| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/15/2005 | 13 Gauge / Klatzker Corsano Duo | 3. . .2. . .1. . .Zero | LP | $8.99 | Hot Cars Warp | "Three-way split LP w/ 13 Gauge, Klatzker/Corsano Duo, Dieter Henkel. Three separate, but very related, musical entities share 40 minutes of yr time, which has been proportioned according to number of band members (3. . .2. . .1). Packaged in very special hand-made, individually designed covers, no less. 13 Gauge dedicate a side of the LP to alto legend Marion Brown and give their rendition of a post-core, Chick Corea-less Afternoon of a Georgia Faun. Their third and final piece is 'Montana Fix', a very loose tribute to mushroom legend John Cage. The Klatzker-Corsano duo (cello and drums, respectively) follow w/ a slightly more melodic, but no less frazzled approach to that which makes 'Free' Willy Montgomery's teeth rot: 'uncritical reverence for pure energy and the thrill factor of dissonance.' Sounds great. Where do I sign up? 13 Gauge-ist Dieter Henkel abandons his main instrument (drums) to jam guitar, trumpet, and twiddled knobs into the works, bringing things to a screeching halt." - Byron Coley. 1997 release. |
| 1/28/2004 | 13th Floor Elevators | Bull of the Woods | CD | $16.99 | Spalax | "Digipak edition of 3rd and final studio album for the original Elevators, from 1969. More dominated by Stacy Sutherland's songs than ever before, this is a subtly-tranced masterpiece of lo-key psychedelics, and cruelly neglected in today's 'private-pressing = god = $ = my ass' universe." - FE Totally underrated classic! |
| 12/21/2004 | 13th Floor Elevators | Bull Of The Woods | LP | $10.99 | Get Back | "Originally released in 1968 by the International Artists label. An incomplete album tentatively titled The Beauty And The Beast that was released with a changed title after the band's demise. Its finest moments are 'Never Another' (one of the best and most demented tracks ever recorded and the only one on the album written by the usual songwriting duo of Roky Erickson and Tommy Hall) and 'May The Circle Remain Unbroken' (a haunting Roky's composition that may be the strangest thing this great band ever cut). Original artwork." 140 gram red vinyl version. |
| 13th Floor Elevators | Bull of the Woods | LP | $17.99 | 3rd release. Sometimes overlooked, this is an excellent LP! | ||
| 7/30/2002 | 13th Floor Elevators | Bull of the Woods | LP | $15.99 | Get Back | "Originally released in 1968 by the International Artists label. An incomplete album tentatively titled The Beauty And The Beast that was released with a changed title after the band's demise. Its finest moments are 'Never Another' (one of the best and most demented tracks ever recorded and the only one on the album written by the usual songwriting duo of Roky Erickson and Tommy Hall) and 'May The Circle Remain Unbroken' (a haunting Roky's composition that may be the strangest thing this great band ever cut). Original artwork. 180 gram HQ vinyl." |
| 1/23/2003 | 13th Floor Elevators | Demos Everywhere | LP | $17.99 | Side one of this LP is fantastic! It features outtakes from the 1st LP Dont Fall Down, Monkey Island, Roller Coaster, Thru The Rhythm, and You Dont Know. Side 2 is live material recorded in New Orleans from 1966 and features two Beatles songs The Word & Im Down, plus another cover Gloria as well as Monkey Island and Roller Coaster. | |
| 13th Floor Elevators | Live | LP | $15.99 | Get Back | "Originally released in 1968 on the International Artists label. This is their 3rd album which is not a live album at all. The tracks were studio outtakes with fake applause added. Along with versions of the band's classics 'You're Gonna Miss Me' and 'Roller Coaster' this album contains 5 songs not included on their previous two studio albums: Bo Diddley's 'Before You Accuse Me', Buddy Holly's 'I'm Gonna Love You Too', Solomon Burke's classic 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love' and two original compositions ('You Gotta Take That Girl' and 'You Can't Hurt Me Anymore'). 10 tracks. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl." | |
| 5/7/2004 | 13th Floor Elevators | The Psychedelic Sounds of | CD | $16.99 | Spalax | "Their magnificent and visionary debut album is their best. Originally released in 1966 by International Artists, this is the album that contains most of the classics of Roky Erickson's band: their hit 'You're Gonna Miss Me', plus 'Fire Engine', 'Reverberation' and 'Roller Coaster'." |
| 8/13/2004 | 13th Floor Elevators | The Psychedelic Sounds Of | LP | $11.99 | Get Back | "Their magnificent and visionary debut album originally released in 1966 by International Artists. This is the album that contains most of the classics of Roky Erickson's band: their hit 'You're Gonna Miss Me', plus 'Fire Engine', 'Reverberation' and 'Roller Coaster'. 140 gram red vinyl version. |
| 13th Floor Elevators | The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators | LP | $17.99 | Reissue of debut LP from 1966. This is an exact reproduction of the original mono version. | ||
| 2 Projects To Harness The Surge of the Tides | 7" | $3.99 | Doorstep/Astro Lanes | Excellent collaboration between Azusa Plane/Fuxa/Gravity Wax & others | ||
| 2/21/2007 | 2% Majesty | Color / Ice Lights | 7" | $5.99 | 2% Records | "This is the first vinyl release from the much travelled duo 2% Majesty. The music is sparse, simple and above all beautiful. It is not the run-of-the-mill new folk record. 2% Majesty has as much in common with Mi and Lau as they do with the older duos such as Fraser and Debolt. The 7-inch shows a very promising group with much to do in the future, however, both songs are strong on their own leaving nothing more to be desired. They both split lead vocal duties and the songs come across as if they were created with mutual care and love. The songs suggest that they were created in an environment outside of a musical climate (be it new folk or anything else)." Formed in Portland, OR in 2004 - now residing in Chicago, 2% Majesty's music is (psych)-folk-rock with boy/girl harmony. |
| 10/23/2003 | 3 Hur-El | 3 Hur-El | CD | $17.99 | World Psychedelia | "Their first LP, another masterpiece of Turkish psychedelic delight, culled from singles by the three very talented Hur El brothers, and released in 1972 in small quantities on Diskotur (originals sell for $1000 and up nowdays); some of the very best Turkish psych songsless Western in some ways than their great Arsivi LP, but still with the same excellent guitar, empassioned vocals and Eastern percussion that makes for memorable listening and a long-term connection with the music; a triumph that belongs in every record collection." |
| 7/29/2003 | 3 Hur-El | Hurel Arsivi | CD | $17.99 | World Psychedelia | "A masterpiece of Turkish ethno-psychedelic delight, recorded between 1970 and 1975 by the three very talented Hur El brothers, and released in small quantities on Diskotur (originals sell for $1000 and up nowdays); their second album has the heavy hashish sound - fuzz guitar, empassioned vocals and Eastern percussion - that makes Turkish psych so savoury to the rest of the world; very possibly as good as anything recorded by countryman Erkin Koray." |
| 2/11/2006 | 3 Speed Automatic | Villa Rocka | LP | $22.99 | Nasoni | "3piece band from The Netherlands with a pretty intense brew of stoner rock, raunchy wah-wah propelled biker rock, sleazy hard rock and psychedelics. The A-side collects tracks from their recent CD. The B-side features the exclusively recorded soundtrack of the Dutch cult movie 'Horizonica'... heavy soundscapes, accentuated by some flamenco-blend accoustic guitars, organ and spaced-out effects which brings Groep 1850's "Agemo's trip to mother earth" in mind." Edition of 500 copies - 100 on gray vinyl which these copies are. |
| 2/26/2006 | 3i(s) | 3i(s) | CDR | $10.99 | Features Marc Orleans (Sunburned Hand of the Man), Pete Nolan (Magik Markers), and Ela Orleans - nice! Limited stock. | |
| 7/1/2004 | Moth Masque | Moth Masque | CDR | $8.99 | Hand/Eye | "Timothy, Revelator and Alicia have worked together in the past (Mourning Cloak, Breathe Stone), but never so extensively. Moth Masque finds them with room to stretch out, explore, and experiment over the course of an entire album. Moth Masque was conceived from the beginning as an experiment. After completing work on Stone Breaths The Silver Skein Unwound CD, on which Timothy plays a large variety of Eastern, western and home-made instruments, Timothy decided to focus and create something using only one instrument and vocals. This was, however, the only rule. All of the music on Moth Masque is played on a Joseph Rickett banjo from 1880. It was played in the clawhammer, 2-finger, and 3-finger styles. It was played with a slide; a bow; it was beat like a drum; strummed; and sung through. Alicia and Timothy added vocals to this musical bed, and the entire album was then processed via aetheric engineering creating a true mix of sounds culled from the 1800s through today. Moth Masque is an album of love songs through the eyes of moths. Or, perhaps, moth songs through the eyes of love. It features 11 all new compositions by Alicia and Timothy as well as a new version of Wisdom on the Moths Wing, which originally appeared on Stone Breaths first CD, Songs of Moonlight and Rain (out of print)." Limited edition housed in a hand-stenciled digipack. |
