| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
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| 11/21/2009 | V/A | 'Learning for Insipid Zeal Two'= Maths Balance Volumes, Dog Lady, Infecto, Olson/Rammer, Oil of Beauty | one-sided LP | $12.99 | American Tapes | "WHOA!! New Heavy Unitz Alert! Second installment of this new series of young bloodz, boiling to destroy! NEW NEW!!This wax is a hyper stoker. Complete "story for your ears" comp style with lurking flow holding all the sounds together. Here's some audio clay to mold your own twisted soundtrack: In order: Track One: MATHS BALANCE VOLUMES = Super weirdo personal mumble-piano strum-slow clanging empty space piece. If you aint partied with these two MN/OH transplants mega maniac's, then jump on board. Surreal central kick off, amazing ???? Tape collage from the only mugs that can pull off just playing tapes and staring at each other live. If your imagination is a big grimace of a pumpkin, this unit gives much of a convexed unusual surface to carve upon. Track Two: OIL OF BEAUTY = New electronic mangle from this (and Beauty Liquid) consumable face lotion that is as pungent as it is flammable. Gross stuff to coat your face with! Doesn't do anything but leave a film of gritty film all over yr. grill, figures: cheapest = on sale its: 94 cents. Nasty! Tapes soon on Chondritic Sound. Sharp short track of greasy face electronic coverings in smatter stylee. Track Three: RAMMER/ OLSON = Bryan "Rammer" Ramirez (Ex Cocaine, Poor School, Universal Indians, Killer Tree, Plants) and Zone One (Boiling Seas, Man Who Ate Himself, Sad Policeman) reconnect in a Missoula basement bar for a Reed/Guitar workout recorded live on the last WE/Black Dice tour over the summer. Super weirdo sheen of fuzz and squash. We had a super killer BBQ at the Rammer HQ with the family before das gig complete with Frisbee golf and uber strong ale. Like the Breckman Duo w/o the anger guerrilla high school mask attack. Ruling. Track Four: DOG LADY= Dude, COLLINO! The newest mover and shaker/skater from the mitten and completely on fire. This track, RULES. Song-ish violin and tape scrape warbling in and outta tune clouded in a mist that'll lure you in and grow under your skin like a shadow of a skin-cell hunter at midnight, early during the workweek w/o a lunch break. The only jammer I know that has a "Legit" secretary. Chances of this player playin your town this weekend: GOOD. Chances of it ruling: BETTER. A pro note taker and a pro note RIPPER. Slime Ball Violin Au Go Go!!! Boosh!! Track Five: INFECTO = Bookending the crew is this new mysterious tape unit. Mysterious unless you were walking behind me and princess on Howard St. when the Tovinator thought she was getting the cold I just got rid of and called me INFECTO for a day. So, a mug booked some hrs in INZANE STUDIOS and gave birth to this track. Blackwards tape treble magnetic tomfoolery, infecting style. Good thing she didn't call me SLOBBER MAN for a day. So theres the lineup. Wicked weird flow, all dark moody non-rockers, surely to set your idea pot a' boiling strong. An audio report from front n center on the crazy camp, Midwest style. Edition of 100 in handmade sleeves, numbered." |
| V/A | 19 Ways To Avoid The Draft | CD | $12.99 | elsie and jack recordings/Airborne Virus | Features like millions, electroscope, steward, ms. black, static films, fed cast and the spiders from mars, empress, women, nylon coated cats, gang wizard, halkyn, katrina esp, monera, [minmae], drekka, cLOUDDEAD, moral crayfish, seaworthy. | |
| 10/25/2008 | V/A | 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground | LP | $25.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "This is Raï music from Algeria as you've not heard it before. In the early 1970s, a new group of singers and musicians were operating on the northwest coast, and what they pioneered was a sound that eventually reached worldwide status by the end of the decade; however, their names are relatively unknown to this day outside Algeria. This crucial and defining period of the development of Raï is criminally ignored and overlooked by Algerian music historians and Raï fans. Due to censorship and government-controlled music diffusion, this scene and lyrical style was forced underground and banned from broadcasts, yet slowly built a small following around the seaside cabarets of Wahran (Oran). This period witnessed the rise of artists such as Groupe El Azhar ("The Flowers" group) and Messaoud Bellemou, who can comfortably be considered the godfather of the modern Raï sound. His group, L'Orchestre Bellemou, rewrote a heritage of centuries by using modern instruments and especially the trumpet, which became, during the 1970s, the backbone of the Wahrani genre. Reinterpreting the gasba melodies on trumpet, Bellemou backed singers such as Boutaiba Sghir and Sheikh Benfissa who carried on the lyrical tradition of their forefathers singing about daily preoccupations and problems as well as love affairs, alcohol, or simply owning an automobile! Toward the late 1970s, Cheb Zergui brought a newer ingredient: an electric guitar with a wah-wah pedal. Thankfully, the late 1960s saw the development of vinyl pressing in Algeria. This new industry allowed many small artists including the Wahrani "scene" to record and release singles documenting their repertoire. This compilation is a selection of this proto-Raï scene's vinyl 45s. This LP is limited to a one-time pressing of 1500 copies on 180 gram vinyl and comes in a full-color deluxe gatefold jacket with photos of the musicians and informative liner notes by the man who compiled it, Hicham Chadly." |
