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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
8/22/2008	U.S. Girls	Introducing…	LP	$14.99	Siltbreeze	"If the alluring moniker used by MEGAN UREMOVICH conjures images of volleyball teams or cheerleading squads, forget it. Not that there's any doubt that Uremovich-sorry, U.S. GIRLS-couldn't rise and conquer either challenge. Like fellow DIY ingenues Sally Strobelight and Inca Ore, U.S. Girls' approach is deceptively ethereal and delightfully haunting; lithe, lysergic gamma rays of keyboard murk beamed over percussive bonk sort of resemble Diamanda Galas reinterpreting Suicide's Red Star. And dig that cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Prove It All Night," done in such an effortless, barbital lush you'd swear the air was filled with mescaline. Guess what? It's not. "In her cover version of The Kinks melancholy anthem 'Days,' U.S. Girls sticks to Albert Einstein's wise maxim 'Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler.' The dirgey clatter of the drums brings to mind images of old steam machines advancing through vast fields where things grow slow and women sing folk songs which are eternal because they are sung from the heart and nothing else. U.S. Girls' voice does this, free from decoration, frills or pretense, mapping the country of the soul with a burning honesty strange in this reality, something we also find in the ballads of Acid Mothers Temple sorceress Cotton Casino."- 20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk Hand-screened cover, one-time edition of 500 copies.
3/7/2008	Uchu	Uchu + Buddha	CD	$10.99	Namu	"As their namesake might suggest, Uchu (literally translated Cosmos) plays a tripped out 'human techno' using only guitars and the gentle amplified utterances of voices light years away. Transcending beginning or end, the sound unfurls slowly, merging into the stuff of pre-existence. Don't let the label 'techno' fool you, the sound is much closer to the Kosmische Musik of Gilles Zeitschiff than anything made in the early 90's for club kids, though if you can free your cosmic mind, your ass will certainly follow. Uchu's 2 albums were originally released, in limited editions of 100, as a part of Acid Mothers Temple gold disc series. Remastered by Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins." Uchu is Higashi Hiroshi (guitar, voice), Ayano (voice), and Kawabata Makoto (guitar, voice). Recorded in 1998 & 1999.
9/14/2004	Ueh & Kawabata Makoto	Pataphysical Overdrive To My Cosmos	CD	$14.99	Acid Mothers Temple	To coincide with Ueh's summer 2004 tour of the US (July & August), this cd includes four tracks: two by Ueh, one by Kawabata solo, and one collaboration between Kawabata and Ueh. Limited edition of 500 copies. Limited stock of remaining copies. Recommended!
	Ugly Head	A Bowl of Fever	7"	$3.99	Transparanoia	"Single #2 from notoriously loud and moody Richmond, VA ensemble
3/6/2008	Ulaan Khol	I	CD	$12.99	Soft Abuse	"Throughout his career as a solo artist, and through membership with the celebrated ensembles Thuja and Mirza, Steven R. Smith has had a hand in creating some of the most compelling and singular instrumental psychedelic music of the past ten years. Smith's latest project, Ulaan Khol, moves beyond the Eastern European-inspired sources and scales employed by his work as Hala Strana towards an approach alternately true to his personal musical lineage and in a realm beyond any pre-existing work. As Ulaan Khol, Smith digs in deep with a palette of drums / guitar / organ to craft a monolithic & expansive free form, feedback-heavy atmospheric din that bonds the disparate realms of Fushitsusha and High Rise with Popul Vuh and Flying Saucer Attack. As Ulaan Khol, Smith has planned a maximalist three-part suite, 'Ceremony.' In the first installment of the trilogy, I, the tone is overwhelming bleak as the pieces (all untitled) caterwaul, moan and crumble. Dripping with basement doom, Ulaan Khol's cosmic histrionics emanate with the raw essence of White Light/White Heat jettisoned by Harmonia's amorphous drifts.
12/2/2008	Ulaan Khol	II	CD	$11.99	Soft Abuse	"All heavy with warmth & mystery, Ulaan Khol returns with another round of vertical incantations aimed at the heavens. As Ulaan Khol, Steven R. Smith (Hala Strana, Thuja, Mirza) creates dense tapestries that revel in the eternal and infinite. The bursts of tones & grip on formal structures can compare to the best of Hototogisu or Handful of Dust, though filtered through an ample dose of Ash Ra Tempel. Supreme while discreet, these songs carry a sense of unnerving calm and optimistic gloom, often within a single composition. Swaths of heavy feedback cascade against sinister organ workouts & varied percussion that's at times pounding, and at others distant. Throughout, Smith's works emerge as vessels of possibility, exploratory rituals of hope. Under the Ulaan Khol banner, Smith has planned a maximalist three-part suite, 'Ceremony.' Following the cryptic first installment, II shines with hazy, rolling atmospheric works that drift and shift with ease. Riding a crumbling riff into oblivion, Ulaan Khol's II emanates with the gleam of pure white light."
