted with lap-steel guitar and tape collage, creating equally nostalgic music from the other end of the spectrum: delicate, minimal drones. Tones interweave and textures evolve: it is Evan's most personally progressive work, combining past themes and reinterpreting them on another medium: electric lap-steel guitar. Mastered by Pete Swanson. In an edition of 450 full color pro-printed cardboard LP sleeves and printed labels designed by Jeff Witscher (Secret Abuse / Callow God)."
5/1/2009	Millions	Static & Distance	3" CDR	$4.99	Obsolete Units	"David Suss is the sole party behind Millions, and his monstrously dense and overpoweringly gorgeous take on the peaks and valleys of drone is remarkable for a solo project. Overseeing a complex set-up of guitar, synths, and electronics, Suss uses this mini-CD-R as the platform for a 20-minute composition that puts emphasis on the brighter tonalities and absorbing euphoria that inhibits his oeuvre. Layers of unending haze and blissful noise hold power for the whole of this piece; followers of Matthew Bower and the VHF imprint need keep close watch."
5/29/2008	Millions	The Notebook Behind Your Eyes	CDR	$5.99	Abandon Ship Records	"Brooklyn local David Suss lays it all out for us here. While having a complete understanding of patience and subtlety, he can jar the senses with his powerful technique. Three extended, texturally rich pieces for guitar, voice, electronics, effects, etc. Massive blurred-vision dronescapes of existential heaviness and introspective density." Edition of 50 copies.
11/4/2006	Milner, Cole	No Strangers	CDR	$6.99	Arbor	"A slight detour from the recent noisy releases on arbor brings us to Cole Milner's newest pop gem. Cole Milner a man of many names such as Cole Miller, Cole Miller Island, Sneakypines, I Love You, and many other names following the "C.M. (insert place here)" formula. Cole writes pop songs in Menlo Park, CA similar to those of the Pacific Northwest dudes. He's toured with everybody from Seattle and Portland and is a really cool guy, and also totally nice. Sometimes he has a moustache. Sometimes he uses a drum machine. This album features some instrumental help from the brother, but other then that it's all Cole. Campfire songs, bossanova songs, and dance songs. All about love and fear and stuff like that. Packaged in a paper bag with paste on and an insert by Cole. In a numbered edition of 100."
2/16/2005	Milton, Antony	Fleeting	CDR	$12.99	Wire Bridge Productions	"The 1st off the block in the Wire Bridge reissue series is Fleeting, originally released in a scant edition of about 10 in 1998 (on the eve of my departure from Australia for India). Fleeting collects together a series of songs, graphic score works, and improvy noise pieces recorded to 4 trk on Stradbroke Island during 1997-1998. I had forgotten the extent to which I was ensconced in a kind of feral mysticism during this period… Wild flutes are played amongst the waves and there are songs dedicated to weird subjective Gods (and their impossibility…)."
9/17/2006	Milton, Antony	Live @ the Cake Shop, August 2005	CDR	$9.99	Transient Recordings	"Gorgeously intimate live set which joins some of the dots between Antony's earlier song-based work (as heard on Last Visible Dog's "Sirens Š" reissue, the title track of which appears here) and the brain-rotating psychedelia of current projects such as The Nether Dawn, The Stumps and Glory Fckn Sun. A songwriting voice as unique as that of contemporaries Pumice and GFrenzy emerges out of this modest, yet hugely significant release."
2/16/2005	Milton, Antony	Queenslandbrisbane	CDR	$12.99	Wire Bridge Productions	"Queenslandbrisbane 1st appeared (packaged rather extravagantly...) as a book/cassette in 1997. The 1st 3 trks were recorded the day before leaving NZ for Australia and are (I feel...) amongst the best of the songs I recorded during this period. The rest of the album, a collection of songs, field recordings, concreté pieces and abstract electric guitar collages was recorded over the next few months in Brisbane and on Nth Stradbroke Island. I wound up in a fairly negative working environment when in Brisbane, and this is reflected in the intensity and aural violence of some of the pieces here. The overall feel of the album is more kinda 'psyche-folk' though and overall I'm really pretty proud of this one."
12/2/2008	Miminokoto	Live Performance 2007	CDR	$11.99	Plunk's Plan	Features: Suzuki Junzo:Vocal,Guitar -- Takuya Nishimura:Bass [on tracks 1,2] -- Tabata Mitsuru:Bass [on track 3] -- Shimura Koji:Drums. Three tracks recorded live in Tokyo over three dates from September - December 2007.
11/4/2006	Minamo	A Herdsman's Life	CD	$14.99	Esquillo	"New album from the japanese electroacustic quartet featuring Keiichi Sugimoto, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Namiko Sasmoto and Yuichiro Iwashita. This is probably minamo's most direct album including electronic manipulation, guitar workouts, piano lines and a distant saxophone in a true sound narrative. This is a work of great simplicity and staggering beauty evoking in the listener a feeling of serenity and nostalgia. It's Minamo's seventh album following releases in Line, Quakebasket, Cubic, Apestaarje and other labels. Limited to 250 copies"
7/30/2006	Mirag	Black Temple Carved in Smoke	CD	$11.99	Battlecruiser	"Urgh, my aching head! All that flange and phase and tremelo and wah-wah and incense and wrinkling up of the spacetime continuum... cleaving a hole through my frontal lobe and transmogrifying my spindley legs to boneless black jelly. AAAAargh... argh... urrrh. Right before I passed out I had a split-second vision of Blackie Lawless telling me his band was "back and stronger than ever!". I thought I had either died and gone to some kinda cat-piss stinky heaven or I was doomed to spend eternity in a gothic girls wardrobe. I dont mind telling you I was really, really frightened. Im never gonna listen to this record ever again." - label. Features Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Total/Sunroof!/Hototogisu)
5/7/2004	Mirror	Eye Of The Storm	CD	$14.99	Streamline	"The second Mirror album Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann produced together in 1999, originally released as a limited edition vinyl LP, is now available on CD for the first time. Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann think that it is a very boring idea to try to find descriptions for their music (and most music in general). Why is the music there after all? If they wanted to make their artistic statements in language, they would work as writers. They like to say it in sound, so if you want to find out what they're about you'd better listen. Several years ago, somebody found some words (in a novel) that seem to parallel Chalk and Heemann's creative aspirations: 'How long the journey lasted we were unable to calculate. Time seemed a myth, a meaningless symbol. We lurched on, driven by an incomprehensible compulsion. We had no will in the matter. Our mouths opened and shut as we attempted to yell at each other, but there was no sound. Evanescent twigs and leaves and branches brushed past us, grey and insubstantial; fumy softness charged into our rushing bodies without injury or pain. Then as abruptly as we had begun to move, we were halted'."
7/16/2006	Miscarriage	Miscarriage	one-sided LP	$10.99	Gods of Tundra / American Tapes / Hanson / Chondritic Sound	"THIS ONE-SIDER JUST REPRESSED...AVAILABLE AGAIN....ORIGINALLY A 4-LABEL SPLIT edition of 200 copies...now 400 more copies have been pressed...100 more for each label!! Grab it BEFORE IT HAS TO BE REPRESSED AGAIN!!!!The band that shouldn't have happened.. and kind of didn't. Olson / Dilloway / Connelly / Holger. co-released in a SECOND edition of 400 by HANSON / GODS OF TUNDRA / AMERICAN TAPES / CHONDRITIC SOUND." - Hanson
5/8/2005	Miss High Heel	Split Wax Cylinder, Inscribed: Beast 661	CD	$13.99	No Sides	"One-time-only no wave / grindcore SUPERBAND featuring Tom Smith (TO LIVE & SHAVE IN L.A.) and Marlon Magas (LAKE OF DRACULA) on dual vocals, AZ (SCISSOR GIRLS, BRIDE OF NO NO) on synth, and the metal-era FLYING LUTTENBACHERS as the rhythim section! Recorded live on WZRD FM in Chicago, 1/4/96."
1/24/2009	Mist	Certain Expansion	cassette	$8.99	Pizza Wagon	First release on Pizza Wagon (a collab. label of Sam Goldberg's Pizza Night and Emerald's Wagon label). "The first release is a Mist c20. Mist is Goldberg and John Elliot, dueling synthesizers..."
5/31/2009	Mist	Stole Colors	double cassette	$14.99	Pizza Wagon	"Slightly more refined cosmic music than the last Mist release from Sam Goldberg and Emeralds' John Elliot. Heavy prog synth zone..LP coming soon." Out of print.
8/2/2008	Mixers by the River	Born With This	CDR	$12.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"Another beautiful dose of sonic abstraction from some of finlands finest. Sami Virtanen and Keijo Virtanen lay down 6 tracks of gentle spacefolk tinged improv and dense cosmic drones to create an ever-changing image of comfortable lossŠminds adrift without fearŠblissed."
	Miyamoto, Naoaki	Live At 20000V	7"	$4.99	Public Eyesore	Recordings from 7.30.2000
4/24/2006	Mizutani, Kimio	A Path Through Haze	CD	$32.99	P-Vine	Kimio Mizutani was the guitarist in the excellent Japanese freak out group Love Live Life +1 and this is a long-desired reissue of his first solo album from 1971, originally issued by Japanese Polydor.
6/11/2006	Mlehst	A Puritan Am I	LP	$21.99	Belief Recordings	"Another new LP, this one has a bit more out-stretched, almost droney sounds, still mixed with sudden bursts of screech noise. Edition of 150 copies. MLEHST (All Brentnall) is a project started in the early 90s with the handmade, defunct, art label Bandaged Hand Produce back with a brand-new CD-R vehicle, Belief Recordings to both re-release former recordings and lost gems as well as new work."
6/11/2006	Mlehst	As A Man Thinketh, So He is In His Heart	LP	$21.99	Belief Recordings	"New recordings from this seminal classic UK act. Cut up and looped concrete sounds mixed with some calmer parts. Edition of 150 copies. MLEHST (All Brentnall) is a project started in the early 90s with the handmade, defunct, art label Bandaged Hand Produce back with a brand-new CD-R vehicle, Belief Recordings to both re-release former recordings and lost gems as well as new work."
12/24/2005	Mocassins	Mocassins	cassette	$6.99	Skullfucking Tapes	"Headstrong living music collective lead by Clay Ruby and Brad Dixon (white mountains, oxblood reincarnations) Thick forest fog drenched in analog pipe dreams. This is Mocassins' debut co released by SFTrees."
4/23/2003	Modern Art, The	All Aboard The Mind Train	CD	$12.99	Gallium Arsenide	Gary Ramon’s pre-Sun Dial band recorded in 1988. “The reissue of All Aboard The Mind Train in 1994 allowed for a reappraisal of The Modern Art's music. Surprisingly, it stands up very well and compares favourably with most of Sun Dial’s output. The characteristic sound of the album is intricate and wild electric guitar set against an acoustic background as exemplified by the opening track One Way Ticket. A heavy sixties influence is apparent in much of the music. Forcefield Blues has a punky surf sound and superb twanging guitar with fx aplenty. Beautiful Place one of the album's highlights, also features surf guitar and garagey vocals while some sneaky oriental sounding passages give the piece a feel of The Thirteenth Floor Elevators. Pictures Rewind and White Sports Car are both heavier pieces, the latter featuring superb fretwork. Stand out track, inevitably, is Mind Train A trippy phased intro with a barrage of fx heralds in the familiar riff, soon joined by pounding bass guitar while the fuzz gets turned up to maximum. This is as good a version as has been committed to vinyl. Not all tracks are this good, a number of them featuring vocals set too far back in the mix, but overall the standard is excellent.” – Chris Williams
8/4/2007	Modern Shit	Modern Shit/Artcoustics: The Stories Told By Record Covers	CD/BOOK	$64.99	Alga Marghen	"Alga Marghen presents a new chapter in the documentation of Amos/It's War Boys/Homosexuals recordings. Directly taken from the original It's War Boys catalog, here is one of the most obscure sonic works of the early 1980s, Modern Shit! First 'issued' on tape (cat No. $21) this work circulated only privately among the close friends of the label and was never officially distributed. Actually, it represents one of the most intense and experimental outputs of this creative London period. The idea was to create a contemporary 'Non-stop,' vaguely in emulous contradiction to product by people like Cerrone and Biddulph (1970s disco queens). Lepke and Amos, the two minds behind this project (and 2/3 of the Milk from Cheltenham adventures), each constructed a half hour near-continuous non-stop using only the foulest materials. In those days, they had their 8-track studio in a moldy basement below Brixton Road, South London and they happened to occasionally record some awful wannabe pop bands. It was a truly horrible experience but with a good side. Almost as soon as the idiots left the studio, Lepke and Amos would start re-mixing their music, often stealing and sticking it (suitably mangled) onto new tracks, the basis material for Modern Shit! Also included is Artcoustics: The Stories Told by Record Covers, a 500-page full color catalog issued by Mednarodni Graficni Likovni center in Ljubljana. The catalog is the documentation of an exhibition of record covers conceived by Guy Schraenen mainly based on punk/DIY/underground records from ex-Yugoslavia as well as contemporary/Fluxus/minimal/conceptual art record editions. Some Alga Marghen titles from theVocSon series are included as well. The stories are 'Black Plastic'; 'Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's Design'; 'On Records, Record Covers, and Starving Children'; 'The Eloquence of the Useful Adornment: Stories of the Sleeves of Slovenia's Independent Alternative Records in the Pre-Digital Age'; 'A Radio Station's Library, or The Endless Pursuit of the Ultimate Sound (and the Ultimate Album Cover).' Also included is a Sound Art chapter featuring Guy Schraenen's essay 'Installing Sound.' The CD is presented in beautiful slim-jewel-box with full color cover. First edition of 150 copies. The book and the CD are distributed together by Alga Marghen but they are considered two separate kinds of anthologies."
11/2/2008	Modern Shit	Will Make You Ill	CD	$24.99	Alga Marghen	"After surfacing briefly in 2007 in a very limited number of copies on slim-jewel-box together with the "Artkoustics" catalogue, alga marghen is now proud to presents the final edition of Modern Shit, a very singular chapter in the Amos/It's War Boys/Milk from Cheltenham/Homosexuals history. Directly taken from the original It's War Boys catalogue, here is one of the most obscure sonic works of the early 1980s, Modern Shit! First "issued" on tape (cat No. $21) this work circulated only privately among the close friends of the label and was never officially distributed. Actually it represents one of the most intense and experimental outputs of this creative london period. The idea was to create a contemporary "Non-stop", vaguely in emulous contradiction to product by people like Cerrone and Biddulph (1970's disco queens). Lepke and Amos, the two minds behind this project (and 2/3 of the Milk from Cheltenham adventures), each constructed a half hour near-continuous Non-stop using only the foulest materials. In those days they had their 8-track studio in a mouldy basement below Brixton Road, South London and they happened to occasionally record some awful wannabee pop bands. It was a truly horrible experience but with a good side. Almost as soon as the idiots left the studio, Lepke and Amos would start re-mixing their music, often stealing and sticking it (suitably mangled) onto new tracks, the basis material for Modern Shit! The cd is presented in a new digipack edition with full colour cover. Final edition of 500 copies."
	Modern Whigs	Raped By The Cops	CD	$12.99	Lost Records	"Their music uses multi-guitars, bass, drums, organ, and synths to produce sounds intentionally confusing. Growling vocals, found sounds, samples, whittles, odd percussion, banjo and spoken parts also found here"
9/17/2006	Moglass, The	Sparrow Juice	CD	$14.99	Nexsound	"The group under the Moglass came into being in 1997, in Kharkiv / Ukraine. New records of the Moglass are spontaneous improvisations, mostly live records, which by no means always can be called free-noise because sometimes they are very gentle and melodic. Up to date they released 6 full-lengths and various compilation appearances, have collaborations and recordings with Tom Carter (Charalambides), Vanessa Arn (Primordial Undermind), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Andrey Kiritchenko, Kotra. Toured with Jackie O' Motherfucker, My Cat Is An Alien." Melodic passages, improv acoustic and electric guitars, ambient drones and field recordings by Ukrainian trio.
3/26/2006	Moglass, The	The Moglass	CDR	$12.99	U-Sound Records	"Barely heard of stateside, these gents have worked before with Tom Carter, now unleashing their terrific, original, drone/improv mastery in a full length record of deep, simmering telepathy...."
