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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
8/4/2007	16 Bitch Pile Up / Mike Shiftlet	split	LP	$12.99	Ecstatic Peace	"Ohio has been rampant on the Ecstatic Peace play lists lately with the release of a long player earlier this year by Leslie Keffer and a forthcoming split LP by Emeralds and Tusco Terror. Like Keffer, who's moved to Nashville (to be closer to Be Your Own Pet), 16 Bitch Pile Up and Mike Shiftlet are both ex-pats of Ohio. 16 Bitch to California and Shiflet to some weird small town in Japan. Shiflet we've known for years as he has produced some of the more interesting tapes and whatnot of Midwestern out-ness from his Gameboy label and from his legendary duo tour with Burning Star Core/C. Spencer Yeh of a few years back. Like the amazing beard he has sported since childhood his music is a free-fall of acoustic wonder. He is also the cat responsible for turning on most of the world to the radical charms of three girls from Ohio wickedly named 16 Bitch Pile-Up. With a name like that you may have expected something just kinda funny but what made itself imminently obvious was that 16 Bitch was really and extremely into producing a wholly personal thrombosis of noise improvisation. Crystallized to the trio of Sarah Bernat, Sarah Cathers, and Shannon Walter, this trio has become one of the most consistently exciting live experiences of the last five years. These recordings by both artists were done when both were still residents of Ohio and reflect that time and space right before each other's exodus. They are raw and righteous and ready for you to take a bite." Edition of 500.
12/24/2005	6majik9	In Mara's Glove	CDR	$10.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	reissue of first 6majik9 disc , previously available on foxglove.
12/24/2005	6majik9	The Human Hand	CDR	$10.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"the companion release to 'majik - in mara's glove' to be released on foxglove in may. the collective madness unleashed in various forms , sparked by awareness of the infinite , sunburned minds ornamental disasters trapped on magnetic fiber.....or ink"
4/29/2008	6majik9	The Space Between	CDR	$13.99	Cut Hands	"Sucking up fluids from middle earth and releasing them through weirded out psych jams, 6majik9 represent a blossoming Australian underground centred around the ever incredible Musicyourmindwillloveyou label, Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood, Terracid, etc. Enough loner vibes on this one to loose yourself in for a couple of days on end. Rural murmur, entrancing drones, minimalist percussion trails, baby's crying, uknown magickal devices emitting electronic incense, the smell of wet leafs, the moon bigger and brighter than usual. 69 copies in square dvd cases with b/w artwerk and inlay."
6/11/2006	Saaboteuse	Saaboteuse	3" CDR	$6.99	Firstperson	"A diminution / distillation / destruction of SCULPTRESS wilful and playfully secreting dynamite, oil/grease and TINY SPIKES in the heart/running engine of SCULPTRESS, bringing themselves down from within without ... magic cards reverberating through the CONFESSIONAL grill via an echo chamber painted poison-lead red ... multitracked espionage and chicanery / vital, virtually un-honed precision device mismanagement ... coherent reams and streams / dubious intent / copious intensity ... old pianist throttled throat wire ... JOINCEY//JARVIS"
4/29/2008	Sachiko	Hverfanda Hvél	CDR	$13.99	Cut Hands	"Hverfanda Hvél is Sachiko's (Overhang Party, ex-Kousukoya) third solo album, after the purple vocal haze of You Never Atone For and the equally breathtaking Kunado, released last year on Utech. This one contains two, gutwrenching live performances at Tokyo's Loopline. First track features Reiko.A of former Merzbow fame and travels through a thick, hazy fog of shimmering wordless vocals before collapsing face down in a pool of electronic voodoo damage. On the second, shorter piece Sachiko breathes out her zoned out mantra's and washes of cosmic vocal beauty as if she's honouring Yoshi Wada's monumental spirit. A mesmerizing mayhem for real. 100 copies in the usual square dvd cases."
1/1/2008	Sachiko	Kunado	CD	$13.99	Utech Records	"Japanese vocalist and instrumentalist Sachiko (Overhang Party, Vava Kitora, Kosokuya) looses a second, white-hot solo release. Her brilliant debut You Never Atone For on There/Musik Atlack rode gilded wings straight to the heart of the psych sun. The journey continues with Kunado. A tincture of Taj Mahal Travellers, wispy oscillations and lysergic vocals bathes the recording in delicate atmosphere as Sachiko's sonic attack leaves vicious and harrowing results. A listen not soon forgotten." Edition of 500 copies.
8/31/2008	Sadgrove, Mark & Tim Coster	untitled	CDR	$10.99	Claudia	"It was only two weeks ago that I reviewed an 'Untitled' disc by Mark Sadgrove and Tim Coster and here they return with a release for Coster's own CLaudia label. The three pieces were captured on april 9th 2008 at the Wine Cellar in Auckland, and Mark plays guitar and dictaphone and Tim plays oscillator, sampling keyboard, walkman and loop pedals. Their playing is not unlike the previous released of a fortnight ago, but its less conceptually inclined and their playing is a bit more free here, even when a small chord is played it gets musical. The previous was more or less an exercise in sine wave like experiments, this is more improvisation, let's see what happens. Not at bad at all, but not as great as the previous release either. It's more a case of recognition - the path already explored." (FdW) - Vital Weekly
3/1/2007	Saiko	Sketches of Several Southwestern Felons on the Eve of Their Just Demise	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"Saiko is one of multiple monikers used by berlin-by-way-of-texas resident jeff gburek. as a friend and collaborator of such luminaries as tetuzi akiyama and charalambides' tom carter, gburek extends his guitar into a world of otherness. mixing in elements of obscured and manipulated vocals and minimal synthesizers, saiko is an cosmos-bound vessel appropriating the sea. this is the blues cut-up, pieced back together, and then drowned in the bathtub before ascending to the heavens." Edition of 100 copies.
4/10/2005	Sakada	Askatuta	CDR	$10.99	Rhizome	"Mattin, Eddie Prévost (of AMM), and Xavier Erkizia, live 22th August 2003 at Arteleku (Donosti.) Notably different from recent Sakada output (ie. the 'Never Give Up on the Margins of Logic' 3” on our favourite NYC label Antiopic) this disc captures deep vault vibe, with arcs of Mattin’s ‘computer feedback’ reverbed out and trailing across Prévost’s percussion armoury and Erkizia on accordion and computer. Cold is now warm, space is now dense, up meets down. In a world of many Mattin-related discs (all of which, I should surmise, are absolutely essential to any breathing life-forms with any interest in ear-to-mind transfiguration) 'Askatuta' is very much one of the finest." - Jon Dale
7/16/2006	Sala-Arhimo	Sala-Arhimo	CD	$12.99	Last Visible Dog	"Islaja (Fonal) side-man and frequent tour-mate with Larkin Grimm (Secret Eye), Sala-Arhimo's debut oozes a slow psychedelic radiance from a half-frozen world of hibernation. A bit of ancient Pink Floyd as reference point, perhaps some of the jazz-like moments of Faust's more gentle side, but here all comparisons end. This is another one of those 'you need to hear it, but there's no way to get it' Finnish geniuses whose music shares much affinity with the Lal lal lal crowd (Kemialliset Ystavat, Avarus, etc.), but focuses less on the purely experimental, and more on rich, melodic drones and voice." Very nice!
2/15/2005	Salamander	Bent Hemlock	CD	$13.99	Camera Obscura	"Past Salamander releases have shown the band to be a skilled improvisational space rock unit with a minor emphasis placed on occasional forays into psych/folk song structures and lyrical territory. 'Bent Hemlock' offers up a stark contrast by focusing instead on an approach that shows off the band's skill in acoustic territory as well as their abilities as lyricists and songwriters. The improvisational component is still present (especially in the album's eerie and cinematic closing track, 'An Open Transom'), but for the most part it is employed economically, played out in concentrated doses as short instrumental interludes between tighter vocal numbers. Timing and happenstance play a significant role on this album; during the time of its recording, the band found themselves between studios and set up shop instead in the living room of bassist Dave Onnen (who engineered the proceedings) and percussionist Matt Zaun. The environment was ideal for trying out the acoustic format, and pushed the participants in new directions in other ways as well. Sean Connaughty's vocal style has mutated into something unique, and his prowess as a lyricist is only emphasized as his mind and voice play a variety of characters varying in age and mental/emotional stability. 'Hail' finds him full of vitriol, while 'Diagram' shows its protagonist to be a much more fragile and vulnerable figure. The '90-year-old-man' style vocal delivery evidenced in 'The Visionary Kind' is perfectly at home with the song's humidity and steaming-swamp vibe, replete with a languid fuzz-guitar lead from fellow guitarist and vocalist Erik Wivinus. When Erik takes the helm in the songwriting department, things shift to a somewhat different but still complementary style, varying from a frantic, intricate urgency with a strong progressive-folk influence (the 7-minute epic 'Portal' being a prime example, with a strong middle break that not only features a ripping space-acid lead from Connaughty, but showcases the insane precision inherent in the rhythm section of Onnen and Zaun) to imagery from lifelong recurring dreams (the fast-paced 'Ascension') and on into the album's opener; the chilling, Lovecraftian seafarer's warning entitled 'Galleon,' which features a bracing vocal performance by 11-year-old chanteuse Madeline Westby. Other guests feature on the album as well, playing cello, electric violin and percussion. Original drummer Bryce Kastning contributes to two of the albums tracks, both as a percussionist and by recording the initial parts of those tracks at his home studio. Guest strings are beautifully played by Margaret Hegg and Jane Anfinson. This is certainly a departure of sorts for the band, but it should not be seen as a turning point; just a shift of emphasis and an insight into another side of these musicians. Space rock and psychedelic improvisation still figure prominently in the band's live sets, and doubtless the electricity will come back to recorded efforts in the future. For now, enjoy the respite and explore the new terrain. Inhabiting areas lush and stark, disturbing and revelatory, totally freeform and thoughtfully considered in near-equal measure, these recordings show a versatile band using all the tools in their arsenal in pursuit of new expression, and coming out the better for it. Change staves off stagnation, and doubtless this fresh approach will inform and invigorate future efforts, whatever those efforts may be."
