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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.
7/16/2006	16 Bitch Pile-Up	Hairless Whisperer	one-sided LP	$19.99	American Tapes	Limited edition of 200 copies.
3/5/2009	78 Grave & The Rocket 88s	I Love The Life At The Door	CDR	$12.99	Mad Monk Annex	"Brand new on James Toth's MAD MONK ANNEX CDR imprint. Title taken from a poem by Poetry Out Loud guru Klyd Watkins. From the artist: "On hold with the Tennessee Department of Human Services for over 36 minutes, the initially innocuous 'hold music' - which resembled two bars of "The Way We Were" repeated ad infinitum - began to mesmerize / hypnotize, as my impatience slowly melted to peace, lulled as I was by this 16 second loop of muzak, which would cut off and repeat at random intervals. After finally getting through and dealing with my business, I decided to call back and record the music, which I was now obsessed with (possessed by?). This time I was only on hold for 21 minutes. I took what I had, doubled it, and did some very basic edits / treatments." Imagine a punk rock Distintegration Loops or a drug withdrawal-plagued take on some of The Caretaker's recent ballroom music. An unusually provocative and mysterious tablet of high audio doggerel. Fans of narcosynthesis, rejoice!"
6/4/2010	S K L S	S K L S	7"	$7.99	Quasi Pop	"S K L S are Joachim Nordwall & Henrik Rylander, the key members of Swedish noise-rock band The Skull Defekts. That's their debut release under the name S K L S, which seems to be a kind of side-project for darker, electronic minimalistic sounds. As opposed to the full guitars & drums line-up of The Skull Defekts follows the traditions of motoric Kraut-style (Can or Neu! - like), S K L S is defenitely oriented mostly on spacey-psychedelic-electronic-meditation of Cluster or Popol Vuh. It's completely based on analogue synths, fxs and feedback.
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"
6/30/2010	Sabbath Assembly	Restored To One	CD	$11.99	AJNA	"Restored to One is a modern response to the musical activities of a cult known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment, who used music to spread their visions of Gnostic reconciliation in a time of cataclysmic change. Sabbath Assembly has re-charged the original hymns of The Process Church and worked them into moving renditions that unite the trinity of rock, psychedelic and gospel into one triumphant re-awakening. The Process Church was an intensely creative, apocalyptic shadow side to the flower-powered '60s and New Age '70s. The influential group opened Chapters in London, Europe and across the United States. Dressing in black cloaks and walking the streets with German Shepherds, they created their own intricately designed magazines, and promoted a controversial, quasi-Gnostic theology that reconciled Christ and Satan through deeper awareness and love. Funkadelic reproduced Process writings in two of its albums. The Process Church was accused of being part of a Satanic underground conspiracy by true crime pulps, most notably Ed Sanders' The Family, which linked the Church to the Manson murders. The insider's perspective of this secretive group and its true leadership recently emerged with Feral House's LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment, written by former members including Timothy Wyllie, and edited by Adam Parfrey. Restored To One features the following: JEX - Jex Thoth (I Hate Records); Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice (5RC, Destijl); and James Jackson Toth (Rykodisc, Ecstatic Peace). XTIAN a.k.a. Dave Nuss - No-Neck Blues Band (Sound at One Records); Curator of SOURCE Family's Magnificence in the Memory archival release (Drag City); Boredoms drum leader for Boadrum 777, 888, 999 concerts. RANDALL DUNN - Producer (Sunn0))), Earth, Boris, etc.) The recording follows on the heels of a highly successful, strategically planned series of live shows across the US in the Fall of 2009, which presented a ceremony featuring Sabbath Assembly performing the original hymns of the Church - all previously unrecorded. More live events shall follow along with a documentary on the Process Church made by William Morris of Skinny Puppy, a video for a song from the coming release, standard CD and LP releases and an archival LP box set (including readings of Process sacred literature by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Adam Parfrey, and Lydia Lunch, as well as LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH author Timothy Wyllie), and an off-Broadway theatre extravaganza entitled "Gaming the Gods" based on the rise and fall of the Church."
6/30/2010	Sabbath Assembly	Restored To One	LP	$14.99	AJNA	"Restored to One is a modern response to the musical activities of a cult known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment, who used music to spread their visions of Gnostic reconciliation in a time of cataclysmic change. Sabbath Assembly has re-charged the original hymns of The Process Church and worked them into moving renditions that unite the trinity of rock, psychedelic and gospel into one triumphant re-awakening. The Process Church was an intensely creative, apocalyptic shadow side to the flower-powered '60s and New Age '70s. The influential group opened Chapters in London, Europe and across the United States. Dressing in black cloaks and walking the streets with German Shepherds, they created their own intricately designed magazines, and promoted a controversial, quasi-Gnostic theology that reconciled Christ and Satan through deeper awareness and love. Funkadelic reproduced Process writings in two of its albums. The Process Church was accused of being part of a Satanic underground conspiracy by true crime pulps, most notably Ed Sanders' The Family, which linked the Church to the Manson murders. The insider's perspective of this secretive group and its true leadership recently emerged with Feral House's LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment, written by former members including Timothy Wyllie, and edited by Adam Parfrey. Restored To One features the following: JEX - Jex Thoth (I Hate Records); Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice (5RC, Destijl); and James Jackson Toth (Rykodisc, Ecstatic Peace). XTIAN a.k.a. Dave Nuss - No-Neck Blues Band (Sound at One Records); Curator of SOURCE Family's Magnificence in the Memory archival release (Drag City); Boredoms drum leader for Boadrum 777, 888, 999 concerts. RANDALL DUNN - Producer (Sunn0))), Earth, Boris, etc.) The recording follows on the heels of a highly successful, strategically planned series of live shows across the US in the Fall of 2009, which presented a ceremony featuring Sabbath Assembly performing the original hymns of the Church - all previously unrecorded. More live events shall follow along with a documentary on the Process Church made by William Morris of Skinny Puppy, a video for a song from the coming release, standard CD and LP releases and an archival LP box set (including readings of Process sacred literature by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Adam Parfrey, and Lydia Lunch, as well as LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH author Timothy Wyllie), and an off-Broadway theatre extravaganza entitled "Gaming the Gods" based on the rise and fall of the Church." LP jackets thicker than standard jacket, 180 gram gold vinyl, printed inner sleeve and metallic ink. Recommended!
3/21/2009	Sabbath Pink	Sabbath Pink	CDR	$8.99	Ruralfaune	"Muffled mayhem and disturbing intensity of a sabbath, a maelstrom of dirty & filthy guitar lines coupled with distorted melodies. Intense psychopathic trio from Roanoke, Virginia. Special limited edition of 12 including 3"cdr, not featuring Prince Rogers Nelson." Limited edition of 61 copies.
1/17/2010	Sachiko	Golden Hypnos	LP	$33.99	AudioMER	"Stellar vocals and drones by Sachiko of Overhang Party; three pieces of hypnotic, gliding delight. This is Sachiko's first —all-drone— vinyl release, in an edition of 350. Heavy-weight vinyl & paste-on sleeve with artwork created by Johan De Wilde. AudioMER. edition in collaboration with Croxhapox gallery."
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.
1/24/2009	Sachiko	With Lament	cassette	$10.99	Sloow Tapes	"New album by one of Japan's key players in the psychedelic underground. Sachiko was also a member of legendary bands such as Overhang Party and Kousokuya among others. 'With Lament' finds itself in the lost worlds of eerie devotional chants drowned in eternal reflections of kaleidoscopic electronic powers. Paste-on cover, silkscreened insert and edition of 100 copies."
7/16/2006	Sachiko	You Never Atone For…	CD	$13.99	There	Sachiko is a member of Overhang Party & VAVA KITORA, ex Kosokuya. This album is her first solo CD featuring voice and electronics. Recommended!
10/17/2009	Sachiko	zUnya	CD	$14.99	Musik Atlach	"Sachiko is Japanese voice performer(ex Kousokuya, Overhang Party). She released 1st album ' You Never Aone For...'in 2006. The sound is based on a voice and electronics, she produces fantastic drone and noise by the sound on sound. Her ritual psychedelic drone guides listener to quiet Great Beyond in the time. This album is live recording played in summer, 2008. This is different from studio albums which is rich in the variety, her voice is modest expression and she concentrates into performance of drone, she develops psychedelic sound concerning the organic and the hypnosis. She joins in the meditation drone unit 'Tangerine Dream Syndicate' that Fumio Kosakai leads, two voices shamanic duo 'VAVA KITORA' as other units."
4/10/2010	Sacrum	Sacrum	CDR	$10.99	Blackest Rainbow	"First release from the trio of Robert Horton, Lisa Cameron and Douglas Ferguson. 'Parakeets Of Doom' opens for the disc and musically its as far out and weird as its title, churning twangs, background blues jams and an underlying percussive bassy rumble. 'This Transmission Is Fucked' again equally has a vibe that its title clearly sums up, here the trio melt into one metallic rust almost 18 minute disaster... certain moments sound like thick metal panels are literally being sliced in two. The release finishes with the epic 33 minute 'Somewhere In Oakland (Horizontal Mix--', opens with a freakish blend of music box and wavering underlying dark fuzz and drone, the drone gets bassier throughout with string wig-outs and more gentle strumming laid over at various moments. A great release of odd improvisation and multi-instrumental blurts from start to finish. Hand stamped CDRs in full colour covers, with insert, limited to 70 copies."
1/1/2009	Sad Horse	North Portland Music Series, Volume #2	7"	$5.99	Mississippi Records	"Current local well-loved punk duo. Six songs on a 45 RPM. Comes with an incomplete Mississippi Records catalog. Limited edition of 500. Somewhat spazzy low-fi & a good time."
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
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.
3/20/2010	Samsara Vista	Miner in a Pit of Fire	c42 cassette	$6.99	Housecraft	"Evan has been a creative member of Housecraft for years but with his contributions focusing mainly on the visual side of things, rarely do we hear from him. This journey sets sail down a corridor lined with archaic tape loops, subtle creaks and texture, brief guitar meanderings, ambiguous acoustic swells, and a few spontaneous moments with Kane; fused with a gulp of electric ooze that brings the listener into an inviting underworld cluttered with dust and stacks of gently eroded books, fabrics, negatives, and running film projectors. These dense, incensed surroundings reflect a spirit of playful exploration and uncertainty as each overturned artifact glimmers briefly and then vanishes. Edition of 64."
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.'"
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."
	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."
5/16/2010	Sandalen, Kian	All Tracks Are Protest Songs	c40 cassette	$8.99	Taped Sounds	"Solo, (and debut!) album by this member of the Antwerp free-music troupe Sheldon Siegel. in Sheldon Siegel, Gerard explores the outer limits of improvisation and free jazz. as a Solo Unit though, he creates a stripped down radioplay / collage / musique concrete vision of the creative, remarkably funny / tongue in cheeck at some point, and remarkably singular young mind. the man embarks on the path of a combination of free soundsearching mouths a la Jos Steen, Blaastaal and maybe even Al Hansen."
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.
6/30/2010	Santoro, Vittorio	Man Leaving Harbor On A Ship (In A Room)	LP	$45.99	Vittorio Santoro	"Man Leaving Harbor On A Ship (In A Room)" is the title of a sound installation (for record player, vinyl record, speakers, found photograph, steel wires) by Vittorio Santoro to be presented in June 2010 at La BF15 Contemporary Art Space in Lyon. For the art installation of this sound piece, side A of the LP record (titled "Commencement") is played over and over for a whole day. The organizers will take care that the side B (titled "Conclusion") is played back only the next day. In "Commencement" the French sound poet, artist and composer Franck Leibovici reads a fragment from the article "Das Narrenschiff als Aufklaerer" by Gerhard Stadelmaier, published on January 18th, 2009 on the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "Conclusion" features a reading by the well-known French artist Pierre Leguillon. Recorded in Paris in March and April 2010, conceived and edited by Vittorio Santoro. The silences at the beginning and at the end of each side are integral parts of the sound work. The silence had been recorded in Paris in the night between April 8th and 9th, 2010. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies. The first 5 copies (numbered 1/125 to 5/125) are reserved for the 5 installation pieces, while the remaining 120 copies have been produced for the private use of the artists. Only a handful of copies available for private distribution through the alga marghen newtork."
9/17/2006	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."
3/5/2009	Sasqrotch	Slipping The Reaper Tongue	CDR	$9.99	Blackest Rainbow	"This one has been on the cards for a long time, and after over a year of waiting the master dropped through my mail box. These dudes have had releases on BR label buddies Not Not Fun and DNT, and this is a steady paced doom tinged rock out beast, there's no joy found here. Two tracks, one studio, and a nasty live piece recorded at LA's Echo Curio, lined with sax blurts, guitar shreds, psychedelic swirls, and smouldering drums."
	Sato, Yoko	Searching For My Recording Engineer	CD	$8.99	Public Eyesore	Four guitar and voice improvisation pieces recorded at Studio Jive, Autumn 2001.
5/1/2009	Satoh, Masahiko & Soundbreakers	Amalgamation	CD	$17.99	Drone Syndicate	"Number seven on the Japrocksampler Top 50, available again for the first time in over a decade!" "This preposterous piece of psychedelic avant-jazz sounds like the work of aliens, each with only one foot in our universe. Propelled by cacophonous brassy blasts, volleys of machine-gunning, ecstatically 'Light Fantastic' rhythms and moments of Teo Macero-style 'Mixing Concrète' (during which the whole track becomes consumed by waves of new sound); the result is the most singular mash-up of inappropriate sounds any listener is ever likely to hear. Over two side-long tracks, shaman Masahiko Satoh sends us through a sonic mind-field, baffling our senses and our sense of gravity. Located at the centre of Amalgamation's giddy sessions was the frantic Detroit drumming of hard-bop legend Louis Hayes, whose role it was to play the bubbling ever unfolding fundament on which Masahiko Satoh's whole trip proceeded, as though the rhythm section were a magic carpet magically pulled out from under the feet of the other performers. Over this rhythmic shaking, Satoh scattered Hammond organ around and ring-modulated his Fender Rhodes piano solos (Roland built three especially for the record), added lead guitar from 'super session' legend Kimio Mizutani, trumpets and sax from Mototeru Takagi, scat singing from Kayoko Itoh, and strings from the Wehnne Strings Consort." -- Japrocksampler
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."
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."
3/21/2009	Scarcity Of Tanks	No Endowments	LP	$12.99	Total Life Society Records	"Scarcity Of Tanks, this Cleveland combo, led by Matthew Wascovich, has sounded a little random to my ears previously. But this effort, NO ENDOWMENTS, featuring Clevelanders Dave Cintron (Terminal Lovers, Downside Special), Ted Flynn (Theodore Vril), Andrew Klimek (X-Blank-X, Johnny & The Dicks, Death On A Stick, Ugly Beauty), Scott Pickering (Pufftube, Prisonshake, My Dad Is Dead, Spike In Vein, Happy Flowers), Nate Scheible (Self Destruct Button), Dan Wenninger (Oblique Orchestra) and Oakland, California's Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX, Lake Of Dracula) is freeform skronk, but other parts are great rolling-CLE-word-spews in the Laughner/Kryss tradition, with instrumental moves jacked from Death of Samantha and Rocket From The Tombs, then updated like crazy. Crazy." - Byron Coley
4/3/2010	Scarduff Sixpäck	C20	CDR	$6.99	267 Lattajjaa	"20-minute-mix of "Lamatronik'n'Roll" from this amazing new band, it's like bits of lo-fi indie rock, avantgarde, krautrock and all kinds of experimental but cool things put in a blender, recommended!"
5/20/2009	Schitosoma Japonica	Kankei UFO From Zanryu-Shinen	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Volume 3 in the ongoing Japanese Avant-Garde Cassette Reissue Series. The '80s and early '90s saw a great deal of fascinating and exciting material released on cassette in the Tokyo underground. While some of the more noise-oriented stuff enjoyed a modicum of international distribution, the avant-garde material generally did not. This series, whose first release was Iro / Tamafuri (PSFD-180), aims to rescue the best of this material from historical oblivion. Schitosoma Japonica (AKA Nihon Juketsu Kyuchu) were a cracked avant-garde, recording-only offshoot of the freeform rock band Amanita. Formed around 1990, the group lived a communal existence in Saitama, on the northern borders of Tokyo, experimenting with music, magic and psychological experiments. 'Our basic performance style was completely freeform, utilizing prepared instruments and rejecting regular rhythms and melodic development. Our abiding themes were communication with the afterlife/cosmos and the manifestation of paranormal accidents. We would jam endlessly until our performance space was filled with the 'signs of blood and feverish becomings'. For us, performance was a kind of ritual.' The group released a clutch of barely distributed cassettes in tiny editions. This CD compiles the best of them, sifting through the detritus of a technological society to float between noise, drone and ritualized avant-garde gestures. Eight tracks, fifty-four minutes. Liner notes in English and Japanese." - Alan Cummings
12/24/2005	Schizoide	Death Alley	3" 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	$29.99	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.
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	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.
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
6/30/2010	Second Family Band	Dream Release	LP	$13.99	Earjerk	"Originally released on Bum Tapes in an edition of 40 cassette copies. Now pressed on colorful tie-dye vinyl in an edition of 300 hand numbered copies. All wrapped up in recycled LP covers which have been turned inside out and individually hand stamped with original artwork by the band. Fuzzy with analog warmth, the recording retains it's tapey feel. Probably because it was mastered directly to vinyl from the original cassette recordings. Never leaving the analog realm! All over the freaking map, this record floats from free-form, bucolic ramblings (Secrets of Magic Revealed) to soaring, eternal guitar ripping (Takeover The Rainbow) and even trips through some truly dubbed out terrain (Version). Just the kind of dreamy sounds you've come to expect here at Earjerk. This time, of course, we have been assisted by two other wonderful imprints. Namely, Tree Tapes and Boondock Pissoir. Pick up this wax now and Dream On!"
5/21/2009	Second Family Band	East to West	c80 cassette	$8.99	Earjerk	"... Pack some granola. Two long hikes through the haze grace this 80 minute cassette. 'Morning in the East' blazes trails." I'm taking my banjo along through the Himalayas and if you wanna drag that ARP along that'd be cool with me." The flip has a real dirty metropolis groove. Traveling. Lets crescendo awhile. Way out west now...How long we been drivin? ...Any Natives still live around here?"
3/28/2010	Second Family Band	Jerusalem	CDR	$5.99	Boondock Pissoir	"Is their a more mystical and perilous city in the world than Jerusalem? Old Testament dread haunts the first side. The Family sings of Glory while Pan dances and plays impishly outside their circle. Side two commences with the sand blown sounds of the Ancient City, before Night Journey finds the band escaping heavenward through dark skies."
3/28/2010	Second Family Band	Naked Ladies & Dragons	CDR	$5.99	Boondock Pissoir	"Second Family takes you on an erotic “D&D Quest” in this hour long ambient-prog synthesizer fantasia. On the A side Naked Ladies shimmer in the moonlight; flip it over and Dragons circle dreamily overhead."
3/28/2010	Second Family Band	Nandi	CDR	$5.99	Boondock Pissoir	"Mysteriously added to the SFB discography in early 2009, this session is finally officially available to the public. The two-part title track Egesta of Nandi Mystery Mojo Rising uses an electric organ to summon the ghosts, while Cramped is the Family’s first rockabilly freakout! encapsulates the entire history of raga-rock in one gigantic headsploitation pisstake."
3/5/2009	Second Family Band	Our Way is the Right Way	cassette	$4.99	Housecraft	"It's a dirty new age and we are set in our ways. Ingest these two crunchy jams." - Second Family Band. Edition of 75 copies.
11/15/2008	Second Family Band	Phasis	cassette	$8.99	Earjerk	"Hot on the heals of the Slooow Tapes release... another killer collision with Peaking Lights and this time with Relentless Corpse! Record live to stereo cassette at the P.L. compound and a flip side with a traditional solstice jam and a small piece performed for Indra and Aarons (P.L.) wedding... Pro-dubbed, yellow tapes with matching case."
5/21/2009	Second Family Band	Phasis	CDR	$6.99	Earjerk	"Hot on the heals of the Slooow Tapes release... another killer collision with Peaking Lights and this time with Relentless Corpse! Record live to stereo cassette at the P.L. compound and a flip side with a traditional solstice jam and a small piece performed for Indra and Aarons (P.L.) wedding..." 2008 cassette release (a few available here), this is part of the new SFB cdr reissue series.
5/21/2009	Second Family Band	The Eternal Lag / Our Way is the Right Way	CDR	$6.99	Earjerk	"This is part of the new SFB cdr reissue series featuring 2 tape releases reissued on a single CDR. Eternal Lag: "Space. Travel. Time travel. Wanderings through distorted landscapes. Supernova! This cassette can barely contain the music spun on its reels. A cleaner fuzz there never was! The Second Family lays it on THICK with slanted hand drum rhythms and break neck tempo shifts, piano pulse, banjo abuses and epic sci-fi synth." Reissue of Earjerk tape. Our Way is the Right Way: "It's a dirty new age and we are set in our ways. Ingest these two crunchy jams." Reissue of Housecraft tape.
5/21/2009	Second Family Band	The Eternal Lag Pt.2	c30 cassette	$8.99	Dark Age	Murky. The newest Dark Age Kassette! The latest addition in the subscription series.
1/17/2010	Second Family Band	The Eternal Lag Pt.3	cassette	$6.99	Dark Age Kassettes	"The Quest continues! If 'Our Way Is The Right Way' is the prequal. And Eternal Lag Pt.2 is 'The Two Towers'. Then this is 'The Return of the King'. Killer, blown-out, science fantasy, noise epic. Trbal drums, buried synth etc... Standard Dark Age Kassettes packaging. Purple Tapes. Limited to 45 copies."
5/21/2009	Second Family Band	Weird Sword / Seers Word	c32 cassette	$8.99	Earjerk	"Truly the darkest SFB excursion to date. Channeling some kinda queer science-fantasy/4AD vibe, The Second Family make up a strange bed o 'spheres... Gradually the vampire vox get laid down, courtesy Max Elliott. Karen Eliot lends a healing chant and some wicked guttar...also crawling around in the dark: Iam Lee Ian, Dave 3000, Ivan Mairesse, Endless and Woodman." Edition of 45 copies.
5/21/2009	Second Family Band	When We Are Gone	CDR	$6.99	Earjerk	"Set sail! This is some solid action from the Family, in full force, honoring their ancestors. A Samhain gathering. Sunset and the music begins....it is morning before long. Freeeeeeeee Jams with db Pedersens vocal contortions and a Spontaneous Sabbath Sermon by Father Karen Eliot. What a trip." Part of the new SFB cdr reissue series.
5/21/2009	Second Family Band	Whose Wave We Ride	c60 cassette	$8.99	Earjerk	"Had to happen... Let's take things to the Eye-Lands! Tropical breeze bass lines and a sunset vibe definitely rule this release. We know! We know! It's all the rage right. Well... we did what we did and now we gotta let you have it. Would it help if we let you know it just kinda happened? I mean, you can't plan these kinda jams right? Hey! I said Pina Colada not Ayuasca! Come aboard... we're expecting you..."
1/24/2009	Second Family Band	Wisconsin Gospel (Book Four)	CDR	$9.99	Skulls of Heaven	"The ever living theater of Midwestern brethren ((formerly casting itself as Davenport Family, Candiru, Zodiac Mountain, The Grass Magic, All Do Gather, A Mercury Ensemble, Orthodox Blood Orchestra, Jesus Balls, etc etc etc,))) has birthed it's final phoenix. Arising here is the first four discs in an on-going documentary anthology, originally intended as an LP series, these cdrs present the material as intended for consumption in the right now. "Wisconsin Gospel" collects unreleased material compiled by Clay Ruby from 10 years worth of gatherings and archival recordings. As always, the groups fearlessly treads through senseless psychedelia, energetic kraut/tribal workouts, ecstatic prayer sessions, and deep analog explorations flush with broken folk gestures and perfect accidents."
1/24/2009	Second Family Band	Wisconsin Gospel (Book One)	CDR	$9.99	Skulls of Heaven	"The ever living theater of Midwestern brethren ((formerly casting itself as Davenport Family, Candiru, Zodiac Mountain, The Grass Magic, All Do Gather, A Mercury Ensemble, Orthodox Blood Orchestra, Jesus Balls, etc etc etc,))) has birthed it's final phoenix. Arising here is the first four discs in an on-going documentary anthology, originally intended as an LP series, these cdrs present the material as intended for consumption in the right now. "Wisconsin Gospel" collects unreleased material compiled by Clay Ruby from 10 years worth of gatherings and archival recordings. As always, the groups fearlessly treads through senseless psychedelia, energetic kraut/tribal workouts, ecstatic prayer sessions, and deep analog explorations flush with broken folk gestures and perfect accidents."
1/24/2009	Second Family Band	Wisconsin Gospel (Book Three)	CDR	$9.99	Skulls of Heaven	"The ever living theater of Midwestern brethren ((formerly casting itself as Davenport Family, Candiru, Zodiac Mountain, The Grass Magic, All Do Gather, A Mercury Ensemble, Orthodox Blood Orchestra, Jesus Balls, etc etc etc,))) has birthed it's final phoenix. Arising here is the first four discs in an on-going documentary anthology, originally intended as an LP series, these cdrs present the material as intended for consumption in the right now. "Wisconsin Gospel" collects unreleased material compiled by Clay Ruby from 10 years worth of gatherings and archival recordings. As always, the groups fearlessly treads through senseless psychedelia, energetic kraut/tribal workouts, ecstatic prayer sessions, and deep analog explorations flush with broken folk gestures and perfect accidents."
1/24/2009	Second Family Band	Wisconsin Gospel (Book Two)	CDR	$9.99	Skulls of Heaven	"The ever living theater of Midwestern brethren ((formerly casting itself as Davenport Family, Candiru, Zodiac Mountain, The Grass Magic, All Do Gather, A Mercury Ensemble, Orthodox Blood Orchestra, Jesus Balls, etc etc etc,))) has birthed it's final phoenix. Arising here is the first four discs in an on-going documentary anthology, originally intended as an LP series, these cdrs present the material as intended for consumption in the right now. "Wisconsin Gospel" collects unreleased material compiled by Clay Ruby from 10 years worth of gatherings and archival recordings. As always, the groups fearlessly treads through senseless psychedelia, energetic kraut/tribal workouts, ecstatic prayer sessions, and deep analog explorations flush with broken folk gestures and perfect accidents."
4/10/2009	Second Family Band, The	Changing Suns	cassette	$6.99	Earjerk	"5 or 7 tunes out of thin air. Recorded on the shores of windy Lake Mendota. Acoustic strumming, guitar-body drumming, trad sec fam throat singing, courtesy db pedersen and some amazing string action from Jared Annoye. For the most part a daylight affair but the Suns definitely dip behind the cloud more than a few times. First 25 copies on sunny yellow cassettes."
2/21/2009	Second Family Band, the	The Eternal Lag	cassette	$5.99	Earjerk	"Space. Travel. Time travel. Wanderings through distorted landscapes. Supernova! This cassette can barely contain the music spun on its reels. A cleaner fuzz there never was! The Second Family lays it on THICK with slanted hand drum rhythms and break neck tempo shifts, piano pulse, banjo abuses and epic sci-fi synth."