2/9/2002	Moglass, The / Nihil Est Excellence	split	3" CD	$6.99	NexSound Records	"This split release of improv experimental post-rock band the Moglass and droning sound collages of musique concrete Nihil Est eXcellence." Here are some more words about this release: "'Guitar' is a tiny noisy intro. 'Agitur' is a droning thing made with layered guitars and basses and it sounds warm and mellow. Third track is 'The Transposition of Letters'. It's a solo guitar and sounds more close to what we do now. Two Nihil Est Excellence tracks are collages made of processed field recordings and they are beautiful." More...I have no idea who The Moglass are, but they have three tracks on this split 3" CDR with Nihil Est Excellence, so each eats about 10 minutes. It seems to me that The Moglass are into sampling. The first piece is called 'Guitar', but I don't think I heard one through the sampled choirs. 'Agitur' may use guitars, but maybe also a violin, plus maybe some sort of computer processing. Or is that the high end distorts. The third track is darkly toned and densely. The prize winning piece of the entire release... Nihil Est Excellence is a guy from Russia who presents us two ambient like recordings, with some dark synths and what could be environmental sounds."
3/21/2007	MoHa!	Rock / OFF!	7"	$6.99	Humbug	"Young and infamous duo consisting of guitarist Anders Hana (Ultralyd and Noxagt) and drummer Morten A. Olsen (Ultralyd, etc)."
1/24/2009	Mohel	Babylon Bypass	LP	$19.99	Tyfus	"TAKE YOUR DISSONANCE LIKE A MAN. From time to time, I suddenly realise just how differently it is possible to hear exactly same sounds using the exactly same, god-given hearing devices - your ears, that is. Of course, it's never about JUST hearing, it's always linked to what/where/when & why, plus everybody's own personal life experiences & time spent on this planet. But that's another story, although closely related. I'd bet a hefty sum of down-beaten dollars that if you'd play this record to, let's say, one hundred random streetwalkers, maybe 90 of them would call this just some mindless noise, a butt-ugly mess, aural manure - and definitely NOT music at all. And it's very understandable: there are no hooks, no pretty melodies (well there're not even UGLY melodies!), nothing to really hang on to. Oh pity the poor common man. This music thrives on energy and energy alone. Only a very distant cousin to Grandfather Jazz nowadays, I've said this before: this is primal music. (just now, writing this, that image from Kubrick's 2001 w/ those forefathers of today's man banging those bones against each other's skulls came to my mind - and also the towering picture of the monolith, turned into an adjective - MONOLITHIC, that's what this here is.) At the same time this music (and yes, this is very much MUSIC to my ears.) has the sense of something very simple and child-like in its enthusiasm ('Hey Mom, listen to this!') but also something very determinate as a whole, like there's nothing that could stop it once it gets going on all four (or, in this case, FIVE) cylinders. And still, among all the rough edges and spikyness, I can hear the peace and calm, you know the feeling that comes when you know you're doing something completely RIGHT, doing something the only way it can be done. This is not music that can be re-done if something goes 'wrong' (and how can you define 'wrong' in a situation like this? There are no stones to throw.), at least not in the same exact way. Like that old saying about rivers - you can never step into the same one twice. Here, gone, like a passing train. I think I could go on forever about trains & rivers (don't get me started!) but I'll just say: don't take this at face value, there's more than meets the ear here. Give peace a chance, motherfucker." - Tyrone D.C. Washington, Helsinki 17.11.2008
4/5/2008	Moisturizer, The	3 Headed Howl 2	cassette	$7.99	Together Tapes	"Second in the Moisturizer's Three Headed Howl series. Heavily blown out tape delay and cassette loops with an ominous underlying beauty present. The whole thing sounds like whaaawhooo and bell tones. Grey zone feedback drone loner visions. Edition of 100 with heavy printed 4C art and mag scrap all over labels."
3/21/2009	Mokele Mbembe	Mokele Mbembe	CDR	$9.99	Cut Hands	"Cut Hands headquarters is proud to release the debut album by this Oakland, Cali, band. Lost in a dense fog between Heavy Winged and The Skaters, this outfit jumps from deformed rock moves, acoustic acid and blurry soundscapes to truly fucked up guitarjams and slowjazz voodoo piano. It's an understatement to say that Mokele Mbembe offer a wide array of sounds on this self-titled album, the opener brings up images of tropical sunsets suffering under heavy monsoons while another track feels like a no holds barred, Japrock jamsession, psych guitars meandering into an unknown, mushroom polluted void. And more." 40 copies, housed in plastic sleeves with artwerk by the band.
2/21/2005	Mokinox	I'm Your Chair	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	“Sonic Youth cabin boy Chris Habib gushing out audio tourettes with electronics and voice garble. Word on the street has it that he wheezed this baby out while wearing a full adult sized frog costume, no shit.”
11/17/2007	Molah	Molah	CDR	$7.99	American Grizzly	"pure repetitious psychedelic stoner/space rock from france."
12/24/2005	Mollenhauer	Mollenhauer	cassette	$6.99	Funeral Folk	"Mollenhauer (really great stuff, far out twisted psych flute orchestra)"
6/15/2003	Molls	Mushroom Live	3" CD	$10.99	Hello Good-bye Studio	In 2002 Hiroshi Nar (Les Rallizes Denudes) founded Molls and this cd “catches the quartet at a peak. Nar’s vocals are now gravelled and boozy, his keyboard playing creating a weird nexus between Sun Ra and Ray Manzarek.” - David Keenan, Wire May 2003
2/11/2004	Monaghan, Kieran	History Wringing	CDR	$12.99	Pseudoarcana	"Kieran Monaghan is one of the key figures in the Wellingtons - if not NZs - ‘adventurous music’ scene. A driving force behind NZ punk during the 90s, he currently plays cabaret ‘chamber-punk' as mr sterile, drums for Sunship and various ‘improv’ ensembles, edits the local indymedia zine, and writes voluminous quantities of witty and politically astute poetry. This cdr and booklet document his 1st solo ‘performance’ work. Dedicated to the memory of Alan Brunton (of Red Mole Theatre, with whom Monaghan worked) History Wringing is an intense juxtaposition of percussion, tape noise, and spoken word investigating the issue of colonialisation."
3/26/2006	Mongoloid Men	From The Void	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"For one night only the Mongoloid Men (connelly, olson, young and nyoukis) came lurching into a brighton basement. Cheap beer and indian food in their stomachs, beards and hair full of hash smoke. A swarm of metallic insects shitting debris into ears of those who attended. Horrible, horrible noise."
3/29/2005	Monks	Black Monk Time	CD	$17.99	Repertoire	"The Monks' only album is packed with angst anthems on the order of 'Shut Up,' 'I Hate You,' 'Complication,' and 'Drunken Maria'. One of the strangest recordings of all time. The repackage is made all the more appealing with the inclusion of their two later non-LP singles, the live 1966 'Monk Chant,' and a couple of 1965 demos, making it the definitive document of the Monks' recorded legacy." - Richie Unterberger
2/7/2009	Monks of The Balhill	Ten Ways To Get Out Of The Water	cassette	$5.99	Peasant Magik	"Vocal mantras, decaying guitars, and found sounds combined in totally refreshing way. Both sides constructed from similar pieces, but distinctive enough to show the endless stream of ideas pouring from these two Vincents. Made with love, guitars, wind instruments, field recordings, and tigers. Art by Adriane Dalton." Edition of 100
12/24/2003	Monolab	Home World	CDR	$11.99	Droning On Records	"Some people have noted a similar plain being travelled by Monolab and Maso Yamazaki’s Space Machine. Monolab’s love for old synths and all things cosmic and spacey are contained on this cdr for all to hear. Home World contains dying worlds, machines screaming out and in return answering these cries while searching for lost worlds and planets. Get lost with the sonic bleeps, sweeps, and swooshes. Edition of 100 copies."
12/24/2003	Monolab	Signals From Space	CDR	$11.99	Droning On Records	“Monolab’s love of space travel, alien lifeforms, robots and 50’s/60’s B-movie sci-fi soundtracks… still fills the air. With this release, on his own cdr label, this three track cosmic mini-album, it would be very easy to imagine you were hearing long lost messages and signals from far off galaxies. Minimal synth bleeps, sweeping electronic sounds, and far away sonic tones. Edition of 100 copies.”
4/11/2008	Monopoly Child	Piper Maru	CDR	$9.99	Pacific City	"Brand new limited album from this new project launched by Spencer Clark of The Skaters/Vodka Soap et al. This is an intense non-stop hypno-ritual that combines flashes of circular keyboard motion, huffing, hyper-ventilating vocals, almost Terry Riley/The Gift style narcotic minimalist architectures and an endlessly deep, brain-dazzling atmosphere that is pure smoke and mirrors. No matter how many players bite Spencer Clark and James Ferraro's collective ass, there is still no one who sounds remotely like them. So welcome to Pacific City. Recommended." - Volcanic Tongue. Originally issued on cassette, these are now available in a very limited edition on cdr.
4/11/2008	Monopoly Child Star Searchers	Gitchii Manitou (12 step Retrance Program for Troubled Dreamwarriors)	CDR	$9.99	Pacific City	New (2007) album from Spencer Clark of The Skaters, the second broadcast of his Monopoly Child power visioning. Helium-inflected gamelan sonorities create dancing chains of thudding African percussion somewhere between Whitehouse's Racket, the endless rhythmic torrents of Frank Lowe's Black Beings and Terry Riley's all-night tape modulations." - Volcanic Tongue. Originally issued on cassette, these are now available in a very limited edition on cdr.
4/11/2008	Monopoly Child Star Searchers	Infant Spirituality Rates Coconut Percent	CDR	$9.99	Pacific City	"Brand new 2008 CD from Spencer Clark of The Skaters' solo Monopoly Child project. The arc of these new jams seems to be focussed more on the flashing, hallucinatory component of combined percussive levitations and infinite keyboard flow, with Spencer's liquid synth logic generating huge ectoplasmic though-forms that are then ritually processed using infinite mathematical re-statements of time in order to more closely mirror the onset of classic hypnagogic states. Terry Riley's Persian Surgery Dervishes still feels like the closest reference point but it sounds more like a hallucinatory remembering of the endlessly reproductive and organic aspects of Riley's universal vision. Front cover artwork featuring a temple opening up to the stars provides the perfect visual corollary. Closer to the live Vodka Soap 'jungle' rituals than anything else he has recorded to date, this is one of his most psychedelic and fully immersed sides and is another necessary instalment on one of the most accelerated evolutions in modern punk primitive avant-thought. Recommended." - Volcanic Tongue.
4/11/2008	Monopoly Child Star Searchers	Mandala Levitations	CDR	$9.99	Pacific City	Late 2007 recordings from Spencer Clark of The Skaters (Vodka Soap, too). "The presentation and actualization of patterned symbols for integration within the communities temple (MIND). Cyclical meditations as informed by the temples organ pipes 5665, 3773, 275572, 14633641, goodbye. For the forms of the symbolic mind and that of the physical to act in togetherness and to hallucinate this phenomenon amongst the stars. To be experienced under the influence of MSG." Originally issued on cassette, these are now available in a very limited edition on cdr.
1/24/2009	Monopoly Child Star Searchers	Prince Of Parrot Shooters	CDR	$11.99	Pacific City	"Solo project of Spencer Clark of The Skaters/Vodka Soap/Black Joker et al. It follows the heavily rhythm-based arc of the last few Monopoly Child sides, but there's more of a squealing fourth world modal quality to the brain-levitating sonics, with what could almost be field recordings of Eurasian folk-trance rituals pitch-shifted into drone-grade lo-fi exotica and accompanied by tweaked repeating melodies and minimalist codes. Comes with liners from Charles Berlitz." - Volcanic Tongue. Recommended!
4/11/2008	Monopoly Child Star Searchers	Start Levitating Now!	CDR	$9.99	Pacific City	"New limited self-released set of ritual soundtracks from Spencer Clark of The Skater et al. This one is heavier on the percussive figures, with almost Moroccan-style intersecting drum circles and dunting melodies illuminated with shadowy melodic forms, the warp of primitively cranked cassette and a smear of pipes, F/X and helium inflections." - Volcanic Tongue. "Levitation for reconfiguration of star charts as limboed vertical paralleld light beams bevelled for vocalizers meditation mediation towards levitation facilitated new star charts for the development of life cycled community spiritualization...within a parroted starred nightlife as levitation provokes the fourth planed mind of symbol meditations to your coconuts content, pacific city..." Originally issued on cassette, these are now available in a very limited edition on cdr.
3/29/2005	Monosov, Ilya	Architectures on Air and Other Works	CD (enhanced)	$15.99	Elevator Bath	“Elevator Bath proudly presents the first full-length CD from Ilya Monosov. Architectures on Air and Other Works is a challenging collection of recordings, perfectly summarizing the various interests of this inventive sound artist. The range of these works is tremendous: From harsh intensity to gorgeous drone to virtual silence, concluding with the deeply affecting title track. Monosov recorded three of the six pieces presented here as solo works, while the other half are collaborations. Two of these collaborative tracks feature conceptual sound artist Civyiu Kkliu (Banned Productions) and the third includes the work of veteran electronic composer Larry Polansky (Frog Peak). Architectures on Air and Other Works displays the fruits of several years' worth of activity, and though each piece is distinct in concept and execution, the album offers a solid block of organic sound, compelling from beginning to end. In addition to the stunning audio work, this enhanced CD also features two QuickTime movie files of Monosov's sound performances (about 18 minutes of material). Ilya Monosov's sound works have been released by Bremsstrahlung, Eclipse, & Elevator Bath. Packaged inside two elegant printed sleeves of 100% recycled paper, this compact disc has been issued in an edition of 330 copies.”
11/4/2006	Monosov, Ilya	Solo Cello #1 For Charles Curtis	CD	$12.99	Eclipse	"For the 40th anniversary of Fluxus exhibit, my friend Marc Schulz was working with Ben Patterson on an installation piece, to which he asked me to make a contribution. I created a photographic sheet music score presented as ‘Music Everyday’, which comprising of different elements, recorded by me, created a sounding picture / sheet music that was to be used for ‘Solo Cello #1 For Charles Curtis’. When I asked Charles Curtis to perform this piece, he asked me to compose a text explaining my relationship to the pictures, which I include herein. “Photographs allow my ideas to lay flat - The beauty with which things happen around us is missed by those attempting to search for it with ridiculous vigor; to look up at a thin wire resembling ‘notation’ is an experience if one relaxes enough to understand the irrational precision with which nature creates unpredictable and random events – the beauty of endings, beginnings, love and violence, of irrational thinking, and of birds sitting on an electrical wire – the feeding source for our various pursuits, a balance for the bird’s view of the ground, the motion of decay…The blue color of the sky and the shape and texture of the sky - Blue is the color of the sea and the color of the sky – largeness, irrationality, borderless-ness, and perceived repetition which is cut into shape by the shadow lines of the electrical wires which smoothly transmit the cloud shapes towards the end of each photograph. After looking at various patterns for a prolonged time, the mind forms meanings,& shapes while searching for context. Music, like photographs of the sky, practices the mind and feeds our primordial passion, which to some degree is the passion for order and decay." - Ilya Monosov. We decided to cut the score into 5 separate sheets, which were then interpreted by Charles Curtis resulting in the recorded work herein. "When Ilya Monosov handed me the score which he wished me to realize, i was relieved that it revealed a complete absence of composerly attributes; it struck me as an honest, an entirely sincere parallel reconfiguring in pictorial, or spatial form, of the disposition of sounds and sound states, and the feelings that inhere in sounds...in response to the photographs and their airy, sky-directed orientation, i created a group of airy, diffuse, diaphanous, unfocused cello sounds, using the extended corpus of the cello as a unified vibrational field, and expressing the point at which cello sound production breaks up into unspecific matter, or diffuses, freeing itself of singular pitch or any other characteristics lending specificity... i organized these sound states into a continuum from extremely diffuse to not so diffuse, the least diffuse being a high artificial harmonic played sul ponticello (and this the only sound actually played conventionally on a string)... we agreed the most diffuse was to be silence... therefore, including silence, i had at my disposal an incremental set or pallette of eleven sound states...applied to the score, we agreed that, read from bottom to top, the most widely spaced sky-strips, as figuratively admitting the largest volume of air, be assigned the most diffuse sounds; and the narrowest the least diffuse... durations were determined by taking a visual average of the faintness of the two wires delineating a sky strip, with the most faintly delineated strips the longest durations, the most boldly the shortest... to this end ilya monosov provided a scale of five durations, in seconds 20, 30, 45, 80, 100... thus with five durations and eleven sound states i identified seventy-one separate events and played them accordingly...of course even diffuse sounds yield pitch content, and the (faint) pitch relationships are relational... only one though is the result of choice: the high artificial harmonic i selected to duplicate as nearly as possible the (unstable) high d-sharp of the tailpiece wire...in the case where two consecutive sky-strips are, equally, the most widely spaced in a series, and are additionally both framed by the faintest lines, as indeed once occurs, the result will be two consecutive long silences, with no audible separation...the sounds are neither processed nor manipulated in any way, and the recording is a single take played to a close condenser microphone onto analog tape..." - Charles Curtis (2004). Some notes about the tracks on the cd: 1. ‘Solo Cello #1 For Charles Curtis’ - Interpreted and Performed by Charles Curtis in the year of 2004. Composed By Ilya Monosov For the Fluxus 40th Anniversary Exhibit. Recorded and Mixed by Preston Swirnoff at The Habitat in San Diego, CA with assistance from Roy Silverstein. All sound recorded live in one take with no multitracking or layering of any kind. Limited one time edition of 500 copies.