| Tabata | Brainsville | CD | $12.99 | elsieandjack recordings | "Fine solo recordings comprise the debut solo CD from this great Japanese artiste, in places reminiscent of the solo work of Magical Power Mako - although not quite as wacked out as Mako, Tabata has his own very distinctive voice, and achieves moments of transcendent power and noise. This isn't bad going, considering that technically it's a step above a four-track bedroom recording - this was apparently 'recorded in a tiny room', using only electric gutars with occasional Casio keyboard. Tabata opens up that tiny imaginary space and, first and foremost, unleashes a huge, terrific sound when he lets his guitar roar. Imagine the power of a series of precision-target grenade explosions, converted into musical blasts. Tabata also manages fine pastoral acoustic guitar episodes, weird backward tape frragments, endless droney strummy james, and inter-galactic electric solos as he paints his infinite vistas across the Milky Way. As you can guess from these pointers, he is (in places) highly influenced by German Kosmische music, in particular Can, Popol Vuh and Amon Dl, but the same could be said about Mako and Brast Burn, who were also Japanese. Tabata adds great value to the artform of overdubbing, holding muscial conversations with himself that are meaningful and not just another form of introverted doodling, and realising it all with a very compelling and incredible sound. Aided in this by Akira Yamanouchi who contributes feedback and guitar synth." | |
| 1/1/2008 | Tabata Mitsuru | We All Gonna Face The Rising Sun | CD | $17.99 | Ruby Red | "New solo CD from Tabata, ex of Tokyo volume fetishists Loud Machine 5000 and Zeni Geva (alongside KK Null) (also Boredoms, Acid Mothers Temple, etc). His solo work has more to do with minimal tonal constructs of repeat-sound ticker-taping your brain into liminal consciousness with backwards tapes, eastern string tones, analog electronics and flashing percussive loops ala hi-fi Vodka Soap." - David Keenan |
| 9/29/2004 | Tadpoles | Whirlaway | CD | $10.99 | Camera Obscura | "After releasing three studio albums, one EP, and a live album on their own Bakery Records label, Hoboken, NJ psych-rock group, Tadpoles have teamed up with Camera Obscura Records, to release their fourth studio album. The epic Whirlaway is possibly the finest achievement by the enigmatic Tadpoles, who eschew live performance for prolonged rehearsal followed by periods of creativity in the studio. Ironically, for a group that rarely performs live, Whirlaway is closer to the band's heavier live sound than any of their previous studio efforts. Whirlaway is typical of the cross section of the sound that Tadpoles have developed throughout their career: from the Butthole Surfers-ish heavy rock of 'Lyman Bostock', and the punchy Flaming Lips style psych-pop of both 'Dusty Baker' and 'Crash of The Bug' to the hypnotic New Order bass grooves of the title track and the Spacemen 3-influenced 'Jimmy Colored Glasses'. The album also contains two instrumental excursions: the trippy, tape-loop filled 'Smile If You've Crossed Over', and 'Horse And Buggy' - the first real psychedelic jam song that the band has ever committed to tape. A laid back, psych rock take on Dylan's 1967 Basement Tapes, traditionally country-tinged, classic, 'You Ain't Goin' Nowhere', offers variety and a glimpse at another side of the band. This is the band's first album without their long time producer Kramer (Shimmy Disc/Bongwater); although, he did record 'Horse And Buggy' at the new Knit Noise studios in New York for the group. Although the album was self-produced, the band enlisted the help of Hobokenite producer Gene Holder (the dBs) to assist with overdubs and mixing on a few of the tracks. The bulk of the record was recorded in the heart of downtown Youngstown, Ohio, in an out of the way, warehouse studio called Ampreon Recorder where engineer Pete Drivere (the Infidels) gave the recording the warm, analog sound the group was looking for." 1999 release. |
| 4/16/2007 | Taiga Remains | Beehive Sutra | cassette | $7.99 | Tone Filth | "Drones that slowly build and morph from the Students of Decay label head, Alex Cobb. Edition of 100 with hand screened inserts, cases, and tapes." |
| 4/16/2007 | Taiga Remains | Crushed Radiant Deities | CD | $12.99 | Students of Decay | "Luminescent, wrecked shards of overtone drones merged with zoned and disembodied choral whispers and ribbons of pure white electricity. "Crushed Radiant Deities" is the first widely available Taiga Remains release, bundling remastered versions of the two tracks from the long out-of-print "Paper Lanterns" EP with two new longform works to form a dense, polyphonic fugue of dynamic collisions and endless collapses. Artwork by Justin Meyers." |
| 8/28/2007 | Taiga Remains | Glass Estuary | cassette | $6.99 | Monorail | "No introduction needed; flawless and otherworldy resonant drift for late nights and early mornings through bold eyes. Spending all day in the park staring upward. Edition of 100, full color covers and glossy labels." |
| 6/19/2007 | Taiga Remains | Obelia | CDR | $12.99 | Barl Fire | "Alex Cobb's Taiga Remains returns with 'Obelia', two long pieces and one short that juxtapose the warm drift of a harmonic-laden minimal acoustic blues raga with dense droning machine noise." |
| 5/29/2008 | Taiga Remains | Ribbons Of Dust | CD | $12.99 | Root Strata | "Already released as a series of 3" CD-R's, we're proud to finally drop Taiga Remains' blazing white-out guitar suite "Ribbons Of Dust". Although originally conceived as stand-alone pieces, the four tracks that make up this hour long disc can easily be seen as one continuous meditation on total delay emptiness as channeled through the electric six-string drone worship of Flying Saucer Attack and Andrew Chalk. Not at all the overtone distortion that Mr. Cobb usually trips in, these verses seem to have been written during heavy snowed in nights that lapsed into early morning. Vibrating, soothing, disturbing, and completely built for headphone trips to the stratosphere. Comes in a chipboard pack with black ink letterpressed artwork." Edition of 300 copies. |
| 11/4/2006 | Taiga Remains | Ribbons of Dust Pt. 2 | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Students of Decay | "angel thin tones crushing ink black nights" Edition of 100 copies. |
| 5/14/2007 | Taiga Remains | Unfamiliar Sphere, Thin as Light | CDR | $14.99 | Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon | "Fabulous concentric circles have been emanating out from Alex Cobbs own splosh in the pond for quite some time now. Judge, jury, and executioner of the rather good Student of Decay label and his own smokin' box of audio-tricks, Taiga Remains, have seen the good Mr Cobb accepted into many a loving home... and rightly so. In spite of the all-acoustic nature of this latest instalment of greatness, 'Unfamiliar Sphere...' may be one of the most electrifying releases to wrap itself in the magic Celebrate Psi Phenomenon wallpaper. Oceans and oceans of shimmer. An engrossing musical sensation very much akin swimming in a lake of luke warm brass. Or being chained to a mile-high gong. Awesome in every respect." |
| 11/17/2007 | Taiga Remains | Xiaguan | 3'' CDR | $7.99 | Students of Decay | "5:45 a.m. tone float. conducted by sunlight and aged puerh and performed with acoustic guitar, electronics, loops, bows, and chopsticks. recorded live at acacia sound, september 2007. music for early mornings." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 12/25/2005 | Talibam! | Talibam! | CDR | $10.99 | Evolving Ear | "Evolving Ear presents the first 'official' release by New York Citys Talibam! Think Media Dream-vintage Sun Ra organ blow-outs locking in with saxophone feedback and a single Plunderphonic-ed Keith Moon drum fill for 40 minutes. Or, imagine Andy Kaufman sitting in on keyboards with Borbetomagus at next years ABC No Rio benefit. Whoa. Each of the 200 copies of Talibam! is packaged in a cut up recycled LP cover with a vinyl insert and a photo of a lone Silver Apples fan taken in Union Square in 1969." "Agro-improv troupe Talibam! will surely harsh your mellow. A cross between noise-rock, free-jazz and unabashad fuckeduppedness, Talibam! is audio terrorism at its most playful...drummer Kevin Shea and the hideous gurgles of what might be Speak & Spells (Matt Mottel, synth) suffocating under distortion pedals (Ed Bear, feedbacksaphone)." - Chris Weingarten, Village Voice |
| 2/21/2007 | Taliban / Paranoid Time | Air Lice | split 10" | $9.99 | SNSE / Tapeworm Tapes | "TALIBAN is the free noise duo of Miles Haney and Joel Rakowski. Miles also runs the label Tapeworm Tapes and has a recording project called Evenings. Taliban has prior releases on: American Tapes, Gods Of Tundra, Fag Tapes, and Tapeworm Tapes, among others. PARANOID TIME is the harsh noise project of Pat Yankee, operator of the SNSE record label. Paranoid Time has past releases on: Animal Disguise Recordings, PacRec/Troniks, Militant Walls, Harsh Head Rituals, Tapeworm Tapes, and Gaping Hole, among others. Air Lice is co-released by Tapeworm Tapes and SNSE and is the vinyl debut for both bands." Edition of 300 copies. |
