| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/17/2006 | R.O.T. | L'écurie | LP | $13.99 | K-raa-k | R.O.T. has gained a quality reputation in the underground scene during their six years of existence. This led to a splendid cdr- and tape discography. "L'écurie" is their first long player. Each side contains two jams that sound like calm and fluently movements through sound at one time, then like a somewhat more brutal treatment at another point. The album shows nicely how R.O.T. works as a (live) band. It's not about well-thought sound poetry here, but about spontaneous improvisation where random incidents are considered as an extra band member. A slow bass that wanders gently through the acoustic droning, when suddenly an alarm clock starts to ring, followed by new almost-quietness and laidback noise. R.O.T. stands for an original approach of sound sources and a continuously seeking for the "moment". Side A was recorded in an abandoned administration building in Jette, a small town near Brussels. The space was run by young students for six months and renamed the place "l'écurie", the French for stable. R.O.T. improvised in the dusty kitchen during three long days, mostly during the nights as well. The tracks on the B side are takes from improvisations in an horse stable. There again the album's title refers to L'écurie. This time at an old farm which is called Ferme du Biereau (Louvain La Neuve). The farm is also known as a nice venue and spot for artists en musicians." |
| 8/20/2011 | R/S (Rehberg / Schmickler) | USA | LP | $29.99 | PAN | "Archival release documenting the 2009 USA tour of Peter Rehberg and Marcus Schmickler under the R/S moniker. Real time extreme music improvisations recorded at Lampo in Chicago and No Fun Fest in New York City. 'USA' is the second full length release by the leading electronic music duo, follow up to their 2007 'One (Snow Mud Rain)' on Erstwhile Records. Peter Rehberg (Pita / KTL / eMego) was a founder of the influential Editions Mego label based in Vienna in 1995 (formerly Mego). He performs throughout the world and has participated in many of the major festivals associated with electronic music, such as Sonar, Ars Electronica and All Tomorrows Parties. In addition to his role as mentor to many artists and label curator, Peter has published work on numerous labels such as Häpna, Mosz, Asphodel, Moikai, Ash International, Source, Touch. He has also collaborated with interdisciplinary artists such as choreographer Gisele Vienne and writer Denis Cooper (Kindertotenlieder; I Apologize), and has recorded and performed with many other electronic music performers including General Magic; Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm; Stephen O'Malley (as KTL); Christian Fennesz; Matmos; Sunn O))); Mika Vainio and Tina Frank to name but a few. In 1999 he received the Prix Ars Electronica Distinction Award for Digital Music. Marcus Schmickler is a key figure in German contemporary experimental music. While rooted in electronic music, Schmickler has a background in contemporary composition, having studied under the prominent Stockhausen collaborator Johannes Fritsch. Schmickler has created solo in a variety of different styles under the Wabi Sabi, Sator Rotas, and Param pseudonyms, as well as five techno-oriented CDs as Pluramon. In addition, he has long-standing collaborative projects, most notably with synth wiz Thomas Lehn, guitarist Keith Rowe, and pianist John Tilbury. The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened pvc sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." |
| 6/11/2006 | Raccoo-oo-oon | Cave of Spirits Forever | CD | $15.99 | Time-Lag | "A hot new real CD reissue of the CDR version that went instantly out of print last year. RACCOO-OO-OON are one of those bands that can somehow shift between seemingly divergent genres, while the whole time keeping a sound very much their own. The disc launches with a speed blasted, noise fueled, psych/punk rocker, slides into nearly grooving free-jazz territory, then into a gorgeous, buzzing/floating/tinkling bliss mantra, and that's just the first three tracks. Things continue unfolding from there, but the overall sound constantly slips back to the sort of mantric, damaged rock thud these guys are clearly fond of. A rather thrilling and quite great ride. Remastered by PETE SWANSON (YELLOW SWANS) for extra punch. Packaged in a full color offset printed tri-fold art paper cover, reproducing SHAWN REED's original eyeball frying art. Limited edition of 1000 copies." |
| 12/13/2008 | Raccoo-oo-oon | Raccoo-oo-oon | double LP | $25.99 | Not Not Fun | "Everything's coming to an end with the swan song from Iowa City's Raccoo-oo-oon. Following up last years critically acclaimed Behold Secret Kingdom, the final album takes everything up a notch and shows a band taking their last breath and laying down the last bricks in their fairly short history. More reminiscent of the freeform punk madness of The Cave Of Spirits Forever (Time Lag) than the heavy outbursts from Behold Secret Kingdom, this album reeks of desperation and a feeling of going down with nothing to loose at all. A fucked upfuture-prog mayhem that is all over the place and at no known place at the same time. Minds are melting, new grounds are covered and things will never be the same. When the last track fades out and everything is over, the silence has never been so quiet. Genuinely uncomfortable, desperate and just beautiful, this album will surely be remembered as the most important recording that Racco-oo-oonever put to tape. Limited edition of 500 vinyl copies!" |
| 3/2/2007 | Råd Kjetil & the Loving Eye of God | Mattmar | CD | $19.99 | Goddamn I'm A Countryman | "Thanks to the editor of this magazine, the supply of Scandinavian experimental and psychedelic rock music in my post box never ends. The latest one comes from Rad Kjetil & the Loving Eye of God, presumably from Sweden. Who knows from which barn all these bands come, but anybody who passes Rad Kjetil without giving them a try will miss something. "Mattmar" is a total brainwash and as psychedelic as anything I´ve heard in a long ass time. While the album starts out really dark with a slow menacing drone, it soon becomes more friendly on the surface. But several seconds into the second track "Sen Ska Vi Se Vad Jag Sjunger", you will not know where left and right is anymore. A child´s voice babbles unintelligible words over stringed instruments and it gets more and more intense every minute. The third track "Dry Air Static Sparks Northern Skies" continues the mindfuck, only with different means. In the beginning an echoed male voices sings over backwards played guitars and when the voice gives way to the instrumental part, it´s almost as good as the best tunes by Steven R. Smith. "Dry Air" blends into the album´s title track which is maybe a tad too jam band. Although it´s very atmospherique and the interplay between the players is really good, the bassline and the guitar improvisation bits are too foreseeable and have been played in a similar way one too many times. The fifth track "Fylgia" takes the album back to more quiet waters. It shifts back and forth and features some lovely harmonium playing. Halfway through, a percussion player joins in and adds some structure to the otherwise hard to grasp track. Also the last tune mostly drones and features less of the heavy psychedelia of the first half of the album. Only after about five minutes, some earthshaking bass notes and handclaps remind us what we´ve already gone through and it all ends with a heavy blast of loud and epic Rawk. With these very different aspects to it, the album would actually be most suitable for a vinyl release, but on CD it has a similar positive effect. Among all the little known psychedelic bands currently on the market, Rad Kjetil & the Loving Eye of God is definitely one you should check out. 8/10" - Stephan Bauer, Foxy Digitalis |
| 12/29/2004 | Råd Kjetil and The Loving Eye Of God | Råd Kjetil and The Loving Eye Of God | CD | $19.99 | Goddamn I'm A Countryman | "Here's the deal - there is no deal. Wilmot says it all in his liner notes & here's my take on it, but obviously in other words. After all, words don't count. The heartbeat is what's important, the flow of the other side to which we may connect if we care enough. Råd Kjetil is a ghost of the past and the life to come, The Loving Eye Of God is equal parts gentle tides and raging seas. I don't know much else on this subject, but I can tell you about dark nights in the woods where no evil dwells for long. The music heard there is not the same as on this disc, but that doesn't mean the music of Råd Kjetil and The Loving Eye Of God is not as good. It's just different, and difference can be a thing to hold dear as well. There is certainly something happening here, but you don't know what it is - do you, Mr Jones?" - B.C. Wolff |
| 11/2/2011 | Radio People | Hazel | LP | $14.99 | Mexican Summer | "Slowly drifting over the horizon, into the realms of Mexican Summer, comes Radio People. The return of Cleveland, Ohio man Sam Goldberg's cosmic synthesizer project is cause for fanfare of the most blissful kind - his music is, after all, a beautiful, hovering behemoth worthy of celebration. Since 2007 Goldberg has become renowned for his slew of highly collectable cassettes, CDRs and VHS on such labels as the Emeralds-curated Wagon and Gneiss Things, Weird Forest, 905 Tapes, Catholic Tapes and Tusco/Embassy, while also finding the time to found his own prolific imprint Pizza Night. Radio People appeared in 2009, producing a similar cascade of material, with Digitalis Records carefully gathering a selection and committing them to vinyl a year later. Mexican Summer is proud to contribute to this legacy with his new album Hazel, a collection of dream-like soundscapes, billowing clouds of synthesizers cut with poignant razor drones, expansive sweeping melodies and suspended harmonies. When brought out of reverie, Radio People pushes ever onward with Italo and Kosmische pulses, concise percussion and sombre vocals, but when left for a while it is always happy to melt back into music for drooping eyelids and swollen hearts. Intergalactic drama at its best and most essential." |
| 11/6/2010 | Radio People | Leapt | c22 cassette | $7.99 | Deception Island | "Dear reader, you've probably never considered the notion that there might be beaches in Cleveland (full disclosure, my erstwhile hometown actually features one of the ten worst in the nation), but Pizza Nite impressario Sam Goldberg probably isn't letting your parochial mentality get him down. With Leapt, Goldberg, who works as a lone entity on this latest offering from his still fresh/exploratory Radio People project has delivered a suite of miniatures that go to the beach without going to the beach, if you take my meaning. Here, as in all of Sam's myriad endeavors, including Mist (with John Elliott), Free Time (with Mark McGuire), Docile Dawn (with Zach Troxell of Fragments), Pages, and his eponymous output, the animating concept is his own idiosyncratic take on the varied/storied traditions of bedroom recording, from the mossy, rainstreaked, and heartstring-tugging microcomposer-era futurism of "Korg" to the classic four-track aesthetic of the title track. "Finding One's Self" is made up of endlessly tumbling/unfurling synth riffs bisected by a gracefully hissing, atomized spray of pseudo-guitar, like a carnival swaddled in a heat-sick shimmer that rises from the pavement, or like the idea of amusement itself as a gas that someone, somewhere, who may or may not be you, is inhaling. "Leisure," on the other hand, proceeds with the sort of spare, courtly, and slightly menacing melodic poise that recalls Jarre's Les Granges Brulees, late La Dusseldorf, and Wendy Carlos circa A Clockwork Orange, while "The U.S," ironically enough, is more like a weird, stretched sort of italo, replete with bleary hustle, egg-frying pwm leads, and a self-aware sort of desire left in the backyard to evaporate in the late afternoon sun. It's a fitting conclusion to a summer that left your brain and mine too cooked for anything less lovely. Hand-numbered edition of 250." |
| 7/23/2010 | Radio People | The Rumor | CDR | $7.99 | High Spirits | |
| 9/29/2005 | Ragliani | Blood Piece 2 / For A.O. | CDR | $12.99 | Pegasus Farms | "Muscular, emotional, and richly layered electroacoustic works from America's middle west. With a more diverse range of sound sources than the earlier 'Inner Piece,' Raglani points in the direction of a new music that would consolidate the methodological innovations of the improv-electronic underground while broadening its expressive resources. Musique concrete for aggressive children, noise determined to make you cry, any lingering distinctions between composition and improvisation are here happily erased." |
| 9/29/2005 | Ragliani | Inner Piece 1 / Inner Piece 2 | CDR | $12.99 | Pegasus Farms | "Tonal fetishism. Raglani's most ascetic pieces tend towards a resistant materialism; high frequencies are marshalled to serve contemplative, rather than assaultive, ends. Falling neither on the side of noise nor that of the dryer strains of contemporary European electronics, Raglani improvises into being the layered space he would later fill with more direct allusions to melody and memory. |
| 9/29/2005 | Ragliani / Scenic Railroads | split | CDR | $14.99 | Gameboy / Pegasus Farms | Raglani's contribution to this split comes in the form of three tracks motivated by a more focused attention to narrative elements and the microrelations between layers of sound. Musical and nonmusical sources dissolve into one another, filling the air with solid memories. Structurally, these pieces are Raglani's most fully realized, and they contain his most explicit nods in the direction of melody. Another chapter in the ongoing negotiation for an affectively deeper form of electroacoustic music. Along with Scenic Railroad's (Mike Shiflet and Joe Panzer) 4 digital improvisations, this disc plays excellently off each other creating a disc with a consistent, organic flow. An edition of 500. co-released with Shiflet's Gameboy records and printed at the infamous thumbprint press." |
| 2/14/2008 | Rahdunes | Rahdunes | LP | $24.99 | QBICO | Picture disk, cover by QBICO. Recorded 2007, two tracks on side A and one on side B. "Originally from Sacramento, CA this is a rude boy duo. The record begins with some of the most crude and rough guitar/drums duo ever! Then you'll drift toward a far away place... to be finally hypnotized for 25 minutes by a side long track... derailing!" |
| 7/28/2011 | Rail Band | Orchestre Rail-Band de Bamako | LP | $15.99 | Mississippi Records | "Reissued for the first time, the legendary Malian Rail Band's classic '70 debut LP. Based out of the Buffet Bar of the Station Hotel in Bamako, the band was sponsored by the Ministry of Information. Swirling afro-latin guitars & horns. Malian folk songs modernized & played by some of the country's finest musicians including Tidani Kone & Salif Keita." |
| 7/30/2006 | Rainey, Bhob | Two Bites of a Bitter Sweet | 7" | $5.99 | Evolving Ear | "Bhob Rainey is an established bigwig of the global improv / noise / experimental underground as a result of his work alongside trumpeter Greg Kelley in the influential duo, nmperign, his direction of the improvising juggernaut, The BSC, and his numerous solo works and collaborations with the likes of Jason Lescalleet, Gunter Muller, Ralf Wehowsky, Le Quan Ninh, Alessandro Bosetti, and Michel Doneda, among others. Two Bites of a Bitter Sweet is his first release of purely electronic music, and Evolving Ear is tickled to be the messenger on this one. The material on the two side-long, 33rpm pieces ranges from homemade synth textures to field recordings from Lisbon, Venice, Huelva, and other, unremembered locations. There's some singing by Naomi Yang (Damon and Naomi) and Bhob himself, and some words of wisdom from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Overall, a woozy alternate reality is offered for repeated dream pool swims. Beautiful, hallucinatory artwork by Elaine Kaufmann." - label. |
| 6/27/2009 | Raionbashi | In Teufel's Kuche | 10" | $14.99 | Absurd / Ignivomous | "To say there is a lot of information on the cover of Raionbashi's 'In Teufel's Kuche'... well, no. I came across the name Raionbashi before, on two compilations, but I have no idea who or what it is. The label says 'All Voices, Noises, Instruments, Body-Functions & Apostrophes by DL' and that this is a follow up to 'Kollekte', a LP for Hanson Records in 2006. The music is great, yet hard to define. Is it musique concrete? Perhaps one could say it is. There is the use of piano sounds, various objects picked up with contact microphones and perhaps some voice material. But what Raionbashi does with this material is not drown it in electronic processing, but built in various layers of unprocessed nature. Lots of layers it seems, but with various moments of silence built in. I perhaps wrongly expected some noise, but this is far from it. This is some great obscured music (as opposed to obscure music), with some intense moments. Not easy listening, but one that grows every time you play it." (FdW) - Vital Weekly |
| 7/16/2006 | Raised by Wolves | Tipping the Grinning Monkey | CDR | $8.99 | Curor Recordings | "Raised by Wolves remind us that real power comes from knowing when to hold back, and Tipping the Grinning Monkey is an exercise in endlessly delayed gratification. The power duo of Andy Pyne on drums and Matt Colegate on electric guitar consistently refuse to give us the avalanche of feedback and clattering drums that we think we want. Instead, playing with considerable restraint, they tantalise the listener with brief moments that only suggest the geological forces swelling beneath, and it's this that keeps us wanting more. Over the course of eight psyched-out improvisations, they lay to waste every tedious genre-description, leaving them flattened and smoking like peasant villages after ethnic cleansing. Tipping the Grinning Monkey sounds like nothing so much as Sonny Sharrock playing the songs of Glenn Branca to a Jaki Liebezeit drum track. Their fourth album, it marks the close of one chapter and the beginning of another in Raised by Wolves' development; it is both their first away from their own Foolproof Projects label, and the last that will feature the duo lineup." |
| 6/11/2006 | Rakhim | untitled | one-sided LP | $20.99 | QBICO | "One-sided marbled white vinyl, cover by Tom Backström featuring Jussi Lehtisalo (vocals) and Janne Tuomi (percussions) recorded somewhere, sometime in Finland. "dark side project by members of the Circle band: tribal/primitive percussions, archaic and mysterious voices/vibrations..." |