2/21/2009	Second Family Band, The	When We Are Gone	cassette	$7.99	Earjerk	"Set sail! This is some solid action from the Family, in full force, honoring their ancestors. A Samhain gathering. Sunset and the music begins....it is morning before long. Freeeeeeeee Jams with db Pedersens vocal contortions and a Spontaneous Sabbath Sermon by Father Karen Eliot. What a trip. First 36 copies on Pro-dubbed, solid color cassettes the remaining 63 copies on black cassettes." All copies here have green cases and green tapes.
6/27/2009	Secret Abuse	The Immeasurable Gift	LP	$14.99	Arbor	"The Immeasurable Gift" is a testament to cathartic possibilities and the role of creation/release as a means of understanding. Recorded throughout the past three years in a variety of locations and personal moments; encapsulated by a common, unrelenting concern. Beautifully delicate, elegiac melodies concealed within curtains of dense electronic ambiance reveal themselves like the light at the end of the tunnel; a signifier of the temporary vessel form. Balancing recklessness with care and coming to terms with the inevitable; encountering the man on the shoulder, reminding us that we are all just weary travelers. In an edition of 425 records in full color proprinted cardboard jackets with printed labels and an insert; all design by Jeff Witscher."
11/15/2008	Secret Abuse	Violent Narcissus	LP	$16.99	Not Not Fun	"Secret Abuser Jeff Witscher is an enigma wrapped in a riddle rolled in cassette tape and plugged into a battered pair of towering PA speakers. He's lived everywhere, met everyone, and inspired legions through his lifestyle, utopian fashions ('refugee chic'), and spellbindingly intense music. Up from Rainbow Blanket, through to Impregnable, and across the arid plains of Roman Torment and Deep Jew, Witscher's maintained a singularity of vision and total commitment to execution that has wrecked us, personally, to the point of speechlessness at least a dozen times. But, despite his restlessly shapeshifting spirit, the past year plus has seen him settling slightly deeper into his Secret Abuse sinkhole style, and here's hoping he lingers a while longer, cause it's a fucking winner. Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones crossfade into tortured minor key guitar laments before being slowly subsumed in a droning ocean of choked vocals and sulking, selfish electronics. Repressed, burning, and emotional like a young man pushing away everything, Violent Narcissus is as definitive a document as has thus far yet emerged from the SA canon (and lord knows there's been a grip of gems). Look long and hard; the mirror is a bitter mistress. Black LPs, mastered by Bill Hutson, housed in jackets designed by Witscher. Edition of 445."
7/10/2010	Secret Colors	Dreamersss	c37 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"The first time i heard matt lawson's (aka secret colors) "infinite wandering" tape, i was hooked. this is my summer soundtrack and should also be yours. blissed-out keys and time-warped, sun-soaked guitars greet you at the gates and trail you throughout your journey through "dreamersss." rising melodies blanket your ears in a delicate crystalline haze, pouring fluorescent pink rain down your throat and in your eyes. what a fucking world. minimal beats take you straight to the beach under overcast skies. synths blurt out the punchline and glockenspiel serenades bring it all back home. there's something increasingly reflective and nostalgic about lawson's approach. he records on a warm sonic landscape that adds depth and even a bit of gnarl to his deceptively catchy songs. in all, secret colors never disappoints and keeps your head bobbing under the sun. edition of 80, pro-dubbed & imprinted."
4/10/2009	Sedayne	Naked Season	cassette	$8.99	Sloow Tapes	"Experimental re-imaginations of English traditionals by the man who in a distant past was member of the Masstishaddhu cult. These tracks venture through dark medieval seasons of sheep stealers and John Barleycorn. Instruments played, among others, are hurdy-gurdy, voice, jew's harps, crwth, citera and bones. Artwork by Sedayne, 70 copies."
3/5/2009	See See, The	Keep Your Head	7"	$6.99	Great Pop Supplement	"The See See offer up their second 45, following the gps debut last year which saw 300 copies go in 4 days. "keep your head" continues the bands' nod to big star, the byrds and the buffalo springfield. recent support slot to the raconteurs on the uk tour last year, the single is already recieving airplay and has an imminent write up in the nme and uncut. big things expected from the band made up of ex- eighteenth day of may and soledad bros folks, alongside pete greenwood of recent "sirens" heavenly lp fame... ltd pressing not expected to hang around long..."
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'."
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.
10/21/2009	Seht	HRRY	LP + 3" CDR	$20.99	Digitalis	"Since Digitalis first planted its roots over six years ago, few artists have been as integral to and representative of the label as New Zealand's drone king, seht. We've released three of his albums and he's appeared on multiple compilations and collaborations. seht has always been the work of one Stephen Clover. He comes from a long line of great Kiwis like The Dead C and Birchville Cat Motel, but has always blazed along similar trails as giants such as Tony Conrad, Eno, and Olivier Messiaen. That being said, none of it prepared us for the leap forward he took on his first ever vinyl release, "HRRY." While some artists struggle to make music that is wholly avante-garde and still approachable and listenable, Clover avoids those pitfulls masterfully. "HRRY" is in exercise in the use of crackling electronics, minimal beats, computer manipulation and solid-state drones. Each track slowly progresses as they build off each other and form a sprawling conglomeration of tones. It's as if you're stuck in a post-apocalyptic dreamworld where industrial giants are fighting back against the warm, relentless elegance of nature. Even though the arsenal Clover is using is as unnatural as it gets, the music on "HRRY" displays such an innate organicness that it's almost confusing. From the computerized voice of "ERKK" to the throbbing beat of "SPFT," it's as though he's gone so far into the mechanical, man-made world that he's come all the way to the other side. "HRRY" is a dark album that is glazed with a sense of hope. Echoes of the ghosts of Basinski ride through these ambient rivers, trying to find new forms of electronic music. It's music for the second coming... of what? An era where all the rotting buildings and shades of grey breathe new life into the elemental ashes of fallen empires. LP comes in silver & black fold-out poster sleeve and is strictly limited to 150 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	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!"
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.
11/15/2008	Sepviva Bells	Halloween In The Sea	cassette	$8.99	Sloow Tapes	"Duo recordings by Tara Burke (Fursaxa, Anahita, Tau Emerald) and Grant Acker (Slurp Dogs), smoking one late-period Un/early Fursaxa style. A scorching blend of distorted psychedelia, hypnotic riffing and mellow vocals trapped inside a very trippy atmosphere. Edition of 170 copies with silkscreened fold-out booklet." Highly recommended!
6/5/2009	Sequin Trails	Maiden Midst	CDR	$9.99	Golden Lab Records	"Janina Angel Bath's unabashed approach to cranking out sun-drenched, ecstatic drones overlaid by seedy saxophone and deep, almost Nico-esque vocals has us melting into our sofas. We came upon Sequin Trails through this here myspace, which is normally a bit too postmodern for us. But the fact that there was dayglo, facepaint and tonal honking involved really won us over. The recording is blown-out and buzzy and all the better for it. And it traverses muddily pulsating rhythms through to pure note elongation that zaps the senses and focuses the mind's eye, like listening to one's own tinnitus. This is so deep, it may be bottomless." Edition of 80 copies.
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."
7/21/2010	Seven That Spells	Future Retro Spasm	CD	$15.99	BLR	"Ferocious iron age percussive propulsion into the inner core of existential angst. SEVEN THAT SPELLS' psych moves sound like road construction in downtown NYC; a pummeling, from which arises a sublime melodic poetry and the sweet smell of asphalt. Seven That Spells has won the spelling bee by correctly spelling Kraut with 3 umlauts, and 2 Gurus."
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)
1/17/2010	Seven That Spells	You Must Do This On Stage Vol. 1	cassette	$8.99	Sloow Tapes	"A collection of dazzling live recordings by Croatia’s heavy psych band, chasing Hawkwind, Igra Staklenih Perli and Acid Mothers Temple in an evil labyrinth of disorientating rhythms, destroying guitars, complex sax, synth awareness and celestial knowledge. 120 copies."
6/30/2010	Seven Vowels of Nature, The	Vol. I and E	c20 cassette	$6.99	Sacred Phrases	"The whole—greater than the sum of the parts. Rooted from buried Earth. Clairvoyance and Clairaudience: these tracks, progressive in their slow pace, elucidate the hums of the past and future. cardstock j-card, labeled cassettes. art by adam. edition of 48." Nice!
3/16/2003	Seven Year Rabbit Cycle	Animal People	CD	$11.99	Free Porcupine Society Records	"A crash-and-smash goodtime of brutal improvisation mixed with stark, crushing melodies for a world ruled by giant owls and bitter rabbits from former Deerhoof guitarist Rob Fisk, along with Miya Osaki, Steve Gigante (Tiny Bird Mouths, Theteethe) and Kelly Goodefisk (also ex- Deerhoof). Packaged with hand painted covers."
5/16/2010	Sewer Election	Vidöppna Sår	LP	$29.99	Pan	"Following on from his Kassettmusik release, 'Vidöppna Sår' is an evolution in scum-brow field recordings and voice recorded to mono tape, akin to OU revue recorded on a building site. This record shows the development, as witnessed from his recent live performances of aggressive blur build up and ominous restraint, tape speed replacing effect pedals, going beyond the mere "junk noise" description closer to the original idea of musique concrete, namely altering everyday sounds onto tape into a wholly other vocabulary. Sewer Election is Dan Johansson, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is most known for his extreme and nasty noise on often limited edition cassettes and obscure vinyl releases on labels such as iDEAL, Troniks, Chondritic Sound, Release the Bats!, Freak Animal, Segerhuva, Gameboy to name a few.. He is a member of the swedish collective Utmarken and lo-fi group Ättestupa. What separates him from the rest of the wall-of-noise-heads is that he is great at creating uncomfort and filth. To experience his stuff is like experiencing pure power and energy through subtle and restrained soundscapes of a world falling into pieces.. The Lp is mastered by Viktor Ottosson and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. All artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas."
11/21/2009	Sex Worker	The Labor of Love	LP	$12.99	Not Not Fun	"Intense visionary debut by Mi Ami frontman Daniel Martin-McCormick‚s solo alias explores a different realm of pulsing body music. Dancy, grey-wash keyboard rhythms and post-dub echoes pitter-patter under weird vocal smears and shadow melodies. Edition of 500."
4/6/2010	Sexual Assault Rifle	untitled	one-sided LP	$13.99	American Tapes	"Rolling early to a gig can be problematic or amazing or a weirdo combo of both. The boyz rolled WAAAY to early to gig in Richmond VA only to get chased outta a strange bar (and sure enuff: same thing happened at the gig later at a piece of shit bar we jammed), but sometimes, rolling early into a city can be mindwrecking: In Philly, some years ago, we rolled in hyper early and found (and waited in the van until it opened) a killer mega-bowl complex and posted up for HOURS. Brew flowing, pins knockin, no one there but the crew. RULED. After a way too long stretch of horrible double digit bowling, I wandered outside and called my main homebox PUCK to see if there was anything to peep before we roll onward to the R N R business hours. Puck thought for a second and said: "Ya'll already busted that cheesesteak local spot...so...if you feel up to something REALLY intense...naw...forget about it..." "Naw man, f-that- what is it?" "Well, I had a super heavy sess there, if you feel up to the internal challenge: its right by the bowling alley- hit up JONATHAN & SUZIE's PSYCHIC SHACK" Blown away by the prospects, I hung up, put out my cigarette on the bottom of my Red Wings, straightened up my coat and walked two blocks to the spot. After finding it easily enuff, I rolled into the lobby and was first shocked by the decor on the walls: intense blood-sex-soaked paintings of zombies and horrible gore all done with the perfection of a pro graphic artist. Whoa! What did PUCK roll me to? Is he getting me black for the time I spilled pink clothes dye on his fav jersey? This place is too strange. I rang the bell, signed in on the sheet, and waited in silence in an empty lobby staring at a painting of a zombie chewing an ear of a bikinied lady. Tired from the brew session at the bowling alley and arm aching from trying to get the ball speed cam up to 87 mph on the lanes, I dosed off. Feeling a slight nudge on my elbow I perked up and met JONATHAN, a huge welcoming dude with long blond hair and a SWANS "MONEY" tour long sleeve shirt and followed him into the reading room. I was ah...psyched!! I came into the small black room, shook hands with SUZIE, who was decked out a TG shirt, also long sleeve and was ready for the reading... The magical couple stared at me for what seemed like 15 minutes and then nodded to each other and said, almost in unison: "I see you are from Michigan, and therefore are probably uncomfortable with a very personal reading." "Ah, right on." I said, thinking to myself that Puck had found a player a PERFECT spot. After another stretch of awkward but easy silence Suzie said: "Well, you have a gig tonight, how about a glimpse into the future, not you, but what the world be like in say 10,000 years?" "Man, whoa, hit me up!!!!" "First, put both yr finger tips into this small pot and close yr eyes. There will be no words spoken but you feel the future, good or bad..." Feeling the energy for a new situation and also the coming excitement of telling Puck/the boys about my PSYCHIC SHACK experience, I rolled up my sleeve, and put my fingers into the warm oily magic liquid and sneaked off... What happened next or rather what I experienced just can be put into INZANE words. The future was: INTENSE.... fully of evil machines grinding onward on terror business, clangs disappearing into space, huge planets full of strange sounds delay into the deep atmosphere. It was strange, horrible, and super ace all at the same time. Man was I stoked. So I walked out with Suzie and Jonathan, mind blown/shown by the future, ready for the present and ready to thank the crub outta my main man PUCK for the psychic tip. As I was walking out the door, Suzie says, "Wait I forgot something... Here is a box of 100 records that was the soundtrack to that evil future.... we had em pressed while you were out cold, live at that studio that did the CRUDE PA comps...." "OMG- no way...the sounds...were...too much.... and on wax????" Jonathan says, firmly: "Yeah man, and jamm it at any speed, I know yr crew digs that...slower the better...cant be slow enuff....." And then stared at the floor....... "Well, we know NONE of yr crew will believe you so here is some proof to show em...." So here it is. TRUE STORY, yo. THE FUTURE...10,000 yrs from now.... SEXUAL ASSAULT RIFLE. ON WAX. Edition 100, handmade covers, numbered."
12/24/2005	Shackamaxon	Shackamaxon	LP	$15.99	HP Cycle	"Shackamaxon began back in 2001 when members of Double Leopards, Son of Earth and Magik Markers united to record and create music together. Since that time, the ensemble has quietly unleashed their psychedelic drift through a handful of live performances and a self-released CDr. Their self-titled debut LP presents four pieces of restrained beauty that encapsulates the Shackamaxon sound. The album begins with a side-long excursion where sparse organic textures become enveloped in cavernous layers of sound and perpetually fuzzed drones. It is a steady swell which builds to immense heights before fading into the expanse. Side two starts off with a brief introduction of fluttering tones, then diverges into an intricate passage of controlled feedback chatter and subtle reverberations. The album concludes with what sounds like a field recording from an alien rain forest, capturing strange creatures chirping and gurgling as the humidity drips from the canopy. Beautiful cover art by Amy Borezo." 2nd edition.
3/5/2009	Shades Of Joy	Music of El Topo	LP	$22.99	Dagored	"Recorded in San Francisco in 1970 and originally released on the Douglas label, this intriguing piece of urban-jazz-funk-psych-rock-fusion delivers seven instrumental mantras whose core is neatly amalgamated by the fine art of this great 15-piece ensemble, here together only for a seemingly extemporized job, apparently inspired by the visionary western-on-acid epic film "El Topo" by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl, Italian import."
3/2/2002	Shale to Shift	Dromomania	CD	$10.99		Taking inspiration from the poetics of ruined spaces, the three players map out a sonic geography using found objects, guitar buzz and rattle, cello, violin, and internal processing feedback. At times spare, simple, neo-minimalistic and then emerging as a cinematic soundtrack with layers of drone, metallic and wooden percussion, or freely interpreted ambient music... For more info, please visit www.jerryblue.org and www.1000pieces.com."
6/27/2009	Sharper Capes	Sharper Capes	CDR	$4.99	Lost Treasures of the Underworld
2/16/2002	Sharrock, Sonny	Monkey-Pockie-Boo	LP	$16.99	Get Back	"An album recorded in Paris (on June 22nd, 1969) with his wife Linda plus Ben Guerin (bass) and Jacques Thollot (drums). Sonny Sharrock was one of the top avant-garde guitarists and his playing was intense and ferocious. He mixed together Jimi Hendrix and Pharoah Sanders. 'Sharrock was the first guitarist to really embrace fire music. He wanted his playing to mirror the emotional scream of the tenor saxophone' (Thurston Moore and Byron Coley). Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl."
8/22/2008	Shearer, Dylan	Planted/Plans	LP	$19.99	Yik Yak	"Beautiful melancholic bedroom-pop informed by west coast composers such as van dyke parks and harry partch. a nice follow-up to the robert martin lp from another santa cruz long-gone. limited edition of 100."
6/27/2009	Shearer, Rachel	Fakerie	DVD	$15.99	Family Vineyard	"Fakerie is a digital séance of aural and visual sculptures by the New Zealand artist Rachel Shearer, formerly known as Lovely Midget. Filmed in an environment to facilitate focused listening, Fakerie is as much for the ears as the eyes. Glowing white lights ebb and expand from darkness in shifting series -- like clustered stars -- as penetrating resonances of acoustic and electronic overtones decompose into the tiniest sand-like components. Traces of Mary Lucier's mid-1970s burn films and Francois Bayle's musical investigation into the physical and psychical world is present. The specially programmed Region 0 (free)/NTSC format DVD plays in constant loop. Its 22-minutes can be expanded into hours allowing the user to immerse themselves in the work. This DVD is Shearer's first long-form film release. In the past 20 years she has released records on Siltbreeze, Xpressway, Flying Nun, Corpus Hermeticum and Ecstatic Peace as Lovely Midget and with Queen Meanie Puss and Angelhead. Packaged in a mini-LP-styled gatefold book, this set also contains a 20-page booklet investigating the ghosts, distances and signals of Fakerie."
6/19/2007	Shearing Pinx	Caves	7"	$5.99	DNT	"Oh-oh-oh! Yes! Yes! This is what I've been waiting for for so long: a band I love enough to release vinyl by. And this is that band, Shearing Pinx They're sort of like, a no-wave influenced, totally shred-tastic group of three bandits from Vancouver, British Columbia. I was lucking enough to see them not once, but TWICE last week in Los Angeles, which, unfortunetly was not the release show, due to delays at the plant. But here it is: A four-song 7" at 33rpm on transparent-green vinyl with green labels in silk-screened covers, artwork by the Pinks themselves. It's a limited edition, of 400, hand-numbered."
9/29/2003	Sheffield, Colin A.	In Between	10"	$7.99	Elevator Bath	"In Between' is just by Sheffield and he announces this record as something to play while in between doing other stuff, like writing or reading. Here it's not clear what exactly it is that he is doing, musicwise. The a-side is mainly one large ambient drone piece that almost moves without moving. The b-side is also droney and ambient, but has more changes to offer. Beautiful dark ambience, that is also really good if you don't want to anything else then just hearing (and why not? why should you always wanna do stuff when hearing music of this kind? just dim the lights and soak up the ambience!)." – Staalplaat.
9/29/2003	Sheffield, Colin A.	Side One	7"	$4.99	Elevator Bath	"This is Colin's debut (as well as the first release for Elevator Bath), released in 1998. The record consists of two short pieces, each of which utilizes highly amplified machine sounds. This is sample-based digital minimalism. On transparent vinyl with fold-out covers, in an edition of 475 copies."
9/29/2003	Sheffield, Colin A.	Spring (Time)	7"	$4.99	Elevator Bath	"This 7” by Colin Andrew Sheffield (pressed on beautiful, clear vinyl), is an intriguing pair of tracks with a minimal, almost ‘microwave’ feel to it. On Side A, the track ‘Sprint (Time)’ is grounded in silence and comprised of clusters of sounds, shifting tones and crackles. Side B, ‘The Bridge’, is more of a mood piece. Its sparse and isolated atmosphere provides the setting for further tonal shifts, clicks and pops. Incidentally, the crackle of the vinyl compliments these tracks wonderfully. Short and sweet, this excellent and very noteworthy single is limited to just 300 copies." - Richard di Santo
9/29/2003	Sheffield, Colin A. / James Eck Rippie	Variations	LP	$13.99	Elevator Bath	"Colin A. Sheffield is the owner of the Elevator Bath label and also responsible for this release. This one is a duet with James Eck Rippie who is apparently a turntablist and guitarist (albeit unknown to me) and Sheffield calls him a sampling minimalist. They have played a couple of concerts together in the past few years, but this is their first recorded work. The a-side is entirely filled with 'Variations For Harp', which is an extremely minimal piece of stuttering cracks and the harp (didn't I just write that one of them is a guitarist?) playing softly loose notes. But everything goes into repetition and with small changes in speed the sound gets extracted and later on they are in unison again. Steve Reich's phase shifting technique for analogue instruments and digital processing. The b-side has two pieces, 'Variations of Guitar' and 'Variations For Flute'. The first one is a very soft piece for sustained guitar sounds and softly hoovers by. A very controlled atmosphere. The same goes for the flute piece. The instrument is hard to be recognized there and is soaked up in a deep wash of ambience (and sounds almost like it was recorded out door somewhere). Very minimal music that is simply beautiful. Topped off with a nice full colour cover in a Touch/Ash style.” – Staalplaat. On 180-gram vinyl with lovely full-color jackets, in an edition of 400 copies.
8/4/2007	Shelf Life	Ductworks	CD	$9.99	Public Eyesore	"Shelf Life is Brian Day's most important musical venture today, besides of course running Public Eyesore. Shelf Life is a quartet of musicians, besides Day, there is also A. Boardman, J. Jaros and J. Schleidt. The cover doesn't list any instruments, but I believe to hear a saxophone, one or more guitars, a short wave and some sort of percussion. They are played in a true improvised manner: hit it and see what comes out. They pluck, hit, strumm their instruments in what turns out to be an endless stream of sounds. Thirteen pieces in total, although it's hard to say when a piece ends and when a new one begins. This is my main objection against this release: the dynamic level is not very high, so everything happens on more or less the same level, which is a pity, since it makes it a bit too much in a free form mass of sound. Some more mixing could have helped. Unless of course the idea was to have a total democratic sound, and not have one to play the leading part. If that was their goal, they succeeded in that very well." - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
10/25/2008	Shemboid	A Spaghetti of Wires	CDR	$12.99	Memoirs of an Aesthete	"Now this one was meant to come out last year before Memoirs' cash-strapped hiatus, we are glad to finally dish this sweetie out from one of the unexplored corners of the West Yorkshire Psychedelic Underground. Shemboid is a one-man project which has been dishing out homemade CDR releases (and the very occaisional gig) since 1999 to very little attention, a situation we hope to change. Expect mutilated field recordings, garage electro-punk, freak-out guitar and kaoss pad overload with a heavy atmosphere of half-remembered childhood Radiophonic Workshop encounters. Edition of only 50 copies (still the highest profile Shemboid release!) in full colour covers."
4/20/2008	Shepherds	Loco Hills	LP	$12.99	Not Not Fun	"A lot of beloved-by-us artists and artisans icepick out shapely creations from the marble slab of life on a steady schedule, but even within this rarefied realm it's a real cause for jubilee when an individual/band fucks precedent and totally redefines themselves through a real masterwork. And, in our book (check it out, it's a good read), Loco Hills is one such touchstone. Distilling down every fried fuzz-groove, tape-loop ghost cloud, and mass-mind motorik psychosis Shepherds have ever let loose into four perfectly sculpted jam-journeys, the language of Loco is a rolling, roiling ride through twisted wordless tongues and hieroglyphic electricity, at once more focused and far-out than anything else in their canon. Mentioning that members moonlight in projects like Meneguar, Non-Horse, and Vanishing Voice is meaningless, this is the Rear House posse's shining achievement to date and it stands alone. Black vinyl LPs in matte jackets with the same 'gnashing viper' artwork of the Release the Bats CD edition. First 115-ish direct mailorder copies come with a bonus CDR of unreleased live recordings. Edition of 500."
8/31/2008	Shepherds / Ignatz	split	7"	$5.99	Not Not Fun	"Brooklyn's Rear House boys trace a woolly kraut-punk path over the (loco) hills and through the woods. Brussell's resident psych-seclusionist Ignatz recounts ancient exotic sagas with wood, strings, voice, and hiss."
	Shepp, Archie	Blasé	LP	$15.99	Get Back	"Originally recorded at Studio Davout in Paris on August 16th, 1969. An intense and sublime Album by Archie Shepp with Lester Bowie and Malachi Flavors (from the Art Ensemble of Chicago) plus Dave Burrell, Philly Joe Jones and Jeanne Lee. 5 tracks, original artwork, gatefold sleeve, 180 gram HQ vinyl."
	Shepp, Archie	Blasé / Live At The Pan-African Festival	DBL CD	$22.99	Charly	"Shepp stands twenty feet tall on these two monsters recorded in Parisian exile, August 1969. Blas‚ features Jeanne Lee delivering a soliloquy on sexual politics lead by Shepp and assisted by a veritable who's who featuring Lester Bowie, Malachai Favors, Dave Burrell, the amazing Philly Joe Jones on drums and the duel harmonica blowing of Chicago Beau and Julie Finn. Live At Pan-African Fest pulls out all the stops as he's joined by Dave Burrell, Alan Silva, Grachan Moncur III, Clifford Thornton, plus the incomparable Sunny Murray on drums, and a couple of Algerian musicians. Just incredible."
6/18/2002	Shepp, Archie	Poem For Malcolm	LP	$16.99	Get Back / BYG	"Another great session recorded in Paris (on August 14, 1969) for the BYG Actuel label. Tenor- saxophonist Archie Shepp backed by Burton Greene, Alan Silva, Claude Delcloo and Philly Joe Jones (on side a) and by Grachan Moncur III, Hank Mobley, Vince Benedetti, Malachi Favors and Philly Joe Jones (on side b). Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl."
	Shepp, Archie	Yasmina, a Black Woman	LP	$15.99	Get Back / BYG	“Shepp's first 1969 sessions with musicians from the Chicago avant-garde, released as #4 in the BYG Actuel series. Shepp and his gang (including Art Ensemble of Chicago members Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell and Malachi Favors, plus drummers Philly Joe Jones, Art Taylor and Sunny Murray) swing like goddamn crazy on the 20-minute ‘Yasmina.’ On ‘Sonny's Back’ (written by Grachan Moncur), there's an unlikely tenor tradeoff between Shepp and Hank Mobley, while ‘Body and Soul’ gives Shepp a showcase opportunity. Original artwork, 180 gram vinyl, deluxe gatefold sleeve.”
6/18/2002	Shepp, Archie and the Full Moon Ensemble	Live in Antibes Vol. 1 & 2	DBL LP	$24.99	Get Back / BYG	"Four long, intense tracks from Shepp accompanied by Allen Shorter, Clifford Thornton, Joseph DeJean, Beb Guerin and Claude Delcloo, captured on these live recordings in France at the Antibes-Juan Le Pen Jazz Festival, July 18 and July 20, 1970, released as #38 and #39 in the BYG Actuel series. Here they are packaged in two separate gatefold LPs, wrapped together. Original artwork, 180 gram vinyl, Italian import."
