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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
7/30/2006	1/3 Octave Band	Navigation By Light	CDR	$12.99	Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon	"Another step toward the infinite nothingness. Having solidified once-and-for-all as a duo and on the eve of their Australian tour, 1/3 Octave Band present perhaps their finest recorded moments. As the title would have you believe, this is a dark ride through a vast landscape with only the merest shreds of light to guide you through to the other side. Point by painstaking point is mapped out across the ever-nothing of the southern sky. The danger is not so much the uncertainty of your destination, but in the knowledge that you have completely forgotten how you got in here in the first place. Lost, aimless, wandering, and going back is no longer an option."
10/9/2003	100% Storms Ensemble	A Symphonic Dance for the 1939 World’s Fair	12" mini LP	$10.99	Emperor Jones	"A rare vinyl-only offering from Emperor Jones courtesy of the 100% Storms Ensemble, the bedroom symphony project of one Eric Morrison (Home, Leels). Symphonic Dance for the 1939 World's Fair is a new post-facto musical piece meant to capture the dizzy elation of America fishtailing on a wet highway just before careening headlong into WWII. Various strings, french horn, clarinet, and flute combine with more basic rock elements to sweep you into its pomp and circumstance. The B-side features an eighteen-minute epic rock collage in the vein of Home. Numbered edition of 300 packaged in black glow-in-the-dark sleeves"
7/16/2006	O'Rourke, Jim	6 Oscillators 1987 / Guitar 1988	LP	$16.99	No Fun	"A lost piece in time from 1987 and a lost piece in time from 1988. 6 oscillators announces destruction and the future thats today, as giganntic synthetic sound bounces your brain to to total meltdown, only dust remains. 6 guitars rebuilds you and prepares you to face the reality of life. thet time for battle is now. unreleased until today, limited to 500 no fun style artwork. Jim rules." - No Fun.
11/15/2008	Oak / Pink Desert	split	cassette	$8.99	NNA Tapes	"You could easily take the the Oak track on this tape as a reimagining of 'Journey in Satchidananda', which, for me, is a very good thing. Same sorta lumbering bass line feel, but with the raga / cosmic element taken up a few more notches. Been looping this for days on endŠ"
	Octagon Church	Lost in the Kelp	CD	$6.99	Outer Orbit	"Well over half an hour of sound makes up the debut release from the nomadic Octagon Church. Lost in the Kelp was hatched and put to tape in 2000 by Octagon in the green pastures of Alden, New York. Recorded in a basement using guitar, and two string detuned mandolin, Lost in the Kelp is both subtle and demanding. Guitar and mandolin weave and seer among one another till you are merging into one with your sofa. This is head music for your pot. At times Lost in the Kelp seems to have you sitting in neverland then you're being transported to the planet Cragnail (or insert favorite planet here). Includes the infamous pot jam of summer 2000 from Holiday Hills. Edition of 50."
2/11/2006	Octopus Syng	Beyond the Karmadelic Coldness, There's the Lovadelic Warmth	LP	$24.99	Nasoni	"Vinyl edition of the first full length album by psychedelic wizard from Finland. It spends love, romanticism and good vibes via sitar driven rock, psych pop, garage psychedelia, hippie folk, reminiscent of Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd." Limited edition of 500 copies - these are black vinyl copies.
1/1/2008	Octopus Syng	Birds of Morning Are Never Late	LP	$29.99	Nasoni	"This is second gift from psychedelic outfit Octopus Syng. Psych pop and acid folk songs layered with lush haunting melodies and a discreet but unmistakably Syd Barrett flavour. Warm and sunny acoustic setting forms the basis of most of the songs, but also evident are some hypnotic kraut grooves, catchy jazzy rhythms and beautiful electric guitars." Edition of 500 copies - 100 on colored vinyl which are in stock.
11/4/2006	Odal	Odal	cassette	$7.99	Dutch Beer	"space cassette by a real human genius. DR BIBBER (a Dutch guy going strong from 1985, releasing ENEMA SYRINGE in 1987!!!) delivers 60 minutes of space and noise. welcome in his head."
10/25/2008	Odd Clouds	Odd Clouds	picture disc LP	$24.99	QBICO	Picture disk, with artwork by Chris Pottinger & Jamie Easter. Recorded between 2004-2007 in Detroit, Ferndale, and Hamtramck, Michigan. Performers: Chris Pottinger, Jamie Easter, Heath Moerland, Glen Morren, Chris Sprague, Matt Smith, Noah Eikhoff & Free Wade. "Their 1st LP that came out a couple of years ago, was among the best thing I heard and see in the last few years. So I didn't hesitate to get in touch with them... they kindly bring some odd clouds at the Qbico u-nite I did in Det in 2007, along with some special gifts... so I immediately liked them! The music is simply one of the most exciting ever released on qbico, as well as the artworks. Hear, see and feel to believe in some mighty clouds." Out of print.
8/28/2004	Odd Job	Macro Made Session	CDR	$8.99	Deserted Village	“A single half-hour piece which unfolds gradually taking the listener through a varied terrain yet still completely self-contained in it's own stark atmosphere. Odd Job hails from Lille in France. He answered the call for music for a Brane compilation on the web and sent us the 28 minutes of otherness that is the Macro-Made session. It was a bit long for a compilation, but we loved it so much we just had to put it out. It uses all manner of sound sources yet has it's own distinct atmosphere and is popular night time listening around these parts. Realised by Chou Sebastien / October 2002 recorded at the Sfumato Studio in Lille using sampler, sequencer, field recordings and additional instruments.”
3/3/2005	Odyssey	Setting Forth	CD	$15.99	Pacemaker / Lion Productions	"Once upon a time, when the music business was more music than business (but only just), there was a band that created a quintessential dose of New York sixties psychedelia—strong harmonic vocals, heavy swirling organ, and fuzz guitar riffs of the greatest ferocity. Finally, their lone album—one of the ten rarest and most sought after US psychedelic albums—is available again: painstakingly remastered, repackaged, and ready for true psych fans to devour. This is truly one of the cornerstones of underground psychedelic music, recorded in 1969, released in an edition of fewer than 100 copies, and impossible to find as it only came in a plain white cardboard sleeve. An album that jumps right out of the speakers at you, from it’s opening 'In-a-gadda-da-vida' riffs right to the very end. Twelve-page booklet has part one of a band history by Odyssey leader Vinny Kusy, as well as rare photos from his own archive. LP version in heavy cardboard gatefold jacket will be available in June."
7/30/2006	Of	The Awful Cloud	CDR	$8.99	Jyrk	"I think I've mentioned previously that we decided a bit ago to invite a few more established folks to drop some of their own particular breed of trouble under the JYRK moniker.. We got to drop that Spiderwebs deal awhile back and now... we've got OF.. A.K.A. Loren Chasse.. I don't know if anyone else spent last year being haunted by this dude, but both "the Air In The Sand" and Thuja's "Pine Cone Temples" spent serious time in my disc player and on my brain. I HAD to ask Loren to kick something down.. So.. We have The Awful Cloud.. possibly the darkest piece of music I've heard from Loren.. It's all instruments... organs, guitar, bells and field recordings collaged into one beautiful and dark cloud. edition of 150." - label
2/12/2008	Of	The Earth & Sun Together	CD	$11.99	Ultra Hard Gel	"Loren Chasse is back with another solo album under his Of moniker, one of the most consistently irresistible sonic outfits out there today. Where a lot of improvisational music only briefly goes beyond being sonically interesting, Of takes the richly organic qualities to the quieter extreme. The sounds here are so closely knit with nature and environment, that if you just close your eyes you're likely to see hints of waves rippling through the sea or the stillness of majestic trees. Chasse's glacially unfolding, yet detailed and somewhat grainy sonic landscapes, offer a sacred space for solitude, wonder and beauty which is difficult to pin down in mere words. Not really sure what's what here but there's lots of field recordings, rusty guitar ambience, autoharp, stones, bowls, branches, quietly tinkling bells and zither to make up the graceful acoustic drones, swirls and tones that hover around distant clusters of manipulated field recordings. The Sun & Earth Together is a somber and hypnotic listening, even when segments of tracks break out from this mold of quiet, organic growth, Chasse quickly returns to the life-giving drone connected with impressions and inspirations of nature. It's very early and I don't really like it when it happens, but I might already have heard the best recording of 2008. Utterly beautiful and essential in a way that my words never can capture." - The Broken Face. Clouds of drifting tones from Loren Chasse of Blithe Sons & Thuja, made with cymbalon, autoharp, guitar, zither, sheng, & stones.
