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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
5/8/2003	1929	Last But Not Leased	CD	$13.99	Siltbreeze	"Brother JT sideman leads his own away-team to the planet's surface, and returns drunk. The sonic, slurring, instrumental tonic they have decided to bottle up and pass off as their own is a dab of Hawkwind, a pinch of Dead C., and a sprinkle of any number of desert rock's heaviest comancheros. You could say it's the finest non-vocal release to pass through the turnstiles since the Smashchords' 12". Or if you weren't born then, how about Earth 2? Say whatever you like. So long as it's not Gone III."
7/8/2010	1958-2009	III	c30 cassette	$6.99	Ehkein	"Final in the trilogy of cassettes on Ekhein by the duo of Alex Twomey (Mirror To Mirror) and Matthew Sullivan (Earn). Two side-long pieces influenced by the final days of Michael Jackson and the undeniable impact made the afternoon of his passing. Songs for the helicopter ride from the UCLA to USC medical centers. Dedicated to Michael Jackson. 1958-2009. Upcoming releases on Arbor and Amethyst Sunset."
9/17/2006	N.A.D.M.A.	Paura	CD	$17.99	Alga Marghen	"N.A.D.M.A. was officially born between August and the beginning of September 1972 during the time spent in a little village in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. The identity and musical orientation of the collective centered on the convergence of heterogeneous interests and sensibilities coming from avant-garde jazz experiences liberated by post-free currents, from classical studies, or from musicians also active as visual artists, who had cultivated an instrumental practice utilising spontaneous expression. All the group members assimilated and creatively incorporated the most progressive influences of Afro-American music and the contemporary neo-avant-garde, but shifted noticeably in the direction of the contemplative and ecstatic vitality of non-European, especially African, musical cultures. The Natural Arkestra Da Maya Alta was, and still is, known to a limited group of devoted listeners on the merits of the only record released by RCA in 1973. The group, which represented one of the most innovative entities among the collectives of improvisers active in those years, perfectly expressed its musical virtues in a limited number of periodic live events. The concerts took place mostly in Milan during 1973-74. The CD starting this series, Paura, is named after the first track of the N.A.D.M.A. concert at Circolo Lepetit in Milan in March 1973, presented here in its entirety. In this concert, the very first live concert preserved on tape, N.A.D.M.A. already performs a well-established repertoire, integrating and expanding upon the material of the RCA LP. Davide Mosconi himself documents the aesthetic and existential horizons of N.A.D.M.A. in a typed text and handwritten notes presented here, which also include biographical data about all members of the group. The 16-page booklet also includes an essay by Gabriele Bonomo as well as original documents and photos."
6/27/2009	Nackt Insecten	A Site Specific Piece Of Avant-Garde Sound Art, Nothing To Be Worried About / Corridor Voyager (Quantum Odyssey II)	7" + CD	$19.99	Memoirs Of An Aesthete	"Mr. Ruaradidh Sanachen has been getting a name for himself recently with his one man kosmische metal space ritual project Nackt Insecten, releasing plenty of limited edition "stuff" on a whole bunch of labels. In February 2008, as part of Glasgow's wonderful Instal festival, he was seen cradling a suitcase full of howling drone/noise aboard Glasgow's tube trains, and what a show it was - check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V5nrb6NLlo for a glimpse of the fun. As Nackt Insecten's relentless sounds meshed in perfectly with the locomotive rumblings, I thought to myself what a fine 7 inch single it would make. And sure enough, over a year later, here it is. An explanation made by a member of the "audience" to a worried fellow traveller provides the title. This package also contains a CD of new Nackt Insecten studio concoctions, a conceptual sequel to the recent LP on Blackest Rainbow Records. A real CD too, not a CDR! Cover art by Goldenlab's Fliss Horrocks and the inclusion of a genuine Glasgow tube train ticket completes this handsome package." Edition of 200 copies.
3/8/2008	Nackt Insecten	Live At Inner Rainbow	one sided cassette	$10.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Brand new fuzz drone from my Scottish bro Sanachan, both recorded live. Some real psychedelic shit, the man's sound is developing with every release... wobbling drones, sheets of shattering aluminium, and hyperactive yelps. Colour covers, limited to 40 copies."
2/16/2005	Nada	Yadaki Mind Tree	CDR	$12.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"Nada combines the ancient tones of the didgeridoo with spoken word and sparse percussion to create a meditative atmosphere soaked in natural ambiance."
12/24/2005	Nada Baba	Ambient Time Arm	CDR	$10.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"Centered around the ancient Didgeridoo this second CD from NaDa BaBa features more than 14 instruments, field recordings, spoken word, effects and samples over a dizzy 60 minutes. Forget about New Age, this is speed didge as inner fractal flight portal. Trance ON!!!"
4/30/2008	Nadja	Long Dark Twenties	7"	$6.99	Anthem	"An unusual turn for Nadja, which culminated via a chance meeting of AIDAN BAKER and JON AD of Anthem in NYC, This recording (on a single sided 7-inch) demonstrates Nadja's ability to fuse their sound to the construct of the pop cover, with the cover in question being "Long Dark Twenties," which was written by PAUL BELLINI of THE KIDS IN THE HALL, and was first widely heard in their film Brain Candy! In doing so, Nadja displays traits rarely exhibited in their music, like full vocals, drumming, even the good old classic pop chorus, all in such a remarkable way this it shows all that the possibilities for reinvention with this group are far from exhausted. One sided single with hand letterpressed covers (both inside and out)."
9/30/2008	Nadja	Trembled	CD	$13.99	Utech Records	"Trembled has returned, triumphantly. Released by Utech Records [046] in the summer of 2006 on limited cdr. The principal live recordings from Toronto have been remixed/remastered and include a rare performance of Swans "No Cure for the Lonely." The core of the release, though, is "Tremble", a cascading improvisation of drift and atmospherics revealed to audiences on an occasional basis. The track is telling of the fluidity with which Nadja create and why the band has become so highly regarded. "Breakpoint" and "Corrasion" complete the set. Exclusive material has been added in "Stays Demons" and a second version of "Tremble" recorded by Scott Slimm in Philadelphia. Illustration by Justin Bartlett. The ultimate document of Nadja at their most electric and empyreal. Edition of 900."
5/9/2009	Nadler, Marissa	Ballads of Living and Dying	LP	$18.99	Mexican Summer	"We've been huge fans of Marissa Nadler for a long time (obviously) and when the opportunity presented itself to put out her first album on vinyl for the first time, we couldn't pass it up. It contains some of her most beautiful and haunting tracks including "Mayflower May" and the Poe inspired/written "Anabelle Lee." The album comes out a few months before her new album Little Hells is released." - label. "Remastered with an additional bonus track. Hand-numbered and gatefold. Hailed as a smoky chanteuse both sultry and captivating, Marissa's songs are mostly mournful dirges and melancholic ballads. Delving into influences of old-timey americana folk, portuguese fado, psychedelia, and country, the songwriting is gripping and unique. Pursuing the persona poem, most of the songs are stories of tragic deaths, forbidden fates, and jilted love affairs, and stormy suicides, as well as some introspective first person songs. In concert, the melodrama is obvious, and each performance is dripping in vaudevillian nostalgia. Marissa's intricate fingerstyle guitar comes through on six string, twelve string, banjo, ukelele, and autoharp. Her voice is velvety and resonant and soaring with ethereal reverberations." Edition of 1000 copies. Originally released on Eclipse Records in September 2004. Highly recommended!
5/9/2009	Nadler, Marissa	Little Hells	CD	$12.99	Kemado Records	"We are proud to announce the latest release from renowned Boston singer/songwriter Marissa Nadler: Little Hells. On her fourth solo album, Marissa Nadler finds multiple ways to envelop the listener in splendid gauzy moods without becoming monochromatic. "The songs take on different personalities at different points in time," says Nadler. "If a song is good, you should be able to do it in any style and transform it, take a risk and have some fun." A master of creating rich dreamscape atmospheres, Nadler's voice shines and glides even more with a full band accompanying her. Produced by Chris Coady, the starry musical guests include longtime collaborator Myles Baer, Simone Pace (Blonde Redhead), and Dave Scher (Farmer Dave). Few contemporary artists can match the stunning ride of Marissa's reverb vocals that are a journey into themselves on every rose tinged track. Little Hells displays a brighter leap in musical maturity and attention to detail, as the fantasmagoric sounds delve into melancholy nuggets, sometimes erotic, sometimes gutting, but filled with a gorgeous sense of serene hope more so than previous album, Songs III: Bird on the Water." - Kemado.
5/9/2009	Nadler, Marissa	Little Hells	LP	$13.99	Kemado Records	"The core of Little Hells-- Marissa Nadler's elegiac and elegant fourth album-- is appropriately wedged in the middle: After moving alongside dual Wurlitzers and a theremin throughout opener "Heart Paper Lover", slowly waltzing above a country quartet on "Rosary", and augmenting a dark conversation between a man and his tired wife with industrial-iike programming and synths for "Mary Come Alive", Nadler settles back into her minimal roots for the next four tunes. During those 14 perfect minutes, it's just her voice and finger-picked acoustic guitar, augmented cautiously by piano, organ, and ripples of electronics. Surrounded by little else but her own melancholy, Nadler sums up her career's existential despair: "Ghosts and lovers/ They will haunt you for a while," she sings. And while they do, Little Hells suggests through 10 of Nadler's best songs yet, the sadness will either kill you or keep you going. Nadler's earlier albums delivered this somberness almost exclusively through songs for acoustic guitar. On those records, her backing musicians seemed intent upon emphasizing the spectral, lost-love tendencies of her words, adding ominous cello shrieks, sinister electric leads, or raggedy lo-fi touches, which found her tagged from the start as a freak-folk artist. As late as her most recent album-- the exquisite breakthrough Songs III: Bird on the Water-- she did little to dispel that categorization, filling the record with archaic language and outsider accompaniment by New England experimentalists like multi-instrumentalist Greg Weeks and cellist Helena Espvall. At last, Little Hells moves Nadler well beyond easy categories, thanks to a newfound clarity in her words, a compelling link between her songs, and production that sharpens her old strengths wheile brightly exposing new ones. Sonically, her reach is wider and more assured. On "Mary Come Alive", circular drumming, gauzed vocals, and synthetic harmonium suggest the unlikely union of Cocteau Twins and Swans. Meanwhile, "Loner" stacks organ sustains and submerges them beneath Nadler's strum and half-hummed coo. It's like Grouper coming back down the Hill or Valet emerging from the Acid, but more memorable and accessible than both. But the LP's highlight is still the four-song core that recalls vintage Nadler-- now played, captured, edited, and arranged better than in the past. Her only solo turn here, "Brittle, Crushed & Torn", is crisp and concise, the presentation revealing the strength of the melodies in her bass-heavy picking and the wispy vocals above. "The Whole Is Wide" uses only that voice and Dave Scher's staccato piano march; the simplicity helps the album's most lyrically complex song translate off the page as Nadler intertwines the stories of two women, Sylvia and Laila, who waste their life away in the absence of a man. Nadler swaps first- and third-person pronouns and twists verb tenses, building tension by suggesting that they're both dead or at least headed that way. That time-and-person slipstream is what binds the 10 tracks of Little Hells so well. Nadler mixes images of individuals in various stages of love and loss, often pairing them with imagery of death, decay, and rebirth. What Nadler's done on Little Hells suggests Antony and the Johnson's work on one of the year's other accomplishments, The Crying Light. Hegarty too alternated between thoughts of giving up, getting out, or fighting back. To do that, he eschewed the guests of I Am a Bird Now, choosing to sing with himself through fascinating harmonies, vocal lines intersecting with one another in unexpected patterns. He also expanded his sound in unexpected directions while refining what he'd always done well-- luxuriously layered arrangements-- through subtlety and tension. Nadler does all of that on Little Hells, and-- like Antony-- she's transcended freak folk as a result." - Grayson Currin, March 10, 2009, Pitchfork. 8.3 rating! Limited edition of 1000 copies.
8/4/2007	Nadler, Marissa	Songs III: Bird on the Water	CD	$13.99	Kemado Records	"At first, Marissa Nadler's Songs III: Bird on the Water doesn't seem especially notable. It's a 12-track breakup album detailing Nadler's pervasive loneliness, her gentle finger-style guitar augmented with cello, percussion, mandolin, synthesizers, and electric guitars. Her voice is remarkable from the outset -- a sad, husky air that climbs to perfect grace notes with ease -- but by the time Nadler sings, "Oh my lonely diamond heart/ It misses you so well," 100 seconds into opener "Diamond Heart", you're pretty sure you've heard this one before. Not so fast: As Nadler and her gorgeous, incredibly isolated Songs III would have it, there's plenty worth waiting for. Nadler doesn't want empathy for the hurt that caused her to write "Diamond Heart" in a hotel room bathtub in New Jersey or "Bird on Your Grave" for a friend who died mysteriously; she's just trying to ease some of that monumental pain into the next space. And-- though its micro-payoffs may come in the form of a solitary harmony here, a hushed mandolin chord there, or the eerie bells lending a richer atmosphere to the beautiful "Dying Breed"-- such a feeling makes Songs III one of the most focused and engaging singer-songwriter releases so far this year. Of course, that can be a tough sell for folks accustomed to concentrated emotional whomp. Aside from its presiding atmosphere of pain, little about Songs III feels direct. It peels free in slow, steady layers, Nadler's sorrow ensconced in impressionistic phrases and careful musicianship. As a songwriter, she's still painting relationship trauma in grayscale sadness, occasionally calling on stunning images-- "eyes as deep as brandy wine," "red-painted lips and a jezebel crown," "breaking on the daylight"-- to better realize sullen torment. But that latter layer makes Songs III much more effective than Nadler's 2005 debut, The Saga of Mayflower May (wrong - Ballads of Living and Dying from 2004 was Marissa's debut - Ed). Nadler's a bandleader now: With acoustic wonderment still in place, she brings most of Philadelphia's Espers to bear here. They augment without distracting, building on her gravitas with quietly breathtaking nuance: A cymbal-scrape pallor from Otto Hauser, or Jesse Sparhawk's weeping mandolin; like Helena Espvall's doubled cello parts smeared over Nadler's "rose-colored dreams" on "Thinking of You", these sounds highlight the words. Even the album's loudest moment, Greg Weeks' piercing electric lead on "Bird on Your Grave", won't wow you from afar, but it will pull you close enough to identify with Nadler's pain. As a vocalist, Nadler stretches this environment towards infinity: By doubling and tripling her vocals and lacing several distinct interpretations of one melody, she implies that her despair is now as it was then as it always will be. During a splendid, organ-and-guitar take on Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat", for instance, the narrator's desolation comes doubled in verses, tripled in the chorus, and chased consistently by the organ. Doom follows her like a rain cloud, it seems, soaking her feelings but powering this, her best set of songs yet. Sure, that's a mundane thing to say about an artist, but on Songs III, it's notable after all." - Grayson Currin, March 07, 200. Pitchfork rated the album 8.1 - high praise indeed. Also, the CD includes a download card to get four previously unreleased bonus tracks. The 4 tracks are: Conjuring Spirit Worlds, Daisy and Violet, Honey Bear, Cortez the Killer (yes, a Neil Young cover). It's a great album - I wish I could have released this. Highly recommended!
11/15/2002	Nagisa Ni te	On The Love Beach	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"Shinji Shibayama recorded and released On The Love Beach, a beautiful, slow and entrancing work pulling equally from American and British rock traditions. Thus was born Nagisa Ni te, which means 'on the beach' in Japanese, an homage of sorts to Neil Young's 1975 masterpiece. Their psych folk tendencies notwithstanding, Nagisa Ni te also did well to take cues from the avant rock world around them at the time, comfortably implementing the minimalist credo 'less is more' throughout this record. Though On the Love Beach was Nagisa Ni te's debut, it is the second Nagisa Ni te record brought to the United States and Europe by Jagjaguwar. And like Feel, it does bring to mind the very best of sixties' and seventies' psychedelic, progressive and folk rock (i.e. early to middle-era Pink Floyd, George Harrison, Crazy Horse, and Roxy Music). Maher Shalal Hash Baz's Tori Kudo may describe Nagisa Ni te best when he says: 'Nagisa Ni te's naked Progressive rock-based worldly songs, which are sung not so much deliberately as seriously, on their love beach, now fill a blank somewhere between underground hi-fi and overground lo-fi.'"