11/2/2008	Sherriff Jake Fields	Original Ugly Man	cassette	$8.99	Pizza Night	"Who is THE SHERRIFF? No one knows really. In fact, after being given his demo cd by a friend some years back, I began my search for him by asking local rappers, promoters and googling the hell out of every name he drops on the e.p. Nonetheless, After all this time I felt like the word needed to be spread about this guy.You gotta hear it to believe it. Certain tracks feature unknown musicians such as DJ White Lightning who creates some of the most INSANE trax on which the Sherrif uses his words to create the bleakest but most brutally honest and dated picture of Cleveland . 2x8 = 216?????"
12/21/2004	Shide & Acorn	Princess Of The Island	CD	$24.99	Kissing Spell	"A truly amazing compilation of all unreleased studio material from '69-'71. Said to be even better then their official album. Haunting beautiful psych/folk on Kissing Spell's 'Erewhon' label."
12/21/2004	Shide & Acorn	The Legend of the Dreamstones	CD	$24.99	Kissing Spell	"Fragile early 70's UK folk, a bit like the Incredible String Band with whimsical female/male voices, traditional instruments, mandolins, harpsichord, flute, acoustic guitars etc... Deep Summer wood music for mystic elven folk." - Malesch Records
9/29/2005	Shiftlet, Mike	Elaborate Palms	DBL Cassette	$14.99	Heavy Tapes	"Three intense sides of extended studies in synthesis and live performance. Shiflet is the kind of artist who can seemingly 'turn it on' any time he wants, revealing the racket and buzz in his head and allowing us all to peak in. Side four is a Workbench 'Stasis Style' remix of the Elaborate Palms material."
3/20/2010	Shiftlet, Mike	Omnivores	LP	$11.99	Lost Treasures of the Underworld	"Debut solo LP by Shiflet . Although,this guy has laid down more tracks than Union Pacific in the last 10+ years. Known here by the locals as the gift that keeps on giving. And he brings it home extra hot with this earth-rattler . Omnivores will take root to your record player once it has been played. Edition of 300 copies w/ pro-printed covers."
8/22/2008	Shiftlet, Mike	Opening Act	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Two more doses of shiflet drone, blazing here in the live variety, recorded earlier this year in st louis and cleveland. for those not in attendance, you can acquire mike's sleeperhold synth styleings here and get a second chance to wipe your brain off of your shoulders."
1/24/2009	Shiftlet, Mike	Solo Renegades #8	3" CDR	$3.99	Lost Treasures of the Underworld	"Head-splitting mind-bending circuit damage point of no return visit to the depths of the unknown. Edition of 50 in clear plastic sleeves with photocopied artwork by French artist renegade dude Nicolas Murer."
3/11/2005	Shiftlet, Mike	The City Is All In Your Head	CDR	$14.99	Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon	"Taking the whole concept of 'understatement' to a fundamentalist extreme of near-Texan proportions, off-duty-electrician Mike Shiflet serves up a paralysing collection of recordings made in duet with a 12 hour sound installation by Sven Khans. Not that you'd ever guess he was even in the building from the evidence presented here. Unbearable tension coupled and cataclysmic release. Gigantic nothingness that will prove a fantastic addition to your burgeoning Mike Shiflet collection."
	Shifts	7 Monochromes	CDR	$9.99	Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers	Seven variations on a tape of acoustic guitar, e-bow, and korg ms20. Recorded in April 2000. Beautiful drone from Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek).
2/23/2004	Shifts	Vertonen	CDR	$8.99	Humbug	A note on 'Vertonen' by Frans de Waard a.k.a. Shifts: "'Vertonen' was recorded in 1995 when I lived in Den Haag. It's the first release (and maybe last?) by Shifts that uses samples, here all of the acoustic guitar. It was recorded on four track. These are the first five pieces on the release. I can't remember when I added the sixth and seventh piece, but basically it was still sampler and four track. the eighth version of vertonen will be released on Humbug's Cottage Industrial series and is a computer version of the original source material."
	Shinichiro, Kanda and Norikane Sakura	Ongaku-Bigaku (Music Aesthetics)	CD	$16.99	Bishop Records	Features Kanda Shinichiro (piano) and Norikane Sakura (percussion) "The important thing is that my music must be always in progress and keep the identity of myself. I do naturally free improvisation, but also use a motif which affect as limitation of play. Motif is also my insistence as a composer."
7/11/2008	Shining Path	Chocolate Gasoline	12"	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"The new 12-inch from The Shining Path - Ilya Monosov & Preston Swirnoff. While their eponymous album exists in the world of post-SST black-clad psychedelia and noise, the group decided that they had gone far enough in said direction and realigned themselves. Chocolate Gasoline has a less harsh demeanor, a la Accelerator-era Royal Trux if the Stones-meter was set a little closer to "Under Cover of the Night" than "Dancin' with Mr. D," especially on the opener, "Lonely Hearts Killer." The remaining tracks stretch out via influences ranging from hard dub, early PiL, no wave, block-banging hip hop, and kraut-dance/industrial, if one could imagine a version of Viva more about bikinis than white overalls. Nonetheless, all of this can be played with real instruments and "rocked out" in a live setting, which is what the group intends to do. "Monosov's feedback massaging has a strong Jimi Hendrix bent, and Reif's rolling drums evoke the spastics of Keith Moon. But together the trio most recalls Japanese explorers like High Rise, Fushitsusha, and Kousokuya."- Pitchfork
6/19/2007	Shining Path	Shining Path	LP + CD	$16.99	Holy Mountain	"The Shining Path is the "rock band" version of minimalist duo ILYA MONOSOV and PRESTON SWIRNOFF. Like This Heat or Metabolist, The Shining Path are a Can/Faust-loving group that also exhales expansive psychedelic guitar excess with hints of Greg Ginn and the High Rise discography while tripping balls to a violent, throbbing, not-always-so-steady, Suicide-like rhythm. Lusciously packaged in an old school tip-on jacket, the package includes a CD version of the album because, seriously, it's what you'll want to listen to wielding a golf club with your upper body outside the sunroof of your car as you steer with your feet. The soundtrack to all that is good and true in this world."
8/2/2008	Shining Path	Take You So Low So You Can Fly So High	LP	$13.99	Planaria	"Side A contains the re-issue of the "Take You So Low So You Can Fly So High" cassette originally released on Brooklyn's T.B.T.D in a edition of 100. Side B contains a collaboration with Little Howlin Wolf live at the Marquise Dance Hall in Brooklyn." "...a scorching blend of vintage space rock from aggressive Kraut rock keyboards, No Wave noise breaks and Spacemen 3 drug swagger. The band consists of Preston Swirnoff and Ilya Monosov and these two freaks lay it on with a kind of death wish squall that reminds me why I did LSD in the first place. The Shining Path go straight to the center of the earth rather than into the sun, seeing all the dirt and garbage along the way... Shining Path have a full length out as well on Holy Mountain, although I haven't heard it, I will most likely seek it out now." - FADER MAGAZINE
8/28/2007	Shining Path, The	Take You So Low So You Can Fly So High	cassette	$8.99	T.B.T.D.	"The Shining Path is the 'rock unit' formation of psych-minimalist duo Monosov Swirnoff. Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff have released four highly acclaimed LP's of wide-ranging music on Eclipse Records and have just released The Shining Path debut self-titled full length LP/CD on Holy Mountain. This cassette oozes with damaged rock, disorienting feedback, pulsing unsettling rhythms, through beautiful sheets of white noise. Their sound has been compared to a mix of Les Rallizes Denudes, Suicide, and Mars with the free outbursts of Abe Kaoru or Takayanagi. Ripping. Edition of 100. Cover art by Tetsunori Tawaraya (demonstrations)." Killer.
1/23/2002	Shiraishi, Tamio	Live Performances 1992-1994	CD	$18.99	Pataphysique	Live Recordings from 1992-1994 from alto sax player Tamio Shiraishi.
6/5/2009	Shiraishi, Tamio & MICO	Live Duo	CD	$15.99	PSF	Alto saxophone - Tamio Shiraishi; Alto saxophone, piano molanica, etc. - MICO. "A rare live album from one of the major names in the Japanese free noise underground, Tamio Shiraishi. Shiraishi was one of the major movers in the free noise / underground rock/DIY improv Minor scene of the late '70s and early '80s that gave birth to so many of the major names in the Japanese underground. This compilation of live recordings captures Shiraishi live in Europe, the U.S. and Japan between 2001 and 2007, together with NNCK member, MICO. Forceful, intense, chaotic improvisations for saxophone, vocals, percussion, piano etc. Shiraishi's trademark ultra high-pitched dog-whistle sax and guttural vocals are showcased to full and outstanding effect." - Alan Cummings
5/7/2004	Shiraishi, Tamio & Sean Meehan	In The City	one-sided LP	$15.99	Fusetron	"Each summer Tamio Shiraishi & Sean Meehan pair up for a series of outdoor concerts in new york city always in a different location, the concerts explore unwatched and unconsidered sites of the city. (this LP) is the first release of this summer tradition. 12" vinyl with a b-sided etching by knickerbocker." - sean meehan. Recorded underneath the West Side Highway at 59th Street, NYC, by Geoff Dugan, 21 july 2001. SEAN MEEHAN - "Current performances generally find Meehan playing only the snare drum in a manner that sheds conventional usage and reconstructs the conception and function of the instrument." Meehan has collaborated with Sachiko M, Mamoru Fujieda, Michihiro Sato, Edwin Torres, Muigel Algarin, Greg Kelley, Ami Yoshida, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetzui Akiyama, Kiyoharu Kuwayama and many others. Additionally he has performed throughout North and South America, Asia and Eastern Europe. TAMIO SHIRAISHI - Shiraishi has been performing since the late 1970s, including playing drums and synthesizer in an early incarnation of Fushitsusha. His first released recordings, consisting of solo sax with broken drum machine, were included on the 1981 Aiyoku Jinmin Juji Gekijo compilation on Pinakotheca (who also released the first Keiji Haino LP). Hes currently living in NYC and occasionally collaborates with the No Neck Blues Band. GEOFF DUGAN - "Geoff Dugan has been performing, recording, and producing sonic environments since 1983. Recent projects include a binaural psychogeography recording and performance: "aberto/fechyado parque serralves" at the Serralves Foundation in Oporto and an audio psychogeographical report from New York performed at the 2002 Zeppelin Festival of Sound Art in Barcelona. Geoff runs the recording label GD Stereo that has released a series of compilation compact discs organized around psychogeography and the theory of the dérive among the various (the artists): The Architecture of the Incidental (1999) and Psychogeographical Dip (1997). Solo projects include Play in random or shuffle mode. (GD Stereo, 2001), Surface Tension (Open Circuit, 2000) and the Stomach Ache Records release Technical Comfort Formalistic Style Features (7" vinyl - 1994). Geoff is also an architect and lives in NYC."
9/17/2006	Shiraishi, Tamio & Sean Meehan	Summer Concerts	LP	$18.99	Old Gold	"180-gram vinyl LP edition of 510 in silkscreened jackets with art by Knickerbocker. A co-release with GD Stereo. When I first heard Tamio Shiraishi, I wanted to blow my eyes out. The opening burst of sheer overpowering SOUND of his sax on the "Our Lips Are Sealed" CD on Pure was all I needed to hear to know that I had to (a) get my hands on all his music, and (b) get a saxophone myself and have at it. Years later, here I am still trying, and there Shiraishi is cracking concrete and splitting bridges in half in New York City with his trusty horn. A follow up to the Fusetron one-sided 12", this 180 gram vinyl is a full length capturing two Summer concerts that Shiraishi and percussionist/artist/thinker/time traveler Sean Meehan put on every year in the Big Apple. I wasnt there, but Geoff Dugan was and recorded them for the rest of us poor saps. A third player should be given credit here, too, as the landscapes the duo chose for venues are just as much a part of the recording as the instruments played. The Manhattan Bridge and the municipal garage on 79th Street cradled, amplify, defy and deflect Shiraishi and Meehan. The passing traffic and trains make it a quartet. As for Meehan, I have no idea what he's doing. But its a damn fine thing whatever it is. Eat it up." - Marshall Avett, Old Gold.
8/23/2009	Shitty Listener, The	Crying Sweater	CD	$10.99	Ruralfaune	"The first ever CD released by Ruralfaune is the new output from The Shitty Listener aka Jason Honea; multi-faceted moon chaser who wanders through myriad activities that include: his personal label 3rd Acre Floor, being one of the founding members of the Jewelled Anter Collective, whisperings inside of The Child Readers (with Loren Chasse), singing for The Knit Separates (with Glenn Donaldson)...Recorded in Berlin by Michael Northam, The Shitty Listener is a lo-fi, bedroom folk project, deeply connected to Poetry. Incredibly intimate. The music incorporates whatever ambient sound happens to occur in the background, and it all just becomes part of the wound, becoming as much a part of the song as the song itself. Melancholic piano, gentle guitars, plaintive and emotive voices..., a sort of drifty fuzzy dreamy melody crosses each song." Edition of 500 copies.
	Shlomo Artzi Orchestra	Pizza Little Party	CD	$10.99	Public Eyesore	"Even for a PE release this is bizarre shit. I know absolutely nothing about this band and the cryptic packaging does not reveal much else, but the band is coming from a lot of different directions using tape loops, samples, and heavily mutated orchestration to create something... something... um, different. The best comparison i can think of, which isn't really true but is sort of in the same neighborhood, is Mauve Sideshow. Lots of groaning tapes in the background and what sound like devolved and processed wind-chimes turning in the wind in the foreground, with plenty of other peculiar bits drifting about in the space between. Much of it sounds like the eerie pipe-organ sound everyone associates with PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, if that helps, only... stranger. Some of the sounds and the overall approach remind me at times of Vox Barbara, although their intentions are different (i think). My favorite of the five tracks on here is 'Pachinko,' which features lots of swell tremelo sounds and drones, sounding like a science-fiction laboratory in which machinery is slowly switching itself on and off. This band would make excellent soundtracks for sci-fi movies and video games, i think. The music here is eerie and evocative without being jarring and unsettling, and thus would also work well as background music. Throw this on at work and see what your co-workers say, ha! RKF (Dead Angel No. 46
9/16/2007	Shoup, Wally / Chris Corsano / Paul Flaherty	Bounced Check	LP	$14.99	Records	"Wally Shoup, Chris Corsano, and Paul Flaherty make up this Screamin' free punk-jazz-liquid-solid-noize trio captured LIVE "in your face"- style in Seattle, WA. Totally improvised double sax and drum explosions that break down into duos and solos and re-ignite as trio howlin' paint splattered maddness gone butt-naked wilder. Recorded at an art gallery with Artwork melting off the walls and frightened fans nervously mopping their furrowed blood-stained brows (they were especially afraid one or both of the sax players would expire...... it did feel like attempted sax suicide), this limited LP, which will be the final volume in the RECORDS label plan, represents one half of the concert that emerged on that unsuspecting evening. The other half is being released at the same time (relatively) on the Tyfus label in Finland as BLANK CHECK. Thus creating another pair of sister releases much like the LAST EYES (RECORDS #8) & STEEL SLEET (TYFUS) LP pair released in 2005. The 'CHECK' pair will serve as the document of the only event this trio has played to date, and it presents another blistering historical document of an underground movement that continues to go un-recognized and even un-noticed in most of the so-called civilized baby starvin' world." Recommended!
3/29/2010	Shoup, Wally / Dave Abramson	Good Curse	cassette	$8.99	Sloow Tapes	"Drum/sax duo by Wally Shoup and Dave Abramson. Shoup has been one of the core members of the Seattle underground scene for many years now and has played with everyone from Thurston Moore and Chris Corsano to Davey Williams and Bob Rees. Abramson is a member of local psych band The Diminished Men. A greet set of free improvisation. Fire Music with Soul. Cover art by Shoup. 70 copies."
6/11/2006	Showers	Live in Rats Eyes	CDR	$9.99	Maim & Disfigure	"providence scuzz-addicts make you feel like you're sitting in a sauna pumping out piss mist... goes from blown out heavy rock to stagnant out of order urinal rot... one song is a cover off of flex your head comp... edition of 50"
	Shrin	Ventilating The Corpse	LP	$12.99	Records	"The material here was recorded in 1991, 1992, and 1995 and is of the bowed cymbal, frenetic drumming, guitar, bozouki, and chant nature. Limited to 500 copies."
1/1/2009	Shuttah	The Image Maker Vol. 1 & 2	double LP	$89.99	Shadoks	"This is the rarest of unknown, anonymous English prog-psych from 1971, with only one known copy left in existence - a perfect acetate. The Image Maker Vol. 1 & 2 is a real underground concept album with a progressive touch that only needs a few spins to get it right. Well-crafted songs, great vocals, sound-effects, organ and heavy fuzz guitar all combine to make up one of the better albums on the Vertigo label with a good dose of acid in it. Since the original acetates appeared many years ago, this is still a very provocative unsolved mystery of the UK underground." Limited Edition of 500 copies pressed on German 200gm HQ 2LP, Silver Engraved, Heavy-Duty, Embossed Gatefold. One copy available.
9/17/2006	Siberia	Live	cassette	$8.99	Fag Tapes	"Recorded two nights in Detroit. members of hzmt, max cloud, tape deck, mini-systems....two dudes, two nights, two venues. edition 77."
7/11/2008	Sic Alps	U.S. EZ	CD	$13.99	Siltbreeze	"U.S. EZ is the fourth long-player in the Sic Alps canon (excluding the recent singles comp CD, A Long Way Around to a Shortcut), and their first for the Siltbreeze label. Fans of last year's amazing Description of the Harbor LP will not be disappointed, especially if they want to hear Side A's cosmic concrete creak, forged with the trebly, high-end neo-glam pop of Side B. The duo of Mike Donovan and Matt Hartman outdo themselves here and it is the most fully realized Sic Alps release to date. U.S. EZ knows perfectly well what it means to be high and inside. It's not just baseball jargon anymore. If you've been jonesin' for an LP that calls to mind equal parts Bob Markley and Uli Trepte, then look no further, mein dueden (und duedetten). U.S. EZ is the virtual brick of Berlin / Big Sur hash we've all been waiting to break into. The ominous death's head fez has now been ensconced in a witchy naugahyde bonnet, thus levelling the playing field for both the psychedelically challenged and the itinerant avant garde. Sic Alps have always sprechen zie good vibes and U.S. EZ is a solid thump on all fronts. A summer tour of the States and a European one in the fall are in the works. LP version to follow shortly."
8/2/2008	Sic Alps	United	7"	$6.99	Important	"This merch table gem is a one-sided 7" limited to 1000 copies. 500 on blue, 200 on red, 200 on yellow and 100 on green. Contained on this thick piece of love is a rockola version of Throbbing Gristles track, United."
12/12/2009	Sic Alps / Magik Markers	Tour	12"	$12.99	Yik Yak	Repress. Split 12" anticipating their upcoming December 2009 west coast tour together. Sic Alps give up three tracks with help from Lars Finberg (Intelligence) and Ty Segall, the highlight being a great punched-in guitar solo from Matt Hartman that makes one song reminiscent of a Safe As Milk outtake. Markers show up with a 7ft bass player who throws the band into Guru Guru mode. Great all around. 600 copies."
7/30/2006	Sick Feedbag	Action Mono 3	cassette	$8.99	Fag Tapes	"David Payne of Fossils, Offensive Orange, Feedback....in one speaker and Sick Llama in the other. random colab. style w/ option of listening to one band at a time or both (recomended) at once! raw cutting room floor surprise!" - label Edition of 50 copies.
9/17/2006	Sick Hour	Sick Hour	cassette	$6.99	Animal Disguise	"4 YEARS LATER...FILLING THE HOLES IN THE DISCOGRAPHY. THIS IS MINIMAL SYNTH DRONE AND LOOMING CREEP FROM MEMBERS OF HAIR POLICE/EYES AND ARMS OF SMOKE. A BLEAK SOUNDTRACK TO CLIMB THE ENDLESS CLIFFS OF A PSYCHEDELIC MOUNTAIN. PUT THIS ONE ON REPEAT AND FORGET TO BREATHE. GREAT LOOKING FULL-COLOR ARTWORK BY ROBERT BEATTY. LIMITED EDITION OF 120."
6/11/2006	Sick Llama	Alien Facial 3	cassette	$9.99	Heavy Tapes
6/11/2006	Sick Llama	Blue Syrup Dreams	CDR	$9.99	Fag Tapes	"CDR jam packed w/ new knee deep in syrup soundz. newest sick llama style experiments. you hear children calling for help but yer too stoned."
6/19/2007	Sick Llama	Born Again To Die	LP	$15.99	Hanson	"There are a lot of mugz you don't wanna know,: VD doctors, the Grim Reaper, the inside of a Fed Ex body bag, ex-mates, cops, silence, dentists, republicans, country music stars, ...list goes on and on....THEN= there are mugz you just want to get some sunshine from- you know who they are= just plain rad mugz, stokerz= and i gotta say....the Michigan Crew has Sick Llama'z BACK.....Heath AKA Juice AKA Fag Heath AKA Morellama= is just a ball of huge eyeballing goodness..how can you be mad at him? We used to have heavy skate shred sessions with the goofball and he would destroy the streetz, and still be smiling at the end, never breaking a sweat. You want this dude on your team. And you want the soundtrack to your boiling brain to be his Born Again to Die. Its got this amazing kinda arms-up-in-air-i-give-up-what-is -this-godamnn -sound style beaming through it. Heath man....dude aint really gonna give any clues back....cant count how many timez the crew has cornered the mug and been like: "Yo man....what the hell is going on inside "Live Birth"? Did you just record cars under an overpass and slow it down?" "....ha......that one...that's a weird one right?" "Well,...tell us....the fuck?" ".........." And repeat over the coarse of 120+ Fag Tapes, Heath's label AKA the Pyramids of Michigan. He never has properly answered a sound question, we all have our clues/ideas.. Probably wrong. Sick Llama holds the rotten essence of Midwest Basement Mystery Mind Sound inside the marrow of his weird skull, right behind the strawberry blond tuffs, unblinking bug eyes, and scandi-molded mildew skin. Born Again to Die is his debt, and any signs of progression are tossed out the windows of Ham Studios. I mean its electronics, tape hiss, and ....?????? Heath really doesn't get any better or more refined, just....... stranger AKA more strange. My man Connelly says every Fag Tape has at least a 30% "hands off" factor, meaning, seems like Llama has a nice mutant groove going on and then just jets for 10min, leaving the machine motionless. If you can tell what the hell is going on inside these grooves...bottle it and sell it, it would be ideal to have on tap.......it could be like taking a skinny dip inside the caverns of a black pool filled to the brim with soul-frying electricity waves. Born Again To Die= maybe our kid's rat kids will COMPREHEND. Then maybe they can attempt to decode FUNKY PANDEMONIUM...." -JOHN OLSON (Wolf Eyes, Boy Dept. Boyz), May 2007. Originally released on cassette in 2004 on AMERICAN TAPES. This is the first full length LP and one of the first recordings ever from SICK LLAMA. Limited to 500 copies. Housed in a slick orange and blue silkscreened cardstock jacket featuring the usual HANSON outer 'droll flaps'.
7/16/2006	Sick Llama	Degrade Yourself	cassette	$8.99	Fag Tapes	"Another kinda chiller. more sick llama style caught on tape. panasonic. edition 65."
7/30/2006	Sick Llama	Earth House	DBL CDR	$18.99	Fag Tapes	"These 2 play from the outside ~ in. dark pain of gears forcing the earth to spin w/ opposite rotation. sick llama style." - label
1/17/2010	Sick Llama	Equity	cassette	$6.99	Fag Tapes	"sick llama style. washed drug help cries. plastic zip-tie sealed cassette deluxe. hand painted / numbered edition 20."
9/17/2009	Sick Llama	Imperial Beholding Thought	cassette	$7.99	Fag Tapes	"Collection of new studio recordings and live outa town live gigs. sick llama style! hand-numbered / painted edition 25."
5/14/2007	Sick Llama	Live Birth	CDR	$9.99	Fag Tapes	"live barf syrup gigs from Chicago, Kalamazoo, Columbus. edition 77"
6/11/2006	Sick Llama	Once Believed	CDR	$9.99	Fag Tapes	"2 takes live to tape in the studio. bent stereo feedback / tape manipulations / hands-on microphone trash."
2/26/2006	Sick Llama	Sickle Cell	CDR	$9.99	Hidden Feast	"Brand new label straight out of shitty Grand Rapids, Michigan. weird city. they don't have a single post office. everything is handled by that Nazi company DHL. and people get arrested all the time for being overheard talking shit about the president. full color covers sick llama style."
2/24/2007	Sick Llama	Skin Walker	CDR	$9.99	Maim & Disfigure	"The best dude in "noise" right now.... total fucking braindead, too burnt out to even get high anymore type noise.... some parts sound like plastic, 5 foot circular basketballs slowly boucning and deflating on a contact micd city street late at night; others sound like if you were the size of a safety pin and were crusing through a small, tight sewer that was all curvy and fucked up and the water was almost not even in there anymore but was slowly dripping while your carrying vessel was scraping up the ground you sailed on; others sound like someone flushing a toilet while taking a bong hit..... 2nd track = live on new years, hear how fucked up the emeralds crew was.... ltd to 75."
7/16/2006	Sick Llama	untitled	lathe cut 7"	$25.99	AA Records	One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label.
4/10/2009	Sick Llama / Treetops	Light Infection	cassette	$6.99	Fag Tapes	"Melting wax organ and keys. mixed down in Ham Studios. adrift in the night. edition 50." collab.
9/17/2009	Sick Pledge	The Darkness of Tomorrow	cassette	$7.99	Fag Tapes	"Sick Llama / New Pledgemaster (Paul Gunsberg) colab. tape sounds like church rape or black metal fuck your bright summer you fucking tourist! hand-numbered / painted edition 25."
10/25/2008	Siddhi	Goabdesaijgge	CDR	$12.99	Reverb Worship	"You may recall that Siddhi had a previous release on Reverb Worship entitled "Whispering Wood" which sold out very quickly. Siddhi are the italian duo of Delfo Catania and Elena Mandolfo.This new recording was made at home in July 2008."Goabdesaijgge" is one wonderful long shamanic track which features voices by Mariaelena Catania.The title of the cd is a Saami word meaning "time of ohum" which refers to the pre christian time when ohum was used in shaman rituals. The cd comes in an edition of 53 hand numbered copies."
2/25/2008	Siddhi	In The Wind	CDR	$13.99	Akoustic Desease	"From the "space guitarist" of Comet III, a pure gift of sounds joy directly from the pulsating and deadly Mother Heart. 5 songs that go from melanchony and delicates drones thou strings resonance..handmade HARD cardboard limited to 115 copies." Trippy - real nice.
2/11/2006	Siena Root	A New Day Dawning	DBL LP	$35.99	Nasoni	"Limited vinyl edition of the first full length album by this outstanding band from Sweden. They combine the best moments of Deep Purple, Led Zep, Blind Faith to a very exiting and unique blend of sweet early-70's rock with a bluesy touch and some prog/ psychedelic patches. Heavy organ, strongbass, guitar riffing, jazzy drumming and very charismatic vocals fuse into an unmistakable integrity and honesty. This album will be a sought after classic very soon. So buy tomorrow's pebbles today!" Limited edition of 500 copies. Black vinyl.