	Salamander	Red Ampersand	CD	$11.99	Camera Obscura	"Spewing deep and chunky psychedelic rock of the 'smoke 'em at home' variety…an impressive, drug-drenched stab at Ash Ra Tempels' patented cosmic floats." - David Keenan in The Wire 168
	Salamander	Red Mantra	CD	$11.99	Camera Obscura	"Camera Obscura is pleased to be able to continue their series of Salamander releases with the Minneapolis outfit's second full-lengther, titled Red Mantra. Our efforts to document the Salamander recordings were initially retrospective, with the band being effectively defunct at the time of the 1997 Red Ampersand CD, but interest in that recording has led to the reformation of Salamander as a recording entity. Thus, rumours of Salamander's demise have proven to be premature, with Red Mantra being a combination of archival material and new material recorded specifically for this release. The Salamander archives have given up three thunderous power-drone instrumental improvisations, David's Opening, Return to Rural Highway (an evolution of the parched, desert themes of Danger on Rural Highway on their debut), and their magnum opus Red Mantra. The latter is nearly 25 minutes of textural guitar mayhem that does to the psyche pretty much what that wave did to the east coast of the US in Deep Impact. The two newly-recorded tracks are Sean Connaughty songs, effectively balancing the improvised material. Earthborn Animal is sublime astral folk with Sean on haunted vocals/acoustic guitar and Erik Wivinus on Appalachian dulcimer. Old Mr. Jones is a mysterious folk ballad, leading into eight-or-so minutes of supercharged space rock recalling Hawkwind at their most motorised, but with twice as many IQ points.”
1/15/2005	Sam Gopal	Escalator	CD	$12.99	Edsel	1968 recordings featuring Lemmy Kilmeister (pre-Hawkwind). Eastern-flavored psych! Adds two bonus tracks, as well.
	Sam Gopal	Escalator	LP	$17.99	Get Back	1968 recording featuring Lemmy Kilmeister (pre-Hawkwind). Eastern-flavored psych with tabla!
3/26/2006	Samavayo	Death March Melodies	LP	$24.99	Nasoni	"Berlin based heavy rock combo Samavayo is phat heavy rock with striking psychedelic parts and a voice, the power and versatility of which has no peer. Their first real longplayer "death march melodies" tells stories of self-temptation, emotional fears, struggles of relationship, drugs, love and death. It is 50 minutes of driving kick ass power rock with spicy groove attacks but also catchy melodies and fine hooks, too." Edition of 500 copies - these are on black vinyl.
9/30/2005	San Ul Lim	2	CD	$18.99	World Psychedelia	"Sizzling second album, which according to the liner notes, was released just five months after the band's first album; despite the fact that these early San Ul Lim records were made as late as 1977, they sound as if they could have been cut in the late '60s. San Ul Lim were ostensibly a trio-with the eldest brother on guitar, the youngest on drums and the middle playing bass; they also have their sister Kim Nan Suk playing keyboards - a small oversight maybe for her never to get any credit on the records , as she has as big a role as her eldest brother when it comes to carrying the solos for the group, using a broad array of synths (a harpsichord farfisa patch being popular) and electric pianos. The bass playing of the middle brother is also spirited. Not content to merely playing his role in the rhythm section and keeping harmony going, he has a tendency to keep busy with fast-moving scale fragments and melodies. A tougher sounding album than their rightly-lauded debut, the music became more psychedelic and impromptu; and as the notes tell us, 'Definitely the second album made them rock stars in Korea.' Korean rock specialists called the first three San Ul Lim albums 'the demo tape triple collection.' These are regarded as the band's best recordings 'because they made most songs on these albums between 1971 and 1975 (before their debut). Therefore the songs had their early originality and creativity.'"
3/21/2007	San Ul Lim	3	CD	$18.99	World Psychedelia	"Korean psych originally released on SRB in 1979. "Third album from inimitable Korean trio of brothers; they wanted to make this album 'as Western top class Hard-Rock music,' so they used only guitars, drums and bass and emerged as a power rock trio; the end result, of course, is not a 'Hard Rock' record at all. True, the record starts out with throat-shredding vocals and a guitar sound that is fuzzed-out and ominous sounding; but by track two, there are dreamy melodies; all's well that end's well, thanks to the 19-minute track that took up side two of the original LP - droning fuzz guitar psychedelia at it's maniacal best. Korean rock specialists called the first three San Ul Lim albums 'the demo tape triple collection'. These are regarded as the band's best recordings 'because they made most songs on these albums between 1971 and 1975 (before their debut). Therefore the songs had their early originality and creativity.'"
4/10/2005	San Ul Lim	San Ul Lim	CD	$18.99	World Psychedelia	"Debut album by this amazing Korean psychedelic group (some say the nation’s first psychedelic group), featuring some of the dirtiest fuzz guitars ever recorded; the booklet has information in English about the history of one of the songs ‘Arirang’, but does not translate the names of the rest of the songs from the album—maybe this is no surprise, as Korean friends of mine say that the song titles (‘Maybe It Was Late Summer’, ‘The Carpet of My mind’ are two rough approximations of titles) and certainly the lyrics of San Ul Lim songs are so poetic and rich in meaning that they are untranslatable; regardless of the language gap, the music is strong, moody and atmospheric, and rewards repeated listening." - Lion Productions. Recommended!
12/17/2003	San Ul Lim	San Ul Lim	DBL LP	$59.99	Dragon	"Special double album release containing the best tracks from the 4 albums by this Korean monster psych band. Progressive psych rock with great fuzz guitars. Has some unreleased material as well."
6/18/2002	Sand Pebbles	Eastern Terrace	DBL CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"Encouraged by the reaction of press and punters to their earlier Camera Obscura 7" Noah’s Ark which was described by Melbourne's Inpress magazine as ‘an informed and doughty synthesis of 60s fuzz-pop and creative film scoring’, and praised by the prestigious US organ Magnet for its ‘chemically altered instrumentals’, Camera Obscura is pretty damn excited to present the debut full-length release by the Sand Pebbles. Their progress over the past 18 months has been salutary, and they are now at adept at both setting sail on adventurous studio explorations to the boundaries of pop and soundtrack rock, and playing engaging and memorable live shows. The CD opens with the ‘My Sensation’, a genuine feast for the senses that has become a widely distributed MP3 "hit", and also appears on the neo-psychedelic showcase compilation The International League of Telepathic Explorers on the US-based Free City Media label. FCM supremo Nick Bensen nailed it in his review notes in response to the preview copy we sent him: ‘Andrew Tanner's falsetto vocals and easy guitar riffing make me think of Pavement playing the Stones playing Smokey Robinson. Ben Michael X's 1979 string synth and guest Beck Zack's mellotron add a layer of sugary space. The ‘Do do do’ harmonies after the chorus can stick in your mind indefinitely’. A nervous-breakdown version of Julian Cope's Out of My Mind on Dope and Speed" follows, background vocals like inner voices pushing the crazy-eyed narrator over the edge. Sanity is restored for the melancholy swing of ‘Moving To Fast’, which is elevated by buzz-saw guitars, a fine Spaceman 3 influenced break, and the laser precision of Tanner's vocals. The classy ‘Dirty’ triumphantly caps the song section of the record with some fine, almost alt.country angst. Another dimension of the Sand Pebbles is revealed through a series of memorable instrumental workouts. 'The Big V' casts a wistful glance back at pre-corporatisation Aussie Rules football and, along with ‘The Sundowner’, displays the band at their most cinematic. ‘Charmed’ hints at possible future directions with its swirling mix of spoken word samples and electronic tinkering. ‘Eastern Terrace’ record concludes with a reprise of ‘Moving Too Fast’ – simply arranged for vocals, cello and brass, a ‘Director's Cut’ version that emphasizes the band's internal dynamic of renewal and reinvention."