| ralph haxton | A Thing Or Two About Etiquette | 7" | $4.99 | Gyttja | 1997 release. | |
| 2/15/2005 | Ram Umbus | Swing Low | LP | $14.99 | Ecstatic Yod | "Sole known recording by this harshly proletarian improv unit from Brooklyn. They supposedly have been around for a long time, but they exist in the shadows of the hip world on downtown NYC & choose (as Chain Gang did before them) to create and man their own scene. High powered at times, resolutely unfocussed at others, this is their music." - Byron Coley. Volume 5 in the COTAR (Center Of The Ass Run) series. |
| 1/25/2011 | Rambutan | Dislocated Time | c30 cassette | $9.99 | D'artagnan Records | "Time warp sanctuary - four-dimensional faces." Edition of 40 copies. |
| 8/31/2010 | Rambutan | Dream of a Future Desert | c60 cassette | $5.99 | Stunned | "It's no accident that this is Rambutan's third entry in Stunned's catalog, and hopefully it won't be his last. Appearing to have slowed the prolific pace of his 2009 solo offerings, we were starting to wonder what's been brewing in Eric Hardiman's cauldron for 2010. Then this luminous hour was slipped our way, and we instantly realized what the wait was about. 'Dream of a Future Desert' is Rambutan's personal zeitgeist of ethereal texture-craft and his definitive statement of the year. With an evolved ear for deep sonorous spaces, Hardiman maneuvers his glistening guitar & honeydripping synth lines into an overall manifestation of desert mirage and articulation of oasis air. Epic in scope and mesmerizing in its holographic nature, 'Dream of a Future Desert' presents itself as an absolutely essential chapter in Rambutan's inimitable discography. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c60 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert." |
| 1/24/2009 | Rambutan | Rusted Prayers Converge | CDR | $7.99 | Tape Drift | "CDR Debut solo release from Eric Hardiman of Century Plants and Burnt Hills. From ghostly noisescapes to swirling organic drone plateaus to pure guitar improvisations, Hardiman floats in and out of various sound worlds on this one, yet always ties things together with a thoughtful and compelling sonic thread. Four tracks recorded basement style deep in the night, and it shows. Dig in, yet another surprise from the Century Plants camp." |
| 3/21/2007 | Rameses III | Honey Rose EP | CD | $8.99 | Important Records | "Rameses III are architects of the most beautiful swathes of blissful ambience whose releases have previously found homes on labels like Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Music Fellowship, Scarcelight, MYMWLY, Barl Fire and Type. On Honey Rose, the group's first release for Important, the South London trio build a bucolic soundtrack to Jon Spira's mysterious short film Suityman. Whilst the influence of Bruce Langhorne, Boxhead Ensemble and much of the 4AD roster can be keenly felt on this six song EP, so too can the wondrous drone narratives that are such a feature of Rameses III's previous works." |
| 3/6/2010 | Ramleh | Hole In The Heart | double CD | $21.99 | Dirter Promotions | "Originally issued by Gary Mundy's own Broken Flag label in 1987 on cassette, this is UK noise/industrial/power electronics wizards Ramleh's Hole In The Heart, now expanded and remastered on a double CD set, also including material from their 1987 Nerve cassette release. Here at last, is part of the "missing link" in the long and ever-evolving history of Ramleh. This material bridges the gap between the (for want of a better description) early "power electronics" material and the (for want of a better description) later "noise rock." Neither of these terms do justice to this pioneering group led by Gary Mundy. To quote Anthony Di Franco (the other half of the band these days): "...swirling phased feedback, fuzzed vocals and guitars. At the same time there were melodies, words and structures in the music, which itself consisted of very simple electronic and acoustic elements magnified to a colossal scale...." This music has a harmonic beauty, if you look for it, that all its imitators lack. Listen and you will hear the genesis of what was to follow from many '90s underground bands such as label mates and close collaborators, Skullflower. This double CD set is packaged in the classic Broken Flag stark, monochrome style." |
| 5/16/2010 | Range Rats | Range Rats | LP | $14.99 | Mississippi Records | "Recorded in 1986 & completely unreleased until now - this is Fred & Toody Cole's (Weeds, Lollipop Shoppe, Zipper, Torpedoes, Rats, Western Front, Desperate Edge, Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, & so on) great lost country LP! All original compositions...some sad lilting ballads & some punk as hell. Two songs feature Fred & Toddy playing with 'Rollie', a janky Roland drum machine that didn't keep a consistent meter very well. The rest of the songs were recorded with a lean mean band. We are very proud to bring this LP into the world for the first time - another facet of the genius of Fred & Toody Cole & low-fi as can be. Housed in an oldschool tip-on sleeve." |
| 11/6/2010 | Ranil y su Conjunto Tropical | Ranil's Jungle Party | LP | $16.99 | Masstropicas | "With this release, Masstropicas begins its fascinating journey through time into 1970's Peru. Peruvian cumbia, the heartbeat of the nation that was and is loved by millions, has been rescued and is now being lovingly introduced to North American audiences. There's no better way to start than with the hypnotic electric guitars of the jungle, fabulously played by Ranil & his Tropical Band. The band originally hails from the Belen district of Iquitos, nestled within the heart of the Amazonian rainforest. The town is famous for being flooded for several months, transforming it into a steamy South American Venice, which undoubtedly influences its people and their music. During our journey, you'll enjoy the different sounds of jungle music we bring to your stereo. Mix a bit of lush greenery, cool waters, surging heat, sweat, joy, and psychedelia -- Ranil & his Tropical Band are the final product." |
| 3/21/2009 | Rat Owl / AC/DP | split | cassette | $7.99 | Middle James Co. | "TERROR TAPES vol 33. RAT OWL / AC/DP c60. side a=RAT OWL shit noise trio of Smith, Payne & Coltrane from recordings of two sessions in the Hermitage Tapes basement studio. 1st piece August 2 2008=3am freak haze on Hermitage homemade instruments and toasted electronics. creeped minimal outersiderspaced orchestra pit scrape and save.;;; 2nd piece from freedom scat sessions recorded on the 4th of July- mangled murk mess of murders burst sax blurts + tape squirts even some skin smacking fireworks with AC behind the kit. side b=AC/DP tho the duo is rather prolific, this bit of tape captures the first movements of the Coltrane/Payne beast together in one space at an early morning session in the Hermitage den. alien breakfast looped like soup. limited to 33." |
| 2/7/2009 | Ratas Del Vaticano | Mocosos Pateticos | LP | $14.99 | Siltbreeze | "Ratas Del Vaticano ("Rats of the Vatican") are a quartet hailing from Monterrey, Mexico, who assail ears with a most excellent assemblage of punk spew that can best be pitched as "Killed By Death-like." Some of the slicker dicks out there will be familiar with Mocosos Pateticos ("Pathetic Kids") already, as it was available for a short time in 2008 as a download on David Serrano's Nene label. But for those unconcerned with being the emperors of ice cream, Siltbreeze put their money where your mouth is and are making this fantastic release available on the much-in-vogue LP format. Originally formed as a drunken joke (where have you heard that one before?), Ratas Del Vaticano quickly realized they were onto something. With the addition of Violeta on bass (fresh from a quick stint as second guitarist for Los Llamarada), the band felt solidified enough to cut some tracks. And, man, can these guys slice 'n' dice! Guttural, sneering, cynical, sarcastic, Ratas Del Vaticano dish it out in buckets like rancid pozole. Tack on the crude, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants recording quality, and you've got a monster to rival the likes of Sods, Mentally Ill, Guilty Razors, Sperma, or Tampax in the pantheon of Killed By Death's greatest scuzz gladiators. Pressed in an edition of 700; look for Ratas Del Vaticano to play the Siltbreeze showcase at the forthcoming 2009 SXSW in Austin, and maybe even a US tour later in the year." |
| 4/22/2009 | Rats | Intermittent Signals | LP | $14.99 | Mississippi | "The second release by Portland's own Rats. Fred and Toody's pre-Dead Moon outfit. This record hails from 1981 and holds a place in Portland punk history. Considerably better sound quality compared to the first record. Poster included, tip-on jackets." |
| 2/19/2007 | Rats With Wings | Aide-Memoire | DBL LP | $27.99 | Heard Worse | "Absolutely killer vinyl release from Sydney based sound human, ebay enthusiast and explorer of all things noisy esoteric and damaged. Material taken from various CD-R releases of recent years. This is SUPREME analogue grief, haunted clatter, half-demon metallics, and good ol timey feedback. Really this rat has been spewing forth golden wares for a long time now and it's nice to see a vinyl release which may give him much warranted recognition. Shit hot! Material taken from CD-R releases: The Fish Rots From The Head (unreleased), Southern Oscillation Index (HoLR) CDR-RWW (MIR), Ratified Loopholes (AEN), Ashtray Cabbage (Fiend), Get And Put (Deadline), Out Vile Jelly! (Gold Soundz), Night Science and Underground Australia compilations (Cipher Productions). Package has a damaged CD glued to the cover." - synaesthesia |
| 9/30/2005 | Rats With Wings | Out Vile Jelly! | CDR | $10.99 | Gold Soundz | "All new 75 minute electronic hot soup from mr Burston!!" |
| 11/10/2003 | Rauhan Orkesteri | Felix | 3" CDR | $6.99 | 267 lattajjaa | 4 tracks - 20+ minutes of mellow but mind-blowing free-jazz. "Call it free music, call it jazz, even free jazz, improvised music... You can use whatever names you wish to describe the sound of Rauhan Orkesteri (= Orchestra Of Peace). But one thing's sure: few words can describe the FIRE AND PASSION these cats put in their music!!! It's so boiling and joyful, that it makes you wonder: 'What are they thinking??!!'" |
| 10/26/2004 | Rauhan Orkesteri | Hyppy Tunti | 7" | $7.99 | Pohjoisten Kukkaiten Äänet | October 2004 release from free jazz quartet of Antti Tolvi, Ville Jolanki, Tero Kemppainen, and Jaako Tolvi who reside in Turku, Finland. This 3 track ep is another fine release to follow up their now repressed self-titled lp and the still available 3” cdr ‘Feliz’. |
| 10/16/2003 | Rauhan Orkesteri | Rauhan Orkesteri | LP | $17.99 | Pohjoisten Kukkaiten äänet / LalLalLal | “Call it free music, call it jazz, even free jazz, improvised music... You can use whatever names you wish to describe the sound of RAUHAN ORKESTERI (= Orchestra Of Peace). But one thing's sure: few words can describe the FIRE AND PASSION these cats put in their music!!! It's so boiling and joyful, that it makes you wonder: ‘What are they thinking??!!’ I tell you, this is the sound of awareness! When they play, you just get nailed to the floor... there's so many things going on, that your mind will feel no need for ‘normal’ music in a while. Totally insane and at the same time the only sane thing around. You should catch these guys live. If you are in Finland be sure to find out about club TULIPESÄ in Turku, for evenings of improvisation that feature one or many of these guys, but also other surprising people performing... This album is recorded in the outdoors for the most part, and it is in MONO!!!!!! How cool is that???!!!” |
| 7/16/2006 | Rauhan Orkesteri & Laukheat Lampaat | Sylissain Oot | CD | $15.99 | Ache | "We are proud to announce the release of Rauhan Orkesteri (Peace Orchestra)/ Lauhkeat Lampaat (Meek Sheep) CD originally released on LP in 2005 on Italian label, Qbico; ten pieces of free-improv-folk-jazz from Finland, with a distinctive foundation of playful vigor and heartening spirit. It's an organic improv session that breathes countryside air, sensing the grass between its toes. Deeply routed in the incestuous Finnish psych-folk-experimental scene, the family tree of this four-piece has many branches, including the duo, Lauhkeat Lampaat who are peppered throughout this release. These pieces are differentiated by higher timbres and a slightly more tongue-in-cheek air (they are also distinguished by the asterisk in the song listing). Rauhan Orkesteri has to be one of Europe's most exciting new free jazz outfits, filled with a rarely encountered joyful energy floating on a fantastic search into the free realms of the outer possibilities of sound. No cause for intellectual drama here, Antti Tolvi, Ville Jolanki (reeds), Jaakko Tolvi (percussion) and Tero Kemppainen (bass) need no more then the direct physical contact between body and instrument for their sonic onslaughts that in no time go from hectic outbursts to warm and mellow soft blows." LP version in stock, too. |
| 2/26/2006 | Raven Strain | Trisagion | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "Ever heard of the NORTHVILLE TUNNELS?? It's these underground tunnels in Northville, MI that lead to an old abandoned Mental Hosptial. A teenaged RAVEN STRAIN aka MATT BILLINGS used to hang out in those tunnels... ALOT! This is totally the sound of creeping thru there high on paint, seeing only by the light of a shitty BIC mini lighter... runnin around the hospital and reading the forgotten files of the inmates that once lived there. I remember him telling me a story of snakin some old filing cabinet from there and draggin em home thru the tunnels. I think he recorded that and put it on this tape. Total abandonment, illness, and drugs." |
| 4/24/2006 | Raven Strain | untitled | 7" | $25.99 | AA Records | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. |
| 2/4/2007 | Raven Strain / Sick Llama | Before Juice and Bondo | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "colab. you might have got the first cuts from this session on the WE tour. we took a break to go score some weEed, came back to HAM studios and this is whut happened..... electronics,garbage tapes. edition 50." |
| 4/10/2009 | Raw Kites | I Can See the Light, I Just Can't Feel It | CDR | $9.99 | Bug Incision | "Dadge and Krause met in 2006 and began playing together the following year in a trio called Hidden Fortress, with Thom Golub. In August of 2007, they toured with trumpet-whiz Peter Evans for his first Canadian jaunt and recorded these sides while they were at it. This collection features the choicest chunks of what went on in a living room and in a dance studio in Edmonton. Released in Vancouver (Krause's home) in February 2009. limited edition of 75, with 2 color photos." chris dadge / percussion, violin, amplified objects, shane krause / baritone saxophone, clarinet |
| 2/5/2004 | Raw Thug | Raw Thug | CDR | $12.99 | U-Sound | "Very little known about Aurther Kalow / Raw Thug. We crossed paths with him in Louisville and again, randomly in Hudson NY, where he gave us this cd. Simple, but diverse...Raw Thug presents his tunes with the immediacy of Arthur Doyle. This document is all over the place, percussion with vocals, haunting keyboards, cut up electronics...rocked in a minimal, unique, voice." First 50 come with a limited poster sleeve - these are available now. |
| 5/18/2011 | Raw Thug | Sugar Pills | cassette | $5.99 | Bezoar Formations | "Bold as it might seem, we feel that it's safe to proclaim Alan aka Raw Thug (aka Arsenio Zignoto aka Arthur Kalow aka The Brothers San Angeliquez akaŠ) to be Louisville, Kentucky's very own Magical Power Mako (from the earlier end of that spectrum, of course). Yes, we all know that in this post-Pessoa musical landscape the usage of shifting pseudonyms and heteronyms are quite the fashion. Who doesn't like sporting a new mask every once in a while, right? Raw Thug, however, is just one of many distinct and self-contained musical cosmologies blooming from this good gentleman's noggin. Having done time in many of Louisville's finer subterranean outfits, most notably as a mainstay in Sapat (whose "Mortise and Tenon" LP on Siltbreeze from a while back was a real gem of head-spinning, free-spirit group-think), it's safe to say that Alan is fully comfortable occupying his own musical territory. We initially met Alan on his first-ever visit to San Francisco, through a mutual friend's whole-hearted recommendation. Before we knew it, he was sitting on our floor playing computer music that he had made during his multi-day train ride out west that sounded a lot like Conlon Nancarrow's player piano inside of a deserted Bell Labs basement. After that, we knew it was all sunshine. Eventually, Alan started to send us regular cd-r packages, each being a new window into his creative universe. It didn't take long before we insisted on dispersing something into the world for a wider discerning audience. "Sugar Pills" indeed has that Mako blueprint of morphing genres within the arc of a song or two (pieces of outer-realm reed playing, laid-back porch-sitter psych, electro-acoustic composition, some near-Parliament funk-modes, etc.), trailing bursts of inspiration and genius modes of keen imitation, though now transported from Shibuya to Butchertown. Though we've spent only a couple of days in Louisville in our time, "Sugar Pills" seems to sound the way the town felt to us as outsiders: relaxed and leisurely, distinctive and idiosyncratic, and inexplicably strange in all the very best ways." |
| 11/21/2009 | Ray Off | Douitashimasite | CDR | $10.99 | Black Petal | "It is the long-awaited return of Ray Off (Jim Currin of United Fairy Moons, with Tim Cornelius of Sandoz Lab Technicians and other peoples). This one is a really great Ray Off release.. there has been some lineup changes and there are some new vocalists in the band.. some of it is in the dreamy tone float vein of their previous album, but they are also rocking out a bit more.." |
| 2/26/2006 | Ray Pacino Ensemble, The | Be my Lonely Night | cassette | $6.99 | LalLalLal | "Album full of recordings from the late 90's by this wonderful Swedish trio closely connected to Johannes Nilsson. Packed with folkish wibes and hypnotic hi&lo-fi grooves they sound like the summer sun shining through the smoke of tar production. At the same time it gives you a feeling of eating well and starting to get drunk after a long day in the tar fields. Every song is great like every dance you dance on the dancefloor on a cruiser on the same night. The tape stops just before the police takes you to prison because of otherworldly dancing and wrestling with your beloved ones." |