8/28/2004	Óg, Sean	Very Little Is Weightless	CDR	$9.99	Deserted Village	“Some of you have heard Seán play sax and flute in United Bible Studies and Murmansk and his jazz band Orpheus. Originally schooled as a jazz performer and composer, multi-instrumentalist, Seán creates improvised tracks where treated autoharp, mechanical noise, woodwinds and structures are coaxed together in an ethereal, shimmering soundworld.” Features trumpophone, glockenspiel, tenor and soprano saxophones, autoharp, synthesisers, guitar, percussion, no-input-desk, piano, flute, unexpected songforms and the beautiful vocals of Martina Evers.
3/21/2007	Oh, Birds!	ŠOf Grief and Satellites	3" CDR	$7.99	Cook an Egg	"Blending sparse field recordings with eerie, otherworldly sounds, the music of Oh, Birds! carves out a series of internal landscapes that are as much discreet as they remain troubled and slightly out of reach. Tackling the lines between sound and silence, there's a subdued musicality there that should appeal to fans of Coelacanth, Steve Roden and Olivia Block. Oh, Birds! is a sound-artist from Clichy, France and this 3" cdr is his debut mini-album."
2/11/2006	Olausson, Jakob	Moonlight Farm	LP	$16.99	DeStijl	"If Skip Spence were somehow, instead of finding his white-frocked self stuck in the rat-infested hole that was Bellvue, transplanted to the pine forests north of Duluth in a sonic nest of gimbri, bells, shakers and clothed in Tibetan silk, one would come slightly closer to the reality of Jakob Olausson's migratory whims. To be sure, that foggy and only slightly inland empire of synapse-twisters like Ben Chasny offers a step on the trodden trail, but this isn't the same road we've traveled before. Olausson's huge ears protect him from the cold and keep the sun from turning his face to a series of desert crags, as his compositions slowly fade down the walls of four-track bedroom artistry into atemporal suites that shrink huge expanses and are a bellows to the microcosmic. Enter the Moonlight Farm."
1/25/2004	Old Bombs	Audios	CD	$10.99	Soft Abuse	"We are on the edge of a genre that has no name. We've been compared to Rowe's work with radio, Cage, Merzbow, Organum, V/VM, Pita, Christian Marclay. All those references are fine but don't really define what we were/are doing here. Dino and Vanessa were my first really good friends in the US with whom I shared a similar musical outlook. After moving from Miami, we kept sending original creations to each other and mutilating, layering, recombining, re-sampling and recursionizing them until they felt complete. In this way we have maintained our own dialogue about music. Equipment has changed, abilities have evolved, and now after six years comes Audios, our first 'official' CD. Dig in or dig out." - Carlos Giffoni
9/30/2005	Olive, Tim & Fritz Welch	Sun Reverse the Footpedal	CD	$11.99	Evolving Ear	"Tightly wound non-maximalism combining borrowed electric guitar, percussion, and snow. Artwork by Matt Bua." "Despite the musicians' marked preference for tiny sounds and gestures, the music they make - provided you give it the time and attention it demands - creates and sustains a sense of tension often absent from lowercase improv...another compelling and uncompromising outing from the Evolving Ear label."- Dan Warburton, www.paristransatlantic.com. "This barn recording from Brooklyn drummer Fritz Welch and Canadian/Japanese guitarist Tim Olive is a beautifully conceived minimalistic collaboration... Obviously affected by their surroundings, the duo sympathetically respond to the creaking timbers of the 19th century barn they are using as a recording studio, with much clattering, scraping, and bumping around in the dead of night. Olive mostly concentrates on plucking a the pickups of his guitar, while Welch's shuffling percussion is economical to say the least. The sounds they make together, however, eventually resemble those of the insects and other nocturnal creatures that inhabit the barn, until the two musicians gradually become a part of the building's environment, construction, and history." - Edwin Pouncey, the Wire
10/19/2003	Oliveros, Pauline / Reynols	The Minexcio Connection: Live! At The Rosendale Café	LP	$12.99	Roartorio	"One of the most unexpected yet fruitful partnerships of recent years: in the mid-1990s, Pauline Oliveros, electronic music pioneer and sage of the environmental drone, began working with Reynols, the prolific and resolutely undefinable Argentinian group. Their first joint effort sent Oliveros' music through the rigours of Reynols' heavily processed studio treatments; The Minexcio Connection: Live! At The Rosendale Cafe finds them collaborating on-stage in real time. Recorded in August 2000 during Reynols' first trek through North America, they offered up a version of 'Six For New Time' (originally composed by Oliveros for Sonic Youth's Goodbye 20th Century LP), along with idiosyncratic throat-singing and hypnotic dream/dronescapes. The venue may have been a small cafe in rustic upstate New York, but the sonic results sound like emanations from the deepest of Deep Listening caves under the earth."
8/7/2002	Olneyville Sound System	Efforts in Freedumb	CD	$12.99	Last Visble Dog / Hospital	"Fans of Lightning Bolt may do well to take heed to this other Providence -monster- band. Layers of hyper-dense percussion and base lay the foundation for the OSS sound; chunky beyond comprehension or at other times pounding out driving marches that will shake the dishes off their shelves! Accompanied by sax, flute and some fried electronic improvisations."
9/17/2006	Olson, John + Spencer Yeh	Live at Kathy's Birthday	one-sided LP	$15.99	Rococo Records	Limited edition of 200 copies - out of print.
9/17/2006	Olson, Tovah & The Dead Machines	I'll Be Back	CDR	$12.99	Tovinater	"New label, first release. Two tracks, one solo Tovinater which consists of intense stereo recordings of a bug swamp near the Cove and a long Dead Machines track which is a string abuse jammer working out ideas for the Lansing and Natti gigs last month. Color cover with weirdo alien drawings. Edition of 100."
2/20/2008	Olyvetty	Im Leerin	7"	$13.99	Hundebiss	"We are very proud to introduce you our first release, the amazing assault of the power-duo Olyvetty! Olyvetty was formed by Claudio Rocchetti (3/4HadBeenEliminated and many many more) and Riccardo Benassi (visual artist and italian experimental underground agitator). The project was born in Berlin in 2006, it immediately results as a melting of minimal techno driftes and power-noise fury. They performed in many european festivals like Sonambiente, Flora and Netmage. After their first release 'as all-encompassing as a hole' - a double 12' hand-engraved picture disc - they approached Hundebiss Records who release the seven inch Im Leeren, an assault of noise freakerie packed in a d.i.y. gatefold pop-up." Beautiful packaging!
4/24/2006	Om	Conference of the Birds	CD	$14.99	Holy Mountain	"Comprised of two songs that build on OM's- (AL CISNEROS and CHRIS HAKIUS, rhythm section of legendary sludge and stoner rock pioneers, Sleep)-use of cyclical rhythm, riff, and vocal intonation, the duo's new album Conference of the Birds blends metal, chant, drone, dub, and psychedelia. The band's lyrics expound upon the structure of the universe, potentiality, and freedom from the physical body. Engineered by BILLY ANDERSON and produced by the band, Conference of the Birds progresses beyond their debut, Variations on a Theme, with more fully realized songwriting and production. LP version to follow shortly."
7/10/2008	Om	Live At Jerusalem	LP	$23.99	Southern Lord	"In December of 2007 the mighty duo that is Om made a pilgrimage to Israel to play for its people. Their pinnacle performance unfolded at 4 Aristobolus Street in Jerusalem the site of Uganda Records. The band played for over 4 hours on this evening! The tracks: "Flight of the Eagle" and "Bhimas' Theme" were captured and the transmission of these recordings were flown back to the United States where the vinyl lacquers were made by Bob Weston. Southern Lord in cooperation with OM present you the listener with this 180-gram black vinyl transcendental offering: OM-"Live at Jerusalem". Limited to 3,000 machine numbered copies."
10/6/2007	Om	Pilgrimage	CD	$15.99	Southern Lord	"Three songs featuring Om's (Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius of the legendary Sleep) unique use of riff, cadence and chant comprise the duo's new album Pilgrimage. Lyrical themes address the processes of mind, psychic reality, astral and casual planes of being, and the nature of the soul. Engineered by Steve Albini and produced by the band, the motifs that were initiated on their previous two album are continued here unabated."