11/20/2003	Nagoski, Ian	Effortless Battle	CD	$11.99	Recorded	"In an interview I recently read, Baltimore musician Ian Nagoski cites electrical transformers and cicadas as strong musical influences on his work, two sound making entities that people come in contact with almost daily during some periods of life, but objects that most people wouldn't be willing to concentrate on for anything more than a few minutes. This information in indispensable when examining Nagoski's music, as its ambient, slowly developing nature makes works like this disc's second track, 'Ripped Steam Hinterland' a similar listening experience. One might say it's too quiet, too static, or just not worth the focus with which one must approach it, but, to a listener who's willing to dedicate their ears to the sound, the track, and the album as a whole, is a rewarding and transporting listen. Effortless Battle begins with the disc's thirty-one minute title track, the soundtrack to a Catherine Pancake film of the same name. It begins with a very subdued, but dense fluttering, but nearly five minutes in, Nagoski utilizes a buzz which pans from left to right so vigorously that its circular motion seems almost baroque (by Nagoski's standards, of course). Slowly, though, a more constant tone takes control, a sound that makes up the majority of the rest of the track. Vaporous sounds slowly emerge from below, and the music swells in intensity. What follows is a gelatinous ebb and flow of tones, a woven ribbon of sound in constant, but subtle, movement. For upwards of twenty minutes, "Effortless Battle" twists and turns ever so slightly, shifting the focus smoothly from one thread of sound to another. As the end of the track nears, the music becomes a cloudy haze that only relents as the end of the track nears and a more placid tone returns, one with the hidden vestiges of a melody of which only hints can be heard through the rest of the viscous mass. 'Ripped Steam Hinterland,' the CD's second track, is a product of Daniel Conrad's Wild Wave. Conrad, usually known as a purveyor of light-based visual art, created the Wild Wave by building tone generators which, when activated, set the instruments' metal plates to vibrating. Fifteen minutes long, the track slowly swells from near silence to an insistent but unobtrusive, thickly layered, hum. Almost completely static at first listen, it's easily comparable to the surprisingly ornate ambient sounds created by appliances or the aforementioned transformers. What sounds like a constant hum contains, like an anthill, a great deal of unseen activity, and close listening reveals undulations and ghostly vibrations that might otherwise go unnoticed. There's a whole world of organic warmth, buzzing activity, and ethereal beauty in Effortless Battle, one must simply be willing to immerse themselves deep enough into the music to experience it fully. Those who do will be well rewarded." - Adam Strohm, fakejazz.com
5/16/2010	Naked on the Vague	Heaps of Nothing	CD	$12.99	Siltbreeze	"For this second full-length effort, Naked on the Vague eschew their tantalizingly sparse duo attack for a quartet line-up, and the results are as sensational as they are sinister. While the rickety, no-wave splat found on previous efforts had its appeal, the heft of a "proper" rhythm section has only helped Naked on the Vague delve deeper into the landscape of post-punk murk. Bleak, unrepentant, withering and droll, Heaps of Nothing is a 21st century codification of the gallows wit and mesmerizing otherworldliness of (Dub Housing-era) Pere Ubu, Primitive Calculators and Lemon Kittens. Shuttling mutant urbanity from past to present, Naked on the Vague is only too eager to confirm that the Earth isn't flat. Because Heaps of Nothing is here to flatten it. Upcoming Australian and American tours planned, with European dates in the works. LP version to follow."
6/4/2010	Naked on the Vague	Heaps of Nothing	LP	$15.99	Siltbreeze	"For this second full-length effort, Naked on the Vague eschew their tantalizingly sparse duo attack for a quartet line-up, and the results are as sensational as they are sinister. While the rickety, no-wave splat found on previous efforts had its appeal, the heft of a "proper" rhythm section has only helped Naked on the Vague delve deeper into the landscape of post-punk murk. Bleak, unrepentant, withering and droll, Heaps of Nothing is a 21st century codification of the gallows wit and mesmerizing otherworldliness of (Dub Housing-era) Pere Ubu, Primitive Calculators and Lemon Kittens. Shuttling mutant urbanity from past to present, Naked on the Vague is only too eager to confirm that the Earth isn't flat. Because Heaps of Nothing is here to flatten it. Upcoming Australian and American tours planned, with European dates in the works. LP includes a download.
7/9/2004	Nanjo, Asahito Group Musica	Contemporary Kagura-Metaphysics	CD	$17.99	Fractal	"A work of contemporary music performed in the rock idiom by Japanese underground rock legend, Asahito Nanjo. Nanjo is active in a wide variety of rock groups, but Group Musica exits in order to pursue a more universal musical vibration. Group Musica is an ensemble that pursues the free use of every type of Western and Eastern musical instrument, is propelled by the vibrations of very subtle rhythms, and that has internalized the methodology of minimalism. The concept behind this album is transform KAGURA, an ancient form of Japanese music and dance that was performed for the gods, and is to convert the ideas of Secret teachings and ancient Chinese methods of divination (the I-Ching) into a metaphysics of musical vibrations. The concept of KAGURA allows Group Musica to create a unique work that is an experimental symphonic composition, which nonetheless has many rich improvisatory elements. In this unique work, the symbolic/philosophical nature of ancient esotericism is incorporated as improvisation, while the I-Ching is related to avant-garde symphonics. These are then fused into a total concept. Many different musicians from various genres participate in Group Musica, but their contributions are filtered through Nanjo's musical sense and thus altered, fused and structured. It is for this reason they remain anonymous - Group Musica exists as a total entity. Recorded in 1993 & 1994, this album is a colossal long studio work which has necessitated more than 400 overdubbings. An extraordinary adventure in sounds and the most astonishing musical project by High Rise's leader!"
5/24/2003	Nar, Hiroshi	Koi No Karakuri	3" CD	$10.99	Hello Good-bye Studio	This is referred to as another s/t cd in the Wire: Recorded in 1977 while he was a member of Les Rallizes Denudes. This is the “most overtly psychedelic. The lazy lollop of his basslines is immediately recognisable from his Rallizes recordings, and the tracks sound similarly dislocated.” - David Keenan, Wire May 2003
5/24/2003	Nar, Hiroshi	School Days (1965-1970)	3" CD	$10.99	Hello Good-bye Studio	“School Days draws on Nar’s earliest recordings, primitive blues-based cassette sketches that are every bit as revelatory and personal as Syd Barrett’s solo recordings or Loren MazzaCane’s work as Guitar Roberts, albeit much more formally degenerate.” – David Keenan, Wire May 2003
5/24/2003	Nar, Hiroshi	Wanted Dead or Alive $5000	3" CD	$10.99	Hello Good-bye Studio	“Wanted Dead or Alive $5000 gathers more home recordings, this time from 1974, cut during his tenure with Toshiaki Ishizuka’s proto-punk Zuno Keisatsu. This is one of his wildest discs, especially the last two tracks: pop songs assembled with a concréte-punk sensibility that splices snatches of electric guitar, Beefheart-styled horn abuseand a hilarious fast rapping baby with doo-wopping rock ‘n’ roll and frayed folk guitar.” – David Keenan, Wire May 2003
7/16/2004	Nar, Hiroshi with Nishinihon	Hiroshi Nar with Nishinihon	CD	$14.99	Lexicon Devil	"Acid Mothers Temple / Les Rallizes Denudes members Kick Out the Jams on Lexicon Devil! That's right, Lexicon Devil is proud to announce the release of this special one-time-only CD, limited to a pressing of 500, of a rare meeting of minds: power trio Nishinihon (featuring Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple) and Hiroshi Nar of the legendary collector-scum/'60s/'70s Japanese uber-psych/garage destruction unit, Les Rallizes Denudes. Now that you've swallowed that sentence, there's more… Nishinihon are the amazing scorch 'n' burn three-man unit who've scarred eardrums for several years now. Featuring Kawabata and Tsuyama Atsushi from the Acid Mothers gang, they're the kind of acid-rock meltdown outfit the Japanese seem to excel at. Hiroshi Nar is one of the more mysterious figures of the Japanese underground. Guitarist for Les Rallizes Denudes - the type of band that makes socially-challenged record collectors break out in sweats at the mere mention of their name - until his departure in 1978, Hiroshi has kept himself amazingly busy with a myriad projects running the scope of No Wave, garage punk, dada-rock and the occasional guest playing on an Acid Mothers disc. Suffice to say, his discography is as long as your arm and much more interesting. Hiroshi Nar with Nishinihon (which said 5 times with a belly of booze can be a great game) celebrates exactly that: a one-off live meeting in December 2001 between these musical titans. With Hiroshi penning three of the four songs present, there's definitely a heavy musical similarity to Les Rallizes; both ‘20 Yen For Each Additional’ and ‘Machiko’ possess that crawling, stumbling vibe of his previous band's best '70s work, the combination of his guitar twang and stuttering garage stomp resulting in a kind of Crazy Horse/Quicksilver hybrid. Even more explosive are the furious guitar explosions of ‘Are You Lady?’ (gotta love that broken English) and ‘Peep Up’, two short(er) ditties that get straight to the point and drive it home in a most Stoogely manner. You know what I mean. It's out, it's about. You need it."
9/17/2006	Narita Munehiro	Ether	CD	$13.99	Archive	"With High Rise being basically an in-active band the last few years Narita Munehiro has been keeping his electric guitar skills sharp with gigging around Tokyo in varies duo's and other small groupings. (As evidenced by the fantastic CD between Narita and drummer Hano on PSF) This archive release documents 2 live sets from Narita recorded in Late 2005 and the summer of 2006 that put on display the recent solo works of the man who the term Psychedelic Speed Freaks was really captured from. Running time of around 40mins one time pressing of 600 copies. Packed In an extra glossy 2.5 panel sleeve with appropriately chemically treated photographic work from the live dates."
5/1/2009	NASA	Diamonds & Wood	c51 cassette	$7.99	Not Not Fun	"NASA is a lo-fi teenage noise-rock trio from Florida, this is the 2nd tape of theirs we've done (we did an earlier one called Bummer Daze that was like a really damaged basement Blues Control). this album was actually recorded before the last one we did, it's way more raging and raucous, like a more wired, garage-y HEAVY WINGED or something. all instrumental, deep in the red, shred-psych. it's a long one too, a C51 i think."
8/23/2009	Nash, Ben & Sophie Cooper	Alchemy	CD	$13.99	Blackest Rainbow / Recollections of Knulp	"Recorded over a weekend back in the early months of 2009, here are 2 tracks of multi instrumental composition from Ben Nash and Sophie Cooper (CooperJones). The music here is truly beautiful, personally I think this is some of the best work to come from both Ben and Sophie so far. Total late night guitar meanderings blurred with a haze of deep churning scrapes from various instruments and layered drone bliss, creating 2 totally immersive and beautiful psychedelic drone. Some of the guitar playing here has a beautiful Loren Connors mets Ry Cooder Paris Texas era sound, and then when both Ben and Sophie reach for the gee-tars you have the beautiful mix of Ben's reflective electric blues and Sophie's purely relaxed acoustic musings, totally fantastic. This really has it down for me as something truly different, lets hope that they continue to record as this duo. I certainly cannot wait for more... Glass mastered pro pressed CD (not cdr) in pro printed full colour card wallet, one time pressing of 1000. Co-released with Ben's own Recollections of Knulp label."
1/24/2009	Nash, Ben / Nautilus	split	LP	$16.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Nautilus is the solo project of Heidi Diehl of Vanishing Voice/Time Life, long time BR transatlantic e-mail buddy who we finally got to meet just over a year ago on the very brief Vanishing Voice tour... since then she has begun recording solo material under this alias, and has self released one CDR which blew our minds, and likewise blew local long time BR friend Ben Nash cranium apart. The Nautilus side opens with 'Still Rings', a far out trip of weirdo outsider dripping mind fuzz, like some kind of spatial insect gathering. 'Tallahasse Woman' rings more bells with the sound of Vanishing Voice and Heidi's psychedelic string playing, and subtle vocals buried below it. 'Jeans Theme' is another sweet track of tranced out guitar with approaching percussion and waves of vocal drones. Ben Nash's holds his side with two nearly 8 minute tracks, opener 'Plymouth Bredren Blues' has definetly got the blues as mentioned in the title, there's some serious woe in the wah right here, and some almost Paris, Texas moments. 'Interloper/Latch' also starts off pretty bluesy but half way through goes to a speaker shredding guitar shaker, with some seriously serious riffs, that are almost breaking up as they begin, and then reverting back to the blues mediation of the beginning of the track.. A great release, in an edition of 300 copies."
4/24/2006	Nath Family	Sounds of the Indian Snake Charmer Vol. 2	cassette	$6.99	Hanson Records	"Outtakes from the SOUNDS OF THE INDIAN SNAKE CHARMER lp/cd. Full band tracks as heard on the LP, but also a couple DUO tracks from the 2 brothers. More Volumes to come."
4/6/2010	National Memory Day	Air As Liquid Infection	c90 cassette	$5.99	American Tapes	"After a debut of two tapes packaged in the most horrible doll imaginable, this new returns with more lurking tape sound and creeping low electronics. Name taken from a committee in Lansing that meets once a month, goes over complex mathematics and historical dates, and then re-meets three weeks later to see what stuck in the minds of the troupe. After a common agreement is met on what important aspects are collectively remembered, the group makes new math and new histories based on what is NOT remembered. Super weird crew; way underground but catching members by the day. Its like they are recreating a new reality based on the murk of forgotten details. Apparently they are having a gig in May, cant wait. Color Covers in Inzane colored slipcase style edition of 30."
6/30/2010	Native Cats	Always On	LP	$11.99	Ride The Snake	"Hobart, Tasmania, 2007. True: Julian Teakle, guitarist, singer, library technician, man of note, once of theFrustrations, once of the Bad Luck Charms has plans for a new band. This time, though, he'll put away the guitar and limit himself to playing some rib shuddering bass, and leave the singing to Peter Escott, typist, one-time Bad Luck Charms collaborator and self described "Mayor Mike Haggar of piano music". Julian has already decided that they are to be named the Native Cats. Peter does not argue with this. The pair get straight to work, although very rarely together. When they do meet, they typically write and demo two or three new songs in the space of an hour. Why don't they meet more often, then? Well: why doesn't the bank just print more money? They played their first show on Australia Day 2008, enabling them to strike down both colonial imperialism and the Triple J Hottest100 results in one fell swoop. Their early shows were all played with backing tracks running on a Discman, but the bass vibrations kept making the CD skip. Nowadays they've got a real live drum machine and a Nintendo DS running a Korg emulator thatmakes everything sound like Contra1occurs to me now: if so, were they really those Melbourne kids? No matter. They have also supported, among others, . In 2009 they played the Flip Out festival and made those Melbourne kids dance. Although it Batrider, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Baseball, Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist, Naked on the Vague, Clockcleaner, El Guincho, My Disco, and an art exhibition that, as far as they could tell, consisted entirely of photographs of a televisionset displaying various different sets of breasts. No wonder; the Native Cats are a deeply sexual band. Their first album is called Always On. It runs ragged and rampant through the rapid-fire rave of Be Your Healer, the steel-toedtip-toe of 1000 A.D., the haunted, heavenly scrap-yard of Shovel on Shovel, and the sunny-day Out Run 2 apocalypse drive ofThe Image of Annie & Ivan. There's a melodica, some piano strings being hit with coins, some Chinese worry balls, some gardeningtools, but call it avant-garde and it'll either sulk or slit your throat; front and centre are Julian's primal bass chants and Peter'scornered, last-ditch croon, with a little help from an old Casiotone drum beat sped up and set to, let's say, "Bossanova". Hot onthe heels of Always On came Catspaw, a 7" single on White Denim; hot on the heels of Catspaw comes Always On again, brought toyou by Ride the Snake, this time as a crunchin', thumpin' LP! Hot on its own heels! Hot damn!" Dave's Review: "One of the most creative bands currently breaking through has to be Tasmania's own The Native Cats. Julian Teakle and Peter Escottshowed their musical skills in one of my favorite bands, The Bad Luck Charms, now they enhance those skills in the new and very different sounding, The Native Cats. Their first album 'Always On' has man aged to blow me away after just one listen. There is just so much to love about this album whether it be the deep, intense sound of 'Water Down' or the addictive back beat that gets stuck in your head after you hear '1000ad'. There is no easy way to describe the sound that The Native Cats produce. Some would say electro music mixed with great lyrics, but I choose to say that tracks like 'Be Your Healer' use the electro sounds of VAST and mixes them with great Nick Cave-esque vocals on tracks like 'No Demons' and 'Survival House'. 'Always On' also has to be one of the most schizophrenic albums I've heard so far this year. It's mood drifts from the mellow 'Shovel On Shovel' to the happy feel good 'Once And Never Again' and then onto the confronting 'The Image Of Annie 7 Ivan'. But the one thing you can't deny is the talent of these musicians. That is there for all to hear on the beautifully written 'Game Of Numbers'. 'Always On' has to be one of the surprise packets of the year, I just know that this is going to be an album that I will listen to for years to come. RATING:- ***** (out of 5)"
3/3/2005	Naturaliste	Gold	CDR	$8.99	Imvated	"Omaha's noise pioneers and avant hope deliver 45 minutes of faboulous live recordings. 4 years (1999-2003) ranging from tearing junknoise, rough edits, lonely drones, lonesome stories and intense improv."
3/20/2010	Naucke, Brett	Southern California	c30 cassette	$5.99	Arbor	"The debut release under his own name, Brett Naucke's Southern California is an aptly titled seven track suite. In the nature of his other projects, Face Worker and Exercise, Naucke continues his exploration of upward advancement through a contemporary approach to ambient, classically new age music; here he wholly embraces discrete structures allowing the tracks to carry a natural progression, transparently simple though deeply considered. Recalling the work of early 80's West Coast composers such as Ray Lynch, Naucke's command of smooth synthesis is both meditative and active; drifting washes of light, organized tones. Translucent, linear growth; following the clouds across the sky. In an edition of 125 copies with full color cardstock covers and labeled tapes."