11/4/2006	Monosov, Ilya / Preston Swirnoff	Recorded Works Vol. 3	LP	$11.99	Eclipse	"California sound artists Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff return with two more sonic labyrinths stretched over disparate terrain. As on their previous albums, Monosov and Swirnoff cast boundaries to the wind. Disillusioned and wise to the ways of the world, the duo not only succeeds in propping up the shambolic planet they created on Recorded Works Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, but also in soaring toward the furthest reaches of distant suns. Blurring the line between composition and improvisation, these new installments are rare, unearthed gems. Volume 3 begins with dancing shadows and acoustic myopia. Monosov's minimal vocals lead Swirnoff's piano ramblings deeper into the cerebral maze, inadvertently finding the best route out. Setting off the shaky delicacy of the opener and Side A closer, "Repeat Again" (with enchanting vocals from Naomi) are the raucous, industrial rhythms of "Snake Lust" and "Fly Away." The Indian-inspired drones of "With Charles Curtis" top the whole thing off with cinematic splendor. Monosov and Swirnoff manage to seamlessly mesh these ideas into a cohesive whole." - Brad Rose. Edition of 500 copies.
11/4/2006	Monosov, Ilya / Preston Swirnoff	Recorded Works Vol. 4	LP	$11.99	Eclipse	"California sound artists Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff return with two more sonic labyrinths stretched over disparate terrain. As on their previous albums, Monosov and Swirnoff cast boundaries to the wind. Disillusioned and wise to the ways of the world, the duo not only succeeds in propping up the shambolic planet they created on Recorded Works Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, but also in soaring toward the furthest reaches of distant suns. Where Volume 3 is steeped in elegiac drones and tones, Volume 4 turns off the main road and heads toward a fuzzed-out oblivion. This record is actually a split between the Monosov/Swirnoff duo and their band Habitat Sound System. Opener "Needle's Eye" throws back to Side B of Volume 2 and another Monosov/Swirnoff band, The Shining Path. With spaced-out hints of Les Rallizes Denudes, this is a cosmic transport into the stratosphere. The other duo track, "Desire Sings Just One True Song," is the antithesis of "Needle's Eye." Unplugged and methodic, it unfolds like an impulsive narrative where the ending seems as unlikely as the storyline. Organic drones of hurdy gurdy, harmonic, and bowed banjo meander over streams of abstract percussion. It pours perfectly into a dub-infused rhythm that closes out the side. Habitat Sound System pick up this theme with impressive ease with four tracks straight from the Kingston underground. Smoke-filled jams sound as though they've been hibernating all winter complete with horns, synthesizers, organs, and more. In the Habitat Sound System, it never rains, only shines." - Brad Rose. Edition of 500 copies.
3/29/2005	Monosov, Ilya / Preston Swirnoff	Seven Recorded Works (Volume 1)	LP	$11.99	Eclipse	"The sound of two souls, all alone in claustrophobically infinite space. These two volumes see disenchanted Californians Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff whittling out their own autonomous spaces far from the surf and sun, then climbing in and nailing the door firmly shut behind them. Seven Recorded Works comes over like someone has leached the spirits of Ennio Morricone, Eric Satie and Pauline Oliveros, stuffed them in a leaky wooden barrel, and set them rolling out to sea on a spring riptide. Uncertain, hesitant piano and melodica miniatures undercut with the evil drone of harmonica and hurdy-gurdy. It's a creaking and queasy trip, guaranteed to heave underwater, piratical nightmares out of some long suppressed substream of your subconscious." - Alan Cummings. "Our collaborative effort is our search for new models for what people call 'song', 'improvisation', 'dub', and 'composition'. The first volume documents a difficult pairing, I play Hurdy Gurdy and Harmonica, Preston Swirnoff plays piano and organ. I used a harmonica on the last day of our Blues sessions, and with that we ended the recording of Volume 1. We would like to thank Ed Hardy for offering us creative freedom over a span of four vinyl records, the last of which we plan to record in 2005." - Ilya Monosov (2005). Edition of 500 copies.
3/29/2005	Monosov, Ilya / Preston Swirnoff	Two Recorded Works (Volume 2)	LP	$11.99	Eclipse	"Two Recorded Works opens in equally brooding, cinematic fashion with Swirnoff's 'air organ' slow gasping its weighted way through magenta dust-clouds of bowed guitar. Later, sea-shanty bellows underscore the spectral traces of whistles and ghosted vocals and whistles to particularly melancholic effect. But the final side, credited to Monosov and Swirnoff's rock unit The Shining Path, is a whole other kettle of herring. It rockets upwards into the fuzzed out expansive zones of the Rallizes sound, but is tethered to an on-edge, speedfreak shake of a Suicide rhythm, just too fast for comfort. Bliss handily circumvented, higher mind tied to delerium tremens. I think they're trying to tell us something…" - Alan Cummings. "Time passed, and we began recording Volume 2 which contains our experiments with song form and our rock band, The Shining Path. We would like to thank Ed Hardy for offering us creative freedom over a span of four vinyl records, the last of which we plan to record in 2005." Ilya Monosov (2005). Edition of 500 copies.
3/20/2008	Monosov, Ilya E.	Seven Lucky Plays, Or How To Fix Songs For A Broken Heart	CD	$14.99	Language of Stone	"Ilya E. Monosov’s Seven Lucky Plays, Or How To Fix Songs For A Broken Heart is Monosov’s private celebration of the human experience and are based on his poems and stories written from 1996-2007. His early exposure to Russian dissident culture greatly affected his life and art. Influenced from a young age by his parents’ passion for literature, art, and poetry; as well as by the music of Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Galich, Leonard Cohen, Coltrane, Miles Davis, and African American folk music traditions (blues and gospel), Monosov’s picked acoustic guitar and voice arrangements were recorded at Hexham Head by Greg Weeks (of Espers), and feature strings by Margaret Weink (Fern Knight), mandolin and harp by Jesse Sparhawk, and electric guitar by Weeks."
	Monostadt 3	untitled	CD	$12.99	Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers	"Raw power trio improvisation/instrument abuse from drummer Adris Hoyos (ex-Harry Pussy, Transmission), violinist Priya Ray and synth player Robert Price. Cover features erotic art by Graham Lambkin."
	Monotract / Gang Wizard	split	7"	$9.99	Blackbean & Placenta	Recordings from 1998 - one copy in stock.
11/21/2008	Monseré, Annelies	Somewhere Someone	7"	$6.99	Morc	"Her first 'official' solo-output since 2005 -after collabs with jessica bailiff and birch book. pretty much focussing on organ sounds and harmonics, in her unique style: scarce, minimal and haunting tracks. Somewehere Someone is probably more dark and droning than previous works. ltd to 185 copies, comes in handwritten and handstamped sleeves."
6/1/2002	Monster Island	Dream Tiger	CD	$12.99	The End Is Here	“Dream Tiger is a 13 song CD album by the Detroit area group Monster Island. This is their first album since the 1996 LP recording From the Michigan Floor on Ecstatic/Yod. Principal artists are Cary Loren (Destroy All Monsters) Warn Defever (His Name is Alive) Erika Hoffman (x-Godzuki) and Matt Smith (Outrageous Cherry, Volebeats). Monster Island is an acid/folk project that began in 1995. Their new album features a mixture of ethnic folk instruments: (Oud, Sitar, Tanpura, Harmonium, Shakuhachi, Djembe, Gamelon Gendèr and African percussion) mixed with traditional (Guitars, Bass, Violin, Flute, Drums) and novelty sounds: (Chinese organ, Water harp, Mini-moog, Toy piano, gongs).”
	Monster Island with John Sinclair	Peyotemind	CD	$12.99	The End Is Here	"Inside a found 1963 student notebook written by John Sinclair was poetry and an essay written while under the influence of peyote. This work became the main 33 minute title track for the Peyotemind CD, an improvisation recorded by Monster Island with vocals added later by the author John Sinclair. An early and important contribution to psychedelic literature Peyotemind was recorded in one take in the fall of 2000. Included are two other Monster Island improvisations Ganges Dawn and Eternal Now - an homage to Alice Coltrane with Otto Kontrol on Rebab."
12/24/2005	Monteiro, Alfredo Costa	Stylt	CDR	$12.99	Absurd	"created using pick ups on turntables, alfredo costa monteiro, surprises us once more with the powerful drone/harsh improvised nature of this recording offering us 4 stunning explorations. those familiar with his unique solo work or the bizarre universe of cremaster will certainly love this release, those unfamiliar will find a sonic world to discover..." Edition of 99 copies.
	Montgomery, Roy	Just Melancholy	7"	$4.99	Ajax	From 1997
	Montgomery, Roy	Particle/Wave	7"	$4.99	Varispeed	Summer 1998 release of 2 tracks recorded from January to March 1996
	Montgomery, Roy / Chris Heaphy	True	CD	$12.99	kranky	Two members of Dissolve using guitars to create beautiful sounds
1/24/2009	Moon	Tales of Long Dead Ladies	CD	$14.99	Interregnum	"Don't be deterred by the cryptic Tales of Long Dead Ladies title, and don't think Moon's album is a merciless blast of punishing noise either. Instead, it's a thirty-four-minute collection is moodscaping of a particularly strong vintage. The group's the brainchild of DDN who, on this recording, is ably assisted by singer Chandra Murray (words for three songs derive from poems by Emily Dickinson, Letitia E Landon, and Jennifer Jacobs-the first two filling the "long dead ladies" bill while the third is "still alive and dreaming"); born in 2000, Moon lists eight albums (on CDR and net labels) in its discography. DDN regards Moon as his adult tribute to the soundtracks of his childhood nightmares, one he characterizes as "Mahavishnu Orchestra remixed by Merzbow," and his attempt at re-imagining what "the music of the future would sound like back in 1976," when DDN was seven. In a distinctive move, bass guitar often assumes the lead instrumental role with Murray's vocals and rippling sheets of electronic and synthetic waves swelling alongside it (guitars, organ, and theremin also figure into Moon's music-making). The seductive opener "My Life in Ruins," a celestial cloud where bass guitar meditations drift through windswept atmospherics of electronics, synths, and the breathy sweep of Murray 's angelic voice, pulls the listener in immediately. In the folk traditional-styled meditation, "Shall I Ever Fall," Murray 's intonation of Dickinson 's words ("Good-bye to the life I used to live / and the world I used to know") echoes through a mass of guitar stratospherics until they eventually drown within it. Roasted guitars burn through the funereal "Dreams Dreaming" and nightmarish "Dream Monsters" (Sleep little gargoyle / Dreaming of worlds / Sleep 'til the stars all make sense") while phantom whispers murmur and electronic noises seethe. There's a somnambulant quality to Moon's music, as if the tracks are audio transcriptions made when DDN's asleep. The music drifts hazily in and out of focus, with voices and electronics ebbing and flowing throughout. Though Moon's sound is disorienting and mildly turbulent too, Tales of Long Dead Ladies nevertheless impresses for the subtle and nuanced handling of its material." - textura.org, November 2008
6/3/2009	Moon Phantoms	Moon Phantoms	LP	$15.99	Important	"Limited edition of 500 copies pressed on virgin vinyl. Moon Phantoms is a collaboration of Bardo Pond, Alasehir and Suishou No Fune. The fourth release in our simultaneously released four part Bardo Pond related vinyl set. 'We Suishou No Fune and Alasehir played in East Coast tour of one week together again in the autumn, 2007. During the autumn concert tour, we had felt like that Moon always chased us. I started to look for where the moon was unawares when we visited each town. I have strongly remembered that the moon was full and very clear cut one night in Boston. The night was very pleasant and let us relax. Michael, John and Jason had a good conversation comfortably, looking at the moon. Kageo and myself also enjoyed the night to be just eased under the moonlight. I believed that we, Suishou No Fune and Alasehir could be one band under this special moonlight. The next day, I spoke my wish to perform music in one band to the members and we, all fall in each other in Providence. Therefore, the Japanese and American band named Moon Phantoms based on the concert tour with the full moon. And Moon Phantoms made the concert tour in the East Coast of the U.S.A. and had recording in Spring, 2008. Then we made this album.' -- Pirako Kurenai of Suishou No Fune."
2/7/2009	Moon Pie	Moon Pie EP	CDR	$7.99		Moon Pie features Alison and Michael from Death Chants. The live band sometimes features fellow ex-Death-Chanter Paul, now of the recording projects Aswara and Muntjac. "The music is psychedelic, prismachromatic, and pan-galactic, with inspiration drawn variously from shoegaze, folk, Vaudeville, and Albanian urban lyric song of the 1930's, all presented in a collagey psych/dreampop context. The EP has 6 tracks and is 21 minutes long. Each copy is packaged in an individually collage-decorated clothbound cover."
3/27/2004	Moon Trotskij	I Fell But Andromeda Rose to the Stars	CD	$19.99	Countryman Records	“The Artist: Moon Trotskij is the alter-ego of one cosmically inclined sub-human being known to close friends as Henrik Oja. Pete Frame and others may recognize Henrik’s name off some too-psychedelic release by The Spacious Mind, where he’s been residing since the beginning of time. ‘I fell But Andromeda Rose To The Stars’ is his first solo album, though he threatens to have twelve follow-ups ready to go. The Music: Ah, here comes the tricky bit. How do you describe something that seemingly has no beginning nor end? Something that flows down ancient universal paths with the grace of the Holy Bird Of Rejijahal only to suddenly be interrupted by the thunderous power of the rumbling mountains of the Great North, as they reach further and further into what Man call sky, but Moon Trotskij calls home. Or, it could just be said that this CD contains enough pretty melodies, heavy riffs, folky chord progressions, and ambient electronics to carry you away at will. Add a fair load of his trademark ripping guitar solos and you get the sense that this is not so much an album as it is…something else. The Other: No, that’s too soon to give away…in the head of Moon Trotskij, the future looks amazingly out-there. Regards, B.C. Wolff (B.C. Wolff carries black and white magic in his pants and trusts the animals to save his mind)”
	Moon, Chris	World Without Sound	CDR	$1.99	Last Visible Dog	"Recorded in the fall of 1996 on a reel to reel machine, using primarily shortwave radio and a simple analog keyboard, WWS is an early glimpse of what would evolve into Yermo during the next two years. Appearing originally on a 60 minute cassette, Chris presented each thirty minute side as a window; cutting off where the tape ended (or began), indicating his belief that any beginnings or ending in his music was arbitrary. Part two did not cut off at the end but concluded with a short stretch of static; the end of that night's transmission. As a selling point (?) the album was dedicated to David Tudor, who had passed away during the month in which WWS was pieced together. After it's initial release, WWS was heralded by Eclipse Records as Chris's best release, and both artist and album disappeared into obscurity. 65 minutes, Mono (!)" Recommended!
3/26/2006	Moon, The	In Phase	LP	$24.99	Nasoni	"'In Phase' is the first Moon album. It is dedicated to one of the most remarkable but almost forgotten bands to come from Sweden. The band was founded in 1995 in Stockholm by Fredrik Rönnqvist and other members of the today well known band QOPH. The following two years saw The Moon developing their very special and unique definition of experimental progressive psychedelic rock inspired by mystery and darkness, with it's roots in the early 70's. The results were recorded in three studio sessions. They present The Moon at their peak, and unfortunately it was not to last. In 1998 The Moon were no more and their musical legacy had been locked away from the public for almost a decade. But now it's definate time to let The Moon shine again. This time on delicious vinyl to please your ears and mind." Edition of 500 copies - 100 on colored vinyl - which these are.
4/24/2006	Moonlanding	untitled	7"	$25.99	AA Records	One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label.
6/19/2007	Moonmilk	Hidden Speech	cassette	$6.99	DNT	"Lia Tsamoglou and Kell Derrig-Hall make up this Australian drone duo. Umm..tape effects and dronescapes. partial field recordings? If I were good at writing descriptions I'd write like 10 pages on how good this tape is..but uh, yeah.. Anyway, crazy swirly intricate black and white cover art design by Zachary Fleming (who also comprises 100% of the project Nomen Dubium) in a DIY shrinkwrapped case with label-maker labels and red cassettes. Hand-numbered and limited to 100 copies. 'Poof!"