3/2/2005	Om	Variations on a Theme	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"Om reunites one of the most powerful rhythm sections in rock music: Al Cisneros [bass, vocals] and Chris Hakius [drums], both ex-members of the legendary Sleep. Variations on a Theme is comprised of three long songs employing a series of rhythmic chants whose cadence-like textural drive conveys flight. The album's numerous lyrics serve as symbolist vehicles to a state outside the field of time and space. Variations on a Theme is a series of vibrations and flow. The opening track,'On The Mountain at Dawn' is the thematic blueprint of the entire album; a transportive series of differentiated verse with sets of solid groove. 'Kapil's Theme' furthers the motif while the closer 'Annapurna' breaks the spell, where the final wash of sound reflects the infinite."
	Omit / K-Group	Storage	LP	$12.99	Fusetron	“Not a split release by these two New Zealand artists, but a collaboration, carrying on from their 1997 single on Colorful Clouds for Acoustics. The weapons of choice are analogue synthesizers and the approach is slowly unfolding drones and drifting veils of sound that part and close across the listener's third ear like storms on the surface of Jupiter.K-Group is Paul Toohey, previously of noted NZ geological drone ensemble Surface of the Earth, who also has a solo album under this name on Corpus Hermeticum. Omit is Clinton Williams, who has also recorded for that notorious NZ 'un-easy listening' label, as well as extensively on his own Deep Skin imprint. During 2000 and 2001, having failed to bring down the global economy with their now-forgotten Y2K scam [remember Y2K? - I thought not], this pair of Hidden Masters turned their efforts towards late-night kitchen jam sessions during their holiday moments. In these each would fire up an antiquated analogue synth and the resulting aural collisions would be recorded on a handy hard drive, then tweaked, inverted, eq'd and edited to produce the immaculate slabs of sound contained within the tiny grooves of this ludicrously out-dated analogue sound-reproducing format. These seven tracks simulate the calm of the newly sedated patient about to undergo a surgical procedure, just as he or she is starting to slip into unconsciousness. You can listen, but just when you think you're hearing something, you realise that 12 hours have gone by and you have a new and inexplicable scar on some unlikely part of your anatomy. Too late you realise that the sound you can hear at the very edge of audition is not this recording, but the sound of forty metal robotic insects starting to eat their way out through your still-sedated navel. Waking with a start in time to flip the album over on your turntable, you notice that subsonic frequencies have begun to rearrange the contents of your mantlepiece into a veritable Morris Dance of inanimate objects, when you thought the audio had not yet begun to play back. A vestigial bass throb starts up in the back of your cranium, as very slow-moving if not actually stationary spacecraft begin to land in the garden. Three days later they are still hovering as the seventh and final track of the album begins to play, and infinitesimally subtle stereo effects start panning in impossible permutations audible only between your shoulder blades. Apparent suspension of time, delirious interludes, interference with the basic laws of physics, all of these effects are possible results of listening to the beautifully poised, finely polished and unutterably beautiful sounds contained in this simultaneously forbidding and inviting artifact. If, like me, these are all the things you look for in a sound recording, then look no further. If its merely music you require, then I suggest you meddle not in the affairs of your betters and proceed directly to the nearest chain CD store and stock up big time.” -Bruce Russell [Noise Legend], Lyttelton, NZ, May 2002.
7/23/2003	Omnid	Thermo	CD	$4.99	The Shadow Puppet Recording Co.	"My work varies between untreated field recordings and heavily treated compositions which utilize field recordings as source material. This particular disc is composed of captures made in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York City. The source sounds were then manipulated in a custom software application made in Max/Msp." - Albert Casais
6/11/2006	On	On	CD	$14.99	Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon	"Remember when punk was dangerous? When you had no idea whether you (or the band) was gonna make it out of the venue without an impressive set of scars? Nah... me neither. But hey... I read Black Flags 'Get In The Van' and it sounded cool... and it sounded really, really dangerous. Enter On... a full throttle blur of utterly wasted heaviness clinging to a two-chord, droning, punk rock core. Hell hath no fury like this infuriated mess and the threat of serious physical harm hangs in the air like a half-landed drunken chick-punch. Two monsterously distorted basses, and a guitar tone like a broken windscreen mean the poor drummer has to pound his cheapo kit into near-nirvana just to be heard above the gargantuan din. Primal, sexual, pre-menstrual, very drunk, and very, very dangerous. The best possible distillation of The Germs unhinged self-mutilation, the paralysing narcoleptic sludge of The Cherubs 'Herione Man', the profoundly aimless bloodletting of early Skullflower, all wrapped up in a tattered 'Zen Arcade' poster. Get-me-the-feck-outta-here!"
3/26/2006	On Trial	Blinded By the Sun	CD	$12.99	Molten Records	"After a gap of a couple of years here is the stunning 2002 album by the best kept Scandinavian secret since Rumplestiltskin. Sounding like a cross between Love and The Sound Track Of Our Lives the band blend an emotional west coast flavoured sound with powerful acid guitar and melodic sensibilities. Intricate arrangements and sweeping acid psych that's both achingly ragged and beautifully realised. This album grows on you with every listen just like a classic album should. Highly recommended."
3/26/2006	On Trial	Head	CD	$12.99	Molten Records	"Here's the 2003 full length CD album version of the now rare 10" issued a few years back by the great Danish psych band. On Trial update and interpret a selection of '60s psychedelic classics, including gems by Love, The Third Bardo, Macbre, Roky Erickson and others. The CD version is expanded to include superb covers of The Rolling Stones 'Citadel' Blues Cheer's Parchment Farm, The Stooges TV Eye, Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" and The MC5's "Starship". Blistering acid wah wah fuzz guitar work, trippy effects, exquisite vocals and multicoloured psychedelic abandon are the order of the day. New artwork and remastered sound. A real trip."
3/26/2006	On Trial	Live	CD	$12.99	Molten Records	"Live! Tonight!... Tripped Out in 2003! Our men in Denmark are notorious for tearing it up on stage but this takes the mushroom-flavoured biscuit. Not only did they manage to get out alive from a storming performance in Christiana, they escaped with the tape too! 'Live' features some of the awesome 60's psych classics that adorned 'Head' mixed up with numbers from previous albums, 'Blinded By The Sun' and 'New Day Rising'. With an impressive catalogue behind them, On Trial continue to deliver the goods and this is no exception. All hail the greatest Danish export since Carlsberg!"
12/1/2004	Once and Future Herds, The	Lion-Colored Hills	3" CDR	$9.99	Pseudoarcana	“The Once and Future Herds are a Jewelled Antler offshoot made up of Glenn Donaldson, Donovon Quinn and Loren Chasse. Lion-coloured Hills documents a journey to said hills as manifested through bowed and plucked strings, drones and utterences.”
3/11/2004	One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden, The	The Owl of Fives	CD	$16.99	Textile	"The Owl Of Fives goes further into the strangely minimal, wayward world inhabited by The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden. The Owl Of Fives is weird and earthy. The Owl Of Fives is skewed folk music from a country that never existed. As a member of the U.K.'s Volcano the Bear since 1995, Daniel Padden has been involved in the creation of some of the most compelling and challenging music in recent memory. Drawing on the work of Robert Wyatt, Faust, This Heat, and the like, Volcano the Bear quickly developed a strong and devoted following and released record on such notable labels as United Dairies, Misra, Beta-Lactam Ring. All of this, however, cannot prepare one for the revelation that is Padden's other project, The One Ensemble of Daniel Padden. While there are obvious connections with his Volcano the Bear work (and VTB members make appearances from time to time), The Owl of fives is really in a universe all its own, strange and beautiful and unique. As an album, The Owl of fives is pretty difficult to pin down. In much the same way as Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith, or the early Third Ear Band, Padden uses traditional folk structures as the basis for much of songs here. But other, even more esoteric, influences are at work here as well: Southeast Asian traditional musics, acoustic jazz flourishes, perhaps even the mystical minimalism of Terry Riley. So what does all this mean for the listener? A strange and beautiful amalgam of (mostly) wordless vocals, stumbling piano, scurrying cello, mournful kazoo interludes, deranged waltzes, and stuff that's totally unidentifiable combined into Padden's skewed and wayward outsider music. What's most important about The Owl of Fives - at least to these ears - is the truly epic mournfulness that permeates it all. This is about mood, folks, and Padden emotes like few can. This song cycle plays at times like a funeral dirge, at others like a carnivalesque choir of gypsies, but whatever the mood, this music is intimate, beautiful, and deeply-felt."