| 12/26/2005 | V/A | 2 Million Tongues Festival | CD | $12.99 | Bastet | Produced and assembled by the festival's brainchild, one Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow), this features cuts from Hototogisu, No Neck Blues Band, Tar Pet, Josephine Foster, Miminokoto, Jack Rose, Tony Conrad, Traveling Bell, Michael Chapman, Lux, Mountains, plus 7 other artists. Recommended! |
| 7/16/2004 | V/A | 267 Purkkia Liimaa | CDR | $9.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "A 267 lattajjaa compilation featuring some old tracks, some remixes, some new versions and mostly new tracks." Features Avarus, Pylon, Tivol, Futurians, Kulkija, Kukkiva Poliisi, Pekko Kappi, Rauhan Orkesteri, Kemialliset Ystavat, Keijo, The Franciscan Hobbies, Vapaa, Uton, Clay Figure, Grey Park, Braspyreet, Plat Ypus and more. 28 tracks in all. Nice! |
| 6/5/2005 | V/A | A Capella Workshop I | cassette | $6.99 | Imvated | Crank Sturgeon, Porkchoco, IDM Theft Able, Burning Star Core, Up With Piemel. All doing the vocal thing. |
| 12/12/2009 | V/A | A Orillas Del Magdalena (Coastal Cumbias from Colombia's Discos Fuentes) | LP | $14.99 | Domino Sound | "Call and response wailing, percussionists that play a measure then disappear, backwards accordions and a persistent, loping bassline comprise some of the elements that make up the Cumbia. Born on the banks of the Magdalena River in coastal Colombia, this infectious music represents a marriage of African, Spanish, and Indigenous influences. Antonio Fuentes began recording Colombia's music in 1934, founding his country's first record label, Discos Fuentes. These 12 gems -released between the mid 1950' and the mid 70's- are lovingly selected from the Discos Fuentes catalogue. Includes tracks by Andres Landero, Los Corraleros de Majagual, Los Guacharacos, and Nafer Duran amongst others." |
| 5/14/2007 | V/A | A Ride Across the Skies on a Knife Dipped in Blood | CDR | $8.99 | Curor | "Our first comp feat - Peter Wright, Number None, Jazzfinger, Family Battle Snake, Injury Chic (Maya from Leopard Leg/Polly Shang), Deepkiss 720, Ben Reynolds, Heidika (Richard Skelton of A Broken Consort/Sustain Release." |
| 9/30/2008 | V/A | AA Records Compilation Volume II | LP | $17.99 | Aryan Asshole | "This LP features the next 13 lathes since the first comp = Isis & Werewolves, Ex-Cocaine, Mirror/Dash, Pengo, Christina Kubisch, Birds of Delay, Sick Llama, Jackie Stewart, Evil Moisture, Prurient, Rusted Shut, Carlos Giffoni, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Demons. All the messy atmosphere of lathes on freshly pressed vinyl, weird! Banned in Canada due to the jacket (guess why)." |
| 1/30/2010 | V/A | Air Rings Vol. 1 4-way split | double c40 cassette | $12.99 | Digitalis Limited | "A new series of 4-way split tapes of nothing but synth music. no guitars found here. suffice to say, pretty damn excited about these puppies. volume one features a side each from each raven brother, oklahoma flight, and our favorite resident LA goon. in other words, tape one has spare death icon planting sparkling palms and blasting off toward jupiter while charlatan hints at new ground to foray and busts a cold one. tape two, though, smooths things over with sovetskaya gone searching for bliss in bright green clouds and million mists settles the score on a bed of well-composed synthetic syrup. just what you need for these cold winter days. edition of 100, pro-dubbed." |
| 5/29/2008 | V/A | Albert's Basement | LP | $18.99 | Albert's Basement | Featuring Great Earthquake, Humansixbillion, Patinka Cha Cha, Low Rise Estate, Fulton Girls Club, Extreme Wheeze, Popolice, Touch Typist, Guns For Saint Sebastion, Seagull, Johnny Saw Horses and Oscar's Psuche. All experimental underground acts in Melbourne Australia. This is a live recording of a gig in a bedroom from June 2, 2007 - it started at 1pm and finished at 3am. It's a 12 inch LP with insert and individually hand-painted covers. |
| 8/7/2003 | V/A | Amaterasu | DBL CD | $32.99 | Fractal | "First volume of the Fractal Twin project (volume two is forthcoming). Amaterasu is a new thema concept Japanese compilation featuring : Mineko Itakura (Angel & Heavy Sirup), Kengo Iuchi, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Kousokuya, Jun Kuriyama (ex Ox), Miminokoto, Naoaki Miyamoto, Chie Mukai, Seiji Nagai (ex Taj Mahal Travellers), Overhang Party, Space Machine, Mitsuru Tabata (Zeni Geva, Leningrad Blues Machine), Totsuzen Danball, Atsushi Tsuyama (Acid Mothers Temple, Omoide Hatoba), Masayoshi Urabe. Liner notes by Alan Cummings. 15 unreleased long tracks." |
| V/A | Analogous Indirect | LP | $10.99 | Public Eyesore | Features Thurston Moore, Monotract, New Port, Fukktron, Ando Kunihiro, Solmania, Billy?, Flying Luttenbachers, Jonas Lindgren, Laced Blue, Kazumoto Endo/Yoko Sato, Cornucopia, John Wiese, Sickness, and Automobile. | |
| 2/11/2006 | V/A | And To the Disciples That Remain | CD | $12.99 | Amish Records | 2006 release featuring two tracks from P.G. Six, plus one track each from Samara Lubelski, Theo Angell, Helen Rush, The Oranges, Dan Brown, Oakley Hall, Dan Matz and the Birdwatcher plus others. |
| V/A | Angelfood Electronics Volume 2 | LP | $10.99 | Kake Mix Records | Featuring Azusa Plane/Windy & Carl/Ultrasound/Centipede/Furry Things | |
| 5/20/2009 | V/A | Asian Flashback: Underground Music From Asia | CD | $15.99 | PSF | Asian underground compilation with 13 groups. Featuring Li Jianhong, Narita Munehiro, Hano Shoji, Mustangs, Kiyasu Orchestra, Mafeisan, 10, Xiao He, D!O!D!O!D!, Sato Yukie, Yoshiteru Koga Jizo, Kim Young Jin, Li Daiguo, Amature Amplifier, Soonie. "First PSF compilation to focus on the linkages between the established underground scene in Japan and nascent ones in China and Korea. Politics and history had long prevented exchanges between the three countries, but in recent years increasing trade and cultural linkages have revealed exciting new synergies. Covers the breadth of new East Asian underground forms ? white-out noise, face-peeling free improvisation, lysergic rock, limpid acid folk, electronic tone float, coruscating punk, free jazz and avant-art moves. Features relatively established names like China's king of noise guitar Li-Jianhong and motor-psych free-rock emperor Munehiro Narita, alongside a ton of utter unknown names." - Alan Cummings. |