	Sand Pebbles	Noah's Ark	7" EP	$5.99	Camera Obscura	"Melbourne's Sand Pebbles are virtually unique in the Australian musical landscape in playing historically-aware, distinctly West Coast flavoured psychedelic pop and rock, influenced not only by the psych touchstones of the 60s and 70s but also classically cool Aussie stuff like Died Pretty and the Moodists, perhaps opening a door for some more interesting sounds to come out of Oz. "Noah's Ark" is a three minute flower punk track featuring frantic rhythm guitar (think the Velvet Underground's "What Goes On' from the 1969 Live Album), overdriven organ and a Gibson SG solo courtesy of the Casanovas' Tommy Love. "Hey Let Me In" is a Stooges inspired one-chord instrumental frenzy that could've been lifted from the soundtrack to The Wild Angels. It's set to feature in an American BMX video. "The Sundowner" is an expansive, mellotron soaked journey that's a perfect example of the Sand Pebbles psych-cinematica."
9/29/2005	Sanderson, Philip	Seal Pool Sounds	CD	$13.99	Seal Pool	"Seal Pool Sounds is the first cd release of new material from snatch tapes founder, organum collaborator, and british installation artist, philip sanderson. seal pool sounds picks up where sanderson's storm bugs project left off sometime in 1981. sanderson's diy software electronics conjure whimsical, plaintive electronic tones and rhythms: sounds that recollect the light-hearted, yet melancholy nature of 20th century zoos. seal pool sounds at once evokes lafms, raymond scott, marcel duchamp, and french new wave film music."
7/10/2008	Sanguine Piss	No Horse Shit	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Saw these dudes for the first time as a cohesive unit at a recent wiese / wether gig in philadelphia. i've been seeing mat perform as newton for a minute, and known jared for what seems like a decade. in recent years i've been floored by some one-off collabs he has done with matt franco and skeleton warrior, so i was way interested in finding out what those two dudes plus cohort marc zajack (deep fried tapes) had in store. their setup was fairly minimum... some mixers, pedals, and a couple of guitars tuned to untuned. from second one though the most enormous sounds ruptured through the room. i mean, shit was gigantic. every once in a blue moon you could think to yourself "oh, i think that sound is coming from that", but usually it was just a vulgar mess. asked to do a tape while smoking weed out of an apple in the back of the store, even though i remember there being a pipe earlier. i guess that just fit."
10/25/2008	Sanhedrin	Sun Head Ring	CD	$18.99	Breathing Bass Records	"SANHEDRIN is the Trio with Keiji Haino (Fushitsusya, etc.) Tatsuya Yoshida (RUINS, Koenji Hyakkei) Mitsuru Nasuno (Altered States, Korekyojinn, etc.). 2nd album of the Real Rock Monster SANHEDRIN includes 2 live performance that were recorded in 2007 on multitrack recorder. This is the masterpiece live album Is equal to of the whole body which passion gushes from." 8 tracks - 68 minutes.
2/23/2007	Sapat	Mortise and Tenon	CD	$13.99	Siltbreeze	"Spawned from the formidable Louisville, KY collective known as Black Velvet Fuckere (Valley Of The Ashes, Phantom Family Halo, Kark, etc.), Sapat resides as the centrifugal force in this Midwestern psychedelic madrigal set in the psychosexual backwaters of the mighty Ohio River. For the entirety of the '00 decade, members have kept busy collaborating with and/or massaging the egos of various and sundry avant-pontiffs such as Robert Fripp, Magik Markers, Dead Child (David Pajo's metal band. That's right, David Pajo!) and Eugene Chadbourne -- when not honing the orgone energy of Sapat. The Fall of '06 saw their debut release, a seven-inch on BVF entitled Tongue-Tied & Staid that had a few astute bloggers comparing the action within to "aggressive blues a la Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band." However, for this self-titled full-length release, Sapat has opted for a different, more organic sonic waft. Acoustically packed to the gills, the octet effortlessly strums and blows breezy vibes, emitting kosmisch melodies and Teutonic ambience that channel-- Julian Cope-like-- past giants such as Limbus 4, Siloah and Lord Krishna Von Goloka (you know, the A-team of Krautrock). Once you launch into the group's spacey and entrancing, yet calming and soothing asteroid belt, you might mistake the Ozarks for the Alps if you're not careful. And who could blame you? You're way up there and the air's thin; hallucinating's a must."
9/17/2009	Sarah's Charity	Atonic Feedback Consumerism	CDR	$12.99	Reverse	"Edition of 70 in spray painted covers and heavy PVC sleeves presenting this solo project from Christian Stadsgaard's most brain-lolling application of heavily modulated space to date. Twin oscillators squoze through flat-lining filters and ring modulators with a tar of rainbow harmonics. Intensely psychedelic. Previous release on Heavy Blossom."
5/14/2007	Sarah's Charity	Code Of Red Twin	CDR	$9.99	Arbor	"Among the metal forests of Denmark, there is Sarah's Charity. A maelstrom of expert tone work and free electricity; sounds so electric, yet still reminiscent of the flowing natural growth of fellow Danes Family Underground (it should be noted that Nicolas of FU helps out on track 2). This naturalism plus the actual sterility create a feeling nothing short of psychedelic. A wall of intense oscillation and soothing vacuous space ala Marcia Bassett's various projects. Speaking of Marcia, SC is also famed for being the only non Bassett/Bower related project to be released on the esteemed Heavy Blossom label. In a numbered edition of 150 copies in absolutely beautiful mind tripping deluxe screened sleeves by Dylan Martorell, with screened discs and an insert."
9/30/2008	Sarah's Charity	Fear of Sound	cassette	$8.99	Digitalis Limited	"Denmark's sarah's charity has been cranking out some serious walls of sound over the past few years. churning black guitars that get sucked into the bottomless depths of ice-cold oceans. each track builds on the previous, leaving your ears white hot and begging for more. there's so much distortion that it feels like the tape can't even hold it all in. the best way to experience "fear of sound" is head-on. crank the volume up as loud as you can, pour it in and make your ears bleed. eventually you'll be absorbed and drift away on a cloud of burnt dust. good fucken times. limited to 87 copies with full-color sleeves designed by peter friel."
2/12/2008	Sarah's Charity	Final Ocular Distortion	cassette	$6.99	JK Tapes	"Mysterious mechanized mayhem; fried meditation out of Denmark. Electricity is erupted sonically, sound-based entities converted; persistently psychedelic. Naturally synthetic technology is used paradoxically as a method of coming into chimerical contact with natural forms. Dangling metallic tones drip from the mountains, gear-heavy ruminative drones amass on top of ocean, we are closer to what is real--surreal reality."
11/2/2008	Sarah's Charity	Mirror of Abundance	cassette	$6.99	Peasant Magik	"Squealing feedback and tortured guitar movements spread overtop thick black, droney buzz. Think Hendrix, but he accidentally set himself on fire. Or maybe Wall without the Wall? Simultaneously overwhelming and lulling." Edition of 100 copies.
	Sato, Yoko	Searching For My Recording Engineer	CD	$8.99	Public Eyesore	Four guitar and voice improvisation pieces recorded at Studio Jive, Autumn 2001.
8/20/2004	Satyrswitch	The High Lonesome Sound of...	CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"To those who know the work of Jason Kesselring (mostly via his efforts as leader of the space rock group Skye Klad and his newest band, Blitzen), the music of The Satyrswitch may come as something of a shock. However, anyone who has ever taken a plunge into a clear northern lake on a hot summer's day knows that after the initial icy shock of the water comes a singular and beautiful refreshing feeling unlike no other. Kesselring's Satyrswitch project offers this kind of striking contrast in its crystalline acoustics, engaging original compositions and unique interpretations of traditional folk songs that pay strong homage to their roots while giving them a new twist. Shedding the layers of distortion and epic, ear-splitting space voyages he has been known to use in the past has not only brought into light Kesselring's versatility and variable virtuosity, it also provides the bracing refreshment that only a drastic change can bring. Kesselring is joined by a few guests on some tracks (notably his wife Christine and fellow Skye Klad/Salamander members Dave Onnen and Erik Wivinus), but on most of the album we find him on his own. Many modes and styles are explored (including intriguing takes on such tried-and-true trad numbers as 'Tom Of Bedlam' and 'Nottamun Town,' Barrettesque, chord-organ laden psych-folk originals and an impressive and nimble guitar raga that will certainly give his contemporaries in the new acoustic underground a run for their money), but throughout there is a consistent and singular cohesive musical strain to bind together these seemingly disparate elements. Though this is a quieter musical form, it maintains all the power of his earlier efforts while pushing his vision forward to new vistas. Kesselring's eardrums doubtless thank him for the cool respite, and doubtless will the eardrums of those lucky enough to find this release in their hands."