3/21/2007	One Ensemble, The	Wayward the Fourth	CD	$10.99	Secret Eye	"The heir apparant to Moondog and Zoltan Kodaly, The One Ensemble blend European folk, narrative, popular and chamber forms to create modern compositions that provide attention-grabbing hooks and thought-provoking challenges. At times formal and at others improvisational, it is difficult to pin down the One Ensemble sound. Influences range from the classic pop-psychedelia of Robert Wyatt to the deep experimental drone of Third Ear Band. Blissful free jazz, delicate acoustic out-folk, tape collages, Eastern raga and mystical modern minimalism all peacefully coexist in the One Ensemble's uniquely beautiful universe." - label. "Intoxicating folk from Eastern Europe is an element that's visible throughout, but this Glasgow-based quartet approaches the style in as many different ways as there are tracks. You'll find psychedelia, free jazz, chamber music, drones and general sonic goofiness riding the melodic waves of this equally joyous and saddening aural journey. The one looking will likely find a whole range of different influences but the outcome still holds together amazingly well and strikes me as the perfect soundtrack for a script yet to be written by Emir Kusturica's unknown cousin. Dreamy haunted carnival songs that are surprisingly danceable and catchy." - Mats Gustafsson, Terrascope
4/1/2004	One Inch Of Shadow	Bring the Alchemy to School	CDR	$9.99	Cat Sun	"One Inch Of Shadow playing their slow-motion psychedelic songs live at a locale whose name means 'Goat Song Theater'. Plenty of droning atmosphere with vintage Soviet Bloc synthesizers which sound quite different from vintage Western synths. Limited to 90 copies." - Fossil Dungeon
4/1/2004	One Inch Of Shadow	Bring the Alchemy to School 2	CDR	$9.99	Cat Sun	"A January 2004 concert at the 'Phiosophical Eatery' in Warsaw. Looser and freer than volume one, this is the most mysterious-sounding material One Inch Of Shadow have recorded to date. Music that spreads and smears like watercolors. Limited to 60 copies." - Fossil Dungeon
7/30/2006	One Inch of Shadow	Bring the Alchemy to School Vol. 4	CDR	$12.99	CatSun	Limited edition of 60 copies from this Polish group.
7/24/2002	Oneida	Anthem of the Moon	CD	$11.99	Jagjaguwar	"There's an awful lot of ‘psychedelic’ music around these days, mostly of the gentle, sprightly, cosmic nature. It has seemed to Oneida for the past couple years that the world has forgotten a huge part of the critical essence of the psychedelic experience: anxiety, dislocation, alienation and half-formed terror. With Anthem of the Moon, they're out to remind the world why psychedelia matters. Over the course of thirteen months, Oneida made repeated journeys to an array of Colonial-era ruins in the woods of western New England, where they had set up a small mobile recording unit in the midst of the stones. They recorded each of these trips, ending up with a massive trove of tape reels, from which the bulk of this album was distilled. Sounds of the stones and the night woods saturate the recorded music (including the ghostly screech of a barred owl on ‘Almagest’), literally and emotionally; the naked, anxious exhaustion, ecstasy, and paranoia that the listener hears are the real thing. Anthem of the Moon is a literal and figurative field recording - of voices: animal and human, real and imagined, whimpers, moans, screams and incantations. Their trip is no fucking picnic in the meadow - it's a journey into the stones."
4/1/2004	Oneida	Caesar's Column (remixes)	12"	$6.99	Rough Trade	“Oneida are a fascinating and frighteningly intense band, mixing distorted electronics with a fluent, dynamic rhythm section. They were formed in 1997 in Brooklyn, New York, and have been a mainstay of the underground scene there ever since, recording numerous cult records over the years, constantly touring America and Europe with their various line ups. The band like to be compared to ESG, Moondog and The Incredible String band, but have actually been compared to Faust, Pere Ubu, the Boredoms, the Butthole Surfers. This 12" remix album on Rough Trade includes the original album version (from Secret Wars) and four remixes by their NYC underground compadres, including hip NYC producer Nicolas Vernhes (of Fischerspooner, Black Dice, Fiery Furnaces fame), Phil Manley (of Trans Am) and The Liars (Mute Records).”
9/6/2002	Oneida	Come On Everybody Let’s Rock	CD	$11.99	Jagjaguwar	"We will concede this to the latte-sipping coffee table theorists of the world. When it comes to the small slice of pop culture called American rock music over the last three decades, a profound shift did occur when the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was signed into law on July 17, 1984 by Ronald Reagan. The rock farm leagues (traditional rock and roll venues) took a big hit in the nose, and ever since rock music has been less ‘substance-tial.’ Well, thank God for Oneida. With their third full-length record Come On Everybody Let’s Rock (their first full-length record for Jagjaguwar), Oneida conjure up the spirit of a forgotten past - from the heaviosity of Deep Purple and Blue Cheer to the hooks of Humble Pie and Foghat to the attitude and dirty swagger of early Alice Cooper Band. The Brooklyn rock band also lives up to the tale of the tape, hands down being the best live band in New York City at this very moment. So infamous are their live performances that even overseas the British press makes it their business to hail Oneida as purveyors of the burgeoning New York City ‘Loft Party’ scene (the new rock farm league?). Best of all, Oneida are smart and are as rooted in the present as they are informed by the past. Stand clear of the mirror and get away from mom and dad's robitussin. This is the great rock record by Oneida we all have been waiting for."
12/11/2002	Oneida	Each One, Teach One	DBL CD	$13.99	Jagjaguwar	"This is the double CD version of Oneida's already legendary double LP Each One Teach One, the first truly heavy psychedelic rock record of the new millennium, originally limited to 500 vinyl copies packaged in individually hand-screened packaging (released by Version City). Oneida, responsible for last year's unstoppable rock opus Anthem of the Moon, have dropped on the Earth nine extended, blown out new songs that reach far beyond the fairly concise bursts of noise and melody found on previous records. On the two CDs that form the CD version of Each One Teach One, Oneida are given the chance to stretch their rock to their breaking point and beyond, offering up enormous, dripping wet slabs of extended, linear noise mayhem, hollowed out hulls where ghosts of America sing songs that few will ever hear, and longer takes on the sort of speed-fueled manic garage grot that's graced the band's songbook from the start. Recorded at Tarquin Studios and outdoors in the Stones (the band's personal retreat, located near the New Hampshire border), the ten songs on Each One Teach One find Oneida at the peak of their all-out-rock phase, sounding more like their incomparable live shows than any of their previous records. Put the first CD on and lie down on your floor with your eyes closed. Have a friend around to put in the second disc when it is time and to guide you on the trip it'll take you on. Headphones or loudspeakers recommended for playback. Discover the miracles of your Third Eye with Each One Teach One."
9/6/2002	Oneida	Enemy Hogs	CD	$11.99	Jagjaguwar	"This is a reissue of Oneida's landmark second full-length, which was first issued on the now defunct Turnbuckle label. It was with this record's original release that this motley crew of spinmeisters first made a name for themselves. Just when everyone had thought that there was yet another band in the world with the sole intention of devoting itself to the indulgent pursuit of the endless permutations of ‘noise exploration’, we got instead a ‘slippery’ masterpiece that, according to Mojo (for which this record garnered Rock Album of the Month honors), melded ‘rock'n'roll, garage punk and New Wave [with] Hammond organ arpeggios [bumping] into parping jazz trumpets and MC5-inspired riffs, while a discordant Suicide-spooked backdrop keeps the paranoia levels up.’ Hopefully, you get the picture and understand why we deemed it necessary to reintroduce this to the masses, with the added bonus of a previously unreleased track to boot."
11/4/2006	Oneida	Happy New Year	LP	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"No band has been so praised for such a wide range of music over the last ten years than Brooklyn's ONEIDA. Nobody has come close to matching their output of dazzlingly creative, uncategorizable music. Psychedelia, minimalism, maximalism, one-step, infinitewave, blah blah blah blah…it's all there, all the time; and "Happy New Year," the band's ten billionth album, is Oneida's zenith. Simultaneously the most eclectic and most coherent album they have yet released, "Happy New Year" flows flawlessly from a traditional hymn of grim beauty ("Distress") through hypnotic rounds, thunderous kraut grooves, severe ballads, and other, indescribable music. PHIL MANLEY of TRANS AM and the FUCKING CHAMPS and experimental pianist EMILY MANZO return for encores of their guest appearances on 2005's "The Wedding;" they are joined by SHAHIN MOTIA of EX MODELS, BRAD TRUAX of HOME, and frequent Oneida collaborator BARRY LONDON."
8/31/2008	Oneida	Preteen Weaponry	LP	$18.99	Jagjaguwar	"Preteen Weaponry is part one of the Thank Your Parents triptych of Oneida releases. Oneida members past, present and future all contributed to this project. It reminds Oneida of what a live performance might sound like. It contains captured improvisational moments married with craft. You can consider it an introduction to their forthcoming triple album Rated O, which is part two of the forementioned triptych." Nice packaging - gatefold sleeve.