5/14/2007	Moonmilk	The World Creaks	CDR	$9.99	Spanish Magic	"A concoction of weird distorted sounds made up by various keyboards, tapes and microphones all collide to create tension in the form of extended circular drone/noise pieces. Haunting!"
3/2/2008	Moore / Moore	split	LP	$20.99	Nihilist	"A collossal meeting of the Moores! Thurston Moore (Ecstatic Peace label dude and Sonic Youth frontman) goes head to head with Graham Moore (TLASILA, Black Meat and Blossoming Noise label CEO) for a no holds barred noise attack! Thurston delivers a scathing 24 minute opus of gut twisting skin scraping skree. Graham takes a more collage style approach to his side using everything from body belching to a touch of classical avant abstract. Initial pressing of 500 copies of marbled 140 gram vinyl with pro-pressed jackets."
11/19/2003	Moore, Gene	Carnival of Souls (Original Score)	CD	$13.99	Birdman	"Some real nice data recovery here - lots of Gene Moore’s bizarrely played but nevertheless heavily scary organ music rescued from old acetates, plus a bunch of creepomatic dialogue from ‘a story so unusual it will burn itself into your mind.’ With liner notes by screenwiter John Clifford and bonus tracks (producer-director Herk Harvey putting a little perspective on the whole thing and music recorded for the film that went unused)." One copy available.
4/1/2003	Moore, George	Plastic Flowers	LP	$12.99	Ecstatic Peace	"George Moore lives in Connecticut. He is the 20 year old son of Ecstatic Peace recording artist Gene Moore (we released his far-out Twisting Wires CD last summer 2001 - Gene Moore is the older brother of Thurston Moore who runs Ecstatic Peace.) Regardless of these obvious bloodline connections George Moore's musical world should, would and could easily creep into the living underground on its own mystic merits. He recorded these instrumental pieces at some point in early 2001 and issued them privately in an edition smaller than Albini's dick. The music therein is an amalgamation of spurious signals wholly independent though readings and mis-readings of John Fahey, Whitehouse and Jackie-O Motherfucker are in probable detection. The basement aura of this session will appeal to anyone even slightly aroused by the aforementioned troika. Ecstatic Peace will continue to release artifacts from the Moore boys and their Connecticut ‘Nutmeg State of Mind’ environmental joob. Forthcoming will be another session by Gene Moore ­ this time LP only. And an LP by Daniel Moore on one side and Daniel and Gene on the flip. ltd. edition: 400 copies for sale."
3/21/2009	Moore, Steve	Outer Bounds Of Sound: Vaalbara	LP	$17.99	Noiseville	"Outer Bounds Of Sound is an experimental LP series in an edition of 300 copies with a hand-made cover. Steve is half of the duo known as Zombi. This is a solo project, very ambient electronic passages."
10/6/2007	Moore, Thurston	Trees Outside The Academy	CD	$11.99	Ecstatic Peace	"It's Thurston's first solo outing since 1995's Psychic Hearts. Of course, Thurston's been releasing records here, there and everywhere, mostly in the context of rowdy and rambunctious noise/improv escapades but this new one is killer diller SONGS! Unlike Psychic Hearts' skeletal trio rock, this new jammer, 12 years post, has a far fuller bouquet of sonic depth and proves this Sonic dude to have a very real songwriting life outside of the legendary Sonic Youth (of which he is a founding figure, duh). This newborn disc is 12 songs long. Thurston recorded primarily on acoustic guitar and bass, laying down the core of the tunes with drummer compatriot Sonic Youth's Steve Shelly and violinist Samara Lubelski, a noted player from MV/EE and The Golden Road, Hall of Fame and other awesome gatherings as well as solo artiste. Most of the tunes are lyric driven but there are a couple of majestic instrumentals like 'Trees Outside The Academy,' which brings the album to a musical and breathless close. There's also some weird cassette tape that Thurston found at his mom's of him at 13 years old in the early '70s making some kind of sound-theatre. It's kinda nuts, and it's the last 'hidden' track. Tracks like 'Frozen Gtr,' 'The Shape Is In A Trance,' 'Silver>Blue,' 'Never Day' and 'Fri/end' (a theme song to the hippest TV show yet to be broadcast) will lead you in to a sparkling and heavy new world of Thurston's heart, mind and soul."
8/4/2007	Moorman, Charlotte	Cello Anthology	4xCD Box	$129.99	Alga Marghen	"Stunning oversize boxset (similar in production to Alga Marghen's OU box of a few years ago). Historic Fluxus sound documentation at its finest. Featuring music by: Earl Brown, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Jackson MacLow, Nam June Paik and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Recordings from 1964-66 & 1982. Performed by David Behrman, Philip Corner, Malcolm Goldstein, Terry Jennings, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, etc."- FE. "It is certainly surprising that until now an exhaustive recognition of the work of Charlotte Moorman has not been undertaken. The cellist can be numbered among the most charismatic and influential protagonists to have appeared on the avant-garde or experimental music scenes since the early '60s. A documentation of her activities as a performer is generally available only in various catalogues which document the crucial intersection with the work of Nam June Paik, or the association with manifestations and events connected with the so exquisitely realistic gestures of the Fluxus movement. To have accepted the transformation of herself into a 'living icon' through the works realised in collaboration with Paik, has perhaps contributed to obscure a part of her individuality. As Giuseppe Chiari correctly noted, in a text which is authoritatively integrated into the documentation provided by the present publication, Charlotte Moorman's ¦uvre can in fact be sympathetically felt only in the absolutely 'unique' character of her interpretative gesture, a character which justly identifies her originality, her capacity of an authentic 'author'. The presence of Charlotte Moorman as catalyst must be realised in such an evaluation. "Cello Anthology" is a collection of documents-sonic and photographic-as well as original texts and testimonials, made available for the first time in a unitary form, which permits a complete recognition of Charlotte Moorman's work. The biography and chronology faithfully reproduce the materials that the artist herself had ordered in booklet form. The range of her activity not only as an interpreter, but also as a promoter of the avant-garde artistic research progressively open to intersecting with the most varied disciplines-from music to sound and concrete poetry, form visual and plastic art to cinema and to video art-is moreover reconstructed through an unpublished text with which Charlotte Moorman meant to review the history of the fifteen editions of the New York Avant Garde Festival she organised between 1963 and 1980. At the core of her uninterrupted performative activity, here documented across a rich iconographic apparatus ordered chronologically, the works realised in collaboration with Nam June Paik doubtless represent a culminating moment in her striking career. It therefore seemed appropriate to also integrate the transcription of the primary texts and documents pertaining to them, to better perceive to what extent the aesthetic project of the Korean artist was indissolubly bound to the peculiar 'corporeality' of the cellist's performance 'gesture' and to her absolutely unique capacity of translating the musical experience within the limits of her own non-exchangeable physical presence. Giuseppe Chiari's affectionate testimony dedicated to the faithful interpreter of some of his most important works of the early '60s-works which affirmed the Florentine artist on the international scene-and the reprint of Gisela Gronemeyer's poignant essay dedicated to Charlotte Moorman, likewise offer a useful explanatory setting for the introduction of these copious texts and documents. Indeed, for the first time, the work of Charlotte Moorman can be appreciated by means of a significant selection of vintage recordings. The first two CDs highlight a pair of exceptional documents-a performance recorded by radio station WBAI in New York on 12 September 1964, and a concert from 25 July 1966 in the Theatersaal in Aachen, Germany. These events superbly represent the type of repertoire that Moorman and Paik cultivated and proposed in the US and Europe, in the years following their meeting, in their memorable 'duo' exhibitions. The programs of the two concerts present several homogeneous choices and others more clearly divergent. The Aachen event, in fact, is testimony to the progressive and always more pronounced emergence of meta-musical elements deliberately turned toward the demystification of 'ritualistic' meanings of a concert, even while consciously accepting it as an exhibition frame. It is for this reason that the Aachen recording can document, with respect to the comprehensive programme, only those works in which the sound matrix constitutes the prominent factor. This is particularly evident, beyond several tried and true war-horses of their exhibitions which recur or are distributed equally in both concerts (26'1.1499" for a String Player by John Cage, Duet II by Toshi Ichiyanagi and two works by Giuseppe Chiari: Per arco and Ave Maria di Schubert, both of which were written for the cellist and dedicated to her), in the premiere of Earle Brown's Synergy, a rare and delightful duet with Terry Jennings on saxophone, an almost systematic version of Plus Minus by Karlheinz Stockhausen aided by Paik's Robot in the WBAI concert, as well as, in the Aachen concert Sonata No. 1 for Adults Only and especially the first performance of Opera Sextronique, both by Paik, in addition to other pieces by Earle Brown and Sylvano Bussotti. The second disc includes another unspecified rendering of Ichiyanagi's Duet II and an abbreviated version of Cage's 2'1.1499" for a String Player. Of the famous TV Cello-conceived by Paik for Moorman as a 'living sculpture'-the third CD offers an in situ recording realised on one of the three days inaugurating the Paik retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, on 11, 12 and 14 September 1982. This version contains respectively the TV Cello Duets with Paul Garrin and the Concerto for TV Cello and Videotapes, largely improvised, "including a tape collage by Ornette Coleman prepared for Charlotte, also talking with audience". The fourth CD restores three other documents, collateral but definitely not secondary. One happy example is a choral work performed on 3 September 1964, during the second New York Avant Garde Festival, a performance of Jackson Mac Low's composition The Long Hot Summer, sees in an exceptional reunion the names of Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Philip Corner, and Malcolm Goldstein, as well as Mac Low himself. On the relevance of this performance, distinguished by a marked ethico-political intonation and valence, Philip Corner dwells extensively in an unpublished text printed here as an attachment to the sonic documentation. The voice of Charlotte Moorman, characterised by her unmistakable vital charge, is brought back to us through a long and meaningful interview conducted by Harvey Matusow in October of 1969 in the BBC New York Studios. The soundtrack of the video Waiting for Commercials, realised by Paik in 1972 in collaboration with Russel Connor, whose sound collage integrates musical insertions by Charlotte Moorman and David Behrman, completes the anthology put together and offered here. Luxury edition including a 154 page book with original documents, full colour photos and scores; a set of 16 full colour inserts reproducing the original posters and programs of the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York; 4 compact discs. First boxset edition limited to 500 copies."
	Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band / Nimbus 2000	split	7"	$5.99	Oggum	Numbered edition of 500 copies on orange vinyl.
3/21/2007	Mops, The	Psychedelic Sounds In Japan	CD	$18.99	World Psychedelia	"The Mops are one of Japan's best known 'Group Sound' (GS) bands, particularly noted for their psychedelic period. The group was founded in 1966 by high school friends Mikiharu Suzuki (drums), Taro Miyuki (guitar), Masaru Hoshi (lead guitar) and Kaoru Murakami (bass), playing mostly instrumental rock like that of the fabulously popular Ventures. The Mops album Psychedelic Sounds in Japan, released in April of 1968, was full of flower power flourishes, including cosmic artwork, ethnic clothing, fuzz guitars and sitar playing. It included covers of the Airplane's hits 'Somebody To Love' and 'White Rabbit,' The Doors' 'Light My Fire,' Eric Burdon's 'San Franciscan Nights' and The Animals' 'Inside Looking Out,' as well as the super Mops theme song 'I Am Just A Mops' (which later became a cult favorite after being included on the obscurities album Nuggets 2). Despite being widely considered a psychedelic band, the Mops' original songs were more garage band sounding. They also had a dark side that was very much not a hippie vibe. While most bands were playing love songs, The Mops album had a song called 'Blind Bird' about a terrible dark world, which contained the lyrics 'please kill me,' This led to the song being left off some reissues (but it is included on this one.)"
6/11/2006	More Experience	From Acid Dreams	CD	$12.99	Obuh	"From flowery psychedelic songs to long hallucinating, heavy trips and acid guitar fireworks sounding like a lost diamond of 67' Autumn of Love. Old analog sound and cover. Blows your hippy mind!"
3/2/2005	Morganstewart	Trappiste Protest	3" CDR	$7.99	Firstperson	"Recently re-located to Scotland, Stewart Morgan is a veteran of countless Leeds-based improv & rock collectives including To Suckle the Pups (with Phil Todd), Backdrummer & Codex not to mention his work as organiser of 'special events' including 'Sound Light Vision' of February 2003 which placed the free-form music of The Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sculptress, & Midwich within the confines of the Leeds Metropolitan University gallery alongside the work of prominent local artists & large scale film projections. For this recording - Trappiste Protest - we find our subject alone armed only with his acoustic gtr & a clutch of songs to break yr heart. The recording has a particular quality due in no small part to the high ceiling and bare walls of a deserted leeds metropolitan university gallery. This really is an outstanding collection of solo acoustic material, which tips a wink to the lineage of Renbourn / Jansch et al but manages to stand clearly & proudly on its own through dexterity & sheer ingenuity." 3" cdr housed in hand-made clear acetate covers with information printed on one side and an image on the other.
4/10/2005	Morgen	Morgen	CD	$17.99	World Psychedelia	"Very fine reissue of an album (Probe, 1969) almost always referred to as a definite yardstick for late 1960’s guitar psych; some people rate it as the best major label LP ever made, and it certainly blows a lot of mega-rarities away, with it’s intense and genuinely psychedelic mood, not to mention its bizarre lyrics, which set an eerie tone to the proceedings ('The night’s a crazy shade of purple/The moon’s a strange king of green’); the sound is raw in the best possible way, with no compromises to be found—punky vocals, highly original material, acid guitars that won't quit—it’s difficult to imagine anyone into psych not digging this; two singles tracks (alternate versions of LP tracks) are significant bonus material; the booklet includes all the lyrics and reproduces the insert from the original LP for good measure." - Lion Productions
	Morning 40 Federation	Your My Brother	CD	$12.99	Tekito	"On the band's new 'You My Brother' CD, vocals are occasionally run through distortion effects, banjos share time with saxophones that sound suspiciously like kazoos, and all six musicians get in on the singalong fun. The boozy, plodding tempo, off-kilter refrain and barroom piano set against fuzz-tone guitar in 'That Ain't Professional' is perfectly in step with the song's sentiments; the howling distortion of 'Gotta Nickel' might come from the French Quarter's most aggressive panhandler, as produced by Trent Reznor. Good-humored, original and irreverent, only-in-New Orleans fun."
12/13/2008	Mortuus Auris & The Black Hand	Mortuus Auris & The Black Hand	cassette	$8.99	Digitalis	"This uk outfit plumbs the depths on their self-titled debut offering, searching for the caustic mud that makes things tick. mortuus auris & the black hand are an analog for the demons trapped beneath the seas, whispering sweet missives to a disenchanted world of black. casios and synths intermingle with field recordings and god knows what else in an effort to block out the sun. these three efforts take hold immediately, whirring their way into your bones. mortuus auris hold their own against stifling winds, blasting out of the gates and into a sonic crevice. bleeps and bloops pulse like an electronic heartbeat waiting to be put out of its misery, hopeful that what awaits on the other side is bathed in liquid silver. limited to 50 copies, forensic-style cassette labels."
9/17/2003	Moshe and The Music Now Unit, Ras	Into the Openess	CD	$14.99		"Featuring Ras on tenor & alto saxes, Matt Lavelle on trumpet & bass clarinet, Tor Snyder on guitar, Matt Heyner & Todd Nicholson on acoustic basses and Jackson Krall on drums. Ras is one our closest pals and a kindred soul who shares our DMG's love and knowledge of the spiritual side of modern jazz, no matter where it comes from or how obscure its background might be. A number of his different units have played here at DMG from time to time and always blow away the devoted who attend DMG's weekly Sunday sets. ‘Straight Up Out There’ launches off with ‘Love Supreme’ like throbbing doubled basses while both horns, bass clarinet and tenor sax, swirl together furiously. Strong solos from the bass clarinet and bowed bass erupt with Jackson (from Cecil Taylor' current trio) pushing the soloists skywards. Ras and co. do a great job a capturing that fire music with the basses and drums recorded up front and in your face, the horns also riding the waves of energy and exploding bigtime! Lavelle's trumpet flies high on ‘Kuntu’ soaring as Ras' tenor squeals intensely underneath. Another alien-sounding arco bass solo buzzes like a like an angry hummingbird, but finally breaks down to a more tentative bass and drums duo, tightly wound and flowing together just right, before erupting intensely near the end. The explosive two bass and drum team also burn together on ‘Celestial Suite’ as the bass clarinet and bowed bass connect and explore the darker, denser regions. The two bass thing was made popular by Trane some forty years ago and still sounds fresh when done right, one bassist (Todd I believe) keeps that pulse flowing as the bowed bass bends notes around the horns in a connected frenzy of activity. The final piece is an epic suite called ‘Cosmic Blue Night Forest Parts 1-5’ and begins with the horns stating the dark theme in the distance as this piece is live. The eerie arco bass hovers in the center like a sinister ghost, as the other plucked bass and drums spin freely with some pumping tenor dancing like a flame. This piece features Tor Snyder's growling, bluesy guitar weaving with suspense-filled horn cries and the cosmic bowed bass buzzing with tension and release. At nearly 75 minutes, this cd is a bit long, but no less engaging throughout. Get ready for the long and winding journey and leap ‘into the openess.’" – Downtown Music Gallery
1/24/2009	Mossy Throats	Electric Marsh	cassette	$8.99	Pizza Night	"Electric Marsh is a hot slab of disgustingly likeable psychedelic mess. Clattery Squelches of electronics and sax. Dan D's current jams (in acts like Uneven Universe, Body Morph, Cardboard Sax) are some of the sickest in the midwest. The rising sun of ferndale, some say. Anything that he touches turns to absolute gold, showing incredible control on the most bizzzzare zones. Couldn't be more stoked to drop this one." Edition of 100 copies.