11/23/2004	Sightings	Arrived in Gold	CD	$12.99	Load	"Never before has a band managed to erase themselves. New York City's Sightings have risen to the challenge of negation with this 'what the fuck' of a record that rolls the twenty sided dice to dematerialize any trace of guitar, bass and drums into proton dust floating microns on top of the speaker cone. Minimal, yes. Previous records have gone from favorites at magazines as chocolate and peanut butter as the Wire and Terrorizer. Past records have been steaming knee burn befuddled by German technoid impulse and Yoko-damaged Beatles-busting intensity. A new icy coolness is added to the steaming soup this time allowing the sounds of mouth breathing to open up the record into a drug-fueled nightclub beast humping a bass bin as the sun rises."
12/11/2002	Sightings	Michigan Haters	CD	$13.99	Psycho-Path Records	"Another x-ray view of new songs from NYC's Sightings rock band as they make the guitar-bass-drums they use turn to molten plastic. Dense as liposuction leftovers, and chewy as expected with more Mainliner-damaged neuron mandiblity. Like Monday morning at Planned Parenthood." – Load Records
11/25/2007	Sightings	Through the Panama	LP	$15.99	Ecstatic Peace	"Bass, drum and guitars meshed together with a synthetic twine envisioned in future think tanks. Literally the sound of human progress darkened with a profound fidelity so loud the dark matter of the universe quivers in a deadly orgasm. Guitar, bass and drums reconfigured for a new purpose. This is the band's sixth album and takes the notch so much higher than previous efforts in terms of songwriting and production. With Andrew W.K. as a producer, some of the caustic curtains that swathed past albums have been parted to reveal a coldly pulsing artificial heart. And the beat of this heart sounds off in an alien tongue of bass and drums. Guitars descend like unforgiving sheets of napalm from the smoldering skyline. Songs pop out of this miasma that tick off icy coolness with piano and vocal stylings. Indeed, hot and cool. To accentuate the difference this album has versus previous Sighting's records, a Scott Walker cover is included. This is a rock album, but a rock for times coming, a sound of future days. Break the chains from the days of past, listen to Sightings and evolve. Limited edition pressing packaged in high gloss gatefold sleeves."
2/21/2009	Sikhara	Anduni	CD	$7.99	Urck Records	"Sikhara exists in a constant state of motion, claiming no land as home.Just before the dawn of 2007, Sikhara released "Bardos State" on the extreme ethnic label, URCK. This was the most comprehensive recorded work of the band to date, including material registered on 3 continents. This included tracks from Seizure's Palace in Brooklyn, NYC, their notorious collaboration set in the ancient Senkoji Temple near Osaka and most importantly, a studio version of the new live set, captured in Portugal and performed on the subsequent tour. The Bardos State tour circled the totality of Europe and the USA and even decended into Asia Minor with mutilple performances in Ankara, Turkey. The duo of Nydegger and Geoffriaud reproduced the content of the Bardos story with a theatrical presentation that still maintained a rigid musicality. The next wave of Sikhara has began with the cd and tour entitled "Anduni". Anduni is heavily themed in the music and culture from the countries of Armenia and Georgia. The name is taken from the title of a tragic Armenian opera, which litteraly means homeless. A host of engineers and collaborators put a hand into the recordings, which took place in France, Belgium, Portugal and Nashville, TN. Sikhara performed the complete Anduni cd on thier tour. The accompanying spectacle is closely linked with the themes behind the music and represents a more refined twist to the savage visual elements of a Sikhara show."
	Silcock, Matt	s/t	CD	$7.99	Public Eyesore	"It's interesting to hold (the 7" by Naoaki Miyamoto) up to the solo CD-R by Blastitude's own contributing partier Matt Silcock, also on Public Eyesore, which has a similar attack in places, but at 13 tracks and nearly 60 minutes, is maybe a little too much of a good thing. Still, if you're in the mood, a good thing it is, and to Silcock's credit, he breaks up the 'noise guitar' stuff with saxophone, acoustic guitar, and some other field recordings (including a woozy not-quite-prog bass/drums jam). A strangely languorous approach is taken too, which helps spread things out, though some of the noise guitar work can get in your face, especially the album closer, an over-the-top quasi-metal number called 'Akira Takahashi Goes Home.' For the most part, however, the album makes nice background-with-option-for-foreground music in the same way a solo improv record on Incus might."
4/16/2007	Silmaril	The Voyage of Icarus	CD	$12.99	Locust	"Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to Silmaril. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973's highly collectable privately pressed album, Given Time... Or the Several Roads, and their dormant, unreleased follow up No Mirrored Temple."
10/6/2007	Silmaril	The Voyage of Icarus	DBL LP	$22.99	Locust	"Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to Silmaril. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman, by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian-themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973's highly collectable privately-pressed album, Given Time... Or the Several Roads, and their dormant, unreleased follow up, No Mirrored Temple."
11/6/2003	Siloah	Sukram Gurk	CD	$19.99	Garden of Delights	"'The second and last one by the Munich underground band, this time with keyboards and more professional. From the master tapes.' New reissue of the 2nd and final Siloah album, originally released in 1972. As with the debut album, this was previously reissued by the now defunct Lost Pipe Dreams label, now in more superior form - from master tapes with 1 bonus track. Very loose, tripped-out feel with Can-like atmospheres at times. The absolute finest in early 70s flowing psychedelics and an essential document of the era." – FE
2/6/2003	Silt Fish	Zabaranda	CD	$8.99	Public Eyesore	"The highly prolific Public Eyesore label usually deals in some variety of cracked international improv, but CEO Bryan Day does throw curveballs. Silt Fish qualifies, being a weird British art-folk duo. If that description brings to mind some kind of Betley-style bedroom thing, well no, this is like more produced and art-rockish, while still being pretty lo-fi....like it aspires to some sort of Henry Cow realm but has a setup almost like Suicide's: two guys, one playing an organ and one a guitar, and one of the two singing. I must say that I was immediately a bit taken aback by the twee-ness of Silt Fish. I finally realized what Byron Coley meant when he said of Red Krayola's Black Snakes album that ‘listening to the whole thing in one sitting makes my asshole clench.’ However, Silt Fish really hit their stride on track four, the title track, which is a long artsy spooky dirge. Think Roxy's ‘In Every Dream Home’ only with a more wandering melody and crazier Carnival of Souls organ. And, now that I'm used to the Silt Fish sound, I kind of dig all the other songs too. Once again the question must be asked: where does Bryan Day get these people?" - Matt Silcock, Blastitude #14
2/4/2007	Silvercords	Pig Iron	CDR	$12.99	into the lunar night	"New set from this duo off-shoot of Family Underground, featuring Nicolas and Sara in stoned circular drone mode with what sounds like prayer bowls and currents of spectral breath birthing orchestras of tone halo. Edition of 85 copies in printed gatefold sleeves with silver-on-black artwork." - Volcanic Tongue. Edition of 85 copies.
11/29/2007	Silvercords	Sapphire Staircase	CDR	$12.99	into the lunar night	"Limited self-released album from the duo of Nicolas and Sara of Family Underground, with two long tracks recorded in October 2007. This expands on the weird Euro avant/Industrial time-stilling moves of their earlier releases with a doomy use of tolling fuzz and some harsh Xpressway styled destroyed rockisms." - Volcanic Tongue. "The follow up to the Time-Lag cdr of heaviness. This one is a bit more harsh and not as drone heavy as earlier efforts."
5/29/2008	Silverman	Blank For Your Own Message	CD	$18.99	BLR	"The Silverman should be given a degree in bio-melodics. This most recent body of collaged constructions pulsates with aspects of a living system. Slurred drones rush sonic corpuscles through electronic capillaries, imparting breath to each track. An obscured, parenthetical heart beat occasionally comes through as an unexpectedly metallic panging in the background, mostly drowned out by the fluid dynamics of localized subsystems playing out their various vital functions. Perhaps each one of us does sound a little like a Javanese gamelan orchestra inside if you hit the right spot. Cutting to find out is not advocated. The Silverman's fantastic voyage sounds like a spiritual dissertation on degrees of scale. Edition of 500 copies packaged in full-color book bound CD cases."
8/4/2007	Silvester Anfang	Kosmies Slachtafval	CD	$16.99	Aurora Borealis	"The Flanders-based Funeral Folk collective convene to become occult drone rock band Sylvester Anfang, a self-proclaimed 'Pagan Belgopsych' group featuring a line-up that boasts a member named Ignatius Van Kempenhof. They almost certainly get involved in live role playing games too, but all you really need to know about this record is that it's the group's debut album and it's a rollicking good listen. Across two lengthy pieces the band align themselves with the more far-out tendencies of Acid Mother Temple or perhaps even Sunburned Hand Of The Man unshackled from their more Woodstock-oriented tendencies. In amongst all the shifting textures and sinister wailing sounds you'll hear a jumble of campfire percussion and the kind of organ playing you might last have heard on an Italian horror movie soundtrack. Oddly, there's a bit of a devotional, trance-inducing quality to this music, and you most certainly wouldn't want to accept a glass of grape flavoured Kool-Aid from them, but this album is well worth donning a robe for."
10/6/2007	Silvester Anfang	Levend Op De Brandstapel	CDR	$9.99	Skulls of Heaven	"Silvester Anfang are Belgium's premier house-band of the post-apocalyptic hellfire club known as Funeral Folk. This particular installment in their ongoing macabre musico-theatre finds Silvester Anfang tripping over the bloated corpse of Acid Rock. Conjuring the zombie spirits of Jimi Hendrix, Phil Lynott, Pigpen and John Bonham, Silvester Anfang transform into a murky cloud of fuzz-wah and terribly damaged atmosphere. In some ways this is the most heavy and sickening manifestation of SA yet.. Bitter and short, simple and sick, is this the new means to an end for our favorite Funeral Folks?
7/30/2006	Simeon	Sleepy Eyes	LP	$12.99	Bobby J	"This is a plaintive and personal, yet inexplicably pop record. Stand-outs for me lie in the sprawl of longer songs like The Wind and Sweat Me (both side one) that combine the cryptic whispers and skitters of Skip Spences Grey/Afro with the boop-teet of a drum machine. Simeon is truly doing something very different, very personal, and is already far down that Misunderstood Highway. Pick him up, for his thumb and his record is out." - Luna Kafe.
5/16/2010	Simmons, Sonny	Staying on the Watch	CD	$12.99	ESP-Disk	"The noted west coast composer made his ESP debut accompanied by his then wife, Barbara Donald, on trumpet, Teddy Smith on bass, John Hicks on piano and Marvin Pattillo on percussion. Recorded August 1966, Staying on the Watch is an important infusion of straight-ahead and avant jazz. Barbara Donald is a superb trumpeter who has made a strident contribution to the legacy of women performers and has been widely written about. Also, pianist John Hicks, who makes his New York debut on the record, went on to become one of the most prolific pianists in jazz. Personnel: Barbara Donald (trumpet) Sonny Simmons (alto sax) John Hicks (piano) Teddy Smith (bass) Marvin Pattillo (percussion)."
5/16/2010	Sissy Spacek	Fortune	7"	$5.99	Gilgongo Records	"An on going project of prolific artist John Wiese, SISSY SPACEK has taken many forms: intricate collages of the small, quiet, details that trickle through in between "sound", drums spliced and severed, 18 piece "noise" orchestras, performances that included nothing but the act of shattering glass as source sound to ones that result in broken basses and bleeding throats, etc. You never know how overblown and explosive or incredibly quiet and intricate one specific release might be. On "Fortune", Wiese has assembled a trio with Charlie Mumma (drums) and Corydon Ronnau (vocals): crafting 26 songs of grind-core noise (like a Crossed Out playing with malfunctioning gear). Corresponding singles also released on A Dear Girl Called Wendy (Italy) and Ketchup Cavern (Canada)." Sold out at label.
5/29/2008	Sissy Spacek	Gore Jet	7"	$4.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"Sissy Spacek's "Gore Jet" was recorded in Los Angeles in the summer of 1999 by JOHN WIESE (bass, drum machine) and CORYDON RONNAU (vocals). A limited edition, one-sided 7-inch packaged in white "dj style" sleeves."
10/31/2009	Sissy Spacek	Gutter Splint	one-sided 7"	$6.99	Ketchup Cavern	"22 songs in three and a half minutes. Edition of 184, mastered at 45 RPM for maximum fidelity / enjoyment, broken-photocopier packaging. Charlie Mumma, Drums / Corydon Ronnau, Vocals / John Wiese, Electronics. Recorded PDX/LA November 2008."
12/25/2005	Sissy Spacek	SISSISSPSSKSSISSRS	LP	$15.99	Misanthropic Agenda	"Limited deluxe gatefold 12" edition. Manic torrentials of multi-multidirectional percussion, guitar, voice, and electronics from the mouse of John Wiese." Edition of 1000 copies.
4/22/2009	Sister Iodine	Flame Desastre	LP	$19.99	Premier Sang	"French pionner experimental rock band (trio) founded in the early 90's, Sister Iodine made themselves known with 2 albums recorded on the R.I.P french Label 'Semantic'; ADN 115 (1994) & Pause (1997), collision between the savage energy of No wave, the game of collage tapes and exploration of their instruments inspired by concrete music, their primitive love of Noise, and a primal free rock approach. From 1992 to 97 they did some wicked concerts in company of bands like Sonic Youth, Faust, US Mapple, Circle X, Keiji Haino, Flaming Demonics, Stereolab, The Ex, Bästard, Krackhouse, Melt Banana, Tone Rec, Pluramon amongst others.. Geographically separated since 1997 Sister Iodine began to play sporadically for some scattered events like some dates w/ Sonic Youth french tour 1999, Phonotaktik Festival, Vienna/1998, PS1 Contemporary Art Center NY/1998, each members focused then more on their own new electronic projets (Discom, duos w/ Tujiko Noriko, Evil Moisture) touring around the world. And still running...Back to pure and harsh electricity since early 2000's , Sister Iodine continued their ufo like road, gave brutal concerts here and there around their album came out on Textile records (Jackie O'Motherfucker, Magik Markers, Oren Ambarchi, Volcano The Bear, Chris Corsano & Mike Flower, Sun, and many more) on feb 2007, recorded @ Rare Book Room studio with Nicolas Vernhes. 2008, Sister Iodine recorded his new album home and did a few shows around like the one in Saint Nazaire invited by Sonic Youth to play for the opening of the massive exhibit "Sonic Youth, Sentational Fix". 2009, Sister Iodine is proud to announce their new album "Flame Desastre", out now on the new acid french label Premier Sang." Edition of 500 copies pressed on white transparent vinyl.
2/24/2002	Six Organs of Admittance	Dark Noontide	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"Dark Noontide is the third full length release from Six Organs of Admittance. While listeners were pleasantly surprised by Ben Chasny's out-of-nowhere acid-folk genius on earlier releases, Dark Noontide comes in a notch or two higher with another spectacular merging of dreamy, hypnotic, finger-picked melodies and psychedelia concrète, not to mention some very fine fuzz guitar. Eight incredible tracks seamlessly blend powerful blues foot-stomp, backward interludes, strange strings feedback, dark, tabla- infused vibrations, and the amazing debut of Chasny's electric guitar as a lead instrument. Minds can only be blown by this album. Initiation is only a matter of time. This is the dream follow-up release that fans of Six Organs of Admittance have been waiting for." Highest recommendation!
2/10/2004	Six Organs of Admittance	Dark Noontide	LP	$15.99	Holy Mountain	Repressed - 2nd edition."NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Dark Noontide is the third full length release from Six Organs of Admittance. While listeners were pleasantly surprised by Ben Chasny’s out-of-nowhere acid-folk genius on earlier releases, Dark Noontide comes in a notch or two higher with another spectacular merging of dreamy, hypnotic, finger-picked melodies and psychedelia concrète, not to mention some very fine fuzz guitar. Eight incredible tracks that seamlessly blend powerful blues foot-stomp, backwards interludes, strange string feedback, dark, tabla-infused vibrations and the amazing debut of Chasny's electric guitar as a lead instrument. Drop two tabs in this and come down screaming." Highly recommended!
2/24/2002	Six Organs of Admittance	Dust and Chimes	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"Holy Mountain is beside itself with the limited edition reissue of Dust & Chimes by Six Organs of Admittance, Ben Chasny's second amazing, underground folk-psych project from behind California's Redwood curtain. Heavy, acoustic guitar and mumbled vocalizations merge with out-there jamming in a style that has been compared to guys with LPs on Takoma, though Dust & Chimes is actually closer than anyone else is ever going to come to pantsing the first two Tyrannosaurus Rex albums. The sun is tanging, people. Really." Highly recommended.
8/17/2009	Six Organs of Admittance	Luminous Night	LP	$15.99	Drag City	"Through dark days and glowing nights, Six Organs of Admittance continues to step to the far rim of the world with purposeful strides. Indeed, new horizons are visible throughout Luminous Night. Be it in the face of spiritual crisis or catharsis, Ben Chasny as Six Organs refuses to stagnate, or to evolve in predictable fashion; in response, he keeps moving on. This is the first Six Organs of Admittance albums with such a lengthy gap between it and its former number. In the past two years Chasny has kept busy writing this new epic, moving house to Seattle, composing soundtracks for novels and movies, and touring constantly in America and Europe (with bands like The Dead C and OM) as well as being invited by legendary post-metal group Neurosis to play their Beyond The Pale festival in Belgium. Six Organs of Admittance is such a singular experience that it is sometimes easy to forget that Ben was the lead guitarist in Comets On Fire, as well as a songwriter and guitarist for Current 93's Black Ships Ate The Sky album and half of the pan-Pacific psych-folk duo August Born. But clearly, Chasny knows heavy, having grown through times of heavy and times of light. And in answer to the question what's heavier, a pound of rock or a pound of feathers, Six Organs of Admittance has devised this for Luminous Night: a pound of rock covered with a pound of feathers -- twice as heavy, but feathery light to the human eye. With Luminous Night, Chasny's working with some heavy dudes, like producer Randall Dunn and Eyvind Kang, whose sound on viola shines with a guiding glow throughout the album (both Dunn and Kang contributed their talents to the outré arrangements of the recent Sunn O))) album). The other invaluable contributors to the album are Hans Teuber on flute, Tor Dietrichson on tabla, Matt Chamberlin on drums, and Dave Abramson on percussion. Occupying their spots with care, they've collaborated to create something rich and vibrant, aching and new, in the world of Six Organs of Admittance. For its blanketing sound, Luminous Night draws inspiration from such cinematic sources as Jodorowky's El Topo soundtrack and the scores of Kurosawa's samurai films, but is at the same time music that could only have come from the singular sound world of Six Organs of Admittance. What is it about the man that buries his sound in the ground? He has faith in the earth, for one. When we think of Six Organs of Admittance, we think of a man with six-string ambitions, a rambler with mystic beliefs and dark electric visions. It's a big universe and we're only human, which basically means that we've got spirit and that were going to die. But until then, we live. Six Organs of Admittance has lived to tell about it on Luminous Night."
2/7/2009	Six Organs of Admittance	RTZ	double CD	$17.99	Drag City	"The double-CD, triple-LP epic called RTZ (named after the button on a Tascam 484 that 'returns to zero') fashions several lesser-known pieces from Six Organs of Admittance's early years into a massive prismatic arc, colossal and organic like some wonder of the ancient world. How could it be otherwise? Even when existing as only one half of a record, as many of these pieces once did (and still do, somewhere), Mr. 6OOA (Ben Chasny, y'all!) leans into the eternal -- letting the winds of Time scar his face and the light of All There Is burn his skin black. Grandmaster Chas has sacrificed the body for his music time and again over the years. RTZ is an iridescent chimera infull flight, viewed through stained glass. Cataloging these early non-album excursions requires a bit of leg-(and mind)work. RTZ travels back to the dawn of this century to locate 'Resurrection,' half of a Time-Lag split 12' with Charalambides. 'Warm Earth, Which I've Been Told' is half of a Mental Telemetry split CD with Vibracathedral Orchestra and Magic Carpithans from 2003. 'You Can Always See the Sun,' was part of Three Lobed Recordings.' 'Purposeful Availments' subscription CD series in 2002. And 'Nightly Trembling' was released way back in 1999 in an edition of 33 copies, all given away for free! That's some spiritual shit right there. Combined with a never-before-released extended piece called 'Punish the Chasm with Wings' from pre-millennial days and you've got yourself a deep, DEEP box set, crammed into a double CD. Rich with excursions to exotic musical climes and rhythmic with prayerful chants from the dark shadows of the earth, RTZ uses strings and bells, riffs both warm and icy, glowing lead guitars, massed voices and the pure, open air for its mantras and rituals. As the title alludes, these old sounds were forged in that bastion of personal expression, the four-track recorder. When a man can record a few feet from his bed, he becomes more inclined to render his nocturnal intuitions. And when that man is Ben Chasny, he can use those remastered (but still good and dusty) early recordings to attain the ultimate goal. We should all be so lucky. Oh wait, we are -- now that we've got RTZ forever, and more."
2/7/2009	Six Organs of Admittance	RTZ	triple LP	$20.99	Drag City	"The double-CD, triple-LP epic called RTZ (named after the button on a Tascam 484 that 'returns to zero') fashions several lesser-known pieces from Six Organs of Admittance's early years into a massive prismatic arc, colossal and organic like some wonder of the ancient world. How could it be otherwise? Even when existing as only one half of a record, as many of these pieces once did (and still do, somewhere), Mr. 6OOA (Ben Chasny, y'all!) leans into the eternal -- letting the winds of Time scar his face and the light of All There Is burn his skin black. Grandmaster Chas has sacrificed the body for his music time and again over the years. RTZ is an iridescent chimera infull flight, viewed through stained glass. Cataloging these early non-album excursions requires a bit of leg-(and mind)work. RTZ travels back to the dawn of this century to locate 'Resurrection,' half of a Time-Lag split 12' with Charalambides. 'Warm Earth, Which I've Been Told' is half of a Mental Telemetry split CD with Vibracathedral Orchestra and Magic Carpithans from 2003. 'You Can Always See the Sun,' was part of Three Lobed Recordings.' 'Purposeful Availments' subscription CD series in 2002. And 'Nightly Trembling' was released way back in 1999 in an edition of 33 copies, all given away for free! That's some spiritual shit right there. Combined with a never-before-released extended piece called 'Punish the Chasm with Wings' from pre-millennial days and you've got yourself a deep, DEEP box set, crammed into a double CD. Rich with excursions to exotic musical climes and rhythmic with prayerful chants from the dark shadows of the earth, RTZ uses strings and bells, riffs both warm and icy, glowing lead guitars, massed voices and the pure, open air for its mantras and rituals. As the title alludes, these old sounds were forged in that bastion of personal expression, the four-track recorder. When a man can record a few feet from his bed, he becomes more inclined to render his nocturnal intuitions. And when that man is Ben Chasny, he can use those remastered (but still good and dusty) early recordings to attain the ultimate goal. We should all be so lucky. Oh wait, we are -- now that we've got RTZ forever, and more." Recommended!
1/21/2005	Six Organs of Admittance	School of the Flower	CD	$13.99	Drag City	"This is the first Six Organs of Admittance record to be recorded in a studio. No computers were harmed (or used) during the making of this record. Free-jazz sensation Chris Corsano contributes drums with the greatest sympathy. It's a fantastic new album, as just a fraction of a listen will reveal. The highly prolific Six Organs of Admittance returns with a sixth or seventh album, School of the Flower." Great record from start to finish! Includes a cover of Gary Higgins' 'Thicker Than A Smokey'. Highly recommended!
11/17/2007	Six Organs of Admittance	Shelter From The Ash	CD	$14.99	Drag City	"Ben Chasny returns with a new Six Organs of Admittance album-a most fluid combination of electric and acoustic SOOA styles. For Shelter From The Ash, Chasny went into Louder Studios with the songs both in his mind and also demoed out, a different way of working than in previous sessions. Though their are definite song structures in place, improvisations and heavy drones are still a big part of the sound. Includes playing from NOEL HARMONSON (COMETS ON FIRE), TIM GREEN (FUCKING CHAMPS), ELISA AMBROGIO (MAGIK MARKERS), and MATT SWEENEY (SUPERWOLF)."
11/17/2007	Six Organs of Admittance	Shelter From The Ash	LP	$16.99	Drag City	"Ben Chasny returns with a new Six Organs of Admittance album-a most fluid combination of electric and acoustic SOOA styles. For Shelter From The Ash, Chasny went into Louder Studios with the songs both in his mind and also demoed out, a different way of working than in previous sessions. Though their are definite song structures in place, improvisations and heavy drones are still a big part of the sound. Includes playing from NOEL HARMONSON (COMETS ON FIRE), TIM GREEN (FUCKING CHAMPS), ELISA AMBROGIO (MAGIK MARKERS), and MATT SWEENEY (SUPERWOLF)."
6/11/2006	Six Organs of Admittance	The Sun Awakens	CD	$13.99	Drag City	"Despite the incredible prolificacy that has seen the release of seven albums since the turn of the millennium, the advent of The Sun Awakens, the new Six Organs Of Admittance record remains an event to cherish. Having finally achieved mainstream recognition with his last album, 2005's sublime School Of The Flower, Ben Chasny - who ostensibly is Six Organs Of Admittance - has decided to push away from the psych-folk blueprint that he conquered with the last Six Organs album and propel himself into the depths of bohemia with a masterclass in dark artistry. bWorking with some of his long-time collaborators (notably Noel Von Harmonson of Comets On Fire and Tim Green of The Fucking Champs) means that some of the hallmarks from earlier releases remain, so fans will recognise For Octavio Paz's melancholic six-strings on 'Torn By Wolves' and fragments of Compathia's sweet lullabies can be found on 'The Desert Is A Circle'. But this is an undeniably darker experience than its predecessor; some of the gentle percussion and the occasional cymbal crash remain, but there's little that isn't immolated by the disruptive fire of Chasny's electric guitar. Chasny even goes so far as to mangle his own words on 'Black Wall', before a volley of feedback blows his falsetto away entirely. At the end of The Sun Awakens lies the twenty-four minute long 'River Of Transformation', a desolate, droning whirlpool and the most oppressive track that Chasny has recorded to date, whether under his Six Organs guise or any other. The fearsome, crunching guitar is heavy enough to recall some of Chasny's psych outings with Comets On Fire, but the weird other-worldly chanting hauls the track back into the avant-garde mire. Dark, taxing and almost overwhelming complex The Sun Awakens may be, but it's an album laced with enough of Chasny's particular brand of mercurial grace to ensure that Six Organs Of Admittance's second album for Drag City is, nonetheless, a work of austere beauty."