1/19/2004	Oneida	Secret Wars	CD	$11.99	Jagjaguwar	"Oneida's Secret Wars is a Pacific summerjam. It's got Balinese gongs, Hawaiian ukuleles, red wine, injuries, glee, and a song called 'Wild Horses' that's written by Oneida. It's also got a lot of good advice. With their new full-length record, Brooklyn sons Oneida simply start where they left off with Each One Teach One. Their trademark iterated and psych-tinged noise attack is still fully intact, both nervous and subdued at the same time - like what happens when you give meditative children trained in the ways of yoga an excessive amount of caffeine. If there are any new wrinkles to be discovered, it is perhaps that, even more so than on Each One Teach One (Oneida's Tago Mago), Oneida seem to be mining the same fertile ground as Kraut-rock visionaries Can, effortlessly shedding the constraints of pop forms and structures while still remaining soulful and spiritually centered all along. Like spazzing out in the Lotus position."
2/25/2004	Oneida	Steel Rod	CD EP	$7.99	Jagjaguwar	"Oneida - called a whole lot of names - 'the organic Kraftwerk', 'bastard prodigal sons of Afrika Bambaataa,' 'Brooklyn's electro nightmares unleashed' ...and it's all true. Claims of jazz refuted here. Oneida is all rock, all beat, all the time. This record is our nametag. Break your door, steal the shutters, dear landlord: there's a price on your head and Oneida's new STEEL ROD EP is embedded six inches into the back of your skull. All you old men, handing out religious brochures and telling the youth that they've lost to the devil, take a look into your own asshole. We think you just might find our new CD, the god you've lost and a nice little piece of pipe. Give or take five screaming cuts about new identities, new visions and civil war -- Oneida's Steel Rod lays down another testament to bein' free like we want it to be. Remember Watson and Crick? Well, we think that Nobel Prize needs to be recalled and delivered to the real innovators of genetics: us. Ever wonder what an 'XXY' baby looks like? Listen up. I think you'll hear its fragile egg shell mind crying out on track one. Some say our 'Steel Rod' is discriminate. Not so - we smash it all up - but ask questions later. The board rooms are still talking about the event described above. Suits and casual Friday types keep Oneida in the minutes these days. This Steel Rod we keep talking about -- look at it as our scale of justice. Eyes wide open, next stop 'Tennessee.' The Union presence is keeping the good people down, disguised as police. But we're not heartless. We shed a tear on this track... for the dead men in blue, piled up in our wake. Climb onto our 'Hell Train' headed for the promised land. Paranoia, beer, and trucker's speed fueling the next binge on the devil's consciousness. We think it's all damn sinister. That there's an end coming. It'll get your ass. Listen up. It's knocking on your door. It won't stop here." Year 2000 release.
2/11/2006	Oneida / Plastic Crimewave Sound	split	LP	$10.99	Jagjaguwar	"Oneida, one hopes, needs less introduction than other bands. Nearly eight years of idiocy that has earned them the grudgingly accepted title of "that old Brooklyn band that all the other bands like"; at least seven albums and countless ancillary releases full of manic delight and spastic paranoia; an army of crazed preadolescent children poised at the ready to do their unearthly bidding; Oneida is living the dream, and that dream has finally taken shape as Brah Records. Brah will be all things to all men, as long as those men - yes, and women - are searching only for the overlooked and the underthought. The Oneida hivemind will brook no fashionable diversions, no studied insolence - only pure music with no hope of escape will see the light of day on Brah's watch. So welcome to step one in the program: a vinyl-only split record that will leave the speakers weeping. Oneida's contribution, "Prehistoric Maze" was recorded at Rare Book Room in 2004, during the original and now legendary "Thank Your Parents" sessions. A small hardwood fire was kindled in the studio brazier on Friday as recording commenced, and with periodic attention it had become a heaping mound of coals and ash by late Saturday night. Sometime in the smallest, stillest part of that night, it was deemed appropriate to sing a hymn to the coals, saluting the passage of the flames into memory. Just before dawn on Sunday, "Prehistoric Maze" was tracked in a flurry of ukuleles, hexoleles, and homemade drums. Studio tyrant Nicolas Vernhes joined the band in their unsettling ceremony, contributing an outstanding familiarity with pre-Christian celtic and druidic rites, and by the time a rainy, cold dawn arrived, the song was completed. Oneida felt that the sound of "Prehistoric Maze" and the singularity of its genesis were reason enough to release it standing apart from the rest of their work; the Plastic Crimewave Sound's "End of Cloud" was deemed a perfect counterpart, and so Oneida is proud to inaugurate Brah Records with this haunting piece of blasphemy. Their first major release in over a year, Plastic Crimewave Sound's 18+ minute uber-krautpunk dirge "End of Cloud" is a fuzz-soaked dusseldorf drone-rock opus, and the epitaph of departed guitarist Cat Chow, who lends space-vixen vocals to the fray. Studio fuckery, motorik drumming, blasts of electronics, rolling bass waves, and wig-flipping fried guitar duels, "End of Cloud" is guaranteed to cause devotional nirvana, or at least the rolling of multiple blunts. Chicago's premier acid-punk primitivists Plastic Crimewave Sound have been lauded by MOJO, Wire, Julian Cope, Arthur, etc., have toured with Acid Mothers Temple, Comets on Fire, Oneida, the Ponys, Gris Gris and others, and often garner comparisons to Chrome, Can, Yo Ho Wha 13, Sonic Youth, Hawkwind, High Rise and even the Cramps - and all that is just fine by them! They have a full length LP on Eclipse Records (released in the UK by Rocket Recordings, home to Oneida's "Anthem of the Moon" LP), a split 7" with 60's MN fuzzgod Michael Yonkers (with a full LP due soon), and a double LP conceptual dark opus that will see daylight on Eclipse this fall. Crimewave also does the hand-drawn underground psych mag Galactic Zoo Dossier for Drag City (expect a new double sized issue this summer), and sets up the international avant-psych Million Tongues festival; bassist Mark Lux was part of the embryonic Temple of Bon Matin line-up; electronics guru Andy Ortmann heads up the fine Nihilist label and noise miscreants Panicsville; and Lawrence Peters is also a fine country singer and washboard genius, playing in numerous noise rock and country combos over the years. The 12" features art by Plastic Crimewave, who has also done record covers for Drag City, Birdman, locust, Eclipse, and others." - Jagjaguwar
9/30/2008	Oneohtrix Point Never	Hollyr	cassette	$8.99	Sound Holes	"Third in the out(er) of space series..... OPN delivers a view into the future, a city scape buzzing with unusual patterns, unusual language and unusual feelings.... A kaleidoscope of sounds set this release apart from the earlier works on Deception Island and his contributions in Infinity Window. Controlled use of synth and samples create a multi-dimensional ever changing release." Edition of 74 copies.
7/11/2008	Oneohtrix Point Never / Slow Listener	split	cassette	$7.99	Archivo de Sangre de Dios	"Something different from Me and Lopatin, both going for an opposite approach to what you're used to. Dan's (for those not in the know he of Astronaut/Infinity Window) headed into heavy static distortion, something closer to Demons synth blasts while my side's from a much mellower show I played recently, Nyoukis said it sounded like Oval, Lopatin says"yr track is a monster of cloud forms and ghoulish satellite detritus. shit is reaaalll" - Robin Dickinson aka Slow Listener
	Onnyk	Private Idioms	CD	$8.99	Public Eyesore	“A bit clueless here as to Onnyk is, except that his real name is Kinno Yoshiaki is and that plays improvisations on the guitar. The two lengthy pieces on this release are from 1995 and 1997. Also a bit clueless why they are released now. It's not that they are not nice or anything, but it seems a bit long overdue. Onnyk scratches, plucks and prepares his way on the guitar in a free playing mood. Unlike many other Japanese musicians, Onnyk doesn't go all the noise way, but on the other hand it's also not the same sort of silence as Taku Sagimoto. Wonderful free music, played with great pace.” -Frans de Waard (Vital Weekly)
3/26/2006	Opalio, Maurizio	Way up to Enfer	CDR	$15.99	Opax Records	"Special handmade limited edition of 100 copies; handnumbered, look-like-vinyl black-bottom cd-r in nice-textured cardboard tri-fold sleeve, with charcoal drawing by Maurizio Opalio. First soloist release by one-half of My Cat Is An Alien, space brother Maurizio Opalio. "Way up to Enfer" is the entire recording of an acoustic, totally improvised session performed on December 31th, 2005 at My Cat Is An Alien's new Alien Zone headquarters, located somewhere in the Italian Western Alps. Along the two tracks featured in "Way up to Enfer", Maurizio's acoustic guitar notes create subtle killer tunes woven in a richly textured harp-like fingerpicked style, like the charming sound of a lyre emerging from a spinning maelstrom in the sea. There are no space sounds here, but clearly emotional rises, an acoustic resistance to the falling darkness, or maybe just the right way up to Enfer." (Opax)
2/23/2007	Opalio, Roberto	Chants From Isolated Ghosts	CD	$14.99	Important Records	"Roberto Opalio is half of the Italian space duo My Cat Is An Alien. Roberto Opalio is a visual and sound artist from Torino, Italy. His work includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, poetry, glass art, film/video, sound installation, and performance. Since 1998, Roberto Opalio acts as musician (together with his brother Maurizio) in the avant-garde improv duo My Cat Is An Alien. His special works of art represent the trademarked style of all the limited art-edition releases issued on their own Opax Records imprint. This aesthetic is described by Opalio as 'space art.' The extra-terrestrial nature of his work claims its ontological status in the act of creating a non-finished, otherworldly dimension - a proper alien dimension."