| 1/1/2008 | Razoul Uzlu | Lost and Found Adventures | LP | $22.99 | Monalisa | "The six pieces, now released by Monolisa Records, are part of a private tape released in 1992 by Razoul Uzlu (aka Raymond Dijkstra). The music on this album, created through automic writing, is a kind of imaginary animation music with a nice blend of collage and harmony, from sober sweetness to neurotic alienation. Multitracked synthesizer with voices and noises are the basic ingredients of these adventurous mono recordings. The cover of the record, also made by Razoul Uzlu, is a collage of selected prints of old engravings and texts. This is the first Monolisa release in an edition of 500 copies with stamped and numbered innersleeve." - Monolisa. Out of print. |
| 11/21/2009 | Real Estate | Real Estate | CD | $13.99 | Woodsist | “REAL ESTATE waft in on vibes of hazy summers past. The New Jersey quartet cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat. Every song works its way to that part of your consciousness that reveled in the fleeting waves of freedom that eked in once classes broke and the sun lingered a little longer over suburban roofs. And with three quarters of the band holding down Garden State roots its no surprise that a bit of Jersey indie-pop heritage sneaks its way into their sound, lifting the most sun streaked moments from The Feelies and Yo La Tengo and filtering them through the kaleidoscope of memories aimless drives through parched neighborhood streets. MARTIN COURTNEY’s songwriting has a way of wrapping up the immediacy of youth with the ennui of age for the perfect shade of bittersweet bliss, mind you though, much heavier on the sweet than the bitter. Add to this MATTHEW MONDANILE’s (DUCKTAILS, PREDATOR VISION) shimmering guitar strains full of equal parts sea foam and beer foam, pepper in the boardwalk clatter of ETIENNE PIERRE DUGUAY’s drums, ALEX BLEEKER’s staccato low end and the perfect afternoon is just a lawn chair and boom box away.”—Andy French (Raven Sings the Blues) Received a Best New Music, 8.5 rating from Pitchfork." |
| 4/3/2011 | Red Electric Rainbow | Dark Days | LP | $21.99 | Aguirre Records | "Vinyl debut by 21st century face melter and sonic explorer Daniel D. Smith. Dark Days offers us mesmerizing synth explorations reminiscent of Caboladies & John Elliott. Get youself prepared for the Technocalyps with this record as the ideal soundtrack. Chicago based Daniel D. Smith also runs the Neon Blossom label. All music recorded June 2010 using a Nord Lead 2. Limited to 200 copies." |
| 7/5/2011 | Red Electric Rainbow | Fluorescent Landscapes | c46 cassette | $6.99 | Rocket Machine Tapes | "Originally released as a free download, Rocket Machine is pleased to give these two tracks from synth wizard Dan Smith a cassette release. Recorded in real time using an Akai GXC-730D and a Denon DR-M33HX onto Chrome Type II cassette. Edition of 50." |
| 10/25/2008 | Red Favorite | Red Favorite | LP | $16.99 | Streamline | "Red Favorite, a cycle of compositions for guitars, electronics and voices created by Jeremy Pisani was first released as a limited edition CD on Spirit of Orr and is now offered, as it was originally conceived to appear, on an LP. He moved closer and looked through the peephole. And he saw: the world stretched out before him, a quiet and gentle space with a broad expanse of grass that practically glistened in its greenness. A sparkling brook ran through the meadow in the middle distance, and now he saw that the grass was dotted with the pale blue and soft yellow of many blooming flowers, which, half hidden in the grass, stared out at him like so many frightened eyes. On a distant hilltop stood a grove of small pink trees, covered and obscured by the astonishing pinkness of their blossoms. The world had a sense of freshness, as if it might only be minutes old -- washed clean by a careful springtime rain, dried and scrubbed by a solicitous breeze, burnished to its brightness by the rays of a gentle sun. It was an uncomplicated place, a very simple place. But what it had was quite enough; it had all it needed." |
| 10/14/2010 | Redemption Inc. | Live in Amesbury and Dundee | CDR | $9.99 | Music Mundane | "Two complete live shows from late 1986/early 1987 from this short-lived post-ESP Kinetic project, featuring Neil Campbell, Stewart Walden, MS Turner, Andrew Watson and Caroline Gormley. Both sets have the band set up temporary camp in resolutely hostile outposts, riding roughshod over a series of primitive songs and out into more freeform territory, and both are charged with the barely-suppressed mania and folly of youth. Amesbury is a super-saturated desk tape, playing to a half-full cinema of bemused pop-rock fans, with the set terminated by a power-cut (or possibly the venue's owners pulling the plug). Dundee is a gritty audience tape, with a full-capacity angry punk crowd who don't hesitate to voice their feelings - once the songs give way to the freakouts, several punters invade the stage and set up an impromtu anarcho chorus-rant over the din. The dementia is channelled and driven forward throughout the disk by the relentlessly forward energy of the MS Turner's drumming, a true force of nature. 11 tracks, 56 minutes." |
| Reed, Loud | Metal Machine Music | CD | $16.99 | RCA Germany | Reissue of 1975 double LP of pure noise. | |
| 5/4/2011 | Reed, Rick | The Way Things Go | double LP + download | $23.99 | Elevator Bath | "Here, finally, is the gorgeous presentation that astronomy domine Rick Reed's music so richly deserves: Two black vinyl LPs, pressed on 180-gram virgin vinyl, with full-color labels, inside black poly-lined sleeves, housed in a matte-finish full-color gatefold jacket adorned with Reed's vibrant and fantastically evocative paintings. Included with each copy of this set is a full-color download card featuring access to high-quality MP3s of the complete contents of the vinyl records. This package has been issued in an edition of 515 copies. Welcome to an atmospheric realm of blurred synth drones, textural shortwave radio, and vivid sine waves. Welcome to the highly individual sonic world of Rick Reed. For around 25 years now Reed has been toiling away, composing, performing, and fine-tuning his craft of very personal and powerful electronic meditation. And his expertise is plainly evident. His is incredibly engaging music with an almost physical presence. Reed's level of mastery is virtually unparalleled -- it seems that no one else can combine these elements with quite the same finesse, with the same ear for arrangement, or with the same sense of purpose. If Rick Reed's is not yet a household name it is likely due to his relatively slim body of work. The Way Things Go, then, is an attempt at resolving this issue, for here are 83 worthy minutes of top-shelf electronic tonalities." |
| 6/19/2007 | Reggae, The | Balthar | cassette | $7.99 | Tipped Bowler | "Fifteen-plus minutes of astral debris from the Reggaee, aka Florian Tositti of Angers, France. With previous releases on Ruralfaune and his own Vilaaaviivivi imprint, Tosittiti has mapped a space of eternal-drone now sound channeled through a roomful of instruments and old tape decks. Balthar's two side-long tracks of blissful whirring and buried, distant percussion catch the Reggaee at his best. The A-side is lodged inside a dream of vocal clouds and scattered bells, with the nocturnal kicking of the dreamer audible in the fog. The B-side ebbs to nightmare, ending in bleak tonal decay. Full-color cardstock covers with two inserts and sprayed tapes." Edition of 68. |
| 2/4/2007 | Reid, James | Like A Buzzard Chased By Crows | CDR | $12.99 | Barl Fire | "Like A Buzzard Chased By Crows is the debut album from the Fife based singer-songwriter James Reid. With a love for the Autumnal pastoralia of Nick Drake, forays into the woods, homemade wine, and the legendary Wickerman soundtrack, Reid combines these passions to deliver his own lo-fi folk sketches of the beautiful, and sometimes strange, rural landscapes and hedgerow habitats of his native Scotland. Armed with acoustic guitar, mandolin, a broken-down dictaphone, some demijohns and blessed with a golden larynx, Reid weaves melodies and atmospheres that draw favourable comparison to contempories like Greg Weeks and classics such as Drake's "Pink Moon" and David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name". "Like A Buzzard Chased By Crows" features cover-art by Reid himself, is packaged in jewel cases and limited to 200 copies." |
| 11/2/2011 | Reinhardt, Jonas | The Prime Revealer / Only Pharaoh | 12" | $13.99 | Great Pop Supplement | "New up on The GPS is a beautiful new Jonas Reinhardt 12" EP, a debut UK release arriving hot on the heels of their acclaimed Not Not Fun LP "Music For The Tactile Dome" earlier this year, (following essential earlier outings on Kranky and KRAAK.) Initially a project launched by San Francisco based Jesse Reiner, who began writing and creating analog synthesiser music over 10 years ago whilst studying music synthesis at the Harvard Electronic Music Centre. (Recently extended to a 4 piece for the road and future recording, by one time and current members of Trans Am, Mi Ami, Citay and 3 Leafs amongst others). 2 deep trip kosmische pieces, heavy on rich 'Cyborg'-esque swells and pulsing drones, expansive ebb and flow, simmer and swell kraut soundscapes aimed at the stars! Hypnotic, warm and melodic with a celestial eeriness. Shades of Froese and Schulze figure for sure, with the odd passing nod to some of the later Sky oeuvre; "Sonnenlicht", "Synthesist", later Cluster etcŠ Cut and mastered at Abbey Road, this one looks just beautiful too. Side A of this 12 is cut as a 7" played at 45 and Side B cut as a 10" at 33. 11+ mins of music overall. Both sides featuring on disc etching from GPS head, Dom, also at Abbey Road. An incredible record in top opening pro-printed sleeves in a numbered edition of 500 on vinyl only." |
| 9/17/2009 | Relentless Corpse | Post-Industrial Nightmare | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "Wyatt Howland, Andrew Kirschner, David Russell and Zach Trozell super group nightmare. harsh and fierce. some guy in the beginning is trying to tell you something important but it is heard and recorded thru the ears of the un-listening masses. can't decide to kill some brews and skate a mini or shoot guns at rocks! hand-numbered / painted edition 35." |
| 6/19/2007 | Religious Knives | In Brooklyn After Dark | 12" | $29.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "Another new 12-inch from Brooklyn's RELIGIOUS KNIVES-members of DOUBLE LEOPARDS and MOUTHUS. Two new songs- "In Brooklyn After Dark" and "The Hand"-pressed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies." |
| 5/29/2008 | Religious Knives | Its After Dark | LP | $14.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "Brooklyn's RELIGIOUS KNIVES-members of DOUBLE LEOPARDS / MOUTHUS-deliver a brand new full-length featuring the full on "band" with drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards/electronics. Overdriven by dual male/female vocals. The follow up to the bands In Brooklyn After Dark EP." Highly recommended! |
| 6/19/2007 | Religious Knives | Lock | 12" | $29.99 | Heavy Tapes | "A brand new limited edition 12-inch from Brooklyn's RELIGIOUS KNIVES-members of DOUBLE LEOPARDS / MOUTHUS. Two new songs- "Luck" is played on melodica, synth, bass, and drums, and is a slow and raw picture, a downer song literally recorded less than an hour after the band got in a car accident. "In the Back" is a loud and distant blast, with blaring synths, overdriven dual male / female vocals, written with the noise stage in mind. Packaged in silk-screened white sleeves with photocopied inserts and stamped labels. Edition of 500, 33 1/3rd RPM." |
| 2/11/2006 | Religious Knives | RK3 | DBL cassette | $29.99 | Heavy Tapes | "Mono and direct to tape recordings from the Heavy Tapes bosses. Organ, percussion, and indian bells in a slow motion chorus at the feet of the wheat grass catbed-shrine in the room with all the windows. Recorded as close to the pulse as possible, trying to remember the conversations we've had, and channeling the flea market in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico: Orchid Fingers, miniature ducks, saintly dogs and salted fish. Close your eyes and just like that, you're there. |
| 4/27/2011 | Religious Knives | Smokescreen | LP | $14.99 | Sacred Bones | "The core duo of Michael Bernstein (gtr, synth, vox) and Maya Miller (organ, vox) began their careers together as the extreme noise act, Double Leopards. By 2005, they had left the industrial noise realm for the somewhat mellower pastures of Kraut explorations. Their last album on Ecstatic Peace was highly acclaimed and co-produced by label owner Thurston Moore. This new long-player is in a similar vein--long, drawn out and sprawling--the shortest song is just shy of the five minute mark. Pulse-like repetition and reed-organ oscillations are the main framework as the duo are joined here by Todd Cavallo on bass and Ryan Nadieau on drums. Like SB label-mates Moon Duo, or the recent Chilean signings of Follakzoid and The Holydrug Couple, Religious Knives draw from a well of pounding rhythmic drums and psychedelic drones with heavy organ and synth landscapes which envelope the listener fully. The Knives also have previous releases on No Fun and Troubleman Unlimited. |
| 4/24/2006 | Religious Knives | untitled | 7" | $25.99 | AA Records | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. |
| 4/16/2007 | Religious Knives & The Haunting | Live in the Cove | cassette | $8.99 | Heavy Tapes | "When you're "a couple," there's nothing better than finding another couple that you connect with. Here, husband and Wife teams Religious Knives and The Haunting (Mike and Tara Connelly) hook up for a late night pyjama jam after a full evening of eating, drinking, and relaxing. We knew we were friends, but would the jams work out? I think we found out that we have as much in common in terms of sound and approach as we do in taste for food and wine. Creaking, reverb, a jar full of marbles, and a lot of atmosphere. You don't need to be full and sitting by candlelight to enjoy this, but it helps." |
| 4/16/2007 | Reminguez | Stupid With Brains | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Universal Indian Bryan Ramirez's solo damage from 1996. Over 45 minutes of one mans screwed up wrestling with broken gear. Tapes, turntable, electronics, feedback, percussion, sweat and grease. Total no-fidelity dementia, like a lone flickering lightbulb in some damp, sodden Michigan basement." |
| 11/2/2011 | Remörk | Symphonie Monotrone | one-sided c20 cassette | $10.99 | No Basement Is Deep Enough | "A 20 minutes improv n' paste composition in 5 movements. A surprisingly simple feedback-and-forward experiment for acoustic guitar and Korg Monotron, each in it's own self-sustaining stew. Distorted, resonant drones and strategic interruptions. Off course it's 'just noise', as the neighbours would say." -- Kris Delacourt. Part of the batch of non-smoker stoner skronk this Antwerp synth/electronics builder & Ultra Eczema masterer, merciless guitar slayer and all-round tech wunderkind brought back after a pseudo-isolation at Count Grishnack's former playground. Hunt down this ouchhhsssome Rotcobain and harras him until he sells you some beautiful 'post-Cagean sound sculptures versus grandpa accordion' elpees by the Building Transmissions troupe he was involved with for almost 10 years. And while you're there, pick up a copy of the best Kempische black metal 7" in a darn while, Knotmees's Pro Patria Taxandria- all thru & beyond. Ltd. to 51 hand-made and numbered copies -- comes in a swank wooden construction by Henri 'bompa' Van Beersel & with a gorgeous photo by Babs Decruyenaere, both neat visual representations of the two interlocking closed systems you'll hear on the cassette." |
| 6/9/2011 | Remote Islands | Days of Heaven | c46 cassette | $6.99 | Stunned | "Remote Islands ringleader Colin Pate joined up with fifteen of his other talented Philadelphian friends and over the course of a year crafted 'Days of Heaven,' the leftfield pop masterpiece proudly presented on this c46 cassette. Whether it was unpredictable fate, good karma, or sheer serendipity we don't know - somehow this crew connected with Stunned Records and shared with us the best unsolicited demo the label has received in three years of operation. Colin's nimble songwriting turns a dozen numbers into absolute gemstones in the hands of his ensemble who represent themselves on 24 different instruments. Take everything that's been effective, uncompromised, and lasting about rock & pop music of the past and present. It'll be found in spades here, and with its own distinctly unique Remote Islands twist. Special edition of 222 pro-dubbed & imprinted c46 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert." |
| 5/9/2009 | Reports | Bill Wyman Metal Detector b/w Attleboro Trailers | 7" | $4.99 | Ride The Snake | "A new single from REPORTS, the newest offering from the Cambridge, MA group since 2007's Mosquito Nets LP on the Paper Cities label. This is the third release from Boston's RIDE THE SNAKE RECORDS. "Bill Wyman Metal Detector" hits the ground running with its driving, noisy melodies, cutting left and right through the magnetic particles and hum. The b-side, "Attleboro Trailers", a gnarly but minimal chug down the tracks, blinks in and out with an unflinching beat and wilting leads. REPORTS new single is charged with static electricity, recorded on various Tascam 488's at their space during spare time between the occasional practice, the constant shows and general squaring out the freaks, an indie/psych/garage mess that has a hard time settling in comfortably but comes from someplace we've all been." |
| 4/9/2003 | Residents, The | Demons Dance Alone | DBL CD | $38.99 | EuroRalph | "The new album of The Residents. But this is not the regular release, this is the deluxe edition. Just to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Residents Euro Ralph put together their last pennies to produce this stunning edition. A full color 16 page booklet in a CD-sized book like cover. It contains two CDs: One with the regular album and another one with additional songs and alternate version. The whole thing is protected by a spectacular suede packaging. Strictly limited to 3000." Two copies available. |