9/17/2006	Saul, Danny	Balance	CDR EP	$5.99	Filthy Home Recordings	"Following a succession of acclaimed live performances, this is the debut release from Danny Saul. Intricate guitar playing, subtly and skilfully applied arrangements and a perfectionist's attention to detail form the backdrop of songs that cast a razor sharp gaze over the ways people fuck each other, and themselves, over. At times intimate and warm, at others chillingly expansive Danny draws on influences ranging from the most esoteric US alt. noisemakers to the pioneers of British folk in order to create a sound that raises the bar for the bustling hordes of singer-songwriters employing inferior weapons in the battle to touch the hearts and minds."
9/17/2006	Saul, Danny	History + 3	CDR EP	$5.99	Filthy Home Recordings	"Emerging from the Albini-endorsed Tsuji Giri, Saul's approach to his craft is all consuming. On this, his second solo EP, he fleshes out his absorbing avant garde folk with layers of electric guitar, vocals and drums. If 'Signs 1' has a haunting claustrophobia and 'Cuts' aches with frustration, that's because Saul feels comfortable building up his songs alone, surrounded by a variety of instruments, in his dusky Manchester flat."
10/20/2003	Savio, Dominic	...while his little grandson was sleeping…	CDR	$10.99	Cat Sun	"This album consists largely of words and of voice, but it is after all a solo project by the vocalist of One Inch Of Shadow. We get recitations of mysterious texts, often half-whispered or half-sung (all in English) over a background of music often made up of a few layers (whether voices, acoustic instruments or electronics) undergoing slow, gradual changes. Sometimes, a constant rhythm appears, but even then the music melts and smears like watercolors. One of the least muscular and least clear albums I've ever heard, but it is very mysterious. A calm melancholy mood flows from the speakers, but I can't say what it's all about. It reminds me a bit of certain records by guitarists such as Jandek or Loren MazzaCane Connors - a few slow notes or chords and a voice telling us something we won't understand - but in a non-guitarist, non-blues version." - Smolken
9/18/2003	Sawdust Caesars	LSD Art	7"	$5.99	Rocket Recordings	"Second release by these Acid Punksters from Coventry, four tracks of wah frenzied mayhem. Includes covers of Bob Calvert¹s 'Ejection', and The Attack's 'Anymore Than I Do'. Turn On, Freak Out, Piss Off........Edition of 300 copies."
9/18/2003	Sawdust Caesars	You Pigs	7"	$5.99	Rocket Recordings	"The Sawdust Caesars unleash two slices of glorious psychotic and psychedelic punk with overloaded wah wah guitar action to blow your mind. The Acid Punk Revival starts here!"
7/31/2006	Sawyer, Phil	Childhood's End	LP	$22.99	Guerssen	"A magical discovery from the down under '70s psychedelic scene. Phil Sawyer's 1971 album Childhood's End, originally released in Australia on the Sweet Peach label, remains pretty unknown yet to most of collectors around. No justice. This is a wonderful album that will please anyone into psychedelia, rock and folk. Totally electric, great production, great songwriting, warm uneducated voice by Phil himself that gives a slight looser feel to it at times... the album contains some fantastic mid-tempo psychedelic folk-rock ballads, and the song that gives name to the album is an incredible slice of pure psychedelia with lots of tasty psychedelic sound effects. This is a very rare and collectable item in original (Hans Pokora gives 5 discs to it in his books). This first ever reissue is licensed from the original label and the sound is taken from the mastertapes."
2/19/2007	SB, The	Who Will Feed Them	LP	$21.99	QBICO	"Performed by: Mark Bajuk, Tony Fasce, Silvia Feriozzi, Eric Mauer, Brent Peich, Russ Waterhouse. The next evolutionary step from Double Leopards and Family Underground, very subtle and psychedelic music."
12/24/2005	Schizoide	Death Alley	CDR	$13.99	Audiobot	Belgian noise guitar destroyer.
12/1/2004	Schlaf Gesucht	Drift	3" CDR	$6.99	Fact Records	“The third and last episode in Schlaf’s 3”cdr series featuring three untitled compositions . Drift sees the trio migrant to gentler / much soothing regions than their past (two) adventures with drums, small cooking pot, organ, classical guitar, electric guitar & bass packed inside their multi – colored sound bag.”
12/1/2004	Schlaf Gesucht	Kishkushim (Scribble)	3" CDR	$6.99	Fact Records	“The second chapter in Schlaf’s 3”cdr series. This time round the free noise trio is joined by Michael Busidan who circles their chaotic yet expressive sound with warm / progressive synth washes. The cd consists of one long raw & colourful session exhibiting a more spikey & elaborated side of the band. Recorded in a bomb shelter in Maale’ Edumim. Instruments: drums, bass, guitar, keyboard, small can, wooden boards, chairs, keys, drill, electric shaver, scissors, shoes and more.”
12/1/2004	Schlaf Gesucht	Put It On the Riz	3" CDR	$6.99	Fact Records	“Limited edition 3" inch cdr from Jerusalem based trio, Schlaf Gesucht (Boris Livshits - Drums, Shimi Zaken- guitar, Rafi Busidan- bass). EP1 / ‘Put it on the Riz’ is the first chapter in a series of three EP's documenting Schlaf's live sessions (this time round at the Rosa Pub, July 2003). It consists of two powerful tracks that showcase the group's ability to craft beautiful & imaginative free noise soundscapes.”
11/6/2002	Schnitzler, Conrad	Conal 2001	CD	$12.99	Submergence	"A wonderful new release by this legendary electronic artist, formerly with Tangerine Dream and Kluster. 60 minutes of new music, with the final 20 -minute track constructed from previously unreleased 1981 recordings! Twisted sequences, changing chordal drones, tumbling aural dice, this is high-quality experimental electronic music from a true original."
8/21/2003	Schnitzler, Conrad	Gold	CD	$18.99	Marginal Talent	"A real sensation for lovers of electronic music. Gold is for insiders a real gem. Although generally known that Conrad had quite a few unreleased recordings from the 1970s, this recording remained a legend for Conrad's many fans, and was never released, until now. Think about it, Conrad, together with Mobius And Roedelius as Kluster, released their Eruption album which influenced many of Germany's most respected artists, like Kraftwerk and Can, an album which today, as an original pressing, fetches 500 Euro or more on the collectors market. Gold is from the same era, recorded 1974 -1978, and considered by many as one of his most important albums, eagerly waited by his many fans. It is one of the first albums he recorded on his own, free from compromise and devoted to his artistic vision, locked up and unheard for almost thirty years."
	Schumacher, Michael	Room Piece	CD	$11.99	Studio Five Beekman	"'The Room Piece' originated in 1994 as a 16 channel computer-generated sound environment. The form of this is composed in real time by the computer, using a complex set of algorithms that control the random generation of timings for the articulation of the pitches by the various (synthesized) instruments. Everything on this recording except the voice and electric guitar is 'played' by the computer, which makes its decision about rhythm and pitch based on small sets of criteria. This recording should be played at low volume in a room relatively free from extraneous noise. The title has to do with the way the sound comes to find its place in a room. Even without an extensive multi-channel setup, sustained tones and articulated pitches find their place in the room. Like Feldman, I want the sound to 'permeate' the room. The title also refers to a tradition, chamber music, one more intimate that the concert experience."
	Schumacher, Michael J.	Four Stills	CD	$13.99	Sedimental	"Schumacher has a strong presence on the experimental scene with his refined guitar 'drone' compositions but parallel to this activity he has been working with number system applications of sampled material through electronics, a direct extension of his audio installations. Where as much digitally generated material succumbs to a hermetically closed world of glitches and electronic landscape Schumacher's work opens up this environment, despite the density of the material, into a breathing, organic spaciousness while still maintaining the intimacy inherent in the form. ‘The Four Stills are expressions of the number system that I have used since 1989 in my electronic compositions. These numbers form the basis for dozens of rhythmic processes executed by the computer, from playing a midi grand piano, to deciding a range within a sample buffer to play, to determining larger structural aspects such as the alternation of sound and silence within a particular part. The fact that they are prime numbers prevents predictable patterns from emerging. The limit of six maintains structural coherence. The Four Stills were recorded direct to stereo in real time. Though the sounds used in a given piece are predetermined, their interaction with each other over time is left to chance. These pieces are extensions of my installation pieces, which evolve over long time periods, and are also created in real time by generative algorithms. However, in contrast to the installations, which utilize distance as an important perceptual feature and employ as many as 16 independent channels of sound, allowing for meaningful variations in texture, these recordings, being limited to two channels, are more compact in their presentation of the sonic material. They therefore remind me of certain styles of painting, which present the spectator with a static field of color that is experienced in no particular order. Though the music obviously unfolds over time, the analogy seems appropriate to me, since the dense textures (sometimes as many as 27 simultaneous parts) invite a contemplation of the many layers of sound and their relation, not in time, but in space.’"