3/26/2006	Nautical Almanac	Cover The Earth	LP	$16.99	Heresee	"CARLY PTAK, TWIG JOHNSON and MAX EISENBURG marshal in the era of The New Electronics, which, get this, works without electricity. For reals, man. Eight tracks, maybe nine-c'mon, you don't still believe in numbers-that swizzle the Baltimore trio's unfathomable home-made chaos into uneven blasts of ravaging ping-pong "beats," distorted, rack-stretched taunts and/or pleas for mercy, and rapidly exfoliating cries of outrage. Whether aiming for that rising blister on your psyche or just stumbling like dazed Muppets in a frequency-and-perspective-gone-haywire blizzard, Cover the Earth removes NAUTICAL ALMANAC from the fascinating curios section and files them under "noise force to be reckoned with." - Revolver
1/22/2005	Nautical Almanac	Handcut Record Transfers CDR w/ Cut Record Edge	CDR	$12.99	Heresee	"CDR of a bunch of our limited lathe cuts and experiemnts weve done from 1998-present; over cuts, laquers, cds, lazer disks, live one offs, etc...HS030 (Pig Ting Jarker 'Lathe Damage/Maced' overcut lathe lp) and HS031 (Nautical Almanac 'Cleanse Bathe' 10" lathe cut on laquer) are also on the CD. These have a handcut record edge so you can join in on the fun. HS034 CDR with lathed record edge. Edition of 200."
2/7/2009	Nautical Almanac	Melding Linearality	LP	$17.99	Tusco Embassy	"First 12" vinyl release on TE. lacquers cut at home by twig harper spring 2008. 'THIS RECORD PLAYS DIFFERENTLY EVERY INSTANCE IT IS PLAYED. You must give back.' Limited to 300 copies."
5/8/2005	Nautical Almanac	Rejerks 4	CDR	$12.99	Heresee	"First release of newest sounds styles of nautikilyal almindtik... Continuing in the theme of REJERKS: A smokey rusty fried vibe with inert soundmanship scattered thjru yer speakerst, a total brain spliced tape technique with bunk electronics, bass, vox, drums. Large on the Confusing + Awesome content, this document reaaches as back far to first LP! Edition of 200 copies."
1/21/2005	Nautical Almanac	Rejerks Vol 3	CDR	$12.99	Heresee	"3rd installment of this series. Rejerks=rejerks. 3 rejerks/ Max, Ptak and Harper. Triple mixing board chain line share/feedback with inputs of room mics, tape loops, goatickens throat boxes, junk and tape loops, processed and then reprocessed.chained and direct. Blown out, sloppy, nasty shit.... inaudible transcriptions of a contact miked cat in heat, tossed in water of course. 5 tracks. 48:09 minutes . cdr. limited 100 . photocopied . damaged."
2/25/2008	Nautilus	Assateague	CDR	$8.99		"New electric and acoustic space music from Heidi Diehl of Vanishing Voice and Time Life, inspired by 400 mile bike trip through Atlantic coast marshland and Ocean City, Maryland's concrete beach saturation zone. Four out of five dime bags. Limited edition with vibrant color packaging."
2/12/2008	Nazi Knife	Issue #4	graphic zine	$24.99		Nazi Knife is a graphic zine edited in France by Hendrik Hegray and Jonas Delaborde. "The fourth issue was released in late 2007 and limited to 1000 copies - features artwork from Jonas Delaborde, Hendrik Hegray, Julien Carreyn, Heath Moerland, John Olson, Pat Maherr, Ryan Riehle, Sebastien Joly, Anthony Prouteau, Christopher Forgues, Antoine Marquis, Romain Perrot, Dominick Fernow, Jeanne Kiesgen, Mat Brinkman, Andrew Zukerman, Stumead, Andy Bolus, Laurent Plessiet, Stephane Prigent, Sylvie P, Benjamin Bergman, Andres Ramirez, Pauliina Mäkelä, Carlos Gonzales, Jacques Noël. Check it out at http://nkzine.free.fr/
9/30/2003	Need New Body	UFO	CD	$12.99	File 13	"Featuring ex-members of BENT LEG FATIMA, this Philly collective are not afraid to mix folk, electronic, free jazz, skronk, overdriven keyboards, banjos, bicycle wheels, new wave, punk and bluegrass into a hybrid reminiscent of acts like CAN, SUN CITY GIRLS, FAUST, Tom Waits, and BEEFHEART. But the individuality is there between the layers of this brain-bending cake."
9/30/2003	Need New Body	UFO	LP	$10.99	Get Back	"Featuring ex-members of BENT LEG FATIMA, this Philly collective are not afraid to mix folk, electronic, free jazz, skronk, overdriven keyboards, banjos, bicycle wheels, new wave, punk and bluegrass into a hybrid reminiscent of acts like CAN, SUN CITY GIRLS, FAUST, Tom Waits, and BEEFHEART. But the individuality is there between the layers of this brain-bending cake."
3/21/2007	Neg-Fi	-1 and Other Big Numbers	CDR	$11.99		"CDR release of material culled from their early cassettes, etc. Highlights include the 2006 La Superette theme song... "In the '50s, a time of postwar optimism and faith in science, there was Hi-Fi. In the '90s, an era of slackers and diminished expectations, there was Lo-Fi. In the '00s, a time of neanderthal government and outright contempt for the arts, there is Neg-Fi. A watershed moment in the history of art and music--some might say sub-nadir..." - Tom Moody
3/21/2007	Neg-Fi	Listen-OK	CDR	$11.99		"First LP release from this punishingly adorable Brooklyn duo of sometimes Branca ensemblists. Minimalist post no-wave noise bursts mix with walkie talkie feedback and sparse melodies. Hand-numbered LP - limited edition of 200.
3/21/2007	Neg-Fi	Listen-OK	LP	$12.99		"First LP release from this punishingly adorable Brooklyn duo of sometimes Branca ensemblists. Minimalist post no-wave noise bursts mix with walkie talkie feedback and sparse melodies. Hand-numbered LP - limited edition of 200.
12/24/2005	Negative Entropy	MS Stubnitz Stockholm 9.7.98	CD	$12.99	Absurd	"recorded back in 98, edited by michael prime this is the 2nd release of negative entropy (hence the extract featured on michael's flabbergasting "requiem" lp on die stadt), the brainchild of michael prime (morphogenesis)& geert feytons (noise maker's fifes) who offers us some of their finest obscure and adventurous live & raw dronescapes through this amazing delirium! the recording/offer that actually started the what absurd calls its 'mark II' era and also the idea that gave birth to editions_zero's scandinavian branch under the 'utan titel' moniker." Edition of 488 copies.
2/12/2008	Nemoi	Untitled EP	3" CDR	$6.99	Something on the Road	"This EP comprises of one long track that was picked from a few improvised sessions recorded between May - August 2007. The music was played to an old tape recorder with only an unplugged electric guitar at hand. The sessions took place mostly at the end of the day, around sunset time, at a city center apartment in Jerusalem. The creation process of this EP - bare guitar playing combined with random "field-recordings"/ noises captured from the street outside the room - aimed to birth authentic 'Jerusalem folk.'" Limited edition / 40 numbered copies in a special postcard sleeve.
1/30/2010	Neokarma Jooklo Trio	Memories From the Age of the Dragon	LP	$24.99	QBICO	LP red vinyl, troglosound art, 3 different inner sleeves (gold/red/green), heavy textured cover. Features: david vanzan - percussion, voice, bow harp, bass, anologue electronics virginia genta - soprano sax, ocarina, flutes, marimba box, bells maurizio abate - kalimba, zither, hurdy gurdy, tape delay Recorded during the age of the dragon a1 journey towards the creation b1 evocation of the winds b2 the ancient mystery "Deep, esoteric stuff"
3/6/2010	Neokarma Jooklo Trio	Time's Vibes	LP	$15.99	Conspiracy	"And the cosmos has hatched a new egg of progression... The Neokarma Jooklo Trio are a wildflower in the Italian music scene using cosmic improvisation and meditation techniques that gently hoover into musical religion. With uptempo tribal percussion and trance-inducing slightly Middle Eastern and Asian Gamelan influeces, they summon the greater ancient spirits of nature. Ethereal drones are woven to a magical flying carpet, then drenched in reverb and delay to dig deep in an emotional visionary barrel. Soothing chimes and bells that floatingly enter your space are blurred by it's stoned execution. Neokarma are constantly looking for the perfect balance, patiently waiting and letting the instrumental flow dictate the direction. All in a spacial, almost minimalist fashion, where chords and shifts are breathing in all their shivering glory. And with every improvised song, a new chapter unfolds and brings a glimpse of a better tomorrow. A hopeful soundtrack delivered in bleak, desolate times. A dance around the campfire where cosmic beliefs walk hand in hand with their earthly presence. A sincere ethnic take on calming the masses to further absorb a world of visions that never abandon post. Spring is almost here... i can smell it. A deep trip in the astral and infinite ways of human spirit and mind. Italy's new power rangers. Highly recommended for fans of Yahowa 13, Makoto Kawabata, Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Guru Guru and Avarus." Recorded by Maurizio Abate in Milano, Italy, on June 1st 2008. Edition of 500 copies.
8/2/2008	Neon Death Slittes	Grim War of Chaos Magick	3" CDR	$6.99	First Person	"Incredible new set from Phil Legard (Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, Ashtray Navigations, Larkfall label) dredged and presented in accordance with his peerless and undisputed knowledge of subterranean rock of the last 30 years. Track one lets you know what to expect kicking off with an unholy marriage of Cosi Fanni Tutti guitar scrabble and Bob Calvert sci fi paranoia before the dam breaks and the whole mess is filtered through a broken Watkins Copicat manhandled by Joe Meek on a bad hair day. 60's garage scuzz crashes head on with overheated and badly wired analogue synths all combined with an innate knowledge and respect for today's current noise practitioners. A breathtaking release made all the more incredible by Legard's accompanying artwork."
4/24/2006	Neon Death Slittes, The Birds of Delay	The Slack Angel's Death Bong	CDR	$12.99	Memoirs of an Aesthete	"Death-defiling split disc of zodzoric psychedelia from these hot Leeds zombies! NEON DEATH SLITTES is the axle-greased alterego of Phil 'Xenis Emputae Travelling Band' Legard who contributes four tracks of greasy blues amphetamuck that will have fans of Pink Fairies/Deviants/Gong/Third World War choking on their wet dentures. Recent American Tapes/No Fun stars BIRDS OF DELAY occupy the other half with a knob-scorching oscillation/voice seizure recorded live in sunny Edinburgh. Ltd.100 in tracing paper sleeves with on-disc gocco print."
7/23/2004	Neon Hunk / My Name Is Rar Rar	split	7"	$4.99	Liquid Death / Hello Pussy Records	"Milwaukee's dynamic duo Neon Hunk are back with their brand of cartoon voiced lazer keyboard n' beats oddity! Fresh from the mutation tanks, the Hunks remain untouched with this follow up to their 11 song 'Abra Cadaver' 7" on LDR/HPR and bring you 5 more tracks of all out 'Puke-e-mon' styled no wave fun. To make things even crazier, we've paired them up with Chicago's no wave synth-freak band, My Name Is Rar Rar!! Consisting of ex-members of such notorious acts as Xerobot, The Hex, and The Flying Luttenbachers, this act serves up a herky jerky ride to the mental ward via a no wave all star line-up of sorts! This is the first of many things to come for this amazing band of sideshow freaks, but for now we tease you with 2 tracks of musical genius! Weird man, weird..." Edition of 500 copies on clear vinyl.
4/20/2004	Neon Pearl	1967	CD	$13.99	Acme / Lion	"First time on CD for these incredible sessions from the year of psychedelia’s apex. Top notch floating underground psych with organ and harmonium, featuring members of PLEASE and THE FLIES who were later in legendary band T2 (the notes in the eight-page booklet try to make the convoluted band history clear). This edition is taken from the master tapes, and comes complete with two bonus tracks not on the limited LP edition!"
12/4/2003	Neon Pearl	1967 Recordings	LP	$25.99	Acme	"First time issue for the earliest of the Peter Dunton (Please, Gun, T2, Infinity) bands, here with Bernard Jinks and Nick Spenser, the same line-up as the second version of Please from 1969; the band had been playing these tracks in German clubs from June to November of 1967, providing the first psychedelic experience for the Berlin audiences they blew away night after night; upon their return to the UK, they were given studio time to record as many tracks as they could - this LP includes two acoustic demos, and six tracks from these recording sessions; since the peripatetic Dunton moved on to four other projects in the next two years after these recordings were made, it is no surprise that they have been completely overlooked (especially as no one had heard them!); but it is a happy day for fans of British psychedelia that this tasty platter has been unearthed at last- all trippy originals, with no filler. A significant event.”
2/11/2006	Nervoid	How to Pull the Wool Over Your Own Eyes	cassette	$5.99	Black Velvet Fuckere	Originally listed here with the title of 'Helpful Hints when Travelling Down the Path Your Parents Warned Against'. "One of the very first Black Velvet Fuckere releases (1997) is now again available. Imagine your favorite Very Good Recordings artists covering Twin Infinitives armed with only two microcassettes and a tape deck. Recorded 1995-97."
2/11/2006	Nether Dawn	Outer Dark	CD	$15.99	Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon	"Filthy, ragged, drone-damage from the mastermind behind A.M, Mrtyu, the insanely credible Pseudoarcana label, and recently crowned third member of Black Boned Angel. Crackle and fuzz turn over and over on itself until everything within its gravitational pull turns to delicious brown goo. A gigantic evolutionary leap forward into near-annihilation from their debut, with vastly greater quantities of dark energy sucking the universe outwards."
12/24/2005	Neung Phak	Fucking USA	7"	$8.99	Abduction	"Oakland, CA-based Neung Phak are hit-playing Southeast Asian psych-pop fusion artpranksters. Their exotic alter ego Mono Pause shares members with absurdist cut-and-paste legends Negativland. When Pyongyang Airlines flight 009 from North Korea landed at San Francisco International Airport, the members of Neung Phak stepped defiantly onto the tarmac - clutching the master tapes of their compelling new single Fucking USA, which were rushed to Abduction records for immediate release. This is the first recording ever made by "Americans" in Pyongyang's Kim Studios - and it shows! The extended play B-side features a new version of the Thai classic "Tui Tui Tui" and a journey into experimental pop balladry that is second to none - a radio friendly "Far King USA." This vibrant explosion of color and hatred comes dressed to kill in a beautiful package on the thickest vinyl there is. Neung Phak backsides the forefront once again! Edition of 300 copies, thick vinyl, and full-color picture sleeve!"
11/8/2003	Neung Phak (Mono Pause)	Neung Phak	CD	$13.99	Abduction	"Not only will listening to this music take your mind off how you'll manage paying off your debts and surrendering your soul to the ruling elite, but its almost a soundtrack manifesto justifying a great 'Career move' where you can uproot your pathetic and truly meaningless life in Western society and relocate to the great inner-peninsula of Southeast Asia. This is what you could be listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the Chao Phraya River: some roots 'Molarm beat' from the Lao countryside, creamy Khmer ballads and Cambodian Rock, with a dash of Bangkok big city pop. Dig this template of tropical seduction, from rural to urban, through thick sewage and pristine rice paddies, side-steppin' the sex tourist industry just enough to make this disc legal to purchase!" Highly recommended!
2/21/2007	Neuntöter Der Plage	Last Wish / Acid Reign	LP	$11.99	SNSE	"Extremely cold and minimalistic terror drones accompanied by ghastly, inimitable vocalizations. NEUNTÖTER DER PLAGE is the long-running project of Ryan Opperman, aka Redrot / Xombie / Post Mortem Junkie, and operator of the Skeletone label. After many cdr and cassette releases on labels such as Truculent Recordings and Slaughter Productions, among others, this is the vinyl debut of the project." Edition of 306 copies.
9/16/2007	Nevari Butchers, The	The Herbst Silo	one-sided 7"	$5.99	Hanson	"New recordings from myself (Aaron Dilloway) & Michael Travis, recorded in the Herbst Silo, resulting in 2 horrible cases of poison ivy. Abstract junk percussion and cassette taped organ drones recorded on my father's killer pump organ. Limited editon of 150 copies on Red vinyl w/ red inner sleeves."