6/11/2006	Six Organs of Admittance	The Sun Awakens	LP	$13.99	Drag City	"Despite the incredible prolificacy that has seen the release of seven albums since the turn of the millennium, the advent of The Sun Awakens, the new Six Organs Of Admittance record remains an event to cherish. Having finally achieved mainstream recognition with his last album, 2005's sublime School Of The Flower, Ben Chasny - who ostensibly is Six Organs Of Admittance - has decided to push away from the psych-folk blueprint that he conquered with the last Six Organs album and propel himself into the depths of bohemia with a masterclass in dark artistry. bWorking with some of his long-time collaborators (notably Noel Von Harmonson of Comets On Fire and Tim Green of The Fucking Champs) means that some of the hallmarks from earlier releases remain, so fans will recognise For Octavio Paz's melancholic six-strings on 'Torn By Wolves' and fragments of Compathia's sweet lullabies can be found on 'The Desert Is A Circle'. But this is an undeniably darker experience than its predecessor; some of the gentle percussion and the occasional cymbal crash remain, but there's little that isn't immolated by the disruptive fire of Chasny's electric guitar. Chasny even goes so far as to mangle his own words on 'Black Wall', before a volley of feedback blows his falsetto away entirely. At the end of The Sun Awakens lies the twenty-four minute long 'River Of Transformation', a desolate, droning whirlpool and the most oppressive track that Chasny has recorded to date, whether under his Six Organs guise or any other. The fearsome, crunching guitar is heavy enough to recall some of Chasny's psych outings with Comets On Fire, but the weird other-worldly chanting hauls the track back into the avant-garde mire. Dark, taxing and almost overwhelming complex The Sun Awakens may be, but it's an album laced with enough of Chasny's particular brand of mercurial grace to ensure that Six Organs Of Admittance's second album for Drag City is, nonetheless, a work of austere beauty."
12/12/2009	Six Organs of Admittance & J. Mattson	Empty the Sun	LP + BOOK	$18.99	Barnacle	"A new novel by JOSEPH MATTSON featuring music by SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE. Available in limited edition vinyl LP soundtrack with Large Format Book. "Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles." Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattson's Empty the Sun, an urgent, beautifully reckless novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-road, open-whiskey soundtrack by enigmatic and stunning Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance."
5/16/2010	Six Organs of Admittance & Joseph Mattson	Empty the Sun	CD + Book	$14.99	Barnacle / Drag City	"A new novel by Joseph Mattson featuring music by Six Organs of Admittance. Joseph Mattson's Empty the Sun, an urgent, beautifully reckless novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-road, open-whiskey soundtrack by enigmatic and stunning Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance."
9/17/2009	Six Organs Of Admittance / Azul	split	LP	$22.99	PSF	"Stunning PSF vinyl-only release with Japanese obi-strip. Ben Chasny's prolific Six Organs Of Admittance wields a haunted, amorphous atmosphere of prickly acoustics and occasionally jarring electric guitar on side A's sidelong 'Furnace.' The flipside is a more structured affair, with the five songs by Usui Hiroyuki's Azul consisting of richly orchestrated psych folk, filled with violins, tabla, tambura and subdued vocals. Limited to 800 copies." - FE. Only a few available.
9/18/2006	Sixes	Submissions	3" CDR	$7.99	Jyrk	"Man.. one of the first times we rolled down to Oakland, we met up with this dude and his intensely dark steez.. Dude reminded me of my buddies up in Portland who had first told me about "The Temple," which Mr. Sixes calls home.. My friends told me that their show at "The Temple" was one of the most chaotic evenings of their band's career.. tons of smashed glass, fights.... debauch... A fierce mess.. When we finally got to SEE Sixes... or more importantly, when we moved to the bay and got to SEE Sixes a LOT, Dude was REPEATEDLY crushing.. on par with other westen freaks like Wiese and Gerritt.. totally gross intensity.. So.. we bug him to do a release.. and he takes his time.. but... now we're finally holding onto this SICK live recording of a set in Seattle from 2005.. It's perfect for JYRK too.. Totally a slow burner. you can't tell it's creeping up on you until it's too late...... edition of 200"
6/19/2007	Skaters, The	Dispersed Royalty Ornaments	LP	$17.99	Wabana	"As the duo known as the Skaters and as solo artists, Ferraro and Clark, who are flat broke and currently without phone or Internet service, spend most of their days and late nights not working but huddled in their bedrooms jamming, obsessively exploring through the use of nontraditional instrumentation and the creation of abstract sound 'the inside and the outside at the same time,' and in the process experiencing what Ferraro calls 'private imaginations.' The end result is not what you would expect -- i.e., a pretentious, painfully dry avant-garde free-noise. Quite the opposite, it's a totally out there, vocal-dominated psychedelia, based, structurally speaking, on the open-ended drone heard in industrial music, minimalism, experimental electronics, folk, world music, and free jazz. And, like the best free jazz -- the early, fiery stuff: Trane, Ayler, Sanders -- the Skaters' noise-drenched cosmic soul is driven by their need to, in the words of Ferraro, 'grasp something that is beyond what you can verbalize." - Justin Farrar. Killer record - highly recommended!!
2/16/2005	Skaters, The	Gambling in Ohpa's Shadow	CDR	$13.99	Pseudoarcana	"Does anything more need to be said about The Skaters? They exploded into the consciousness in early 2004 with 'Dark Rye Bread' (an album about to get a vinyl reissue courtesy of Norways Humbug imprint) and blew minds everywhere with their exceptionally 'JOYOUS' music. For those who haven't heard them yet The Skaters are the duo of James Ferraro and Spencer Clark. The main instrument used by these 2 genius's is voice, but not voice as we're used to it. Ecstatic chants are looped live through archaic delay units and played at a monstrous volume through old and broken amplifiers. Occasionally a broken-leaded guitar is strummed, or a very bent tribal sounding percussion looms into the mix, but overall its those crazy gnostic-gnomic voices that dominate. As with James Ferraro's solo 'Wooden Cupboard' project the immediate comparison that springs to mind is that of Angus MacLises Kathmandu recordings. Not everything is so chaotic on this disk, there are poignant moments of relative calm, but overall it is a remarkably distorted, energising - and joyous - affair. Note that some of the distortion on this disk is 'digital' in nature, a further manifestation of Ohpa's will sings morsecode clicks from out the void…
8/2/2008	Skaters, The	Physicalities of the Sensibilities of Ingrediential Stairways	LP	$14.99	Eclipse	Uncalculated unconscious expectations within an involuntary interception (system) of detached fantasy detached provided the fantasy is born of ingredients outside of the body but determined by the unpenetrated unconsciousness this in combination with the minds ability to sight illusions creates a world in which the consciousness can travel in and out of realisation of the event arising as with the tangible actions of the ceremony ascending and descending within the spectators consciousness manifest exchanged illusions. The unknowing of levels of consciousness as the procession of the ceremony transforms the imagination from inner and outer experience to one a whole motion of physical and mental interaction. Recorded in Universal City, Mexico by Spencer Clark and James Ferraro. Limited edition - one time pressing
5/1/2009	Skeleton Warrior	Pornographic Hologram	c70 cassette	$4.99	Obsolete Units	"One of the more secretive acts in the strange terrain of Florida-based noise makers, the always enigmatic Skeleton Warrior allow some more presence to take hold with this epic tape of bewildering glee. Pornographic Hologram very literally veers from speaker-damaging scuzz rock to amphetamine-ruined industrial pop to analog synth caterwauling to everything else in between. No spaces left untouched, and yet a distinct linking thread holds it all in place. A diverse and vigorous long-player made perfect for the adventurous."
7/16/2009	Skin Graft	Brick in the Mouth of a Corpse	c20 cassette	$7.99	Deception Island	"As proof that some small amount of justice lingers in the world, Cleveland veteran Wyatt Howland is finally getting his dues, having spent the past several years amassing a discography studded with many of the all-time classics of fucked rust belt electronics ("Soft Police Murder," "Drug Addict," "You Deserve Nothing," and the watershed "Blackout" lp on Tusco Embassy, to name but a handful), collabbing tirelessly with the likes of Ryan Kuehn, David Russell, Emeralds, and Aaron Dilloway, and turning in an endless stream of punishingly focused, concise, and pissed-off performances that simply must be witnessed to be believed. "Brick in the Mouth of a Corpse" is both a fitting introduction to Skin Graft and a bar-raiser for those already initiated, on which Howland continues to wax subtle, detailed, and glowering, as though drawing cross-sections of harsh noise with a drafting pencil, allowing us to view the creaking, dripping, and hissing armature under its skin. This is a strategy that could never be sustained without the patience and technique that are present in spades across the six tracks that make up "Brick," meticulously crafted vignettes that range from the principled scraping of bones and bodyslamming of trashcans to waking up brutally hung over beside a rustily copulating heap of sonar equipment. Essential filth." Hand-numbered edition of 149.
12/2/2008	Skin Graft	Chernobyl	CDR	$7.99	Wagon	"Repress of the very limited edition 2007 wagon cdr by one of the most refreshing and interesting noise projects in the midwest, Wyatt Howland aka SKIN GRAFT, who has been slugging it out with his electronics for more than ten years in the Cleveland underground. "Chernobyl," like all other Skin Graft's Wagon releases, delivers on every level. ALL KILLER, NO FILLER. Brutal and gritty electronics fester like smoldering toxic fumes filling the lungs of the unexpecting, with no time for escape. This one is a doozy, and like Under Seige 2 deals with some DARK TERRITORY. Black and white art with a double sided fold out poster insert. Edition of 75."
12/12/2009	Skin Graft	Dirge	7"	$6.99	A Soundesign	"An instant classic, two years in the making... "Dirge" showcases what Cleveland's Wyatt Howland does best, pummel and grind. This record is a black assault with a deeply personal feel, like a perpetrator caressing you into eternal sleep with a set of pipe wrenches. Art by David Russell. Co-released with Mistake By The Lake. Black vinyl 33 RPM 7" record, black and white laser print insert in plastic bag."
3/5/2009	Skin Graft	You Deserve Nothing	cassette	$7.99	Pizza Night	"Psychedelic scum electronics from Wyatt Howland. Intense dark zones and wet cold clutter. A real jaw dropper of pissed noise that at moments sounds as if Wyatt chose to set a modular synth rig on fire. The absolute best of OHIO."
4/3/2010	Skitter	untitled	3" CDR	$7.99	La Station Radar	Part of Fake Tape Series - limited edition of 50 copies. "Sound of one jpg. Here is the last Skitter from Liam Stefani. No title, no details. Black and White. The image is text and sounds are the words."
	Skree	Fat Mouth Shouts Out	CD	$16.99	Freek	Noisy improvisation with treated sax,trumpet,moogs,tape loops, & guitars
11/15/2008	Skull Defekts	Drone Drug	LP	$16.99	Actual Noise	"In their own words, Sweden's Skull Defekts are "all about rhythm, repetition, and all energies in sound." The concept manifests itself in two distinctly different forms. On 2007's Blood Spirits and Drums Are Singing, the band showcased their more "rock"-based sound described by Julian Cope as an amalgamation of Chairs Missing-period Wire, Audionom, and '70s German proto-metallers Tiger B. Smith. However, the DFX, as they're sometimes known, also have an alter-ego under which their sound becomes a harsh wall of droning noise and psychedelic industrial bowel churn. It is that persona that is embodied on The Drone Drug. Drone is often associated with music that is essentially ambient in nature. While The Skull Defekts do create an ambient aura, The Drone Drug has more in common with the terrifying atmospheres created by noisier cohorts like Prurient then the minimalism of Tomas Koner. The sound is grim, black, and abrasive; mechanical, filthy, and unnerving. This limited-edition LP is the first of two by the DFX to be released by Actual Noise, with the second, Skkull, coming in the near future."
4/21/2008	Skullflower	Desire for a Holy War	CD	$13.99	Utech Records	"Desire for a Holy War is mayhem piled on top of mayhem piled on top of squalls of caustic feedback. Furies spitting oaths of shrouded vengeance from ancient tongues. Plague riders dealing death on mounts of venomous ether, hooves pounding the wild earth. Matthew Bower may have reached a watershed with last year's Abyssic Lowland Hiss (Heavy Blossom) but it is with Desire that he has come to conquer. Never has Skullflower sounded so severe or remorseless." Edition of 750 copies in three panel jacket with original art by Stephen Kasner.
2/12/2008	Skullflower	IIIrd Gatekeeper	CD	$12.99	Crucial Blast	"A reissue of Skullflower's acclaimed 1992 album IIIrd Gatekeeper, featuring the lineup of Matthew Bower (guitar), Stuart Dennison (drums and vocals), and Anthony DiFranco (bass). IIIrd Gatekeeper is an immensely heavy album that was originally released on HeadDirt, the label run by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu/Final fame back in the early 90's, and featured Skullflower at their heaviest, grinding out slow, sludgy riffs and crushing, almost industrial rhythms amid a tempest of psychedelic guitar noise and dense sheets of feedback - easily the most crushing, rock-based music that Skullflower ever produced. IIIrd Gatekeeper served up a skulldozing dose of post-industrial dirge rock that sat comfortably next to Godflesh, Swans, and Ramleh in terms of dark, druggy, hypnotic lumbering heaviness. This is one of our favorite albums ever at Crucial Blast, and we are presenting this reissue with new liner notes, a new package design that retains all of the original artwork from the HeadDirt release, and a remastering job courtesy of Scott Hull at Visceral Sound."
5/20/2009	Skullflower	Malediction	CD	$13.99	Second Layer Records	"Brand new Skullflower studio recording featuring the line-up of Matthew Bower, Samantha Davies (Voltigeurs), Lee Stokoe (Culver) and Stuart Dennison (Ramleh, original Skullflower) back on drums. Three long tracks of blackened guitar wall. Comes in 6-panel digipack with artwork by Matthew Bower. Limited to 1000 copies." Recommended!
6/5/2005	Skullflower	Orange Canyon Mind	CD	$13.99	Crucial Blast	"The new full length from the legendary UK free/drone/psych outfit Skullflower, featuring some of the most searing, synapse scorching droneworks that Matthew Bower (the man behind Skullflower, as well as Sunroof! and The Hototogisu) has unleashed to date, in our humble opinion. Orange Canyon Mind is the follow up to 2002's awesome Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tumult Records), and continues that albums utter mutation of stoned out riffs pulled taffy-like into eternity/oblivion and star-rupturing blasts of sonic white light. Over the 8 tracks/60 minute running time, Bower and cohorts build massive horizontal drones and melodic supernovas. Superb, beautiful, brain melting stuff."
7/10/2008	Skullflower	Pure Imperial Reform	CD	$13.99	Turgid Animal	"New Skullflower CD now available on Turgid Animal Records. Recorded last year live on an Antwerpen radio station comes this new guitar wall "composition" from Matthew Bower and Lee Stokoe. This is a real CD (a first for Turgid Animal) limited to 1000 copies with artwork desinged by MB himself and pro-printed on quality grey paper in standard jewel cases. This is a seriously solid release and is for fans of modern Skullflower recordings and anyone who just loves a good harsh racket!"
1/30/2010	Skullflower	Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament	double CD	$18.99	Neurot	"All must bow before the pagan wall of drone..." So reads the opening line of Skullflower's website. Hearing their tortured, distorted, and eerily shamanic sounds emanate from the stereo for the first time in the early '90s was truly a revelation. IIIrd Gatekeeper and Obsidian Shaking Codex are two of my all-time favorite albums and have been extremely influential on the way my brothers and I approach guitar-based heavy music. To grab an instrument, drive a loud amplifier to its physical limit, and ride the drone into oblivion is ecstasy, and Matthew Bower has been showing us all how it is done for 20-odd years. Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament evokes Wagnerian sonic bombast, a Nietzchean worldview, and a warlike cry of rebellion against the false, encased in a whirlwind both psychotropic and psychoacoustic. Each spin brings new themes to the forefront. Not easy listening by anyone's standards, Strange Keys is not for the faint of heart--but those willing to submit and immerse themselves in the deep, thick waters of self-transformation will be greatly rewarded."
11/2/2008	Skullflower	Taste the Blood of the Deceiver	LP	$17.99	Not Not Fun	"Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver, the first full-length Skullflower album to be pressed on vinyl since forever (at least the early '90s), finds Matthew Bower in the more blackened, doom-damaged terrains like those strip mined on the recent Desire For A Holy War or Pure Imperial Reform: abrupt vertical baths of blinding distortion and harmonic override spiked with cavernous cultish riffs and deeply bleak ritual moods. The blood is fresh, but the body's unrecognizable. Charred and forgotten, this is another stepping stone on the path to the upturned altar. Black vinyl LPs in fucked-up-and-photocopied matte jackets. Edition of 500."
8/8/2009	Skullflower / Limepit	split	LP	$22.99	Posh Isolation	"Dark, clandestine noise from England and Denmark. Artwork by Rasmus Rosengaard. Silkscreened covers. Mastered at Dubplates and Mastering by FST." Edition of 333 copies.
11/9/2004	Skullpture	Farmyard Tapes	3" CDR	$6.99	267 Lattajjaa	"Farmyard Tapes is a bit different from other Skullpture recordings. It's not dark and gloomy at all, but warm and almost joyful drone, at least on our scale (it's not that we try to be dark'n'gloomy, that's just the way our music most often comes out - we're happy and funny lads really). It was also recorded at a different place than our other recordings, in a small shed instead of a large hall with concrete walls, and also with slightly different equipment. These track were originally supposed to be released on a split cdr with another band on another label, but unfortunately that never came about. Anyway, our thanks go to Hannu for the chance to get this music finally available to public, and although not your typical Skullpture, I think it's a fine addition to our discography and your collection.” - Pekka PT on behalf of Skullpture.
1/17/2010	Sky Dripping Venom	In Krasnozem	CDR	$10.99	Ruralfaune	"Post-pyschedelic kraut_jams and moody experimentations by Nick Forté (Christmas Decorations, Felipe and Forté - Schematic & Kranky labels...) Kosmic rocks and musical meteors. Just great." Edition of 75 copies - part of Synth Series.
2/21/2009	Sky Juice	Above The Law	LP	$17.99	Olde English Spelling Bee	"Above the Law is a 1988 action film directed by Andrew Zachariah Davis, probably best-known for being the film debut of Steven Seagal. This tribute album features the full Sky Juice rock band lineup of S.J. Jackson, S.J. Jones, Stoney Freeman, & Zac Davis and was recorded between 2004 and 2008 in various Ohio/Michigan/Massachusetts basements. Except for "Electric Engram" which is excerpted from an infamous/aborted live radio broadcast on Chicago's legendary dance station WGCI. Song titles: Asleep For Daze, Fractality, Slimescape (for James Ferraro), Prostration, Pressure Cook, Plan Of Attack (for Elisa Ambroglio), Recent Fog, Pushcart, Empty Grave, Womb Blizzard, Stable Current, Laid Out, Wall Of Mice, Suction Vent, Scrape Grate, Electric Engram, Brain Wash. Limited pressing of 375 copies, spraymounted covers, xeroxed collage insert."
2/4/2007	Sky Juice	Electric Mainline	CDR	$9.99	Maim & Disfigure	"new release from these power rock brothers.... like the spacemen without enough drugs in their systems meet holden if he was missing a couple of fingers.... ltd to 50"
10/25/2008	Sky Limousine	Backs to the Future	cassette	$6.99	Fag Tapes	"Mysterious, none moving holes, voids, sounds trapped. short, endless five minute pieces. buried drones still alive but believed to be dead. edition 50."
4/22/2009	Sky Limousine	Undetected Paradise	cassette	$7.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Totally far out live synth from my man Josh over in Chicago whose had releases on Fag Tapes, Avocado Jungle and Sound Holes... totally killer freestyle jams recorded in late 2008, real deal blissed out zoned sounds, raw and ready. Regular cased tapes with fuzzy psyche sleeve... limited to 40 copies."
3/21/2009	Sky Limousine / David Payne	Multiplicity / Feedback #46	cassette	$7.99	Middle James Co.	"TERRORTAPES vol36. SKY LIMOUSINE / DAVID PAYNE "feedback #46"c60. side a = SKY LIMOUSINE "multiplicity" project from Chicago bro Josh Burke, with releases on Fag Tapes, STD, and his own Avocado Jungle Cassettes; the Sky Limo side is action mix of all sorts o shorty jams exhaling an unhealthy sample of weirdness via synth, tapes, voice and guitar. quicksand stone drones and puffs of huh makes you feel like riding a SKY LIMOUSINE all day. side b = DP "feedback #46" back in the slack, fingers folded back, no turning black, blue from smack. limited to 23."
9/4/2004	Skye Klad	Plays the Musick of Cupid's Orkustra Asleep in the Magick Powerhouse of Oz	CD	$10.99	Hand/Eye	“Skye Klad has always been known for working without a net, and this latest effort is no exception. After nearly eight years pushing the envelope of the darkest psychedelic/occultic noise rock imaginable, the group has once again confounded the faithful by returning from the cocoon of a long hiatus with a new album stemming from an approach most unexpected by anyone who has followed them in the past, and sure to intrigue and entice new listeners as well. Their fascination with the ancient and the esoteric has not waned in the slightest, but the approach and instrumentation is utterly different from past efforts, while maintaining their adventurous and singular vision. Where past efforts pushed listeners through the sonic vortex and past the threshold of pain via dense, fuzzy, post-apocalyptic metallic sheen and pulsing, flowing rhythm, ‘Skye Klad Plays the Musick of Cupid's Orkustra Asleep in the Magick Powerhouse of Oz’ seeks to reach the same end by much more meditative and organic means. Acoustic instrumentation is at the fore, augmented by field recordings, french horn, tribal percussion and a mantric sensibility. There are guitars and basses of course, but there are also more exotic stringed instruments such as saz and the custom, sitar-like ‘witchfynder’ as well as flutes and a variety of unsettling found sound and echo effects. Not willing to completely eschew the loves of the past, there is still the occasional transcendent fuzz guitar, but in a much subtler fashion. Group leader Jason Kesselring's vocal style and lyrical sensibility have matured considerably since past efforts, and the lyrical motifs that he explores will certainly appeal to the shuttered bibliophiles among us; those who know the risks of their interest and forge ahead despite the consequences of their actions. Musically, Skye Klad have always shown a knack for wearing their influences on their sleeves while amalgamating them successfully into a unique and modern aesthetic. Listeners to this latest effort will detect the influence of Bert Jansch and the ghosts of Davey Graham and Robbie Basho, as well as more modern influences such as early Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen, AntiGroup and others. In short, another adventurous album by this unique group, delivering the unexpected once again. Welcome to the new dawn.”
11/4/2006	Skygreen Leopards, The	Disciples of California	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS started in 2001 as a duo, just GLENN DONALDSON and DONOVAN QUINN. Working out of the Hobo Victoria district of San Francisco, they've since recorded five full-length albums and one EP in their five year history. Over these recordings the band has been given to metamorphosis but has always managed to sound distinctly "Skygreen". Their newest album, "Disciples of California", continues in the alchemical tradition of change and inward-revolt. On it, the Skygreen Leopards mix pop melodies, minimal country truisms, jingle-jangling Californianism and angular folk with something the band refers to as "our horse called Dire Arrow," which roughly translates into family friendly (sans the "American Censorship" connotations).
11/4/2006	Skygreen Leopards, The	Disciples of California	LP	$11.99	Jagjaguwar	*The Skygreen Leopards - LP $11.99 (Jagjaguwar) "THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS started in 2001 as a duo, just GLENN DONALDSON and DONOVAN QUINN. Working out of the Hobo Victoria district of San Francisco, they've since recorded five full-length albums and one EP in their five year history. Over these recordings the band has been given to metamorphosis but has always managed to sound distinctly "Skygreen". Their newest album, "Disciples of California", continues in the alchemical tradition of change and inward-revolt. On it, the Skygreen Leopards mix pop melodies, minimal country truisms, jingle-jangling Californianism and angular folk with something the band refers to as "our horse called Dire Arrow," which roughly translates into family friendly (sans the "American Censorship" connotations)."
1/28/2005	Skygreen Leopards, The	Life and Love in Sparrow's Meadow	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"With Life & Love in Sparrow's Meadow, The Skygreen Leopards expand on their strange pastoral folk-pop and enter center stage as one of the most unique voices in the new folk movement. The Skygreen Leopards are Donovan Quinn (Verdure) and Glenn Donaldson (Thuja, Blithe Sons, Franciscan Hobbies, Birdtree, Ivytree, etc.). Formed in 2001, Quinn and Donaldson met while responding to a cryptic ad in the paper looking for Lumberjack players (little wooden dancing men you play on a board for percussion and visual interest). After being bested by an Appalachian man, Donovan and Glenn began studying the stars together where Glenn, while tracing his finger along Orion, said, 'Donovan, we are the Skygreen Leopards,' and so they were. The Skygreen Leopards originate from the Bay Area-based Jewelled Antler forest of bands. Donaldson co-founded the Jewelled Antler label in 1999, which has since released over 25 CD-R's ranging from straight field recordings & outdoor improv-folk to noise & fractured pop music. The Skygreen Leopards are without a doubt the most structured and accessible of these projects. Much of the Jewelled Antler music is recorded live outdoors on mini-discs & boomboxes while the Skygreen Leopards primarily focus on a surreal form of multi-layered folk-pop recorded on an old reel-to-reel housed in a moldy trailer on the back of a horse ranch. 12-string guitars, banjos, dulcimers, Jew's harps, organs, maracas, mandolins, harmonicas, ocarinas & reed flutes harmonize with the field-recorded songs of birds, barnyard animals & insects. This hedge of sounds is the backdrop for Quinn & Donaldson's mythological rants & hazy melodies."
1/28/2005	Skygreen Leopards, The	Life and Love in Sparrow's Meadow	LP	$11.99	Jagjaguwar	"With Life & Love in Sparrow's Meadow, The Skygreen Leopards expand on their strange pastoral folk-pop and enter center stage as one of the most unique voices in the new folk movement. The Skygreen Leopards are Donovan Quinn (Verdure) and Glenn Donaldson (Thuja, Blithe Sons, Franciscan Hobbies, Birdtree, Ivytree, etc.). Formed in 2001, Quinn and Donaldson met while responding to a cryptic ad in the paper looking for Lumberjack players (little wooden dancing men you play on a board for percussion and visual interest). After being bested by an Appalachian man, Donovan and Glenn began studying the stars together where Glenn, while tracing his finger along Orion, said, 'Donovan, we are the Skygreen Leopards,' and so they were. The Skygreen Leopards originate from the Bay Area-based Jewelled Antler forest of bands. Donaldson co-founded the Jewelled Antler label in 1999, which has since released over 25 CD-R's ranging from straight field recordings & outdoor improv-folk to noise & fractured pop music. The Skygreen Leopards are without a doubt the most structured and accessible of these projects. Much of the Jewelled Antler music is recorded live outdoors on mini-discs & boomboxes while the Skygreen Leopards primarily focus on a surreal form of multi-layered folk-pop recorded on an old reel-to-reel housed in a moldy trailer on the back of a horse ranch. 12-string guitars, banjos, dulcimers, Jew's harps, organs, maracas, mandolins, harmonicas, ocarinas & reed flutes harmonize with the field-recorded songs of birds, barnyard animals & insects. This hedge of sounds is the backdrop for Quinn & Donaldson's mythological rants & hazy melodies."