1/1/2008	Schurt Kwitters	2007	cassette	$6.99	Open Mouth	"jess goddard solo; current fat worm of error singer, ex-caroliner, and ex-deerhoof. edition of 200."
9/17/2006	Sci Hi	Lab Recordings	lathe cut 7" & CDR	$18.99	CMR	"Sci Hi is the moniker of musician and sound artist Paul Winstanley. Paul has been active for many years in numerous incarnations while in Texas and Auckland, New Zealand including P.H., Lo'Casta, Artificial Subterrane, Speed Cook, Paul Guilford from 'The Dave Dove Paul Duo', and more recently in Auckland groups such as Audible 3 and Plains. The Sci Hi sound is made from digital feedback. Sci Hi is like a school of small fish where each fish is represented by a tiny sine wave rising or falling in pitch. PW jumps in the middle of the school and all the little fishy's go scattering in every direction, creating beautifully complex, multi-layered clouds of sound." Features full length album on cdr and is in an edition of 60 copies with blue textured paper outer sleeve and with brown paper inner sleeve.
8/2/2008	Scorces	Dreamers Of Decadence	CDR	$17.99	VolcanicTongue	"The first new Scorces release from the duo of Christina Carter (Charalambides) and Heather Leigh Murray (Charalambides / Taurpis Tula / Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast et al) in over four years and a taster for their forthcoming double LP on Not Not Fun, Dreamers Of Decadence presents an album's worth of new material recorded in the Folk & Cinema Basement in Northampton, Massachusetts, in late 2007. Christina plays electric guitar and vocals; Heather plays pedal steel and sings. The sound is extremely eerie, with distant far-away sounds and hallucinated almost-melodies forming gorgeous, spectral matrices of folk-tone and sanctified steel in a way that feels quite unlike anything even remotely contemporary. The playing is pointillist in the extreme, building song constructs from the delicate interactions of single steel notes suspended high in the air, giving the whole album that weird, Venusian quality sometimes associated with fellow instrumentalist Loren Mazzacane Connors. There's an evocatively refracted acid-rock feel to some of the more wailing passages, with Murray and Carter cranking their axes like hogs and spitting feedback and fuzz in luminous, melodic arcs. The vocals feel even more disembodied than usual, like voices through clouds, with words and sighs propelled on heavy gravities of breath. Just don't mention fucking sirens, okay? The disc is a limited edition of only 200 hand-numbered copies and comes with hand-stamped sleeves and discs housed in a printed transparency film cover over gold card and wrapped in high-quality plastic slipcases. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue
7/11/2008	Scorces	I Turn Into You	DBL LP	$24.99	Not Not Fun	"Very few fringe duos of the 2000s have succeeded in so fully utilizing the witchy, wordless, and wondrous bond of the twosome formation as Scorces' twin figureheads Christina Carter (also of Charalambides, Bastard Wing, etc) and Heather Leigh Murray (Taurpis Tula, CEO of Volcanic Tongue, more). Their early incarnation as East Texas fried-folk loners instantly struck a chord in clued-in heads for both its bold formless experimental moods as well its instantly gripping emotional power. Their 2003 masterpiece on Eclipse, Vivre Avec La Bete, captured their magic craft perfectly, and in retrospect has definitely cast a heavy influence over a whole host of today's underground's voice-based lonesome drifters. So it is with amplified honor that we offer up this latest tome of spells unearthed from the Scorces' vaults: I Turn Into You. Nearly 70 minutes of pedal-steel guitar tendrils, basement dust, whispered melodies, enchanted strings thrummed against the quiet, and possibly the planet's single intensest dual free-crooning chemistry (as anyone who caught one of their Fall '07 opening sets on the solo Thurston Moore tour can attest) sprawled across four spectral sides of black vinyl. All tracks were recorded several years ago back at Charalambides HQ in Houston, TX by psych-guitar journeyman Tom Carter, and they've aged like oil paintings (cracking, majestic, immense). Housed in embossed, metallic ink jackets designed by Marcia Bassett (with a racy poem by the Scorces' ladies on the back), plus an 11x11 insert with info and a live shot. Edition of 500."
4/23/2003	Screamin' Mee-Mees	Clutching Hand Monster Mitt	CD	$10.99	Slippy Town	"The original Dog Face Records vinyl of this 1992 LP was the Mee-Mees' public follow-up to their debut EP from 1977! Bruce Cole and Jon Ashline made probably the best "worst" record of the 1970s American punk thang; Live from the Basement is right down there with "Forming" and O. Rex. And then came Clutching Hand Monster Mitt! Still in the basement, but with better equipment; technique that's still primitive, but more sure and much more experimental; a style that's equal parts ACID and STOOPID. Like, there's a song called ‘Mudflap,’ but it's instrumental and has a vibe somewhere 'twixt The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and the Godz. The whole record's loaded with wah-wah, sloppy drums, and vocals in a kinda Legendary Stardust Cowboy style. Wonderful! Mastered from vinyl by a friend of Bruce. Edition of 92. CDR released May 2002."
4/23/2003	Screamin' Mee-Mees	Nude Invisible Foot Phenomenon	CD	$10.99	Slippy Town	"Reissue of 1996 Bag of Hammers LP from Missouri's premiere poets of basement-rock, low-tech experimentin', and righteous silliness. The eight minutes of ‘3 string classical guitar’ (by drummer Jon Ashline) and tape manipulation called ‘Chinese Handcuffs’ demonstrates wonderfully how much of the ‘serious’ ‘art’ music that got released in the 1990s was nothing but cynical, stillborn crap. Whoever decided you can't have a few laughs while you're lookin' for a little space done got theyselves stuck! On the other hand, if you wanna open a frosty one and reclaim your whiteboy stoopid roots, check ‘Dogfishin',’ ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’ (storytellin' in the tradition of their '77 classic ‘Max Factor’), or ‘Goin' to a Barbeque.’ But I think I'll grab the bong and check out ‘Smarter,’ a druggy bog up the bum of hierarchies everywhere, recorded in England by guitarist Bruce Cole with cover artist Todd Dillingham and friends. Mastered from vinyl by a friend of Bruce. Edition of 96. CDR released May 2002."
	Screamin' Mee-Mees & Hot Scott Fischer	You're Now In Our World:Warp Sessions 1972	CD	$10.99	Slippy Town	"Re-discovered in late 2000 by Jon Ashline is this prequel to the Warp Sessions 1973 CDR. Bruce Cole sez he, Ashline, and rock-writer Scott Fischer 'recorded this on Fischer's balcony on a hot-ass summer day, fucked up on who knows what!? The cops only came by two times.' This is an epic exploration (total time 54:55), with seven musical chapters to ponder: 'Just Fine' (10:05), a cover of 'Sister Ray' (7:24), 'Edge of Space' (9:06), 'You're Now in Our World' (11:13), 'Take Cover' (3:31), 'The Attack of the Intergallactic Cement Mixers' (9:44), and 'In the World of Space' (3:48). Need I say more? Edition of 125."