| 9/30/2005 | Tamburo, Mike | Beating of the Rewound Son | CD | $12.99 | Music Fellowship | "Mike Tamburo (6 string acoustic guitar, organ, keyboard, electronics, tibetan bowl, alarm clock, accordion, piano, ebow, bowed guitar, mandolin, percussive guitar, electric piano, effects, engineering) has created a pristine document of new american ethnic guitar music channeling years of influence and energies similar to the likes of Fahey, Windy and Carl, Six Organs of Admittance, Gastr del Sol, Charlemagne Palesestine, Loren Connors, and Tower Recordings. Tamburo approaches music with the constant joy of discovering new sounds and techniques for himself. As one of the main players behind Meisha and Arco Flute Foundation, Tamburo has dedicated himself to exploring the nuances of his instruments in a group setting. Beating of the Rewound Son at last allows us a glimpse into the sole vision of his exploratory, trance inducing ideas and sounds." |
| 4/5/2008 | Tamburo, Mike & Matt McDowell | At Bohemian Grove | CDR | $11.99 | Ruralfaune | "A long dark, bleak ode to Moloch, the God of the SSupreme Power. Heavy and noisy, more than everything else - Pro printed cover & insert exclusive artwork." Limited edition of 66 copies. |
| 1/25/2004 | Tan As Fuck | Tan As Fuck | CDR | $12.99 | U-Sound | Springwaters in Nashville TN Fall '03- JOMF/Dave Cloud/Tiawan Deth/Laundryroom Squelchers, in a dive where Townes van Zant used to play...an evening of glitter and toast. boy/girl duo tiawan deth, +(1) more...is, Tan As Fuck. Scorch and rip guitar ala Chrome with drums and damaged electronics/ voice. Tracks 1-2 recorded live- 3-6 recorded at Viva La Fuzz in Nashville. Studio tracks rock the beat/sequencer. dat potitics cop suey. Golden! Glorious! |
| 2/4/2007 | Tanakh | Saunders Hollow | CD | $13.99 | Camera Obscura | "Recorded the week before Ardent Fevers (already being hailed by critics as one of the best releases of 2006), in the same studio, with the same engineer (Bryan Hoffa), and with the same cast of musicians, Saunders Hollow, is not a collection of out-takes from those sessions, but a fully realised sister record to Ardent Fevers. Growing out of the song-writing explorations of Michele Poulos and Jesse Poe, Saunders Hollow is a record focusing on the songs of Poulos, who gave them to Poe in the form of thumb-strummed singer/songwriter demos. The results form a female Yin to the male Yang of recent Tanakh work. From the opening seconds of Poe's tortured guitar squalling to the final seconds of fading footsteps, bowed bass and saw that seal the record, the listener is treated to a million sounds all gently gelling into the world of sonic beauty we have come to expect from Tanakh, except for one thingTanakh in their ever changing exploration of sound have placed the lead vocals and songwriting in the ladybird hands of bassist and erstwhile backing vocalist Michele Poulos, leaving Poe in the musician/producer seat, dividing Poulos' previous backing vocal duties between himself and Isobel Campbell. What results is warm bouquet of songs that range from poppy-jazz, through renaissance remembrances, sweet folk, to dark drones and dreamy electronics and even straight up raunchy blues. Saunders Hollow is a place full of inviting mystery and rich texture, with musical twists and turns of every type, leaving the listener in a state of remembrance of all things past, like a stroll amongst Proustian Gardens. Gentle bass, scorching electric guitars, lilting tablas, Asian-strummed ukuleles, swirling electronics, lamenting violins, pulsing vibes, regal harpsichords, gospel organs and juke-joint pianos, sex-driven saxophones, folky acoustic guitars, sound-scaped lap steels, pulsing drums, and honeyed vocals grow together in an immense garden of sound and color that populates the dream landscape of Saunders Hollow." |
| 8/13/2003 | Tangerine Dream | Electronic Meditation | LP | $18.99 | Earmark | "One of the first electronic punk albums in history, When TDs debut Electronic Meditation was recorded, there was virtually no electronic music equipment available at all and yet the band managed to make unusual sounds by using everyday objects, such as a sieve filled with dried peas, an old office calculator, 2 old iron bars and parchment paper. These were recorded with a microphone and then run through reverbs and delays. The results were not always very tonal and miles apart from a commercial pop sound. Furthermore, the studio equipment they had at their disposal was by best means very sparse and everything was recorded directly onto a Revox 1/4" tape machine during one of the band's rehearsals at an old factory in Oct. 1969 in Berlin. This album was also the only TD album to feature electronic musician Klaus Schulze on drums. 180 gram HQ vinyl with PVC audiophile dustsleeve." |
| 3/26/2006 | Tape Salad | Each Banana Is Unique | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Anders Artentoft (Bohman Family/Bimbo Sons) squats and lays a super Copenhagen retard style egg. Full on special needs anti-music with tiny face melt." |
| 11/4/2006 | Tapio, Jorma & Terje Isungset | Aihki | CD | $14.99 | Ektro Records | "Duo's music is thoroughly improvised and its spirit rises from the untameable virgin wilderness of the North. The performance works like an authentic soul trip to the heart of nature. Isungset's unusual and primitive drumset consists of natural materials, like wood and stones. He also plays jaw harp and uses his voice as an instrument. Tapio's repertoire goes from a variety of flutes and clarinets to kantele and all sorts of little instruments...After many years of collaboration, they eventually publish a common album. When listening to this "Aihki" (Ektro-records -released September 2006) you feel that there are no boundaries to their music shamanism, and their deep humanity. Terje Isungset (b. 1964) is one of Europe's most accomplished and innovative percussionists. With over two decades of experience in jazz and ethnic scandinavian music, he is taking these types of music far beyond their traditional boundaries. He has crafted his own instruments from Norwegian natural elements, arctic birch, granite, slate, sheep bells, and even ice. "Yes, Terje Isungset is a drummer; in fact he is one of Norway's most creative percussionists, but this solo set presents him more like a cross between a sound artist and a shaman." François Couture / www.allmusic.com Jorma Tapio tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, bass flute, etc. Jorma Tapio (b.1957) is one of the most emotionally powerful, inventive and original woodwind players in Finland. He is really going his own way to fully express himself and expand his personality through music." |
| 10/6/2007 | Tarp | Drugged by the Heat | CDR | $7.99 | Apostasy Recordings | "Synth-duo Tarp is made up of Joshua Burkett (Vermonster, Believers, solo, etc.) and Conrad Capistran (Sunburned Hand of the Man, Sephiroths Knot). This release is a fantastic document of live Tarp outings in the fertile 2006 year. It felt as though Tarp delivered up something new every week, and you'll find here a varied selection of the most aurally pleasing outcomes. Packaged in a sewn tarp pouch!" |
| 10/6/2007 | Tarp | Tarp | 7" | $5.99 | Apostasy Recordings/Breaking World Records | "Synth-duo Tarp is made up of Joshua Burkett (Vermonster, Believers, solo, etc.) and Conrad Capistran (Sunburned Hand of the Man, Sephiroths Knot). Two tightly edited masterstrokes flank the sides of this 7", taking Tarp out of their familiar live setting and thrusting them under a sonic microscope. Neat and polished, yet still utterly unconstrained. Amazing journeys packed into each four-minute track. Tarp effortlessly glide through a full spectrum of atmospheres: 'call-and-response' conversation, brooding ambience, rhythmic pulses, and melodic lullabies. Full color sleeve art by George W. Myers." |
| 2/17/2003 | Tart | Bring In The Admiral | LP | $11.99 | Swill Radio | "Tart (Graham Lambkin, Karla Borecky, and Scott Foust) presents the world with their second LP, Bring In The Admiral. Using the same minimal instrumentation as the live shows (two small casios, guitar, and a shortwave/cassette boombox plus a few studio effects and The Anti-Naturals trademark: tight, subtle, and yet powerful editing), Tart produces a dazzling array of scenarios, a testament to deranged beauty. Tart is a band that truly does not sound like anyone else." |
| 2/17/2003 | Tart | Live Volume 1 2001-2002 | C90 cassette | $6.99 | Pineapple Tapes | 6 tracks recorded live from Tart (Shadow Rings Graham Lambkin, Swill Radios Scott Foust & Karla Borecky). |
| Tart | Radio Orange | LP | $9.99 | Swill Radio | "The debut LP from the trio of: Karla Borecky, Graham Lambkin, and Scott Foust, recorded and assembled over 8 months between 1999 and 2000. Tart is an exquisite combination of three distinct minds, much like the skillful structure of diverse, yet subtle, ingredients in a piquant and nostalgic recipe: The Past as well as The Future. Tart blends together these strange elements in an organic yet totally disciplined style that renders many of their contemporaries as either flabby or boring." | |