11/4/2006	New Blockaders, The / Thurston Moore / Jim O'Rourke	The Voloptulist	CD	$12.99	Hospital Productions	"Dream-team hook-up between a trio of the most important free-noise theorists of the modern age, the UK's New Blockaders and Thurston and Jim of Sonic Youth et al. Hard to work out who is doing exactly what here - though the presence of drummer Chris Corsano on the second track is pretty unmistakable - but the overall feel is of one of TNB's early Symphonie X works populated by thin strings of feedback, the crackle of electronic jack-to-jack friction and a subtle ring of bone. Beautifully eerie and a little more pro-drone than the bulk of TNB's work. Second track is just unbelievable, with a slow hiss of feedback torn apart by Corsano's triumphal, spirit/energy scattershots, marching a legion of ghosts all the way over the horizon. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue
2/21/2005	New Blockaders, The with The Haters	Zero Is The Journey	CD	$15.99	PsychForm Records	"The 1st ever collaboration between these 2 noise legends...this one has a surprise, a new dimension in nihilism, the sound of chaos imploding in on itself. Limited edition of 500, CD only."
5/16/2010	New Device	Pay Witness	cassette	$5.99	Gods of Tundra	"Harness the power of weakness into these physical tones that crumble into junk, dirt, and sand. Make the body move."
4/24/2006	New Fairfield Parks & Recreation	Aftermath Victoria Analysis	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"Hailing from Hong Kong comes New Fairfield Parks & Recreation (nfpnr). Soaking themselves in the austere rays of the blackened sun, this duo transforms the sounds of an urban park into something simultaneously sublime and dissonant. these recordings are finely sculpted from the mirth of the dirt and trees, serenading the heavens as dusk approaches from the east. thick walls of electric guitar howl weave between the cicada screams and wailing branches. nfpnr are brilliant at mixing these field recordings with the spectral mass of their instruments. "aftermath victoria analysis" is only the beginning." Edition of 100 copies.
7/10/2008	New Tweedy Bros!, The	The New Tweedy Bros!	LP	$34.99	Akarma	"A quality vinyl LP reissue of the very rare sole album by this very obscure late-'60s San Francisco psychedelic band (who were closely associated with some of the central figures of that scene), with sounds and songs freely mixing influences from folk and folk-rock, British invasion and San Francisco sound psych. This comes packed in the original hexagonal "acid cube" sleeve, pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Italian import."
2/15/2005	Newman, Harris	Accidents with Nature and Each Other	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Experiments with the raw sounds of the naked steel string and a wider palette of instrumentation augment beautifully his particular brand of guitar soli. The result is a rather diverse array of sounds and structures, all centered on the acoustic guitar. Languid, gorgeous melodies and hefty fingerpicking workouts bump up against ghostly harmonics and acoustic drones. A trio of solo workouts mark the beginning of the album, harkening both the aggressive trajectory of Leo Kottke and pastoral terrain of Robbie Basho."
10/6/2007	Newman, Harris	Decorated	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Of the players involved in the recent resurgence of fingerstyle guitar, Harris Newman has established himself as a primary envoy on the modern day steel-stringer shortlist. As with the case of his brothers-in-arms Jack Rose, Glenn Jones and Steffen Basho-Junghans, each of whom borrow from the past traditions of mavericks Fahey, Basho et al but have re-invented the sound and style with fresh perspectives, Newman distinguishes his music even further with a very idiosyncratic sound. In contrast to the name of the album, Harris Newman opts for a somewhat stripped-down, almost minimalist approach to Decorated."
10/6/2007	Newman, Harris	Decorated	LP	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"A new album from one of the leading players in the finger-style guitar playing movement. In contrast to the name of the album, Harris Newman opts for a somewhat stripped-down, almost minimalist approach to Decorated. Subtle and introspective, the first half of the album showcase's Newman's brand of solo acoustic guitar, while the second half showcases his electric guitar work with Eric Craven accompanying on drums.
10/19/2003	Newman, Harris	Non-Sequiturs	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Newman is a finger-style steel-string acoustic guitarist possessing a remarkably detailed and lush sound, and he is creating some of the most lyrical compositions for the instrument to be heard anywhere. Non-Sequiturs his debut release, a fabulous album of alternately effervescent and deeply mysterious acoustic guitar grandeur. Newman's acoustic finger-picking dances and swaggers, creating a sunny expanse of tunes that are augmented by stark, introspective passages. Much like Faheys classic 1967 album The Yellow Princess, Non-Sequiturs juxtaposes giddy, pastoral songs against heady, experimental sound excursions."
2/4/2007	Niagara Falls / The Clear Spots	Plays Spiral Isles / Smokehouse Debris	CDR	$9.99	Deep Water	"Our first split CD, two complementary mini-albums merged into one mind-altering whole. Philadelphia-based Niagara Falls follow up two fine CDs on their own Honeymoon Music label with perhaps their most evocative electro-acoustic drones to date, an aural tour of a misty archipelago located just off the coast of dreamland; 3 tracks, 30 minutes. Meanwhile, the Clear Spots roll up one of their most fried rural noise fatties yet, assembling various wreckage from last year's successful orbital barn launch into an imposing edifice that towers over the scree on the far side of the ridge; 1 25-minute track in 4 parts."
12/12/2009	Niblock, Phill	Six Films (1966-1969)	DVD	$26.99	Die Schachtel	"Die Schachtel in collaboration with O' artspace proudly presents a deluxe DVD featuring six experimental films by New York-based composer, photographer and filmmaker Phill Niblock from the late-1960s. Anybody familiar with Niblock would probably characterize his work by the sound of his long, sonorous drones, producing rich overtones usually combined with a visual element -- since before moving into composition, Niblock was an active photographer and filmmaker. While he usually is known for his films from the Movement Of People Working series alongside performances of his music, Niblock's early works stand apart as unique objects. The integrity and consistency of his style is fully on display in these seldomly-seen or screened 16mm sound films wonders that include: Morning (1966-1969) from an idea by Phill Niblock and Jean Claude Van Itallie, filmed by PN, text by Lee Worley and Michael Corner, with members of the Open Theater group. Starring Lee Worley, James Barbosa, Cynthis Harris, Sharon Gans, Joseph Chaikin; text read by Lee Worley, James Barbosa, Barbara Porte, Dorothy Lyman, Michael Corner. Black & white 16mm film. The Magic Sun (1966-1968) with members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, music by Sun Ra and the Arkestra. Filmed on high-contrast black & white 16mm film. Dog Track (1969) -- a film by Phill Niblock, with a found text read by Barbara Porte. Color 16mm film. Annie (1968) -- a portrait of the dancer Ann Danoff, with a sound collage soundtrack. Color 16mm film. Max (1966-19) -- an image collage film/portrait of percussionist/sound-artist Max Neuhaus, with a collage soundtrack by Max Neuhaus. Black & white 16mm film. Raoul (1968-1969) -- a portrait of the painter Raoul Middleman, with extensive use of time-lapse film technique. The soundtrack is improvised by Raoul Middleman and Phill Niblock. Color 16mm film. Limited edition of 500 copies. NTSC, all-region DVD, stereo, 4:3 format. Run-time: 65 minutes."
	Nico	Abscheid	LP	$17.99	Nico Appreciation Society	"A wonderful collection of rarities by the chanteuse of the morbid! Her unmistakable, disturbingly ice-cold voice is in perfect tension to the lush, haunting musical backdrop on songs such as 'Irreversible Neural Damage,' 'La Notte Delle Fiabe,' 'Genghis Khan,' 'Vegas,' and others. White vinyl. Dutch import."
	Nico	Death and the Maiden	LP	$17.99	Nico Appreciation Society of Holland	“A treasury of rarities from this amazing performer dating from 1965 to 1987, including a Velvet Underground improvisation, various collaborations with Lou Reed and/or John Cale, and many other gems. Nice blue and yellow jacket with striking photos. Issued by the Nico Appreciation Society of Holland. Numbered edition of 500 on blue vinyl, Dutch import.”
10/5/2004	Nico	Minnesang	CD	$24.99	Toccata	16 tracks – mostly live and unreleased studio recordings from 1978 – 1985.
10/5/2004	Nico	Walpurgisnacht (Raritaten und Konzerte – Teil II)	CD	$24.99	Faust	12 tracks – 76+ minutes featuring 8 live tracks from 1985-1986 and one live track with John Cale from 1970. Also features studio tracks with Kevin Ayers (1974), studio collaboration with Neuronium (1978) plus one other track.
3/10/2003	Nicodemus	Antannae Moonlite	LP	$27.99	Zedikiah	"It's almost like renaissance man Nicodemus & his trusty companion, Matchez, never really went away. It's more like they just fell asleep inside a warm log & woke up a few years later when they smelled smoke. These are songs from the vault and they carry as thick a stoned-biker-skiff-whatsis whiff as any air these guys have ever released. Genuinely stupid, extremely fucked up, and loaded with late-night nine-bong-logic, this is (so called) street person psych of a very high caliber." - Byron Coley. Nicodemus is a homegrown outlaw folk artist who has sporadically released LPs going back to the 70s (take your pick between the number 5 & 50). A big favorite with dealers like Paul Major, responsible for the following quote: ‘Legendary biker messiah of hedonism who has tombstones in his living room and rainbows tattooed on his forehead...he has an overall bent thing to his music & is into drugs & booze heavily, having a whole mythology & fantasy world on the edge he must inhabit.’"
9/16/2007	Night Movie	$40 Oz.	cassette	$7.99	Fag Tapes	"from the heat bent mind melt of San Marcos, Texas the mad brain of Glen Morren (Cygnus, Odd Clouds) brings you morose, stoned soundtrack of the night. the Sun is pure evil. can only function at night. guitar and organ solo debut! amazing moody stuff! edition 50."
1/24/2009	Night Shift	Night Shift	CDR	$8.99	267 Lattajjaa	"Self-proclaimed punk-ambient from Russia, recorded as trio in 2006-2007. Moscow-Yaroslavl"
2/4/2007	Night Wounds	Allergic to Heat	LP	$10.99	Fuck It Tapes	"Night Wounds has existed in Maine, New Hampshire and Los Angeles before deciding on the Pacific Northwest (Portland). Constantly changing and falling part, pulling itself together to tour and release a EP, several limited cassettes and a split 7" with Coughs on labels like Gilgongo, Fuck It Tapes, Not Not Fun, etc. Too many ex-members to list, so why try? Compared to New York circa '81 and early 90's Chicago, but louder. Self-described as "Art Gunk". Touring constantly. "Allergic to Heat" was recorded in early 2006 in a downtown LA practice space by the band. 8 songs just shy of 30 minutes, mostly recorded live. Everything from angular post punk to primitive no wave and free experimentation, rarely covering the same ground twice." - label. "..the sound of some infernal machine harvesting the souls of the wicked" - The Boston Phoenix.
1/1/2008	Nightstalker	Use	DBL LP	$42.99	Nasoni	"Band form Greece, Use is a Vinyl Release of an Album that was orginally released of in CD in 1996. Double Vinyl with 3 live bonus Tracks. We are pretty sure this fits the bill of 'forgotten gem'." Edition of 500 copies - 100 on colored vinyl - all copies in stock are colored vinyl.
3/28/2010	Nihilist Assault Group & Blue Sabbath Black Cheer	Planned Obsolescence	LP	$12.99	Gnarled Forest	"All out noise war collaboration LP between BSBC & NAG. Nihilist Assault Group = Richard Rupenus, Mark Durgan & Michael Gillham. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer = wm.Rage, Stan Reed & Sean Dow. Mixed By Stan Reed and wm.Rage. Mastered by Scott Colburn. Cover art by Dominic Black. Pro-printed LP jackets / 11x11" insert. Edition of 400 copies.
	Nihilist Spasm Band	No Record	LP	$38.99	Cortical Foundation	"With printed insert circa 1968 (Arts Canada) A companion release to the Intersystems Number OneLP; both originally on Allied records, and both of these groups representing extremes in art bands in Canada 1960's. A proto-dada assault, No Record heralds a do it yourself punk aesthetic with unrestrained humor and noise performed on largely home-made instruments. Electric charged and indispensable to anyone interested in Sonic Youth, the LAFMS, Japanese Noise, and anarchistic music in general. 220 Gram Vinyl. DMM Quality Pressing. Limited Edition 700 copies."
5/7/2004	Nilssen-Love, Paal & Hakon Kornstaed	Schlinger	CD	$15.99	Smalltown Supersound	"More spontaneous and free music from Smalltown Supersound, this time from Norway's very own Paal Nilssen-Love and Hakon Kornstaed. Schlinger is an exercise in acoustic free styling that boosts with pure and raw energy, as Kornstad and Nilssen-Love lean not only to the great American free-jazz tradition, but also to the sounds of '60s garage rock, modern electronica, funk and soul. Schlinger is cutting edge jazz, Scandinavian style. Wild, beautiful and obsessive."
7/16/2004	Nimbus 2000	Kettle of Fish Walking: Complete Recordings 1999-2003	CD	$6.99	Octane Grammophon	"Nimbus 2000 is another of Daf Roberts' (Alphane Moon, Our Glassie Azoth, Blodeuedd) projects and again his musical offerings give us something that is really worthy of investigation. ‘Kettle of fish walking - compete recordings 1999-2003’ contains every Nimbus 2000 track Daf Roberts has recorded and released on his own Oggum label. Some of these recordings originally came out on a series of split 7" eps. Further Nimbus 2000 tracks were released (two to be precise) on a charity compilation CD Oggum released featuring Magic Carpathians, Electroscope and Flying Saucer Attack, to name a few. ‘Kettle of Fish Walking’ includes all of these tracks with two brand new songs exclusive to this compilation. And the music...? Deep-space exlporing. picture yourself voyaging somewhere between a time and an unknown. from somewhere you hear a softly spoken voice reading children's fairytales. All this is realised within a totally rich, colorful, unique and warm soundscape which recalls the sound of 70's german synth-wizards Schulze and Tangerine Dream. Magical. Have a flow and go. Note that this is a MiniCD of 20 minutes."
11/21/2009	Ninni Morgia Control Unit	Ninni Morgia Control Unit	double LP	$14.99	Ultramarine	Ninni Morgia: guitar, bass, el.autoharp, el.sitar, keyboard, percussion, kalimba ~ Daniel Carter: saxophones, trumpet, clarinet, flute, voice ~ Jeff Arnal: drums, percussion, thumb piano. "Brooklyn-based guitarist Ninni Morgia (Quivers, The Right Moves), in this occasion with multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, one of the most active and talented musicians of New York's free jazz community, who has played, among others, with: Sun Ra, Sunny Murray, Test, Matthew Shipp, Other Dimensions In Music, Plastic Ono Band... and drummer/percussionist Jeff Arnal, create a beautiful mix of psychedelic free jazz and Indian raga with a wide range of instruments like thumb piano, kalimba, bells, gongs, all centered around Morgia's versatile guitar work, previously compared to great masters like Keiji Haino, Sonny Sharrock and Hendrix. On the various tracks of this 2LP, Morgia's guitar goes from Miles-electric style funky-wah and the acid trips of Jerry Garcia, to the fury of Haino and Sharrock, and finally reaches the ecstatic visions of the great kosmische bands Popol Vuh and Ash Ra Tempel. The record has been mastered by audio wizard Scott Colburn (Sun City Girls, Magik Markers, Animal Collective)." Recommended!
	Niplets	Dorobo Gokko	CD	$15.99	Horen	"2nd album from Hiroshi (ex-Les Rallizes Denudes) & his company. Lyrically psychedelic love letter with fragrance of flower to you."
5/7/2004	Niplets	The Lecture Hall Boogie	CD	$15.99	Horen	3rd album from Hiroshi Nar. "It's all so indelibly stamped with Hiroshi Nar's slightly damaged personality that it transcends its flimsy, flung together feel and even the huffiest breakdown feels weirdly revealing." - David Keenan,The Wire.
	Nishibori, Yu & Landon Thorpe	Muno Radiation	CD	$8.99	Public Eyesore	"We will sum it up all in a big lump. sparse sound collages ala the tightening of acoustic guitar strings, and washboard stomachs. strange computer jibberish that is not rubbish, but ruffed. the beatings of drain pipes and the like, oh, and a life source, of course. - Chris Fischer
5/19/2004	nixilx.nijilx	nixilx.nijilx	CDR	$9.99	absurd	“When I received an e-mail a couple of months ago from the guy behind nixilx.nijilx project I couldn't imagine I was to come across some of the most impressive soundscapes I've heard from the Greek underground for a long time. Initially proposed a beautiful 20min track which just before adding it to absurd's expanded audio diary, was reconstructed/transformed to a completely new piece that could barely bring in mind something of the one I had heard. with the addition of 2 more tracks (1 of which was used as soundscape to a recent installation which took place during the events of chondros / katsiani's 'hyperdwthe' events in thessaloniki (north greece) the 19 year old person behind the nixilx.nijilx disguise crafts a delicate universe of intense electroacoustic sounds & lowercase drones that speaking of Greece particularly I doubt if lots of the 'composers' of the local Greek electroacoustic intelligentsia can ever achieve. Comes in a very beautiful 'infant' like artwork of nixilx.nijilx and stands as one of my beloved absurds as it reflects some truly intense moments of the last months' audio diary.” – absurd. Edition of 137 copies.