9/29/2005	Ultralyd	Ultralyd	CD	$14.99		"Kjetil Brandsdal (electric bass), Frode Gjerstad (altosax, clarinet), Anders Hana (electric guitar), Morten Olsen (drums). This Norwegian quartet was brought together by enigmatic saxophone legend Frode Gjerstad. Formed solely with young musicians in mind, this is powerful rock inspired free music of the highest order. Gjerstad should be highly commended for the way he has seemingly guided these fine, talented new musicians into their current direction. These improvisations never get bogged down in the rock tradition and they balance the freshness of the best free music with the well worn jam sensiblity perfectly, creating a surprisingly breezy and hugely enjoyable CD recording."
10/7/2004	Ultrasound	Loom	LP	$18.99	Korm Plastics	“Dark droning spacey music with mucho guitars from Texas. Second edition with clear sleeve.”
3/27/2004	Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick	No Freeway No Plan No Trees No Ghosts	CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"Italian 'post-rock' trio Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick formed in the spring of 1999 in and, after a period of line-up turbulence and a final decision to proceed on an instrumental basis, recorded a pair of CD-R EPs that ended up being officially released by Camera Obscura in 2001 as the 'Soundproof' CD. The band is drummer Davide Impellizzeri, guitarist Gianmaria Aprile, and Alberto Anadone who plays guitarist or bass according to the composition.Starting from the premise of guitar-led rock, the angular and melodic compositions on their debut release created their own cinematic language. In their words: 'We play instrumental music for life, capturing harmonies in film-like tunes, inspired by images and sensations in order to recreate particular feelings we have inside'. They play extensively in Italy, with latest dates to be found on their web site. 2003 saw the band busy recording a new album for Camera Obscura (and Urtovox in Italy): 'No freeway, no plan, no trees, no ghosts'. Post-production, mixing, editing and mastering was entrusted to Fabio Magistrali who added a spatial quality to the record that is quite different to the live directness of 'Soundproof'. The record sees first UVMMS vocal tunes, gauzy skeins of melody and recitation courtesy of Andrea Ferraris, member of the bands Deep End and One by One We're All Becoming Shades. For their second full-length release, Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick go well beyond their original sparse remit and provide the listener with an exquisitely detailed and textured canvas to project their dreams onto. A wider range of instruments has been used to flesh out sonic ideas, and they've moved to a more layered studio sound. Despite this more consciously crafted approach, the predominant mood is airy and spacious, with the dynamic of the recording process giving each instrument full weight. The light and jazzy vibe of the opening 'This is the season for rest, she said' is reversed on itself for the quiet guitar fire and enigmatic vocals of 'Counter-clockwise' and we think that the distance the band has travelled from its debut is evident from these opening tracks alone. Elsewhere, the beautiful structures and nuanced playing match the poetry of titles like 'Intimacy is Jazz, Disturbance is Art', 'Brothers Fallen near Allen' and 'Hearts and Minds Out of Tune and Reversed'. It all adds up to a work of great beauty and resonance."
	Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick	Soundproof	CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"The Ultraviolets express their cinematic rock ideal better than we ever could: 'Davide Impellizzeri, the drummer, is our rhythmic figure. Alberto Anadone, is guitarist or bassist according to the songs, and draws out our structure and melodies. Gianmaria Aprile, is also guitarist and works with the sounds in a highly personal way. We play instrumental music for life, capturing harmonies in film-like tunes, inspired by images and sensations in order to recreate particular feelings we have inside. Film is a definite influence, as in the delicately yearning 'Faye', inspired by the protagonist of Wong Kar Wai's 'Hong Kong Express'. It's a tribute to the band's sense of drama and dynamics that they can program the vertiginously psychedelic 'Black Canvas' next on the disc, surrounded the listener in dense eddies of fragmented guitar that connect firmly with the pit of one's stomach. A track that we suggest you play late a night with the lights out and car headlights playing across your wall. Davide Impellizzeri percussion is the engine room of 'Soundproof', and no more so than in 'On the Way Back', alternately screwing up the tension with metronomic strobe flashes of cymbal and belting out staccato snare patterns at climatic moments. Relative calm is restored during 'She Used to Dress in a Pale Red' which is a lot like trying to ascertain shapes through a rain-streaked windscreen at night. Our favourite is the closer 'Once Again Turtle', working from stillness to hurricanes of guitar bliss."