3/21/2007	Opalio, Roberto	The last night of the Angel of Glass, Vol.I & II	DBL CD	$17.99	A Silent Place	Double CD set reissuing the acclaimed "The last night of the Angel of Glass, Vol.I", original soundtrack to the omonimous film by Roberto Opalio (released on the long-out-of-print DVD-R/CD-R set by Foxglove, USA), plus the totally previously unreleased "Vol.II" (entire disc 2), representing the second half of a unique recording session. The work here available for the first time in its entire and remastered version was recorded by the artist himself at home in Torino, Italy, on November 1st 2005, while his camera, set on the balcony, was filming Opalio's glass-art creation (the Angel) animated by the soft light of a candle under a blackened sky. Here are the words by the artist himself, reported as liner notes inside the 6-panels gatefold sleeve featuring stills taken from the film: 'my voice/ my astral guitar/ instants of life/ home/ window of memories/ blue afternoon/ winter 2005/ cold burning flame/ torino/ whispers of glass/ suspended/ between/ day & night/ before black falls'. Strictly limited edition of 600 copies housed in an elegant deluxe folded digi-sleeve matt varnished. "There is no other cosmic traveller like Roberto Opalio. Best known for his work with his brother as My Cat Is An Alien, this feline twin is slowly building an equally impressive body of solo works. Opalio is on another plane entirely with "The last night of the Angel of Glass." Bypassing the cosmos completely and directing his aim straight to heaven. Using nothing but his guitar and his voice, Opalio sears the stratosphere into orbit. As his voice floats like a ghost into the empty celestial crevices, his guitar falls from the sky like a melted star. This is haunting and magnificent. Roberto Opalio at his best." (Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis)
12/24/2005	Opalio, Roberto	Voice with No Guitar/ Guitar with Go Voice	cassette	$9.99	Opax Records	"The first analog cassette release on Opax Tapes, new division of My Cat Is An Alien's Opax Records, features a new work by brother Roberto Opalio. On side A, a 10-minutes-long solo-voice piece in Roberto's typical wordless-vocals style; on side B a 10-minutes-long solo-guitar piece of pure space drones. Recorded at home September 9th, 2005, in Torino, Italy. Special handmade ltd. ed. of 69, in Japanese-paper envelope, hand-sewn with string, handnumbered and drawn by Roberto Opalio."
9/17/2006	Opalio, Roberto	Whispers of the last Light	DVD-R	$18.99	Opax Records	Special handmade ltd. ed. of 100; in nice-textured cardboard tri-fold sleeve, with silver ink drawing by Roberto Opalio; handnumbered. "New short film by visual artist / musician Roberto Opalio, one half of My Cat Is An Alien. Filmed on March 21st, 2006, the video represents a visionary, introspective view of the empty spaces over the city, Torino. Through a unique, hand-manipulated shot made in real-time, Roberto Opalio's poetic fragmentation and distortion of real objects recalls early film experiments by Man Ray, as well as a certain Warholian psychedelia in the use of filtered light as a main principle of creation / perception of one's own reality. The soundtrack, recorded the same day appositely, leads to a further estrangement with the use of Opalio's looped wordless vocals and electronics merging into a heavy, ecstatic stream of sounds."
3/11/2005	Opaque	Crude Energy and then Dinner Scenes	CDR	$14.99	Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon	"Flaming Nora! If you managed to track down their debut CD, ‘New Ways to Criticise', you'll already be hip to the unique and savage greatness of Scotlands Opaque. A titanic struggle between demonised fuzz-destruction and angelic fragility that will leave your house filled with smoke and your favourite teaset in a fractured heap. Bugger... good heirlooms are hard to find. The rest of the burnt debris lands somewhere between Scottish classics like ‘Lake', ‘Psycho Candy' and ‘Mull of Kintyre'. Och Aye!"
	Open City	L.A. We Revise Your Neglect	LP	$10.99	Thin Wrist	“Avoiding the shiftless drift & drone and residual jazz vernacular that characterizes most free energy music, Open City pursues an aggressive abstraction, full of risky contrasts and improbable maneuvers. Like Fluxus restaging the breakup of the continental ice sheet or the Home Depot after-hours, dreaming of itself as industrial Webern, this group demonstrates that sound and silence, like most ideas, are best when their half-lives are short. Open City refuses entertainment and the tyranny of the beat in favor of multiplicity and unrepeatability: the live event! Second full length, from Los Angeles, two electric guitars, one drumkit, heavy gatefold, 180 gram vinyl.”
	Open City	Open City	LP	$10.99	Thin Wrist	"Recorded live in Los Angeles during the summer of '97 -- a deep organic group sound, that began in 1986 and has only recently been heard outside of select CA villas, bungalows, and garages. Building/breaking buzz, drone, layered strings and tones, with staggered abstract rhythms throughout -- entirely free improvised and electric -- no over-dbs, no synths. Using a five stringed mexi-caster and an Epiphone-les guitar recorded live to two-tracks through an LAPD-auctioned 4-trk. Straight to the capitalist head, out of the latent CA free-drone under-ground. Edition of 500 copies with silk-screened gatefold jackets pressed in 1999."
12/9/2003	Open City	The Birth of Cruel	CD	$10.99	Thin Wrist	"A gorgeous record of free sound: Through three unsettled pieces, Open City breaks down the formalism of the avant garde, noise and free improvisation to reveal one of today's most distinctive and intense group dynamics. The group use a constant flow of deep drone, pointilistic cut ups, rich texture and silence to create Alpha music. Unrepeatable and unpredictable, aggressively abstract, time-stamped, adaptive, actionist, attentionist, fun. Open City aims for a moment before music, the unsettled pause before a devastating blow. The Birth of Cruel is a generational X-flare, a sound proposition, a coronal mass ejection of propulsive and audible means. .............................Enjoy!" – label description. “These guys can melt plastic from a block away, and are capable of producing equally delicate traceries of sound a the drop of the proverbial hat. Listen and weep.” - Bruce Russell
12/9/2003	Open City	The Birth of Cruel	LP	$10.99	Thin Wrist	"A gorgeous record of free sound: Through three unsettled pieces, Open City breaks down the formalism of the avant garde, noise and free improvisation to reveal one of today's most distinctive and intense group dynamics. The group use a constant flow of deep drone, pointilistic cut ups, rich texture and silence to create Alpha music. Unrepeatable and unpredictable, aggressively abstract, time-stamped, adaptive, actionist, attentionist, fun. Open City aims for a moment before music, the unsettled pause before a devastating blow. The Birth of Cruel is a generational X-flare, a sound proposition, a coronal mass ejection of propulsive and audible means. ..........................Enjoy!" – label description. “These guys can melt plastic from a block away, and are capable of producing equally delicate traceries of sound a the drop of the proverbial hat. Listen and weep.” - Bruce Russell. LP comes in beautiful full color heavy duty gatefold sleeve and the vinyl pressed by the unparalleled RTI.
10/23/2003	Open Mind, The	The Open Mind	LP + 7"	$24.99	Acme	The - LP + 7" $24.99 (Acme) "The Open Mind, a British Freakbeat/Psych band from London are probably most noted for the now legendary track ‘Magic Potion’ which appeared as a single and later on their much sought after debut album on Philips in 1969." Classic 60’s freakbeat/psych now available again with a bonus 7" included. Limited edition.