| 12/24/2005 | Residents, The | The King & Eye: RMX | LP | $16.99 | Euroralph | Newly recorded, first release of this remix project. "In 1989 The Residents recorded an album of Elvis hits called The King & Eye. Anyone familiar with the group's work would not be surprised to hear no attempt at recreating the original arrangements. In fact a great deal of thought went into re-interpreting the songs and digging into their freudian undertones, usually overlooked in the lyrics. Aware that pain inevitably swirls around these feelings of lost love and obsession, The Residents decided to return this emotional marrow to the material. Within that context, the album was unified by a children's story -- one about a baby, who compensated for the profound emptiness in his life by turning himself into a king. For The Residents, Elvis's life became a cautionary tale: a story of lost innocence, misplaced while stumbling through the shadows of substance. But even more amazing for the group was how, in death, Elvis became the ultimate Americana icon, inspiring legions of aping imposters, zealously imitating the caricature he so willing and sadly became. Ironically, aping the apes, The Residents chose to make their statements on The King & Eye through the voice of an aging Elvis imitator. Fifteen years later, in 2003, The Residents asked German remix whiz, Paralyzer, to listen to the original 24 track master recording and see what he would do to re-interpret their album, not unlike what they had done to Elvis's original material, and make it more relevant to the 21st century. Paralyzer accepted the challenge but asked the group to give him free rein in reconstructing the pieces. Excitedly, The Residents agreed." Gatefold sleeve - nice. |
| 3/11/2005 | Residual Echoes | Residual Echoes | CD | $13.99 | Holy Mountain | "A far-freaking-out blend of fried, DIY psych rock from this Santa Cruz combo led by Adam Payne (a friend and colleague of fellow travelers Comets on Fire and Six Organs of Admittance). A vibrant eight-track collage of long, distorted, and meandering tracks, loaded with 'that sound' from an indiscriminate time where drugs reign above all and the clock is always set for snooze. Packaged with dope artwork and named album of the month (January 2005) by Julian Cope. Previous LP version is out of print." |
| 3/21/2007 | Ressu | Sirpaleet tuottavat ropinaa | CDR | $8.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "naïve paralysing melodies" from a new finnish talent |
| Restgeraeusch | One hour/One minute | CD | $19.99 | Mille Plateaux | Brain crunching sonic blips | |
| 12/24/2005 | Retroactive Interference | Retroactive Interference | cassette | $6.99 | Skullfucking Tapes | "Highlights from the debut cdr by this duo of twisted basement tweakers recorded in 2000-2002. Youngster sanity workouts, cavemen electronics and psychedelic cowboy explosions galore." |
| 7/14/2007 | Reverse Mouth | Gay Control Icon | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Phase | "Three of the most intense tracks (Little Bodie, Fashion Blog Whatevah, Go Out w/ Crap In Your Pants) Reverse Mouth ever jammed gathered in this *fancy* 3", if you panzies can call that. Gross vocal vomitings and hi-end feedback dance along w/ garbage percussion and lo-fi fx. It's so much black trance, as Stalone never was gay in "Lock Up" or any other tender movie. Stenciled grass pattern + rubber stamp on 10cm x 20cm color heavy paper, spraypainted label and xerox insert, numbered to 50." |
| 7/14/2007 | Reverse Mouth / Slasher Risk | split | cassette | $7.99 | Phase | "An Athens-Brooklyn conjoined junk! Reverse Mouth side is a 20-minute track, "Negative Cutter", a cut-up pastichio full of soundtrackish sounds and noise wounds. On the other side, Slasher Risk offers two tracks, "Amrican Football Fux" and "???", two tracks of healthy free rock sickness and way destructive mood. Limited to 80 w/ collaborative full color artwork by the two groups." |
| 10/17/2009 | Revolutionary Ensemble | Vietnam | CD | $12.99 | ESP-Disk | "Debut recording by one of the classic avant-garde groups: the Revolutionary Ensemble. Featuring violinist Leroy Jenkins (formerly a member of the AACM), bassist Sirone and percussionist Jerome Cooper, the group was an early example of chamber music within the avant-garde format, one that emphasized subtlety within its instrumentation (string instruments instead of saxophones) and compositions. The band existed primarily from 1971-1977, building a worldwide reputation as one of the premier avant-garde groups. "Vietnam" was the group's first recording." |
| 2/4/2007 | Reynolds, Ben | Basic Consciousness | cassette | $8.99 | Cauliflower Dreams | "Ben from ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS, UNCABINETED DUO, etc... a real circular psych dreamer. 4 songs of muddy water." |
| 7/30/2006 | Reynolds, Ben | Book of Beyond | CD | $12.99 | Last Visible Dog | "Ben Reynolds is one of the newer voices from the same UK scene that includes Ashtray Navigations and many of the VHF celebrities (Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Richard Youngs, etc.) It should be of little surprise then that Book of Beyond fits very nicely among the recordings of those other artists--noise/junk drone. As in his previous recordings, this at times dissolves into more acoustic offerings, but the Fahey influence appears to be mostly gone, and what remains in the quieter moments is far more bewildering. Time-stretched bells and weird short-wave transmissions, one helluva lot of well used ring-modulator (nice to hear it done well for a change), fumblings on more traditional instrumentation (flute, guitar, etc.) but never coming together to form anything you might call a song. Book of Beyond may truly be well titled, since this is music stretching out beyond his two other recent releases, taking what he's learned from his participation in Ashtray Navigations and focusing more on texture and aural disorientation. This is definitely the kind of uncomfortable music we are proud to release!" - label |
| 9/30/2005 | Reynolds, Ben | More Tongue Meditations | 3" CDR | $8.99 | Memoirs Of An Aesthete | "Like 'Rocket Fuel' coffee (anyone remember that stuff?), this is exactly what it says on the packet. A sequel to the prolific Mr R's previous Memoirs volume 'Great Tongue Meditations'. Dream tones, psychedelic wavering and the haunting voices of the Stoke On Trent power grid will keep you smiling through this half of the cake. Will he make us a Tongue Trilogy? Time will tell. This will sure be sufficient for now." |
| 4/24/2006 | Reynolds, Ben | Music is the Music Language | CD | $14.99 | Ikuisuus | "It's no secret that Ben Reynolds has put out a heap of records within a very short time. Pretty much every review of his work begins by exclaiming how prolific he has been recently. Luckily, his work ethic (he has also recently begun collaborating with Ashtray Navigations and he plays bass with The Wow) is matched by a desire to push boundaries and stretch musical ideas. Many of Reynolds' past CD-R releases have been beautiful marriages of acoustic guitar flurries with amorphous electronic drones. On "Music is the Music Language," his first 'legit' CD and the first release for the Finnish Ikuisuus label, Ben has tangled up his previous musical ideas and created what is perhaps his most abstract and phantasmagoric release yet. It's immediately apparent from the first ten seconds or so into the record that something unearthly is going on. "Swing + Maths" begins with a subtle electronic trill with what sounds like haphazardly manipulated hand drums overtop. One instantly gets the feeling of being trapped somewhere on the wrong side of the solar system. Suddenly we're transported to the bottom of an ocean, seemingly inside a pedal-powered submarine, as "Mother Legato" begins and shifts the musical mood. It can be quite exciting when someone can evoke two such disparate images in two succeeding songs. On "Spacious Yowl," we're treated to some of that delicious acoustic guitar resting atop the diluted remains of a synthetic beast's mating call. Echoey chirps wrapped up in a gooey amorphous hum are prevalent on the perfectly titled "Overcome Your Infinity (Fornever)." One of the longer pieces, "Bird to Flame" is also one of the more abstract, being composed exclusively with densely layered electronics. "Quester" brings back the acoustic guitar, however Ben's playing is freer and farther out in the realms of improvisation. Subtly manipulated tribal percussion - undoubtedly produced electronically - on "Curiosity" leads into a final acoustic guitar number, the lush "Serial Hoper." There's no shortage of whirrs, chirps, hiccups and burps in the forty-odd minutes contained in "Music is the Music Language." But then again, did we really expect Ben Reynolds to rest on his laurels? This is truly engaging, envelope-pushing music, and however far "Music is the Music Language" veers to the left in comparison to Reynolds' other records, fans of abstract electronic composition should seek this out straightaway.- Bryon Hayes / Foxy Digitalis |
| 6/11/2006 | Reynolds, Ben | Outmospheric Arts of the Outmosphere | CD | $12.99 | Digitalis | "Ben Reynolds has emerged as one of the most prolific contributors to the UK ecstatic-drone scene over the past year. He has released numerous solo CD-Rs and last year saw his first CD on the Finnish Ikuisuus imprint. "Outmosphere" was originally intended to add to the list of CD-R releases, but once we heard it, we knew it deserved something bigger. Many moons later, this is Ben Reynolds first stateside widely-available CD release. As his music has developed, Reynolds has given nods to raga-infused acoustic folk all the way to dense, monolithic drones. "Outmosphere" finds all these elements smashed together in perfect harmony. Each song is carefully constructed, keeping in mind its place in the larger whole. Througout "Outmosphere," he turns this holy racket into something mystical and beautiful. On every track we are treated to cosmics webs of earth and space magic woven in only the way Ben Reynolds can. "Outmospheric Arts of the Outmosphere" is an excellent introduction to Reynolds work for those unfamiliar, and a perfect continuation of previous efforts for those who are fans already. It is a sublime and rich listening experience all around." |
| 3/2/2005 | Reynolds, Ben / Andy Jarvis | s/t | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Firstperson | "Second cd of improvised acoustic gtr musik from Reynolds / Jarvis following the recent release on Phil Todd's 'Memoir of an Aesthete' label. The jumping off point for this duo is the investigation into the resultant effects of two acoustic gtrs played in out of sync with force, accuracy and a single minded ideal to ultimately create a unified sound which belies its origin. presented here are 3 tracks ranging from the opener of 'Princess Metal Mountain' a concise example of the area & capabilities of this unit - fast finger-picking over a constant drone resulting in a stream of gorgeous overtones & resonating strings. 'Bronze Tower' takes it down a notch with the introduction of slide gtr, a beautiful & concise piece. 'The Immortal Yip' was recorded at 'the Packhorse' in Leeds in May 2004 in support of Jack Rose. Clocking in at approx 12 mins, the track gives those unacquainted with the duo's live work a fine example of the sheer volume, attention to detail & varied approaches utilised in the creation of their singular long form acoustic drone musik." 3" cdr housed in hand-made clear acetate covers with information printed on one side and an image on the other. |
| 7/16/2006 | Reynolds, Ben / John W. Fail | Uncabineted | CDR | $8.99 | Sharks & Pfennigs | "Ben Reynolds and John W. Fail collated several recordings to compile Uncabineted, covering the period between September 2005 (when they met) and March 2006. Reynolds work is well-documented on labels such as Ikuisuss, Memoirs of an Aesthete, Time-Lag and 267 Lattajjaa while Fail has dabbled in myriad projects including Lied Music, Intro to Pterodactyl and Land. Ranging from screaming acoustics to dirgy fuzzfests, the real document is that of experience, joy and camaraderie." |
| Reynols | "-------" | CD | $12.99 | Betley/Blackbean | 1999 recordings. "Argentina’s greatest export in free rock maelstrom with Tomasin’s unearthly howl." | |
| 4/19/2004 | Reynols | Deportation Symphony | 7" | $6.99 | Riot Season | "The sounds on this record were made entirely from sounds samples of the bands deportation papers hung in an Argentinean warehouse. No instruments. It creates a weird and eerie ambience as the band make their 'art' statement at the UK's immigration service." |
| 10/16/2003 | Reynols | Live in Stavanger | CDR | $9.99 | Gold Soundz / Humbug | Recorded February 7, 2003 in Stavanger, Norway featuring Miguel Tomasin (astral voice & drums), Moncho Conlazo (electric guitar, fembot & dry mulosa), Anla Courtis (electric guitar, tapes & marmonio), and Pacu (astral mappuche percussion). |
| 6/9/2003 | Reynols | Sosina Arada Mica | CD | $14.99 | Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon | "From the same country that brought you the Argentine Rugby Team comes the brand new bucket of steaming hot-fong from the globes finest heavy metal shamen. Lurid-green, audio-slime that whispers your name and threatens to suck you down its own psychic plughole. The shiniest examples of everything Reynols-ish: visionary wail and murmer, cyclopean beating, and unshackled string twist. Powerful, deeply sinister, and truly beyond your wildest dreams." |
| 8/7/2002 | Rezanate | Missed America | CD | $9.99 | Mandragora Records | "Missed America, continuing in Mandragora Records' tradition of experimentation, is a thoroughly bizarre affair. Relying equally on the manipulation of the tape as its actual contents, the band offers us a mixture of experimental guitar compositions and field recordings that are often degenerated into pure sound as a result of bizarre recording methods and oddball tape effects. How the band have created the noise on this album is all beyond me, although its safe to say that they've tried a lot of things, and they've surely had their hands draped in tape more than once during its creation. While those bent on accessibility will be scared off, those who don't mind a little hallucinogenic headfuck every once in a while will surely be greeted pleasantly by this. Who knows, maybe these crazy experimentations will resonate in your head for weeks? Ha ha ha." - Matt Shimmer, indieville.com "Ecletic and diverse debut CD, pairing intricate guitar symphonies with lo-fi tape chemistry. Moogified swankadelia for the inner mind. A musical puzzle. An experimental medley. A trip." |
| 7/19/2011 | Rice, Larry 'Sunshine' | Here's Sunshine | LP | $23.99 | Time-Lag Records | "Top quality official reissue of this wonderful album. This project is a bit different from other Time-Lag reissues, as the original isn't exactly a mega-rarity. That's not to say that they're easy to find, but our motives for the reissue have more to do with the fact that this great LP has been seriously overlooked by so many, and feels very ripe to reach some new ears. This one's got a pretty wild backstory too, being a rather undiscussed piece of 60s Texas underground history: in 1966 Larry 'Sunshine' Rice was feeling burnt by the increasingly superficial hippy scene in San Francisco, so headed to Dallas, Texas, the 'center of darkness' and the place he was raised, with a vision to transform minds. A random gig doing psychedelic light shows at a local bar led to a job managing a new 'hip' church. And so the 'Satori House' was founded. Through this outlet Sunshine held experimental light & sound worship sessions, began hosting underground rock concerts, launched a free press, and just about any & all other activities towards the goal of turning on Dallas. It was, of course, a great success while it lasted, which was not long once a federal drug bust (total set-up) went down, and the higher-ups in the parent church organization got wind of just exactly what their cash had been backing. During the extended trial that followed Sunshine split the city for tiny Justin, Texas and founded 'The Church Of Changes' Texas' first marijuana church, claiming grass as their sacrament and legal right. It was at this point that a series of truly unlikely synchronicities led to a record deal & recording session, but by the time Here's Sunshine was released in the summer of 1969, Sunshine was back in California living as a fugitive. He never showed up at his meeting with the bigwigs at blue thumb records who were planning to release his follow up album, thus quickly and purposely ending his connection to the music industry. If that's got your head turned, you'll almost certainly dig the music. It's a mystical and convoluted folk trip, executed with the lonesome single-mindedness of a true searcher. Warm intense vocals are delivered in a magically loose, flowing style. Tim Buckley comparisons pop up, and that's not totally off the mark if you replaced any avant/jazz leanings with more of a tripping-in-the-desert vibe. Lyrically things get truly bent, venturing into some deeply surreal & glassy-eyed zones. There are a few grasps towards religious ponderance, but it's very far from a 'xian' album. Stream of consciousness broodings on nature, work, love, god, Satan, sex, hallucinations, and so forth. It's a totally solo recording centered on understated but effective acoustic guitar, and fleshed out via overdub with rather unusual use of electric bass, organ, banjo, mandolin, and harmonica. Things get especially psychedelic when the bass comes in, either as an ultra-minimal echo-drenched pulse or a flowing tonal improvisation. The hyper compressed and reverb saturated production somehow suites the material perfectly, and the combination of elements creates quite an immersive, mirage-like and exploratory space. This one is far stronger, more hallucinogenic, and has gobs more personally then most of the over-hyped, mega-bucks coffee house folk strummers passed off as loner/downer/acidfolk these days. This record's got a real spirit of its own, that with repeated listens will sneak right into your mind before you even know it. And I'm sure that's the way Sunshine intended it. Beautiful exact reproduction art packaged in a lovely heavy 60s style cover and pressed on 180gm audiophile vinyl. Includes an insert with new notes from the artist, as well as a short except from his book 'Morning Glory,' which was written in 1968 and tells the story behind the album, but has yet to be published. One time vinyl only edition of 500 copies." |