2/19/2007	Unborn Unicorn	Unborn Unicorn	LP	$17.99	Heard Worse	"Great gloomy psych-folk sort of thing made by that guy Aaron Coyes who was out here last year from USA. The one who was constantly setting himself on fire for beer and causing grief to all he encountered. He has also made music with bogan dust (NY), diagnosis don't and the whole inverted crux humans." - synaesthesia
2/28/2006	Uncle Jim	Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime	CD	$14.99	Abduction	"This is a CD reissue of this previously vinyl-only, limited-edition 500-copy release, originally issued on the Black Velvet Fuckere label. Ruling at the perpetual pivot and pole of a peerless sound world over the past 25 years, the Sun City Girls are one of the few last Arab cowboys of genius. Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime is the premier long player from Uncle Jim (aka Alan Bishop) - a smoked out X+Y= Fuck You dialectic. Rawer than Rudy Ray Moore, shrewder than Lenny Bruce, more spoken tongue wizard insanity than Lord Buckley and more deranged than Charles Baudelaire; this is Bishop's own personal anthology of black humour, filled to the brim with cranky diatribes backed up by bad ass musicians (including all of the Sun City Girls). A masterpiece of the SCG canon. Featuring Charles Gocher, Richard Bishop, Alvarius B, Liz Allbee, Andrew McGinnis, Specs One and Porest."
5/31/2009	Uncreated	Live At The Human Trials Meeting, South Branch	c30 cassette	$5.99	Gods of Tundra	"You are standing outside the meeting...the sounds begin to ooze out of the cracks....they are sounds you can see. The visions aren't necessarily frightening, but they leave you incredibly uneasy. The visions cease, and you decide to abandon the meeting, never having stepped inside. This is the debut tape from UNCREATED (members of Boiling Seas, the Man Who Ate Himself, Words of the Incryption Convict)."
6/27/2009	Uneven Universe	Tarot	c30 cassette	$5.99	Scumbag Relations	"Uneven Universe floats up from the ratty basement in a cloud of looping sax blurts and claustrophobic horn noise, not unlike fellow Michigander brass-abusers Slither. But Uneven Universe's creep-scapes are way less free jazzy and way more private tarpit meditations, bleeding into ragged sections and then diffusing back into separate saxo-tone groans. Long, hairy jams that don't leave the house for weeks at a time and trace smoggy constellations on the asbestos ceiling rot. A new no man's land for old ragers." - cassette gods. "Some really weird/gross Yeast Curd style no-fi sqeaks on the b-side. Comes in assorted, pro-printed collage covers."
12/13/2008	Uneven Universe	Wormhole	CDR	$10.99	Cut Hands	"It's still a damn shame Haunted Castle is no more but sometimes something great has to make way for something awesome. And at this point, the unbridled rawness of Uneven Universe is a fair match for the brooding beauty of Haunted Castle. Comfortable in the grimiest parts of Michigan's underground gutters, Dan (Haunted Castle, Cardboard Sax) and Holly (Cardboard Sax, with John Olson too) put a twisted dirge into the world of fucked up freejazz. Raw and uncompromised chunks of saxophone collide with a barrage of molten electronics. Often creating an Industrial vibe but transferred to the freejazz wastelands so many great bands of today roam in. Edition of 50 with art by Matthew Junkin."
4/10/2009	Uneven Universe / Sam Goldberg	Beast / Falling Pyramid split tour	cassette	$7.99	Pizza Night	"A split of incredibly contrasting tracks. Uneven Universe's "Beast" is a psychedelic romp of electronics and sax that sounds as if the master had been cut into thousands of pieces then pasted back together. Disjointed yet still cohesively meshed together in a steady current of killer creepy improvisations. A track that adequately represents the best of the michigan youngbloodz. Sam's side pairs up his reverberated guitar styles with his current exploration of minimalist sequencing and analog synthesizer droning."