3/5/2009	Nmeperign / Skeletons Out	Marvin / Live 1978	7"	$5.99	Absurd	Nmperign: greg kelley, bhob rainey - Skeletons Out: howard stelzer, jay sullivan "A rather nicely lo-fi packed 7" of two of the more intelligent noise projects around. On side Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey, otherwise known as Nmperign team up for one of their great pieces of improvised wind instrument mayhems. Mayhem as in silence meeting noise, but not the usual noise you may expect from someone like Merzbow. The controlled blowing of the two make a great fine interplay. The instruments as instrument and as objects. A fine piece. Skeletons Out are more a noise rock piece band, or so it seems. Howard Stelzer on cassettes and Jay Sullivan on turntable create a more straight forward piece of noise music that rocks the house. It sound like a rock band with dark rumbling noise underneath and cracklings on top, all in true fierce noise mood. Much more heavy and linear than the other side, but great noise altogether." - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly.
10/22/2003	Nmperign	We Devote Every Effort To Offer You The Best That You Deserve To Have for Your Enjoyment	DBL LP	$20.99	SIWA	"Nmperign is Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey. The first LP of this 2LP set consists of the title track which was recorded in Mhere, France. The music on the second LP is from a performance at Wesleyan University and is entitled 'I Am Sitting In A Fucking Room'. Instrument credits are given as 'marantz pmd 130, sony micro20002, horns'. In the past Nmperign has collaborated with Le Quan Ninh, Günter Müller, Jason Lescalleet, Jerome Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti, Axel Dörner and many others. Their previous recordings have appeared on labels such as Selektion, Rossbin, Twisted Village and Intransitive. Limited vinyl only edition with 5 color screenprinted cover." As usual, Alan Sherry of SIWA has created a document just that is beautiful to hold and listen to.
2/20/2010	Nmperign w/ Jake Meginsky	Selected Occasions Of Handsome Deceit	one-sided LP	$16.99	REL	"The recorded debut of the trio Nmperign with Jake Meginsky. Pressed on 160 gram copper plate mastered vinyl, REL012 features Nmperign in an energized, turn-on-a-dime form. Prodded by Meginsky into unnamable, angular textures, the trio is agile and unpredictable, occupying many angles of musical extremes. REL012 is a one-sided LP cut to 45 for Maximum Dynamic range. Featuring a striking cover, designed by Eli Keszler, printed by Ashley Paul. A light blue fold-over paper is integrated in to a heavy picture disc sleeve, labeled with a color sticker. Screened notes are featured on the inside. A one-time, hand-numbered edition of 300 copies."
5/16/2010	No Balls	Come Clean	LP	$16.99	Permanent Records	"The debut LP by Brainbombs side-project, No Balls, sold out immediately upon its first release on the Swedish Release the Bats label. Here's the much more affordable, domestic pressing of 500 copies on Permanent. The only difference is the artwork. If you like Brainbombs, but you don't particularly care for the vocals, then you'll love this. If you like the Brainbombs, and the vocals, you'll still love this. "Come Clean" is brutal, pummeling, repetitive, noise rock at it's finest. Some folks are already calling it the RECORD OF THE YEAR. Read onŠReview of the "No Balls" LP: From aQuarius Records: "FINALLY! It's here, the first full length from NO BALLS. The new project from TWO of the Brainbombs, and it's just like the 7" (which is sadly now out of print): a noisier, more metal, more stripped down, more mesmerizingly hypnotic, even more fucked up and fractured and RAW, nearly instrumental Brainbombs which means this is fucking AMAZING!!! If you love the Brainbombs, and how could you NOT, then you'll love this. Looped, motorik rhythms pound away relentlessly, through thick clouds of crumbling distortion, the recording super fucked up and in the red, with a super freaked out spatial thing going on, some of the drums seem to be blasting away right up front, while other drums sound off to the side, while the distorted guitars seem to seep into EVERYTHING, the result is head nodding (banging?) and totally dizzying. It's like these guys took unreleased Brainbombs jams and stripped them down to their bare essentials, then dipped them in a boiling cauldron of blown out distortion, hurling them into the void, picking out just a single riff from each track, and looping it, over and over and over, pounding away at that same riff FOREVER, total maximalist minimalism, like some impossible hybrid of Brainbombs, Gore, Black Flag and Lubricated Goat, hypnotic and mesmerizing, filthy and raw, metal AND punk, post everything noise rock, this shit is so fucked up and fierce. Angular slashing riffage, buried super distorted vocals, but only here and there, some of that old dented BB trumpet bleat pops up every once in a while too, but those elements are practically swallowed whole by the churning black mass of sound that is No Balls, a gloriously sludgey and psychedelic kraut punk doom, mantra like, but also totally rocking, and simultaneously the best and the worst thing that's ever happened to your stereo. And your ears. Totally ruling, utter sonic destruction, total musical bliss, filthy and fantastically and utterly recommended. Some of us are thinking... RECORD OF THE YEAR. Oh yeah...The bad news is these are limited to only 300 copies, and once the batch we have is gone, we probably won't be able to get more. Super simple packaging, black on brown jackets, with that bunny image from the 7", plain white inner sleeve, pressed on nice thick vinyl... grab one before they're gone..."
9/16/2004	No Doctors	ERP Saints	CD	$8.99	No Sides	“A new EP from no-everything noise rock combo No Doctors. A tribute to Chicago's East Rogers Park neighborhood, where the band recently performed two years of active service, ERP Saints finds the Doctors in peak form, launching their anti-rock deep into the cosmos.”
3/27/2004	No Doctors	Hunting Season	CD	$12.99	Go Johnny Go	NO DOCTORS was founded by three in 1999; highschool, Minneapolis, MN USA. Before releasing their first proper LP, the teens released approx 100 recordings of 'avant-garde sounds' by a diverse cavalcade of international artists through their FREEDOM FROM label, then spent a month touring and studying beneath Argentine visionaries REYNOLS. Relocating to Chicago, new members were added to the band during the lengthy sessions that came to comprise their debut self-titled LP; upon close scrutiny, this record has revealed itself to be two distinct LPs. Solidifying into a 5/6 man lineup, NO DOCTORS traveled to Baltimore and recorded HUNTING SEASON with the help of NAUTICAL ALMANAC's Twig Harper. This recording is now available on CD from GO JOHNNY GO. Fellow music lover: as we find ourselves but the faintest fluttering beyond the great temporal breach, our dizzying locale of vanguard scampering slyly, feigning negligience (a solar nipple flare; a relaxed tension) any number of scented oilwheels solicit our auspices, bird in hand, rifle cocked. NO DOCTORS second full-length effort HUNTING SEASON emerges above and beyond the din with sight locked on target. We recommend imbibing with or without adult super-vision, as needed. Press 'play' and lavishly simulate sensation ‘hair trigger’.”
12/30/2002	No Doctors	No Doctors	LP	$9.99	Freedom From	"A big, heavy, blues-based skronk from this Chicago outfit, lo-fi and nasssty. Or at least mostly; they also get into some, dare we say, severely ‘acid-soaked’ territory. This is their first album."
12/24/2005	No Doctors	T-Bone Parts 1 & 2	7"	$4.99	Yik Yak	"Another well-smoked slab of glorious 'what the fuck?' by visionary caterwaulers of chaos and ex-Chicago blues cruisers, No Doctors. Equal parts backwards boogie and straight skullfucking confusion, 'T-Bone Pt. 1' stomps one through hard and thick, slinging broken barn-boned riffs that collide head on with sputtering cross-eyed measures of brilliance and back again. 'T-Bone Pt. 2' ensues after a quick flip to side B as you and your square-minded notions are slapped straight in the face with a wet hose spewing talkin' box (!) snarl and ultimately delivers your blown mind on a broken piece of hobo-stew stained porcelain." - Noel Von Harmonson (Comets On Fire)
5/16/2010	No Fun Acid	This is No Fun Acid 03	CD	$10.99	No Fun	"Tour only cd for the no fun acid project, see no fun acid 02 12" for description, this was recorded in an intense studio session with less than a week to go for the tour. Limited to 500. This is 2010. This is no fun acid 03."
5/16/2010	No Fun Acid	This is No Fun Acid 2 (with Re-mix By Gavin Russom)	12"	$13.99	No Fun	"IN THE BEGINNING there was Roland's founder Ikutaro Kakehashi and an arsenal of "computer controlled" analog jock boxes designed specifically to outmode the trad rock (read: HUMAN) rhythm section... the circuitry was so tightly wound however, so rooted in synthesis that it failed to meet its promise. It wasn't until the mid-80s that the TB/TR system took novel form as acid house; a simple but novel attitude shift that saw an embrace of extra-terrestrial machine funk aesthetics converging with the all-too-human need to make austere, robotic dance music. ENTER NO FUN ACID ::: Carlos Giffoni's reinvention and reanimation of the noise cadaver vis a vis German minimal synth rewired to memories of seedy Venezuelan raves circa 199X. A nebulous drone gives way to 606 delirum, followed by an array of sequenced modular synth, infinitely spiraling like a borehole through Kakehashi's 3rd eye. This is acid: the primordial years. On the flip is an elegiac space hymnal take on NFA from techno alchemist Gavin Russom. Art submitted by an anonymous fan. Mastered by Rashad Becker in Berlin, Pressed in Detroit at Archer. Limited to 500 copies."
3/14/2008	No Neck Blues Band	Aftypiclipse	LP	$19.99	Sound at One	"This is the bomb NNCK dropped on ATP, December 2006. Entirely new sequence and improved mastering and fidelity from the CDR version."
11/15/2008	No Neck Blues Band	Clomeim	CD	$12.99	Locust	"Clomeim is an evolution, a vital document of Change in The No-Neck Blues Band's 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point. For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a discipline & a clarity of vision they've rarely displayed before, the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation. After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged--a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of 'Heresie' era Univers Zero, and Krautrock zenith Faust at their finest hour. Clomeim is that rare hybrid - a rock exterior with a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover and a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages."
1/24/2009	No Neck Blues Band	Clomeim	double LP	$22.99	Locust	"Locust is proud to announce the release of Clomeim, the new studio album from New York's No-Neck Blues Band. Clomeim is an evolution, a vital document of change in The No-Neck Blues Band's 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point. For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a discipline and a clarity of vision they've rarely displayed before, the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation. After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged -- a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of Heresie era Univers Zero, and krautrock zenith Faust at their finest hour. Clomeim is that rare hybrid -- a rock exterior with a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover and a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages."
3/13/2003	No Neck Blues Band	Intonomancy	CD	$11.99	Sound @ One	"Yes, by God, here's another one. Rock root punch left in bloody piles of nutmeg dirt circus. Fuck the bleat. Fuck the beat. Fuck the entire fucking fleet. A return to the magnificence of spell-over-form. An end to spiel-necessity. Destructive formatting vanishes in a pfff of steam. Welcome to one future. For information on NNCK conult yr local oracle." - Byron Coley New recordings from June 2002.
10/31/2009	No Neck Blues Band	Languid Red Marchetti	LP	$22.99	Planam	"Recorded close to the group's inception in 1994, "Languid Red Marchetti" is the NNCK sound in its empirical form, rhythmically a-linear and fundamentally abstract. While NNCK would go on to become a seven piece performing group, recording and touring extensively, this recording documents a smaller group of four original members engaged in the hermetically sealed sonic exploration which best locates their aesthetic origins. From the group's statement on "Languid Red Marchetti": "A proto-intuitive Latihan of feedback + pre-scaffold juxtaposition of layers which would come to constitute edifice, and eventually dwelling. Where we would soon occupy this sound, it here was a force in and of itself, its directionless propulsion compounding into substance and landscape". This deluxe edition PLANAM LP comes with a NNCK generated essay on sound imaging through improvisation and is packaged in a full color jacket depicting "The hypothetical dissolve / corruption + subsequent inevitable repetition of Suprematism". Edition limited to 340 copies, with full-color cover, infra-Suprematist inner sleeve and ultra-liner notes insert by Keith Connolly.
4/24/2006	No Neck Blues Band	Letters From the Earth	DBL CD	$20.99	Very Friendly	"UK reissue of this 1996 release, originally on Sound @ One/Ser. This double CD outputs 111 or so minutes worth of this group's dizzying array of sonic blattage, cable disruption, tribal tranceadelics and trip or drone aesthetic. I heard that this was largely recorded on a NYC rooftop, but you certainly can't hear any breeze -- there is, however, some serious driftage going on all over the place. Out-of-nowhere double album magnum opuses tend to go on to have genre defining significance, and it's easy to see this one having research visibility for decades to come, as the pinnacle of its contemporary scene. Packaged in a slimline jewel case (to assure those worried this thing would come wrapped in tree bark or something), with an intriguing multi-page booklet of almost Gysin-esque hieroglyphics."
4/1/2003	No Neck Blues Band	Letters From The Earth	DBL CD	$22.99	Sound @ One	"Repress of this 1996 release, this double CD outputs 111 or so minutes worth of this group's dizzying array of sonic blattage, cable disruption, tribal tranceadelics and trip or drone aesthetic. I heard that this was largely recorded on a NYC rooftop, but you certainly can't hear any breeze - there is, however, some serious driftage going on all over the place. Out of nowhere double album magnum opuses tend to go to have genre defining significance, and it's easy to see this one having research visibility for decades to come, as the pinnacle of its contemporary scene."
10/6/2007	No Neck Blues Band	Meets the Clear People with Mystery Gypped...Live at Ken's Electric Lake	DBL CD	$18.99	Locust	"Nearly ten years of swimming up stream through the sonic flotsam & jetsam, the folks have gotten freaky, noise is the 'new noise,' the chin scratchers have joined the metal circus and the No Neck Blues Band remain as relevant today as ever. Their indoor /outdoor audio assaults in upper & lower Manhattan are the stuff of legend but on 1998's Live at Ken's Electric Lake the band took a distinct turn, crossed the Canadian border, hooked up w/ some Sunburned folks and made a sudden diaspora to a rural retreat in the country for a full day's session of acid-head tribal percussion clatter that is utterly different than anything the band had put on the public record up to that time." -Dawson Prater. Reissue of 1998 release - recommended.
4/16/2007	No Neck Blues Band	Nine For Victor	CD	$12.99	Victo	"Enregistre au 22e Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville le 21 mai 2005." Live Victo recording; this one uses up the Sound @1 catalog #82, in case youre keeping track.
12/24/2005	No Neck Blues Band	Qvaris	CD	$15.99	5 Rue Christine	"The Harlem-based No-Neck Blues Band have been a well-loved if obscure fixture in the avant-folk and neo-psychedelic scenes for over a decade now, but unfortunately, the accolades thrust on the group (late folk legend John Fahey once named them as his favorite band) have been matched only by the unavailability of the vast majority of their albums. With 'Qvaris,' however, that's all about to change. The band's first release on the venerable 5RC label, 'Qvaris' finds the band's exploratory improvisation at its most lucid, combining tense and diseased grooves with primal guitar squalls and a palpable sense of modern dread. Uncompromisingly dedicated to their own fevered vision, No-Neck Blues Band both demand a close listen and reward it. Fans of Excepter (who feature ex-NNCKer John Fell Ryan), Sightings, and Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice take notice." "Improvisation, over time, yields access to substratum vistas of altogether unseen colouration. This is characteristic of a place in which our music occurs. It may be heard simultaneously here on earth, it may be heard now in the future in surround-sound, DVD audio, via light pipe, etc. But due to its place of origin, it reaches us here without translation, solely as echoes sounding from an immaterial world. Not unlike the radio dish tuned into Space, hoping to catch some intergalactic communique, we've assumed responsibility for broadcasting the atmosphere surrounding the other intelligences combined among us. There is a psychic constituency from which any hierarchy taking responsibility for the conveyance of the unseen is drawn. And much has been done to co-opt and commodify such conveyance as to deliberately mingle its allure with intentions and agendas of this world. What results is a powerful controlling current. One which, if harnessed with precision, can create personality, replace consciousness, become existence at its receiving end. This pull, this energizing current has permeated much of the imagination, establishing ever increasing common ground betwixt folksexperiencing--and beginning to recognize-unreality. NNCK follows suit. So here, undiluted and without an accompanying agenda, is Qvaris for it's own sake. A slice of life, though not necessarily human life. It is finding your mind as we speak. When a moment is hanging on the edge you must be listening. Listen now for the Difference and the Sameness. They are near."
1/1/2009	No Neck Blues Band	The Large Tarquat	cassette	$14.99	Fuck It Tapes	"The Large Taquat was recorded in 1996 at 195 Chrystie St., NYC, the first rehearsal and performance space for the No-Neck Blues Band. The sequence was originally slated for an LP release and hence captured a Sound at One catalog number, #25, but alas the record never materialized. It is with great pleasure that the band now offers this historical document featuring the earliest document of NNCK operating from its own laboratory. full color double sided printing with two fold out panels. limited to 200." Out of print.