3/27/2004	Skygreen Leopards, The	One Thousand Bird Ceremony	CD	$11.99	Soft Abuse	"Soft Abuse is pleased to present the perfect soundtrack to a hazy springtime: The Skygreen Leopards' One Thousand Bird Ceremony! After two highly limited CD-R albums, The Skygreen Leopards unveil their most cohesive and fully-realized statement yet, as well as their first widely available CD release. The duo of Glenn Donaldson and Donovan Quinn converged to create The 'Leopards in 2001 in order to explore their mutual obsession with folk, psychedelic and surrealist sounds from the 60s and 70s. The band name, taken from a Kenneth Patchen poem, perfectly represents the duo's whimsical, dreamlike compositions, which reside somewhere between the ESP DISK outer limits (think Holy Modal Rounders and The Godz) and the lush folk-rock and psych-pop of The Byrds and The Monkees (latter circa Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.). The group has also garnered comparisons to the likes of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Richard Farina, Greg Weeks, early Pink Floyd, and White Album-era Beatles. Recording to ¼" tape on a decaying 8-track machine, the Skygreen sound is easily the most hi-fi of any of the Jewelled Antler manifestations. Layered 12-string guitars, wayward harmonies, 5-string banjo, bouzouki, jew's harp, found sounds, dulcimer, Hammond organ, tambourines and maracas and much more creep into the songs like a light breeze. Though decidedly more 'pop' in structure, the duo retains the Jewelled Antler spirit of spontaneity, improvisation and playful sound exploration, often recording without pre-determined lyrics or chord changes and incorporating various sound sources and field recordings. The first two Skygreen Leopards albums, She Rode on a Pink Gazelle & Other Dreams and The Story of the Green Lamb & the Jerusalem Priestess of Leaves, were released on CD-R by the Jewelled Antler label and received highly favorable mentions in such publications as The Wire, Dream Magazine and The Broken Face. Both are slated for reissue on Soft Abuse later in 2004. Glenn Donaldson is also a member of The Blithe Sons, Thuja, The Franciscan Hobbies, The Birdtree, The Knit Seperates, and most of the other groups in the Jewelled Antler stable. He co-founded the Jewelled Antler label and masterminded the Pink Skulls label, and currently resides in San Francisco. Recently featured in Ptolemaic Terrascope, Donovan Quinn lives on a ranch in Walnut Creek, California and is a celebrated solo artist, releasing music under the Verdure moniker. More Verdure music will soon surface on the Camera Obscura and Lexicon Devil labels."
1/24/2009	Slashdeath	Kein Mitleid	one-sided LP	$25.99	Die Taubnessel	"1-sided LP record. After completing the Unrein Bis Zum Abend/Reise Ins Diesseits LP recordings, Arnulf Meifert decided to be available for the Slashdeath project, this time under the direction of Kommissar Hjuler and in collaboration with Mama Baer. What resulted is a kind of death-metal-pastiche or parody, spontaneously realized with nearly no instruments at all. Quite noisy and primitive screams with percussive cymbal ostinato! Black cover with no info at all, except Slashdeath print and hand glued title in plastic scotch lettering. Edition limited to 115 copies."
2/7/2009	Slasher Risk	Shoe Mania	cassette	$5.99	Abandon Ship Records	"In true spontaneous/on the spot/spur of the moment fashion, this tape was recorded live on the first night of the first bi-annual Eye and Ear record fair and music festival. We used a hi-fidelity digital recording, which was immediately brought home and put to tape that was packaged and ready to sell at the beginning of the second day of the fair! It was quite the achievement. To ensure we could fit the entire recording on tape, we used c62s, which resulted in some extra empty space at the end of side B. But fear not, there is still approximately 45 minutes of some of the most intense Slasher Risk live recordings to date. They absolutely tore the place apart on this now historical night. Claim your piece of the pie and grab this one before it's gone." Edition of 95.
12/24/2005	Slaughterhouse Percussion	Slaughterhouse Percussion	CDR	$12.99	Wooden Finger	"Latest release on Paul LaBrecque of Sunburned Hand Of The Man's label (home of the legendary Trees, Chants & Hollers CD-R) features Jake Meginsky and John Truscinski (upcoming players on the 'Northeastern US Farmjazz underground') on bells, bowls, skins and tones, two drums that work vibrating mountains of cellular magic into compositions that flit somewhere between what sounds like a Balinese punk rock orchestra and Frank Perry's percussion rituals. Beautiful. Edition of 100 copies in hand-assembled packaging." - Volcanic Tongue
9/29/2005	Sleep	Dopesmoker	CD	$15.99	Tee Pee	"Dopesmoker from the legendary Sleep is finally upon us. Perhaps the quintessential stoner rock band, Sleep's brief career wafted in and out of focus like clouds of their self-mandated marijuana smoke, coming to a brilliant demise with one of the heaviest and most uncompromising metal albums of all time. Tee Pee Records is proud to present ‘Dopesmoker’ the original live studio recording of this epic track. Heavier, nastier, rawer, longer. A cathartic single tempo trance-inducing groove carried across a celestial soundscape by a plundering guitar tone that sounds as if it was forged by Thor himself and unearthed from the depths of Valhalla. 65 Minutes of solid slumber!"
8/28/2007	Sleep	Sleep's Holy Mountain	LP	$18.99	Kreation	"The amazing and equally classic Holy Mountain album from Sleep - Al Cisneros & Chris Hakius of Om and Matt Pike of High on Fire. Nine tracks of absolute Sabbathian heaviness that will break you down into mere molecules. Packaged in beautiful gatefold sleeves."
7/14/2007	Sleepwalkers Local 242	Things We Put Our Friends Through	3" CDR	$4.99	Phantom Limb Recordings	"18 minutes of drugged out bedroom folk strained through cheap computers. Think Low on more painkillers and Newcastles. Comes in a sickly sweet sky blue and clouds spray painted plastic case, with printed insert and spray painted 3 inch cd-r. Words from a Foxy Digitalis review - 'Sleepwalkers Local 242 has been lurking in the shadows for some time now. There have been sporadic gigs but little else for the world to hear. Now, the sounds that have been building for years are starting to spill out into the daylight. 'Things We Put Our Friends Through' is what feels like 12 inches of vinyl album dreaminess distilled down to fifteen minutes on a 3-inch CD-r. The results are sublime. One man laying out a flirty little symphony. Miniature scores, entire films scored in minutes really, presented here.'" Limited edition of 90 copies.
10/1/2002	Slight Surface Noise	Slight Surface Noise	LP	$14.99	Worship Guitars	"Excellent debut album from the trio of David Wilcox, Mike Switzer (Avijit, Willaim Switzer) and Vaughn Boone (Dry Nod). In the vein of Mission of Burma, Big Black, and early Sonic Youth. Beautiful silk screened covers."
12/12/2009	Slither	Alien Column	LP	$29.99	Nashazphone	"Alien Column" is the first full length LP by the thick-smoke-filled-Michigan-basement duo of Chris Pottinger (Odd Clouds, Cotton Museum and the Tasty Soil label) and Heath Moerland (Sick Llama, Cygnus, Drug Abuse and the Fag Tapes label). Often described as a post-Wolf Eyes combo, SLITHER offer a mutant take on free jazz through their multiple electronics manipulations and dual horn tandem (alto saxophone and clarinet). An additional proof to why Michigan is currently the BEST place to be on earth! Edition of 240 copies.
1/17/2010	Slither	Burnt Offerings II	cassette	$6.99	Fag Tapes	"Latest, newest recordings from the basement Slither lair. the first "burnt offerings" cassette came shrink wrapped w/ 1.75 grams of weed. boo! this one doesn't come with weed. the recording on this one is better because we recorded it the same session and were more in the zone and the first tape has young jeezy and shit on it. WAY ZONED REEDS / ELECTRONICS. hand-painted, hand-numbered edition 25."
4/10/2009	Slither	Room With No Corners	cassette	$6.99	Fag Tapes	"h. moerland / c. pottinger reeds electronics duo tearing this one up ! amazing sounds ! there's no where to hide and you keep running around in a circle trying to escape. edition 50."
10/25/2008	Slither	Venom Injection / Invertebrate	LP	$24.99	QBICO	"Heath Moerland & Chris Pottinger: horns & electronics. Side A: 'Venom Injection,' 'Invertebrate.' Ghosts horns howling at twisted electronics, sub-humans or invertebrate." Out of print.
2/7/2009	Slomo	The Bog	CD	$14.99	Important	"The Bog is the 2nd full-length release from Slomo, honing down the ritual clatter of their first album, The Creep (2005), into a more cumbersome and laden affair, ever heading downwards into the Northern underworld upon slurries of unsignposted mung. Core duo Holy McGrail and Howard Marsden once again create a lumpy bed of bass-heavy synthesizer and guitar drones while arch-drude Julian Cope provides a coda to proceedings with the recital of his poem Land, especially written for this album.Holy McGrail: Moog Taurus II, Sunn Mustang, Clatter; Howard Marsden: Korg MS10 & Korg MS20, Hiss; Julian Cope: Poem. "
1/24/2009	Sloow Road	Sloow Road	cassette	$10.99	Sloow Tapes	"Space hymns from deep woods within by Sloow Tapes Bart De Paepe and Golden Roadie Matt Valentine, crawling beyond shredding wah-wah guitars and intoxicating synth, culminating in twisted chouffe raga and porkslap pulse. Reissue of obscure Heroine cd-r, 100 copies."
8/2/2008	Slow Listener	Bruise Journal	3" CDR	$6.99	First Person	"Taking time out from helping to run the CUROR label, Robin Dickinson has created a whole slew of essential releases in a very short space of time for such labels as Peasant Magik, Epicene, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Ruralfaune and Together Tapes with more forthcoming on Students of Decay, Tape Drift, Cosmic Germ, Phantom Limb and Calligraphic Tapes. "Bruise Journal" concentrates on the tonalities to be gleaned from a malfunctioning and over amped organ, producing attenuated feedback and sublime drones - "hotwired frequencies in slow decline".
3/24/2008	Slow Listener	Desolation Sound	CDR	$8.99	Tape Drift Records	"Following amazing releases on labels all over the globe (Ruralfaune, Peasant Magik, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) comes another masterpiece from the genius mind of Robin Dickinson, out of Brighton, UK. A hymn to pure sonic beauty, this release is unparalleled in its focus and singular nature. Self-described as his "heaviest work yet", the sounds herein are simply gorgeous in their ability to transport to other planetary realms. Under thick layers of fractal tones, distorted hues, and sonic grime lays the beautiful melodic framework that undergirds all of Slow Listener's material. Edition of 100."
5/14/2007	Slow Listener	Only on my own am I truly loved	CDR	$14.99	Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon	"Utterly arresting restlessness from this brand new UK slumberpunk. Carnivorous guitars grizzle in shallow, fitful sleep whilst digesting smaller prey. Lonesome and bedragled, post-Skaters howl & whine, aiming for the heart of the sun whilst still not being able to muster the energy required to answer the phone. Like a grey lollipop made from the boiled remains of your neighbours 'free noise' picture disc collection. Like small, battery-powered amps clustering together to build a foot-high pyramid of apathy. Like watching BBC World with the sound down at 3am. Perfect."
7/23/2004	Slowburn with Makoto Kawabata & Mitsuru Tabata	untitled	7"	$8.99	Apartment Records	Expensive 3 track 7" on heavy black vinyl. Side A (one track) plays at 45rpm - side B has 2 tracks that play at 33rpm. Nice full color sleeve.
2/12/2008	Slurp Dogs	Postal Licks	one-sided C60 cassette	$10.99	Sloow Tapes	"Echo-dyed space chanteys dwelling into cosmic generosity, homebrewed by high sky couriers Willie Lane (Golden Road) and Grant Acker (Un). Have another sip of the lion's head and get with the beam. Silkscreened visions in 101 copies."
7/16/2006	Smaldone, Micah Blue	Hither and Thither	LP	$29.99	Tequila Sunrise	"500, 180 gram vinyl, pressed at Record Technology inc. with an 8-page booklet in full color 'old-style/tip-on jacket' printed at Stoughton printing. Micah Blue's got an original voice, reedy and spare, and he's a virtuoso ragtime finger-picker, too. His songs are charming, antique ditties - austere Tin-Pan Alley tunes with lyrics by Soren Kierkegaard. Like a single bright light, his music illuminates much while also casting a lot of sharp shadows, lovely, dark and deep. When he plays live, he tenses up his whole body - tenser than you'd expect for a folk musician, like he might snap the strings, or snap the neck of his guitar, or just snap. But there's not a trace of irony in his music or in his performance, and I guess that's the Yankee in him. See, it gets cold at night up there in Maine, where he's from, and when you got the blank eye of god bearing down on you, and you got the Jukes and the Kallikacks next door getting high on Freon or something, it just makes a man think seriously about where he fits in. Willem de Kooning, gazing up at the star-spangled sky over Black Mountain in the forties, remarked 'the universe gives me the creeps,' and I imagine Micah might agree. Human consciousness may be a makeshift contraption held together with bailing wire and duct tape, but it will have to suffice. And it may well be true that regret and loss are inescapable human conditions (if you marry you will regret it, and if you don't marry you'll regret that too). But it is also true that music is a bulwark against such notions of human frailty, and Micah Blue's music does more than suffice. It offers balm and succor to a weary soul." - John Jacob Niles
6/10/2004	Smallflowers Press	#1	zine	$4.99		“Debut issue of this Malden-based mag. Features extremely extensive interviews with Dredd Foole (whose classic 1995 album In Quest of Tense has become some kind of cornerstone), Sunburned Hand of the Man, and Chris Corsano. No reviews, almost no ads. Just one piledriving Q and A after another. ‘I spent 2003 interviewing free-folkers (hardy har har) Dredd Foole, Chris Corsano, & especially Sunburned Hand of the Man. The result is issue one of a zine called Smallflowers Press. It is the most in-depth, horse's-mouth document to date on what The Wire called 'new weird america' and features about 200 exclusive photos and 80 pages.’” – Kris Price (man behind Smallflowers Press). This is a great read! Recommended!
5/8/2005	Smarzoch, Raphael	Spitrobot	7"	$5.99	Tonschacht	"Spitrobot is the debut-release of the Cologne-based guitar player and producer Raphael Smarzoch, which contains two intensive attacks of heavily treated guitar madness. Side a contains an ecstatic, but almost minimal piece or pure feedback freakout, while on side b the six strings almost sound like a dark, surreal layers of organ sounds. It might be of no surprise that both the thick, subterranean metal of Sunn O))) and the power electronics of the Wolf Eyes are the most important influences for Smarzoch’s noise pieces. 'Spitrobot' is the work of one of the most talented guitar players and an promising, impressive initial point in the discography of the 23-year old Raphael Smarzoch which you definitely shouldn’t miss if you’re into the solo-works of Kevin Drumm, Agata or Joseph Suchy."
1/24/2009	Smegma	Live! 2004	CDR	$10.99	Resipiscent	"Sound (just like smegma) needs obscurity and ample neglect to really ripen. 30 years along, if Smegma themselves roll down your ol' Pacific rim (as they did in '04 on tour with pop-pantywaists, Wolf Eyes ) prepare for pure dumb joy. Like a rupture of personal sepsis, completely engrossing yet indescribable. Or give up waiting and drop this live specimen in your lap right now. Behold as sebaceous sounds begin to spread, from Seattle to LA you'll hear a sac of garde-avanteers discharged along the way including: Jello Biafra , Steve Mackay (Stooges), Tom Recchion, Ace Ferren Ford, Josh Mong. Once exposed, take some time alone right away; these things only gets worse with waiting."
2/1/2005	Smegma	Rumblings	CD	$12.99	Hanson	"Considered by many the kings and queens of American free noise, Smegma have been confusing minds since 1973 when they helped form the Los Angeles Free Music Society. They've recorded with everyone from Wildman Fisher to Merzbow and more recently, with noise goons Wolf Eyes. This disc is their first full length in nearly 10 years and also the first to feature vocalist / punk beatnik / Blue Oyster Cult lyricist Richard Meltzer. Rumblings is a sound collage of turntable manipulations, electronics, horns, bells, junk, toys, marijuana, and surf rock band. Smegma have been around forever and show no signs of slowing down. They just hopped off a killer west-coast tour with Wolf Eyes, Rubber O Cement and Comets On Fire where they ripped the skulls off of everyone."
11/17/2007	Smegma	The Smell Remains The Same	LP	$12.99	Anarchymoon Recordings	"Second in a slow series of 7" reissues, The Smell Remains The Same presents 10 tracks originally released in 1990-95 on 7" by various labels, including the impossible to find ? comp on Cavity Search records. (Literally, the title is ?). The tracks display Smegmas pioneering style of audiophile-lo-brow folk-noise-rock, in their early-middle age when they were surviving through the birth of grunge, alternative, and indie rock."
2/19/2007	Smegma / Perry Robinson	Live @ No Fun Fest	LP	$21.99	QBICO	"I used to buy and collect Smegma rockets when younger, so I'm really happy to release an LP by this really far out band, especially since they played with my friend Perry, who is one of the most versatile musicians I had ever met! Smegma is a kind of cult mob in the US experimental underground, based in Portland, Oregon, they started back in the early '70s and got connections with the Los Angeles Free Music Society (Tom Recchion, Joe Potts, Le Forte Four, Airways, Doo-Dooettes, Ace Farren Ford and even The Residents); they also got an amazing label called Pigface... here they played some jazz for the year 3018."
5/9/2009	Smiles and Frowns, The	Mechanical Songs	7"	$6.99	Great Pop Supplement	"Beautiful debut 45 from u.s duo who offer up the very lo-fi, cyclical, almost otherworldly sounding "mechanical songs" backed with the fabulous "echoes of time". 2 irritatingly annoying tunes that stay with ya long after each has ended. think elements of galaxie 500, low, young marble giants, merged with the quieter side to the left banke or perhaps the west coast pop art experimental band. "60s psi-fi pop music" as has been recently described?! .... the packaging is something else, amazing die cut op-art sleeve with matching label art finished off on tasty white vinyl......" Edition of 300 copies.
7/14/2010	Smith, Ches	21.01.2010	CDR	$16.99	Unsound	Limited edition of 120 numbered copies, packed in a deluxe gatefold, LP-look cover. Doom Bells Metal Vacation Conclusion Turn Your Ipod Into A Car... ...And Your Car Into Spanish
7/7/2003	Smith, Gary	Forgotten Room With Chairs	CD	$13.99	FMR	"Forgotten Room With Chairs, an album of solo electric guitar improvisations by cult British guitar player Gary Smith comes hot on the heels of Mass, the eponymous debut of his power trio that features bassist Gary Jeff and drummer Lou Ciccotelli (of Ice, Eardrum and Laika). In fact, this album predates the Mass sessions. It was recorded in 1996, under the encouragement of Trevor Taylor, who was inspired to link Smith's improvising with the photographs of Dylan Collard. Hearing Smith's playing in this context is certainly a challenge, as Smith eschews much of the electronic paraphernalia that can make solo guitar palatable. Instead, he plays with a very dry stereo sound, at times making the thing feedback for all it's worth and at others playing lightly shimmering chords that hover on the edge of pretty - but always with a threat. Elsewhere, his trademark flurries of dissonant, flying notes, often performed pianistically with both hands on the fretboard - are as mesemerising as ever. Another fascinating piece of work by one of the most interesting innovators on the world's most played instrument."
7/7/2003	Smith, Gary	Mass	CD	$13.99	Paratactile	"Debut release by this new UK power trio, led by guitarist Gary Smith (previous releases on Ecstatic Peace, Chronoscope & Impetus. ‘...the earthquaking, sky-kissing beauty of Mass music, a place where the dissonant country blues of Son House and Charlie Patton meet the rattled black space of early electronic composition and the scorched earth improvisations of Fushitsusha and Tony Williams' Lifetime.’" - David Keenan/The Wire.
7/7/2003	Smith, Gary / Joe Sullivan	s/t	CD	$13.99	Paratactile	"Moogy electronic percussion/stereo electric guitar duos from London/1998 featuring Gallivan (he of Love Cry Want, mid 80s INA-GRM affiliate, various outsider jazz aggregates), Smith (he of post-Swans ensemble 'Mass', duos with John Stevens, various scenarios declined by Bailey). Quite visceral on occasion, placid the next (like... life). Impressive in spots (Gallivan), flaccid on others (Gary). Questionably necessary."
12/12/2009	Smith, Harry	Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music Vol. 2	double LP	$31.99	Doxy	On red vinyl with insert. Volume 2: Social Music. "The 'social music' that grew up in this time period was both 'social' in the sense of 'social gathering' (barn dances, religious gatherings, etc.), but also in the sense of 'social issues' (labor rights, migration, money troubles, etc.). Their music was, therefore, a reflection of their lives, serving both as respite from their troubles (these were desperate times: the dust bowl, the depression, tenement housing, sweat shops, etc., were all part of the these people's everyday lives), but also as a vehicle for their discontent." Tracks - Side A: 1. Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens 2. The Wild Wagoner - Jilson Setters 3. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers 4. La Danseuse - Delma Lachney And Blind Uncle Gaspard 5. Georgia Stomp - Andrew & Jim Baxter 6. Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson 7. Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming And His Pep-Steppers (3:13) Side B: 1. Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas 2. Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson 3. Saut Crapaud - Columbus Fruge 4. Acadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon 5. Home Sweet Home - The Breaux Freres 6. Newport Blues - The Cincinnati Jug Band 7. Moonshiner's Dance Pt.1 - Frank Cloutier And The Victoria Cafe Orchestra Side C: 1. Must Be Born Again - Rev. J.M. Gates 2. Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting - Rev. J.M. Gates 3. Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers 4. Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers 5. This Song Of Love - The Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1 6. Judgement - Sister Mary Nelson 7. He Got Better Things For You - Memphis Sanctified Singers 8. Since I Laid My Burden Down - The Elders Mcintorsh & Edwards' Sanctified Singers Side D: 1. John The Baptist - Rev. Moses Mason 2. Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford 3. John The Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson 4. Little Moses - The Carter Family 5. Shine On Me - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers 6. Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. Mcgee 7. I'm In The Battlefield For My Lord - Rev. D.C. Rice & His Sanctified Congregation
12/15/2001	Smith, Jack	Les Evening Gowns Damnées - 56 Ludlow Street 1962-1964, V.1	CD	$16.99	Audio Artkive	"The first in a series of remarkable vintage recordings which feature the protean film-maker, photographer and performance artists Jack Smith (1932-1989). The material includes readings of short stories and other audio excursions (featuring musical accompaniment from the likes of Conrad, John Cale and Angus MacLise), as well as excerpts from Conrad's soundtrack to Smith's notorious and groundbreaking film Flaming Creatures (1962). Recorded in glistening monaural lo-fidelity at Conrad's 56 Ludlow Street studio between 1962-1964, these pieces reveal an important facet of Smith's artistic legacy, and offer a rare glimpse of one of the most influential milieux of the 1960s."
4/1/2004	Smith, LaDonna	Rare Earth	LP	$14.99	Table of the Elements	Latest in Table of the Elements' 10th anniversary 'Lanthanides' series of single-sided, silkscreened LPs. "Violinist and violist LaDonna Smith has been on the international new music scene for well over 25 years. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, she is an active performer, educator, publisher and artist, and has been responsible for keeping improvised music alive in the Southeastern United States. Her unique style of improvisation alternates between classical and extended techniques; she explores her instrument, painting scenarios and sound pictures as she plays. LaDonna has performed at practically every major improvisation festival and many of the New Music Festivals, and has toured Europe, the former USSR, Siberia, and Japan. She has also toured North America and Europe many times as Trans Duo, with guitarist Davey Williams. As musical partners, they maintain their own recording label, TransMuseq, and also co-edit the improvisor, the international journal of free improvisation."
4/20/2008	Smith, Sean	Eternal	LP + CD with 2 bonus Mp3's	$15.99	Gnome Life Records	"Sean Smith is a modern composer of ageless guitar folketry [instrumental poetry]. With several masterful solo-guitar albums behind him, Smith has been drawn out of his hermetic recording life by the power and potential of collaboration, presented here on this record! Sean Smith becomes more fully fructified in the company of his friends, one voice becomes many (instruments)… 6-string steel, Weissenborn [slide], & nylon-string guitars, with dulcimer, banjo, violin, organ, drums, & electric wall of sound… his guitar breathes deeply in this new depth of field and altered sonic state, giving bright light and love to his powerfully emotive instrumental songs. Limited to 300, with letter pressed sleeves! This is a pure analog recording, recorded and mixed to 2 inch reel-to-reel tape, mastered directly from tape to vinyl by John Golden!"
4/20/2008	Smith, Sean	Sacred Crag Dancer, Corpse Whisperer	LP	$12.99	Isota Records / Gnome Life Records	"In the corner of a small room a shadow is stretching out from the window by the fire-escape, relaxing in a worn out armchair, picked up from the street corner. That shadow sings with a guitar's voice, and hums tunes boldly, little secrets, esoteric, and humble. Shadow and guitar belong to Sean Smith, who controls them both with his mind from the other side of the room. The night in black, but the light is held in little bubbles of brightness, exploding off of all things that live and breathe. These tunes are living, and breathing their first breaths right now! Ten completely spontaneous recordings, improvised music for the solo-guitar…played for the first time ever as they were being recorded. Fresh paint painted with metal strings, a wood body, and fingernails. Totally. The extremely mind expanding cover is ready for your feasting eyes… Hallucinogenic photos by Sean Smith's mother (Julie Brown Smith), high definition silk-screened in two colors by a local independent press, then wrapped around and pasted on jackets (Just like they did before 1965). Hand-made, limited to 500."
8/22/2008	Smith, Sean / Adam Snider / Matt Baldwin	Berkeley Guitar	LP	$13.99	Tompkins Square	"Berkeley Guitar is a collection of new recordings by three of the Bay Area's finest young acoustic guitarists: Sean Smith, Adam Snider, and Matt Baldwin. The city of Berkeley and the acoustic guitar share a rich, decades-long history - most notably as the '60s home base of Takoma Records, which released landmark recordings by John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Leo Kottke and many others. This history inspired three young guitarists from the Bay Area to create a document of the present-day guitar scene. The album was produced by Sean Smith and recorded and mastered at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. Larry Kelp of Berkeley public radio station KPFA contributes liner notes, as does Ed Denson, co-founder of Takoma Records." Each artist gets 3-4 separate tracks, not a collaborative album.
1/1/2008	Smith, Steven R.	Owl	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"Steven R. Smith's name has become more commonplace over the last half-decade, and that's a very good thing. From his monumental works as Hala Strana to being a prominent contributor to many Jewelled Antler projects, his sound is distinct. This is the first brand new solo album from Steven R. Smith since last year's epic "The Anchorite." Few artists can boast the impressive discography Smith does, full of far more hits than misses. And with "Owl," he shows that he's still got new tricks up his sleeve. On here, you'll find some of the things you expect with a new Steven R. Smith record: sprase, angular walls of his trademark guitar playing with embellishments from an array of acoustic instrumention. But there's a new twist here: vocals. Yep, vocals. Smith unleashes his voice on "Owl" and does so in such an impressive fashion that it leaves me asking what took so long? "Owl" is full of desolate, but hopeful aural landscapes. There's a tinge of regret and longing in his voice when he belts out the words, "This is the world we know..." And in those six words, Smith sums up what "Owl" brings to the table. There is something recognizable about this terrain; the paint is just worn down enough to expose the raw wood underneath. But carefully placed in each corner, in each nook is something new that breathes new life into the familiar. This is a bold step for someone who has already accomplished a great deal, and leaves us listeners without a clue as to what will happen next. This is magic, indeed. Packaged in slimline gatefold cardboard jackets from Stumptown Printers."