| 2/11/2006 | V/A | Ass High and Left of Center | VHS Video | $18.99 | Black Velvet Fuckere | "Last copies of this ultra limited one of a kind video compilation compiled in 1997 through the damaged lenses of a very Siltbreeze world view. Two full hours of psychedelia, free-jazz, noise, lounge-music infitration-confrontation, experimental film (high and low brow), live footage, collage and beyond. Highlights include: a heavy UN clip that is half live show w/ 16mm film projections projected onto the band and dense tweeked out post show visual maniuplations; featuring Marcia Bassett who went on to form Double Leopards & Hototogisu, Tara Burke who went on to form Fursaxa and films by Chris Gray who went on to form Double Leopards, Endless Boogie, Whicked Finger and White Rock. Twisted Village guitar shredder Bob Bannister throws down at Speaking in Tongues w/ TONO-BUNGAY. COFFEE skronks in key of a Man-Ray damaged reincarnation films. NOGGIN unloads their ultimate aural output juxtaposed with 2 sets of homemade Jackson Pollack in motion paint-on-the-celluloid a la Stan Brakhage inspired films. CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS conjure a radio circus of turntables showcasing endless beautiful platters of wax hand made by vinyl record artist JESSE PAUL MILLER and his SECRET RECORDS label. Adris Hoyos and Eric Ostrowski feedback. IRVING KLAW TRIO stick porky the pig up their own hairy jass. HYPNOTIQUE pull a rockNroll swindle a la a bogus press kit landing gig at an upscale dress code yuppie lounge music night club - absurd Martin Denny covers and amazing costumes get them dragged off stage in one of the most acid damaged moments in Canadian history! 2 FULL hours of this and much more. Ultra limited in an edition of 444. These are the last copies that have been in storage for over 6 years." |
| 8/4/2007 | V/A | Avant Marghen Vol. 3 | 7xLP Box | $169.99 | Alga Marghen | Numbered edition of 80 copies. "The VocSon series might be identified as the starting point of all the Alga Marghen activities. This series, which still continues to present on limited LP records the most advanced international vocal experiments, is mainly dedicated to the documentation of sound poetry. Since most of the titles immediately sold out, Alga Marghen decided to issue a kind of anthology, specially issued for ArtBasel where Alga Marghen will present its catalog following an invitation by Maurizio Nannucci of the Artists Record Pavillion. This also in order to give the opportunity to those who missed the-now-rare original editions to be able to find them now, even if in a very limited run. Each LP is numbered on the VocSon innersleeve expressly conceived for this edition. This luxury boxset actually includes a new picture disc edition of Revue OU anthology plus an Henri Chopin LP and the Ben Patterson LP: VVAA "Revue OU. Record 1" pictureLP (15VocSon045.1). Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. First of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. This disc includes No 20-21 and 23-24 or Bernard Heidsieck "Poème-partition D4P, Ou Art Poétique"; Brion Gysi "I Am"; Brion Gysin "Pistol-Poem"; Henri Chopin "Vibrespace"; François Dufrêne "Batteries Vocales"; François Dufrêne "Paix En Algérie; François Dufrêne "Ténu-Tenu"; Mimmo Rotella "7 Poèmes Phonétiques"; Bernard Heidsieck "Poème-Partition J"; Bernard Heidsieck "Poème-Partition H1 + H2: Le Quatrième plan"; Brion Gysin "3 Permutations"; Henri Chopin "L'énergie Du Sommeil". ORIGINAL EDITION LONG SOLD OUT! VVAA "Revue OU. Record 2" pictureLP (15VocSon045.2). Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Second of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. This disc includes No 28-29 and 30-31 or François Dufrêne "Triptycrirythme"; Paul De Vree "Verokina"; Paul De Vree "Ogenblik"; Paul De Vree "Kleine Caroli"; Paul De Vree "Vertigo Gil"; Paul De Vree "Een Roos A Rose"; Henri Chopin "Sol Air"; Henri Chopin "Le Corps". ORIGINAL EDITION LONG SOLD OUT! VVAA "Revue OU. Record 3" pictureLP (15VocSon045.3). Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Third of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. This disc includes No 34-35 and 36-37 or François Dufrêne "Haut-Satur (June 1967)"; François Dufrêne "Haut-Satur (December 1967)"; François Dufrêne "Haut-Satur (November 1968)"; Bob Cobbing "Marvo Movie Natter"; Bob Cobbing "Spontaneous Appealinair Vontemprate Apollinaire"; Henri Chopin "Mes Bronches"; Ladislav Novák "La Structure Phonétique De La Langue Tchèque"; Hugh Davies "Shozyg 1 & 2"; Sten Hanson "Don't Hesitate Do It, Do It Right Now"; Sten Hanson "The Glorious Desertion"; Henri Chopin "Les Grenouilles d'Aristophane"; Bernard Heidsieck "Ravaillac, Tu Connais?: Passe-partout N 1". ORIGINAL EDITION LONG SOLD OUT! VVAA "Revue OU. Record 4" pictureLP (15VocSon045.4). Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Forth of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. This disc includes No 38-39 and 40-41 or Henri Chopin "Le Rire Est Debout"; Bengt Emil Johnson "Among II"; Sten Hanson "Revolution"; Sten Hanson "Railroad Poem"; Jacques Bekaert "The Day After"; J.A. Da Silva "Audio-Poem"; William S. Burroughs "Valentine Day Reading"; Brion Gysin "Poems"; Bernard Heidsieck "Chapeau: Passe-Partout N 4"; Henri Chopin "La Soleil Est Mécanique". ORIGINAL EDITION LONG SOLD OUT! VVAA "Revue OU. Record 5" pictureLP (15VocSon045.5). Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Fifth of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. This disc includes No 26-27, No 33 and No 42-43-44 or Raoul Hausmann "B b b b et F m s b w"; Raoul Hausmann "K' Perioum"; Raoul Hausmann "Poème Sans Titres"; Raoul Hausmann "Oiseautal"; Raoul Hausmann "Chanson, Vali Tali, Baste"; Bernard Heidsieck "La Convention Collective"; Bernard Heidsieck "La Cage"; Bernard Heidsieck "L'exercise: Biopsie II"; Henri Chopin "Indicatif 1"; Henri Chopin "La Fusée Interplanétaire"; Bernard Heidsieck "Quel Age Avez-Vous?: Biopisie V"; François Dufrêne "Dédié À H. Chopin"; Gil J. Wolman "La mémoire: Mégapneumes"; Henri Chopin "Le Ventre De Bertini"; William S. Burroughs "Reading"; Ake Hodell "Numro Ba Besch"; Charles Amirkhanian "Each' LL"; Ladislav Novák "Two Poems"; Henri Chopin "Le Vrai Sonnet Des Voyelles"; Henri Chopin "Les Mandibules Du Déjeuner Sur L'herbe". ORIGINAL EDITION LONG SOLD OUT! Henri Chopin "The Body is a Sound Factory & Co." LP (16VocSon046). Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Originally issued in an edition of 300 copies, only available with the vinyl edition of the Revue OU anthology. This LP includes previously unreleased audiopoems dating from 1965 to 1981. Tracks are "Le discours des ministres"; "La chanson du Parlement Européen"; "Beginning"; "Les saccades boréales hurlantes"; "Les raclements du Maelstron" and "Le corps est une usine à sons". ORIGINAL EDITION LONG SOLD OUT! Ben Patterson "A Fluxus Elegy" LP (17VocSon061). First 80 copies from the original 345 copies edition issued in 2006. This Ben Patterson composition, issued on is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitches or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches or tones performed by another person, thus alternating pitches or tones of one part with those of another part to create a whole. Second principle: use of cyclical and open-ended forms involving one or more ostinato melodic/rhythmic pattern as a foundation. Third principle: community participation...non-specialists are encouraged to join in long performances with much repetition. Fourth principle: rhythmic complexity with the juxtaposition of double and triple patterns, multiple layering of different patterns, and interaction between a core foundation and improvised parts. And, most important, the family 'ownership' of a specific tone: in the musical culture of these tribes, each ancestral family 'owns' and is responsible for one or more specific tones, which must be sounded at specific points, sequencing with the many other specific tones 'owned' by other families, to create a seamless melody. Ben Patterson made a music based on this information by taking the initials of artists listed in "Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties" and encoding them in basic International Morse Code. These 'dots and dashes' were then performed on a Yamaha DJX keyboard (voice pattern setting), connected to a Digitech JamMan Looper (over-dub setting), connected to an Eurorack MX 602A mixer. Front cover reproducing the original score." One copy available now - more are available to me still. |
| 9/29/2004 | V/A | BatsI Son: The music of the Chiapas Highlands of Mexico | CD | $12.99 | Latitude | "Legendary downtown New York producer & engineer Richard Alderson captured some of the most essential sounds imaginable on tape at the dawn of the 1960s by the likes of The Fugs, The Holy Modal Rounders, The Godz, Pearls Before Swine, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk and a host of others. In the early 1970s, he dropped out of the scene and relocated to Chiapas, Mexico. For five years he traveled throughout the Chiapas highlands with a microphone in hand, putting to tape some of the most stunning music imaginable. Bats I Son means 'real song,' and this foundational collection represents the culmination of Aldersons years spent documenting the raw, rarely-heard songs and ritual performances of an acoustic ecology thats all but disappeared today. Brilliantly remastered from the original master tapes at Alderson Acoustics in 2003, Bats I Son features never-before-published photos, heavily revised liner notes by Richard Alderson and updated track-by-track accounts by Alderson." |
| 5/7/2004 | V/A | Beta-lactam Ring Records 04 Sampler 'Death's Last Life's Breath' | CD | $5.99 | Beta-Lactam Ring | "Spring/Summer 2004 label CD sampler. Contains a new Nurse With Wound track exclusive to this release called 'A Wasted Life Of Phagocyte Foot Fetishism'. Tracks from new albums by: Edward Ka-Spel, Nurse With Wound, Earthmonkey, Whitelodge, La STPO, Green Milk from the Planet Orange, Beequeen, La STPO, Friday Group (featuring Tom Carter of Charalambides) and irr. app. (ext.)" |
| V/A | Bottom of the World | 7" | $4.99 | Fourth Dimension/Fisheye | Excellent 4 track EP featuring Omit, RST, Sandoz Lab Technicians & Surface of the Earth | |
| 1/24/2009 | V/A | Brains on Backwash | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "This hour and a half compilation plays almost like one long brain melter rather than twenty one seperate artists. that means no gaps between tracks. in fact, there is some slight overlay when it was called for to keep the boiling going. all over the noise spectrum jams from cock e.s.p., tonight golden curls, hal mcgee, tusco terror, oubliette, diaphragm, wether, skybirds, to live and shave in l.a., datashock, sky limousine, talibam!, head boggle, suburbia melting, hunting rituals, the lonely procession, reviver, d/a a/d, xiphiidae, slow listener, and andrew kirschner." |