3/5/2009	Mossy Throats, The	Wing Socket	cassette	$6.99	Goaty Tapes	"A loss for words, folks. SŠthingŠain't like nothin I heard period. Twisted, gnarled up like the milkweed and splattered like it's oozy juices. Warty and aggressive, like something pullin viciously from every corner. Beautifully tremendous, yeah TREMENDOUS. Like the very end of something. Or the very beginning of something." - Valhalla. Edition of 100 on orangey yellow shells with hand-cut labels, inside folds, and inserts.
12/25/2005	Moth	1997-2003	CDR	$9.99	Rhizome	"After requests, here's the pick of the earlier Moth CDRs. Note: No Extra Tracks. This is only for newbies - unlimited."
3/5/2009	Mountainhood	White Banquet : Live at The Story Chapter I	CDR	$9.99	Reverb Worship	"This is Mountainhood's third release for Reverb Worship. Mountainhood is Michael Curtis Hilde. This cd is a complete live recording of the first of a series of gigs from The Story Club.The cd contains eight dark and introspective songs played solo. Michael are two future releases planned on Time Lag Records and a recent released cdr on Yod Tapes.The cd comes in a limited edition of 50 hand numbered copies in A red card cover with paste on artwork,insert and hand sprayed cd."
9/27/2002	Mourning Cloak	Beyond	CD	$11.99	Ichor Recordings	"Guitars, sitar, and Celtic harp are melded with analog synthesizers, hand-drums augment electric guitars...the result is a variously pulsing and droning, dreamlike, otherworld music."
9/30/2008	Mouths	3V1/3V2	CDR	$9.99	Absurd	"Mouths is another of Mueller's projects, here collaborating with Jim Schoenecker and Carol Genetti. Genetti's vocal work at the beginning of "3v1" sets the tone – a sung note that cracks, wavers, wobbles, and shivers for an extended time, it's slowly swarmed by percussive noise, before an unceasing rattle, ghosted by the lone foghorn peal of voice swimming in the background, pitches the composition into claustrophobic territory. This actually feels closer to the emotional tenor of metal than Mueller's Metals, to be honest. When Genetti's voice reappears it's a real blast from outside, though I'm less impressed by the wag who walked in while I was listening to this and said it sounded like Yoko Ono. Recordings of Genetti's voice also appear on "3v2", though for this live-to-air recording, Mueller is paired in the performance space with Schoenecker. The gracefulness in the pacing actually reminds me more of the patient enfolding of texture and drone by figures like Mirror, Andrew Chalk, or Mimir; "3v2" skirts the perimeters of various Industrial music tropes without falling into the mire of Industrial Lite, and Mouths' interest in the laminal gives these pieces a great sense of space/scope. Further proof, if it were needed, that Jon Mueller's ear is a finely tuned instrument indeed." - JD
2/7/2009	Mouthus	Days Through the Combine	CDR	$9.99	Our Mouth	"Confused rock scramblings."
3/2/2008	Mouthus	Dual Drift	CDR	$9.99	Our Mouth	"New limited 2007 self-released album from Mouthus. Pulsing, minimal rock brut that sounds like the Kosmiche psych of Neu/La Dusseldorf et al endlessly extended across spools of repeating magnetic tape ala Terry Riley before the whole thing erupts into fuzz coated propellers set to spin in huge, deserted warehouses while primitive drum machines trigger fried jolts of electricity. A very beautiful release from these two." - Volcanic Tongue
3/23/2007	Mouthus	Follow This House	CD	$14.99	Important	"A companion piece to MOUTHUS' 2005 The Long Salt album. Picking up where Long Salt left off, Follow This House is a record full of manic bad mood energy, crunchy resin-soaked jams, and hundred year old instrumentation emerging from the soggy mire only to be slowly pushed back in by poison clouds of delayed vocal groan."
10/26/2004	Mouthus	Loam	LP	$14.99	Ecstatic Peace	"Mouthus is Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson of Brooklyn and they absolutely destroy. Super psyche-snarled feedback and overload squall w/ hep sick-wave edge. A brain-gouged cross of Manowar head implosion and New York dustbombdetonation. Total surf skum blooze drone. Zen buzz cover art by Nate.”
12/24/2005	Mouthus	no title	LP	$17.99	Olde English Spelling Bee	"An early recording from this Brooklyn duo. Two side-long tracks. Dense, slow but fast blasts of whirlpool sound created with guitars, keyboards and other electronics. #'d edition of 350 - covers individually silk-screened & stickered."
9/17/2006	Mouthus	Sister Vibration	LP	$15.99	Our Mouth	"Brand new LP from Mouthus that might be their most devolved circumnavigation of rock from to date. The guitars are impossibly impacted, muffled sandpaper huffs that move in tectonic slugs while the drums shrug between boings of tone-pad squelch, electrified steel-band ceremonials and primitively executed power stomps. This kinda profound retro-futurist refusal lines em up with a buncha modernists like Chrome, TG and even live Mars but there's something in the distant, hiccupping vocals and the generally manhandled atmosphere that sounds like a more drug-degraded take on the kinda hillbilly scorch that Alpo-era Cheater Slicks occasionally delivered on. If you like yr rock gasoline-damaged to the point of almost-intelligible, stick out your cans. Limited edition of 500 copies in art sleeves released on the group's own private press imprint." - Volcanic Tongue
12/25/2005	Mouthus	Slow Globes	CD	$11.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"Mouthus doesnt set out to create music, they want to annihilate it. Fresh on the heels of the Ecstatic Peace LP and Psycho-Path releases, Mouthus return with Slow Globes. Mouthus pummel you into submission with blasts of ferocity so intense, you'll find yourself on the floor crying for mommy until you pass out and wake up the next day in a glassy-eyed haze. They'll tear you apart from the inside with a deadly mixture of abrasive drums and disjointed guitars until you finally succumb and your mind turns to mush. This is destruction at it's finest."
2/26/2006	Mouthus	The Long Salt	CD	$13.99	Important Records	"This album is a return to more abrasive and heavy Mouthus territory after forays into acoustic instrumentation and, yes, a Fleetwood Mac cover on their recent Troubleman full-length. Free/tribal percussion spatter 'n clatter duels with endlessly mutating three chord sludge-riffage beneath thick, poison clouds of delayed-out vocal groan. Truly CHOCK full of manic bad-mood energy but maybe psych-droney and resin-soaked enough for the new crop of crunchier noise-heads to nod to as well. Electric guitars strung with duct tape and drums equipped with hundred-year old heads are jettisoned into deep space and dynamited, combusting so vividly that the after-images soak our retinas with mandalas of interwoven earthworms and beer funnels for hours afterwards."
1/1/2008	Mouthus	untitled	DBL LP	$22.99	No Fun	"Industrial Psych Rock from Brooklyn troglodytes of heavyness. Twice the volume, twice the destruction, twice the machinery, twice the head ache of psychedelic industrial joy! Play it at whatever speed you want. Limited to 350 copies." Recommended.
12/24/2005	Mouthus & Axolotl	12-15-04	LP	$17.99	Olde English Spelling Bee	"X-mas 2004, Brooklyn. Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson of Mouthus meet up with Karl Bauer of Axolotl for some sonic celebration and let the tape machine roll. Two side-long psilocybe-inspired scoops of shimmering and stumbling drone/zone/sludge ragas. Better dust off yr bib."
2/14/2008	Mouthus & Yellow Swans	Conan Island	LP	$15.99	Weird Forest	* - LP $15.99 (Weird Forest) "An inevitable match made in Hades. Four titans workin' it out in the primordial mulch and all the gods are cowering in their presence. The dual intertwining guitar-attack impacts and fragments into the dense concrete percussion forest surrounded by a shroud of pulsing caterwauling skree. A harum-scarum locomotive ride of thick, bombastic & heavy proportions..just like you want it to be. Play loud for optimum effect! Cover art by Brian Sullivan." Limited edition of 500 copies.
4/25/2008	Mouthus & Yellow Swans	Live On Conan Island	LP	$19.99	No-Fi	"The ultimate East coast/West coast soundclash as Oregon's Yellow Swans and Brooklyn's Mouthus present a smouldering document from their onstage interactions on their Fall 2006 US tour. The sound of Mouthus's splat&clatter percussion and sheets of severely altered guitar and voice noise paired with Yellow Swans' raucous axe-mangling and sublime noise processing make for a gargantuan oil tanker of sound that can't avoid enveloping the listener. 'Live On Conan Island' is a range of monstrous caverns of free electro skronk, alt-percussion and wailing guitars from live collaboration between two of Load's hottest noisemongers. Gigantic!"
7/30/2006	Mouthus / Cousins of Reggae	split	LP	$15.99	Olde English Spelling Bee	"A side each of fertile noise-rot from Montreals Cousins of Reggae and Brooklyns Mouthus. Soundly rejected by Discovery Channel - the Cousins five-track suite about the Hudson Bay follows up their limited & hard-to-find debut l.p. (on Ohnonoise) & a recent cd-r on Mouthuss Our Mouth imprint. They set sail with some hyperactive stompers and narcoleptic stumblers intent on capsizing all vessels in their path before coming under attack by a squadron of pissed off jet-skiiers. On flip are two massive Mouthus jams - "New Drugz" & "Better Than Facemask" which perfectly capture a day spent peaking on mescaline at the Daytona 500. Limited edition of 500 with unique handpainted covers and full-color inserts.." - label
12/24/2005	Mouthus / Ground Monkeys / Dosdedos/ Tan As Fuck	split	7"	$7.99	Heat Retention Records	"Great bite-sized gob of free noise on this limited four-way split. Mouthus deliver with some barrelling strings / knuckles assault that's as formless as electricity, while Tan As Fuck hit make with some dissolving cacophonous testimony. Love these explosive noise 7", a helluva lot of fun to flip. Edition of 500." - Volcanic Tongue
6/11/2006	Mouthus and Valerie Allen	Mouthus and Valerie Allen	CDR	$11.99	Our Mouth	"Mouthus continue their slew of momentous releases with this latest CD-R on their own Our Mouth Records. Ecliptic (sch)locked grooves cartwheel through a cascade of howling voices and punk primitive guitar like Denis Charles, Marian Zazeela and Sumner Crane spilling out of a frozen moment with pure lunatic abandon. Some of this is heavily redolent of Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning, as Nate Nelson's slovenly percussion wades through a thick heave of trembling, wordless vocals arching into the darkest regions of the rolling golden everlasting. Track 3 meshes the mesmeric call of struck metal objects with Allen's dilated oesophagus and the sibilant gush of the tide rolling in and out. For fans of VCO, DNA and MEV. Featuring distinctive artwork from resident Our Mouth illustrator. Limited to 100 and highly recommended." - Alex, Volcanic Tongue
6/19/2007	Mrtyu	Ritual Terra Continuii	cassette	$7.99	Tipped Bowler	"The second stateside release from the murky Mrtyu following the double-disc goliath on 20 Buck Spin. Ritual Terra Continuii retains the morbid intensity, hard-edged rumble, and gruesome death-knells of the debut, packing the visceral shudders into a dense but digestible c30. For those in the dark, Mrtyu is New Zealand's Antony Milton, of Nether Dawn, The Stumps, and nearly half the projects of note from the Pacific outpost. Tantric doom of the highest order. Cardstock covers with two inserts and blood-sprayed tapes." Edition of 120.
6/11/2006	Mrtyu!	Blood Tantra	DBL CD	$14.99	20 Buck Spin	"Imagine a fucked up crossbreed of (Salt Marie Celeste era) NURSE WITH WOUND, KHANATE and THROBBING GRISTLE and you can start to imagine the sound of New Zealand's MRTYU! MRTYU! is Antony Milton of the PseudoArcana label, NETHER DAWN, a BLACK BONED ANGEL member, and a proflific solo artist with releases on LAST VISIBLE DOG, JEWELLED ANTLER, CELEBRATE PSI, etc... The sound is a mix of back woods New Zealand and modern urban decay. When the deep bass detonations lash out on "Rites of Death in Body Temple" you're not quite sure whether it's the sound of an ancient Aboriginal ritual or the menacing 808 war march of a midnight low-rider with its lights low and sawed-offs strapped. Harsh noise, Industrial Sludge & Narco-Metal meeting at the crossing of the Styx."
	Ms. Bliss / Naming Mary	split	7"	$3.99	Wintermute	Split single on blue marbled vinyl
4/24/2006	MSBR / Spykes / Gov Alpha	Tano Forever	one sided LP	$14.99	American Tapes	"Man...where to start..... in 98 MSBR and Alpha did a short Midwest Canada tour and was a total blast...mind-blowing experience.... way black when it was done RAW and human.... so after three amazing MSBR/UI/Princess Dragonmom/ Alpha etc. gigs in Detroit the duo red'ed up to Grand Rapids on a Monday night to bust one at a huge indie club. I intercepted a call by Davin from PDM in the late afternoon claiming dem boyz wanted to jam together. Within minutes I was in enroute from Detroit for the action. Got there / and busted this at 1:30 AM in GR. to a crowd of empty bottles...... fucking ruled...hard. Total schizo lofi audio weirdo live session with the only known recordings of the raw Koji vocal scream/mutterings. Feedback reeds and zoned electronics galore, recorded by a Walkman on a lonely table at the back of the club. For some reason this sounds Droll Yankee ish and calm/ harsh loverz will be bummed...weird man.... Stoked to have done it. Everyone needs more Koji legends in they lyfe....dude is an icon homeboy.... A strange document from free-ER times. "See you on the Other Side Warrior Brother" indeed...man...kinda choked up..... Edition of 200 in weird handmade "wave sleeve" and color mounted artwork. Scratch friendly packaging. RIP"
	Muckraker	#6	zine with 7"	$4.99		Features on Shaking Ray Levis, Milo Fine, Ladonna Smith & Davey Williams, Ecstatic Peace Discography (part 1), a lot of reviews plus a 7" featuring Shaking Ray Levis & Ladonna Smith & Davey Williams.
	Muckraker	#9	zine with CD	$7.99		"Featuring interviews with legendary improvisor Derek Bailey, mental-health rockers Ceramic Hobs, laundry room satanist Eddy Detroit, AMM percussionist Eddie Prevost, Argentenian weirdos Reynols, trombonist Roswell Rudd, squeaky wheel Tamio Shiraishi, Majora Records boss Nick Shultz, E.S.P.-Disk alum Alan Sondheim, silence enthusiast Sukora, and family values man Diz Willis, as well as an overview of Very Good Records (which includes interviews with Metabolismus, Coits, and Phonophobia). The CD includes exclusive tracks by Bailey, Hobs, Damaged Life (Sondheim's mid-80s outfit), Eddy Detroit (supported by the Sun City Girls), Reynols, Shiraishi, and Willis."
3/5/2009	Mudboy	Eno Trouble / Midiwards / Happy Birthday Song	cassette	$7.99	Goaty Tapes	"Blocky critters jam up in the webs in my ma's bakelite every once in a while. She tell me I ought to investigate so I brung my earphones and muffled the two-step gothgroove. Check it out!" - Valhalla. Edition of 100 on purple shells with full-color artwork.