2/24/2007	Unfortune Teller	Untunes	CDR	$10.99	Manhand	Scrap Tape Music & Noise by MjK (Sunburned Hand of the Man) from 1997 - 2003. "If Nature made Noise songs, you'd have 'Untunes' by MjK." - HthrT - "Akashic comrade in the world of euphoric, shamanic tantric excess & transformation." Ira Cohen - "Scorpio Pants!" - TCHIII
2/20/2008	United Bible Studies	Airs of Sun and Stone	CDR	$8.99	Deep Water	"We're huge fans of the Irish collective known as United Bible Studies , so it's a great pleasure to be able to bring back one of the best of their earlier limited releases. Originally out on the group's own Deserted Village label in 2005 and OOP since around then, Airs of Sun and Stone documents a complete live set recorded at a Limerick arts festival in an old church on a Sunday morning. One extended improvisational piece (nearly 40 minutes) by a special quartet version of the group (plus dance troupe), featuring harp, guitars, piano, and percussion, it's a perfect avant-folk morning raga. This edition features a complete sonic remaster and lovely new cover art.
3/21/2009	United Bible Studies	The Jonah	CD	$12.99	Camera Obscura	"Camera Obscura is proud to be able to present to the world the follow-up to the band's masterful "The Shore That Fears the Sea", and it's a cornucopia of sonic delights, covering the spectrum from delicate folk to sprawling progressive rock. Originally formed as a duo with an unhealthy desire to emulate the incredible string band, UBS quickly evolved into a collective and laid the groundwork for the Deserted Village label and events. Since their formation in winter 2001 they have played and recorded sporadically-never settling on one recording method, never settling on one line-up. "The Shore that Fears the Sea" shows a love of the unadorned beauty of Shirley Collins, Anne Briggs and Vashti Bunyan, Current 93, Coil and Sol Invictus, as well as the work of poets Edwin Morgan and WS Graham. Sparse folk sidles up to a more melodic take on improvisation and tales of loss and pagan longing abound. If they could exist anywhere, they would be playing in the Green Man when Sergeant Howie arrives. Since their Sun worship ritual at The Mór Festival in 2003, the students have increased their activities. The set, which included radical re-workings of some of their quiet new folk songs has been edging towards a more Pharoah Sanders/ Emperor/ Can hybrid thanks to the new drums and horns helping them to blaze brighter in the northern skye. Live shows throughout Ireland and Britain and most recently the USA (Including Terrastock '08) have seen them wildly improvise with up to twelve members or play straight trad as a trio. Standard rock instrumentation is bolstered with theremins, fretless banjos, accordions, bugles... whatever comes to hand... Their philosophy is that all paths are equal, all approaches relevant. Members have sometimes met on stage for the first time. Though inspired by Irish Folk music, United Bible Studies have always seen themselves in a global context. They've had a slew of releases on microlabels across the planet and have invited many like-minded artists to tour Ireland with them including Avarus, Fursaxa, Corsano/Flaherty, Black Forest/Black Sea, Circle, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Pinkie and John, ZU, Daniel Padden, Nalle and Pumice, Josephine Foster, Mi & L'au. UBS played as Damo Suzuki's backing band twice: First at the demented beer garden after-party of the Mór Festival 2004 which saw people dancing in tongues and using every solid object as a drum and a sold-out two-hour set in Galway in March 2005. "
12/25/2005	Universal Indians	Monster Approach	LP	$15.99	Killertree Records	"Olson: “You Stoned?” Ramirez: “Probably” Possibly the going rate for this unit – Universal Indians had this whole other life that spewed out on the stages and floors, a couple records, a few cassettes, even a video (which will see the light of day on dvd, much later). But more at home and more comfortable slamming out psych blow-outs in the basement of 325 Foster Ave in Lansing, MI. The so-called legacy thing for MK1 Universal Indians which stretched from ’94 to ’97 (not ’93 that all music states) was simple in the philosophy dept and may have a fools’ merit – Drudge up some riffs, words, jack the amps, over-distort the Rat pedals to the point of canceling itself out, throw it together for Jesse Harper executed by The Dead C, praying for a spot in the Twisted Village or Siltbreeze. And get real high. American Tapes was barely in the double digits and we attempted to capture every session, every show on Olson’s handheld recorder – lo fi to the gills but solid and thick sounding like speakers takin’a shit. Green light was at the crossroads for stacks and stacks of tapes to be pillaged throughout last Springtime end and Summer eves until four solid cuts were culled for an LP release. And this is the shit – the first side ranges from over the fucking top heavy driving High Rise wah battle to some serious reps on Olson’s traps accompanying minimal trashed-out skronk chords pushing on the VU meter to pure slimy menacing blues skuzz that dissipates into a fine, loose rubbery mess (like every song does, and yeah, these are actual songs) with the sound is so thick that the grooves are white. Side Two holds two songs meshed together with fine stewardship ala GD’s Ithaca ’77 Scarlet/Fire blowout for a solid side-long mother of all battalion guitar ventures. Nudging Driver UFO & The Holy Sound of the American Pipe in the UI unisound tradition in a 16 minute rant that makes this cut a pinnacle in the annals of low-brow grong for the UI books – 3 or 4 minutes of semi-coherency, the rest a blaze of solid head-fuckery, a good one to get lost in. Our version of hard, loose psych to match head on all the fancy collector jargon hustled for big bills (only to receive some waysted bar band hashing out piss bloooz). Call it pride but it needed to be solid and realer than real. The end result coincides to a cruddy mix tape (levels are screwed considering each song is from a different session) and acclimates to the shitiest of stereos. These four cuts are from ’94-’95, two live cuts, two prax sessions, Olson kills the drums, Ramirez hashes the riffs, the wah & mumblings. And there was another guitar lazily played by someone from somewhere doing something when she wasn’t doing her homework. Limited to 300 copies on vinyl - the demon is finally at rest." All jackets have a damaged corner thanks to the US Postal Service where someone droped the box on edge - fuckers!!