| 1/30/2010 | V/A | Brains On Backwash II: Exile On Brain Street | c94 cassette | $4.99 | 905 Tapes | "Installment two of the brains on backwash compilations. twenty three tracks loaded and layered with no gaps to stop the motion. this time around the gems are dropped by a snake in the garden, roman wolfe, blue sabbath black cheer, sorc'henn, cold turkey, dr. quinn medicine woman, century plants, john pyle, andreas brandal, kgb man, heat conference, david russell, regosphere, teeth collection & concrete arteries, pillars of heaven, being, mike khoury & jason shearer, mutant ape, expo 70, grasshopper, josh lay, ajilvsga, and fossil night suit." |
| 4/10/2009 | V/A | Bright and Dark Light | 4 x cassette | $21.99 | Earjerk | 4xc20+ in box. "Sidelong pieces by 8 artists. Burial Hex, Sorc'henn, Drunjus, Crystal Dragon, Teeth collection, Black Sparrow, Pan to Scratch, Taikuri Tali. Each artist was asked to contribute a side long piece representing light or darkness. I gotta say, this one is heavy on the darkside... Sorc'henn - A Dozen Moons against the Sun - This is a soundtrack to a haunting. A wandering ghost floating through streets of drizzling rain. The groans of the not quite dead. A distant rumble of thunder is heard through a haze of lamentation. Regret, misery, and abandonment.. Teeth Collection - untitled - A metallic (in the literal sense) symphony starts out this piece. Activated and bowed metal sounds build to a frenzy as a bed of noise creeeeps in behind and gradually envelops the metal sounds creating a cold fog of swirling texture that is truly entrancing. Drunjus - Silo (version) - A deep gutteral drone created in a silo (designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright) and pitched down. Waaaay down. While we weren't looking Pat Best of Pelt sneeked in and contributed gong flourishes. That didn't make it in the liner notes, but it's true! Thanks Patrick! Crystal Dragon - Sirens of Hyperspace - A total space odyssey! This is some dreamy analog synth action from the Dragon. Someone needed to shed a little light, so the Dragon steps up. Amethyst mountains rising from a pink bubbling haze of 50's science fiction soundtrack sounds. Black Sparrow - untitled - A bit lighter now. Black Sparrow takes us on a flight above the clouds. As our shadow passes the moon we can hear below us a howling wolf chorus of analog synth. Burial Hex - untitled - A dark journey through scraping cemetery gates with rolling sarcophagi stones and bones Pan to Scratch - August 2008 V - Pan to Scratch presents us with another organic cassette composition. A true 'Sound Sculpture', this piece is a layering of tones upon tones. The original tone being inspired by a captured environmental ambiance and then enhanced with several moog drones. Once the initial drones were laid out, (layered over) a loose pattern began to emerge. This pattern was then used as a skeleton to build the piece, each successive layer adding to and changing the course of the pattern. This was repeated until the piece was 'finished', the tones gradually fading out and leaving only the original ambiance. Taikuri Tali - untitled - Spectacular contribution from these Finnish freakers! Taikuri Tali (here composed of Antti Tolvi, Peko Kappi and Niko-matti Ahti) contribute a piece so out there that I have No idea whats happening on this recording. What I Imagine: A weird squeak-toy, spring peeper drone with AM frequency fiddle and electronic bull roarer/Goose duo...then the elf dervishes start in and it just gets weirder from there...". |
| 7/23/2004 | V/A | Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia | CD | $14.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "There is a legend in Burma stating that swarms of male dragonflies gather to join in choruses of high-pitched tones to court their mates. The ones that don't succeed in mating eventually scream so loud that their chests explode and they drop dead to the ground. These recordings are a tribute to this legend. Droning cicadas, dragonflies and other insects display their charm as masters of the High Frequency Airwaves recorded live and unprocessed by Tucker Martine in the lush settings of Laos, Thailand, and Burma. Enter the supernatural world where Entomology and Electronica converge in a tropical hallucination of alien sound. Anyone who's ever wondered if these strange symphonies could be recorded or preserved as precisely as they sound in the field need look no further! Martine has done it and you will be transported to the exact experience one would encounter in these mysterious lowlands. Liner notes by Hakim Bey!" |
| 4/1/2003 | V/A | Bulb Singles #2 | CD | $12.99 | Bulb Records | "Continuing the assault. This edition of Bulb singles cover the years 1996-2000, the wonder years. When present 'underground' labels were in diapers, Bulb was peddling these testaments to failure to every Joe that would give it a listen. Where many of Bulb's peers have given in to economics and life (weakness) Bulb stupidly maintained its footing and now is still around to be able to present this collection to the buying public. Everybody won't like everything on this collection but surely everyone who listens will reconsider the endless quagmire that is independent music today. Going from the garage freakishness of the Demolition Doll Rods (now In The Red), we get taken through the Tweezers, The many Moods of Marlon Magas (now of Magas), Mr. Velocity Hopkins (now of 25 Suaves, Danse Asshole), Galen (Wolf Eyes), are tracks from Quintron and Flossie and the Unicorns, 25 Suaves, King Brothers (also now on In The Red Records), Japanese rockers Voodoo Boots, and the Wolf Eyes 'Fortune Dove' 12" (which featured a rare remix by the now famous Andrew WK). Limited to 500 copies." |