7/16/2006	No Neck Blues Band and Embryo	EmbryoNNCK	CD	$15.99	Staubgold	"New York mavericks No Neck Blues Band and Munich-based Krautrock band Embryo explore the indigenous urban music phenomenon on this, their debut collaborative release. The No Neck Blues Band are one of the most enigmatic, mysterious, and defiantly anti-commercial groups to emerge from the New York loft scene during the '90s. The collective was formed in 1992 around a core of multi-instrumentalists who have stubbornly and admirably insisted on individual anonymity. Incorporating elements of folk, drone, psychedelia, free jazz, noise, and just about everything else, NNCK have nevertheless carved out a distinctive sound from complementary and disparate component elements. One of the most original and innovative Krautrock bands, Embryo fused traditional ethnic music with their own jazzy space rock style. Over their 35+-year existence, during which Christian Burchard has been the only consistent member, the group has traveled the world, playing with hundreds of different musicians and releasing countless records. Melding their wildly diverse forays into experimental, blues, Middle Eastern, Turkish and African music, these two groups have since become brothers in unparalleled improvisatory spirit, and EmbryoNNCK is the fruit of that merge. To quote Christian Burchard, "The NNCK players were flying... Little melodies we never had heard, different moods, rhythmic interplays, and in between the musicmaking it was like we had been together all the time." This should be one of the most transcendent releases of the year. The CD version includes a 24-pages booklet with photos and linernotes." - FE
4/3/2010	Noble, Lee	Downtown Hot-Blood Story	3" CDR	$7.99	La Station Radar	Part of Fake Tape Series - limited edition of 50 copies. "This titular, late-summer EP begins as an atmospheric carousel attended by static, mechanical crunch and moaning vocalizations. The clamor of a cityscape, of some downtown, is present. The dissonance of conjoined spaces and buildings, motors, humming, and one's own entropic state persist, though 'August' is the low, loping afternoon of it. This middle section plods a passage over a backdrop of bubbling trotting, before 'September' composes off-kilter, slow motion loops fronted by twangy and reverbed guitar." - Todd Arneson
5/16/2010	Noble, Lee	Loaded Image	c46 cassette	$7.99	Bumtapes	"Lee Noble's music is hard to pin down, harmoniums breathe haunting drones, ethereal vocals chant, eastern strings and percussion are enveloped by new age synths, otherworldly analogue interludes creep in and dusty pianos sing their last songs. Each song has been crafted to perfection and blends perfectly, turning the whole cassette into one long narrative."
9/18/2006	Noggin	Noggin	3" CDR	$7.99	Jyrk	"As a wee lad.. I would make these treks up to Portland from my smaller home-town down south... I'd hit these spots like The X-RAY and THEE O HELL CAFE.. and SUBURBIA.. and catch all these weirdos doing their thing.. I saw Jacike O Motherfucker, Smegma, Daniel Menche.. All the OG motherfuckers here in puddletown..... AND I SAW NOGGIN.. who were probably the LEAST forgiving, MOST PUNISHING slab of skree my virgin ears had heard... SERIOUSLY ROUGH guitar/violin scrapes and feedback.. I still don't have any idea HOW they made all of the sounds they pulled out of those little twigs.... Fast Forward ten plus years, and I'm a bit older and making a small racket of my own.. we're on tour with Gang Wiz and playing up in bellingham, WA with Noggin.. ALL ARE STOKED. The Noggin bros rock up with no amps and TWO violin cases.. so.. now noggin's AS ABRASIVE as ever, but totally acoustic.. Now.. a few years further down the road.. and JYRK is releasing their RETURN to electric playing, which is a great amalgam of their INTENSE electric skree and their acoustic athletics. all smashed up into this lil CDR... edition of 150
12/24/2005	Noggin	Shae+2	CDR	$12.99	U-Sound Records	6 tracks - 46 minutes from the duo of Michael Griffin (violin) and Eric Ostrowski (guitar, violin).
5/1/2009	Noise Nomads	Noise Nomads	CDR	$7.99	Apostasy Recordings	"From thunderous percussion to shrieking electronics, Noise Nomads bulldozes a wide path through the modern noise society. Recorded in an intimate setting, yet inside a cavernous warehouse, this album overtly reveals and delights in the restless dichotomies that permeate Noise Nomads' existence. Explosive on all sides, this could be music of the Olympian Gods: might and power (and brains and trickery) ooze from every pore. One is left haggard, but enlightened, after surviving the titanic waves of pure sound experience. Fans of Robert Ashley's Wolfman have found a home. Packaged in a long, heavy stock envelope. Screenprinted cover art by Noise Nomads. Insert art by PAK."
4/10/2010	Noise Nomads	Noise Nomads	LP	$29.99	Ultra Eczema	"The first time I've met Jeff Hartford aka Moose Jaw aka Noise Nomads was around 4 years ago in providence, a tense looking bear putting a mic in front of a amp, leaving the audience alone with a whale of feedback, pretty pretty pretty confused!! He walks out after kranking open the amp, a minute later a giant REAL Christmas tree walks thru the audience trying to find the way back to the amp, kicking people over, I guess this show was right after Christmas time and Jeff fount it somewhere or he stared at a young kid that was about to decorate it.. I was very impressed by his show, both sound and performance wise, there was a seriously intense vibe there, felt like he could snap at any given moment and squeeze you to death with a Christmas tree.. Noise Nomads' live sets are always strange, confusing and amazing, an amp iiiiiiiiiiiiiii-ing while the man goes running around the block, a mountain of amps that start talking after he picked a fight with them, a sludgier drummer does not exist. It was definitely not the last time the man amazed me, his duo set with PAUL FLAHERTY (which is released on American tapes), the loner car rides I shared with him to his area in the valleys of Northampton, his amazing monthly zines and tapes, his drumming with Grey Skull, his drawings etc.. It's a total psycho package; everything is there; visuals, sounds and a great dude! The first side of this record was recorded a bunch of years ago and is just voice and Tascam! A amazing swollen beast of sound poetry, gargling waanzin, and muffled barking! The b side is the same dude a few years later on his knees in my living room screaming thru a bass drum and a contact mic attached to a bunch of pedals, harsher than a prison full of parrots to be released! There should be more paintings like Kim Gordon's Noise Nomads!!! Limited to 300 copies."
3/21/2009	Noise Nomads	Tone Deaf	double cassette + zine	$11.99	Arbor	"Total Western Mass scum. Jeff Hartford (Grey Skull, Bonescraper) destroys all sonic barriers; forty minutes of harsh, sweating electronics and acoustic rampage straight from the gutter. Hartford always leaves the audience guessing, whether it is his cut up garbage sources, contact mic'd gurgles or hairwhips, the end result is guaranteed to be something physical. The truth lies somewhere within the mess of cables and the stack of amps; they must be destroyed to uncover it. In an edition of 100 double tape sets with printed labels and a zine housed in a 7" reel to reel box with full color paste on by NN."
6/11/2006	Noisepussy	Catterina	CDR	$10.99	Imvated	"CJA / Rahmane / Matt Middleton supergroup. N-Z distorted scuzz. dark ridms and blues. the armpit, the crude and the horror magnet. roommates improv. probably the best stupid bandname ever.... members of Crude, The Aesthetics, Armpit, Futurians, Horror Magnet, etc..."
11/25/2007	Nolan / Ramirez	untitled	CDR	$10.99	Killertree	"Crusty and dusted. Pete Nolan and Bryan Ramirez bust movements for the cement licker prone to waking on cold concrete in iced darkness - the blurred vision barely notices a red orb/eye slowly blinking. Analog groans, grunts and shambles. Lights off, below zero weather when the air shatters. Fuckin’ bag pipes on the first tune w/ Nolan’s drum attack sets a weird tone. The rest is just weird and gone. Limited."
6/19/2007	Nomen Dubium	The Bering Sea	cassette	$5.99	DNT	"Nomen Dubium (aka Zachary Fleming) and I have been sharing music for quite some time now. And although I've always enjoyed his music, it's never quite fit in to the DNT-framework, but I've always been waiting for something that did. So when he sent me this song, I was excited and eagerly awaiting more. Well, now this tape is complete and ready for the world! He did the artwork too! (what you see right now might be the temporary image though. problems with the camera). Black cassettes with labels also designed by him. Limited to 100 "
6/19/2007	Nonhorse	Mandible Front	CDR	$11.99		"its a few collected nyc shows i played inside a maze. spooky tape manipulation compositions. color artwork."
3/6/2010	Nonhorse	Shadow World	CDR	$7.99	Upstairs	"Nonhorse is G. Lucas Crane (also of Woods & Vanishing Voice) -- the anointed doors-ajar tape champ of 2009 whose mysterious pastiche decorates interior minds with an acutely virtuosic slather -- similar in vibe to hearing a 3rd gen dub of a Technics battle mix from across a Gregorian yoga studio courtyard in Second Life. Shadow World is an epic 45 minute slab of exorcism enacted upon dead field transmissions from a nuked America. Listen as Crane bushwacks through twisted metal, phantom greys and clusters of question marks that hang in the sky like polluted simulacra. As opposed to traditional characterizations of Satan as an individual being -- Crane envisions a Lucifercrum that is disguised holistically throughout the social fabric. Some lines you don't cross on purpose, it's just the environment generating variety where we'd rather there be predictability. It is in that demarcated zone where the sensuality of Shadow World makes itself most apparent. Using the barest array of items in his inventory, Crane swiftly reconciles scratch/warble riddims with pure American floorcore haunt in such a way that narration and ambiguity are forced on the listener at once, impulsively and with passion. Feel the zone between your ears -- search for a column to lean against if only for a moment before she whispers you the punchline, "power... power... power." It's not a safe place for searchers, but those that do will be compelled to search every room for answers."
6/4/2010	Nonhorse	Slow Child	7"	$5.99	Young Tapes	2008 release. A. Red Seve Macaw "The Jaguar Has Been Eating" B. Razor House "Noble Sweatbath, In The Fifth Generation Of Lords
8/22/2008	Nonhorse	The Rare Tape Zero	cassette	$9.99	Taped Sounds	"g lucas crane. the breakdancer. g lucas crane. the tapemanipulator. g lucas crane. the new york city guide. g lucas crane brings us a 60 minutes roundtrip of weird fidelities and strange sounds. i enclose what the mind of lucas communicated me through resonating electric wires. i wrote down this given information using the technique of automatic writing: "its tape one in the goblin universe series. the rare zero tape is the only tape to survive the arson of rozwell labs 2029. it was one of 6, the rare one through rare 6 were all holding sound patterns corresponding to analysis levels, the audio detritus left over from mental examinations. the exposure to these tapes responds to latent interdimentional experiances, womb style, aeomeba style. the silver disk is the symbol of the gobiln universe and altered opened mind in general. its yer "classic" unidentified flying object. a smooth, silver disk that turns pink red orange hues when its about to punch through off into the multiverse. apparently, it also turns blueish purpleish when landing. awesome mode! anyway. the rare zero tape survived and was taken to the quarentine site in los alamos NV, approching the rare zero tape causes an audiable "swarm of bees" sound to increase in anger and intensity the closer one gets. touching the rare zero tape with skin causes negative aura proxisms and results in instant death. listening to the rare zero tape does not kill, just touching the original. a military robot was charged with dubing the master and sending it to you. it is the sound of perliminary examination. the further 6 levels have been lost. good god."
5/14/2007	Nonloc	Between Hemispheres	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Nonloc is the solo guise of Mark Dwinell, the guitar-slinging ringleader of East Coast spontaneous trance rockers Bright. When composing on the spot with Bright, Dwinell directs the minimalist, Krautrock-inspired jams into melodic and sonically layered songs, draping over it impromptu vocals in a manner loosely akin to any number mid-'70s Kraut legends, or the philosophies of Damo Suzuki and his instant compositions. Nonloc takes direction from the Bright model, but springboards away with a more refined perspective. Between Hemispheres, the second solo album for Dwinell as Nonloc, is a heady excursion into repetition and the unyielding strength of unrepentant melody. Fascinated by minimalist composers such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley, Nonloc seeks to focus on the microtonal universes and hypnotic netherworlds: minimalism awakens from repetition, while constructing ivory towers of melody enveloped top to bottom with softly barbed hooks. Acoustic and electric guitars provide focus instrumentation, but the elaborate color accumulation of Between Hemispheres is dominated by alternate layering of acoustic instruments such as piano, accordion, mandolin, and cello. Whereas Bright will use vocals sparingly as instrumental color, Nonloc spices up the instrumental forays by peppering tunes with lyrics that are direct and at times strikingly personal. Impeccably recorded, Between Hemispheres is a long-playing lullaby for intimate, contemplative twilight stares into candlelight."
4/10/2009	Noone / Hellén	C.J.A.N.I.	CDR	$7.99	267 Lattajjaa	"mellow strumming behind the wall of hiss", a great collaboration with NZ legend Clayton Noone (Futurians!, CJA, Armpit etc.) and Jani Hellén (Sonic Temple Assassins).
2/23/2004	Nordic Miracle, The	We Shall Provide	CD	$10.99	Humbug	The Nordic Miracle is Lasse Marhaug and Tore H. Bøe. "With the new anti-dogma dogma in place, Norwegian noise is ready to recall exiled shudders, stutters, storm cutters and vacuum increments from ya-ya outposts. The Nordic Miracle opens the acid clot spigot on We Shall Provide CD (Humbug) with 'Bright Bright Lights'. Millions of cement drillbits grind and burn holes into everything, psychotic blood falcons rage, whammy bar tensile fluctuations dent the hiss storms, and eroded caillaries behind your eyes burst. Zippers running the length of your backbone zoom up and down during 'Bach: Die Johannes-Passion BWV 245,' as flaming knots of Sam Kinison's ear hair pour out in a frothing stew of spinal fluid and smoking bacon grease. Predatory pollen balls infiltrate neural drainage conduits and detonate stainless steel pies. 'While My Guitar gently Weeps' is a high-altitude hallucination of fermented calliope wheeze, sticky with decayed seaweed, and crapping internet-green halos that transubstantiate into burmese neck extenders. Gick. Gick!" - Seymour Glass, Bananafish 17
7/16/2009	North Gambier Amateur Bowers Society	Come All Ye	3" CDR	$7.99	Black Petal	"It is this really great ecstatic string drone kinda thing. The main guy, Cameron Woods, has also had some releases out before on Rhizome."
11/15/2008	North Sea, The	Almost Perfect Illusion	cassette	$9.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Brad Rose of Digitalis has been busting the North Sea jams for quite sometime, and in the last year or so its developed from being a luscious garden, to a complete metallic desert of industrial waste land, Christian Bale and his co-stars would probably feel at home with this being the soundtrack to the next Terminator flick, and who knows, maybe it will be? The A side, Cyclones, is a pure doom soaked 11 minute beast. Side B's Milk Money is a fuzz layered nightmare of scolding blowtorches burning at your face and mind... Intense and bleak. Bleak forestry cover art, pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 100 copies."
1/24/2009	North Sea, The	Elixir	cassette	$5.99	Abandon Ship Records	"Brand new solo offering from Brad Rose finds him at his absolute heaviest, drawing inspiration from recent studies of African history: "The House of Kinlaza was formed from the dynasty started by King Alvaro VI. The Kinlaza came to power by overthrowing the House of Kimpanzu, which had occupied the throne from Garcia I's overthrow until Alvaro's ascension. The Kinlaza continued to rule Kongo until its civil war, when Kimpanzu and Kinlaza kings occupied or claimed the throne." Edition of 100 copies.
2/7/2009	North Sea, The	Hundred Flowers	cassette	$5.99	Peasant Magik	"Brad Rose as been channeling some seriously heavy vibes lately. Picking up where Ajilvsga left off, Rose spews forth even more thick unholy shimmer. Hints of past pursuits loom just beneath the surface, lush forest drones are completely overpowered by caustic metallic doom." Edition of 100
4/20/2008	North Sea, The	In The Time Of The Sugar Pines	CD	$12.99	Music Fellowship	"In the burgeoning underground psych, folk, and noise movement, The North Seaís Brad Rose serves as both one of its biggest champions and contributors. His Digitalis Industries imprint, 160+ release strong Foxglove CDR series, and Foxy Digitalis online magazine have not just pushed forward but unearthed many unknown, remote artists in the genre and helped create and extend the community. Brad has been making his own music since the mid 90s and has been a member of such bands as the Juniper Meadows, the Golden Oaks, and the Cone Bearers. The North Sea is his solo experimental / ambient / improvisational folk music project and, like much of the folk music in the movement, looks to bring together the style of folk music with the feeling, sound, and aura of nature. In this project, Rose mixes nature field recordings - birds, air and leaves - with a wide variety of stringed instruments. In the Times of the Sugar Pines stands as Brad's last predominantly folk recording under The North Sea name as he continues to search and expand his sound into more abstract realms. This exploration can be heard on the album as the sound carries a more ethnic European feel on several tracks, bringing out darker tones and more impassioned playing, creating a wonderful bridge between his old sound and new."
4/22/2009	North Sea, The	Peyote Forest	cassette	$7.99	Peyote Tapes	"Resonator, bass and drone vocal float from Brad Rose. Walking through an Indian graveyard at night. Floating in space Delaware grave marker art." Edition of 100 copies on C30 Pro-dubbed and imprinted Cobalt High Bias 747 Tapes.