	University Punx	Cultural Politics	CD	$14.99	krank	12 tracks - 71 minutes of guitar improv led by Kjetil D Brandsdal
	University Punx	In Society!	7"	$4.99	MykeDroner	A new Kjetil D Brandsdal project. Limited to 300 copies on white vinyl
12/12/2009	Unknown Artist	Unknown Title	cassette	$7.99	Bumtapes	"Scored a few copies of this incredible cassette, yet to research exactly who plays on this release or what country it comes from (any suggestions would be greatly appreciated). 10 sublime songs of warm jazz soaked, I'm guessing 60's or 70's Asian pop! Including one of the most romantic sounding love ballads on record! For fans of Mississippi records, Sublime Frequencies etcŠ" Listed as Unknown Artist - Unknown Title on Bumtapes blogspot.
11/17/2007	Up-Tight	Early Years	CD	$13.99	Archive	"A re-issue of the out of print 99 five track album from Tokyo pysch. Unit uptight. Audio tracks have been slightly remastered with the addition of two unreleased tracks dating back to the bands earliest years 1994. Comes housed in a 2.5 panel foldout heavy stock sleeve pressing of 600 copies." Recommended!
	Urabe, Masayoshi	Solo	CD	$15.99	PSF	Solo alto sax performance from May 22, 1985. Reissue of out of print LP.
3/26/2006	Urabe, Masoyoshi	Rock'N'Roll Breathing	NTSC Video	$29.99	There	Masayoshi Urabe Solo Harmonica, Chain, Alto, Soprano Sax, Tambourine and Bell performances along with graphic artwork showcase. 1 hour running time. Housed in hard case with insert in Japanese and English - numbered edition of 200.
6/5/2005	Urdog	Eyelid of Moon	CD	$12.99	Secret Eye	"A follow-up to Urdog's 2004 Secret Eye debut, Garden of Bones. On Eyelid of Moon Urdog follow their influences down the rabbit hole to create a pulsating mix of kommische-prog-psych-drone insanity. Jeff Knoch's Farfisa shifts from King Crimson to Alice Coltrane, to Amon Düül II, and back while Dave Lifriri lays down the heavy acid guitar licks. We hear more of drummer Erin Rosenthal's ethereal voice this time out."
8/20/2004	Urdog	Garden of Bones	CD	$12.99	Secret Eye	"Tight and textural psych rock by three of Providence's finest. Driving, tribal drumming, fuzzed-out Farfisa, and searing guitar licks. Atmospheric yet rocking, this is music to which you can shake your booty while docking starships... WITH YOUR MIND!!" “Urdog from Providence, RI improvise between throbbing trance-inducing passages of heavy psych-noise and twisted communal chant. The air is thick and pungent. The trio of farfisa organ, tribal drums and demon guitar will easily appeal to fans of This Heat, Circle, Soft Machine, Amon Duul, Faust or Urdog’s art-school classmates Black Dice. 47 minutes of blistering avant-garde psychedelic rock.”