1/1/2008	Mudboy	Hungry Ghosts! These Songs are Doors	enhanced CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"Mudboy dares you to find a suitable label for his warped sonic missives. But find one way to trap him and he changes direction and weasels out under the cracks in the wall. This is music for those who like to skit the line between light and dark, because believe Mudboy himself when he says that this record is all about the dark arts. His spells and incantations are the perfect guide through this analog labyrinth. "Hungry Ghosts" is at times hypnotic, dabbling in psychedelia, but is also disorientating like a house of mirrors. The circuit bent organ and arsenal of pedals does Mudboy well and will keep you guessing for as long as you're willing to give it a go. This album is a grower, but after a few listens you'll find yourself completely hooked. On "Hungry Ghosts," the listener is given glimpses into a whole host of new worlds. Each song is like a diorama; intricate, detailed, and totally 3-D. You'll find yourself wandering aimlessly through this mess of devilish sonic missives only to realize that once it ends, not only are you lost, but completely entranced and calm. This is meditative music for the agitated soul. Like poltergeists that haunt belfries and spires, Mudboy is never in one place for too long. This is the CD version of the recent LP on Not Not Fun. This enhanced CD contains the same music as well as a short video by Mudboy, "Othern Lights." The disc is packaged in lasercut & slightly burned cardstock sleeves with matching insert. It's similar to the LP, only more intricate."
6/19/2007	Mudboy	Livish 2007	CDR	$7.99	DNT	"Beware of Mudboy, it creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor..right through the door and all around the wall a splotch, a blotch. Be careful of Mudboy! Crazy full-color artwork by Matt Lock (puffandmagic.com) plus a giant green cardstock monster insert! Limited to 50 copies! 7" coming in July!!"
12/2/2008	Mudhoney / Mugstar	Sonic Attack (Motorheads)	7"	$8.99	Trensmat	"Trensmat's Hawkwind covers series. Sonic Attack (Motorheads) are Mudhoney and Mugstar. Mudhoney go for the jugular with their combustive version of "Urban Guerilla." It takes the original's MC5-on-angel dust vibe and cranks the rama-lama into the red. In short Mudhoney make it their own-filthy, distorted, bluesy, hooky, droney, grungy, stumbling, ass-kicking rock and roll. Mugstar take "Born to Go" and lift off into a roaring, brittle flight that threatens to never land. The instruments are wielded as weapons of psychic warfare as the Sonic Assassins tear into the track in the most reckless and stupor-fying ways."
2/19/2004	Mukai Chie (Enkidou)	Hasselt	CD	$16.99	Turtles' Dream	"Live recording from the European tour of the trio in October / November 2002, to the invitation of Densité festival (France) . Meeting between two Japanese improvisators : Chie Mukai (kokyu, drums, voice) and Sei ichi Yamamoto (guitar, flute, voice) with Éric Cordier (hurdy-gurdy & electronics). " At the risk of officiously imputing to it a conceptual patness it neither implies nor desires, _Enkidu_ - a 67-minute live recording from a 2002 visit to France, Mukai's regular duo with Yamamoto enlarged to accommodate kindred spirit Cordier - could be said to form a trilogy with _Live At Showboat_ [Last Visible Dog] and _L'Energie De L'Existence_ [Turtles Dream]: each offers its own interpretation of Mukai's trademark long-form noise-drone-dream psych-folk improvisations. Basing itself around two momentously elongated, deliriously swirling and head-spinningly noisy slow-burn deep-sound drone-ragas, _Enkidu_ drifts nebulously and looms menacingly, exerting a subtle yet irresistible undertow, always on the brink of falling apart and cohering into something ‘else’ altogether, sucking in signifiers and referents, spinning them out into an endless psychedelic fug.” - liner notes (extract) by Nick Cain
	Mukai, Chie	Kokyu Improvisations	CD	$15.99	PSF	Chie recorded live "playing an ancient Chinese violin (Kokyu), with bits of voice, pieces of metal, bronze rings, cymbals, tape-soundscapes added in. Much appeal for anyone interested in a Fluxal/Theater of Eternal Music-influenced hour of subtle screech; the sound of 'floating atmosphere'".
3/21/2007	Mukai, Chie	Solo Improvisations	CD	$12.99	Siwa Records	"Chie Mukai is best known in the West, if at all, as the leader of Japan's most otherworldly dream psych-pop unit Ché-SHIZU. In that group, her gorgeous work on er-hu (a traditional two-stringed bowed Chinese instrument), sliding up and down through the cracks in conventional tonality, melds perfectly with the trembling naiveté of her vocals. It's a unique sound, immensely personal, and immediately identifiable. However, Mukai also has a lengthy complementary, though much less well-known, career as a solo performer and improviser dating back to her time in the East Bionic Symphonia in the late 70's (trainspotters might also want to note her peripheral involvement with the LAFMS scene). On any given week in Tokyo, you're likely to find her collaborating in a basement somewhere with like-minded multimedia creators, butoh dancers, musicians, performance and visual artists, installationists... Each December she organizes Perspective Emotion, a full-on festival of multi and mixed media performance. In recent years, Ché-SHIZU has fallen into inactivity and Mukai's adventures in the improvised mode have come to take on a far greater importance to her. These previously shadowy activities have finally attained some proper sunlit documentation - most notably, the love-hate dynamics of her showdown with Masayoshi Urabe (Dual Anarchism, on Siwa); her collaborations with Ramones Young, the obviously alcohol-inspired attempt to meld Ramones covers with a Lamonte Young methodology; and the Enkidu unit with Eric Cordier and Sei'ichi Yamamoto. But while all of these are just fine and dandy, for the full unadulterated Mukai experience, you really have to hear her playing solo, expanding soul and sense and touch to fill space. Which is why it is such an unadulterated pleasure to have this SIWA album, her first release outside of Japan, back in print. Three longish pieces, all recorded live in the late nineties. There's a far fuller drone sound to her er-hu here, compared to that on her previous solo release (Kokyu Improvisation, on PSF), a wavering intensity that pulls your brain straight into a sensation-dulled trance. And with none of the evil wince often associated with solo violin improvs, you're free to fully appreciate the fractional control and deep humming resonance of the instrument. It's a beguiling sound, seeming to combine both earth and air in one eternal thrumming, shimmering pull of gut on steel string. Mukai augments the sound with an occasional percussion crash, and a verse or two of wordless higher-mind vocalization. What more could a human ask for? This is sumptuous late-night improv, a fine goose-feather pillow for addled minds everywhere." - Alan Cummings. CD reissue of Siwa #6 in screenprinted gatefold sleeve. First released on LP in 2000 in an edition of 300 which sold out pretty much overnight. Three tracks recorded at Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo in the late 90's. Just over 40 minutes of solo improvisations for er-hu, voice, kengali, rings, cymbals. The recording has been remastered for the digital format but contains the same material as the original LP.
5/8/2005	Mukai, Chie & Gary Smith	Eight+	CD	$22.99	Paratactile	"Improvising guitarist extraordinaire Smith hooks up with Japanese underground legend Mukai for this round of exhilarating improvisations. An intriguing meeting between the 1000 year old horse tail bowed er-hu and electric guitar. Following the issue of the previously unheard Bill Fay 3rd LP (see features in The Wire/Uncut/Mojo) Smith's profile is high and this would be a good time to reassess the career so far of an uncompromisingly original and underrated musician."
6/16/2003	Mukai, Chie / Rinji Fukuoka	L énergie de l existence	CD	$16.99	Turtles' Dream	Chie Mukaï : voice, kokyu and drums, Rinji Fukuoka : cello, piano and drums. "Two concerts recorded in Tokyo at Ogikubo Communauty Center, the 7 and 8 September 2002. A drone music moving to free music, unfold to infinity, sonic caravan lost in the opiate meanders of the cortex (lost as they were in this map of Cosmos). Free drumming tearing apart the psychedelic melodies born from the strings, kokyu and cello played until exhaustion and loss (a primary key to a psychedelic journey.) An electric raga played endlessly. Chie Mukaï - Moonlit figure of the Japanese improvisation scene and of the P.S.F label, Chie Mukaï has played with Masayoshi Urabe, Tori Kudo, Fumio Kosakaï, Seiichi Yamamoto, Keiji Haino, Kengo Iuchi... She studied under Takehisa Kosugi (founding member of the Taj Mahal Travellers), created the psyche-folk band Ché-SHIZU and more recently curated the festival Perspective Emotion, where performers, dancers and musicians all join, illustrating the omnipresence of the body in her art. Rinji Fukuoka is among the musicians fascinated by the instruments: cellist, viola player, guitar player, striking and hitting the strings, a technique he developed in some psychedelic bands like Overhang Party, Magical Garden, Tangerine Dream Syndicate, trying to enforce the doors of perception. On the cello on the sharp string of emotion and sensuality, sticky melancholy even when playing again and again Detroit and San Francisco. He has created the label Pataphysique." Highly recommended!
11/4/2006	Mullen, Geoff	A Rip in the Fabric	7"	$5.99	Rare Youth	"First release on geoff’s own rare youth label. late night improv electric guitar drone-sonics. dark & sweet space-out music. beautiful packaging with screenprinted art on fancy imported, textured, art paper. limited to 300." - Time-Lag
3/21/2007	Muntjac	Imaginary Conservation Sounds	CDR	$7.99	Azriel Records	"Intensely psychedelic wolf funk and float. sweet technicolor earth dream blast. member of death chants. printed art with aural embellishment + insert by paul grimes. hand numbered ed. of 88."
4/21/2008	Muntjac	Warp	cassette	$8.99	Bread and Animals	"Paul Grimes, member of the now defunct DEATH CHANTS walks a surprisingly personal path on this album. very outside the common psychedelic genre he draws a path of his own. on WARP, Grimes scrapes together a faboulous blend of easy listening, light marbles and more retro space tunes. a hot mix of elements of KITARO, JOE MEEK, and even some hits of an introspective DENNIS WIZE. fantastic stuff for the upcoming summer hangovers."
6/19/2007	Muntjac	Woodswatcher	cassette	$6.99		"a wordless wilderness story. weird woods slowly unfolding to the very heart, opening into a hazy blues and effervescent cascade before closing in once more. featuring synthasonic sounds, acoustic guitar, numinous flute and mystery scruffle. full 30min green cassette with verdant color artwork. edition of 95." This is Paul Grimes - member of Death Chants.
2/21/2009	Murayama, Seijiro / Michael Northam	Moriendo Renascor	CD	$16.99	Xing Wu	"Between 2003 and 2004 - Michael Northam and Seijiro Murayama met a few times in Switzerland and France. One artifact of their meetings, 'They Stood Around and Watched' a 20 min CDr was published by Universe International. A more comprehensive and extended document of these meetings has finally made its way in the form of 'Moriendo Renascor.' Seeded from composted recordings taken in Lisbon, Portugal and Astoria, Oregon. Northam offered heavily mixed sources during these meetings. Selections were made by trying to find segments of activated sonic 'matter' then finally to be passed through the ears and hands of Murayama. An awkward meeting perhaps - tangential - yet something else. A shared desire to find some shared experience through the medium of sound. During the process of creation the two took drives out to the Jura in Switzerland and through rural France and passed some terse moments arguing the finer points of the unlikely meeting between a densely planned acousmatic 'composter' and a highly disciplined improvisor. A discussion that ended up producing four enigmatic tracks. 'Moriendo Renascor' - a term taken from a southern French dialect - meaning 'in death, rebirth'" Malaysian import.
1/13/2004	Murdered Housewives, The	Last Dance With the Golden Dove	LP	$8.99	Nauscopy Records	"Manic off-the-wall thrash stuff with keyboards and humor, from Seattle (USA). Yellow vinyl and yellow silkscreened design on black jackets. Snazzy!" Edition of 200 copies.
8/20/2004	Murmansk	CraterScrape	CDR	$8.99	Imvated	"Hailing from the mysterious Deserted Village, this band breathes more improvised and blissful tones than you can imagine. Tons of instruments and objects are played and detuned. When the storm stops, a subtle piano kicks in. This is the third Murmansk album, after a cdr on their own label, and one on the superb Humbug Records, up in the North."
8/28/2004	Murmansk	Murmansk	CDR	$9.99	Deserted Village	Debut album from the Dublin-based free improv explorers. The members of Murmansk met at an improv workshop hosted by Eddie Prevost, percussionist with the legendary AMM in late 2001. Ever since, Murmansk have met semi-regularly to record their improvisations and play in churches, theatres, galleries and even pubs around Ireland. The members of Murmansk coalesced into the expanding Deserted Village collective and label. The First Deserted Village CD-R was the debut Murmansk album. The members of Murmansk are multi-instrumentalists continuously refining their approach to making music. Acoustic and electric, analogue and digital, found objects prepared and home made instruments and good old fashioned extended technique are all employed in a Murmansk performance. Particular techniques and sound sources are unimportant in themselves, the goal is always to create a cohesive and moving piece. While free improv often alienates listeners because it sounds emotionless or experimental for it’s own sake. a successful Murmansk performance affects the listener in a visceral way and creates its own atmosphere. The six members of Murmansk are all involved in a diverse range of other projects and come from different backgrounds; some have studied modern composition, jazz and others are self-taught. This enriches the music and creates tensions in the performances, which can be resolved in unexpected ways or not at all.” “Free Improv, kinda in the tradition of AMM. Prepared piano thrashing is exhilarating but there are also calmer, murkier moments.”
11/2/2002	Murray, Sunny	An Even Break	LP	$16.99	BYG / Actuel/ Get Back	"Avant-garde jazz drummer Sunny Murray was a major player in the experimental jazz community throughout the 1960s. After three years as a member of Albert Ayler's band (1964-1967), Murray traveled to France where, after releasing two lps on the BYG label, he recorded An Even Break, (recorded on November 22, 1969) for Affinity. Although his first release for the Affinity label, this was Murray's third release of the year! Featuring Byard Lancaster, Malachi Favors and Kenneth Terroade."
	Murray, Sunny	Sunshine	LP	$16.99	Get Back	"This album was recorded in Paris on August 15, 1969 with Lester Bowie, Dave Burrell, Roscoe Mitchell, Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Malachi Favors, Arthur Jones and Kenneth Terroade. Sunny Murray is 'rightly regarded as jazz's first free drummer. His belief in the drum as an extension of the human soul's vibration allowed him to create a sonic firebed for tonal instruments to dance across. He spent the '60s developing his propulsive, brain-poking style with Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor and his own groups. The wild sextet Mr. Murray led for this session heralds our entry into the rough and blaring world of high energy.' (Thurston Moore and Byron Coley). Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl."
2/2/2002	Music Ensemble, The	s/t	CD	$12.99	Roaratorio	"The first documentation of this important free improvising group, featuring Roger Baird, Billy Bang, Malik Baraka, Daniel Carter, William Parker, and Herb Kahn. Existing during the heyday of NYC's Loft Scene, their name has often been cited as a crucial stage in the development of its members - the seeds of such current ensembles as Other Dimensions In Music and Test can be found here - but their singular music has gone largely unheard, save by those who were present at their concerts. This CD has been compiled from archival tapes recorded by Roger Baird; one complete performance from Brooklyn's Kingsborough College, on 24 April 1974, and excerpts from a concert at the Holy Name School Auditorium, on 15 February 1975. Packaged in a mini-LP gatefold sleeve, with liner notes by Parker, Bang, Baird, and Carter, paintings by Marilyn Sontag, and a reproduction of the poster for one of the shows, this is the recording debut of one of jazz's greatest 'lost' groups."
12/1/2007	Music For Phantoms	Music For Phantoms	CDR + DVD-R set	$44.99	Opax Records	"New project by Italian space-brothers improv duo My Cat Is An Alien, recorded in remote Western Alps in fall 2007. Forget all the space psychedelic textures... forget all sort of space toys... this is a totally different affair: this is haunted music created with wooden primitive instruments, distant echoes from the other dimension. A pagan ceremony to welcome winter. Stunning film by Roberto Opalio to introduce you to the reign of the phantoms." Private edition of 99 handnumbered copies; in heavy cardboard with pasted artwork + insert
9/30/2003	Music Machine	Turn On	LP	$17.99		"With their 1966 hit ‘Talk Talk,’ extra-nasty fuzz guitar and creepy, minor-key Farfisa, here's an album (the only one recorded by the original group) that's essential to raw '60s garage punk. This re-issue has all the original artwork and liner notes. Euro import."