11/4/2006	Notaro, Marconi	No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios	CD	$18.99	Time-Lag	"first ever reissue of this totally brilliant post-satwa 1973 brazilian private press featuring the core trio lula côrtes, marconi notaro & zé ramalho. recorded just months after lula & lailson had released satwa, lula was back in the same recife studio with poet and friend marconi notaro to lay down another equally magical album. zé ramalho, who would go on to record the paéberu 2lp with lula two years later, makes his recording debut here as well... somehow amidst the harsh government restrictions of 70s brazil, lula côrtes and his group of artist friends had managed to bypass the authorities and create a hugely creative micro-world of their own, recording, producing, and releasing this album with complete independence. no small feat in and of itself, no doubt, but the music is what makes this slab a true lost masterpiece... the whole album gushes forth with a sun baked spirit of the highest level, mixing tropicalia tinged folk-beat groovers, satwa style bliss trance ragas, paébiru favored lysergic jungle psych, and even a raging fuzz/wah soaked garage psych rocker. extremely mind melting from start to finish, with huge washes of rippling tape delay, electric & acoustic guitars, 12 string, tranced folk percussion, passionate yet mellow vocals, liquid electric bass, acid effects everywhere, and of course lula’s mercurial & heart melting tricórdio (an instrument he made himself, something like a sitar/dulcimer hybrid). beautiful, melancholy and joyous all at the same moment, this is an album that after 33 years still sounds completely fresh & unique... sadly marconi passed away in 2000 having lived a life of obscurity even in his own town, yet leaving behind 7 published books of poetry and this stunning, lone album. this reissue has been authorized by maconi’s daughter and lula córtes to insure they receive the credit and funds they deserve, even if it comes 3 decades late... fully reproduced original art, featuring beautiful drawings by lula & layout by katia. heavy weight, old style, laminated gatefold covers. pressed on 180gm virgin vinyl. original label art. plus a huge full color 4 page insert featuring fully translated original notes, rare photos and book covers, marconi’s last poem written the day before his death, and extensive new notes & biography by lula córtes. digital version... same deluxe lp style packaging as the vinyl version, only smaller, with the same insert."
2/20/2010	Nothing People	Soft Crash	LP + Download	$14.99	S-S Records	"Lots of bands, lots of records and usually by record two most bands crap out. Not the Nothing People. Since their first EP was released on S.S some four years ago, every subsequent Nothing People/S.S. release has gotten better and better. Soft Crash is no exception. And like the jump between their first album (Anonymous) and their second (Late Night), Soft Crash both expands and secures the Nothing People's sound. A proto-punk pulse mixes with a dark synth throb for something that sounds both of yesterday and tomorrow or in the words of Z Gun's Ryan Wells, 'These guys are science fiction!' Sci fi? As in Chrome, Von Lmo, and Simply Saucer? 'Natch.' And the man is right. However, unlike the ton of bands who get rifled in with classic underground names and cannot deliver, the Nothing People do their comrades justice. Last year's Late Night LP made a ton of year end 'Best Of' lists. The year before Anonymous hit a bunch of 'Best Ofs.' While it is only February, might as well add Soft Crash to your "Best of 2010" list. Soft Crash is a great record." -S.S. Includes download code.
12/12/2009	Nothing, Charlie	The Psychedelic Saxophone Of Charlie Nothing	LP	$18.99	Takoma	"Grey-area exact LP repro edition, originally released on Fahey's Takoma label in 1967. Charlie Nothing was the fractured-psyche pseudonym of author, organic farmer, beekeeper and philosopher/clown Charles Martin Simon, inventor of the dingulator (guitar sculptures made out the metal from American cars). The Psychedelic Saxophone Of Charlie Nothing made a minor splash in the European free jazz melting pot upon its initial release, but the album's non-dingulating psych sax improvisation, accompanied by gong, conga drum and banjo (supposedly borrowed from Tiny Tim), is highly sought-after by the adventurous and heavily medicated. Limited to 500 copies."
8/17/2009	Noveller	Red Rainbows	CD	$10.99	No Fun	"Debut CD from Brooklyn musician and film maker Sarah Lipstate. Red Rainbows is full of growing tonal drones that evoke visions of menacing multicolored skies alongside tracks full of beautiful minimalistic structures that shoot straight for the heart. Sarah uses double-neck guitar and various electronics to create breathtaking atmospheres with an intensity that works on both a cognitive and emotional level. These tracks are either really beautiful or really dirty when the time is right, which is the key here. Sarah knows what she is doing and when to do it. This is an essential initial document from one of the new artists bending abstract sound into meaningful structures. Includes a collaboration with Carlos Giffoni. This is an enhanced CD and includes the short film 'Interior Variations'. Artwork by Caroline Contillo."
12/12/2009	Noveller / Aidan Baker	Colourful Disturbances	LP	$16.99	Divorce	"Guitars warped so hard they dissolve into pure consciousness! Seriously, this record had to happen because these two are the NOW of transcendental guitar weirdness. In families like ours where deformed music of one kind or another pours out of the speakers all day long, Toronto's Aidan Baker is a household name. He is no doubt one of the most imaginative experimental musicians of the new generation, quickly creating a universe of limitless sound with his bursting discography. He offers this record an extensive piece which mixes drone, texture, and an ever-bowing foundation -- imagine the sound of falling backwards... forever. The new blood on this split is guitarist Sarah Lipstate from Brooklyn, New York (aka Noveller). Sarah's prepared twin guitar works up a slow hypnotic force, gently pulling way out to the furthest deep end of pulses and patterns. Beautiful repetitions effortlessly skirt over a dark undercurrent. A+++ listen. Edition of 600 copies."
6/9/2010	Nowottny, Marianne	Divine Cantos	c32 cassette	$7.99	Sloow Tapes	"Hypnotic and bizarre interpretations of Dante's Divina Commedia. Unsettling keyboards, harmonium and dulcimer with Nowottny's narration guiding you through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Somewhere between Kali Bahlu's "Lonely Teardrops" and Alice Coltrane "Sings". 70 copies."
1/9/2003	Nowottny, Marianne	Illusions of the Sun	CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"Marianne Nowottny has been performing at New York City gallery and avant-garde performance venues since the age of 15. An autodidact and child prodigy, Nowottny captured the attention of playwright Lauri Bortz in 1998 with a hand full of homemade cassette tapes and high-school notebooks filled with prose. This material surfaced in 1999 as the CD ‘Afraid of Me’ on the Abaton Book Company imprint. This debut CD was warmly received in publications such as The New York Times, New York Press, Wire Magazine and Magnet. Since then Marianne has released other recordings, including the 2001 double CD ‘Manmade Girl’. A constantly evolving songwriter and performer, her compositions exist in a state of flux, which allows her to articulate musical ideas and phrasing in an improvisational manner. Her individualistic keyboard work on radio shack keyboards, harmonium, and piano is unique with its moments of surprising harmonic complexity. Her haunting and unsettling vocals maneuver into bizarre uncharted areas producing deep, evocative textures, and revealing complex internal narratives. Marianne Nowottny is now 20 years old and a sophomore at William Paterson University in the United States where she is studying art and politics. She continues to explore and develop her visionary mode of songwriting and performance independent of anything else going on in music right now. ‘Illusions of the Sun’ is Camera Obscura's first multimedia CD, containing seven audio tracks and a twelve minute three song video. The audio portion of the CD contains five new, more developed recordings of some of Marianne's favorite songs from the ‘Afraid of Me’ and ‘Manmade Girl’ releases, as well as two new and previously unrecorded songs. The video portion of the release contains an August 2000 performance of the songs ‘Panopticon’, ‘Sapphire’ and ‘Barely Nearly’ recorded at Signal 66, a performance space in Washington D.C. The release also contains an eight page lyric booklet and a self-portrait by the artist, which is featured on its cover." "Marianne Nowottny redefines the medium, with melodies that swoop and dip like butterflies to underscore her enigmatic reflections." - Bernard Stollman of ESP-DISK, New York City, 2002
4/22/2009	Nowottny, Marianne	Strange Weather From The Basement	CDR	$10.99	Barl Fire	"New York folk princess Marianne Nowottny puts on a different face on this CD-R from the great new Barl Fire imprint. This short album shows Nowottny taking a seat behind the ivory keys, putting forth eight instrumental pieces that evoke an endless string of imagery. I've long been a fan of Nowottny's fractured folk meanderings, but "Strange Weather" is such a departure that it's hard to believe it's made by the same person. And I mean this as a huge compliment. Her range as an artist is quite impressive. These evocative pieces dangle like feathers in the air, gently floating toward the ground. As you finally begin to wrap your head around these tracks, Nowottny throws a wrench into the proceedings by filtering the hopeful piano notes through a backwards loop at the end of "Untitled #4." It's dizzying and wonderful. To further knock you on your ass, "Untitled #5" sounds like the lost soundtrack to a silent movie. Her playing on the optigon here is hypnotic. The entire feel of this track just keeps me coming back for more. We're back to the booming keys on "Divinity," a track with a distinctly Victorian feeling. I am reminded of listening to my grandma play piano for my sister and I when we we're wee ones. It thrives in its simplicity, giving us a real insight into Nowottny's creative spirit. "Strange Weather From the Basement" is an intriguing document not only for those who are already fans of Nowottny, but for those looking for something different. Housed in lovely full-color sleeves, this is definitely something to seek out. 8/10" - Brad Rose (28 June, 2006). Edition of 100 copies - released in 2005. Found a stack of these here - I guess I never listed them way back when...
	Noxagt	Noxagt	7" EP	$5.99		22 track EP from Kjetil D Brandsdal's new project. Electronic rock!
12/10/2004	Nuevos Horizontes & Jose y Manuel	Todas Sus Grabaciones 1970-1976	DBL CD	$27.99	RamaLama	"Unknown Spanish psychedelic pop group, which can surely remind you on groups like Sagittarius or Millenium. The girls of Vainica Doble wrote some songs for them, like the amazing 'Mi mosca favorita' and 'El afinador de cítaras', all of them performed stunningly with great vocal harmonies. Jose y Manuel were a folk-pop duo, who also released some records together with Nuevos Horizontes. Very recommended, with remastered sound and a 16-page booklet with info (in Spanish) and photos." - Lion Productions
9/4/2004	Number None	Apartment Thunder	CD	$8.99	Rebis	“Number None's second annual retort. Synthetic sounds, organic sounds. Improvisations and collages. Beauty and terror. Recorded between April 2002 and April 2003.”
9/17/2006	Number None	Lichfields	cassette	$8.99	Gold Soundz	Great, causal yet commanding drones from this Chicago duo. Extremely well done twilight ghost drones. There's something really unnerving about these subterranean transmissions... Like landing on a newly discovered planet, and realising it's all quicksand.... Edition of 50.
12/24/2005	Number None	Nervous Climates	3" CDR	$6.99	New American Folk Hero	"The lush drone-age of this Chicago seems at odds with the 3" format, on Nervous Climates, they work within an eighteen-minute time limit that seems appropriate for one of their tracks, not four. These short-form improvisations, however, don't feel too conspicuously brief. Number None work with thick ribbons of feedback and dark drones, constructing resonant hymns that arouse equally relaxing calm and portentous unease. This is shadowy music, make no mistake, though it doesn't resonant with a decidedly sinister feel. Though they've not crossed to the dark side, Number None understand the advantages it can bring, and aim instead to harness its transcendental qualities. Number None recently released their third long-player, Urmerica, and I have a sneaking suspicion that the extra room allotted to the duo by the longer format might allow for a more enthralling experience. Still, "Nephophobia" and "Polar Kraken" provide pleasing listens, and even if this descent into Number None's world is a short one, Nervous Climates proves to be a worthwhile trip." - fakejazz.com
9/4/2004	Number None	Ways of Sleepers, Ways of Wakers	CD	$8.99	Rebis	"Number None's home recordings from May 2003 until April 2004 are an involving blend of electronic drone and sampled discordance that slowly snake their way into your consciousness until, akin to MTV marketed pop at its most addictive, they;re almost impossible to shake loose from the memory. The anonymous brain behind Number Nonemoves from Tery Riley-like electronic keyboardto William Basinski styled disintregating tape loops and Keith Rowe generated radio dial tweakings, all of which make for a varied and sometimes fascinating collection of Rorschach sound patterns." - Edwin Pouncey, The Wire #249, November 2004
2/12/2008	Numinous Eye	Live / Studio	LP	$10.99	Little Mafia	"Numinous Eye is an improvised psychadelic-cosmic-noise-rock project based around Mason Jones (Trance), and generally featuring the participation of various collaborators. Side A is from a live set in Tokyo at the end of 2005, with Koji Shimura (Acid Mothers Temple, High Rise, Mainliner, White Heaven) on drums and Higo Hiroshi (Friction, Shibusashirazu Orchestra) on bass. Side B was recorded live in the studio with Chris Van Huffle (ex-SubArachnoid Space, Gay Barbarians, etc) on drums. Limited to 490 copies on orange vinyl with insert and sticker."
11/21/2009	Numinous Eye	The Tunnel At The End Of The Light	c60 cassette	$8.99	Sloow Tapes	"Totally zonked guitar/drums duo out of San Francisco by way of Mason Jones (SubArachnoid Space) and Mike Shoun. Turned-on interstellar spacejams in overdrive reaching beyond Sandoz. 70 copies."
4/16/2007	Numinous Eye	With a Little Help	CD	$13.99	Archive	"A splendid disc of freeform droney psych jams from guitarist Mason Jones (Subarachnoid Space, Charnel Records) performing duets with three different drummers (Yoshida of Ruins, Shirahata Uptight, and Komatsu) while on tour in Japan in 2005. Pressing of 500."
6/27/2009	Nurse With Wound	Alice the Goon	CD	$13.99	United Jnana	"Alice the Goon was previously a vinyl-only issue of 500 pieces, available to a lucky few at the Nevers Festival in France. It was hard to come by and selling for high prices on auction websites. Fortunately, for the Nurse With Wound fans not so lucky to be in France, Steven Stapleton has agreed to allow everyone a chance to hear this music again. The CD features the two songs from the original release plus an additional, untitled piece which many call simply 'Alice the Goon.' The first track sounds like it would fit right in on the Sylvie and Babs release; imagine an old phonograph player belting out a brass-laden instrumental. The second track is a little less involved. The third track, however, sounds right out of A Missing Sense. There is little movement and many drones in this song that could certainly lull you to sleep."- Paul Kustos. Packaged in beautiful four-panel digipack with artwork by Steven Stapleton.
7/10/2008	Nurse With Wound	Bacteria Magnet	LP	$20.99	Dirtier Productions	"The Bacteria Magnet was written, recorded and remixed at the Bear Den, Brighton, UK. "Cruisin' For A Bruisin" and "Thrill Of Romance...?" appear in an alternative guise on the CD Huffin Rag Blues. "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" and "The Bottom Feeder" are exclusive to this record. This record is housed in a gloss-laminated sleeve, with a printed inner card and full-color labels. Players include: Steven Stapleton, Andrew Liles, Freida Abtan, Suzi Firenza, Taudewei, L. Hodge, and Jay Jay."
1/17/2010	Nurse With Wound	Chance Meeting (Reissue / Special Edition)	CD	$13.99	United Jnana	"United Jnana is pleased to reissue the debut album from NURSE WITH WOUND, Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, originally released on United Dairies in 1979. This special edition CD features a digipack with the original artwork restored and an expanded booklet with archival material chosen by STEVEN STAPLETON. The disc has been remastered from the original analog tapes and features bonus material. Chance Meeting enjoys a reputation as one of the most singular debuts of all time. AllMusic describes it as "one of the more glowing examples of late-'70s industrial noise," and the now-defunct UK music magazine Sounds summed up their response by abandoning their usual star rating system to award the album a full five question marks."
1/17/2010	Nurse With Wound	Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella	double LP	$29.99	Dirter Productions	"Three sides of music, 1 side etched, this is the long-awaited re-issue of the timeless Nurse With Wound debut release from 1979. Described by Sounds at the time as a record that "makes The Faust Tapes sound like Carousel," nothing has changed to alter this view over the last 30 years, and to say that this work is the "Sgt. Pepper of the avant-garde" would not be hyperbole. 2LP set with the extra track "Strain, Crack, Break" (never previously available on vinyl) on side three and an etching on side four. Printed inner sleeves featuring the famous NWW list." Members include: John Fothergill (synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, wind), Heman (synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, wind), Nicky Rogers (guitar), and Steve Stapleton (synthesizer, flute, guitar, keyboards).
12/15/2003	Nurse With Wound	Drunk With the Old Man of the Mountains	LP	$49.99	United Dairies	"180g vinyl luxury facsimile edition housed in a heavyweight 350gsm sleeve, full colour, embossed and spot varnished, with 12" full colour insert printed on matte art paper. When it was first released, each copy of this incredibly rare and expensive album came with an original piece of Steven Stapleton artwork. Over the years a lot of these have faded, but Stapleton recently came across some that he had tucked away out of sight and mind from which he has selected four of the best. Two of these are reproduced on the insert, and one each on the front and back of the sleeve; these latter have been embossed and spot varnished to give an excellent finish." Really cool looking jacket! Limited edition of 550 copies.