| 7/16/2006 | V/A | California | 10 x LP Box | $74.99 | RRR | "Finally available! The long-awaited mammoth 10-LP survey of noise, experimental, drone and improvised music from the state in which the popsicle was invented. This limited edition set features newcomers such as Oscillating Innards and critics' darlings The Skaters and Yellow Swans alongside such mainstays as GX Juppiter-Larsen (The Haters) and Joe Colley." -ning nong. One side each by these 20 artists: Amps For Christ, The Cherry Point, Joe Colley, Control, Yellow Swans, Gerritt, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Moth Drakula, Oscillating Innards, Open City, Sixes, Skaters, Solid Eye, Spastic Colon, Tralphaz, Damion Romero, Rubber O Cement, John Wiese, Xome and RHY Yau. Compiled by Phil Blankenship (Troniks/The Cherry Point) and packaged in a minimal black box. |
| 7/23/2004 | V/A | Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1 | CD | $14.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "An unbelievable collection of dynamic Cambodian music recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s, both in Cambodia and in the United States. A truly Khmer blend of folk and pop stylings - Cha-Cha Psychedelia, Phase-shifting Rock, sultry circle dance standards, pulsing Cambodian new wave, haunted ballads, musical comedy sketches, Easy-Listening numbers and raw instrumental grooves presented in an eclectic variety of production techniques. Male and female vocalists share the spotlight, embellished by roller rink organ solos, raunchy guitar leads and MIDI defying synthesizers. Culled from over 150 aging cassettes found at the Asian Branch of the Oakland Public Library in California, these recordings showcase a pre and post holocaust Cambodian musical lineage that can't be ignored." |
| V/A | Cambodian Rocks | CD | $15.99 | Parallel World | "Unknown to exist until recently, these recordings from the late 60s, early 70s Cambodian rock scene range from mad garage-band rave-ups to mystic go-go organ/fuzz guitar, with exotic female singers. Extremely sensual and emotionally charged - you'll hear echoes of Jimi, Janis, Seeds, Them, and SF acid. Assembled by Paul Wheeler who went to Cambodia and found these tapes which the locals called 'Circle Dance Music' without credits or song titles. These late-60's/ early 70's era songs have a sound that's completely inexplicable despite the use of standard rock instrumentation and song structures." Reissue of LP with 9 extra tracks on this cd. | |
| 7/16/2004 | V/A | Cambodian Rocks Vol. 1 | CD | $15.99 | Khmer | "First volume of some of the strangest music you will ever hearCambodian garage psych bands from the late '60s who had been influenced by American music during the Korean war; amazing garage psych excursions with brilliant farfisa keyboards and wah wah fuzz guitar topped off with bizarre Cambodian vocals; primal versions of rock 'n' roll, surf, and R 'n' Bsometimes all in one song; seventeen tracks all in all. An amazing release!! See also volume 2. Note that these are official versions, (ie: not the Parallel World versions) with lyric translations and liner notes in English." - Lion Productions |
| 7/16/2004 | V/A | Cambodian Rocks Vol. 2 | CD | $15.99 | Khmer | "Another seventeen track comp that is a must have for everybody! Incredible recordings from the late 60s/early 70s Cambodian rock scene that range from mad garage-band rave-ups to mystic go-go organ/fuzz guitar wig outs, with exotic female singers sensual and emotional; a sound that's completely inexplicable despite the use of standard rock instrumentation and song structures. Note that these are official versions, (ie: not the Parallel World versions) with lyric translations and liner notes in English." - Lion Productions |
| 3/11/2005 | V/A | Carbon 10YR.Series | 10 x CDR Boxset | $84.99 | Carbon Records | "10YR.Series.BOXSET - This is the Carbon 10YR.Series Boxset. It includes 10 CDRs released throughout 2004, for the price of less than 9. Also included is a homemade wooden box with metal stamped cover and slide-drawer, which houses the 10 releases, plus a bonus DVD-R the making of.... Be the first on your block. The series includes Joe+N, Mike Shiflet, Dead Machines, Ming (Campbell Kneale of Birchville Cat Motel), Crawlspace, Coffee, Tom Carter & Shawn McMillen, Andy GIlmore, Howard Stelzer & the Cherry Point and Blood Stereo (Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance)." Super nice! |
| V/A | Chocolate Soup For Diabetics V.3 | LP | $15.99 | Chocolate Soup For Diabetics | Volume 3 features more psychedelic obscurities from the UK. | |
| V/A | Chocolate Soup For Diabetics V.4 | LP | $15.99 | Chocolate Soup For Diabetics | This 4th volime "shares more of the obscure delights of 1960's British rock. While our previous volumes focused mostly on fine psychedelic sounds, this new selection also features freaky pop, pounding beat, and some of the great mod-soul sounds prevalent in the clubs and ballrooms of the Swinging London of yesteryear." | |
| 12/24/2005 | V/A | Choubi Choubi! Folk & Pop Sounds from Iraq | CD | $15.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Meticulously selected from Iraqi cassettes and LPs found in Syria, Europe and the Iraqi neighborhoods of Detroit, Michigan, this unique collection of folk and pop styles displays a wealth of outstanding music that is exclusive to Iraq and has rarely been showcased abroad. There are many reasons why Iraqi music stands alone in the dynamic world of Arabic music: one example is the unbelievable rapid fire machine-gun rhythms fluttering atop the main tempo. This is the work of a unique nomadic hand drum called the khishba - also known as the zanbour (Arabic for "wasp"). A style prominently featured here is the infamous Iraqi choubi - a driving rhythmic style that can include fiddles, double reeded instruments, percussion, bass, keyboards and oud over its signature beat. Other styles featured are the basta (an urban Baghdadi style), the bezikh, and the pulsating hecha. Also heard is the mawal - a vocal improv that sets the tone of a song, regardless of the style. Additionally there are three cuts from Ja'afar Hassan's 1970s record, Let's Sing Together. Being a folk-rock record, it's a true anomaly for Iraq. Hassan was a mouthpiece for the Iraqi Socialist movement just a few years before Saddam Hussein. But most of the music in this collection was produced during the Saddam period between the 1980s and 2002. Since the 2003 invasion and the wholesale disassembly of the country, classic tracks like these may already be part of a disappeared past." |