2/11/2006	Usaisamonster	Wohaw	CD	$9.99	Load	"A brand new album from this brilliantly-fried guitar-and-bass Brooklyn duo who walk a tightrope between melted rock, gentle sounds, campfire drones, and total psych destruction. Wohaw features thirteen tales of lost nations and subjugated races, and uses all means necessary in the rock arsenal to tell them.
8/4/2007	Uton	Alitaja Ylimina	LP	$24.99	Dekorder	"Alitaju Ylimina" is the first vinyl album by Finlands Uton released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies in a marvellous fold-out sleeve with a full-colour drawing by Uton himself on the outer sleeve and some fierce black&white illustrations by dutch artist Christelle Gualdi inside. Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere and currently travelling and recording in India. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. The music of Uton is no exception there, drawing inspirations from psychedelia to free jazz to pure ecstatic drones and noises using a wide range of acoustic instruments from various parts of the globe and a bulk of electronics. Recorded in glorious lo-fi the mystery of Hirvonens sound is difficult to pinpoint; sheer ravishing beauty, elegancy and variegation is stashed behind a wall of grey, inscrutable haze - gorgeous melodies and voices, reeds and alien sounds gleaming through the mist from time to time, shimmering like diamonds through layers of dust. Uton has previously released dozens of CDs, CD-Rs and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) will be released on LP by Dekorder later this year."
11/17/2007	Uton	Ameba Illusions	CDR	$7.99	American Grizzly	"organic source sounds layered into digital bliss-scapes."
12/13/2008	Uton	Holy Burn	CDR	$8.99	Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Recordings	"Edition of 60 copies self-released album from this Finnish ethnic psych/jam outfit. Five tracks that move from screaming automatic-music Fluxus-style instants to protesting post-Conrad/Cale violin noise and psychoactive small instrument trance." - Volcanic Tongue
9/16/2007	Uton	Live in the Center of the World (Jyväskylä)	cassette	$8.99	Black Horizons	"Double A-side tape, played in reverse on the B, this documents an Uton live show. More abrasive than recorded output. Acoustics, vocal mantras, and pulsating drone that leave you confused when it is all over with. Offset printed gold on platinum vellum, clear labels 'touched by the golden hand' in an edition of 100 copies on hi-bias chrome tapes."
2/7/2009	Uton	Mental Connections	CDR	$5.99	Housecraft	"Metaprogramming transmissions of concealed order leave only clues of its 'enhancing' work." Edition of 60
6/11/2006	Uton	Mystery Revolution	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"Tampere, Finland has become quite the musical hotbed over the past few years. Staples like Avarus and Kemialliset Ystävät make there beds in the gnome-infested waters throughout the city. Uton is perhaps the country's best kept secret. "Mystery Revolution" is a sonic excursion through the Finnish forests unlike any other. Massive drones are balanced by the hypnotic dance of flutes, bells, and keyboards. Underneath everything runs a mind-altering stream of fuzzed-out brainwaves. Every corner you turn, there's another smiling nymph, begging you to follow the golden path into the mystic woods. Uton's minimalist rumblings are there to infect and enchant, and Hirvonen never fails to impress. The mask is off with "Mystery Revolution," and Uton will remain shrouded in obscurity no more. This pine-scented excursion may by mysterious on the surface, but overall is a thing of beauty, lying in wait for the perfect time to infect you. "Mystery Revolution" is proof that Uton's dreamy soundscapes are one of Finland's finest exports."
4/21/2008	Uton	Pearls and Dust	3xCDR + 28 page booklet	$27.99	Bread and Animals	"Disc one is a capture of the Uton live speech and riddle. disc two is a reissue of the mysterious Uton tape on the back then still mysterious Sloow Tapes from coded B.D.P. (released in 2005). disc three is the mosaic of different strange Uton sound and content. 28 pages of full color UTON eye candy embraces these 3 discs of freedom. this is a private peek in the memory of JANI HIRVONEN. a dive in the hole in time. these are the books of HIRVONEN, one of the first seekers of truth in the modern take on introspection. a post 2000 view on things, that feeds hapilly into the bucket of post 1965. an imagenery of things to do when nearing a vortex."
4/29/2008	Uton	Radio Olio Metaphysica!	DBL CDR	$16.99	OM	"First disc recorded in july/august 2007, collecting sounds and tunes together with experimental new methods. from small no-fi dada sounds to space-ambient atmospheres to acoustic pseudojazz to psychedelic moonshine to screaming guitar feedback to violin scratches... making a tour to the mind of what is. second disc, The Book of Beginnigs, is mostly recorded early 2006, and shows the another deep-drone-dream-realm of Uton. few tracks with J.Koho (from Kulkija, Free Players, Tulasi etc.), and also some help from Vanessa Rossetto (Mighty Acts of God, Pulga etc.), Brad Rose (the North Sea etc.), Maxime Primault (Enfer Boreal) and Magnus Olsen (Elektronavn). comes in beautiful silkscreened clothe-sleeves and small booklet." Numbered edition of 100 copies.