| 8/4/2007 | Tasos Stamou | Infant | CD | $9.99 | editions_zero | "october 06, while seeking a name who would fancy to join valerio tricoli's thessaloniki live date during his short mini tour in north greece, kostis (absurd site's 'curator') drops the name of tasos stamou... 'a close pal who makes bizarre almost toy like sounds using modified toy instruments, loops, tapes & live electronics'. description sounded cool so the set was done. being in xanthi at the moment we missed the set but we drove back home in amphissa carrying a couple of super limited cdrs of tasos works which we listened totally aficionated w/ his incredible fresh & lovely sounds!!! being back home impressed from the super dark psych electronics set valerio had done w/ little children during amaryllis's 3rd birthday party we found ourselves in a pure exhilarating mood listening to such awesome crafted beautiful childlike toy sounds. from bizarre electronica, to a couple of kinda klimperei tunes and improvised toylike (kinda 'plastic') sounds we thought it would be such a pitty not to share the enthusiasm and those lovely litle sounds w/ the rest of our pals around so here are documented some of his most awesome sounds culled from obscure super limited cdr releases, archive material, plus new specially recorded for the release material, of one of the most promising names of the obscure greek electronica scene!" |
| 2/21/2008 | Tau Emerald | Travellers Two | CD | $13.99 | Important | "Travellers Two is a full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Sharron Kraus. Together Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic. Tara Burke and Sharron Kraus were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight, so instead they decided to spend the week recording together and Travellers Two is the result. The time was spent out in the fields, visiting burial mounds, and then coming back to Sharron's home studio to work. They had played previously together and done some recording but this is the first time an album was conceived." |
| 8/28/2007 | Taurpis Tula | Cadillac Sitting Like a Ton of Lead | LP | $22.99 | Ikuisuus | "Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead, the brand new album from the Taurpis Tula trio of David Keenan (Tight Meat Duo), Heather Leigh (Scorces/Dream Aktion Unit/Jandek) and Alex Neilson (Tight Meat Duo / Directing Hand / Jandek / Richard Youngs et al), represents the absolute apex of their twin guitar/drums incarnation, with two side-long improvised psychedelic blues that combine the kind of epic string-muscle of Fushitsusha, Ohkami No Jikan, Kousokuya and Rallizes Denudes with a sublime avant-garage sensibility and massive pockets of time-killing freedom. Further amplifying the malevolent narcosis of their debut LP on Eclipse, Cadillac... is a full blown rock record that full delivers on their vision of Yoko jamming with Red Transistor in a world where the conventional middle-brow canon is pretty much upended in favour of primitive avant garde brut. There are grooves here that are as magnetic and future-visioned as The Magic Band circa 'Big Eyed Beans From Venus' or the final seconds of amplifier meltdown on Mainliner's Mellow Out while the playing is at an all-time ESP-channelled high, with the group generating glorious metal-inflected simultaneities without the slightest whiff of dialogue or even listening with ears.This is a profound statement of the kind of freak-out freedoms inherent in the most primal blues/rock forms and a revitalising connection to the source of *it*, further building on the kind of form the group were packing during their monstrous jam at Thurston Moore's Nightmare Before Christmas. Features Heather Leigh on vocals, harmonica and pedal steel, David Keenan on electric guitar and Alex Neilson on drums. Packaged in individually silkscreened sleeves by disobedient Belgian artist Jelle Crama and featuring all-original artwork by Heather Leigh on the front, the insert and the labels, Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead comes in a limited edition of 440 copies." - Douglas Gully. |
| 9/11/2003 | Taylor, Terry Earl | Another Time | CD | $10.99 | Dark Holler | "Terry Earl Taylor plays a Fender Allegro five-string banjo in the two-finger picking style. He draws from the folksong traditions of the UK and Appalachia , and like all the great banjo songsters, he adds much of his own style to the music. A comparison might be Clive Palmer (though Terry has never heard Clives music!), or perhaps Dock Boggs if he was from Edwardian England. But really, Terry is his own man, playing his own music, timeless and original. Another Time is a collection of songs that range from originals, to the partly traditional (with additional lyrics by Terry), to the wholly traditional. This music resides in the lonely back roads, haunted dark hollers, and graveyards of the rural traditions that bore it. One listen to the spine-chilling Go Make another Grave will make it apparent why we felt this Dark Holler was the right home for Terry Earl Taylor." |
| 2/11/2004 | Team Discovery Channel | Nocturnes | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Yet another wondrous offshoot of the Deserted Village 'Collective' out of Ireland (see Murmansk, The Cosmic Nanou, United Bible Studies etc), T.D.C present a collection of improvisations as evocative of trad melancholy folk as discreet contemporary 'noise'. Acoustic guitars and harmonium (?) brush up against controlled feedback and electric guitars. Loud, quiet, warm, cold. Makes sense to my 'N.Z' ears - even though its somewhat better recorded...!" |
| Tear Garden | For those who would walk with the gods | CD | $16.99 | Brudenia | "An anthology made for the Russian market collecting tracks from all of their CDs, plus two previously unreleased tracks. Numbered edition of 2000 copies. Since all the text on the disc is in cyrillic, here is the track listing: Circles In The Sand, In Search Of My Rose, Sheila Liked The Rodeo, Ascension Day, White Coats And Haloes, Isis Veiled, You And Me And Rainbows, A Ship Named 'despair', The Running Man, Malice Through The Looking Glass, Good Evening Houston, and Good Night Little Lights (the last two being the unreleased tracks). | |
| 1/1/2008 | Tecumseh | Crossing Divides | LP | $12.99 | Black Horizons / Anarchymoon Recordings | "Co-released between Black Horizons and Anarchymoon Recordings, this is the first release from this Portland (OR) group that creates drone metal of the heaviest variety, although with more forward movement than some of their peers, and the addition of cold space electronic hiss. Using 2 basses and electronics, the recording captures them in fine form in their less-abusive sonic range with all the power that their carefully crafted sound conveys live. Limited to 384 on black vinyl, with amazing fold-out covers printed in metallic blue ink on charcoal linen paper by the inimitable Seizure Palace, with resealable polyclear outer sleeves and poly-lined-paper inner sleeves." |
| 5/29/2008 | Teeth Collection & Plasmic Formations | Collaboration | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "Former yes, collapsers and current dayton house mates serve up two helpings of zoned-out, reverb packed activity. these are the sounds that come out of the basements you don't go into, or the small town graveyards that are half paved over. organic and unearthly with freights of gelatinous tones and vocal black magic." |
| 1/20/2002 | Tele | Tele | LP | $12.99 | Womb Tunes | "The fantastic debut by this Texas based band. Moves from warm, mostly acoustic folk psych songs to relaxed space rock to relaxed space rock soundscapes into some improv electronica beauty." |
| 9/14/2004 | Telstar Ponies | Hares on the Mountain | 10" | $9.99 | Static Caravan / Obelisk | "The new (2003) self-titled ep from Scotland's Telstar Ponies opens with radiant interpretations of two timeless pieces of music. The first, a supple reworking of the traditional Scottish song, 'Hares on the Mountain', has a beautiful split vocal structure with singer Rachel Devine's devilishly sweet voice set against guitarist (and Wire contributor) David Keenan's deep, steady counterpart. 'One Hand, One Heart', taken from Leonard Bernstein and Steven Sondheim's score for 'West Side Story', is reduced to an undressed simplicity on piano, but is no less effective.'Terrible Night' and 'Athanasius K', meanwhile, display the ponies at their neo-psych-folk best, as scream-pitch feedback plays around a fierce, shattered valley of erratic trumpet and crashing drums." The Wire. |
| 3/21/2007 | Temple | Temple | CD | $20.99 | Psi-Fi | "Psych/prog Krautrock issued in a tiny quantity of just 20-30 in Germany 1976-77. Heavy full on guitars, spacey Moogs with male/female vocals." Features Poseidon on vocals, Pauline Fund (vocals, tambourine), Zeus B Held (Hammond, mini-Moog, Mellotron), Heinz Kramer (guitar), Rolf Foller (guitar), Joachim Weiss (bass) and Otto Bretnacher (drums)." |
| 3/6/2008 | Temple Defectors, The / Claypipe | split | 10" | $37.99 | Humbug | "The Temple Defectors is James Ferraro & Spencer Clark, presenting here a fine slab of vintage violence (from around the time they did "Dark Rye Bread" and "Gambling in Ohpa's Shadow" (as the Skaters)) - essential. On the flip is some fine itinerant heavy lidded psych by Claypipe - that's Antony Milton and Clayton Noone from New Zealand. Limited lathe cut 10" to 120 copies in proper hand assembled covers, with a poster insert and resealable sleeve." Killer - recommended! |