| Riff | Songs For The Dog | CD | $14.99 | Stono Records | “An intimate solo work of Riff (Cosmic Gardeners) of 1989 /90 ( up to now just private release ) personal songs, thoughts, pictures, views to an animal-men-connection silent melancholic vocals traveling with most acoustic guitar tunes in a jungle of psychedelic sound and hypnotic moments.” | |
| Riff, Nick | Cloak Of Immortality | CD | $15.99 | Delerium | Psychedelic guitar mayhem | |
| 10/31/2009 | Riggs, Chris | Achievement Is It's Own Reward | CDR | $9.99 | Brokenresearch | "Riggs is definitely fucking with the idea of what the Michigan scene can be. His tape label Holy Cheever Church has some of the best and most thoughtful cassettes coming out and being from Michigan he’s a producer. His Draco re-release on Hanson got a few more mugs to know what he was up to but that’s a small piece of the puzzle for someone who still actually play’s the guitar like a guitar, can play the guitar but chooses to find out the way it can sound like and extremely fucked up 78’ Honda Civic with asthma. His recordings are damaged and this is no exception. Achievement is the first in a series of recordings that explore the restriction of individual movements to fixed time lengths." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 3/5/2009 | Riggs, Chris | Dead in Michigan | cassette | $7.99 | Pizza Night | "Raw and mangled guitar explorations from the undisputed champ of current six string skronk. Furious brutal guitar damage recorded directly to tape. A unique take on guitar death with an element of the classic no rules approach. Don't miss this guy on the road jammin' solo or in free music gangs like trauma (with Ben Hall)." |
| 1/22/2011 | Riggs, Christopher | '5:00, 3:00' | cassette | $5.99 | Rotifer Cassettes | "Part of a series of eight c30s where each fifteen minute side is evenly divided in a different way. side a contains 3 five minute pieces while side b contains 5 three minute pieces. a single tape limits every piece to the same set of 3-4 sounds. 8 tapes = 8 sets of sounds. piping creaks sway back and forth, tearing through distinct conversation. other parts out now on midori and rigg's label, holy cheever church." |
| 12/12/2009 | Riggs, Christopher | Buried With Bricks In Months | c30 cassette | $5.99 | Housecraft | "A textural marvel, these vibrations reflect unimaginable cellular magnifications. Edition of 49." Out of print. |
| 1/22/2011 | Riggs, Christopher | Cash Recycling Machine | CDR | $8.99 | Bug Incision | "The new album from Chris Riggs (on the heels of a killer LP with Liz Allbee and an 8-part series of very formalist cassettes) is part of a series that began with the Gold Danny (on Holy Cheever Church) and Achievement Is Its Own Reward (on Brokenresearch) CDRs from the last couple years. If one takes a look at the Holy Cheever Church website, around the -40s, Riggs starts in with some heavy conceptual shoelaces in his solo pieces, and, to this end, he writes: "Third installment in my series of cdr releases made up of tracks of equal length with a different track length for each cdr (gold danny = 3 minutes, achievement is its own reward = 5). This recording is pieced together from the tracks that make up HCC - 051. I assigned each of the 14 1-hour long tracks a number and used a random number generator to produce the "score". Different distributions were used for the five different tracks that effected the incorporation of silence, how many sounds were used within the 6 minute limit, and how often those sounds changed. The distribution of the 14 tracks always remained the same (i.e. i never "weighted" one sound more than another on any track. Each one always has an equal chance of coming up). I also used a random number generator to determine where along the time line of each 1-hour long sound I would use for a chunk of sound in the "score". For example: the score for number 1 says that sound number 9 (also known as track 9) needs to be played from 1:10 - 2:24 on the right channel and it needs to come from 17:21." Got it? Conversely, this is more top-notch guitar-disguising, care of Riggs' home-built guitars and quardophonic amp setup. The sounds are right up front, and resemble, among other things: close-mic'd dogs breathing heavily, the back of a refrigerator, cars idling, and motorcycles revving. Edition of 57, cdr, color covers in plastic sleeves." |
| 5/23/2009 | Riggs, Christopher | I Feel So Strong. I Feel I Could Punch A Hole In A Fucking Wall. | CDR | $10.99 | Bug Incision | "This new slab from Chris Riggs (Traum/Trauma, Holy Cheever Church, etc) features assemblages of highly abstracted guitar improvisations and silence. The most challenging Bug Incision release yet. limited edition of 50." |
| Riley, Terry | Olson III | CD | $16.99 | Cortical Foundation | Performed in 1967 by a Swedish High School Band with Terry Riley on soprano saxophone. Produced by Folke Rabe. | |
| 12/26/2005 | Rise of the City Cat Cult | Rise Up City Cats | CDR | $12.99 | Seedy R! | "Dunedin all-girl synth and casio rock band featuring member of The Futurians and Dick the Phone. Squally, lurchy, poundy and howly..." |
| 7/28/2011 | Rishaug, Alexander | Shadow Of Events | LP | $17.99 | Dekorder | "Shadow Of Events is the third album by Oslo, Norway sound artist, producer and musician Alexander Rishaug, following his Asphodel CD Possible Landscape (2004) and 2001's Panorama on the Smalltown Supersound label. The album was recorded over a five year period and mixed in Berlin last year. Not unlike his previous albums but apparently more refined Shadow Of Events combines a warm and organic haunting quality blended with both abstract and concrete tones and subtle digital noises. "Most of the tracks are developed from field recordings, instrument improvisation or live sampling. Then processed and edited with the computer as the main tool. I've used sounds hailing from a dusty rhodes, a lovely guitar, a nervous radio and a lonely piano." Rishaug's music is informed by classic minimal composers such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley as well as 90's electronica acts such as the Oval/Microstoria axis and like-minded but more obscure artists associated with the Mille Plateaux label (remember Neina?) but surely wouldn't be out of place on a contemporary label like Kranky or Type. Repetitive and seemingly simple melodic patterns are combined with (and sometimes obscured by) decaying monlithic drone layers creating a hazy melancholic landscape slowly unfolding its beauty. Granular shoegazy tones are building up in slow-motion recalling the patient yet precise and complex drone works of Stephan Mathieu, William Basinski and Machinefabriek's Dauw album. Alexander Rishaug was part of the improv collective ARM (1996-2006) with Arne Borgan and Are Mokkelbost (Killl) as well as collaborating with Lasse Marhaug on a Lucky Kitchen release. He has remixed metal bands Ulver and She Said Destroy as well as noise duo Jazkamer and Bjorn Hatterud and Conrad Schnitzler's recent collaboration." |
| 3/2/2005 | Robbins, Andy | s/t | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Firstperson | "Regular at the Stoke-on-Trent based Musicrooom events, appearing variously as solo singer/songwriter & member of Sculptress. Andy Robbins presents 5 finely crafted tracks including 'Come Down' which features Mikarla & Andy Jarvis on violin & gtr respectively. Bowed banjo, zither & autoharp all combine on these recordings to produce a wonderful collection of shimmering, mind-altering drone folk classics." 3" cdr housed in hand-made clear acetate covers with information printed on one side and an image on the other. |
| 7/10/2008 | Robe. | Star Form | CDR | $7.99 | Peasant Magik | "Horror movie / soundtrackish guitar and trombone workouts. Releases on Black Horizons etc. Limited to 100 copies, hand numbered / stamped. Black cdrs, packaged with printed vellum and full color wrap around art." |
| 4/10/2009 | Robe. | Time Dilation | CDR | $7.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Massively epic new release from this American duo of stark echoing multi-instrumental drone, layers of charcoal to black emptiness that has gathered pretty solid sound throughout the releases they've unleashed last year, this is bleak, not harsh, just dark, and unrelenting for it's immense near 80 minute duration... Fans of Sunn O))), Robedoor, and occult ritual nightmares will zone into this. Limited to 150." |
| 1/24/2009 | Robedoor | Closer to the Cliff | CD | $14.99 | Interregnum | "Amplifier ritualizing taken to its illogical extreme. Since forming in early 2004, the LA drone duo has evolved its minimal caveman exorcisms into a wasted zone between slow-motion black prayers and raw war rage, playing constant shows (including a stint in the UK) amidst a steady stream of limited vinyl, tapes, and CDRs." |
| 2/21/2009 | Robedoor | Rancor Keeper | LP | $12.99 | Seacave | "Sunny California... yeah, right. After several limited cdr, vinyl and tape releases (we are talking about 30 releases since 2005, plus various compilation contributions!), the Los Angeles duo finally unleashes their most definite major opus to the masses. Rancor Keeper is a bleak and uncompromising trip into the nightmarish drone-rituals of Robedoor. A sinister haze of bleeding walls, humans hanging from trees and rotten corpses returning from the other side. Recorded spring 2007 at Bored Fortress Studios, Rancor Keeper consists of 4 songs with a total playtime of about 40 minutes. Comparsions has in the past been made to bands like The Skaters and Skullflower, but with their unique occult atmosphere, Robedoor will always stand on their own. No mosh, no core, no fun." Alex: slime, knives, distortion/ Britt: fire, howls, clocks." - Release the Bats on their cd release of Rancor Keeper. Seacave label is "excited to offer our first release: this is Robedoor's "rancor keeper" on vinyl in an edition of 500. pete swanson did an awesome job mastering this for vinyl. it also features all new artwork put together by britt and alex. pro-printed, reverse board jackets for the touch of class these dudes undoubtedly deserve." |
| 7/31/2011 | Robedoor | Rock Bottom | c36 cassette | $5.99 | Night People | "Long time LA dungeon pysch trio Robedoor have been honing there long form psychedelic drift for some time now, continually moving towards a more guitar and drums based sound in their own distinct way. What is always at play is a heavy sense of dread, created by a massive fog of dense psychedelic sound and ambience, but residing as well is a sense of space and minimalism that draws comparisons to late night trippers like Denudes and Taj Mahal Travellers." |
| 8/31/2008 | Robedoor / Husere Grav | split | cassette | $7.99 | Not Not Fun | "Two bleak teams pass the death pipe across this black lake of a tape, and the mood - at best - runs from dread to dead (or undead, same vibe). Robedoor's "Terminal Abomination" finds them grappling their recent song-form style with bass, drums, and slime, a heavy metal swamp-thing crawl that drips and riffs from the depths to deeper depths. A strident stalk across new weird wetlands. The B side is a suite of songs from southern lord Husere Grav, who operates from more of a bedroom black metal/death drone perspective, utilizing buzzing guitar, tomb tones, and the occasional drum machine plod to convey his message of relentless misery with strange elegance. Past self-released CDRs like The Great Empty and Stay Asleep have mapped similarly cursed terrains, but his five queasy pieces here are easily among his most cold and cutting ever laid to tape. On pro-dubbed cassettes. Edition of 150." |
| 3/29/2005 | Roberts, Alasdair | No Earthly Man | CD | $13.99 | Drag City | "Over the course of three albums of original music with the band Appendix Out and a pair of albums under his own name, Scotsman Alasdair Roberts has been moving toward a purer understanding, exploration and interpretation of the traditional song of the British Isles. No Earthly Man shouldn't be regarded as a culmination of this exploration: this is Roberts' music, something he'll be fiddling with for the rest of his days. However, this new album comes with some sense of finality, part of which may have to do with its focus - a set comprised entirely of death ballads. Recorded near the whisky distilleries of rural Aberdeenshire and mixed amid the tobacco fields of Kentucky, No Earthly Man benefits from the playing and perspective of a diversity of musicians, and from the production talents of honorary Scot Will Oldham." |
| 3/29/2005 | Roberts, Alasdair | No Earthly Man | LP | $13.99 | Drag City | "Over the course of three albums of original music with the band Appendix Out and a pair of albums under his own name, Scotsman Alasdair Roberts has been moving toward a purer understanding, exploration and interpretation of the traditional song of the British Isles. No Earthly Man shouldn't be regarded as a culmination of this exploration: this is Roberts' music, something he'll be fiddling with for the rest of his days. However, this new album comes with some sense of finality, part of which may have to do with its focus - a set comprised entirely of death ballads. Recorded near the whisky distilleries of rural Aberdeenshire and mixed amid the tobacco fields of Kentucky, No Earthly Man benefits from the playing and perspective of a diversity of musicians, and from the production talents of honorary Scot Will Oldham." |
| 11/9/2004 | Roberts, Dean | And the Black Moths Play the Grand Cinema | LP | $13.99 | Staubgold | "A re-release of the long deleted Ritornell CD from 2000, many fans and critics regard New Zealander Dean Roberts' second solo album And the Black Moths Play the Grand Cinema as his best so far. This re-issue comes with complete new artwork and is available on vinyl for the first time. Guest musicians include Tim Barnes, Charles Curtis and Matt Valentine." "And the Black Moths Play the Grand Cinema is a tremendous achievement. Everything fits. It's less of an attempt to blend genres - post-rock, prepared-guitar improv, glitchadelica - than a demonstration of how; for the truly imaginative, genres remain utterly meaningless. Roberts has always had a fine ear for sonic exploration, but Moths sees him on peak form. Even when he leaves the instruments to drone, their individual character and juxtaposition as interesting as the appealing density of their combined harmonics. On this album, the overall essence is truly far more than the sum of its parts." - Brian Duguid, The Wire |
| 3/10/2011 | Robertson's Ludd Quest, Ali | Don't Turn Your Hog Out | CDR | $8.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Brand new slab of avant weirdo sounds from Ali of Usurper. Slurping, sucking and squeaking insanity opens up this five track disc. As it progresses it may well just get more and more weird, pouring water (?), some sorta mic-ed up pipe actions, weird tinkerings of househeld objects, layered talking (at times saying that talking is a terrible idea - 'why are you talking'?). Ali's work with Usurper and his solo work retains a great sense of humour, with the pure weirdness of what is going and lack or knowing what the hell is making half the bizarre sounds. Limited to 50." |
| 9/27/2002 | Robot vs. Rabbit | Trading The Witch For The Devil | CD | $10.99 | Mandragora Records | "So some people think that Robot vs. Rabbit isn't the greatest name for an atonal drone/noise rock band. Maybe I wasn't that impressed with the philosophical possibilities when I first heard it myself, but after some time with their official debut on the Mandragora label, not to mention the handful of self-released cd-r's that've preceded it, I'm starting to think no other name would quite do the trick. The music this ensemble makes is disturbing in the true sense of the word. If any recurring theme can be traced throughout TWFD, it's the utter annihilation of innocence in any form. Song titles like "Hiroshima." I Have Been an Axe in the Hand," and "Waltzing Towards the Ovens" pretty much tell you everything you need to know. Detuned guitars squelch and shriek against low-end bass waves, tapes and synth noise with fireballs of distortion and grungy feedback bouncing around inside the mix like a cat trapped in a cage. Sure it's harsh and cruel to say the least, but interspersed throughout are occasional and unexpected forays into more transcendental realms, offering slight slight shelter from the mostly raging black seas that dominate this pulsating mélange. The final results fall somewhere between Throbbing Gristle, HNAS and Skullflower, or The Dead C, Chrome and Merzbow, or ... you get the idea. This inspired piece of work is easily the finest these lads have delivered to date. A necessary listening experience to any fans of creeping crawling noise terror." - Lee Jackson, Broken Face #15 |
| 6/11/2006 | Robotobibok | Nawyki przyrody | LP | $19.99 | Obuh | "The third and finest to date album of the band which reveals a very core of its own style based on rhythmic section cascades, fantastic horn section, mysterious guitar and layers of vintage electronics from Moog and EMS. For the first time they visit electro-acoustic areas, praise abandoned cosmodromes, winked at CAN style from the half of 70's and in the end singing weird song for difficult youngsters of post-atomic era. Obviously they still keep their jazzy mood, which always brings reminiscence of moving in the rain car wipers from early 60's Polish school movies. With no doubt this is their most organized and shining work. Absolutely recommended even if you are really far away from jazz (like me). Vinyl version is coming in different, full color cover and with different track order. Recorded in our vintage Rogalow Analogowy studio on classic tube equipment, sound is simply fabulous. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies in extremely solid, laminated covers reminding classic US jazz releases from the early 60's." |
| 8/31/2008 | Rodgers, Michael | Curtained Moon | CDR | $11.99 | Black Petal | "Long awaited solo guitar release from Mr Michael Rodgers of Broken Hands. Pure nightime ritual music.. the street enters the house.. and the guitar weaves around the sounds of London which intrude from every window and every door.." |