2/14/2008	Smith, Steven R.	The Anchorite	CD	$12.99	Root Strata	"Originally released in 2006 on Important Records as a limited run LP in their ongoing Arts & Crafts Series, Root Strata is proud to present the reissue of The Anchorite, a dazzling jewel in Smiths substantial discography. Performed live to two track with the aide of tape loops and prerecorded takes, the music maintains a drifting, painterly quality that easily evokes the American west as much as the European east which Smith so lovingly mines for his Hala Strana recordings. Sepia toned and tinged with a luminous distortion, The Anchorite, as the name suggests, is reserved, pulled back and solemn, some kind of hermetic prayer for the end of the world. Beautifully repackaged with new artwork in a heavy black & white gatefold CD case with offset printing." Edition of 500 copies.
9/29/2005	Smyth, Paul	The Anaesthetic	CDR	$9.99	Deserted Village	"'The Anaesthetic' documents a set of improvised piano pieces, performed in an unlit concert in the spring of 2004. Intense and accomplished, they're presented here in the order of performance, and should be considered one complete work. As painterly as any of Smyth's visual work, this is nervous-system music with a long memory and fast heart."
2/16/2005	Snow Fox	The Lost Resort	CDR	$12.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"Holyblood was Santa Sangre but has now become Snow Fox. Songs of love and loss, smothered in rich creamery psychedelia and executed like a wounded animal."
3/20/2010	Snyder, Doug & Bob Thompson	Daily Dance	LP	$19.99	Cantor Records	"Amazing, unique, celebrated, and genuinely rare artifact from Rural Ohio. After stepping out of a Stooges concert in 1971, Doug Snyder and Bob Thompson set up a studio in their kitchen and attempted to record a record HEAVIER than the Stooges. They were completely successful, and the resulting LP, their only release at the time (put out by themselves, privately, in a very limited number (500)), immediately became an underground legend and favorite amongst the likes of Carla Bley. A frenzy of distorted guitar and improvised drumming. The type of album that quickly achieves mythical status and begs so many questions yet leaves so few answers. Some songs start with a semblance of a groove or rhythm until they quickly deteriorate into a wall of psychedelic noise. Repackaged and remastered with liner notes including an introduction by Dante Carfagna."
12/24/2005	Soarwhole	Knows Krystal of Doom	CDR	$10.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"two long reasons to waste you mind"
11/21/2008	Soccer Committee and Machinefabriek	Drawn	LP	$17.99	Morc	"4th or 5th collab by these two dutch artists whom you should know by now - soccer committee for het elegant minimalistic songwriting, machinefabriek as one of the most profilic drone/improv/electronic artists. this is their first collab on vinyl, pretty much focussed on the newest material by soccer committee. the record comes on white vinyl, is ltd to 200 copies and is housed in a silkscreened jacket. 140 grams of vinyl."
7/16/2009	Social Junk	Born Into It	CD + cassette	$17.99	Digitalis Arts & Crafts	"Social Junk have blasted through walls, east & west, over the past few years cranking out some serious sparklers along the way. Now after dropping a megaslice of deliciousness on Not Not Fun last year, this duo follow it up with a journey through the mother earth canal. "Born Into It" stretches across the lands with thudding percussion and hypno synth excursions. Waves of swirling vocals from both Heather Young and Noah Anthony. You may have just been born, but stretch those wings baby because it's time to fucking fly. There's no going back once you take the first plunge on "Born Into It." Immediately, through no fault of your own, you'll be drawn in and tied down. At times it feels like Young & Anthony are scouring the lands, taking in whatever technological progress they can find and chewing it up and spitting it out into a gloriously dissonant pile. This is music for the next wave; music to find your way back to the sun. Social Junk are soaring like never before and "Born Into It" is their latest testament to a new world. Limited to 500 copies. Special Edition limited to 100 copies and includes exclusive cassette, "Champs 09."
7/16/2009	Social Junk	Eight Years Ago	c20 cassette	$4.99	905 Tapes	"Freshly minted philadelphians slip a fluid drip of opiate flavored psychout drone into your bloodstream. social junk have a funny way of numbing the room with their oddly exotic mixture of 2200ad meets 1100bc glitchers, and on eight years ago the duo maintains that romance. two tracks with drones set to stun, vocals in the shadows, and drum circles leaving petuly on the sticks. solid junk in the trunk, 2009 style." Edition of 50 copies.
8/8/2009	Social Junk	On The Corner	c40 cassette	$7.99	Threshold Tapes	"Philly residents Noah and Heather recorded on two trips down south in 2007 and 2008. Don;t know if this is intended as a funk-less tribute Miles Davis' 1972 classic. Instead you get queasy pulsing electronics, vocal hoodoo and some primitive percussion clatter courtesy of guest Jasper Justice. It's got a nicer cover than that Davis record. Edition of 50."
3/20/2010	Socrates Martins	Au Seuil De La Liberte	7"	$5.99	Absurd	"The same person who is working as Nixilx.nijilx, Blanco Estira Nuestro and Helice Peid is working as Socrates Martins and for his 7" he took the title of a painting by Rene Margritte from 1937. On these pieces he plays 'field recordings and objects', but all of this highly obscured through extremely lo-fi transformations. It seems like captured on a cassette (or perhaps a whole bunch of cassettes), which add a low resolution to the material. It moves low over the surface of sound and is truly obscure record, but also a captivating one, I think. Maybe because one doesn't have a clue what's going on here, it leaves lots of space to contemplate about that. A record that poses more questions then the answer it gives. Which I guess if you call yourself Socrates Martins is the whole idea. Beautiful obscurity."
3/23/2007	Softwar	Softwar	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"What could these musicians do after collectively playing on a million records, releasing a million more, and nurturing a scene that is both international and inner-visionary? Why not release a record that is so stunning in its scope and so well executed in its manner that it defies simple comparisons. Such is the story of Softwar and this lushly presented gift to our eyes and ears. Loren Chasse, fresh from his blistering noise work on Kyrgyz, shows us a softer but deeper side with the swirling opium-induced gems on Softwar. Playing with him are the equally talented Christine Boepple (also a key part of the Jewelled Antler sound, as well as Kyrgyz), Kerry McLaughlin and Geoff Koops. Focusing on what could be called more "traditional" rhythm structures, the songs merely lull you into a false security before melting your brain with some heavy layers of tone, provided by multiple organs and keyboards. For fans of Thuja and the Jewelled Antler collective (obviously), but also for those who love the out-there ragas of MV+EE (you'll just crack a tooth from smiling over the opener "Psychic Shake" or the twisted noise-hop of Jackie-O Motherfucker, found buried deep in "Immul (the Children's Crusade)." Conceived in a redwood think tank, born in Golden Gate Park, Prui begins March 2007. Softwar is a thick slab of fractured voices in harmony and almost unidentifiable sounds, slipping slowly through the rabbit hole and back out the other side of the sun."
6/3/2009	Solar Fire Trio	Hand To Mouth	cassette	$5.99	Ski-Fi	"3rd proper album from this heavy duty free jazz demo unit. Recorded 10-10-06 at Vulcan Studios, Liverpool." Edition of 125 copies.
5/31/2009	Solar Furnace, The	Imaginary Invalid	c30 cassette	$5.99	Gods of Tundra	"Bizarre alien tranmissions from a dethroned and forgotten world. Direct from the ether into the cove. Get damaged."
3/20/2010	Solars	Mist	cassette	$7.99	Prairie Fire Tapes	"Two new beautiful tracks of guitar drone. Best thing we've heard in a long long time. Our first partnership with a non-Prairie band. Two sides of Northwestern guitar dirge drone. "Solder + Sons" shimmers while "Flagstaff" smolders. Recorded on BASF Emtec Chrome Plus Extra audio cassette tape." From Canada.
11/17/2007	Solo Joint, The	2	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"this is the second release from spaniard toni ruiz for the foxglove imprint and continues the theme on his self-titled debut. acoustic guitar mazes that lose their victims in a mass of organic greenery. hell, i'm not even sure what that means, but listening to ruiz's meandering compositions that flirt with the line between out-and-out improvisation and something more structured, more resolute. sure, there are vague hints of fahey, but even more apparent is pastoral americana, something from a time since past. ruiz's music is simple and beautiful. and hey, there's gold in them there hills. damnit." Edition of 100 copies
3/1/2007	Solo Joint, The	The Solo Joint	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"Following on the heels of the cd-r from raro & apenino comes another talented spaniard by the name of toni ruiz aka the solo joint. ruiz crafts bare-bones folk songs using an arsenal of acoustic guitar, various flutes, some meandering vocals, piano, and minimal, ramshackle percussion. these sketches are a canvas dipped in wax, where all the colors chase each other around until finally falling off the page in a glorious suicide plunge. the solo joint's songs float on a magical carpet on an express route to the third eye. viva españa." Edition of 100 copies.
6/25/2004	Son of Earth	Carhole	CDR	$8.99	Apostasy Recordings	Recorded live in the Belchertown Carhole. A journey in three parts. Packaged in handmade elongated cardstock envelopes with a paste-on front and hand-stamped back and insert. Edition of 200.” If you’ve not yet heard this trio from Amherst, MA give this one a listen. Really great stuff in the same vein (at times) as Double Leopards. Recommended!
10/6/2007	Son of Earth	Erotic Empire	CDR	$7.99	Apostasy Recordings	"Tantalizing follow-up to the _Carhole_ cdr, _Erotic Empire_ sees the Son of Earth ship steered in a more stressful, almost harsh, direction. Piercing, shuffling, scraping, and lulling all in one breath. And it's Son of Earth's quiet breath at that."
5/1/2009	Son of Earth	Naked Float / Elimination of Present Life	lathe cut 7"	$19.99	Static Caravan	2004 release - lathe cut edition of 100 copies.
10/6/2007	Son of Earth	Pet	LP	$13.99	Apostasy Recordings	"Son of Earth began life in early 2000 as Son of Earth-Flesh on Bone Trio. Aaron Rosenblum, Matt Krefting, and John Shaw, inspired by many spirited late-night experimenting sessions, began to play out using wild arrays of sound-making devices. As the years have gone on, the group has chisled away at the number of instruments used and brought their once maximalist and varied sound creation down to a whisper, a murmer, a sound that hints at and flirts with texture and atmosphere; a music made from almost nothing. Seven full years into their life-span, Son of Earth offer their first full-length LP, Pet. The record represents a culmination of sorts of a certain arc in the Son of Earth sound, one where simple electronics and oddly-played instruments are combined to create a music that walks a tight-rope between easily definable atmospheres and emotions. The results are so delicate that at times the music seems to cease to exist at all."
2/19/2007	Sondheim, Alan	Fifty-Six	LP	$21.99	QBICO	"After releasing two unique LPs back in the '60s for the legendary ESP label with his Ritual All 770 and another one for Riverboat, finally Alan Sondheim is back! This is his 1st LP after nearly 35 years and here he plays guitar, alpine zither, electronics, field recordings... as usual he presents us an eclectic mix of fascinating sounds."
12/2/2008	Sondheim, Alan	For Boojum	CDR	$7.99	Majmua Music	"Boojum was our cat, who died recently at 18, and is missed terribly. Most tracks are recorded mono directly from a Yamaha keyboard output. This is the 'pure' sounding of the machine; there's no stereo enhancement or graphic equalization. I determine the state of the machine, that's called playing it. The accompaniment is automated but its figuration is not. The keyboard is touch-sensitive, but as you know, touch on an acoustic keyboard translates not only into volume, but also harmonic structures and envelope. Here touch is volume only. Note that all playing is live. Think of the real. Track 8 is recorded live on the same keyboard acoustically; you can hear breathing, key and nail sounds, and so forth. The recording is stereo. Here the machine gives way to the periphery of the human player One might place this configuration in the symbolic. The Cluster track is recorded from a very large Beowulf computer cluster which generates considerable electromagnetic radiation in the radio spectrum. These are recorded acoustically from a Realistic Patrolman SW-60 radio slowly tuned across various SW, VHF, and UHF bands. This is the sound of the machine in air, transformed into audio signals within the range of human hearing. Machine-states and machine exist in the imaginary. Emanents exist within and without the machine.. Think of the true world in all its glory. For Boojum." - Alan Sondheim
2/12/2008	Sonic Boom / Julie's Haircut	N-Waves/U-Waves	10"	$13.99	A Silent Place	"In late September 2005, Sonic Boom (a.k.a. Pete Kember, founding member of Spacemen 3, Spectrum, and Experimental Audio Research) met Julie's Haircut at Studio Alpha in Bologna to cooperate with the final editing of their new album. This was a new starting point for Julie's Haircut in the field of music research-only a small portion of the three days of studio recordings were released on that album. N-Waves/U-Waves contains, for the first time, two takes from that session. "Gemini Pt. 1 & Pt. 2" is here in its first take, while "Scarfo Spanks DC" is a completely unreleased improvisation. Limited edition pressing of 524 copies in deluxe cover with foil stamping."
8/9/2003	Sonic Catering Band, The	Live from the Canteens of Atlantis	DBL CD	$14.99	Absurd	"Spanning their very brief live career from 1998 - 2001, the two CDs convey all that was exciting, frustrating, ridiculous and ultimately nourishing about an S.Catering performance. CD1 begins at the beginning: w/ the first carrot chop at London's 333 nightclub, 27th September 1998 and ends at the end: Geneva's Moloko restaurant, 9th November 2001. In between lies a lean collage mix of culinary overdrive, assembled from every gig the project did capturing the various moods & atmospheres that were created during their live sets. Extracts of their 5 hour shift at The Moloko are manipulated and included between tracks 1,3,5 and capture/present a dense atmosphere at the restaurant. a cd giving you a great example of their sound, showing nearly all of the project's sides, full of various & bizarre moods & atmospheres, sometimes a bit rhythmic or others harsh or obscure. CD2 is the documentation of their last proper performance at Geneva's Forde Gallery. An hour's recording full of meditative, abstract, spacious soundscapes. This is sonic catering bands definitive live document, minus the food of course. The CDs come in a gatefold package with a reminisce by the band and a list of live dates/venues."
12/13/2008	Sonic Kettle	En	CD	$15.99	Sonic Records	"Young Osaka psychedelic band Sonic Kettle have released a live album entitled "En" on their own Sonic Records label. Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) guests on two tracks on guitar, and Higashi Hiroshi (Acid Mothers Temple) guests on synth on three tracks. The album also includes a cover of "Pink Lady Lemonade" featuring both Kawabata and Higashi." Recommended!
4/19/2004	Sonic Temple Assassins	Sonic Temple Assassins	3" CDR	$6.99	267 lattajjaa	"Hello out there! The label boss, Mr. Haahti, asked me to write something about the Sonic Temple Assassins' EP out on 267 lattajjaa. Let's see... 1. the opening - Irritating droning vapors for your precious eardrums. 2. g.f.r.c.b. - Hi-pitched feedback and distorted vocals. The lyrics are about... umm... go and figure it out by yourself! Grooves like an epileptic stroboscope-washing machine. 3. jack's holiday - Inspired by lounge organist Jack Malmstens' track 'Satan Takes A Holiday'. An acid casualty second cousin of Gershon Kingsley's 'Pop Corn'. 4. clear - Calm before the storm. 5. emperor of dreams (for clark ashton smith) - The irritating vapors are back. Recorded late one night during a heavy snowstorm. Toxic waves of feedback and distortion dashing all over the stereoscape deadening you. You have been forewarned." - Jani Hellén
10/28/2003	Sonic Youth	A Thousand Leaves	LP	$13.99	SYR	"Independently-manufactured-and-vended vinyl of the 1998 DGC album. Four sides of SY, ranging from modern rocking to crypto pop-kult lyricism to chunky rhythmic rhyme and formless art-drift."
	Sonic Youth	Anagrama	12"	$8.99	SYR	“Anagrama features 4 new songs written and recorded by Sonic Youth in their studio in NYC. The 4 compositions are titled: 'Anagrama', 'Improvisation Ajoutee', 'Tremens', & 'Mieux: De Corrosion'. All 4 songs are instrumentals. Twenty-four minutes of expansive, cloud-relational sound blatters, SY in their most exotically stretched OUT vein. Those two zeros above your nose will zap in a totally satisfying manner.” - FE
7/16/2004	Sonic Youth	Goodbye 20th Century	DBL LP	$17.99	SYR	"The fourth release on the SYR label was not designated to new material or studio improvisations, but instead a double-disc set of Sonic Youth's interpretations of various works by other composers. A truly ambitious project, it's one of their most diverse releases yet, featuring a selection of guest performers and some extremely interesting recordings -- from the seemingly random yet very calculated half-hour Cage piece 'Four6' to Coco's shrill delivery of Yoko Ono's 'Voice Piece For Soprano', from the torturous yet compelling 'Pendulum Music' to the perplexing yet amusing 88-key destruction of 'Piano Piece #13', the album offers a vast sample of Sonic Youth chasing us down musical paths we might not otherwise have ever visited." - sonicyouth.com. 1999 release.
6/26/2002	Sonic Youth	Murray Street	LP	$12.99	Goofin	"Sonic Youth have turned 21 years of age this year. The apprenticeship is over. They are now legal to fully rock on. Murray Street is where it gets interesting. The name comes from the street where Sonic Youth create rock'n'roll. This album was written by Sonic Youth with newest member Jim O’Rourke, who helped engineer and did the mixing under the watchful eye and baffling behavior of the original SY members. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with a cover photograph taken by Monique-of two children secured by webbing, at one with goddess Earth-and inside photography by Milanese lensman Stefano Giovaninni. Seven tracks."
10/28/2003	Sonic Youth	Slaapkammers Met Slagroom	12"	$8.99	SYR	"Extrapolated, expansive and highly electric, this new music is largely instrumental with a penchant for cosmic skip-tracing."
	Sonic Youth / Jim O'Rourke	Invito Al Cielo	12"	$8.99	SYR	“Third installment in the limited edition, home-recorded, self-released series. Vinyl pressed on the clearest of wax, all text in Esperanto. Three wild, spontaneous pulsations that celebrate contemporary musical abstraction at its most uninhibited.”
3/21/2009	Sonny & the Sunsets	Love & Death	7" + comic book	$5.99	Soft Abuse	"Sonny & the Sunsets are a beautiful west coast thing. Birthed from the sand, the surf, and twilight campfires down in Ocean Beach, Sonny & the Sunsets' busted beach-pop songs prompt recollections of doo wop's otherworldly despair, the kitchen sink savoir faire of The Raincoats, and positive possibilities exuded by Jonathan Richman. This, the band's debut, showcases two of their very best tunes. 'Death Cream' is borne of comics culture; it plays out like an apocalyptic zombie sex noir death tale from the EC days of yore, or a mutant b-side from The Who Sell Out. 'Strange Love' is an earnest, reverb drenched ode to 50's pop, loneliness, and prickly fetishes. Love & Death is limited to 300 copies. Chris Johanson illustrations adorn the sleeve. A wonderful comic book, Death of the Self in the Long Tearless Night, penned by Sonny & inked by Raphi, which chronicles Sonny's life and trials during the start of the Sunsets, is included with every copy. Danny Dusk recorded both songs in the Sunsets' HQ within San Francisco's Mission District."
3/21/2007	Soon Clyde	Solace	CDR	$13.99	Cook an Egg	"Displaying a wide array of influences ranging from Six Organs of Admittance to the Silver Jews, the music of Greg Pardew (aka Soon Clyde) seems to reside at a series of impossible crossroads. Recorded live and without overdubs, Greg uses his acoustic (and electric) guitars & voice to fully explore the conflicting moods that are carefully hidden from within the fabric of his delicate, yet quietly dissonant songs. Soon Clyde is Greg Pardew from Maryland, USA and this is his debut cdr album."
5/16/2010	Sorc'henn	Shadow Is Ov Silver, Phantom Is Ov Gold	c56 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"Sorc'henn is the twisted brainchild of laurent boulouard and on "shadow is ov silver, phantom is ov gold" he's determined to invade your dreams and paint them all black. sickly organ drones proliferate every corner in this darkened soundworld. sometimes they're stretched and overrun by diamond-cut guitar riffage other times they're turned into the soundtrack to the worst funhouse imaginable. there are few artists around who can turn their music into something so completely haunted like boulouard. he takes it to a different place. it's the most sinister church music imaginable. dampened chimes over ghostly voices creep into your psyche until you'd rather be dead than posessed. it's so fucking eerie it gets buried uner your skin. but in the end, "shadow/phantom" reminds me why i love sorc'henn so much: he takes you places you'd never go on your own and in that sense it's almost divine. almost. edition of 72, pro-dubbed & imprinted."
4/1/2004	Sorrows, The	Take a Heart	LP	$15.99		"The 1965 UK mod/freakbeat classic originally out on the Pye label, remastered for stereo, with bonus tracks from their 7" releases. Sometimes compared to THE PRETTY THINGS, THE KINKS, or early BEATLES, they never made it in the US, although they were very well known in Britain and the title track here was a hit on the UK charts. Original cover art and liner notes, Euro import."
4/24/2006	Sotto Voce	Sotto Voce	CDR	$8.99	Public Eyesore	"A quartet of piano, sax, guitar and drums the three tracks were recorded in 99, 00 and 01. Two long tracks - nearly 30 minutes - of shifting improvisation. The piano provides the stable foundation which the rest of the instruments play over/with. There are solos, duos, trios and the whole foursome at various times, squonking and riffing and noising. The guitar gets some electronica and feedback going: these two are fast rides of building tension and release. And through it all the piano keeps offering a tuneful core that the other instruments either accept or ignore. The short final track is more coherent and focussed, but still energetic. An exciting album of edgy stuff." - Jeremy Keens
11/23/2004	Souled American	Around The Horn / Sonny (Framed Vol. 2)	DBL CD	$15.99	Tumult	"The second in the series of Souled American reissue discs brings their third and fourth LPs back to the spotlight. Around the Horn is some powerfully drowsy and drawling, skeletal country with an emphasis on less sound and more space. Sonny is truly the pure distillate of their vision - a tarpit of old creaking country 78s and mosquito-buzzing back porch ballads. A record of mostly covers, that would fit as nicely twixt your Low and Labradford records as it would between your Hank Williams and John Prine." – Revolver. Again - highly recommended! Sonny is a top 10 album ever for me.
11/23/2004	Souled American	Fe / Flubber (Framed Vol. 1)	DBL CD	$15.99	Tumult	"The first in Tumult's Framed series of Souled American reissues gets you their first two albums together. Fe is a ramshackle conglomeration of warm muted guitars, strangled harmonies and dub-like, slippery, underwater bass (their defining sound). Flubber takes off on a rickety bluesy crawl, stretching the more rock sound of FE into muted swamp blues, languid and syrupy. Long before the whole No Depression, Palace-whatever explosion these guys stood defiant and sadly alone." – Revolver. This comes highly recommended! I used to see these guys play monthly back in central Illinois in the late '80's and I still listen to them weekly 15+ years later.
12/8/2004	Souled American	Frozen	CD	$13.99	Checkered Past	“Souled American, the ahead of its time alt-country rock band which recorded a trio of critically-acclaimed albums for the American branch of Rough Trade Records in the late 1980s, returns to U.S. record stores when Checkered Past Records releases the band's 1994 album, Frozen. Frozen had previously been available only on a small, mail-order focused German label. Souled American retreated from the public eye in 1991, when the American branch of Rough Trade folded, and the band's drummer left to devote more time to his family. At that point, founding members Chris Grigoroff and Joe Adducci (both raised in Charleston, Illinois) returned to their home studio, slowed down the rhythms of their songs, and continued to craft spare, haunting roots music. The results of those efforts were two discs, the beautifully lonely Frozen and 1997's Notes Campfire. Despite the band's low profile in recent years, Souled American has maintained its devoted cult following, which includes fellow iconoclast Richard Buckner, and guerilla music writer Camden Joy, who plastered Manhattan with posters about the band and then turned the project into a book. Frozen, with its molasses rhythms and emphasis on the sounds between the sounds, is true to the band's roots but evolved from the band's jaunty work of a decade ago. As one of Joy's posters describes it - today's Souled American is ‘slow but never lazy.’”
12/8/2004	Souled American	Notes Campfire	CD	$13.99	The Catamount Company	“Notes Campfire is the album that signaled a kind of resurgence of interest in Chicago's Souled American. The trio, already ten years old by the time of this recording, had already gone through an incarnation as a proto-insurgent country act. Souled American's early, rootsy, Americana-plumbing albums such as Fe and Flubber arrived on the scene at around the same time Uncle Tupelo was beginning to be a known roots music commodity. Further exacerbating the interest in the band, perhaps, was the work of guerilla rock criticism ‘50 Posters About Souled American’ orchestrated by writer Camden Joy. Notes Campfire, for its part, furthered Souled American's unprecedented examination of the skeletal elements of country and folk music that the group had begun several years previous when the group lost and never replaced its drummer and its label, Rough Trade, folded. Guitarists Chris Grigoroff and Joe Adducci, with bassist Scott Tuma, manage with Notes Campfire to create the sound of American folk music, slowed to a molasses-in-February pace and delivered as gorgeous waves of guitar sound, texture, and raw emotion. Grigoroff's vocals sound like a man who's spent too long in solitary confinement or, rather, someone who's just come to an epiphany about the ugly, emotional truths of the world. Either way, in the strains of Souled American's soundscape exercises in musical tone and shape, you can hear Appalachia and darkness stretched to its limits. Souled American manages to find man sublime moments somewhere between abstract terror and vague, lingering familiarity.” - Chris Handyside, All Music Guide. 1997 release. Limited stock at the moment – more coming ‘soon’.
5/16/2010	Souleyman, Omar	Jazeera Nights: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria	CD	$15.99	Sublime Frequencies	"Sublime Frequencies is honored to present Omar Souleyman's third Western collection on disc. This retrospective features live recordings spanning 15 years of Omar's tireless repertoire, and is rife with frenzied Syrian dabke (a regional folkloric dance and party music), Iraqi choubi and a host of Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish styles, among others -- an amalgamation that exemplifies the musical essence of Northeastern Syria. Culled from cassettes recorded between 1995 and 2009, this collection offers a further rare glimpse into Syrian street-level dabke folk-pop -- a phenomena seldom heard in the West, not previously deemed serious enough for export by the Syrians and rarely, if ever, included on the import agenda of worldwide academic musical committees. Over the years, Souleyman's popularity has risen steadily and the group tirelessly performs concerts throughout Syria and has accepted invitations to perform abroad in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. In 2006, Sublime Frequencies partnered with Omar to release Highway To Hassake (SF 031CD), the first compilation of his works to be issued in the West. The success of this release and the video for the song "Leh Jani" helped see Souleyman and his group invited for their first Western tour in 2009 alongside label-mates Group Doueh from the Western Sahara. This successful tour quickly elevated Souleyman to the status of an international legend -- and deservedly so. This release coincides with the beginning of Omar's 2010 international tour in May which will take him to the UK, the European mainland, and hopefully the U.S. and Canada. CD features a full-color 8-page booklet with great photos, a general overview of the lyrics translated into English and liner notes by compiler Mark Gergis."