| 1/1/2008 | Temple of Bon Matin | Flower Footed Ghost | CD | $17.99 | Ruby Red | "New set of "deep south psychedelia" from one of the loudest/freest band in America, led by powerhouse drummer Ed Wilcox and featuring saxophonist Vinnie Paternostro, bassist Eric Bayles, violinist Jim Flagg, and percussion/synth/guitar from Jay Reeve. Alongside a bunch of guests the group conjure up the kinda apocalyptic free-form jam logic that would reconcile oracular F/X soaked vox, dunting percussive grooves ala Wilcox's work with Arthur Doyle in the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and some almost Hawkwind-esque electrified urban guerrilla mainlining." - David Keenan |
| 9/17/2006 | Temple of Bon Matin | Monkeys Straw Raincoat | CDR | $12.99 | Spirit of Orr | "How can it be that every time we turn around, ED WILCOX, and his Temple of Bon Matin have squeezed out a new record, and each record takes us (by that I mean the 'world') closer to the nexus. Okay, this record is simply the most psychedelically mannered BON MATIN yet, and it is also the most soulful, and the most vocal, and most pre-cussive, and most acoustic. MONKEYS STRAW RAINCOAT takes the direction of the CABIN IN THE SKY release and turns it back into itself, it propels like BULLET INTO MESMER'S BRAIN, but it is a space capsule without any fuselage. What the hell am I talking about? Limited to 300 hand assembled copies." |
| 5/29/2008 | Temples | Murk | CDR | $12.99 | Pseudoarcana | "With the advent of September 11, 2001 the musical underground found itself ripe once more for a rejuvenation of beards and acoustic guitars. And who am I to complain- I have a beard and like a bit of a finger pick myself.. Temples is Kevin Richards . He hails from Denver, Colorado, in the good old USA. 'Murk' is an acoustic guitar album. I'm not sure if Kevin has a beard. What is refreshing to these ears about this record is that its an acoustic guitar album wherein the guitar itself is subsumed within the glorious phenomena of the recording media itself, and in this case one of my personal favourites- TAPE! Building up layer after layer of distant and hissy strummed and picked guitars Temples creates a kaleidoscopic miasma which shifts and drifts through vast caverns and tiny rooms, the various rhythms in and out of phase as patterns collide and repel. There's a deceptive ease and simplicity to the way Murk breathes. I know for a fact that Richards spent many months shaping these pieces into the ramshackle atmospheric drone works they have become. If you were after a comparison I would suggest that Temples does for the guitar what Dialing In does for keyboards and shruti boxes. I'm often worn down by long pieces, and especially long albums. Just because one can fit 70 minutes on a cdr doesn't mean one should. 'Murk' however is an album that benefits from the extended room that the individual tracks are given to roam an evolve. This is a murk I'm more than happy to lose myself in for an hour." |
| 12/1/2007 | Ten Thousand Things, The | The Ten Thousand Things | CDR | $10.99 | The Lotus Sound | "Following two self-released CD-Rs which scraped the underbelly of the avant-garde, The Ten Thousand Things return with their third blast of blackened folk. Released as part of The Lotus Sound's Handmade Series, The Ten Thousand Things continues along the band's path across the tangled terrain of the droneworld. Recently relocated to Athens, Georgia, multi-instrumentalist Wes Covey is this time joined by Savannah, Georgia's psychedelic dreamstress Jessica Calleiro (uncle owen aunt beru), who blesses 'The Song' with vocals, drums and weather. Ben Peck, a native of Covey's birthplace deep in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom adds scorching vocals to a retelling of the traditional 'Who's Gonna Be Your Man?' On the remaining six songs, Covey utilizes his palate of guitars, bass, samples and various percussive instruments to create a series of compositions that face the light more than previous releases, while still holding the darkness at their backs. Those who've had their ears perked by the sounds of Six Organs of Admittance, Pelt, Hala Strana and likeminded folk destroyers will want to set aside some time to give this slab a spin. Mostly, though, anyone interested in blending folk forms with drone experimentalism and the shivering blackness of doom will find want to free their minds to the sound of The Ten Thousand Things." |
| 6/19/2007 | Tent / City | Drought | one-sided LP | $12.99 | Gilgongo Records | "Tent City play free-form sound / music; broken folk meeting crackling noise, somewhere between artists such as Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Don Cherry, The Dead Machines and The Davenport Family. Twenty minute live set recorded in Feb. 2006 at a show in Phoenix, AZ with The Dead Science, after one of the longest recorded droughts in Phoenix history. Limited to 330, "Drought" is Tent/City's first "proper" record, following several short-run and sold-out releases on Not Not Fun and Night People, and is a one-sided clear record, the B-side being multi-screened and color-blended. This labor of love was a long-time in the making and is finally ready to be unleashed." |
| 1/19/2004 | Terminal Lovers | Drama Pit and Loan | CD | $11.99 | Biological Records | Currently this is Julian Copes Album of the Month. He wrote: Immediately this motherfucker dropped on to the stereo, I knew I was in the presence of True Heads with One Eye fixed on the lunations of the heavens. That the album etched its way directly into my brain on first hearing is startling, for I listen to shitloads of new stuff and mainly wait for their turgid meandering self-obsessions to struggle to locate any dignified conclusion. And after the deep art-rock invention of Terminal Lovers, most of the so-called stoner rock gathering in their masses is just so much novelty compost. .......guitar genius Dave Cintrons mini-supergroup acid rocks squarely in the chaotic Cuyahoga axe-drone tradition, though now and then you might hear Funhouse filtered through the Birthday Party and/or Get Your Wings..... - Chuck Eddy, Village Voice. |
| 3/2/2008 | Terracid | 2023 | CDR | $8.99 | Students of Decay | "2023 marks the latest interplanetary excursions by Michael Donnelly (mymwly/Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood) and it's a diverse platter of headtripping psych-drone-clatter-rock if ever I've heard one. In fact, each of the album's twelve tracks finds Donnelly mining different territory, channeling the psychedelic ghosts of Japan and Germany through the lens of the sonic traditions of planets light years further away from the Sun than our own." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 4/24/2006 | Terracid | Abraxas | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | soil then fatness of thinking although the top of the skull is better letting the light out. "Michael Donnelly sure has a knack for harnessing the throbbing, magickal energy that flows beneath the surface of objective reality. Listening to any of his work - either solo as Terracid, or in any of his many collaborations under the Musicyourmindwillloveyou umbrella - you can almost imagine him communing with entities long-forgotten by today's accelerated civilization. On "Abraxas" we find Donnelly exploring the duality associated with the Gnostic deity with which this album shares a name. Scholars are divided as to whether the aforementioned entity is a god, or actually a demon. On this particular release, Donnelly has harnessed both the benevolent bliss associated with the former and the dissonant mayhem often attributed to the latter. Opener "Her Shadow Ate the Ground" treads deeply, if slowly, through acid-laced waters. A plodding bass and drum framework is dutifully decorated with gurgling analog synth sounds and otherworldly howling. Donnelly builds intricate textures of sound, only to destroy them once they've served their dark purposes. "Ur" continues down the same path, but is considerably more unsettling. We've entered a cavern peopled with creatures that are unseen but have otherwise made their ghastly presence known - do we make our escape slowly or do we immediately flee the scene?? Donnelly doesn't give us time to choose, as we're immediately attacked on all sides by the amazing drum inferno that is "Ra." With pummelling drums and overdriven synth and guitar building into an intense blanket of fuzzy static, our minds are veritably melted then and there. Just when it seems like we're done for, the wall of sound topples and a chiming guitar is all that remains. This is what I love best about Donnelly's work - his ability to suddenly shift gears, often in mid-song. Soothing analog melodies introduce "Sunrim" before we once again delve into darker territory as a deep bass line and some light percussive clatter carry us onward. The album ends with the relatively short drum assault "Hoof," which indeed gives the impression of being trampled by a stampede of wild horses. The briskness of this final song almost makes the album seem to end to soon. Thankfully, there doesn't seem to be an end to the amazing stream of releases sprouting forth from the Musicyourmindwillloveyou camp, so it won't be long before Donnelly's back to claim our souls again.- Bryon Hayes |
| 4/24/2006 | Terracid | Fortress of Eternal Smells | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | more scifi lofi mind fry. "Michael Donnelly of the Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood: the zoned tribal folk of Botos in a head-on collision with lo-fi electronics. This is a sort-of reissue of a cdr that was supposed to come out on Hiulcity but didn't and comes in a hand-painted sleeve." - Boa Melody Bar |