3/24/2008	Oper'azione Nafta	Cavuru	LP	$13.99	Siltbreeze	"Located within the Trapani Province of Sicily, Oper'azione Nafta considers their self-described "un-rock" as "a blowjob from Luigi Russolo." There's little doubt the great Futurist author of the The Art Of Noises manifesto would be anything but chuffed by such salacious bravado. Indeed, the trio pours on the racket and sounds like they were hatched in a custom-built Russolo intonarumori. Successfully putting the on back in bonkers, Oper'azione Nafta doles out only The Berserk, which might be why, at any given time, their unstoppable onslaught taps into rock / improv fizz a la Sun City Girls, Etron Fou Leloublan or the Butthole Surfers, various FMP blat, and MEV-like electronic scramble. When they claim "We are Oper'azione Nafta and we kill Bambi!" who among us would question it? Besides, a nice bowl of Sicilian-styled venison ragout would really hit the spot. Released in a vinyl-only, one-time edition of 500, Cavuru is the band's debut release."
1/15/2005	Ora	Morgendammerung	10"	$19.99	Die Stadt	"This 10inch vinyl only release by Ora, a group project which mainly consisted of Andrew Chalk, Colin Potter and Darren Tate - who both later moved on to become Monos - active between 1991-1998 features two hauntingly atmospheric tracks from their rare New Movements In G CDR (150 copies) originally released on Darren Tate's own Gnome Records label in 1998, and were not included on the two Ora retrospective CD compilations Final and After The Rainfall (both on Colin Potter's own ICR label). For these recordings Ora were: Darren Tate, Colin Potter, Lol Coxhill, Daisuke Suzuki on the A-Side 'The Sun Sheds A Golden Tear', and Darren Tate & Colin Potter on the B-Side 'The Impregnable'."
2/5/2004	Oral Phase	Live Under the Bed of Primadonna	CDR	$7.99	Haamumaa	"Second full length album by this Finnish freak-out duo (or / and trio). Free 'rock' improvisations, cosmic sound collages and acoustic weirdness..."
7/23/2003	Oral Phase	Next Stop Now Here	CDR	$7.99	Haamumaa	"Some more seriously fuckin' weird shit from Finland… Snippets of 'almost' songs mixed up with classic vodka noise. All recorded in-the-red onto 4trk. So you get bedroom-bass rumbles, prickly overdriven harmonicas, lots of slidey guitars and what sounds like a Finn Tom Waits on sometimes vocals and junk percussion. Pretty cool really." - Pseudo Arcana
	Orange Cake Mix	Rivers & Trees	7"	$4.99		Another record you must have
	Orange Cake Mix	Silver Lining Underwater	CD	$13.99	Darla	Part 3 of Bliss Out Series. LP is limited to 500 copies
12/17/2003	Orange Manifold	Honey Gown, Hairy Bulb	CDR	$7.99	Disposable Thumb	"Honey Gown, Hairy Bulb is different all together with a complex guitarless sounding moving things forward at an almost glacial pace. After a quick glance it might seem like it's less dark and scary, but the more the slowly evolving bowed instrumentation bends around itself and the chosen effects, the more you'll find yourself looking over your shoulder. In a nerve-racking way this is absolutely beautiful stuff that achieves a resonance that lingers long after the music fades. It's a ride of oscillating, tone-bending, modulated drones, which is fascinating from the beginning to the end, but it wouldn't work nearly as well without the maximum psychic transportation that comes with every single note and flowing tone. It might take a certain type of person to enjoy this sort of filmic, ambient and downright scary music, and I happen to be one of them." – Mats Gustafsson, BF #16
12/17/2003	Orange Manifold	Orange Manifold	CDR	$7.99	Disposable Thumb	"New Broken Face contributor Kelly Burnette is not only one hell of a music journalist but also a talented and fascinating musician. OM takes cues from the metal scrapings of Organum and the claustrophobia of Omit but adds a substantial dose of minimalist, kaleidespopic patterns that in an odd way somehow manages to groove. It's rather difficult to know exactly where the different sound fragments come from, but it sounds like a mixture of heavily treated feedback, effects and a flowing river of electronics. This ltd. CD-R includes four epic pieces of music and the more I think about it, the less I tend to think that it sounds quite like anything I've heard before. It's a dark, alienating and cavernous listen, but turn this one up loud and the sound mantra will built up and explode right in front of your eyes like some giant fireball crashing into a meteor stuck in endless orbit around a distant star." – Mats Gustafsson, BF #16
12/17/2003	Orange Manifold	Requiem For the Good We Knew / Airborne Orgasm	CDR	$7.99	Disposable Thumb	"Combined sounds of a requiem of what at times appears to be a farce, and the soundtrack to a Utopia, to an airborne orgasm, to eternal return, seems to be a contradictory, excessive and absurd signification for some sort of cusp on nadir. Two long churning pieces (where one might point to Nitsch for inspiration), only blatantly religious, are rife with subliminals, organs, box springs, timestretched rodents, wound down vocals gliding along a spiral with no end in sight (nor care for one), is what populates the bitter expanse between the beginning and end of this recording. It sounds like the dismantling of paradigms, and is as cruel and risible as you might imagine that being. Is it a joke? Packaged in cardboard and wrapped in trash bags, it's the only packaging by OMR/Disposable Thumb which isn't necessarily lovingly assembled. Why? The purveyors simply hope that by minute 22 of the first track you're so out of your mind the question doesn't cross it. Edition of 47."
12/17/2003	Orange Sunshine	Love=Acid, Space=Hell	CD	$21.99	Motorwolf	"Since 1999 Holland's wildest power blues trio. Here is the follow up to their highly acclaimed debut 'Homo Erectus'. Raw and intense hi-volume psychedelic motor blues rock with the real late 60's proto-hardrock/acidfuzz sound of Blue Cheer. Quite some Hendrix-style guitar freak-outs and raw bluesy vocals, but with more catchy 60's pop song structures. Swinging and thumping bass under howling and 'singing' guitar solos mixed with heavy garage punk riffs and dirty psychedelic stoner / hard rock outbursts! An explosive and yet soulful trip."
7/16/2006	Oranzada	Drzewa w Sadzie Zdzikty	CD	$12.99	Micro Fon Records	Psychedelic rock from Warsaw, Poland. Also has elements of progressive and electronic - 2005 release - nice.
7/16/2006	Oranzada	Oranzada	CD	$12.99	Ars Mundi	"Oranzada originated between the years 2001 and 2002 thus artistically defining the long-lasting (not only musical) relationship of three friends. For over three years the band was touring with concerts throughout Poland gathering positive reviews. Oranzada took part in such events as the II. Festival of Alternative Musik OFF in Zak Club (with.: Lech Janerka, Scianka, Marcin Dymiter, Tymon Tymanski, Von Zeit, Pudelsi, Lodz Kaliska) or the peculiar "Festiwal w Krajobrazie" 2004 in Inowlodz (with: Pathman, One Inch Of Shadow, Hati, The Band Of Endless Noise). In December 2005 Oranzada played their first international show a the G-Day in Berlin along with one of Germany`s best know psychedelic rock outfits, the Vibravoid. At the same time, for the last two years the band has been working on the debut album "Oranzada". Most of the material was recorded in September 2003 and reflects the band's musical achievement until that time. The basic, very classical instrumentation used by the band (guitar, bass, percussions and vocals) was enriched with the sound of synthesizers, organs, vibraphone, flute, as well as real sounds on the album. The music oscillates around psychedelic sounds, whether the means of expression are rock-like, kraut-rock, avant-garde or pop themes. Significant elements of the compositions are transce, noise, and improvisation. What is most attractive about the album and Orazada's music as a whole is its freshness and authentic emotional expression. The debut album was recorded and mixed at the Rogalów Analogowy Studio of Wojtek Czern with the use of vintage equipment and instruments without the use of a computer. This audibly "shows through" in the analogue and singular quality of sound and is the clear advantage of this album. Oranzada's debut album was released on the Warsaw Ars Mundi Label, which has been since years releasing Polish progressive music."