| 3/21/2007 | V/A | Closet Full of Clothes | LP | $12.99 | White Denim | "Limited to 1007 copies, half white/half pink vinyl, full-color cover. Features strictly unreleased material by all groups: My Name Is Rar Rar (ex-Flying Luttenbachers), Small Rocks (ex-Stock Hausen and Walkman), Pearls & Brass (Drag City), Nice Nice (Temporary Residence), Black Eyes (Dischord), Hair Police, Doormouse (Planet Mu) and Mammal." |
| 2/26/2003 | V/A | Color in Absence Sound | CD | $10.99 | Hell's Half Halo | "Featuring rare tracks by the Sun City Girls, Thurston Moore, Whiteout, Decaer Pinga, Alvarius B, Diadal, Vote Robot, Glands of External Secretion, Smack Music 7, Julian Bradley, Hochenkeit, Ashtray Navigations, Monostat 3, Elklink, Idea Fire Co, 2/5 Bukatu, Ron Lessard w/ tTheoretical Munt, Watt (Bill Orcutt pre-HP), Gar Funk. A smooth collection that lets you relax and enjoy the sounds of the born delinquent. Steeped in all the traditions of a devil's carnival, the resulting musics cover the entire cosmos of impaired playing: rejected compositions for African nations national anthems, music for soft bellies, fumbles in the infamous non-ventilated listening booth." |
| 11/17/2007 | V/A | Compact Listen | CD | $13.99 | Claudia | "From the active scene in New Zealand, where everybody seems to be making music, hails the CLaudia label, of whom we reviewed releases before. But now they venture out to releasing real CDs, and like a young label would the first real CD is a compilation, showcasing only thirteen of the talents from the world down under. We come across well-known names such as Greg Malcolm, Metal Rouge, Mhfs, Sam Hamilton, Rosy Parlane, Antony Milton, but also Stefan Neville, The Futurians, Sweetcakes, Jane Austen and the very dutch name of Arie Hellendoorn. Throughout the music is experimental, working out in different directions. Drone like, lo-fi guitar playing, computerized glitch drones, and more straight forward improvised music. There is however a strong element of 'atmospheric mood music' to be detected in all of these tracks, even in the more heavy outing of The Futurians or Stefan Neville. Tracks are throughout short and to the point and none of them is a real high flyer, but there isn't also a real weak link. A good overview this compilation of just a tiny bit of a big scene." -Vital Weekly |
| 2/23/2004 | V/A | Cottage Industrial Vol. 1 | CDR | $8.99 | Humbug | "The title of this compilation is a program by and of itself: D.I.Y. noise-based experimental music. The Humbug label has done an excellent job at selecting a varied international roaster. The quality of the contributions is high almost across the board, only a couple tracks failing to deliver something original or daring. The album?s title is a bit misleading: this is not Industrial music in the '80s sense of the word, absolutely nothing retro about it. If these artists have been inspired by the mythical days of the international cassette underground (you know, back when Merzbow was barely more than a circulating rumor), they take the D.I.Y. approach to new extremes, combining laptop art with the most simple artistic gestures possible. The set begins with a noise assault courtesy of Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen - a harsh entry to an album that also offers its share of quieter passages. The English group Earth Hum contributes one of the highlights, a 'Post Industrial Dream' combining a recitation and a diesel engine, among other sounds. Other stand-outs include some amplified objects by Nicolas Malevitsis (at least that's what it sounds like); a hilarious piece by Crank Sturgeon where the artist attempts to play back a recording by Crank Sturgeon but keeps messing up, recording himself in the process; a delicate soundscape by Ilios, and a surprising vocal piece by Id M Theft Able that sounds like Jaap Blonk recorded performing on a street corner and remixed. And the last two tracks by Andreas Meland and Jan-M. Iversen propose gentle yet unusual soundscapes. Truly admirable and highly recommended". - Francois Couture, All Music Guide. This volume features: Jan van den Dobbelsteen, Earth Hum, Claypipe, Nicolas Malevitsis, Midwich, Lukasz Ciszak, HOH, Verde, Crank Sturgeon, Odd Job, Ilios, A.M., Id M Theft able, Andreas Meland, Jan-M. Iversen. |
| 2/23/2004 | V/A | Cottage Industrial Volume 2 | CDR | $8.99 | Humbug | "Another entry in our compilation series, featuring five tracks from various acts outta the Deserted Village label from Ireland: Murmansk, Agitated Radio Pilot, The Magickal Folk of the Faraway Tree, and United Bible Studies (UBS with two tracks, one of them being a gorgeous outtake from an outdoors session they did with Vinny Dermody and Colleen (appearing courtesy of the Leaf Label)). A great way to check out this label's sounds! Further we've got all the 12 short tracks from PÃl Asle Pettersen's 'Spor...' 8-inch EP released earlier this year, which Roel Meelkop in Vital Weekly called 'a genuine electroacoustic feast'. Eric Cordier appears under his own name (with a reworking of a traditional tune from Brittany, France) and as NOL (No Output Laptops), while Edward Ruchalski and Peter Wright also has two tracks each.....other artists are Ivar Grydeland/Ãyvind Torvund, Anders Gjerde, Shifts, Uton, and The Cherry Point (with a full-on blast of harsh noise for good measure).....so a bit 'o this and a bit 'o that, almost all previously unreleased, an awesome way to check out some genuinely adventurous sounds. This is 'the shit' even if I say so myself....bah! 28 tracks, just ten seconds shy of 80 minutes!" |