4/16/2007	Screamin' Mee-Mees, The & Hot Scott Fischer	Warp Sessions 1972 / 1973	DBL CD	$15.99	Gulcher	"Five years before they released their first EP in 1977, the Screamin' Mee-Mees (Bruce Cole and Jon Ashline) were already making lots of racket. The two musical outcasts would get together in Bruce's St. Louis basement and switch on the tape recorder to document their undisciplined musical madness. Jon banged on drums and homemade percussion, yelping out spontaneous lyrics. Bruce added guitar and other electronic junk to the mix. It was self-contained and must have seemed like an elaborate private joke to the duo--freaking in the basement, isolated and pure. In 1972, a little bit of the outside world entered in the form of "Hot" Scott Fischer, a local rock writer who had found underground notoriety in the pages of rock mags like CREEM and PHONOGRAPH RECORD MAGAZINE. Scott was the first writer to make the connections between Krautrock and the Stooge-garage-rock underground of the early 70s. The first recorded session with the Mee-Mees and Fischer took place on the balcony of Fischer's apartment. As the boys jammed their primitive Midwestern blend of the Godz and Amon Duul I, local kids showed up to gawk, and the cops eventually shut down the proceedings. Almost an hour of chaos and space-age freak-out came from this meeting: "Just Fine," "Edge Of Space," "You're Now In Our World," "Take Cover," "The Attack Of The Intergalactic Cement Mixers," "In The World Of Space," and a spastic take on the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray." In 1973, the trio got together again, this time in Bruce Cole's basement (the scene of pretty much all other Mee-Mees recordings over the next three decades). This yielded more crazed rambling and free-form jamming. The outer-space themes had already been replaced by something darker, hinting at punk-rock that was already in the air: "I Am Nothing," "Mommy I'm Falling," and two more originals that even had titles which would later become underground touchstones: "Final Solution" and "Another World." No, they don't sound like the Pere Ubu or Richard Hell songs of 1976, but what did Ubu and Hell's Voidoids sound like in '73? Oh yeah, they didn't exist yet! Yes, these guys were "ahead of their time" in more ways than one. Thanks to the ever-groovy Gulcher Records, the two WARP SESSIONS from '72 and '73 (released as limited-edition Slippy Town CDRs in 2000 and 2001) are now available on a handy double CD. Also included is the previously unreleased "Floorbored," a bit of lunacy done by Bruce and Scott for the amusement of Jon, who had left St. Louis for college. Dig!" - Eddie Flowers, Slippy Town
6/17/2004	Screening	Low End	CD	$13.99	Maor Appelbaum Productions	“Screening is a one-man project, delving deep into experimental and avant-garde music. The whole project was created using only a bass guitar, manipulated by effects into a unique sonic experience, which tests the boundaries of music as we know it. Maintaining a somber, eclectic atmosphere throughout the album, Screening tests the limits of conventional music, exploring the outer reaches of the sound spectrum. Adventurous souls willing to experience a quest previously unknown are welcomed to test their senses and musical concepts with: Screening." File this under experimental / avant-garde.
3/2/2005	Sculptress	How The Kingdom Fell Apart	3" CDR	$7.99	Firstperson	"A live recording of theStoke-on-Trent based improvising unit, here operating as a trio of Melanie Delaney (Ashtray Navigations), Joincey (Inca Eyeball, Wagstaff, Target Shoppers, etc) & Andy Jarvis (Anna Planeta). Over 20 minutes they slowly weave a trance-inducing web using clarinet, acoustic gtr, electric gtr, percussion & toys. This is the first available document of the group's continued & varied live work over the last 2 years." 3" cdr housed in hand-made clear acetate covers with information printed on one side and an image on the other.
12/24/2005	Sea Donkeys	Volume 1	LP	$16.99	Abduction	"This is the debut recording from an anonymous Seattle outfit of assembled misfits, sub-criminals, and castaways. Jettisoning down the fast current from the foggy low tides just off the glossy-lipped pucker, this renegade band of pirate fuck-me-naughts slip into the dead stream with unwitting direction, abandoning tired navigational tools for a less reliable fate. Imagine the Manson Family singing on a sinking ghost galleon sippin' salt water, willing to go down, down with the ship. Originally hatched on a decrepit boat, where some of these tracks were recorded on soupy nights till dawn upon the Puget Sound, the Sea Donkeys patrol the uncharted waters smuggling Barbary coast psychedelia into northern ports for their infrequent role as Lord Summerisle's house band. Edition of 300 copies on 180 gram vinyl with insert."
7/11/2008	Sea Donkeys, The	Live At The S.S. Marie Antoinette	LP	$13.99	Assophon Records	"The Sea Donkeys 2nd long player is here. asso-001, Live at the S.S. Marie Antoinette LP is the culmination of a sound only dreamt of by today's cognoscenti. This record does not belong to any scene or movement or marketable new buzz word. This record is without geography. It is about electricity! While cries of JUDAS reverberate through the halls, The Sea Donkeys will not look back! Imagine the Godz (ESP-Disk vintage) recording at the Smegma studios, or the Velvets in Brazil. How about Ayler by way of Faust, how about that! This record is a blend of seductive pastoral folk rock tunes, free jazz reveries, shimmering strum drone, ascot pop, and unhinged rock!" Edition of 400 copies.
7/11/2008	Sea Zombies	It Died In Africa	cassette	$8.99	Digitlais Limited	"The first incarnation of Sea Zombies was entombed at bottled smoke in 2007. that one-off performance featured john xela, jefre cantu-ledesma, gregg kowalsky, jed bindeman, & myself. but the original intent of the project was always as a duo between xela & the north sea, with assorted special guests thrown into the mix in various places. it seemed appropriate, then, that the first ever sea zombies release consisted of stripped-down duo recordings. both tracks were launched into the stratosphere during xela's boozed-out visit to tulsa in march of 2008. much blackness was birthed. much ginger beer was consumed. "It Died In Africa" is the first thing we recorded during that fitful week in early spring. accompanied by dudes in africa sermonizing in french, walls of synthesized ruins were blown to bits with oscillating shards of burned-out glass. thick and syrupy and ready for consumption. packaged in oversized black envelopes with gold lettering which house the tape (with black-on-gold cover), insert, and a different african tarot card with each copy. first edition: limited to 100 handnumbered copies in black envelopes" - Brad Rose. Sold out at source.
9/16/2007	Seagull	The Conqueror Worm	one-sided 7"	$5.99	Ketchup Cavern	"Debut release on newly formed Ketchup Cavern label, first vinyl release by Vancouver experimental musician Michael Piercey AKA Seagull after numerous self-released cassettes/CDRs. Performed using homemade noise generators and a gang of distortion pedals, The Conqueror Worm features 5 minutes of poorly-recorded static, roaring distortion (and some mysterious crackle added by the pressing plant). Guaranteed to confuse your neighbors. 1-sided 7" record, limited to 180 numbered copies, b&w cover." - label. "Seagull's "The Conqueror Worm" came to me from nowhere looking pretty menacing; I was thinking it was either a noise record, a black metal record, or a Stephen O'Malley side project just from looking at the artwork. Turns out to be the first option, and a quick Googling reveals Seagull to be one Michael Piercey outta Vancouver, who's got an array of tapes and CD-Rs to his name, unbeknownst to yours truly. Ketchup Cavern sez "The Conqueror Worm" consists of "poorly-recorded static, roaring distortion (and some mysterious crackle added by the pressing plant)" and that pretty well sums it up. It's a straight-forward snarling drone, cavernous rattling and tectonic plate-shifting sensibilities abounding, which is nice enough but kinda begs the question why, as Piercey seems to be treading on sure ground here...though I could never say I know a man after listening to five minutes of his music. Plus I think I could get into it more stretched out over full-album length. So as long as it's competently performed (it is), who cares if it doesn't change my life. Slick black and white sleeve designs on this baby though." - Outer Space Gamelan.
12/4/2003	Search Party	Montgomery Chapel	CD	$20.99	Beatball	"This is a first official CD issue of rare religious psychedelic rock album which features lovely female vocals and excellent blending of folk and melodic psychedelic atmosphere." Beautifully done, packaged in a quality mini-LP style jacket with insert, liner notes, lyrics, original liner notes reprinted, etc. Limited to 1000 copies. Previously reissued on LP by Void. "Legendary California Christain psych with haunting female vocals and a mood of acid in the air. Folky, psychy, inventive, dripping with acid. The best of both worlds. God and music." - FE
11/4/2006	Seaworthy	Serrata	CDR	$14.99	Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon	"Ahhhh... now were talking. Seaworthy have made a big name in this tiny little world we inhabit for a limitless hush of looped guitar, piano, warm dro-o-ones, that can only be described as oceanic in scale. But hold on, Im not talking the raging oceans that devour sailors like a ravenous beast as they sail The Horn... no, no, no... Im talking about the endless horizon and gentle lapping of the tide licking secluded shores of the Bermuda triangle. Electrified blooms of guitar and the most gentle feedback blossom and flourish like time-lapse movies of plants growing and dying, speed accelerated so radically, the life cycle so truncated, the beauty becomes all the more tangible. Sooo-perb."
10/25/2008	Second Family	Dirty River	cassette	$9.99	Sloow Tapes	"Crunching, raw and abstract psychedelic blues improvisations by this collective featuring Clay Ruby of Davenport and Burial Hex fame. Tasty keys, moody rhythms and two long, relaxing and dirty tunes. Edition of 70."
10/25/2008	Secret Abuse / Earth Crown	split	cassette	$6.99	Arbor	"Jeff Witscher and Door are two the hardest ripping nomads; covering the scene in a grey blanket of dedication. Focused walls of droning harsh noise from Secret Abuse; "Hands of Clock | Move Slowly" is the product of solitude and bleak middle grounds. Underneath lies beauty: purity. Earth Crown's "Napalm Fucker (Start War Small)" is an intense, short burst of synth and electronics: aggressive and raw, nihilistic depravity: fuck all. Created for their East Coast 2008 Tour; in an edition of 100 tapes with full color art and labels featuring photography by Kyle Parker (Infinite Body)."