| 7/16/2009 | Roeder, Klaus | Kristallisationen | LP | $21.99 | Planam | "Klaus Roeder is guitar virtuoso an electronic music artist who studied with Kelemen and joined Kraftwerk for their famous "Autobahn" LP. He often works with very small sound particles, whose sound comes from different sources like tearing paper, the voice, a musical instrument, synthesizer or computer sounds. Sound structures are built by joining together those sound particles and by mixing those structures Roeder forms chords. Then the process of crystallization begins. Usually crystallization means that small parts are deposited around a germ and form a growing crystall. The shape of the complete crystall is a consequence of outer influences. A series of sound crystals forms then the complete musical composition. Side 1 presents two electronic music works: "10: 11: 12" (1980) for self-built Impulse Generator is an obscure, very minimal and abstract pulsating piece, while "Kristallisation 4 (1991) for Computer Sounds and Yamaha DX 802 might be considered one of the peaks of Klaus Roeder "Kristallisation" series. Side 2 introduces us to a different formal result of Roeder crystallisation process: the short "Haenschen Blues" (1993) for children singing and crying, Yamaha TX 802 controlled by selfmade programs for Atari TT is a both playful and sinister electronic assemblage anticipating the peak of this record, "Potpourri" (1985) a Collage of short sound particles from German Pop Hits of the 1970s and 1980s. In the perspective on sound collages (from Battiato "Ethika Fon Ethica" to Bladder Flask first LP, from NWW most surrealistic works to John Oswald classic plunderphonics) "Potpourri" might be more close to the brut masterpiece "InOut" by Anton Bruhin, only constructed in a more advanced and scientific way. Edition limited to 300 copies, also including a series of inserts with the diagrams and schedules of the 4 compositions presented on this LP." |
| 4/24/2006 | Rogaland Hot Club | One Hour Closer To Death | CDR | $12.99 | Utan Titel | "By far the weirdest cover I have seen in some time. You might easily mistake this for a bit of waste: a recycled envelop stuck into a bigger white envelop, with a big, blurry black & white xerox and a small card with the 'information'. Rogaland Hot Club are Bjerga, Egeland, Gjerde, Pettersen and Toft from Norway, and the work was recorded straight to minidisc in Stavanger, with a little bit of editing by Bjerga and Pettersen afterwards. Like some many from the ever so active Norwegian scene, this is very much in the realms of improvisation. Playing percussive like sounds, amplification through contact-microphones, field recordings and whistling down empty bottles, this is actually quite nice. If they Bjerga/Iversen collaborations mean anything to you by now, then this is surely something to look out for. Mildly noise related, very free playing, but throughout the tracks are shorter than on the average Bjerga/Iversen work, thus adding to the variety of the material they offer here. Usually slow and contemplative, lo-fi but yet full of air and vibe. Very nice indeed." (FdW) |
| 11/20/2010 | Rogers, Derek | Slowmovers | CDR | $6.99 | House of Alchemy | "Mangled guitar-drenched canvases, slathered then shredded. Full-on Texas style six-string pip. Wipe the cream from your faces and plug your ears in. This is dynamite improv of the highest order, no slack-jawed boogie noodling allowed on premises. Right-fine sounds, no joke. Edition of 80." |
| 1/25/2011 | Rogers, Derek | Triagonals | CDR | $9.99 | Synth / Ruralfaune | "Geometric games to reach a mesmerizing state of mind. Can you hear the signal?" Edition of 70 copies. |
| 2/26/2011 | Rogers, Derek / A.C. | Fuck the Dead C | CDR | $7.99 | Hermitage Tapes | "2 tracks dedicated to the finest band in NZ" |
| 1/22/2011 | Rogue Cop | You're About as Romantic as a Pair of Handcuffs | c58 cassette | $5.99 | Stunned | "This debut cassette from Seattle's Rogue Cop rips it up from a hundred different directions with electric guitar being the sole cause of all the excitement. Fusing semi-calculated loops of red hot plink-plonk with agitated riffs dipped in booze, an entirely original stance to the six-string is fleshed out in under an hour. It may blindside you as it did us - totally unprepared for its wild methods and funny way of getting us to root for yet another cop gone rogue. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c58 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert." |
| 11/2/2008 | Rohm, Jason | Suicide | artbook + CDR | $13.99 | Cut Hands | "Originally intended to celebrate the first anniversary of Cut Hands waaay back in Januscary but since it's never too late to celebrate in the oh 8 here it is and goddamn if it wasn't worth the goddamning wait. In this book Jason Rohm paints a grim picture that's both realistically nerving yet bizarrely funny. The tale of a desperate soul in a world that's tied by rules and akward questions, almost comic like in subtle detail. Suicide has 32 pages of black and white drawings, with text in English and awkward Dutch. The compilation provides a harrowing soundtrack with tunes by Andrew Coltrane, Sick Llama, Warmth, Droughter, Bottom Feeder, Raperies (Like Draperies), Ex-Cocaine, Robedoor and Josh Lay." Edition of 125 copies. |
| 3/21/2007 | Rokkiryhmä | Maailmanvoitto | 3" CDR | $7.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "lo-fi pop-folk. Musically challenged teenagers dreaming of world domination. Faux-naive pop songs and formless folk recorded with a microphone." |
| 6/9/2010 | Roll The Dice | Roll The Dice | CD | $15.99 | Digitalis | "CD edition, featuring two bonus tracks and revised artwork. Though this is the official debut recording from Swedish duo Roll The Dice, Malcolm Pardon and Peder Mannerfelt are certainly not strangers to the world of independent music. Mannerfelt has been producing records for years as The Subliminal Kid and also produces for and tours with Fever Ray while Pardon continuously composes for film and television. Having shared a studio in southern Stockholm for several years, they finally decided to join forces in something musical. Each of their sessions together started and ended in the same way. There were to be no pre-conceived ideas going in, but there had to be a completed track at the end of each day. These forced limitations led to a creative cloudburst, finding unexpected passages from beginning to end. Elements of early analog electronics bleed into hints of minimalists such as Terry Riley and Arvo Pärt. Repetition and understated progression engage the listener subtly. It may bring a piece of Basic Channel to mind, but it's another beast entirely. Each track consists of only synths and piano. Nothing more. No computer processing. No drum machines -- pure analog. The result is something warm and emotive. There may be a murky darkness underlying these tracks, something almost sinister, but there's a streak of something comfortingly familiar running throughout. Two years after their first session together, they put the finishing touches on the record through the API desk at the legendary Gröndal studio in west Stockholm. It is music that etches itself into your mind like diamond on glass. Pardon and Mannerfelt operate with absolute precision, expressing raw emotions and ideas that are as flitting as they are unforgettable." - FE |
| 3/20/2010 | Roll The Dice | Roll The Dice | LP | $18.99 | Digitalis Vinyl | "Though this is the official debut recording from Swedish duo Roll the Dice, Malcolm Pardon and Peder Mannerfelt are certainly not strangers to the world of independent music. Mannerfelt has been producing records for years as The Subliminal Kid and also produces and tours with Fever Ray while Pardon continously composes for film and television. Having shared a studio in southern Stockholm for several years, they finally decided to join forces in something musical. If the original impetus was little more than sharing a bottle of wine and attempting to make something different, the final result is something far beyond. Each session started and ended in the same way. There were to be no pro-conceived ideas going in, but had to be a completed track at the end of each day. These forced limitations led to a creative cloudburst, finding unexpected passages from beginning to end. Elements of early electronica bleed into hints of minimalists such as Terry Riley and Arvo Pärt. Repetition and understated progression engage the listener subtly. It may bring a piece of Basic Channel to mind, but it's another beast entirely. Each track consists of only synths and piano. Nothing more. No computer processing. No drum machines. Pure analog. The result is something warm and emotive. There may be a murky darkness underlying these tracks, something almost sinister but there's a streak of something comfortingly familiar running throughout. Two years after their first session together they put the finishing touches on the record through the API desk at the legendary Gröndal studio in west Stockholm. It is music that etches itself in your mind like diamond on glass. Pardon and Mannerfelt operate with absolute precision, expressing raw emotions and ideas that are as flitting as they are unforgettable. Each new morning is a chance and Roll the Dice are just getting started." |
| 2/3/2005 | Romero & The Incapacitants | Wreck | 7" | $7.99 | P Tapes | "Sort of a tribute/parody of the Organum & The New Blockaders 'Wrack' 12". Clear vinyl in a clear vinyl sleeve..." Edition of 450 copies. |
| 5/14/2007 | Romero, Damion | Missing Link | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "30 minutes of Burl from the mysetrious boxes. Heavy thick piles of drone upon drone of heavy electronic buzz, creating an intense wall of multi-layered sound attack. INTENSITY." |
| 2/7/2009 | Romero, Damion | Twins | double LP | $21.99 | Tone Filth | "For over a decade Damion Romero has been crafting minimal sub frequencies to create some of the most interesting and unique experimental music. Twins is Damion's most impressive document to date; it contains four sides of intense and focused pure sound, recorded live with no overdubbing, effects, tapes, or feedback. Twins utilizes many varying textures and layers of sound offering many rewarding engaging listens. Edition of 500 copies in professionally printed INA/GRM "Serie Gramme" style gatefold sleeves. Co-released with P-Tapes." |
| 4/24/2006 | Romero, Damion | untitled | 7" | $25.99 | AA Records | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. |
| 4/10/2005 | Romero, Damion & David Scott Stone | John Wiese's Legs | 3" CDR | $6.99 | P Tapes | An all analog synth duo mainly on Dave's MOTM system. |
| 5/8/2005 | Roots of Madness | Girl In The Chair | LP | $16.99 | DeStijl | “Heavy free blues/psych from 1971 spearheaded by Don Campau. Imagine a cortical geo-zone in which the private press circuit finds its Californian amalgam of Gate-5-as-ESP-Disk punk/jazz third eye. A higher key farrago of hypercosmic extended runs that oscillate between the tubular philosophy of the Sun City Girls sound/art and the aloneness of stoned blues concrète. A refreshing lost artifact of pure American fizz resurrected from the iconoclasm void that should be essential for anyone concerned with the paramount energy fields of all the above-ground sound subterrains.” – Revolver. Recommended! |
| 1/22/2011 | Roped Off | Rides The Lightning / Kills 'Em All | c47 cassette | $5.99 | Weird Forest | "Mike Haley (Wether/905 Tapes) and Dave Doyen (Vales/2AM Tapes) join forces again as Roped Off to drop this strangely named cassette. But dispel any notions of heavy metal moves -- side A is a funky, well-paced, ever-evolving synth mutant jammer, with intricate melodies and rhythms weaving in and out to move the piece along. Side B sees an ambient fog settling down over the whole affair, a perfect comedown. Art by Roped Off. Hand-numbered limited edition of 60 cassettes come in embossed, hand-assembled playing-card style boxes." |
| 10/25/2008 | Rose, Jack | I Do Play Rock and Roll | LP | $20.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "While Jack Rose's compositional skills are always clear and apparent, observing one of his live performances allows even the most casual of listeners to be exposed to his works in an entirely new light. when played for an audience, rose's compositions are given time to stretch out and display an improvisational punctuation. various live tracks have popped up over the course of rose's discography, but i do play rock and roll is his first complete album of live material. i do play rock and roll's forty-one minutes are comprised of only three tracks meticulously selected from jack's live archives. an epic workout of "calais to dover" (originally appearing on 2005's kensington blues) recorded in 2006 starts the whole affair with a bang. the follow-up is documentation from a 2004 appearance on VPRO-fm in the form of "cathedral et chartres." the disc's closer, "sundogs" is a real treat. previously available only as a studio performance on the seminal by the fruits... triple LP compilation, it takes on a whole other twenty-two minute grinding, droning life live. released on vinyl by three lobed recordings in a limited edition of 1000 copies. the LP is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl and housed within an "old style" high gloss LP cover." Highly recommended! |
| 3/6/2010 | Rose, Jack | Luck In The Valley | CD | $14.99 | Thrill Jockey | "A native of Virginia and resident of Philadelphia since 1998, Jack Rose first rose to prominence with the drone/noise/folk unit, Pelt. Pelt can be counted among the early influential new music underground bands such as UN, No Neck Blues Band, Charalambides, Tower Recordings and Six Organs of Admittance. Rose recorded and toured with the band up until 2006. Rose released his first solo LP in 2002, "Red Horse, White Mule", of post-Takoma, American primitive guitar. Along with the influences of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, Rose also incorporated North Indian classical, early American blues, bluegrass and minimalism into his singular style. 2005 saw the release of his fourth LP, "Kensington Blues", which incorporated all of the aforementioned influences and his playing/composing fully flowered. That LP is now considered a classic of contemporary guitar music. In 2008 and 2009 Rose released "Dr. Ragtime and Pals" and "Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers" respectively. Those recordings featured many additional players like Glenn Jones, Micah Smaldone, Harmonica Dan and the Black Twig Pickers. The songs drew heavily on pre-war influences, either written by Rose or were his arrangements of early American classics. "Luck in the Valley " will be the third album in this set of recordings that Rose jokingly refers to as his "Ditch Trilogy". Rose continues his exploration of pre-war American music with a set brand new material featuring the Twigs, Jones, Harmonica Dan and Hans Chew along with a handful of solo pieces. This recording set out to capture the energy and feel of the classic three-track shack recordings by the Wray Brothers and Mordicai Jones. "Luck In The Valley" was written and recorded over a period of nine months off the road, an unusually long time for Rose to be at home and woodshedding. The album finds Rose employing new themes and techniques that haven't appeared on previous releases. Like all pre-war recordings and all of Rose's releases, this album was recorded live. It was not created using overdubs but rather by recording a few "takes" and selecting the best performance out of those. Rose stated, "I wanted the songs to have an immediacy and spontaneity as they were being recorded. All the musicians chosen for the record know how to play the songs without overworking the material, but at the same time creating memorable accompaniments on the spot." Several of the songs are in fact the first takes like "Blues for Percy Danforth", "Lick Mountain Ramble" and "Woodpiles on the Side of the Road". Also Included in the set are three covers: "St. Louis Blues", "Everybody Ought to Pray Sometime" and "West Coast Blues". All of these pre-war classics are Rose's unique arrangements. The album title refers to the old red light section of St. Louis and was a code for procuring the services of a prostitute. Says Rose "I read about it on some liner notes to a reissue of pre-war St. Louis recordings and I liked the ring of it." An avid record collector with an encyclopedic knowledge of pre-war American music, Rose has been acknowledged as a rising star among contemporary guitar players. "Luck in the Valley" finds Rose at his best surrounded by like-minded friends on a recording that is enriched by a sense of history but entirely new, vibrant and warm." CD version is presented in a 4 panel mini-LP style jacket. |
| 11/6/2010 | Rose, Jack | Luck In The Valley | LP | $20.99 | Thrill Jockey | "A native of Virginia and resident of Philadelphia since 1998, Jack Rose first rose to prominence with the drone/noise/folk unit, Pelt. Pelt can be counted among the early influential new music underground bands such as UN, No Neck Blues Band, Charalambides, Tower Recordings and Six Organs of Admittance. Rose recorded and toured with the band up until 2006. Rose released his first solo LP in 2002, "Red Horse, White Mule", of post-Takoma, American primitive guitar. Along with the influences of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, Rose also incorporated North Indian classical, early American blues, bluegrass and minimalism into his singular style. 2005 saw the release of his fourth LP, "Kensington Blues", which incorporated all of the aforementioned influences and his playing/composing fully flowered. That LP is now considered a classic of contemporary guitar music. In 2008 and 2009 Rose released "Dr. Ragtime and Pals" and "Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers" respectively. Those recordings featured many additional players like Glenn Jones, Micah Smaldone, Harmonica Dan and the Black Twig Pickers. The songs drew heavily on pre-war influences, either written by Rose or were his arrangements of early American classics. "Luck in the Valley " will be the third album in this set of recordings that Rose jokingly refers to as his "Ditch Trilogy". Rose continues his exploration of pre-war American music with a set brand new material featuring the Twigs, Jones, Harmonica Dan and Hans Chew along with a handful of solo pieces. This recording set out to capture the energy and feel of the classic three-track shack recordings by the Wray Brothers and Mordicai Jones. "Luck In The Valley" was written and recorded over a period of nine months off the road, an unusually long time for Rose to be at home and woodshedding. The album finds Rose employing new themes and techniques that haven't appeared on previous releases. Like all pre-war recordings and all of Rose's releases, this album was recorded live. It was not created using overdubs but rather by recording a few "takes" and selecting the best performance out of those. Rose stated, "I wanted the songs to have an immediacy and spontaneity as they were being recorded. All the musicians chosen for the record know how to play the songs without overworking the material, but at the same time creating memorable accompaniments on the spot." Several of the songs are in fact the first takes like "Blues for Percy Danforth", "Lick Mountain Ramble" and "Woodpiles on the Side of the Road". Also Included in the set are three covers: "St. Louis Blues", "Everybody Ought to Pray Sometime" and "West Coast Blues". All of these pre-war classics are Rose's unique arrangements. The album title refers to the old red light section of St. Louis and was a code for procuring the services of a prostitute. Says Rose "I read about it on some liner notes to a reissue of pre-war St. Louis recordings and I liked the ring of it." An avid record collector with an encyclopedic knowledge of pre-war American music, Rose has been acknowledged as a rising star among contemporary guitar players. "Luck in the Valley" finds Rose at his best surrounded by like-minded friends on a recording that is enriched by a sense of history but entirely new, vibrant and warm." Repressed - edition of 500 copies pressed on 180 gram vinyl. |