3/2/2005	Orbit Service	Twilight	CD	$10.99	Helmet Room Recordings	“Constantly pushing the membrane of the musical norm, this Denver-based quartet defies definition, as well as Denver's musical reputation. Four diverse musicians converge to produce an innovative, yet hauntingly familiar resonance. Never banal, never predictable, the music of Orbit Service blends exploratory electronica with traditional instruments, ranging from acoustic guitar to accordion to Tibetan singing bowl.” "The experimental Denver quartet creates a mournful, decaying soundscape out of a series of musical vignettes: gently plucked acoustic guitars tangling with their distorted, plugged-in counterparts; squalls of feedback brushing up against a simple, almost rote piano figure; and skin-crawling basslines swimming beneath jazzy high-hats and chiming guitars." - Matt Sebastion, Boulder Daily Camera
6/11/2006	Organorganorganorgan	Organorganorganorgan	CDR	$10.99	Seedy R!	"Sam Hamilton, Stefan Neville, Campbell Kneale and Antony Milton bring along their fan driven chord organs for a live performance at Wellingtons Enjoy Gallery. Ranging from the holy through to the burlesque over the course ofb the performance (hear Neville lift his rather cumbersome organ over his head to play it with his teeth, witness Kneale face plant into his thus creating the extended comatose outro...), this is a drone epic that gets to the heart of these perennial, but somewhat ridiculous instruments..."
4/16/2007	Organs	Napalmed Natti	CDR	$12.99	American Tapes	Spencer Yeh & Ron Iovae - nice! Housed in a dvd case - out of print.
	Original Sins	Suburban Primitive	CD	$11.99	Blood Red	Garage-psych from Brother JT and pals
10/6/2007	Orion Rigel Dommisse	What I Want From You Is Sweet	CD	$14.99	Language of Stone	"On the surface, Orion Rigel Dommisse's song world is marked by death, desolation and personal disaster. That the events populate a fairy-tale-like terrain is no small point. The transmutation of terror and dread into a manageable folkloric currency makes complete sense given the fantastic elements sewn within Orion's singular visions. As with the best fantasy tales, Orion's songs thread multiple meanings, some obvious, others occluded, through a linear narrative of disarming depth. All the while the tone is charged, with menace and beauty. This is classical music set to Lucio Fulci's The Beyond, folk music from some lost Balkan province where moonlight feeds all need for vitamin D. Orion's text is a dark, rich blood that oozes through organs, infusing them with all manner of unearthly metastices; mutations which allow them to evolve through pain. Debut release on this new Drag City-fathered label, run by Greg Weeks (Espers)."
9/30/2008	Orphan Fairytale	Satellites That Serve Us	one sided cassette	$10.99	Blackest Rainbow	"After a long wait... the tale finally arrives, one insane trip of moon safari keyz from Belgian Frozen Corpser Eva. One side of pink cassette acid fuelled child like far outness that only the OF can jam so well. One of the most psychedelic-ly far out surreal trips to come out on the label so far, each one comes in individual space covers with a hand numbered black and white insert of crackle screen space weirdness. Limited to 100."
2/12/2008	Orsi, Fabio	1000Days Red	3" CDR	$16.99		"Limited edition 50 copies hand painted and numbered with tea flower insert and cd card (2007) Self Released"
3/2/2008	Orsi, Fabio	Before Long, Before Anyone, The Stars Will Be Walls In My Mind	3" CDR	$8.99	Students of Decay	"The final installment in the Orsi SOD trilogy, "BeforeLong..." is as a slow-moving star in orbit, all evanescent low-register drones and scintillating harmonics. Orsi's deft hands and painterly approach have once again concocted a beautiful, expansive space for your mind to roam about. Music for telescope nights." Edition of 100 copies.
2/12/2008	Orsi, Fabio	Birds Are Smart, But They Cannot Speak	3" CDR	$9.99	The Locus Of	"From the previous releases by Fabio Orsi which we learned to love him as a true meister of drones from the digital end of the telescope, influenced by say Stars Of The Lid and William Basinski. Here he present a new work, with a bit of a silly title, but I am sure he means well. More drones at the start, but once the work is on the road, Orsi adds some open ended strumming to the table and then slowly thickens the work with more heavy duty drones. Quite nice, and remembering me a bit of the recent work by Machinefabriek, which have that some post-rock-in-combination-with-electronics, moving away from the strict drone work, but also stays a bit away from the space rock (less the drums) of post rock. Nice piece throughout." (FdW), Vital Weekly
10/6/2007	Orsi, Fabio	Leaves under Trees - Portayed window	one sided LP + painted artwork + insert	$39.99	A Silent Place	"Limited ART Edition of 100 copies only, for this one-sided vinyl LP, coming in a silk-screened folded cover, including an exclusive hand-made painting made by Texan artist Niwi (alias Vanessa Rossetto - www.pervertedlogic.com/niwi/). Every single artwork is an original card-panel of cm. 28 x cm. 21,50, signed and numbered by the artist and completely different by any other!"
3/29/2005	Ortho / Irene Moon	split	7"	$5.99	Ignivomous	"Though the term musical theater often conjures up horrific images of over-acting and life’s foibles resolved in song form, there’s no inherent evil in the concept of combining the two. Lexington, Kentucky’s Auk Theater offer simple pantomimes with cartoonish props, set to a soundtrack that combines a warped aural accompaniment with diegetic effects that act as guides for the narrative. Irene Moon, the group’s founder, takes everyday activities and social interactions (in this case, a visit to the dentist), magnifying the absurd and surreal, to create her otherworldly scenes. On her side of this 7”, a split picture disc with New York’s Ortho, one must imagine the visual aspects of 'Auk Dentist' as clued by the music, though, with Moon’s penchant for the weaving of samples, electronic noises, and isolated vocal recordings, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what could be happening. A ringing phone, the ominous sound of the drill, and a voice-over from what was probably a high school psychology filmstrip offer clues, but, in the end, the music needn’t rely on the story, and Moon’s psychedelic pastiche remains just as hypnotic in it’s purely aural form. Ortho, capitalizes, it seems, on Moon’s love of entomology, with their contribution to the disc, with plenty of buzzing and flittering sound. It’s not hard to imagine the music as the magnified sounds of insects, with the rapid flapping of wings, scurrying feet, and probing antennae.'Ortho demonstrates how humans would benefit by behaving more like insects' is a title that’s almost longer than the group’s side of the slab, but it’s a useful guide when it comes to listening to Ortho’s buggy noise." - Adam Strohm 2005 jan 17, fakejazz.com
9/29/2005	Ortmann, Andy	Nightmania	CD	$11.99	Nihilist	"The first full-length album from founding member of Panicsville, as well as the Nihilist label. This project began as a series of new drawings, then audio soundtracks were composed to compliment each drawing. The results are both haunting and disturbing. The sounds here, range from ambient, musique-concrete, collage to power electronics. This project was funded in part by a Grant from the City of Chicago.
12/10/2004	Os Brazoes	Os Brazoes	CD	$21.99		"Rare and super psychedelic Brazilian album from 1969, with lots of fuzz guitar, wah-wah and some bossa influences!!! This group was the backing group for Gal Costa in her early psychedelic days!!! If you dig Mutantes first works, check this out you'll be so satisfied!!! Includes covers of Gilberto Gil 'Volkswagen blue', Jorge Ben 'Carolina'." - Lion Productions
10/25/2008	Ospreys + Wilde Stallions	split	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"These two pennsylvania units bookended a tour i did a couple of years ago and both mesmerized me with some profuse vocal/guitar drone mantras. both of these hypnotist mix up lush and thick styles, blending chants with subway rhythms that cause waves of dust and light to ricochet around the room. this is demon dirg turned up to shred. extra bonus with the stallions covering the subhumans!"
2/21/2007	Ostrowski, Eric	Cyanonide	3" DVDR	$7.99	Jyrk	"Eric is probably best known for being half of Noggin.. He also dropped the "E" CD/DVD in 2005, which is quite a heavy load.... Cyanonide is four short film pieces of beautiful bright blue takes in his usual painted film/organic matter exposure techniques. These films cover a great breadth despite their singular spectral focus.. some are static blasts with other colors consuming the various washes of blues, approaching the most abstract hypercolor visionsof the paper-rad sect.. Other pieces are meditative drifts featuring suspended plant matter in crystal blue.. limited to 90 copies."
7/29/2004	Other Half, The	The Other Half	LP	$17.99		“A vinyl re-issue of this 1968 garage-psych album that featured guitarist Randy Holden of Blue Cheer and Sons of Adam. Includes the song ‘Feathered Fish,’ penned by Arthur Lee but never recorded by Love, as well as eight other slices of heavy acid garage rock with plenty of wild guitar work. Sometimes compared to early, pre-Janis Big Brother & The Holding Co. With its beautiful psychedelic cover, this is a gem of the SF acid rock era. Includes the legendary Nuggets track ‘Mr. Pharmacist’ as a bonus track. 170 gram vinyl, heavy gloss cover, Euro import.”
6/5/2005	Other Method, The