12/10/2004	Musica Dispersa	Musica Dispersa	CD	$21.99	Discmedi	"Spanish album from 1971 that featured the talent of three of the most significant musicians from the Catalonian underground movement of the late sixties: Jaume Sisa, J.M. Brabo ' El Cachas' and Albert Batiste, who after their Miniatura project with Pau Riba were joined by young hippie girl Selene. Echoes of The Incredible String Band are present mainly in the guitar parts; drums are absent in all but one track on which they are played by Josep Mª Vilaseca 'Tapi', of Máquina & Tapiman fame, but percussion, harmonica, organ, mouth harp, piano and wordless vocals are heard throughout the album, as is Selene's flute work. All in all this is a strange, relaxing little piece of underground from Barcelona's early seventies hippie youth that has become a classic of Spanish pop music; a masterpiece full of melodic tunes that are equally indebted to the English folk music of the era, as they are to the early Amon Duül freak out sound concept; beautiful digipack edition." - Lion Productions
8/2/2008	Musica Elettronica Viva	Friday	CD	$21.99	Alga Marghen	"For the realization of Friday, recorded in London in May 1969, MEV were Frederic Rzewski (piano, electronics, etc.), Alvin Curran (flugelhorn, etc.), Richard Teitelbaum (Moog synthesizer), Franco Cataldi (trombone, etc.), Gunther Carius (saxophone, etc.). The main theme around this MEV piece is communication. Communication by means of music can be a very efficient means of reaching quick agreement among large numbers of people, because when you call something music, you have tacitly accepted a convention by which it is understood that the sounds that you make have no particular meaning, they are just sounds and therefore free to serve the general purpose of pure communication. Music can bring people together where language divides them. When this happens, the 'concert' will come to resemble other other liberated forms such as the party or the day-off, themselves secular remnants or earlier ceremonies. MEV music is not meant to impress people, but to liberate them. This CD is included in a beautiful digipack full-color sleeve with photos and liner notes. Also included is an 8-page booklet with an essay on Friday by Frederic Rzewski as well as 'MEV Then and Now' by Richard Teitelbaum."
2/16/2002	Musica Elettronica Viva	Sound Pool	LP	$15.99	BYG/Actuel/Get Back	"Not easily defined as one band, MEV was closer to a movement based around the idea of free improvisation in the form of experimental, electronic jazz. Originally released in 1969 as #26 in the BYG Actuel series, this live recording from May of 1969 features a free-form ensemble including Constance Abernathy, Michel Asso, Bert, Michael Blake, Barbara Bryant, Carius, Franco Cataldi, Ivan & Patricia Coaquette, Alvin Curran, Chaia Gerstein, Jeff Levine, Jean-Marie Poiret, Frric & Nicole Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum and the audience. A historic avant-noise document! Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with the original artwork, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl."
11/4/2006	Musica Transonic	XYOSFBIGKOU	CD	$14.99	Vivo Records	"Wild & furious psychedelic madness by NANJO ASAHITO (High Rise/Mainliner) on bass, KAWABATA MAKOTO (Acid Mothers Temple) on guitar and YOSHIDA TATSUYA (Ruins) on drums . Ten new compositions from the exceptional trio. Extremely heavy psychedelia at its best!"
7/9/2004	Musique Concret	Bringing Up Baby	CD	$17.99	Fractal	"Reissue of a rare UK album from 1981. Musique Concret were an obscur London duo composed by Jim Friedman & Michael Mullen with a short lived musical history : their sole album Bringing Up Baby was originally released on Steven Stapleton's label United Dairies and there is also one short track on compilation. This is a great experimental power electronics works with the use of delay and echo, tape recorder manipulations, collages, rhythms box, noise, and others studio trickery, naturally close to Nurse With Wound's first period, Faust or others German 70's innovative bands. Completely forgotten nowadays, Bringing Up Baby is really much more than just an interesting curiosity, it's a true highly original recordings from the early 80's. A lost jewel!"
9/30/2008	Mutant Ape	Prinsesen	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Mutant Ape is the mask worn by uk heavy head george proctor, who runs the turgid animal label. proctor has been utterly relentless throughout his time, dishing out punishing lessons of grim and severe noise. the attacks hold nothing back here with three solo lurkers and one collaboration with dean glaister (romance). when i started 905 george was one of the first people I asked to be involved. finally, prinsesen is dropping, with hopefully more in the near future!"
7/30/2006	Mutantea	Sleepy Sounds Electric	CDR	$7.99	Ikuisuus	"Mutantea is Anla Courtis (Reynols), J.Koho (Kulkija, Aan, Vapaa, Keijo & Free Players) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton, Aan, Last Night On Earth) - recorded early 2006 in Helsinki, at the night time, in the middle of darkest winter, after the show in gallery, just before going to sleep. Three electric guitars, with differert effects and styles to play, together in this mass, which gave us this wave called 'Mutantea'. Includes also arts by Bart de Paepe (Sloow Tapes)." - label
4/16/2007	Mutumbajoy, Santiago	Yage Pinta! Psychedelic Shaman Songs of Santiago Mutumbajoy	CD	$12.99	Lattitude	"Weaving in and out of the shaman's body, which is the same as the body of the song, these songs are the medium by which spirits are conjured, witchcraft laid to rest, and the universe put on edge. Treat them accordingly. They might change your life. They did, mine. They are sung by Santiago Mutumbajoy whom I taped with a cheap old tape-recorder at different times, mostly in 1976, when I was living with him and his wife Ambrosia. Their two room wooden house sat on a hill in the cloud forest near the town of Mocoa where the Andes drop into the Putumayo River Basin in southwest Colombia. Today their son, Luciano, carries on the practice there, while their daughter, Natividad, sustains it in neighbouring Caqueta province. For the whole night, under the influence of a hallucinogen called yagé, the healer sings his song the power of which is due not to words, lyrics, or poetry. Instead it lies in the quality of the sound and the way that sound creates pictures in your mind while dissolving your body. The singing is the key to the magical power. It is that power. It is what brings the healer and the patient into the realms of the spirits that lie within and behind every visible thing." Michael Taussig. Nearly 80 minutes of hypnotic, droning wild microphone field recordings of shamanic ceremonies recorded by celebrated anthropologist Michael Taussig.
8/2/2008	Muura	Black & Gold Butterflies	cassette	$8.99	Digitalis Limited	"Matt Earle is one hell of a magic man. from new south wales in the land of oz, earle has unleashed his own country on his fabulous breakdance the dawn label. there's an endless stream of releases from his various projects (xnobbqx, sun of the seventh sister, muura, the minerals, et al). it never gets old and it never, ever ends. so, as my obsession with earle's output grew and grew, i had to bring him over an ocean to the land of digitalis. with that i offer the first of numerous bdtd-related releases, this from his main solo guise, muura. "black & gold butterflies" is the bones of the blues. deconstructed and reassembled with spackle and duct tape. each fractured note hangs on by a thread, clinging to a mirage of junkyard dreams. limited to 50 handnumbered copies on yellow tapes."
5/29/2008	Muura	Black Bird Sings	CDR	$10.99	Black Petal	"The brutal (re-)return of Muura. In the pounding style of 'scarlet urmine sandstone lady' multiplied by infinity." "Another full-length cdr by Muura (Matt Earle, from Siltbreeze band xNoBBQx). This is a great fucked up and kinda dubbed-out rock record!"
8/4/2007	Muura	El Dorado	CDR	$11.99	Black Petal	"Another lovingly hand-packaged cd from Anthony Guerra's Black petal label, again from Matt Earle. This is a much sparser and quieter affair than his last release. Guitar notes and the dull thud of bass drum on the final track hang in an air heavy with amp hum and tension and Matt's sorrowful moans add an extra layer of unease. Recommended." - Boa Melody Bar
	Muz	Banana in Portuguese	CD	$12.99	Tekito	"A Vas Deferens Organization member Matt Castille goes it alone with a little help from his friend fellow V.D.O. member Doug Ferguson aka Frankie Teardrop. Like the best psychedelic music, this is disorienting; a swirling, blending uneasy collage of fragmented debris, chatter, deep bowels-of-the-earth intoning, a vast school of preternaturally sentient fish that talk in neon blips and squiggles swimming in flawless mathematical precision through a maze of sunken city streets. A TV commercial for bathroom tile cleaner from 1963 filtered through the sound of Yellow Magic Orchestra being inhaled by a 300 foot squid. Absurd rubbery cartoon throbbing and burbling squall like some of the more manic-mechanical moments of Todd Rundgren's Wizard/True Star album seeping into passages that sound like four different Martin Denny's having a midnight psilocybin snack with Raymond Scott while trapped in the Residents basement and being menaced by retarded robotic dogs that are too slow to be a threat, but keep everyone tripping over them in the chaos." Whatever...it's good!
4/22/2009	MV & EE	Bill Lee versus Powerman or King Tubby's Homestead, Expo 1	CDR	$7.99	Heroine	Live in Atlanta, GA from 1/26/09 - TRT: 65:28. Features: tea rain (17:43), huna cosm (8:29), baseball rap (1:38), anyway (6:13), weatherhead hollow > drone trailer 31:25
4/22/2009	MV & EE	Black Ark / White Egg	CDR	$7.99	Heroine	Live in Los Angeles, CA from 2/14/07 - TRT: 34:03. Features: boo woe (7:21), satisfied (5:56), drone trailer (5:29), i got caves in there (6:22), east mountain joint (8:52)
4/22/2009	MV & EE	Space	CDR	$7.99	Heroine	Live in Portland, ME from 1/16/09 - TRT: 52:35. Features: the hungry stones (7:32), huna cosm (10:26), tea devil (11:18), weatherhead hollow (10:33), drone trailer (12:45)
1/1/2008	MV & EE Medicine Show	Uranian Ray	LP	$18.99	Spirit of Orr	"This beautiful vinyl LP edition MV & EE Medicine Show's 'Uranian Ray', originally released on the legendary Child of Microtones label in 2004, is a stunning 'get-hi-fidelity' remastered reissue prepared on the spirited channels of the Spectrasound mastering system developed by Matt Valentine himself. Therefore a fresh take on a previous favorite, the lunar brother to 'Moon Jook" hand picked from their catalog by Spirit of Orr, capable of achieving a glorious exit velocity, and slightly rearranged for the time limits & opportunities vinyl provides. Limited single pressing on black vinyl." Highly recommended!
4/22/2009	MV & EE with Doc / Muskox	Sasquatch Creamie	CDR	$7.99	Heroine	Live in Medford, MA from 11/03/08 - TRT: 63:17. Features: satisfied rain (20:00), the burden (6:41),home comfort (7:15), summer magic > environments > get right church (29:14)
8/2/2008	MV & EE with The Golden Road	Astral Bleachers Big Moment	CDR	$17.99	COM/Ecstatic Peace	"Limited to 199, live in the UK, recorded by the king of the tapers pit Pete Coward. Pete's pix volume one...raw, cooked and righteous." Deluxe limited edition CD-R in pro-printed gatefold sleeves featuring the first instalment from legendary king of the tapers' pit Pete Coward and his pick of recent live blats from Matthew Valentine, Erika Elder and their Golden Road. Further boosting the over all Dead vibe of the package, the tracks seem focussed on the kinda motion that would highlight moments of weird pan-cultural/methodological osmosis, with live takes that run from some of the most beautiful group-mind mass flux orchestrations through classic barn-stomping big band hoedowns. Three tracks from Brighton Feb 2008, one from Brighton 2006, an undated Environments take and one of the highlights from Instal 2008 in Glasgow with MV, EE and Doc Dunn joined by Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra), Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations), Peggy Snow, Chris Davis and the rest of The Cherry Blossoms. A killer set, bring on volume two." - Volcanic Tongue
2/7/2009	MV & EE with The Golden Road	Drone Trailer	CD	$13.99	DiCristina	"Orbiting the earth in Vermont is Matt "MV" Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower Recordings, and Erika "EE" Elder, CEO of Heroine Celestial Argriculture and The MV & EE Medicine Show. Together with their dog Zuma, they run the Child of Microtones library of exploratory music--sometimes their own lunar blues, sometimes finger-picking-style noise/space, sometimes lonesome frontier folk. MV & EE have landed at the DiCristina Building bearing Drone Trailer, featuring The Golden Road: Doc Dunn (pedal steel, guitar, harmony), Mike Smith (bass, Fender Rhodes, harmony), and James Anderson (drums, engineer). You may recognize these names as part of MV & EE's touring band when they scorched across New England and the Rust Belt en route to Terrastock this past June. Drone Trailer is a consolidation of the previous musical high-life of the duo's space shanties for the 21st century. In other words, MV & EE explore their unique mix of lunar raga and astral string band music, with a couple deep-space burners/covert jams such as opening blast "Anyway" thrown in to bust it all open. Nobody is gonna mind if they hear a little Crazy Horse and prime-era Dead here as well!"
2/7/2009	MV & EE with The Golden Road	Drone Trailer	LP	$14.99	DiChristina	"Orbiting the earth in Vermont is Matt "MV" Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower Recordings, and Erika "EE" Elder, CEO of Heroine Celestial Argriculture and The MV & EE Medicine Show. Together with their dog Zuma, they run the Child of Microtones library of exploratory music--sometimes their own lunar blues, sometimes finger-picking-style noise/space, sometimes lonesome frontier folk. MV & EE have landed at the DiCristina Building bearing Drone Trailer, featuring The Golden Road: Doc Dunn (pedal steel, guitar, harmony), Mike Smith (bass, Fender Rhodes, harmony), and James Anderson (drums, engineer). You may recognize these names as part of MV & EE's touring band when they scorched across New England and the Rust Belt en route to Terrastock this past June. Drone Trailer is a consolidation of the previous musical high-life of the duo's space shanties for the 21st century. In other words, MV & EE explore their unique mix of lunar raga and astral string band music, with a couple deep-space burners/covert jams such as opening blast "Anyway" thrown in to bust it all open. Nobody is gonna mind if they hear a little Crazy Horse and prime-era Dead here as well!"
8/2/2008	MV & EE with The Golden Road	Freedom Fries	CDR	$8.99	Heroine	"New limited self-released live disc from Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder alongside Doc Dunn, Samara Lubelski and 'Crittle', recorded at The Bunker in January 2008 and with a killer track listing that runs through "Cold Rain", "Easy Livin'", "Get Right Church", "East Mountain Joint", "Hammer", and "Canned Happiness". Recommended." - Volcanic Tongue
11/17/2007	MV & EE with The Golden Road	Gettin' Gone	CD	$11.99	Ecstatic Peace	"Still riding high on the glorious steed that was Green Blues (heads are still processing its smoked grooves and wild-at-heart paeans to love and kosmiche carnality), Matt Valentine and Erika Elder entered a Western Mass studio armed with enough fresh material to choke a whole team of horses. You may ask, 'how can this be?' Well, since recording their Ecstatic Peace! debut, the duo has toured extensively, all the while writing tunes, scavenging esoteric guitar equipment & revamping their backing band to suit the environment of Gettin' Gone. A new sound has organically evolved that will most certainly astonish listeners new & old, but still find a special place on the formidable shelf of their back catalog. So rejoice in this disc, which boasts some of MV & EE's most finely-crafted songs to date and along with The Golden Road present a feast of tones & riffs that will stick to your ribs for a long time. Like its predecessor, Gettin' Gone is a family affair of like-minded freak and friendly hair waves. Most fascinating is the Ecstatic Peace! soundboard premier of Zuma, one of the coolest dog minds north of New York City. Also the one part golden addition of Doc Dunn and the harmonium magic of Luisa, she of Mascis child. Oh and J his self blams some mountain heavy drumming on a few of these tracks. Matt and Erika's devotional dharma is open to all true vibes of rock n' roll and folk n' roots ramble both tender and tuff."
4/22/2009	MV & EE with Willie Lane	Pray For Less	CDR	$7.99	Heroine	"Recorded live in Oklahoma City in 2007, this one starts off with the most beautiful, delicate reading of "I Got Caves In There" from Gettin' Gone before an even more dosed take on "The Burden". The version of "Death Don't Have No Mercy" is massively strung out, with clouds of feedback guitar and sudden shots of fuzz and steel birthing the most levitational, iron-plated take yet. Just gorgeous. Some choice stage banter takes us into a segue that runs from "Summer Magic" into "Hammer" with some particularly cranky Savage Resurrection-style twin guitar hypnotics before touching down with "Environments". One of the most dosed and elegaically strung-out live sides from MV & EE. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue
4/22/2009	MV & EE with Willie Lane / Doc Dunn / Muskox	Pride of Yards: Thick w/ Definition	CDR	$7.99	Heroine	Live in Philadelphia, PA from 6/13/08 - TRT: 55:58. Features: anthem of the cocola Y&T (10:46), easy livin' (10:01), get right church > environments > hammer > environments (35:10)
7/11/2008	MV&EE	Meet Snake Pass & Other Human Conditions	LP	$27.99	Singing Knives	"This limited edition, heavyweight vinyl document captures an improbable but precious moment in time. Matt Valentine and Erika Elder are prolific mainstays of the psychedelic underground -their releases as MV & EE and with The Bummer Road fuse noise, raga and Americana to trace out misty ley lines and forgotten pathways with languid intensity. Although this live set is far more stripped down than recent Ecstatic Peace records like Green Blues and Getting' Gone, its wonderfully hushed quality only enhances the otherworldly resonance of their songs. Meet Snake Pass was recorded at the Heeley Institute in Sheffield in 2007, towards the end of a lengthy European tour. Elder and Valentine had given blood, drank deeply of British hospitality and snatched sleep on the strange floors in the days leading up to the show, which accounts for the dazed and fragile mood. But the sound quality -thanks to the recording engineer Ben Nash -is impeccable, and as Elder's wah-wah intertwines Valentine's quixotic acoustic arpeggios, the air between the duo is populated by slowly shimmering colours. These spare, drawn-out songs leave plenty of space for such serendipities. Each one stretches mournful folk blues shapes out in the unhurried movement of incantation. Even the familiar lines of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train" have a revelatory quality when curled into MV & EE's tentative, baroque shapes. And the best of their own compositions, like the halting, haunting "Tea Devil" -a fragile latticework of serpentine steel-string patterns and lethargic, shamanic percussion -have an almost visionary impact." - Chris Sharp, The Wire. Edition of 500 copies pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
2/12/2008	MV&EE	The Ground Ain't Dirty	cassette	$8.99	Fuck It Tapes	"swirling psychedelic guitar moves with some killer vibrations." Limited to 200 copies - sold out at label.