| 5/23/2009 | Rose, Jack & The Black Twig Pickers | Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers | LP | $19.99 | Klang | "Raw and rocking collaboration between Jack Rose and the Black Twigs with some of the most swinging, hard-hitting string music waxed in many a decade. Rose's solo playing has always had a tough edge, with his prodigious technique often employed in the service of dropping right-hand bombs - his use of a thumbpick originates from his years of duets with Twig Mike Gangloff, struggling to make his guitar heard over Gangloff's crashing banjo. The front line of Rose and Gangloff's strings are joined by Isak Howell's no-nonsense guitar and harmonica and Nate Bowles' variety of expert percussion. The four players lock together with a sure-footedness honed by frequent touring and a singularity of intent to rock. Gangloff takes the vocals, howling out standards like "Little Sadie" firmly in the old-time tradition - without reserve. A few of the tracks here are updates of Rose & family classics, with the group turning the stately "Kensington Blues" upbeat and an issuing an assured take on "Bright Sunny South," first recorded by Pelt (w/Rose and Gangloff) back in 2001 on their gonzo classic double "Ayahuasca." Edition of 992 copies. |
| 6/30/2010 | Rose, Jack with D. Charles Speer & The Helix | Ragged and Right | 12" | $20.99 | Thrill Jockey | "This slab of gripping sound was brought about by Jack Rose's exuberant love of lowdown music. Inspired by the Mordecai Jones/Link Wray 3 Track Shack sessions, the idea for this collaboration was germinated while Rose was traveling through the heartland on a tour with D. Charles Speer & the Helix in spring 2008. Musicians used to the road are familiar with the phenomenon wherein a certain tape or recording becomes the thematic soundtrack to the tour at hand. In this case, daily doses of "Scorpio Woman" and "In the Pines" as performed by Link Wray became the touchstones for their travels together. Jack got so excited by the vibes emanating from these songs that he thought to break with his usual acoustic approach and get some electricity in his life again. So he enlisted the Speer band to join in some unhinged and unrepentant fun in the studio. Recorded using an all live, no overdub approach, the resultant session was deemed an all time favorite experience by everyone lucky enough to partake in it. A gleaming bottle of Buffalo Trace helped shepherd us through the dark hours of the night, and in turn that spirit animal adorns the front cover of the record. As producer, Jason Meagher was able to capture the visceral rough and tumble feel that invigorated his Black Dirt Studio in the dog days of August 2008. Featuring the original lineup of D. Charles Speer & the Helix in peak form and rare lap steel and Telecaster stylings from Rose, Ragged and Right displays a vibrancy and depth of feeling that is striking and unforgettable. D. Charles Speer & the Helix came together through the common hearing of a certain inflection. Born from the heart and mind of David Charles Shuford, strains of glassine cruelty, broken glasses and ruptured knees mixed with memories of Chet Atkins lullabies and ZZ Top vids to generate a songcraft steeped in tradition but themed for the burned. An early century compulsion to stalk the David Freeman mail order record lists led to a group of home recordings in which D. Charles Speer emerged. A tribute to the ever loving and giving Louise Speer, here the shadows of history are both enjoyed for their shade and cursed for their reach. A band coalesced to perform the songs live, first manned by Robert Gregory on drums and then populated by more old friends. Setting stages alight since 2006, D. Charles Speer & the Helix are a force to be reckoned with where ever the nightlife reigns supreme. All having followed a coursing path chasing quicksilver forms, each member of the Helix feels the weight of the sky well. Years of soaking in the spirit of improvisation have come to rest in a deep grooved vessel bourne by 12 legs. A kind of reflecting chamber wherein the sonic heritage of Georgia, California, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Piraeus are blended into a fine barrel for the discerning boozer. Two albums were tracked at Jason Meagher's nascent Black Dirt Studios: After Hours and the most recent LP Distillation, released on Three Lobed Recordings in November 2009. Since this alchemical roots operation occurs in New York, the listener realizes quickly the band's edge remains sharp: the resonating geographic ghosts feel far from distant - instead their presence is made palpable. San Francisco and Bakersfield are collocated and felt close. One can imagine a scene wherein Moby Grape gets smashed against the windshield, but the Wipers make sure that Gary Stewart can find his way to San-Hozay; of course this is a musical sequence that should be seen to be experienced fully. The Speer gang feel right at home on the road and love to get heels kicking in clubs, house parties, bars, basements and VFW halls across the land. A native of Virginia and resident of Philadelphia since 1998, Jack Rose first rose to prominence in the drone/noise/folk unit, Pelt. Pelt can be counted among the early influential new music underground bands such as UN, No Neck Blues Band, Charalambides, Tower Recordings and Six Organs of Admittance. Jack recorded and toured with the band up until 2006 but released his first solo LP, Red Horse, White Mule, of post-Takoma, American primitive guitar, in 2002. Along with the influences of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, Jack also incorporated North Indian classical, early American blues, minimalism and bluegrass into his singular style. 2005 saw the release of his fourth LP, Kensington Blues, which incorporated all of the aforementioned influences and his playing/composing fully flowered. That LP is now considered a classic of contemporary guitar music. His tenth LP Luck In The Valley was released on Thrill Jockey in February 2010 to wide spread critical acclaim. Sadly, Jack unexpectedly passed away in December 2009 at the age of 38. He is greatly missed by all those who knew him but his influence and legacy will persist forever." D. Charles Speer and the Helix on this recording is Dave Shuford (No Neck Blues Band, Suntanama), Marc Orleans (Sunburned Hand of the Man), Hans Chew, Jason Meagher (Black Dirt Studios, No Neck Blues Band), and Rob "Moose" Gregory. LP version comes in a full color jacket with spot UV gloss printing and is limited to a first pressing of 1,000 copies with download coupon. |
| 6/30/2010 | Rose, Jack with D. Charles Speer & The Helix | Ragged and Right | CD | $15.99 | Thrill Jockey | "This slab of gripping sound was brought about by Jack Rose's exuberant love of lowdown music. Inspired by the Mordecai Jones/Link Wray 3 Track Shack sessions, the idea for this collaboration was germinated while Rose was traveling through the heartland on a tour with D. Charles Speer & the Helix in spring 2008. Musicians used to the road are familiar with the phenomenon wherein a certain tape or recording becomes the thematic soundtrack to the tour at hand. In this case, daily doses of "Scorpio Woman" and "In the Pines" as performed by Link Wray became the touchstones for their travels together. Jack got so excited by the vibes emanating from these songs that he thought to break with his usual acoustic approach and get some electricity in his life again. So he enlisted the Speer band to join in some unhinged and unrepentant fun in the studio. Recorded using an all live, no overdub approach, the resultant session was deemed an all time favorite experience by everyone lucky enough to partake in it. A gleaming bottle of Buffalo Trace helped shepherd us through the dark hours of the night, and in turn that spirit animal adorns the front cover of the record. As producer, Jason Meagher was able to capture the visceral rough and tumble feel that invigorated his Black Dirt Studio in the dog days of August 2008. Featuring the original lineup of D. Charles Speer & the Helix in peak form and rare lap steel and Telecaster stylings from Rose, Ragged and Right displays a vibrancy and depth of feeling that is striking and unforgettable. D. Charles Speer & the Helix came together through the common hearing of a certain inflection. Born from the heart and mind of David Charles Shuford, strains of glassine cruelty, broken glasses and ruptured knees mixed with memories of Chet Atkins lullabies and ZZ Top vids to generate a songcraft steeped in tradition but themed for the burned. An early century compulsion to stalk the David Freeman mail order record lists led to a group of home recordings in which D. Charles Speer emerged. A tribute to the ever loving and giving Louise Speer, here the shadows of history are both enjoyed for their shade and cursed for their reach. A band coalesced to perform the songs live, first manned by Robert Gregory on drums and then populated by more old friends. Setting stages alight since 2006, D. Charles Speer & the Helix are a force to be reckoned with where ever the nightlife reigns supreme. All having followed a coursing path chasing quicksilver forms, each member of the Helix feels the weight of the sky well. Years of soaking in the spirit of improvisation have come to rest in a deep grooved vessel bourne by 12 legs. A kind of reflecting chamber wherein the sonic heritage of Georgia, California, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Piraeus are blended into a fine barrel for the discerning boozer. Two albums were tracked at Jason Meagher's nascent Black Dirt Studios: After Hours and the most recent LP Distillation, released on Three Lobed Recordings in November 2009. Since this alchemical roots operation occurs in New York, the listener realizes quickly the band's edge remains sharp: the resonating geographic ghosts feel far from distant - instead their presence is made palpable. San Francisco and Bakersfield are collocated and felt close. One can imagine a scene wherein Moby Grape gets smashed against the windshield, but the Wipers make sure that Gary Stewart can find his way to San-Hozay; of course this is a musical sequence that should be seen to be experienced fully. The Speer gang feel right at home on the road and love to get heels kicking in clubs, house parties, bars, basements and VFW halls across the land. A native of Virginia and resident of Philadelphia since 1998, Jack Rose first rose to prominence in the drone/noise/folk unit, Pelt. Pelt can be counted among the early influential new music underground bands such as UN, No Neck Blues Band, Charalambides, Tower Recordings and Six Organs of Admittance. Jack recorded and toured with the band up until 2006 but released his first solo LP, Red Horse, White Mule, of post-Takoma, American primitive guitar, in 2002. Along with the influences of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, Jack also incorporated North Indian classical, early American blues, minimalism and bluegrass into his singular style. 2005 saw the release of his fourth LP, Kensington Blues, which incorporated all of the aforementioned influences and his playing/composing fully flowered. That LP is now considered a classic of contemporary guitar music. His tenth LP Luck In The Valley was released on Thrill Jockey in February 2010 to wide spread critical acclaim. Sadly, Jack unexpectedly passed away in December 2009 at the age of 38. He is greatly missed by all those who knew him but his influence and legacy will persist forever." D. Charles Speer and the Helix on this recording is Dave Shuford (No Neck Blues Band, Suntanama), Marc Orleans (Sunburned Hand of the Man), Hans Chew, Jason Meagher (Black Dirt Studios, No Neck Blues Band), and Rob "Moose" Gregory. |
| 7/7/2003 | Rose, Jon | Fleisch - Hyperstring 2 | CD | $13.99 | Saucerlike Recordings | "Another excellent and unusual and excellent release from Jon Rose. If you are into interactive violin bows and strings, state of the art technology and high speed complexity, perversity and more...You most definitely need a copy of the new hyperstring cd Fleisch. This cd, by the mastermind behind Sublingual's Strung release, features lots of naked fleisch on the cover and expensive perfume between the covers. Ooo, la, la...All tracks recorded in real time, more or less, with MIDI Controllers (bow pressure, accelorometers, the three pedal, and foot pedal board) triggering interactive string samples." - Sublingual |
| 7/16/2006 | Rosenblum, Aaron | Among the Jackdaws | CDR | $8.99 | Hank | "Very sweet solo releases from son of earth's hairiest member, and somehow that should give to an idea of the sounds here. alternating between vibratory ultra-minimal tones and acoustic folk minitures. a real fine listen for the micro-minded. beautifully packaged in a oversized screenprinted envelope, with classy letterpressed innersleeve & stamped cdr. self released & limited to 200. recommended." - Time-Lag |
| Rotten Piece | Caged Meat | CD | $11.99 | Fleece | "22 tracks of haunting lysergica with effective use of electronics, loops, alien percussion and the occasional outburst of white noise" | |
| Rotten Piece | The Incarcerated Dwarf Heiress | CD | $10.99 | Fleece Records | "Incredible album of psychedelic/experimental soundscapes. Seventeen tracks are woven into one long, hallucinogenic piece, incorporating electronics, homemade instruments, urban field recordings, loops and more. Their best work to date." | |
| 8/6/2003 | Rotten Piece | Within the Apparatus are Pockets of Quiet | CD | $10.99 | Fleece | "CD recorded live and in the studio 2001. Shifting atmospherics, guitars speaking in tongues, space drones, tiny electronic caterpillars, burly mantras, the birth cry of the stick violin and a bit of the old skitter and flump." |
| 5/14/2007 | Roxanne Jean Polise | Pine Apparition | cassette | $6.99 | rundownsun | "Primitive, minimal, and brutal. 'pine apparition' is what can only be described as an electrified pre-historic soundscape. shimmering crystalline beauty collides head on with thick organic muck. crisp tones, and pristine electric crackle are obliterated by pulsating ooze and monstrous crunchy burl! it's like listening to geological birthing pains. the legendary RJP, a master at the top of his game. artwork by RJP printed in black on heavy grey paper. hand numbered 2-panel insert. spray painted high-bias cassette. edition of 100." |
| 2/4/2007 | Roxanne Jean Polise | We're All Right | 3" CD | $6.99 | Apop Records | "1 long rumbling industrial creep drone. Each cd is sealed in petri dishes with artwork / dye / polyethylene glycol mixture." |
| 6/4/2010 | Rrreverberations, The | The Rrreverberations | CDR | $6.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "Psychedelic renegades congregate one night in Austin, Texas, for heavy underground jams. Plugged in and turned up, egos dissolve into one mind to create a sonic prayer to forgotten gods. A swirling howl of guitars and vintage synths sweep over steady grooves that explode into electric bliss." |
| 4/10/2009 | RST | Tomorrow's Void | CD | $12.99 | Utech | "New Zealand's Andrew Moon has spent the past decade plus as RST, finding the one thing the electric guitar was truly meant to do -- make a holy noise. Somewhere between the hum of the amplifier and the vibration of untouched strings lies electricity's nervous system. Sound reduced to its cold essentials. Unsettled waves sluiced through luxuriant effects and delays. The gristle of the electrical grid harnessed and reconfigured as exquisite ostinato." |
| 5/4/2011 | RST / Insect Factory | split | 7" | $5.99 | Insect Fields | "NZ minimalist burned-out atmospherics meet DC wintery soundstreams. RST presents a humid and base drone, stripped of all excess and covered in rust. The track is an exploration of deduction, but the solid and indestructible frame will mystify and keep you listening. RST has had releases on Corpus Hermeticum, Ecstatic Peace, Last Visible Dog, and others. Insect Factory's side presents a dream of floating keyboard and guitar sounds, slowly raining notes until the whole thing is covered in sonic precipitation. This is Insect Factory's first proper release since the 2008 Terrastock festival, and precedes the upcoming summer full-length." |
| 4/24/2006 | Rua Pente | Hindu Division | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | deconstructed gitarock skronk laid in irregular rows like garage bandits made to seek the pummel of the sun |
| 9/30/2005 | Rubble | Rubble | CDR | $8.99 | Rubble is Shawn McMillen (Friday Group, Iron Kite, Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast) + Bobby Baker (Baby Robots) _ King Coffey (Butthole Surfers). Early songs when Tom Carter (Charalambides / Zaika / Friday Group) was a member are included on these recordings of rough practice tapes, radio show song and a live song. | |