8/2/2008	Soulighters, The	Combo's en Strategieen met Bepaalde Charcters	CDR	$12.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"Transmitting from france , the soulighters guitars, woodwinds, keys and percussion offer a stumbling , drunken clatter and drone that settles itself upon the listener like a blanket of warm confusion and guides the ear deep into a thick forest of drawn out pulses and reverberations , ultimately manifesting itself in a ritualistic ambience with serpentine flashing and circular hum. Like church music if god were not only real but serious about his head."
	Sound	Drunk On Confusion	CD	$12.99	Tekito	"Sound is is a new project from VDO member Eric Lumbleau. The album is packed with the same studio zaniness that Electric Company and VDO has, but is far more whimsical in it's mood." Electronics, synths, sitars, and guitars give this a cosmic feel at times, but the sound collages disrupt this often which is not a bad thing at all. Fucked up.
6/9/2010	Sound of Pot / Cycles Inside	split	cassette	$4.99	Feeding Tube	"Sound of Pot is Conrad Capistran (Sunburned) solo at two live shows. Cycles Inside is Shannon Ketch (Jow Jow, Supreme Dicks) recorded at Feeding Tube. One of our favorite releases! Conrad creates deep and mature work with tricky toys: Casio SK-1 and Kaos Pad. Shannon delivers a dynamic set with spoken word metaphysics, acoustic trance-out and organ drone."
	Sound Projector	9inth Issue	magazine	$10.99		"138pp Music Magazine. Interviews with musical folk who speak as they sing - Charles Hayward, HOH, Koji Asano, Oren Ambarchi, and Voice Crack. Records reviews by TSP scribes - In The Art Gallery (Modern Composition), Atoms Of Pure Noise (Loud And Horrible Noise), Cakehole Activity (Rap And Hip-Hop), The Crackling Esther (Electronica), Cut And Paste With Tape Maschines Maken (Tape Edit Music), The Discurator's Den 1 (Compilations), The Discurator's Den 2 (Diverse Records), The Droning Ones (Drone Music), Drowning In A Sea Of Bliss (Industrial Music), Environmental & Documentary Recordings (Open Air Music), Faust: Quid Multa? (Demented Krautrock), Japanorama (Japan Underground Live Music), Laconic Lobsters (Live Music At The Barbican Centre), Music From Japan (Japanese Composers And Players), Mutating Into A Microchip (Laptop Music), No Probable Purpose (Absurd Music), Onkyo (Quiet Japanese Music), Charley Patton (Pre-War Blues), The Phantom Of Liberty (Improvised Music),The Presence Of A Solid Body (Electric Guitar Music), Reynols Glossolalia (Argentinian Art-Punk Wail), Rik Rawling (Heavy Rock And Offbeat Rock), Shaun Robert (Minimal Electronica And Harsh Beats) Skipload Of Tapes (Experimental Home Recordings), Sun Ra: The News From Neptune (Cosmic Free Jazz), Universal Minimalism (Minimal Systems Music),The Unobtrusive Uproar Very Quiet Music),Very Special Nothing Music (Extremely Quiet Music), Vinyl Viands (Long Playing Records). Over 250 Records reviewed. Crisper Imagery! Half-Toned Cover! Telepathic Magic on a Daily Basis!"
6/18/2002	Sound Projector	Tenth Issue	magazine	$10.99		"A quarto of saw delight - 160 pp perfect bound book. Dada - Mecano In The Mechanical Way!! Skinny Hands I Love (The Residents). An Apprenticeship To Robert Fludd. Mega Interviews: Achim Wollscheid / Alejandra & Aeron / Carl Michael Von Hausswolff / Cyclobe / Gen Ken Montgomery / Phill Niblock / Olivia Block / Pal Asle Pettersen / Jon Mueller / Michael Renkel. In addition thereunto over 250 record reviews [Free Jazz, The Residents, Koji Asano, Reynols, Laptop music, Drones, Electronica, Songs, Rock, Improv, In the Art Gallery, Nightmares and Penumbra, No Probable Purpose, Environmental Recordings, Atoms of Pure Noise and plenty more kettles of fish]; disinformation on Gustav Metzger, Crass and Imber Village; John Bagnall on Primitive Methodist Music; Jennifer Hor on Paul McCartney; War Arrow on World Music, Stan Batcow and the Skipload of Tapes; Alasdair Willis on Vinyl Viands; Rik Rawling on Iggy and The Stooges, Boards of Canada, The Damned and Miles Davis; CDs retrieved and rescued from The Bag of Doom; Engaging with Planetary Politics; Art by imagistic magi: Middleton, Rawling, Reynols, Bagnall, Pinsent, Richardson, Willis, Parentela, Sherred, Roberts."
6/11/2006	Sound Projector, The	Fourteenth Issue	magazine	$11.99		Interviews / features: PHIL TODD of ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS! SCOTT FOUST and KARLA BORECKY of IDEA FIRE COMPANY! GRAHAM LAMBKIN and DARREN HARRIS of THE SHADOW RING! BEN JONES and HASAN GAYLANI of JAZZFINGER! NEIL CAMPBELL and ADAM DAVENPORT of VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA! plus review highlights include: The return of VINYL VIANDS! [Baffle those black balloons, bubbah!], An excessive 13 pages of BLACK METAL reviews from Jennifer Hor! [Quel diabolique!], The return of THE CHARTISTS! [Pop Music is Empty!], International surveys of 'happening' records from the UK, USA, Australia, Finland, Japan, France and elsewhere! Detailed appraisal of the work of HARRY PARTCH on four CDS! [Be a hobo!] NOISE, NIGHTMARES and CUT-UPS! [Just my normal working day!] Recent 'heavy metal' and 'stoner' records raved about in THE METAL MEN! The usual sections on ART, IMPROV, TAPEWORK, FIELD RECORDINGS and QUIET MUSIC! Another appraisal of THE RESIDENTS' early work! [Kick a cat!] A section on EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC BY WOMEN! More great radio dispatches from the NYC art radio station, Free 103.9!
2/12/2008	Sound Projector, The	Sixteenth Issue	Magazine	$11.99		Covering black metal, doom metal, drones, rock, loud noise, art music, tape music, vinyl viands, guitar, & tons more with features on Phillip Sanderson, Joe Frawley, Tetuzi Akiyama, Clay Ruby, Lasse Marhaug, Geoff Mullen, Luc Ferrari, plus lots more. 186 pages. Really nicely done, recommended.
6/11/2006	Sound Projector, The	Thirteenth Issue	magazine	$11.99		Interviews with MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Outer-space guitar duo from Turin, Italy, THE VITAMIN B12 Mysterious art music project based in Brighton UK., RHODRI DAVIES Classically trained Welsh harpist, pioneer of quiet improvisation. RONNIE SUNDIN Ultra-quiet electronicist from Sweden. EDWARD RUCHALSKI Very idiosyncratic and isolationist approach. LEAP-SECONDS Duo of UK minimalist players. MURMER From experimental theatre to field recording assemblage records. + tons of reviews and great artwork!
6/11/2006	Sound Projector, The	Twelfth Issue	magazine	$11.99		158 pages A4 format. Interviews: PETER STAMPFEL - the veteran USA songster, PHILIP JECK - modern UK master of the avant-turntable, LASSE MARHAUG - The Norwegian God of Roaring Noise GREG KELLEY - American underground trumpet nose-blaster and all-around longhair, GUILTY CONNECTOR - the young, well-meaning but strangely ineffectual Japanese obnoxio-noise merchant, JEAN-MARC FOUSSAT - shy Algerian makes good with his lips, and through mastery of the VCS3, PAUL WINSTANLEY - murmuring vaguely about his obscure solo electronic / improv projects in New Zealand. Articles: KEITH ROWE - WILLIAM BASINSKI - THE NEW BLOCKADERS - SPARKS - REYNOLS - VV/M - Swedish Sound Art - Noises from the American Underground - Sound Poetry Revue - ONCE Festival. Review Sections: Atoms of Pure Noise - Drones - Electro-acoustic - Electronica - Field Recordings - Guitar Musics - Improvised Musics - Japanese Music - Mad Inventors - World Music.
12/2/2008	Soundpressings	Soundpressings	cassette	$8.99	Digitalis Limited	"Oklahoma turned out to be crimson red this year, but for those of us living here, we know that this place is a fucking hole of an enigma. case-in-point: soundpressings. this newly unearthed oklahoman gem came out of nowhere to blow our brains into piles of swiss cheese. the inimitable danny mitchell comes to us from out west in norman (via nathan young's stomping grounds in tahlequah). soundpressings, though, is all over the map. hearing soundpressings is like wandering into a mountain of lost & found tapes from a million different sources, all playing at once. mitchell crafts these collages together in an original and addictive way, finding sweet, ghosted-out drones in the midst of a sheet of noise or a plodding, electronic rhythm. once you enter his domain, you never know where exactly you'll end up. oklahoma's not dead yet. limited to 80 copies, full color covers by mitchell."
2/5/2004	Sounds of the Wind Farm in Searsburg VT	Sounds of the Wind Farm in Searsburg VT	CDR	$9.99	Spirit of Orr	"Spirit of Orr kicks off it¹s CDR series (all volumes limited to 100 numbered copies) with a field recording of the eleven wind turbines found along a small range of mountaintop in Searsburg Vermont. Wind farming is well known to many people around the world, though probably quite unusual and obscure to many, many more. This record shows the connection between the fascination of finding eleven 360 feet tall windmills looming over a mountain range (most mills are found in flat areas) and the documenting of it as a field recording. Particulars, like the time and method of recording, create future anachronisms. The sounds now captured for the future to witness. The issues of energy today will play out to create a historical context for the future, where this document will continue to have relevance. The sounds of the cars, airplanes, and woodland life (watch out for the owls) all mixing a composite meaning for the listener to determine on their own. Hand assembled, loose wrapped, limited."
11/15/2008	Soup Horrific	Intestinal Chill Out Vol 5	cassette	$7.99	Fag Tapes	"Abstract sounds origin Spain. what could be guitar feild recordings or what could sound like metal and synth. really cool audio soups you would eat in a mirage of hunger! two course meal! hand-numbered edition 77."
9/17/2006	Southern Man / Pykrete	No More Love to Give	CD	$12.99	Phaserprone	"Recorded sometime in 2005. Collaboration between North Carolina/ Berlin duo Southern Man and fellow caroliner Pykrete. Five tracks of unorganized, mangled and unknown electronic devices. Radiators, broken refrigerators, dilapidated architecture, fishing in the dead sea. 125 copies, packaged in a self assembled dye-cut and letterpressed CD Gatefold." - label. "The sound is like Lithops doing 'construction-site' techno or subtle, industrial composition. Simple, insistent rhythmic structures are slowly covered in bulldozer/earthmover textures (see "Distance Player"). There's quieter stuff too; "Vacation Rigonda" has warbly analog voices trading space with rummaged metal and other unknown sound sources that build into a small wall of cacophony. New sounds, in beautifully letter-pressed, hand-cut and folded sleeves with inserts and/or tipped in photos. Painfully limited edition pressings of 125 copies or less, so get 'em while they exist." - Scott Mou / Other Music
	Souvenir Satellite	Exiting Orbit Now	CD	$12.99	ETI	One copy available
5/16/2010	Sovetskaya Gone	Sashweights & Bags of Birdshot	c25 cassette	$4.99	Anathema Sound	"L.A.'s Kevin Danchisko certainly had an excellent 2009, carving out his own unique space in the world of synth music with several outstanding tapes on Digitalis Ltd. and Dial Square Tapes. On Sashweights & Bags of Birdshot, he proves that there's plenty more in store for 2010 and beyond. Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's classic dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron, Danchisko presents three tracks that take the form of unhinged bliss, subtle melodic beauty, and textural creepiness. Blazing arpeggios lift off toward the sun as steam pipe filters hiss below the surface. It's all swaddled in distinctly warm Sovetskaya production and should remind you to kiss the ceiling while there's still time. With full color artwork, inserts, and labels by M.Y." Edition of 75 copies.
10/12/2004	Space Machine	Modular Series, Model-102 (Orbit Vector Generator)	3" CD	$8.99	P Tapes	This module contains: Maso Yamazaki (synthesizer) & Makoto Kawabata (guitar). Recorded Live BGM session at Cafe Futuro in Osaka, April 30th 2003.
	Space Needle	Voyager	CD	$13.99	Zero Hour	Does not have Yes artwork
4/24/2003	Space Rocket	Bez Kalhotek	10"	$9.99	Boing Being	"Oh this joy! - a brand new release from our very own Space Rocket, including 12 tracks recorded during one furious weekend on the summer of 2002. Serves the whole family, combining elements from jazz to noise, from kraut to improvisation, and as usually... ending up some distant place out of the map. This is the soundtrack of the year, composed for a movie never filmed. ‘Space Rocket are fucking brilliant! (and I hope they use this bit of the quote.)’ (Robots and Eletronic Brains), ‘...they go way beyond any labeling. ...Recommended!’ (Broken Face). Edition of 300 pcs now on sale."
7/16/2009	Space Weather	Space Weather	CDR	$11.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Space Weather is a new power trio, featuring Alistair Crosbie (electric lead guitar), Andrew Paine (electric bass guitar) and Brian Lavelle (synthesizer). Formed in June 2008, 'Space Weather' is the result of three summit meetings called between July - October of the same year. This is very much a 'band' album, melodic in places with progressive leanings, ranging from the two chord assault of early kosmische rock to 'horse-rotavator' era Coil." Edition of 100 copies.
6/3/2009	Spacemen 3	DJ Tones	LP	$18.99	Great Pop Supplement	"A limited edition five-track mini-album which features two previously unreleased Spacemen 3 tracks, a radically different mix of the classic Spacemen 3 cover of the Red Krayola's "Transparent Radiation," appearing for the first time on CD, and the ultra rare remix of "I Love You" (originally only 50 promo white label vinyl copies were ever pressed). Rounding off this mini-album is a studio version of "Ecstasy Symphony." UK import. Limited to 1,000 copies." - Revolver.
	Spacemen 3	Live in Europe 1989	CD	$18.99	Space Age	Great live recordings from 1989.
1/30/2010	Spacemen 3	Performance	LP	$17.99	Fire	"Live in Amsterdam in 1988 on tour to support the "Perfect Prescription" album, this features 7 songs: "Mary-Anne," "Come Together," "Things'll Never Be the Same," "Take Me to the Other Side," "Rollercoaster," "Starship," and "Walkin' with Jesus." Original artwork, 180 gram vinyl." Highly recommended! Very sturdy jackets, too.
1/17/2010	Spacemen 3	Sound Of Confusion	CD	$15.99	Fire	"Originally released in 1986, Sound Of Confusion was the debut album by Spacemen 3, one of the most influential bands of the '80s British underground. The number of bands with a sonic debt to the Jason Kember/Peter Pierce partnership seems to grow every year. Having forged iconic status, they reinvented noise in music, although they were much more than a noisy guitar band. Spacemen 3's use of noise owed as much to the importance of harmonics, repetition, tone, distortion and some sort of higher aspiration, be it religious or opiate redemption or bliss. The feeling they aimed at with intensity makes it irrelevant if it's about heroin or a slightly pastiche idea of Jesus; it's the focus and intent that can suck you in and take you for a ride; it's music that believes in the primal and heavenly power of sound. Sound Of Confusion is a blistering, overdriven two-chord assault throughout, with a strange bleakness and despair creeping through the hypnotic sprawl. Their covers of The Stooges' "Little Doll" and The 13th Floor Elevators' "Rollercoaster" are absolutely devastating. This reissue comes housed in a gatefold cardboard sleeve, a miniature replica of the original LP." - FE
1/30/2010	Spacemen 3	Sound of Confusion	LP	$17.99	Fire	"Originally released on the Glass label in 1986, this is the debut album from the group led by Sonic Boom of SPECTRUM and Jason Pierce of SPIRITUALIZED. Featuring covers of 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS, THE STOOGES, and JUICY LUCY among some classic originals, this is the band's first foray into the deep, stoned, trance-inducing, psychedelic sound they would master on later albums. Original artwork, 180 gram vinyl." Highly recommended! Very sturdy jackets, too.
1/30/2010	Spacemen 3	The Perfect Prescription	LP	$17.99	Fire	"This 1987 album is where the group perfected their woozy, psychedelic drone-pop, moving beyond mere tribute to their influences into a world all their own. A concept record about a drug trip, from the euphoric high of album opener "Take Me to the Other Side," to the drowsy, disturbed finish of "Call the Doctor," this is arguably their finest moment. Original artwork, 180 gram vinyl." Highly recommended! Very sturdy jackets, too.
8/11/2003	Spagirus	Ever Now Those Before	CD	$6.99	Maritime Fist Glee Club	"Treated sample compositions. That's all of the information about the 5 tracks on this release. It's difficult to pinpoint what, if anything, actually was the original source material. Greg has slowed down, folded, mangled and otherwise mutilated the sounds so much as to make them something completely foreign, something completely other. And to make this transformation complete, the CDr provides a number of different listening experiences. Played at a normal volume, it is an exercise in new minimalism or lowercase sound where one must intensely listen to the sounds as they unfold and dissipate, but if one turns up the volume.... A new aural situation presents itself. Those sounds that were barely on the edge of hearing come violently to life. The muted burblings and sub-bass harmonics threaten to destroy speakers."
6/30/2010	Sparkling Wide Pressure	Nowhere Time / Cruising Reflections	c46 cassette	$5.99	Sweat Lodge Guru	"Sparkling Wide Pressure mines rich tones and melodies from his electric guitar, performing psychedelic slight-of-hand that pulls the colors from your speakers like the proverbial rabbit from the hat. Limited to 100 pro-dubbed cassettes."
1/17/2010	Speckled Band	Speckled Band	CDR	$12.99	Into The Lunar Night	"This was a collaboration done with the fine Brightonians Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance, Ian Murphy, Paul Wilson, Sarah Albury and Family Underground on a short break in Brighton on a tour of the UK. Recorded March 2008 in a rent-by-the-hour rehearsal space. great times."
9/17/2006	Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree	Burning Mills	CD	$16.99	September Gurls	Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree is the brainchild of Pennsylvania based folk alchemist Timothy Renner (Stonebreath, Mourning Cloak, Breathe Stone). He is accompanied by Sarada and Prydwyn (Green Crown). Rooted in old-time Appalachian music and often played on19th century instruments, their repertoire is mostly traditional: graveyard blues, murder ballads, ghost songs and old hymns. "Burning Mills", their new album and 2nd full length, finds the band comfortably nestled in the haunted hollers and rundown farmhouses which gave birth to their first album. But something here has changed. The banjo sparkles in the darkness. The voices weave strange harmonies only hinted at previously. The lap dulcimer and bouzouki dance around each other. The reedy drones of the harmonium hang like mist in the air. Here we find a band so comfortable with the material, so thoroughly at home with their instruments, that with closed eyes the listeners can easily imagine themselves sitting around the campfire as the band plays these songs. Unconcerned with New Weird America", The Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree devote themselves to Old Weird America and the Celtic/European roots from which this tree of songs grew. CD contains two extra tracks not on Acony Bell Dbl LP."
11/4/2006	Spectre Flux	Spectre Flux	CDR	$9.99	Veglia	"New solo blast from Mr Pete Nolan of Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Vanishing Voice et al that packs all of the eternally-peaking electro/guitar wuzz of Matthew Bower-related projects like Skullflower et al, all rendered in reassuringly primitive/human modes. Edition of 80 copies in ultra-crude packaging." - Volcanic Tongue
9/29/2005	Spectre Flux	Spectre Flux	CDR	$11.99	Arbitrary Signs	Heavy violin / guitar / electronics jams - solo recordings from Pete Nolan (Magik Markers).
9/24/2009	Spectre Folk	After Kool Special!	CDR	$10.99	Arbitrary Signs	"New blooz from the folk spectre.. the fuzz drips from the bones like honey from the bears paw on this one. An urban snapshot of decayed and phased out endless stinking hot summer nights in the BK. You'll also hear a sweetly sad Velvets cover "ride into the sun".. some synth damage ala assault on precinct 13.. and some full on rock action from the hot version of the band featuring Sir Mick Flower on thee last track. Lotsa bang for your buck. Consider this a warm up for the soon to be released Spectre Folk LP on Arbitrary Signs!"
2/25/2008	Spectre Folk	Black Bones	CDR	$11.99	Arbitrary Signs	"Ex-angel - fuzz up - GPRO Blankest Meds." Solo disc from Pete Nolan (Magik Markers)
8/28/2007	Spectre Folk	Black Jacks	CDR	$11.99	Arbitrary Signs	"This CDR explores new sonic possibilities of home 16 track technology and early formation of the new band phase of Spectre Folk as Pete is joined by J.T. Sodas on synth. A few songs, new and old, are given the Band treatment. Thers also some very glopy stuff and some extendo blooz stuff, as well as some solo synth action. A long disc full of dripping mind exploration.."
12/12/2009	Spectre Folk	Compass, blanket, lantern, mojo	LP	$15.99	Arbitrary Signs	"As anxiety encroaches with the cold air of winter thank the stars for the whiskey/weed warmth of Compass, blanket, lantern, mojo --- it flows through you like a liquid howl of light." Thurston Moore. "For an out-of-it fogie like myself, it's tough to keep up with the many musical hats our boy Peter Nolan sports. There's of course The Magik Markers and then there's Lil Dusty, Spectre Flux, Spectre Folk, Folk Spectre, Cops, etc. I gotta admit I sorta lost the thread on Petes' musical output for awhile there due to the simple fact I couldn't keep up with it all. My chrome dome would literally throb with all the names and phony catalogue numbers that must accompany all these sound whims that must fly off his ginger head like bats from a belfry. Luckily, I put down the Brupenex long enough to catch up with "Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo', Nolans' latest expulsion under his Spectre Folk moniker. As expected, the album reeks of the musty homespun psychedelic scent that would make both Al Simones and Uncle Neil Young red as a beet. The tunes are hazy with hope and bobbing audio to spare. Seagulls or rusty bedsprings sound off in the crackly distance on one track and I get a salty taste in my mouth like I licked the third pier boardwalk in Wildwood circa '79. And check out the track 'Burning Bridge' where Petes' voice soars and wavers like a wounded dove flying to the safety of a clean cage and the awaiting name of 'Walter'. The whole thing is a gorgeous, fully conscious stumble into a self made sunset and it just reminds me of something someone never said to me 'It's not over until you declare everyone a loser and paint yourself in a corner'. - Tony Rettman, Guidoville, New York, November 2009
6/4/2010	Spectre Folk	In the Sparkin' Age of the Great White Horse	cassette	$7.99	Arbitrary Signs	"In the Sparkin' Age of the Great White Horse" is the new cassette from Spectre Folk, nearly 50 minutes of psych-ish folk-leaning rock fog that is destined to melt into your dashboard this summer. The tracks are culled and clipped from the sessions that produced Spectre Folk's most recent LP, Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo. Here in the sparking age, Pete Nolan's mood seems, lighter and brighter - there's less mystic nursery hush and a much more saturated stain of the pink-orange ice cream colors of a Pacific sunset. True to form, there are forlorn fingerpickers and some quiet, noisy stretches that feel like a walk alone in the woods at night, but the tape also finds Nolan making organic noises with his noisemaking machinery: a tube amp makes thundercloud sounds on a track that's got the hazy warmth of a summer day begging for a rainshower; synths burble, ominously at first, then dissolve into the a sound like passing cars on the highway, before a couple guitars, intertwined, come in at a glacial gallop marching the tape along. And the albums rockers show Nolan's increasing comfort with extended form guitar solos that saunter into and out of wild crescendos and murky valleys like it's the easiest, most natural thing in the world for the music to do. tracks: A 1. the follow trees 2. we're here forever 3. storm clouds in my fender 4. I dropped a line 5. suitcase 6. last days of the Binson 7. cash machine > B 1. 8 foot wings (now 6 feet longer!) 2. trailers
3/26/2006	Spectre Folk	Requiem for Ming Aralia	CD	$12.99	Thre Lobed Recordings	"Leaping forth from a prior discography consisting of CDRs and cassettes, Spectre Folk's Requiem for Ming Aralia is a powerfully assured psychedelic folk statement. Spectre Folk is a one-man operation consisting of Pete Nolan (drums for the Magik Markers, Shackamaxon, GHQ, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, etc.). Nolan's significant responsibilities elsewhere have made him into a man who rarely has a chance to slow down. Spectre Folk offers the listener the ability to glimpse at one of those rare calm moments and it showcases the delicately twisted calm bubbling underneath the drumming furor Nolan unleashes elsewhere. The beauty present in this uneasy tranquility certainly makes Three Lobed Recordings proud to release Requiem for Ming Aralia as Spectre Folk's first full-length CD."
3/26/2006	Spectre Fone	Newsday Long Island for Nipsey Russell	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"New solo smooch from Pete Nolan (Magik markers/Virgin eye Blood Brothers) letting out some primitive apartment style electronic/raga strangeness." "...feels like wading through treacle with an alien antenna wedged deep in your skull." - Volanic Tongue
9/17/2006	Spectre Zaimph	Spectre Zaimph	CDR	$11.99	Heavy Blossom	Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaimph, Hototogisu, GHQ, UN, etc..) and Pete Nolan (Magic Markers, GHQ, Spectre Folk, Cops, etc..) recorded May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.
	Spectrum & Jessamine	A Pox On You	CDEP	$11.99	SpaceAge Recordings	5 track EP (33 minutes) includes excellent Silver Apples cover
6/30/2010	Spectrum & Tim 'Love' Lee b/w Spectrum & Captain Memphis (aka Jim Dickinson)	Words May Shatter / The Lonely Death of Johnny Ace	7" picture disc	$7.99	Great Pop Supplement	"Next up on The Great Pop Supplement is both a musical and visual mindbender of a 45! A total killer 7" pic disc featuring 2 collaborations between Sonic Boom / Spectrum and Tim 'Love' Lee and Captain Memphis aka legendary musician (Stones / Aretha Franklin / Alex Chilton) and Producer (Big Star etcŠ), Jim Dickinson. Both pieces are among the very best things recorded since Sonic Boom's days with Spacemen 3. Total whacked out Silver Apples mash up one side and a wonderful smoked out, moog fuelled blues on the reverse. Hugely acclaimed DJ and Producer Tim 'Love' Lee and Spectrum offer up "Words May Shatter", a stunning The Silver Apples / Suicide freakout on Side A, while the reverse features an unreleased out-take of the mighty "The Lonely Death of Johnny Ace" from a collaborative project between Sonic Boom / Spectrum and Captain Memphis. Recalling the tragic, true story of master bluesman Johnny Ace who shot himself dead on Christmas Day 1954 and featuring an incredible vocal from the late, great Jim Dickinson, this take debuts here. Beautiful, op-art effect picture disc and acetate sleeving, this is a one off pressing of 1000 which is sure to go quickŠ"
7/14/2007	Speculum Fight	Live in Tokyo 1995	LP	$14.99	What The.. ?	"We are proud and excited to present our second effort as the team What The..? Records in finest production and resurrection of artifacts from some of the favorite artists. This time