7/10/2008	MV&EE with The Golden Road	Moment Spacing / Bong Judge	7"	$7.99	Golden Lab Records	"Yes, you heard us right. We just got the master CD through for this summer loving bliss festival of a record to melt those Januarian ice hearts and it is everything we hoped it could be and more. Side A, "Moment Spacing" is a two-and-a-half-minute blast of "ooh-la-la-la-la-la" joy that wraps a posi+ aura around the world. B-side, "Bong Judge" is the stoned, slowed down, phaser-drenched, stretched-out basement tapes version of (almost unrecognisably) the same song running at six+ minutes. The most beautiful record we think we'll hear all year. Featuring: "Moment Spacing" mv * guitars/vox ~ ee * vox ~ willie lane * guitar ~ sparrow wildchild * vox ~ janane tripp * vox ~ chris livingood * vox on the A side and on the B Side we have "Bong Judge" mv * guitars/vox ~ ee * lap steel ~ willie lane * guitar ~ samara lubelski * bass ~ john moloney * drums. Killer!
7/10/2008	MV+EE with Willie Lane	Pray For Less	cassette	$12.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Second in this ongoing series of live cassettes from Matt Valentine and Erika Elder, this time joined by Willie Lane of The Golden Road in Oklahoma. This is post Ecstatic Peace releasing last year's awesome Gettin' Gone... pro dubbed tapes with printed green shells. Limited to 200, in full colour sleeves with the same art as Catalytic Dung but with different info and a new MV tale... Here's some words from Willie Lane: 'Some of Austin's brightest cognoscenti told us of the "coin" that resides in OK City. So we spent most of our bread on hot dog kings and Mexican coffee at scenic turnouts, thinking we'd make it all back two-fold at the gig. OK City and its lost lake were sobering to our power-ball minds. The Golden Road harvested tonal riches instead - and in spades - to the rejoicing of both common folk and high-rollers alike. Hospitality flowed after the gig & a kind soul rolled a bone on a Lord Buckley sleeve as our minds turned back to the road for what lay ahead. But maybe we shoulda stayed..."
4/7/2008	MV/EE & The Bummer Road	We Offer You Guru	CDR	$19.99	Child of Microtones	"Last copies of this all-time classic Child Of Microtones side from an expanded/streamlined Medicine Show trio featuring the wild harmonica stylings/harp environments of Mo’ Jiggs that sound like fleets of trains crying their way across the plains of your flat-lined brain. This has to be one of the most beautiful Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder sides to date, taking the kind of acoustic psychedelic space of Dylan’s first Free Trade Hall set in ’66 and harnessing it to slow sunrise tones, boxcars of epic psychedelic sound and the kind of celestial lung-poetry that dominated Sonny Simmons’ technicolour ESP-Disk sides. Just too much. Comes in a card gatefold sleeve with a beautiful fold-out text featuring cryptic track commentary, art, road dialogues and a dedication to "our gurus Albert Ayler, Dave Ray, Al Wilson & RA." Highest recommendation." - Volcanic Tongue
6/5/2005	MWM / Mary Fist	split	cassette	$6.99	Lal Lal Lal	"First side is a bit embarrassing and the other is scary. Here's a tape that can be way too much for you. MWM is a teenage industrial punk band including two dudes from Avarus. They serve six songs full of angst, passion and Nine Inch Nails influences. Maryfist side is a psychedelic solo EP by the singer of MWM. It was first released as a limited edition CD-R in 1998. Tomi presents here an epical journey in strange and dark trip-hop with lots of whispers, rattling, breathing and heavily dosed sounds. At the time Tomi had his cat's skull as a necklace. He also had a pet rat which also died. He put it in freezer planning to make a charm of it too. Accidentally he moved away and forgot the rat for the next people living in the apartment. Edition of 200."
9/17/2006	My Cat Is An Alien	...Ascends the Sky	CD	$12.99	Whitened Sepulchre	"This summer sees the launching of our new Rebis imprint, Whitened Sepulchre, dedicated to reissuing and preserving key recordings of the New Electric Sublime. We're kicking things off with a reissue of ...Ascends the Sky, an out-of-print gem from cosmic improv masters My Cat Is An Alien. Originally released in 2001 as CD-R, "...Ascends the Sky" presages the vast sonic nebulae now familiar to MCIAA fans, but those same fans may be surprised by the way the disc moves through more warm or tuneful regions, evoking surprising associations like Spiderland-era Slint, or Tim Buckley's Lorca or Starsailor albums. A brand new 20 minute opus by these cats sweetens the deal!"
10/25/2008	My Cat is an Alien	Alien Blood	LP	$24.99	Opax Records	"Original soundtrack from Roberto Opalio's film 'Alien Blood' (2005-2008), currently shown at SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX museum exhibition, opened at LiFE museum (France) in June 2008, and already scheduled around the globe for the next couple of years. The improvised score by My Cat Is An Alien follows the minimal and surrealistic beginning of the film with sparse echoes of eerie sounds, growing in dark timbres and pathos. Maurizio Opalio's heavily effected 'blood percussions' compress the air, while Roberto's wordless vocals, along with his space toys, alientronics & mini-keyboard are on the razor-edge of another dimension. The finale comes as one of the most epic crescendos ever performed by the Italian duo. One of the most impressive and innovative MCIAA's recordings to date. Special only-vinyl edition limited to 220 on the mighty Opax Records imprint." Pressed on audiophile black vinyl LP in nice-textured cardboard handmade folder sleeve, with full-color paste-on artwork showing still images from the film.
9/17/2006	My Cat Is An Alien	Cosmic Debris	t-shirt	$15.99	Opax Records	COSMIC DEBRIS split ART-LPs series - special ltd.ed. promotional T-shirt. Black t-shirts with 7" white-ink printing of the series' logo as on the LPs' labels/ sizes XL, L, M Check out the design here: www.mycatisanalien.com/stuff.htm
6/11/2006	My Cat Is An Alien	Cosmic Light Of the Third Millenium	CD	$14.99	Important Records	"Here the Opalio space-brothers push their improvised music of the Spheres in new cosmic territories, where the use of Roberto's wordless vocals impresses a still unheard lyricism inside the sublime complexity of their unique musical textures. 'Section I' opens the album with a slow and emotional epic crescendo generated by floating waves of electric space-guitars alongside glittering sounds of mini-xylophone and toy piano; this impressive astral monochord-blues increase leads to a denouement of electronics & cymbals storm. Whispered wordless moaning vocals and sparse rhythmic percussions resonating in the distance open 'Section II,' where the celestial explosion is followed by droning walls of guitar sounds and space-toys effects, lost in a vertical streamline of astral debris. An ambient minimal guitar tune introduces the final 'Section III': reiterated and limpid single guitar chords disclose the enlightened beauty of the Cosmos."
5/8/2005	My Cat Is An Alien	Different Shades of Blue	CDR	$12.99	U-Sound	"My Cat Is An Alien is the improv duo formed by the brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio from Torino, Italy, in late 1997. They both primarily play electric and acoustic guitars, various toy-instruments and voice toy-microphones, percussions. This recording was made in their 'Space Room' on February 12, 2004. The first 50 copies of all U-SOUND titles are in special handmade packaging, the remainder in the now familiar generic styling of the label." I have plenty of the special edition copies here.
4/24/2006	My Cat Is An Alien	Different Shades of Blue	LP	$19.99	A Silent Place	"[Different shades of Blue] is another bout of glittering jewels, sputtering star systems and piercing high drones courtesy of your favourite astral-obsessed Italian duo. [...] As ever, their sonic output is at once reassuringly recognisable but still disconcertingly bizarre, forever reaching upwards and outwards, seeking to escape the confines of gravity and atmosphere in favour of celestial salvation." - Dave Stockwell, Foxy Digitalis
3/26/2006	My Cat Is An Alien	Folclore Alieno	CDR	$15.99	Opax Records	"Special handmade limited edition of 150 copies; look-like-vinyl black-bottom cd-r in nice-textured heavy-cardboard tri-fold sleeve, handnumbered and painted by Roberto Opalio. This is the first MCIAA's completely acoustic release. Its six tracks aren't but a unique entire session which has been recorded on January the 1st, 2006, at the Opalio brothers' new mysterious "Alien Zone" headquarters, located in a remote region of the Western Alps, Piemonte, Italy. The whole recording came as a sort of propitiatory ritual to welcome the new alien year, intended as a new cycle in the duo's imagery of the cosmic universe, here approached in enchanted trance-like minimal pieces; Roberto's vocals emerge like primitive human hymns from the two brothers' acoustic guitars textures. This is entranced, mystic alien music." (Opax)
9/17/2006	My Cat Is An Alien	Greetings From the Great Void	DBL LP	$17.99	Eclipse	"To approach the concept of The Great Void from an aural point-of-view is daunting. Being lost in an infinite state of flux brings simultaneous states of pure madness and tranquility. It is within this duality that the Opalio brothers, Roberto & Maurizio, wave their magic wand, creating an astral blessing of the highest order. 'Greetings From the Great Void,' the third installment in a trilogy that began with MCIAA's 'The Rest is Silence,' is the sound of The White Light; the movement from the physical to the psychic; one last breath before being consumed by the cosmic ether. 'Greetings From the Great Void' shows its real strength in how it was constructed. Recorded over a two-day period in April 2005, there were no overdubs or outtakes. This is music straight from the spheres. Where there is nothing, there is everything. My Cat is an Alien emerge from these extreme conditions reborn. These recordings traverse light years of space, leaving stellar soundwaves flickering in the dust. The Opalios perform a cathartic psychedelic exorcism with each note searching for new harmonies amongst the wreckage of the cosmos. Once they pierce the heavens, they control galaxies like puppets on strings. If this is the music of The Great Void, it is a place I want to get lost in forever." - Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis. Housed in a deluxe, beautiful gatefold sleeve with the Opalio brothers artwork.
7/23/2003	My Cat Is An Alien	Il Segno	LP	$13.99	Starlight Furniture Company	"Beginning with a gloomy text entitled 'The Sign' written by guitarist / lyricist Roberto Opalio, My Cat Is An Alien entered The Space Room and recorded this dark and concrete improvisation, a single piece of howling and caustic ruination stretched over two sides of vinyl. Maurizio Opalio comes out of the fog with desolate acoustic guitar scratches, Roberto's electric space guitar scribbles as he spits out his words of urban alienation, and Viggiu Vortex joins the brothers on percussion. Piano toy and toy keyboard were added later to enhance the surreal lyrics inspired by ghosts, a sense of psychic, cultural and social isolation in their hometown Torino, Italy, and the infinite lightness and beauty between the cement and the sky. Il Segno is about the mark of chance, avenues full of dust and fallen leaves, the Torino skyline's abandoned factories and chimneys with the mountains all around, and the dance of swallows at twilight, just before the darkness envelops everything." Recommended!
6/11/2006	My Cat Is An Alien	Introducing the Cosmic Blues	7"	$11.99	Important Records	"Introducing The Cosmic Blues" is My Cat Is An Alien's introduction to their full length release on Important Records. This 7" is limited to only 300 copies and each comes in deluxe screen printed packaging with an individual Polaroid photograph taken, altered and signed by Roberto Opalio. But what does it sound like? Just as the Cosmic Blues should: like MCIAA invented their own instruments and discovered an unknown universe to play them in. This is the fifth release in Important's ongoing Arts And Crafts series with each release containing handmade artwork by the artist on the recordings." (Important)
2/23/2007	My Cat is an Alien	Leave Me In the Black No-Thing	CD	$14.99	Important Records	"New full-length album recorded April 10th, 2006, at MCIAA's Alien Zone, located in a remote region of the Western Alps, Piemonte, Italy. After having been irradiated by the Cosmic Light Of A New Millenium, you find yourself facing a black and white cover, where the only view of the universe is foreshortened, and represents a lighted shape showing branches of pine trees under a white sky, within the darkest black. Element which represents the aesthetic detaching and, at the same time, a further step in the duo's artistic process, which determines their willingness to go beyond any goal already achieved. For MCIAA to make art means to risk daring the unknown, daring the listener himself to excel his own limits of perception of the work of art in music, without losing anything of their unique and unmistakable style. If, as many of the international critics have been remarking, MCIAA's works live on the boundary between light and darkness, it's also true that Cosmic Light of the Third Millennium celebrated the light of the outer spaces as well as Leave Me In The Black No-Thing represents a jump into the No-Thing of the empty inner spaces."
6/11/2006	My Cat Is An Alien	Listen Before Black Falls	LP	$16.99	Root Strata	"A third eye laser beam shot from the catacombs of Torino. An Acoustic guitar lullaby leads down a long dark tunnel of alpha wave feedback. Killer. Black chipboard covers with silk-screened fronts and hand drawn text/numbers on the back." -Root Strata. It's housed in a black sleeve with a lovely white silkscreend cover in a numberd edition of 300.
9/17/2006	My Cat Is An Alien	Plutonian Flames	DBL CDR	$22.99	Opax Records	"These are four of the wildest sessions ever recorded by Italian space brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio at their famed Space Room in Torino, Italy. Cosmic guitar whirls and piano-toy action alongside a tribal, compulsive percussion-set which makes their space drones shake the air the way Xenakis would have made if he ever had directed a primitive tribe from another galaxy. If you never considered Pluto as one of your favourite hangouts, the 85 minutes of "Plutonian flames" will definitely break you in." Second edition.
2/7/2009	My Cat Is An Alien	Roberto Opalio / Maurizio Opalio	LP	$27.99	Important	"Limited edition of 300 copies packaged in heavy duty screenprinted jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Each side features a 20-minute solo track from both brotherly halves of the acclaimed My Cat Is An Alien. Both brothers were quiet about the inspiration for their tracks. Dig in and find your own meaning in the comfortable alien world of the Opalio space brothers."
2/12/2008	My Cat is an Alien	Sotto le Stelle	etched LP	$49.99	Lost Treasures of the Underworld	"In summer 2007 MCIAA were invited by Sonic Youth to tour with them in Northern Italy; "Sotto le Stelle" is a long excerpt from the recording of their shocking live performance at the Ferrara Sotto Le Stelle festival, which takes place every year in the main square of the historical city centre, right in front of the wonderful medieval Estense Castle. On the flipside Roberto Opalio's first ever vinyl etching, as well as his exclusive cover artwork, made in three color screen-printing by Jared Phillips (from the band T/N/V) and the Self Esteem studios in Columbus, Ohio, hometown of the newly-born label Lost Treasures of the Underworld. Ltd. edition of 100 copies; purple vinyl with etching by Roberto Opalio on one side; 3 color screen-printed covers."
1/1/2008	My Cat is an Alien	speak, alien, SPEAK!	triple cassette set	$33.99	Opax Records	"Entire session of one of the latest MCIAA's live killer performances, recorded at Feedback Festival in Dijon on September 29th, 2007. Split over 6 sides of C20 analog tape cassettes, the duo's performance couldn't but draw inspiration by the name of the event, launching a massive attack of feedbacks from the highest spheres." Private edition of 60 handnumbered copies; in heavy cardboard with pasted artwork.
9/30/2005	My Cat Is An Alien	T-Shirt	T-Shirt	$18.99		You can see the design here: http://www.mycatisanalien.com/stuff.htm. I have these colors/sizes available: Clear grey w/ blue logo, Dark blue w/ cyan logo, and Dark green w/ orange logo - all in sizes XL, L, and M.
6/11/2006	My Cat is an Alien	The Secret of the Dancing Snow	CD	$17.99	Ikuisuus	"Another voyage into the inky blackness with the cosmos-loving Italians and another gem. MCIAA have gone from making dronescapes that were merely beautiful to listen to (merely!) to vast vistas of sound that seem to exert an almost gravitational pull into their dept