| 1/24/2009 | Ruby, Clay | Pluto in Capricorn | CDR | $9.99 | Skulls of Heaven | "After 13 years in Sagittarius, the dark planet Pluto has finally begun his phase through the potent house of Capricorn. This journey will take 15 long and volatile years to complete. As a tribute to the beginning of what will no doubt be an epic period of destruction and deconstruction hopefully followed by intensive reevaluation and renewal, this album takes the listener through a similarly dynamic journey of celestial electronic meditations. Two months of depression medicated by serious drug and keyboard abuse yielded over 8 hours of introspective new age star symphonies, reaching through the darkness, towards some idea of future lightness. These recordings were then sifted through using modern astrological technologies to select the most thematically appropriate material for this song cycle. All atmospheres are thoroughly mutated through the chronic sicknesses of crude analog processing, only glimpses of the intended therapeutic cherubs make themselves known to the listener. Vast future darkness haunts the proceedings as scales climb to sublime pitches only to be shifted back into the murk of spiritual death and the first flickers of rebirth. Analog mirror music, mandatory long distance mental travel is woven into either alternative." |
| 4/29/2004 | Ruchalski, Edward | Having it Out | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Originally released as Side 1 of a limited edition LP of the same title on Humbug (who have already released the trks on side 2 on a previous disk), the 3 trks on this disk are a set inspired by Ruchalski's reading of Jane Kenyon's poem ‘Having It Out With Melancholy’. With stunningly beautiful slow sad instrumentals (zither, guitar, voice) bearing witness to an evolving 'concrete' core, the music generates (as the title of the poem would suggest) that most poignant of 'art' inspired states; the static and dream like (imagined...) 'channeling' of the dark shrouded memories of another." |
| 9/30/2005 | Ruchalski, Edward | Refined Localities 2,3,4 | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Firstperson | "Ruchalski continues the series begun on Humbug last year, 3 tracks of singing tones and drones like onkly he knows how. Excellent cd's on PseudoArcana and Digitalis also worth tracking down." |
| 9/17/2006 | Ruinzhatova | Liveinsomewhere | CD | $15.99 | Vivo | "Well known for fans of Japanese experimental music virtuosos: Yamamoto Seiichi (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, Rovo), Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Korekyojin, Zubi Zuva, AMT) and Tsuyama Atsushi (Akaten, Haco, Omoide Hatoba, AMT) have joined forces to present live their visions of jazz-infuenced progressive free-rock. Classic!" |
| 6/19/2007 | Run-J.M.C. | Earp Flagon | CDR | $7.99 | Hoopty | "2nd in the ongoing series of releases by three unruly scuzz-rock degenerates. Experimental dust flakes adorn sprawling testicular garage epics. Includes destruction of Led Zeppelin's 'No Quarter' and Ramones' 'Gonna Kill That Girl Tonite'. |
| 6/19/2007 | Run-J.M.C. | Gefilta Red Cosmos | CDR | $7.99 | Hoopty | "Three tri-polar waste cases get together to smoke toxic telecaster scuzz rock and in the meantime do some home recording of the resultant epic misadventures. Several opossums 'beached' themselves on the grill of my car due to the garbled neurosis of these recordings - and to top it off, the ill-advised attempt at Judas Priest, which certainly displays a profound mental deficiency!" Edition of 50 copies. |
| 11/20/2010 | Running | Running | LP | $16.99 | Permanent | "Running is one of America's best psych/punk bands. Running sounds to us like Clockcleaner, if they played twice as fast and half as long. The vocals are reverbed beyond recognition, the drums are pummeling, and the bass and guitar are abrasive feedback-laden. After pumping out a couple of incredible cassette tape-only releases, Running went into the studio and recorded some of their material (semi) professionally. Those recordings have now been preserved to wax as Running's debut 12" EP. This eponymous EP comes housed in a jacket with really interestingly created artwork and contains exactly 13 totally brutal weird punk songs. If these guys were jockier, they'd be a hardcore band. Thankfully, they're too arty for that ish. This record fucking rips! The first pressing is limited to 500 copies!" |
| 2/5/2011 | Running / Loose Dudes | split | 7" | $6.99 | Catholic Male | "Your boys over here at Priority Male have teamed up with Thurston Moore's pal Brett Naucke of Catholic Tapes fame to put out this unsettling split 7" release. Running delivers a noisy, droney track titled "Right Lane Leaning" which somehow sonically captures the physical sensation of a crippling case of motion sickness. It kind of sounds like their self-titled LP on purple drank. The bass and drums are sludgy, the vocals are mere guttural moans. Pure musical discomfort. Loose Dudes drop two jams on their side: loud, hyperactive, obnoxious. Black Flag meets Circle Jerks meet Suicidal Tendencies. The type of songs that make you want to throw a stool across the bar or give your mom the finger. Beautiful cover art by San Fran weirdo William Keihn, sleeve screenage by Ryan Duggan, and yes, the tattoos on the back cover are real. There are only 300 of these so GRIP RIGHT QUICK because at least one of these bands is going to wind up famous for the wrong reasons and holy shit, can you imagine how much this will go for on eBay?" |
| 9/29/2005 | Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock | Runzelstock & Gurgelstirn | LP | $19.99 | Nihilist | "Perhaps the greatest living noise/artist of our time, Rudolf Eb.er has produced one of the most amazing records I have ever heard (again)! Here is Runzelstock & Gurgelstirn, a finely honed exercise of strict sexual discipline & severe sharp psychosis. This is an attack on the mind while stimulating the senses, paralyzed by awe all the while. Beautifully adorned by mindblowing cover painting by Rudolf Eb.er, pressed on 140 gram marbled vinyl. Initial edition of 150 copies sold out! The 2nd pressing of 200 copies on black vinyl (140 gram) are going fast." |
| Runzelstirn / Gurglestock & Decaer Pinga | Omitting The Troll | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Smell the sweat of Thai boxing music". | |
| 7/14/2011 | Ruryk, Brian | Guitar Weakling | 7" | $19.99 | Beniffer Editions | "Screenprinted rubber stretched and warped, mounted on modified board. Edition of 100." |
| 9/30/2005 | Ruryk, Brian | smeared gravity and guitars lipping off | CDR | $12.99 | Beniffer Editions | "Ex-folley editor taking risks with his neighborhood recycling! 23 Fanta bottles, 14 ravioli & artichoke cans and 156 pieces of shelving & office discard succumb to natural forces (ie. gravity, deflection and acoustic genocide) at the hands of the most notoriously anti-musical trash wanker. All of this set somewhere between freddy vs. jason slow-mo and harlequin diamond fuck-brace hi-fi to "bluegrass" guitar playing. Acoustic! Comes in a screenprinted, tri-marbled cardboard diskette envelope, sealed as all sticky fuck. edition of 98." |
| 10/19/2003 | Russell NRG Ensemble, Hal | Hal On Earth | CD | $12.99 | Abduction | "Polio-inducing to realise that the worldly vision of Harold Luttenbacher has been inanimate for nearly 1500 days. That's two to six head-extending records we've been screwed out of, which makes the urge to stick a horn in Hal's corpse and push a last few continent-shaking cries out of his gut a lot more than 'palpable'. So does this reissue of a bone-melting 1989 cassette, a kind of lube-job studio-prep for the massive Finnish/Swiss Tour a year later. While that disc remains, listener-flotation-wise, the Ensemble's true magic carpet, Hal On Earth's peaks are more brain-lifting and at best differ from Tour only in that one's applause goes unaccompanied. Russell may have listed nine Ayler recs in his all-time top ten but his true attribute was a muscular lifting of rock's rhythmic weight into the thin air of lunge-forward, head-lightening free jazz, something Albert himself hopefully intended before the last granules of usable gray matter dribbled out of his ears. It'd be nice to say such musical advances didn't die with the body, but it'd also be nice to say the Sun City Girls record for ECM. That both would be lies makes Hal Russell's death an overwhelming reason to contemplate enacting one's own." - Marc Masters, Opprobrium |
| 2/11/2004 | Russell Street | These Cigarettes Will Kill Me | CDR | $12.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Russell Street is the solo project of Greg Larking, one half of the ‘noise’ duo (called confusingly?) Street… A million miles away from the overdriven excess of that band, Russell St. is a much more subtle and introspective affair. ‘These Cigarettes…’ gathers together quiet electronic loops and a series of discreet piano and organ improvisations recorded (quite audibly) in the sunroom at his home on Russell St. This is the sort of music I started the label in order to release." |
| 4/16/2007 | Russell, Bruce | Gilded Splinters | CD | $14.99 | Spirit of Orr | "After countless false starts and production problems, we are finally able to offer a specially packaged edition of this long awaited release by BRUCE RUSSELL. For our store accounts and mail order customers we present a hand assembled digipak version of this CD (not a CDR). In the coming months it will be issued in a jewel cased edition. About the Project: I have been interested in the use of sound recordings to make 'music' for a long time. In the early 1980's one of the things that drew me to the work of groups such as Cabaret Voltaire, The Fall and This Heat was their use of recordings as an element in their work, and as a way of restructuring played pieces once they had been recorded. In my own work, I started making tape works from day one, buying my first open reel tape machine in 1983, the same year I bought my first electric guitar. The first Dead C. album included 'The Wheel' and 'Mutterline', both of which I constructed from tapes [1987]. Later about half of the third Handful of Dust album; 'From a Soundtrack to the Anabase of St.John Perse', was constructed in the 'studio' [1995]. When I began to record under my own name, one of the things I wanted to focus on was tape work, as opposed to documentation recordings of live improvisations, which most of my other work has been. My first solosingle was produced by the simple expedient of halving the tape speed, thereby doubling the beauty of the original ultra-lo-fi recording. A great boost to my resolve in this area was given by Ralf Wehowsky's invitation in 1996 to participate in what became the 'Tulpas' project. His faith in me gave me confidence to consider my work as a form of composition, and has led directly to this album. In this regard the support of Matthew Leonard has also been very helpful. My plan was to compile examples of my tape work over the last few years, as a way of showing the different approaches and developing methodologies that I have employed. Originally I envisaged a double CD, but this has proven to be both too expensive and ultimately too hubristic. Making these recordings has been a learning process, but a very satisfying one. My working practices have often been deliberately primitive and brutal, and I make no apology for that. It is the ideas and their expression that should be of interest, not merely questions of technique. It remains only to note the inspiring example of many more illustrious names in this genuinely Twentieth Century art form. I will not compile a list of names, as these lists have a way of becoming almost too famous, but national pride compels me to mention the late Douglas Lilburn. He founded, in 1966 at Victoria University of Wellington, the Southern Hemisphere's first Electronic Music Studio. Recently his magnificent analogue electronic works have entered the digital domain in a long overdue re-edition. Hurrah!" - Bruce Russell, Lyttelton 2004 |
| Russell, Bruce | Project For A Revolution In New York | LP | $19.99 | Siltbreeze | "The first Bruce Russell solo release Project for a Revolution in New York sees our man truly alone on the first side, messing with a guitar over a looped drone accompaniment. Remarkably subdued and dare I say, relaxing. Side two has Tom Lax (Siltbreeze mainman) and Paul Toohey (Surface of the Earth) helping out with percussion and electronics in a very free collaboration where what doesn't happen defines the tension of the piece as much as what does. There's always been a tension between noise and minimalism in Russell's music as evidenced on Project For a Revolution." - Paul Collett, noise.as. Edition of 500 copies. | |
| Russell, Bruce | Toy Walkie Talkie | 7" | $5.99 | Chocolate Monk | 1997 single Vol. 2 of the Cadenza Freedom series. | |
| 9/29/2005 | Russell, Bruce & Ralf Wehowsky | Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues | CD | $16.99 | A Bruit Secret | Bruce Russell : acoustic guitar, vocal, analogue tape treatments, mixing and composition and Ralf Wehowsky : sitar, digital sound processing. Recorded 2003-05, Lyttelton, New Zealand and Eggenstein, Germany. "It is midnight during the summer of 1951, the scene is a rural crossroads somewhere outside Paris. A man called Pierre Schaeffer is sitting in the grass by the side of the road. As the village clock strikes the hour he invokes Eleggua, the Yoruba god of crossroads and tricksters, and throws a reel of analogue recording tape over his shoulder. The rest, as we say,is history. Well, no doubt it did not happen that way, but the relationship between the blues and old school‚ electro-acoustic music is not as distant as it might at first appear. Both the blues and sound recording are children of the twentieth century. In fact, the blues are the first musical genre to owe their ongoing historical existence ˆ their tradition‚ ˆ almost entirely to the technology of sound recording. This album took form as a purely conceptual project, several years in advance of its actual realisation in sound. Part of my intention was to evoke the sound world‚ of the old blues, by using analogue recording technology; the hiss and grainy analogue texture of the sound is integral to the concept. Ideally I should have mastered it to acetate before making the digital transfer. I also aimed to make use of the limited technical palette of old school‚ tape music to create an homage‚ to the blues heroes. Equalisation; speed changes; tape splicing, looping and reversal; reverb; and ring modulation; these were my colours. I recruited Ralf Wehowsky to throw in some wild cards of computer sound processing, which I then returned to analogue tape and put under my razor." |
| Russell, Bruce / Andreas Brandal | split | 7" | $5.99 | Smalltown Supersound | "The BR side consists of chance-directed tape-splice operations on recordings of self and others." | |
| 10/21/2009 | Russell, David | Artistic Suicide | c10 + c20 double cassette | $12.99 | Pizza Night | "On point recordings from David Russell showcase his fine tuned approach to merging unpredictably frantic sounds and focused controlled sound experiments. Very hypnotic tracks juxtaposed against screeching noise blasts. A wide array of all the things David does so well. The dynamics of his more percussive pieces extends his repertoire widely on this one." |
| 11/4/2006 | Rusted Shut | Bring Out Your Dead | 7" | $25.99 | AA Records | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. |
| 10/25/2008 | Rusted Shut | Hot Sex | 12" | $15.99 | Dull Knife | "Formed in 1986-87, Rusted Shut has been playing the most plodding, creative, sincere and emotionally purgative music in the annals of modern underground music. Recording rarely in the last twenty years, it was with the 2003 "official" release of Rehab on the Emperor Jones label that Rusted Shut first reached critical acclaim. Recorded roughly around the time of Rehab (1998), the lineup for this EP is the same from those sessions. Past reviews of live shows and recordings are mostly right. "Drunken Riot" and "stripped down," respectively, are tag-lines often seen. But the essence of what one can take from Rusted Shut is the singular, most open-hearted and sincere musical experiences one is likely ever to encounter. Yes, the shows are sparsely attended, at least by the time they actually start playing. Yes, the music itself is not something you would play at a party. At least any party you want people to stay for. But what Rusted Shut lacks in what is typically call musicianship, they make up for with raw integrity in rock-hard fucking spades." |
| 7/14/2007 | RV Paintings | Trinity Rivers | CD | $12.99 | Root Strata | "New nature jams from the Northern California peace crew. Brian Pyle (one half of the core Starving Weirdos duo) his brother Jon, and their bro Spencer traverse the twilight moon as RV Paintings. 'Trinity Rivers' is a suite of three nocturnal jams, way heavy on the hypnotic vibe. Wine glasses, holographic guitar circles and skittery drum lines unite to form a fantasy world- but not in color - all black and white with smears of metallic sliver. Eno circa 'On Land' with Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument after a midnight swim in the ocean. This is by far one of the most beautiful and totally dark audio documents out of the Weirdos camp." Edition of 500 |
| 3/21/2009 | Ryan, Collie | Hour Is Now | LP | $12.99 | Sebastian Speaks | "Collie Ryan privately pressed three albums in the early '70s-Taking Your Turn Round The Corner of Day, Indian Harvest, and The Giving Tree. The records were funded in part by Collie's friends at the New Age Farms carrot and fresh juice company in Lompoc, California and her mesmerizing music remained largely a secret until "Cricket," one of the tracks from Indian Harvest surfaced on the Numero Group's stellar compilation Ladies From the Canyon in 2006. Collie's music is almost solely based around her cosmic and birdlike voice and nylon guitar picking, and her lyrics reflect her lifelong study of theosophy and naturalist living. The Hour Is Now collects tracks from her first three LPs and is packaged with Collie's own artwork. For fans of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell, Sibelle Baier and Ruthann Friedman." One copy available now - more later. |
| 2/11/2006 | Rylan, Jessica | Flight to the Ivory Tower / Total Confusion Recreation | cassette | $12.99 | Heavy Tapes | "Second in the "solo synth" series on Heavy Tapes is Jessican Rylan who also performs and releases music under the name Can't. The past few years has seen Jessica performing constantly all over the world, carrying her synthesizer and microphone with her, singing songs and letting the electricity flow. If you're curious about the connection between electricity and sound, this tape is for you. A steady yet energetic tour of every frequency imaginable, committed lovingly to magnetic tape for your pleasurable consumption. Tuck in." |