6/25/2003	Seeds, The	The Seeds	LP	$15.99	Get Back	"1966 debut album by Los Angeles garage punk legends, the Seeds, featuring the now classic primitive rocker 'Pushin' Too Hard'. Originally released as a single to promote the album, it went largely unnoticed until the full-length album was released, at which point it began to climb the charts, creeping its way into the Top 40. Featured on numerous compilations and covered extensively, it remains one of the great musical landmarks of the sixties California garage scene."
6/25/2003	Seeds, The	Web of Sounds	LP	$15.99	Get Back	"Springing from the underbelly of the Los Angeles garage scene, the Seeds were punk rock before the world had ever heard of a tribe called Ramone. Staying mostly to the 'primitive rock' side of the great hippie divide, they released their debut album in 1966, followed by Web Of Sounds that same year. The band did eventually succumb to the inebriating perfume of flower power, but that ultimately proved to be their demise, unravelling in the face of the dawning of a darker era. Includes their second hit single 'Mr. Farmer' and the raucous 'Rollin' Machine'."
1/27/2004	Seen Through	2	CDR	$12.99	Pseudoarcana	"Two new improvisations from the duo of Ben Spiers and Antony Milton. Track one is a heady hybrid of ultra distorted guitar noise and ecstatic celestial 'blues', the 2nd track an extended meditation on 'NZ noise guitar', all buzzing textures and floating tones."
6/5/2005	Seht	Communion Longplayer	CDR	$13.99	Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon	"Application Antarctica...'s sister release, performing a function akin to an exclamation mark at the end of Stephen Clovers brilliance. The routine transfer of electrons from wire to amplifier (resulting in tiny pulses of air that can only be detected by your eardrums and the hairs on the back of your neck). Golly, it never seemed quite so IMPORTANT before. Further proof of my theory that states ‘if you leave a tap on for long enough, you can carve your own Grand Canyon''.
5/29/2008	Seht	Dead Bees ((the((quiet)earth))suite)	CD	$13.99	Pseudoarcana	"Campbell Kneale once explained that to describe Wellingtons Seht as drone music is much the same as describing Antarctica as white. Where as many of us utilise the drone as an ingredient, a point of departure, Stephen Clover's Seht project distils drones to craft something very like a fine liquor. 'One Moment', the 35 minute first track on 'Dead Bees' is Clovers somnambulant ambient drone masterpiece. A famous insomniacs grand fantasy of sleep. Setting sail with the gentle sound of submerged bells one sinks deeper as lush rich tones gradually merge into a swell of dreamscape waves. Deeper still and one finds oneself glowing in a deep warm golden molasses that shimmers and sways until time somehow folds in upon itself and loses all meaning as ones consciousness shifts into angel gear for the lonnnng coast out. But Clover is also agent provocateur- a wry and acerbic wit. To say that there are surprises to follow is an understatement."
6/11/2006	Seht	Fedearacy Boots	CDR	$12.99	Pseudoarcana	"Sublime glitchy processed organ, clicks and more from the irrepressible and suddenly everywhere seht. (For those who don't already know seht is Wellington local Stephen Clover who besides being incredibly prolific and consistently great under his seht moniker is also member of The Stumps, The Longshoremen and more..). Constructed of ear-bathing loops, drones and electronic renderings 'Federacy Boots' is weird enough to disturb your dreams and gentle enough to beautify your Sunday mornings. Better than berroca!"
11/4/2006	Seht	Guyrz nz you are thus alienated	CDR	$10.99	Ruralfaune	"The New-zealander master of minimalism music is coming back with a new piece of drone music. Some Repetitive sound treatments and an analogue synth approach for a journey through your mind. Again and again, a profound reflexion into unexplored territories and where the time is lost between past and future..." Edition of 86 copies.
4/24/2006	Seht	Nova Bonalbo	CDR	$12.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"speech of ghost lunar rays ornate from the distance bent into refraction glyphs or i pine for the security of my escape pod , cast upon the endless black seas of the night."
9/17/2006	Seht	Sputnik II	3" CDR	$10.99	DON'T! reCoRdings	"Seht is Wellington New Zealand's Stephen Clover. For many years Seht has been quietly making music using guitars, synthesizers, field recordings, broken-down tape decks and computer software. Along the way Seht has released a number of ltd edition CDRs and lathe-cut records internationally. diagnosis...DON'T reCOrdings is proud to unleash Stephen's latest release of cyclic pulses and glacial drones."
9/17/2006	Seht	The Green Morning	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"New Zealand's seht (AKA Stephen Clover) has spawned a musical monster around one consistent idea: that simplicity can be the most mind-expanding drug around. Over the course of a dozen releases on labels like Last Visible Dog and Celebrate Psi-Phenomenon, Clover has perfected this artform. Using a minimal array of instruments and effects, he sculpts every sound source he can find into soothing walls of aural bliss. Doing more with less is rarely done better than this. "The Green Morning" is seht's third proper CD release, and comes on the heels of a series of limited CD-Rs. Through his ability to synthesize a seemingly endless array of sounds into a single, focused point, seht acts as a modern composer in the same vein as William Basinski. Clover's drones have explored various territory through the past few years, everything from glacial ambience to desconstructed blues. "The Green Morning" is like the early moments of dawn, bathed in warm plumes of sonic sunlight. These songs are the memories trapped beneath the floorboards, and by looking back Clover offers a mere glimpse into the ambience of a not-so-distant future."
4/24/2006	Seikazoku	Live in Japan	CD	$15.99	Vivo Records	"A wonderful mixture of progressive psychedelic rock, improvised structures of jazz and extraordinary world music inspirations! Yoshida Tatsuya ( head of Magaibutsu Records, Ruins, PainKiller, Korekyojin, Zubi Zuva, just the name of few!), Tsuyama Atsushi (Akaten, Haco, Omoide Hatoba, Acid Mothers Temple), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple, Zoffy, Godman, Akaten, Gong, Mainliner, Musica Transonic, countless other projects). Featuring 13 tracks recorded during shows in Tokyo and Nagoya in 2005. Must-have for all fans of new sound of Japan!"
3/20/2008	Sekkutsu Jean + Kawabata Makoto	Sekkutsu Jean + Kawabata Makoto	CD	$15.99	Vivo Records	"YOSHIDA TATSUYA (drums,vocal) , SATO KENJI (bass,vocal), KAWABATA MAKOTO (guitar). Recorded live at EARTHDOM (Tokyo 23rd October 2007), HELLUVA LOUNGE (Kobe 5th October 2007). For fans of Acid Mothers Temple, Ruins, Musica Transonic, Buckethead and Primus!"
1/1/2008	Selvä Pyy & Pyy Pivossa	untitled	3" CDR	$7.99	267 Lattajjaa	"psychedelic pop freakout, limited numbered edition of 80 copies, features an insert." "This is pretty wild: mushroom-damaged pop that sounds completely all over the place. Surf riffs, ghostly improvised piano, garbled goblin vocals, dub echo melodica, swells of distortion." Boa Melody Bar. Out of print.
6/10/2004	Sender, Ramon	Worldfood	CD	$12.99	Locust	"'In those pre-Buchla Box days, we cobbled together whatever odd bits of equipment we could beg, borrow, steal and occasionally buy to coax whatever squeaks and chirps or sequences of noises we could from their complaining depths.' - Ramon Sender. Worldfood is a wild, psychedelic warble & drone of looped, overlayed tape pieces produced by 'goosing' an ampex tape player with a computer calibration device. The resulting two pieces - 'Worldfood III (To See With my Eyes)' and 'WorldfoodX!!' - both part of a number of variations in a series - make for gorgeous, careening sungazing music. Leave your glasses behind. Ramon Sender is a legendary figure in the Bay Area scene - first paving the way for the San Francisco Tape Center with Mort Subotnick (Silver Apples of the Moon) and Pauline Oliveiros at the dawn of the 1960s where the stunningly out pieces on this disc happened. In subsequent years, he played an active role with the San Francisco Diggers - the anarchist guerilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture - and co-founded the legendary Morningstar Ranch Commune in Sonoma County. Worldfood is the first in an ongoing series of archival discs to come from Ramon Sender's exceptional vaults."
12/29/2004	Seo, Yoo Suk & Yang Hee Eun	A Fairy	CD	$20.99	MVD	“Seo Yoo-Seock - Shin Joong Hyun songs collection. From this record only the side A songs were reissued on CD format together with the Yang Hee Eun records in 2003. Side A songs are Shin Jung Hyun's songs ; Side B are other music writers songs. I think that this record is a good folk rock or psychedelic folk album from Korea. Personally I think that Korea best folk rock album is a Kim Jung-Mi's ‘Now’ as a total album while Korea best folk rock song is a Seo Yu-Seok's ‘Seonnea (Fairy)’. ‘The fairy’ is a more progressive and acid folk song. Especially you can hear great harp, violin, cello session, string session, Shin Jung Hyun's wawa guitar sounds, oboe, Bass guitar at this song. A real Korean acid folk masterpiece song!!” - Folkie Jin. Basically this compiles two lp’s but only includes the songs with Shin Joong Hyun (which was one side of each lp). Great stuff! If you dig the Kim Jung Mi cd and / or any Shin Joong Hyun releases I think you’ll like this, too.