4/24/2006	Uton	Sacred Hiss / Ghost Oracle	CDR	$8.99	Ikuisuus	"Recorded at spring 2005 in Tampere. Strange & dark atmospheric drones & dreams from the other side of mind. Specially for the late night processes - whatever that is, it's your way to use it. Ask something, and the wind will tell you!" 10 tracks - total 36:04 min
4/29/2008	Uton	Shiva Blues	CDR	$10.99	OM	"Free-drone-trance-noise guitar feedback improv. using couple of distrortions and echo chamber effect pedal, and an old radio/tape-recorder as an amplifier. no overdubs here, three tracks, pure sound. kind of dance music." Numbered edition of 50 copies.
12/13/2008	Uton	Solar Spells	CDR	$8.99	Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Recordings	"Edition of 60 copies self-released album from Finnish cosmonauts Uton. This one combines distant music box/ethnic melodies with sandpaper coarse shortwave tones, bursts of analogue electricity and some almost Takayanagi-esque feedback/noise constructs." - Volcanic Tongue
7/10/2008	Uton	Straight Edge XXS	LP	$17.99	Dekorder	"Straight Edge XXS" is the 2nd vinyl album by Finland's Uton released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies on the Dekorder label. It comes in a gorgeous full-colour collage sleeve assembled by Hirvonen himself. While Uton's last Dekorder album "Alitaju Ylimina" (and most of his other recorded works respectively) are hazy lo-fi drone masterpieces for the most part, this is a completely diffferent affair. Recorded straight to tape within one month, right after returning from a 6-month trip to India, these songs (if you could call them songs) are completely out-of-this-world; very short and crazed sketch-like pieces sounding like a Nonesuch Explorer LP of long lost field recordings from an as yet unexplored continent. Or is it World Music from an unknown planet recorded by those Sublime Frequencies guys from mysterious short wave transmissions? Well, it is all that and more. It is pure ecstatic expression channelized through Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Noise and rural ancient Folk Music from all over the world in a completely naked, predominantly acoustic setting. One of the purest forms of music you could imagine; while all the familiar Uton elements remain evident in a hazy backcloth. Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. Uton has previously released dozens of CD's, CD-R's and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) is released on LP by Dekorder simultaneously."
4/24/2006	Uton	Suoniin, Luihin, Ytimiin	CDR	$8.99	Ikuisuus	"Live at Mental Alaska / Tampere, 25th september 2005. Ancient drones meets the ground. Performed by Uton & Kulkija, using synth, effects, electric guitar (bowed & without), recorder, tape recorder & radio-noises, violin, voices...." 1 track - total 46:29 mins
2/11/2006	Uton	Suoniin, Luihin, Ytimiin	CDR	$9.99	Ikuisuus	"46 minutes of droney mysteries, live at Mental Alaska, Telakka / Tampere, September 25th 2005. Performed by Uton & Kulkija. Ancient drones meets the ground. First edition comes in unique marbled paintings on the cover."
	Uton	Tales From The Ancient Fire	CDR	$8.99	Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Recordings	"Edition of 60 copies self-released live album from Finnish communal heads Uton. This one features two complete live shows, from Copenhagen and Berlin in 2008. The sound is wilder and little more pro-Industrial than recent Uton white-outs, with monolithic machine noise, infernal drones and the vibrations of distant factories charging the air with forms and shadows somewhere between Throbbing Gristle and the original Dream Syndicate." - Volcanic Tongue
1/24/2009	Uton	Violin Massage vol. 2	cassette	$6.99	Oms-b	"Uton's Violin massage series brings you a more stripped down concept of what you would think when you pick up one of their recordings. Nothing is used besides a violin, de-tuned, abused, shrilling sounds of relentless forced meditation." Edition of 60 copies.