| 4/11/2008 | Terracid | Skies | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "An eightball of swallowed volumes and hippy rockwork for the wingless . spiraling drift thread thin like minute spider webs until the floor becomes the sky." |
| 12/24/2005 | Terracid | Transcendent Reign Inheritor | CDR | $11.99 | muiscyourmindwillloveyou | reissue of 2nd terracid disc , previously available on foxglove |
| 6/19/2007 | Terraplane | Into the Unknown | DBL LP | $42.99 | Nasoni | "Remastered and enhanced edition of last year's self-released album by psychedelic heavy rock riff-meisters from Wernigerode, Germany. Very cool down'n'dirty heavy acid rock with lots of stoner friendly vibes, but also some very nice mellow and moody psychedelic pieces under the hood. Everything centers around the eponymous 15 minutes 'Into The Unknown', a slowly unfolding psychedelic epos with laid-back guitars, arabesque sitar passages and spacey organ along the way before cranking up the gain and fuzzing its way into the unknown. Dig it!" Gatefold sleeve, edition of 500 copies - 100 on colored vinyl - all copies in stock are colored vinyl. |
| 3/29/2005 | Terrestrial Tones | Blasted | CD | $12.99 | Psych-o-Path Records | "Terrestrial Tones is the home recorded project of roommates Dave Portner (Avey Tare of Animal Collective) and Eric Copeland of Black Dice, published by an emerging label in the underground noise scene, Psych-o-Path records." |
| 9/23/2004 | Terrestrial Tones | Blasted | LP | $15.99 | Psych-O-Path | "Terrestrial Tones is the home recorded project of roommates Dave Portner (Avey Tare of Animal Collective) and Eric Copeland of Black Dice, published by an emerging label in the underground noise scene, Psych-o-Path records. Blasted, their debut record combines a creepy parade of burlesque musicalia with the underwater travels of a submarine 20,000 leagues under the sea. Deep almost unrecognizable vocals hidden in layers of sub-bass warbles are reminiscent of work on the Charhizma Label, particularly Christof Kurzmann and his collaborations with Dafeldecker and dieb13. Likewise there are nods to the diverse almost pop-twitch of Dat Politics and the polyrhythmic patterns of the Basic Channel/Chain Reaction projects. It's a dance music record (microtonal future extremely abstract dance) for people who like to wiggle to shoes tumbling in washing machines with monkey cymbals and puppet shows. It is serious yet unpretentious, even whimsical, and will appeal to fans of experimental electronics, IDM, Throbbing Gristle and related, the drones and squeals of Black Dice and the nouveau pop psychedelia of Animal Collective." |
| 4/24/2006 | Terrestrial Tones | Dead Drunk | CD | $13.99 | Paw Tracks | "Brooklyn's Terrestrial Tones is the roommate duo of Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and Dave Portner (The Animal Collective). Over the years the two have been quietly making music in between Animal Collective and Black Dice commitments. Recorded in their apartment while living in Paris last summer, Terrestrial Tones' third record Dead Drunk sounds like the duo spent a bit too much time in the Parisian flea markets. African food stands, forgotten European pop records, discarded American analog pedals and junk, old Soviet electronics, they all come together into something highly disconcerting, curiously pleasurable, and beyond new." |
| 4/24/2006 | Terrestrial Tones | Dead Drunk | LP | $12.99 | Paw Tracks | "Brooklyn's Terrestrial Tones is the roommate duo of Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and Dave Portner (The Animal Collective). Over the years the two have been quietly making music in between Animal Collective and Black Dice commitments. Recorded in their apartment while living in Paris last summer, Terrestrial Tones' third record Dead Drunk sounds like the duo spent a bit too much time in the Parisian flea markets. African food stands, forgotten European pop records, discarded American analog pedals and junk, old Soviet electronics, they all come together into something highly disconcerting, curiously pleasurable, and beyond new." |
| 6/7/2005 | Terrestrial Tones | Oboroed / Circus Lives | CD | $15.99 | Uunited Acoustic Recordings | "Terrestrial Tones are Eric Copeland and Dave Portner, two dedicated musicians who make their own sounds while on hiatus from their respective bands: Black Dice and Animal Collective. The Tones' music was made to be played live through a huge stack of speakers yet listening to 'Oboroed' in your own space is oddly relaxing as sound waves morph and sonic tapestries shift. This is noise but very deep noise minimally composed and direct sounding. 'Oboroed' is slightly longer and more subdued, coming in almost like GAS and then shifting through different songs to a kaleidoscopic and epic effect. 'Circus Lives' is more aggressive, particularly with the bass frequencies, with the cascading rhythms of the mid-range, and with the bold choice of samples. Oboroed / Circus Lives was recorded by the Tones at Terrestrial Home in November 2004 then mixed and mastered with Rusty Santos in January 2005. Although the lineage from Animal Collective and Black Dice can be faintly detected in the music, Oboroed / Circus Lives maps a different territory barely touched upon with their other bands. They present electronic music with a surprising new take." |
| 4/2/2004 | Terrifying Experience, The | Magnetic Breakthrough | CD | $9.99 | Mental Telemetry | "Mitch Mitchell and his Terrifying Experience tear apart the rock paradigm, bringing all of its raw eccentricities into full view: garage, psychedelia, punk and the cosmic spaces in between. Mitch Mitchell played guitar in the 'classic line-up' of Guided By Voices, while other TEX members have played in semi-legendary Ohio underground bands such as: The Method, Pica Huss, Vibralux and Monster Truck 005. Psych damaged, full-on, rock 'n roll - make no mistake." |
| 11/2/2002 | Terroade, Kenneth | Love Rejoice | LP | $15.99 | BYG / Actuel / Get Back | "Recorded on June 10, 1969 at BYG's Studio Saravah in Paris. Jamaican born tenor saxophonist Kenneth Terroade appears here with Ronnie Beer, Evan Chandley, Francois Tusques, Bob Guerin, Earl Freeman and Claude Delcloo." |
| 3/23/2007 | Thai Record | Thai Record | LP | $11.99 | Mississippi | "A true mystery, this field recording appeared on our doorstep. Due to a lack of information, this LP has become known as The Thai Record. This is a stunning record of hypnotic country Molam from Thailand. A rich tapestry of heavy percussion, xlyophone, khaen & phin (more or less the Thai electric guitar). A strong groove behind an inherently psychedelic music. Edition of 560 with striking paste-on jackets." |
| Think | The Drift | CDR | $3.99 | Last Visible Dog | "The past has found Lincoln, Nebraska's free-est rock band all over the map, going from sloppy Ornette Coleman tributes to noisy King Crimson destructions. Now, with The Drift, Think get focused. Side One is 30 minutes of wind-swept all-instrumental trance-jamming, like a lickless Carlos Santana recording a trio date for ESP-Disk. Side Two is Think's skewed idea of a pop album, featuring their legendary live staple, the 12-minute 'Fucked Up By The Sun'; the eerie 'Lucie'; a folk-stumble; a found-sound collage; a nude Morricone tribute; and an inexplicable gust of Borbetomagian squall." | |
| 3/26/2006 | Think | Variety | LP | $27.99 | Amber Soundroom | "Think came from Marl, Germany and its members had already experiences in some other bands. Progressive rock was played with guitar, flutes, piano, organ, violin, bass, drums and vocals. The name of the band is its leitmotif. The music is a joint effort showing the bands conformity. The English lyrics, full of images and metaphors, are musically arranged in such a way that everyday problems become apparent through symbols. In 1972 the only LP was recorded at the small Menga-studio at Gelsenkirchen in an edition of 500 copies. The reissue, which is presented here, is also available in an edition of 500 LPs and includes a nice colour printed fold-out insert and has a poster, too. 180 gram vinyl." |
| 7/16/2006 | This Heat | Out of Cold Storage | 6xCD Box | $99.99 | This Is | "The complete official lifetime releases of This Heat: This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Made Available and Repeat, re-mastered and re-packaged, with a substantial (48pp) book of interviews, recollections, information, documents and photographs in a sturdy box, PLUS a new CD of concert recordings." Limited stock. |
| 9/6/2002 | Thomas, Carei Feel Free Ensemble | Mining Our Bid'ness | CD | $12.99 | Roartorio | "A revelatory debut album by a 64 year old pianist/composer may beg the question: where has Carei Thomas been all this time? Born in a culturally diverse neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Thomas cut his musical teeth in Chicago during a particularly fertile period for that city: gigging with Sun Ra as an improvising vocalist in 1959-60, joining up with the AACM for one hot minute in 1966, co-founding a group called The Light with Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (which also included Jerome Cooper and Wadada Leo Smith), and forming the compositional concepts that would provide a springboard for tireless exploration in the ensuing decades. Thomas moved to Minneapolis in 1972, where, in the mode of Horace Tapscott, he eschewed the industry-driven career path, choosing instead to work within the Twin Cities' community. Recorded live with a group that features, most notably, the unfettered talents of Curlew saxophonist George Cartwright, Mining Our Bid'ness represents the range of Thomas' no-boundaries Feel Free Ensemble, running the gamut from gorgeous Ellingtonian ballads to combustible free jazz testifying." |