9/30/2005	Nurse With Wound	Echo Poeme: Sequence No. 2	CD	$14.99	United Jnana	"Echo Poeme: Sequence No. 2 is quite a surprise, even for an artist like Steven Stapleton, who has spent the past 25 years confounding expectations. It is the second part of a series begun with a limited, Vienna show-only CD-R entitled The Little Dipper Minus Two: Echo Poeme Sequence No. 1. Those who are lucky enough to have heard the CD-R will know that it is a hypnotic combination of eerie, layered female vocals floating delicately around seething, sexual inhalations, barking dogs and psychedelic, vibratory shudders of mysterious origin. It's a thrilling and magical 20 minutes, climaxing with the eardrum-piercing squall of a WWII air raid siren and the dive-bombing blitzkrieg of warplanes. Sequence No. 2 uses some the same elements, but subtracts the overt sexuality, the canine outbursts and the Nazi attack, leaving only 50 minutes of overlapping, interwoven vocals from Amantine Dahan Steiner and Isabelle Gaborit, all of which are exclusively en francais. Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter utilize the various utterances, hums, whispers, recitations, laughs, breathy coos, and vibrational oms of the two women to create a suggestive ambient tangle of ghostly, gossamer thread. The vocals create soothing undulations, tantalizingly linguistic but staying just out of reach of full comprehension, improbably panning around the stereo channels with a logic that would only make sense in a dream. Indeed, the album is ideal for headphone listening, provided you don't mind two disembodied voices spookily reciting French words in your ears for almost an hour. The title of this album and its predecessor seem to be consciously retrograde allusions to classic musique concrete pieces (i.e. Edgar Varese's "Poeme Electronique"), even though it's much more likely that Potter and Stapleton have used digital means, rather than analog, to create these highly-constructed, multilayered compositions." - Jonathan Dean
7/23/2010	Nurse With Wound	Huffin' Rag Blues	double LP	$24.99	Dirter Promotions	"Nurse With Wound and Dirter Promotions presents 3 sides of different mixes to 2008's Huffin' Rag Blues CD, 1 side with a great Steven Stapleton etching in dirty, dark, opaque blue vinyl. Another spectacular torrent of Dadaist experimental exotica from Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles, with a suitably scattershot list of contributors and collaborators, including repeat offender Colin Potter (credited with "testicular randomization") and a host of "proper" musicians and vocalists prepared to undergo the NWW treatment. As with the companion release to this album, The Bacteria Magnet (DPROM 066PIC), Nurse With Wound are currently set on a creative trajectory that dismantles the auditory iconography of the '50s, marauding through eerie re-renderings of jazz club instrumentals, electroacoustic traffic sounds and skewed torch songs. As NWW albums go, this is probably among the more outwardly approachable releases, but in fact, it's the very proximity to the language of pop music that makes Huffin' Rag Blues all the more subversive."
9/4/2003	Nurse With Wound	Live At Bar Maldoror	CD	$24.99	United Dairies	"Repress of this 1994 CD release. Features live recordings from various Bar Maldoror locations 1984-86. NWW were on these occasions made up from: Steven Stapleton, Annie Anxiety, Chris Wallis, David Tibet, Diana Rogerson, John Balance, etc. ‘In our very short spell as a 'live band' Nurse With Wound performed 8 times, 5 in public, between the years 1984-86. These events were shambolic, chaotic and uneven affairs, sometimes as boring for the performers as the non-plussed audiences but at other times reaching an amazing intensity. This CD contains the high points of our Bal Maldoror happenings (sic)." - Steven Stapleton.
1/15/2005	Nurse With Wound	Shipwreck Radio Volume 1: Seven Sonic Structures from Utvaer	DBL CD	$24.99	ICR	"A double CD in a full-colour 6-panel digipak. Between June & July 2004, as guests of Kunst I Nordland, Nurse With Wound broadcast twenty four unexpected radio transmissions from the Arctic Lofoten Islands. Seven of these transmissions are included on this double CD, packaged in a six-panel digipak." - FE. "Bringing no instruments, they were left in the tiny fishing village of Svolvær with minimal equipment, and told to get out and make whatever they wanted, sonically, out of their experiences of exploring the islands. The only catch was that three times a week, their work in progress had to be aired on the local radio station, Lofotradioen. Lofoten never darkens in summer. The air was saturated with the background reek of drying cod, and the headless fish could be seen everywhere, dangling from huge wooden drying racks all over the island. Exploratory walks around the streets of towns like Svolvær, Kabelvåg and Henningsvær revealed strange homemade garden trolls, elves, organic effigies: knotty carved guardians of domesticity that reverberate with a deep and rich pagan history. Every single sound you hear is sourced from environments and objects in Lofoten: buildings, ships, harbourside tackle, local characters encountered during the period of abandonment on the island. The broadcasts began with relatively untreated material but as the weeks went by, and our poor sailors became more and more hallucinatory, sounds, voices and textures are increasingly distorted, maltreated, mashed into a singular and vivid vision of a community and a place far outside the scope of everyday eyes. Listen for the gulls and terns, squeaking in the background. Or the sounds of marching bands and crowds at the local music festival, 'Codstock'. The clanging hulls of fishing trawlers and the metallic paraphernalia of a dockside becomes a thundering rhythmic pulse. Voices drift in and out, from visiting arts officials to Lofoten's more invisible community, like the Namibian refugees Steven and Colin befriended in an apartment on the edge of town. Velkommen til Utvær. Welcome to Shipwreck Radio."
7/16/2006	Nurse With Wound	Shipwreck Radio Volume 2	DBL CD	$24.99	ICR	Eight enigmatic episodes from Utvær. A double CD in a 6 panel digipack.
9/29/2005	Nurse With Wound	Soliloquy For Lilith	3 x CD	$49.99	United Jnana	"A deluxe triple-CD reissue of NURSE WITH WOUND's ahead-of-its-time 1988 ambient opus with forty-plus minutes of previously unreleased material from the original sessions. A groundbreaking set of atmospheric sound patterns designed for ritual ceremonies. Packaged with gold foil blocked covers and parchment paper inserts."
1/30/2010	Nurse With Wound	Space Music	CD	$15.99	BLR	"Tears for spheres. Be warned: the sounds you are hearing are NOT marmots eating your tweeters, though you are best advised to apply volume lightly at first. STEVEN STAPLETON's astral weeks have been spent distilling sounds into sipping moonshine. LITERAL moonshine. After a viscerally present launch cycle, the Voyager Nurse Module is designed to be piloted by the out-of-body listener. With Lilith-like subtlety, the concrete powered craft makes its way ever closer to the edge of the galaxy. Which one? Who knows? Whichever it is, Vaclav Helhybel (Outer Space: Music) and Frank Perry (Deep Peace) are there, waiting to celebrate the space escapade with chilled cocktails and green friends. Packaged in deluxe custom designed book bound gatefold sleeves"
1/30/2010	Nurse With Wound	Space Music	LP	$22.99	BLR	"Tears for spheres. Be warned: the sounds you are hearing are NOT marmots eating your tweeters, though you are best advised to apply volume lightly at first. STEVEN STAPLETON's astral weeks have been spent distilling sounds into sipping moonshine. LITERAL moonshine. After a viscerally present launch cycle, the Voyager Nurse Module is designed to be piloted by the out-of-body listener. With Lilith-like subtlety, the concrete powered craft makes its way ever closer to the edge of the galaxy. Which one? Who knows? Whichever it is, Vaclav Helhybel (Outer Space: Music) and Frank Perry (Deep Peace) are there, waiting to celebrate the space escapade with chilled cocktails and green friends. Packaged in deluxe custom designed book bound gatefold sleeves and pressed on 220-gram vinyl."
6/27/2009	Nurse With Wound	Spiral Insana	CD	$13.99	United Jnana	"Spiral Insana is one continuous piece of music, indexed over three tracks (on the compact disc), with 20 track titles listed on the cover. Such is Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound. And it's just as well, because the music inside, more ambient and user-friendly than on other NWW outings, is still just as surreal and avant-garde as the rest of the catalog. Here, Stapleton and guests ROBERT HAIGH, DAVID JACKMAN, and CHRIS WALLIS mix bowed piano, percussion, a radio, loops, and what is credited on the sleeve as 'stuff' together into an hour-long collage of mashed-up sounds, jarring juxtapositions, buzzsaw distortion, and even a pipe organ. If that sounds disorienting, that's because it is, both in description and execution. Nurse With Wound has always had a unique sound and vibe on their records, and Spiral Insana carries on in that tradition. While not as ambient and single-minded in tone as the drone masterpiece Soliloquy for Lilith or as jarring as the industrial Dada of Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, Spiral Insana is as good a place as any to start with the Nurse with Wound catalog." - All Music Guide. Packaged in a four-panel digipack that replicates the original 1986 LP art.
	Nurse With Wound	The Musty Odour of Pierced Rectums	CD	$79.99	Beta-Lacktam Ring	"In the terpsichorean tradition of traumatizing and titillating treacalese collector geeks the world over, Beta-lactam presents a very limited CDR release by Nurse With Wound, to be available only in conjunction with the record release party for 'She And Me Fall Like Free Death'. This is a full fledged, full length, full bodied album of previously unreleased material, and just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder... It would seem that the musty odour exuded by pierced rectums is exhilarating; even scintillating. With rounds of disembodied voices, arias of crackle and rumble, jets of ascendant and descendant sound, bursts of silent, nurse wounding flak worthy of The Great Cage, well, if my thermometer reads correctly, "Rectums" is not unlike "Gyllensköld" in its sonic attacks and rectal decays. I find it especially enlightening with Ann-Margaret singing in the background on the television, but you will realise hours of listening pleasure even without the random Ann-Margaret caveat. Honestly though, Volks, if'n I heard this record and did not know who it was, I would buy it on the spot because it just happens to be AWESOME, dude. You'll see. Or not, I don't know...will you be quick enough on the draw? Are you the Clint Eastwood of collecting? Do ya like good stuff? All I'm saying is that thy ear drum is worth piercing with the "Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums," possibly whilst driving around in a Pierce-Arrow reading Pears Anthony with, of course, a butt plug firmly and resolutely installed." Edition of 300 copies - long out of print. 2003 release.
1/28/2005	Nurse With Wound / Cyclob	Angry Eelectric Finger 2	CD	$12.99	Beta-Lactam Ring	"On the other hand, NWW + Cyclobe = free form freakout! Cyclobe chose to mince the NWW provisions into a deeply psychedelic electro attack. An ocean of circuits swell and ebb and crash against your woofers in a noisy, electro-acoustic mist. More of an angry electric fingering. And don't you deserve it?"
1/28/2005	Nurse With Wound / Irr.App(Ext.)	Angry Eelectric Finger 3	CD	$12.99	Beta-Lactam Ring	"As the final finger in the fist, Irr.App(Ext.) de.emp.has.(ize) the musical aspect of the source material, instead punching it down to its more spacial, raw and cavernous aspects. The textural shifts are long and building. The fractured fallouts reduce everything to a quietly smoldering hollow...like your devastated heart."
1/28/2005	Nurse With Wound / Jim O'Rourke	Angry Eelectric Finger 1	CD	$12.99	Beta-Lactam Ring	"Thou had best be ready when the angry electric finger points to YOU and the ear fisting begins. Thus Spake Nurse (and Xhol): The recipe began with our fearless leader, Steve Stapleton, cooking up some recordings and mixing in a few tablespoons of Xhol Caravan. He then sent this delicious sound casserole, one each, to Jim O'Rourke, Cyclobe and Irr.App.(Ext.) and asked that they bake said casseroles in their own sonic ovens. The 3 separate sound casseroles were then returned to the NWW kitchen where Chef Steve added just a dash of this and a pinch of that. BlRR now serves up these 3 piping hot dishes to you, the hungriest of hungry, hungry hippos. The NWW/Jim O'Rourke duumvirate finger points to a brilliant and long overdue marriage. Their consummation has produced an ambient masterpiece; something of a hermaphroditic hybrid between Soliloquy For Lilith/Spiral Insana and Jim's previous Disengage/Tamper. Haunting, weird, dark and beautiful...just like you!"
1/24/2009	Nuslux	Folköl	CDR	$8.99	Oh No, More Tapes!	"Nuslux is Roope of Avarus fame, beer-afficionado from Finland and master-welder of electronic sound. Nuslux Folköl was recorded live in Malmö, Sweden in April 07. This recording has some serious post-apocalyptic vibes. after the final nuclear war, when human kind is mere bones, the machines become organic and start communicating. It sounds exactly like this, total inhuman electronic communication, raw and corroded. nuclear war... it's a motherfucker. Edition 70"
7/14/2007	Nuslux	Nuslux	CDR	$8.99	Lal Lal Lal	"The debut by Roope from Avarus, Pylon and Maniacs Dream. Nuslux plays good-humoured and chilled out electronic minimalism by mostly self-built analogue instruments. On this CD-R you can also hear some violin and the last sounds of a now passed out old Yamaha sampler. The result is a celebration of sound waves, dry pulses, and harsh harmonies. The Main Mission is to try to get (back) near the listeners ear. This CD-R contains the very best 14 short songs of the enthusiastic and productive first sessions in the spring 2007. Edition of 200."
10/31/2009	Nuslux	Saison	cassette	$9.99	Tanzprocesz	"Cracked keyboards from Finland. Acid Disney trip melodies. Abstract funfair looped jingles. Pro-duplicated tapes 50 copies."
11/25/2007	Nuslux	Triple	CDR	$8.99		"The latest recordings by Roope from Avarus, Maniacs Dream and Pylon. This one includes 100% minimalistic short circuit grooves! The pots of two D.I.Y. oscillators are placed in three glasses of water to create parallel and random pulses and beats. The result is brutal, cheesy, funny and minimalistic dance party. Propably the best Nuslux item so far!" Single cdr.
4/16/2007	Nuss, Dave	Wood on Wood	DVD	$17.99	Dornbracht Culture Projects, Berlin/ S@1	"Premiere solo performance of Nuss of the NNCK from Fall 2006, this gallery edition DVD includes a 40-page color photo journal of the event and essay by the Bernadette Corporation. 'A drummer at the centre of the sportshall in the former Postfuhramt building, Berlin Mitte, closely encrcled by tracks to transport the slowly and relentlessly moving camera, capturing his every movement, his every emotion. The audience postiions itself a safe distance from the increasingly loud, ecstatic acoustic attacks. The ground is vibrating. The pressure waves tranform the room into a single force field. Dave Nuss continues until the final beat of his inner being had been sounded.' The DVD presents two versions of the entire performance, one from above, and one from a camera rotating constantly around him in a 360 degree circle, as well as a 10-minute "short version" edit of the two." You'll need an all region dvd player to see this.
5/14/2007	NVH / Chasny	Plays the Book of Revelations	LP	$22.99	Yik Yak	"Vinyl debut of the long anticipated LP by Noel Von Harmonson (Comets on Fire, NVH) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets On Fire). Guitar and electronics are deposited in a sacrificial heap at the gates of hell, sickly intertwined and indistinguishable. Bathed in the blood of apocalyptic alchemy, this caterwauling creature rears two heads and screams one wrathful scream. Recorded to two-track tape in San Francisco over the winter of 2005 and mastered by Hans Gruesel at the Krankenkabinet; features deluxe, hand screened black-on-black multipanel packaging. Limited to 666 copies."
9/17/2006	Nyoukis, Dylan	Dadgum My Bubblegum	cassette	$6.99	Hanson	"Originally slated for release on HANSON way back in ...shit...like 99 or something?!?!?! The master has finally been found...and this magnetic string of modern voice sound is ready for the public. Nyoukis on Voice & Pause button. WARNING: EXTREME SOUND POETRY... Hard guys be warned... the shit is goofy as FUCK! UNRELEASED, later released as HN114 on cassette."
1/24/2009	Nyoukis, Dylan	Inside Wino Lodge	LP	$15.99	No Fun	"New solo LP of strange sounds, vocal improvisations,strings, tape manipulations and hiss drones from Dylan Nyoukis (Decaer Pinga,Blood Stereo) inside his wino lodge. Sounds like it was recorded in a 4 track in 1972 in an insane asylum, then puke over and thrown into the sea, then discovered recently and transfer directly to Vinyl via marine analog tape communication device.Good one to buy as well if you are wondering what a naked Scottish man and his daughter look and sound like. Limited to 300 copies."
2/21/2005	Nyoukis, Dylan	Norse Fungi Festivus	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	“Recorded in preperation for the No Fun Fest, ‘Norse Fungi Festivus’ is a manky live piece for voice and prepared tape,, heavily delayed & lubed tonsils sending out throat claw signals... crivens!!!”
9/17/2006	Nyoukis, Dylan	Owl Tapes	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"Two solo pieces for voice and reel to reels (well one also has oscillator), plus one interlude. Includes the first ever solo live joint. Like if Terry Riley had down syndrome when he hooked up his time-lag accumulator. "Like he was being eaten alive by goblins." - audience member