6/19/2007	Sephiroth's Knot (aka Jow Jow)	untitled	CDR	$12.99	Spirit of Orr	"The Western MA flagship gathering offers it's first ever release through outside channels, SPIRIT OF ORR could not be more honored with their offering this collection to us. JOW JOW, also known as SEPHIROTH'S KNOT or just SEFIROTH is a Free-Improv, Psych Music Collective drawing influence from a broad pallet ranging from Sun Ra to the Godz "Third Wave" with a penchant for the obscure sound or instrument. Contains members of FEATHERS, RED FAVORITE, BUNWINKIES, & SUPREME DICKS. Born from nightly imbibing of the magic antler. Feel the Wreath. Limited to 300 numbered hand assembled copies."
	September Plateau	Occasional Light	CD	$11.99	elsie and jack recordings	Solo recordings from Birmingham, Alabama's Chris Jeely (Accelera Deck) made in late 1997. Very nice ambient drones via guitar.
7/10/2008	Seven That Spells	Black Om Rising	CD + DVD	$25.99	BLR	"Black Om Rising is a tightly wound precision time piece ringing the hours with an effervescent brutality. The rhythm section growls with a low, mean thudding punch that could give the back end of The Birthday Party or Big Black the business in a street fight. Black Om Rising ascends; a beautifully bejeweled bloody stump of instrumental brilliance. Powerful, melodious, charismatic, dynamic, weird and ballsy to the core. STS has compassed an album whose every drone, silence and screech is so slyly crafted that Mozart called from the 18th century demanding amps!A Japanese tour CD/DVD with 500 copies available for North America and 500 for Japan. Audio CD plus region free DVD consisting of the entire Black Om Rising album performed live. Mastered by Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins."
7/30/2006	Seven That Spells	It Came From the Planet of Love	CD	$14.99	Russian Association of Independent Genres	"Formed in 2003, Seven That Spells from Zagreb, Croatia is a brain-child of Niko Potocnjak - homage to instrumental acid rock in its simplest yet most energetic form. Initially, the band was conceived as an ultra psychedelic guitar and bass duo-project backed up with a rhythm machine to create extremely obscured and long linear sound-streams. But very soon, with the addition of a drummer the band drifted to a spicier concept: freak-out guitar, fat dub-bass and impromptu drumming - everything rehashed for a heavy psychedelic sound of the 70's rock-experimental music. Since that time, the band never stopped tripping through the multifaceted cosmos of freak out music, adding new players, shaping the line-up, developing stage-image, improvising, jamming...Rock and Love! It Came From The Planet Of Love - the second official release by Seven That Spells featuring a renewed line-up of Mario Peretic (drums), Turtko Dujmovic (bass), Igor Potocnjak (synthesizer), and a mastermind behind this psychedelic commune Niko Potocnjak (guitar). Turning the volume on, open your mind and think of the following: "Rock music reinvents itself by curving and bending the time - space continuum. Our brains are quantum waves just as the sound is a cosmic wave. Musicians are transmitters not artists. Instruments are receivers not tools. To live is to die is to live on the planet of love." (777) Need more? What you hear is not necessary music - it's a Voice appealing to all brain-damaged pains. That experience could cure your aged nostalgia and depression, or could smash your consciousness deep down. Many unexpected things will happen in the course. There is no point in describing these, as my mind refuses to define property lines of what I've listened to and what I've heard." - label. "There are two long tracks on this CD... The first one, over 30 minutes long track starts in a laid back manner and slowly grows with humming cymbals. At the two and a half minute marker the rhythm joins in and begins a heavy acid rock jam. The space sounds that were introduced already on the previous album are again there to gibe the music an extraterrestrial feel. There plenty of time for all kinds of things to happen in a track this long, of course. Amazing stuff! The other track starts in an easy mood, too, but then it explodes into merciless freak out rocking. In the middle there is some more peaceful ljamming. The track fades out at about 13 minutes, and after that there comes about five minutes of minimal hiss and drone. This is pretty strong album, as well, and worth buying if you're into Acid Mother Temple styled improvised acid rock with some remnants of the 60's and 70's." - by Astro of PSYCHOTROPIC ZONE (Finland) (March 2006). "Just when I've put in this baby the trip started... straight in the brain with fuzzed out guitars, mindblowing solos, great drumming and weird noises. Let's say this CD is a big jam with a lot of nice moments that'll help you to reach a deeper high. Well done and psychedelic fans all over the planet should check out these guys... only god knows on what stuff they're. (Rating +1 = OVER THE TOP!)" - by RB of DAREDEVIL MAGAZINE (Germany) (June 2006)
7/30/2006	Seven That Spells	My Mommy Wants to Kiss Your Mama	CD	$14.99	Russian Association of Independent Genres	"The Seven That Spells' first full-length album, My Mommy Wants To Kiss Your Mamma is a high-intensity, brain-damaged, extreme-instrumental psychedelic freakout. With a marching chime wrapping up a wonderfully unpredictable performance, the music trips out in a strong fashion shifting between obscured space-drones and heavy stone-assaults to elegant guitar filigrees and acid-washed jammings. The tracks segue into each other almost seamlessly, as if they were movements in a single piece, and carry one on a journey so far-fetched and free-spreading, the passenger shall be hard-pressed to catch what happened by the album's conclusion. The line-up features Stjepan Jurekovic on drums, Tomislav Kalousek on bass, Hrvoje Niksic on synthesizer, and guitarist and leader Niko Potocnjak. The band is at its peak right now, taking their music to new spaces and dimensions, and should be paid careful attention to." - label. "7 that Spells is back with another full on psychedelic rock attack. The band have stepped things up here and eaten a few tabs of Acid Mothers Temple but the core feeling is the same in this instrumental acid rock. The addition of synthesizer on a few tracks makes things a bit more spaced but Niko's guitar playing is still super psyched! (5/5)" - by Scott Heller of LOW CUT MAGAZINE (Denmark) (October 2005). "Some of the tracks are more Acid Mothers Temple than AMT, with a fantastic guitarist who goes acid apeshit a la Kawabata Makoto. On other tracks the band are similar but in a completely spaced out early 70's cosmic Krautrock jamming style. Really hot stuff!" - by Jerry Kranitz of AURAL INNOVATIONS (USA) (December 2005). "To get a basic idea on what the band sounds like, take equal parts of Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd with a Jimi Hendrix style guitar playing combined with instrumental stylings of the more recent band, Ozric Tentacles to name a few. The whole album is a frenzied experience that has some aimless meanderings at times but overall the music is top-notch quality." - by Ron Fuchs of PROGNAUT (USA) (January 2006). "Free-form, heavy, wild and improvised instrumental acid rock. In addition to guitar, bass and drums there is this time also some synthesiser-made space sounds. Everything works very well and the jamming never gets boring, which is a great achievement in itself. As players, all these guys are excellent, and also the sound on this totally analogue recording is just right. The music is freaky and mad enough, but everything stills holds together. This is a very enjoyable album if you want to fry your brain a bit with heavy, guitar-driven psych rock!!!" - by Astro of PSYCHOTROPIC ZONE (Finland) (March 2006). "Heavy fucked up psych rawk from Croatian freak squad SEVEN THAT SPELLS that's headed up by by acid-guitar sorceror Niko Potocnjak. This is their debut full-length CD of high-intensity, brain damaged, instrumental psychedelic heaviness that plugs into a terrific stream of Black Sabbath-by-way-of-Acid Mothers Temple improvisation that is splattered in cosmic electronics, apeshit acid guitar shred, and bulldozing bass riffs. The band launches into a killer series of psychedelic freakouts and early 70's kosmiche Krautrock style jams, all highlighted by total fucking gonzo guitar playing that blooms in vast scorched radiant unfurlings of solar fireworks. Recommended." - by CRUCIAL BLAST (USA) (June 2006).
2/12/2008	Seven That Spells	The Men From Dystopia	CD	$17.99	BLR	"CD edition of 500 numbered copies in a full color book bound case. Simply amazing Croatian psych with special assistance from Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple, ...) If the metallic mettle of these men represents Dystopia, then forget Utopia, I wanna bang on Dystopia's drum all day! The sweet 'n' sour smell of Kraut explodes in carefully paced salvos, and then goes completely off the rails. And then gets crazier. And crazier. And crazier. And crazier. Until it reaches an insane, almost unbearably heavy sonic crescendo, and then gets even crazier. And crazier. And crazier. A thick, unending firestorm of napalm psychedelia PUMMELS while its orbit decays into