| 11/9/2004 | Thompson, Nathan | Bell | CDR | $14.99 | Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon | Deep, lonesome, and becalming. The good Mr Thompson usually constitutes one third of shapeshifting Dunedin-ites Sandoz Lab Technicians and upon his recent relocation to Sydney, Australia stumbled into delightful solace in the quicksand of the digital realm. A warm, chunky, broth of free-form, lo-fi, loop-soup that suffers not-a-bit from the fact that it was created entirely within the four cold walls of a hard drive. A beautiful baby in the Sandoz family. |
| 2/21/2008 | Thornton, Carter | Ten Fingers for Forefathers | LP | $18.99 | Black Dirt Records | "If you are a fan of the archaic format of music storage and delivery known as vinyl then you are also probably experienced in the art of search and rescue when faced with a pre-auction era, dusty, moldy shop filled to the rafters with such blasts from the past. Every now and then one comes upon a platter in one of these fading outposts, marked at about $3.99. Cover seams split, maybe some radio call letters scrawled in marker, maybe a booze-coffee-bongwater spill splayed like a Rorschach on the back. Perhaps it is the cover art itself that draws your attention black and white photos seemingly from another time in content and message. Or perhaps it is the title of the albumthe way it rolls off the tongue, its playfulness marked by a seemingly obscure reference. The fact that there are no song titles may pique your interest why is this? Are there even songs on there? You can see the gaps in the grooves so there is some sound being broken up with seconds of silence. You wipe the grime off the grooves with your shirtsleeve and take the disc over to the crappy player up by the register. You pop it on, slip the needle in the groove, and immediately you have the thought "What the hell is this?!?!?" You're hearing one of those rare recordings of a singular and personal vision. A solo guitar performance that not only operates outside any current or previous fashions, but one that seems to render the idea of recorded music as commerce a nonreality. Although you are carried away with delight by the sounds you are hearing, you can't help but wonder why this person recorded this music. His intent is as elusive as the music he is presenting. It seems as though you are there with the player, this audio mirage helped by sounds of his chair creaking, his arm brushing against the side of his instrument, his fingers scraping across the strings. You purchase the item straightaway, as determined to figure out the history of the recording as you are to wear out its grooves with repeated listenings. With Ten Fingers for Forefathers the proverbial chase has been cut right to. Take a listen and see if you can crack the sonic code contained therein." Recorded at Black Dirt Studio in Westtown, NY. Pressed on to 180 gram vinyl by RTI in Camarillo, CA. The covers were screened by VGKids in Ypsilanti, MI. Edition of 500 copies. |
| Thornton, Clifford | Ketchaoua | LP | $16.99 | Get Back | "This album was recorded in Paris on August 18, 1969 by Clifford Thornton (cornet and conga drums) with Grachan Moncur III (trombone), Archie Shepp (soprano saxophone), Arthur Jones (alto saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), Sunny Murray (drums), Beb Guerin (bass), Earl Freeman (bass) and Claude Delcloo (drums). 'Clifford Thornton was a player and a composer whose obscurity was offset by the high esteem in which he was held by his fellow musicians... like Shepp, Thornton was actively involved in advancing the ideology of the black nationalist movement... and all of his recordings are intense and important about those matters that were close to his heart - liberation, communication and unity'. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl." | |
| 8/28/2007 | Thousands | Overflow'd & Gush'd Out | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "When the curtain opens on the lone figure at the head of the stage as he blows his harmonica, hoping to conjure spirits from the layers of dust on the floor. wailing vocals light the balconies and waft their way toward the smoky heavens of the lushly decorated ceiling. thousands is the sister of the mighty (VxPxC), but this extended family vision is a much larger beast. on "overflow'd & gush'd out," thousands are six. disjointed melodies reclaim the horizon from fractured guitar lines and sporadic drum blasts. thousands move like a machine across the landscape, sucking up everything in their path, inviting it all in to join in their revolt. rebelling against what? that's not all that important when it sounds so damn good. 100 copies" |
| 12/25/2005 | Three Forks | Seven Layer Ape | CD | $12.99 | United Fairy Moons | "This collection of 2002-04 recordings by the recently deceased Dunedin trio Three Forks is the first widely available disc to feature guitarist Donald McPherson since 2001's solo effort 'Bramble' (metonymic), praised for it's originality and McPherson's obvious mastery of guitar picking, His longstanding weekend duo with Sandoz Lab Technician Tim Cornelius was expanded early in 2002 to include James Currin, and although they didn't play out for over a year they setttled down to regular jamming and recording, initially concentrating on shortish improv power-trio jams, on guitar, drums and cello respectively. This first phase is represented here by two tracks, 'Ums and Ahs' and 'Peru', with McPherson way out front on electric guitar, his extraordinary improvising imagination leading the group down a line somewhere between rock and a giddy free-jazz cuckoo-fest. By the time of their first shows in 2003, the balance had spread out with Currin and Cornelius contributing on a wide variety of instuments, and McPherson mainly on acoustic. In this year they recorded 'Baby Ives', released as one half (with Eye) of a lathe-cut 10", which veered wildly in mood between the hideous and the gorgeous, with vocals, radio and drum machine used in addition to the acoustic arsenal - it was a pointer towards the strange, rickety beast that is represented on the '03/'04 recordings here. The opener 'Dust Tea' is a quiet beauty, simple violin and cello framing McPherson's entrancing home-made-guitar plucks. 'Otaru Vision' and 'Trimming The Verge' drone and saw, playing elevation against irritation with strong noise elements, while 'Page 99' and 'Drunken Traffic' achieve a level of melodic layering that is extraordinary for a purely improvising group. The last in particular, a complete 15-minute jam recorded live at Dunedin's Community Gallery, points out where this group's head was at when they were at their best - a near-wallowing in melodic intensities that never caramelizes, and never, ever heads in the direction you expect it to. Indeed like this track, almost every track on 'Seven Layer Ape' is a complete, unedited, un-fucked-with performance (only 'Otaru Vision' is an excerpt) with just their fronts and ends tidied up; and while the Community Gallery recording is a little cavernous, replete with the sounds of car alarms, engines, and passing late-night-shoppers, the rest of the disc features exceptionally clear and present sound, unusual in a band mining this area of the improv universe. James Robinson, who drew the cover art, is known NZ-wide for his massive, completely insane graphomaniac canvases, and each cover is handscreened and partially hand-painted by Currin and Cornelius. We're very happy to be able to present this band's work and in particular to present another side of Donald McPherson's world-class guitar playing. This label got its' start with his 'Liquified' lathe LP (a recording of a 2001 gig), and both Cornelius and Currin contributed to that record; and so it is that our first real CD release should be this impressive and singular album." |
| 2/11/2006 | Three Legged Race | Living Order | cassette | $7.99 | Tone Filth | "Sick deeply layered tones from solo Robo of Hair Police. Layers and layers of hearing test tones and subtle drones. Edition of 121 with hand screened covers and tapes." |
| 6/5/2005 | Three Outpourings, The | Organic Evacuation | CDR | $10.99 | Manhand | "The death of the animal will be typified by pouring back the water from the glass into the bucket, when the coloring matter will at once spread through the whole of the water, tinting it faintly. In exactly the same way, whatever qualities have been developed during the life of the separated animal will be distri<caron>buted through the whole group-soul after his death." Limited edition of 225 copies from Sunburned's Chad Cooper & Mike K with Donald Harney. Recommended! |