5/23/2009	Uton	We're Only in it For the Spirit	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"For the past five plus years, Uton has been one of the most consistent projects to come out of the snowy confines of his native Finland. His output has been constant, but the quality is always great. His drones have always been underscored with a sense of melody and a keen utilization of the space where the music was created. These songs are not icy or glacial, though, like one might think. Uton's uncanny ability to inject an inviting sense of warmth and spirit. "We're Only in it for the Spirit" is ghost music; barely there and out-of-sight in the blink of an eye. The man responsible for these masked-spirit journeys is Tampere native, Jani Hirvonen. He's collaborated with the likes of Jan Anderzén (Kemialliset Ystävät, etc), Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra), & Anla Courtis (Reynols) among others. When it comes to enchanted, sprawling drones, Hirvonent is a true Rennaissance man. He is joined by Vapaa's J.P. Koho on all tracks, who complements Hirvonen's delicacy with subtle hints of chaos. "We're Only in it for the Spirit" continues to trek through new worlds of sound, polishing off the once-rough edges of Uton's sound into something that acts as a beacon in the void. Dark, brooding drones for guitar and electronics flicker and fade like a distant, stellar horizon. Hirvonen is a master craftsman, and Koho is his perfect foil. The two play off each other's every move and produce an end result that rivals anything Uton has released previously. "We're Only in it for the Spirit" is a magickal piece of work. Limited to 500 copies with artwork designed by James Livingston of Black Horizons."
10/17/2009	Uton	White Light	CDR	$12.99	Memoirs of an Aesthete	"A 2006 release of violin frenzy by this noted Finnish warlock. Fine stuff, last few copies unearthed and again available." Edition of 100 copies.
7/23/2003	Uton / Anti	These Rains were Tales Before	CDR	$7.99	Haamumaa	"Acoustic and electric guitars, all sorts of percussions and keyboards make up a spooky sound racket that walks the tightrope between drone and noise. This cd-r would work eminently as a sci-fi soundtrack but works just as fine as headphone fodder while trying to ignore the strange steps from the attic." – Broken Face
7/23/2003	Uton / Clay Figure	split	CDR	$7.99	Haamumaa	10 tracks – 78 minutes of noisy avant-garde guitar improvisations.
4/24/2006	Uton / Jani H.	split	CDR	$9.99	Outa	"Uton's 'Olemuksen muotoinen reika' is a minimalistic composition in a very cosmic atmosphere while Jani H.'s 'Voice of a Thousand Summers Passed By' is a multifaceted ambient journey through the past summer movies." Originally released as a dbl 3" cdr in 2004.
12/29/2001	Utopia Carcrash	Breakdown Communication E.P.	CDR	$8.99	Jagged Time Lapse	4 tracks recorded in 1998 featuring Plastic Crimewave! "Dark improvisational tribal noise ala the Dead C., Ramleh or Skullflower. Comes w/limited poster insert- hand made in limited quantities, booted by Nanjo Asahito, and Plastic Crimewave's 1st band from 1995-1998."
12/29/2001	Utopia Carcrash	Double Live Mega-Blistering Acid Freak-Out Pile Up	CDR	$9.99	Jagged Time Lapse	5 tracks recorded live over two shows from July and October of 1998 in Chicago (Lounge Ax & Empty Bottle). Features Plastic Crimewave on guitar freakout!
11/17/2007	UW OWL	New Birth of Old Death	cassette	$7.99	Phaserprone	"First in a four-part series of recordings based on Gene Wolfe's four-part "Book of the New Sun" series. Torture-meditation drones, spatial field recordings, acoustic guitar, gothic synthesizer washes, fragmented spoken-word, and a deeper investigation into the longer format. Hand dubbed C-36 with letterpressed wrap-around cover in metallic gold ink. Edition of 100."
9/17/2006	UW OWL	Thorn Elemental	LP	$14.99	Phaserprone	"U W OWL has finally found their first 'proper' release after making numerous small edition CD-Rs and contributing a track on United Bamboo's They Keep me Smiling compilation curated by Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle). This LP features ten songs chosen from a mass of recordings between 2003 and 2004. Electrical currents, desolate sound scapes, dark tunnels, late night jams and structured waste recorded on a broken dust-filled concrete basement floor. No laptops or computers of any kind were used in the making of this recording. 333 copies, 140g Vinyl, packaged in a self assembled dye-cut and letterpressed Jacket, with insert." - label. "The sound is akin to a recent Black Dice (but less chaotic, thick and subterranean) meets digital Throbbing Gristle: dark, medium hard, raw electronics with a focus on the mammoth-throb. LP only, with hand letter-pressed, die-cut covers by Jonas Asher, thick vinyl and limited to a pressing of 333 (to make it half satanic)!" - Scott Mou / Other Music