| 1/15/2005 | Throbbing Gristle | Final Muzak | CD | $12.99 | Dressed to Kill | Re-packaged version of First Annual Report - Throbbing Gristles first album originally recorded in 1979. Housed in a slipcase with 8 page booklet including pictures and sleeve notes. A review of First Annual Report: "Rock and roll is supposed to be all about rebellion. Elvis' pelvis, the Who's guitar-smashing excess, Twisted Sister's hideous makeup and perms - it's all about distancing yourself from the generation that came before you and doing something daring and new. The old adage goes that if your parents hate it, it must be good. Suffice to say your parents will hate Throbbing Gristle. The only problem is, you might not be that into it, either. Consider that First Annual Report begins with the 18-minute 'Very Friendly,' a sustained blast of pulsing static and grating noise that seems designed to flatten your eardrums. As if this sonic caning weren't enough, vocalist Genesis P-Orridge rambles for the first 14 or so minutes about a would-be sexual encounter that degenerates into a brutal axe murder. P-Orridge's intonation of, 'Ian Brady, very friendly,' is creepy as all hell, especially when tape manipulator Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson loops it for three minutes at the end, alternating it with P-Orridge's demented cry: 'there's been a murder.' Now consider that First Annual Report was recorded in 1975, with little precedent for this kind of recording. The Velvet Underground had toyed with twisted narratives on 'The Gift,' but they'd never taken their music this far outside the pop realm. The other great noise opus of 1975, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, though more abstract, never went so far as Throbbing Gristle did toward open confrontation with the listener. And yet, the band, known for being highly confrontational, held back the release of this album until now, opting instead to release Second Annual Report as their debut full-length in 1977. This record is essentially the birth of industrial music, packed with samples, abrasive, irregular beats, manipulated loops, and Cosey Fanni Tutti's often unrecognizable guitar. Nurse with Wound, Cabaret Voltaire, Einstürzende Neubauten, Skinny Puppy, Controlled Bleeding, and Acid Bath are just a few of the outfits that owe a huge debt to Throbbing Gristle's unrelenting assault. First Annual Report sonically chronicles the decay of Industrial Revolution Britain. Chris Carter's programmed beats are the rhythms of broken machinery - glitch before it was cool. The music is gray and sooty, and revels in crime and horrifying imagery. So 'Final Muzak' is hardly the kind of thing you'd want playing in elevators or fine eating establishments. You'd be hard pressed even to call it a song - or anything else here, for that matter - as it has no form, melody or even a discernable rhythm. Throbbing Gristle's later albums are definitely better places to start if you want to get to the roots of industrial music (20 Jazz Funk Greats is a personal favorite), featuring more variety, and a more penetrable sound, but their first effort is nearly unparalleled in terms of shear visceral content. If pummeling noise for its own sake and direct confrontation between band and listener is your bag, then the gristle throbs for thee. But if you're anyone else, you're quite likely to despise this, and it's debatable whether or not you'll be able to sit through the whole thing even once." - Joe Tangari, Pitchfork |
| 1/15/2005 | Throbbing Gristle | Grief | CD | $12.99 | Yeahh | "One of the more strange entries in the Throbbing Gristle catalog, though not one of their best, Grief offers two LP-side-long collages of various rumblings and tweakings and other electronic noises, even half a minute of Subhuman, with several interviews with Throbbing Gristle's leader, Genesis P-Orridge, and occasional interjections from other bandmembers. Most of the interviews are put though various effects boxes, lots of echoing, and other distortions that make them quite difficult to follow, and other times two different dialogues are going on at once. It's too bad, because at times what P-Orridge has to say is quite fascinating, like when he talks about censorship and his troubles of mailing pornographic postcards or going through William S. Burroughs' archives of old tape experiments. A bit less on the effects and sounds would have been an improvement. Everything is piled on top of each other haphazardly for one chaotic soup of noise that is really too confusing to be effective. This comes off too much like the work of stoned college sophomores with a multi-track and too much time on their hands. - Rolf Semprebon, All Music Guide. Maybe so, but I still like it! |
| 9/30/2005 | Thuja | Pine Cone Temples | DBL CD | $16.99 | Strange Attractors Audio House | "Much has been said about The Jewelled Antler Collective, the fertile womb from which Thuja emits its primordial ooze, and of Thuja itself. A loose-knit assembly of like-minded sound ecologists who study the connections between their immediate environment and the music created by its players, Jewelled Antler claims a multitude of music makers in its orbit - Blithe Sons, Skygreen Leopards, Franciscan Hobbies being just a mere cross-section. Thuja, however, remains one of the earliest and best-known incarnations. Steven R. Smith, Glenn Donaldson, Loren Chase, and Rob Reger coalesce interests in field recordings, found sound, experimentalism, folk and psychedelic rock (among others) to weave seriously detailed and immense journeys into pure sound. By incorporating real-time recordings of natural sounds from their particular surroundings, the four members of Thuja play off each other and the space they inhabit with impeccable instinct, succeeding in creating eerie yet strikingly melodic compositions. The end result is a total immersion of the senses, for both the player and the listener. Across the grand expanse of Pine Cone Temple's two discs, implements such as piano, guitars, percussion, and well-placed contact mics are blended like pigments to conjure the subtlest of sonics, pulling every lost drop of their immediate universe into floating and buzzing cinematics. Minimalist hues are brush-stroked into being and slowly unfurl into the atmosphere. Improvised clouds of sound softly erupt to form compositions of such immense and precise detail, it would seem the music was written out rather than spontaneously developed. Such is the magic of Thuja and their uncanny ability to sculpt microscopic psychedelia from their immediate environment and collective consciousness." |
| 8/4/2007 | Tight Meat Duo | Creaming The Gutterpunk | 8" lathe | $25.99 | Alt.Vinyl | "Brand new release from the punk primitive free jazz duo of David Keenan (Taurpis Tula) on alto sax and Alex Neilson (Directing Hand/Motor Ghost/Jandek et al) on drums. Part of Alt Vinyl's limited lathe cut series. Manufactured in New Zealand by Peter King and issued in a limited hand-numbered edition of only 150 copies. Features three tracks that explode the post-Blue Humans/Sonny Simmons action jazz style with vocalised horn work, time-killing drums and a ton of bloodied flesh. Features three dense tracks: "Creaming The Gutterpunk", "Dedicated To Smell & Quim But They Weren't Listening" and "Nobody Loves The Hulk". Recorded live in the studio, Govan, Glasgow." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 1/1/2008 | Time Life | Drumlins | 7" | $5.99 | Not Not Fun | "Diehl / Crane duo drops its long-overdue vinyl debut and it's great news. memory bank robbing and mechanized appalachian comedowns. manda collage artwork with loopy eyes added. edition of 250." |
| 11/17/2007 | Time Life | I Am Just To Myself | cassette | $6.99 | Arbor | "By now this duo should be far from a mystery though their psychic audio mythos has been continually deepening, growing, and transcending. Comprised of Vanishing Voice members G. Lucas Crane(Non-Horse) and Heidi Diehl, these New Yorkers flee the trappings of the fashion capital of the world for the land of home grown psychedelia. Non-Horse plays a crate of cassette tapes and a chain of delay. Wrapping sounds from various sources into a concocted aural remedy from reality, a psychedelic blanket sheltering you from the outside world. Heidi lends her voice and dripping dream guitar work to the powers at hand, juxtaposing heavy bass with light whispers and shimmering strings with deep murmurs. On the B side fellow spirit forcer Steve Gunn of GHQ brings a new element to the group, percussion. A natural oneness is developed between all players, creating earth music with a deeply rooted sense of calmness and serenity. In an edition of 100 numbered tapes with printed labels." |
| 4/16/2007 | Time Life / Lil Dusty | split | cassete | $7.99 | Vanishing Voice | "Limited edition of 100 (with handmade cloth covered cases) split cassette between the new duo of Lucas Crane and Heidi Dahl of Vanishing Voice aka Time Life and the Bushwick-based Lil Dusty. Time Life play beautiful childlike trance chants, phased F/X and stunted/plunked acoustic strings fed through massive bone megaphones and loops of entropy that would transport you straight to the kind of desolate alien landscapes previously peopled by solitary souls like Angus MacLise, Harry Partch and Graham Lambkin. Lil Dusty plays damaged casio hymns to some kind of Kosmiche toytown utopia." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 4/24/2006 | Timothy, Revelator with Shane Speal and Sarada |