| 8/28/2007 | V/A | Cris & Chuchotements | CDR | $12.99 | Crier dans les musees | First release on new French label is a 79 minute compilation featuring these artists: Aan, Valerio Cosi, Peter Wright, Black Forest / Black Sea, Ravi Padmanabha & Lathan Hardy, The Mighty Acts Of God, Kuupuu, Expo 70, Ghost Brâmes Of Le Cerf Magickal, Aaron Martin, Alligator Crystal Moth & Taiga Remains, White Rainbow, Enfer Boréal, and Ourubos |
| 4/1/2003 | V/A | Dawn Take Away Concert | LP | $15.99 | Get Back | "A reissue of the ultra-rare Dawn Take Away Concert compilation originally released in 1971 on Dawn Records to promote the label's artists. Includes songs by COMUS, Mungo Jerry, The Trio, Country Joe, Paul Bretts Sage, Demon Fuzz. Mike Cooper, and more." |
| 11/21/2009 | V/A | Deaf In The Valley | double c30 cassette & Art Zine Box Set | $19.99 | 905 Tapes | "Deaf In The Valley is an assemblage of killer sight and sounds from fifteen amazing artists who dabble in both crafts. the release consists of two pro-dubbed 30 minute cassettes and a full-color offset printed zine, all packaged in a brown kraft box with clear plastic lid, limited to 200 numbered copies. each artists involved contributed one page of artwork and one track from either a solo project or a group they are in. those included are thurston moore john olson / lost anchors joe denardo / growing chris pottinger / cotton museum christopher forgues / kites witchbeam / telecult powers heath moerland / sick llama dennis tyfus / vom grill brent eyestone / aughra dan dlugosielski / mossy throats britt brown / acid wash daniel la porte / earth crown joe breitenbach jeremy bradley earl / the creeps kevin mceleney / droughter Killer!! |
| 8/23/2009 | V/A | Deep Ypsi | cassette | $5.99 | Gods of Tundra | The Haunting, Hair Police, Stoning, Pool Water, Failing Lights, Gate to Gate, the Cove, New Device, Birth Refusal. All recorded and conceived in the comforts and confines of these midwestern walls. |
| 6/25/2004 | V/A | Dissolution Tapes | CD | $9.99 | Zeromoon | "Lets face it, most compilations suck, are filled with half-assed throw away tracks by name artists and filler by unknowns reinventing the wheel for the umpteenth time. This is were Dissolution Tapes differs. In order to maintain a stylistic consistency of music and challenge the contributors, musical themes recorded by Normal Music's secret alter ego, The MCE, were given to every participant. Its sort of a remix CD but beyond that in how attention was paid to the overall disk in terms of flow and composition creating a unified release of new and challenging music. Artists include: Cornucopia, Alexei Borisov, Anton Nikkila, Freiband, Ultra Milkmaids, Violet, Jacob Kirkegaard, Maja Ratkje, Kotra, Dead Letters, Andrey Kiritchenko, Das Torpedoes, Michael Gendreau, R.R. Habarc, Francisco Lopez, Rechord, Fe-Mail." |
| 9/29/2005 | V/A | Down In A Mirror - A Second Tribute To Jandek | CD | $12.99 | Summersteps | "Summersteps Records is honored to be offering this second edition of songs written, or directly inspired by, the singular singer songwriter and enigma known as Jandek. Both albums have been ably instigated, produced and sequenced by Summersteps. Following their first such enterprise; Naked in the Afternoon (SUM 0010) from 2000, which featured contributions from the likes of: Low, Bright Eyes, Amy Denio, Retsin, and Gary Young, amongst many others. For this new collection there are sterling contributions from a wide range of 22 fine contemporary artists, including: Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, The Mountain Goats, Brother JT, Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple, Rivulets, Dirty Projectors, Six Organs of Admittance, Eric Gaffney, Okkervil River, Pothole Skinny, Lewis & Clarke and many others. The last couple of years have seen the star of the reclusively mysterious Jandek rise in a significant way. The release of the 2003 documentary film Jandek on Corwood was an accurate evocation of one of independent music's most individualistic, challenging, and productive artists. Jandek did his first public performance unannounced with no advance publicity or introduction at the Instal.04 Festival in Glasgow in 2004 as 'a representative from Corwood Industries'. 2005 sees the release of the sublime second Jandek tribute album, as Jandek himself continues to release new material; nearing forty albums at this writing. From the first notes of Jeff Tweedy's ethereally beautiful opening rendition of 'Crack a Smile', it is obvious that Down in a Mirror is going to be something very special. The overwhelming majority of the contributors are remarkably faithful to the original songs; while expanding upon, and infusing them all with their own distinctive personalities and sensibilities." |
| 8/28/2007 | V/A | Dream Frequencies Volume #1 | CD | $21.99 | Antenna | "A new series from The Telescopes Antenna label, dedicated to contemporary artists, concerning music and art either communicated from or evocative of dream states. In the hope of covering as much fertile ground as possible, we aim to involve different artists and guest compilers with each volume. Compiled by Stephen Lawrie with hand written illustrations and paintings from Bridget Hayden, volume #1 is a narcoleptic mix of experimental free drone noise and repetition, featuring contributions from Vibracathedral Orchestra, Birds of Delay, Development of Shape, Dreams of Tall Buildings, Moon, The Library Tapes, Sculptress, The Dust Collectors, Bologna Pony, The Telescopes, Jazzfinger, Number None, ....Unexplained Transmissions & Astral Social Club. A ltd edition of 500 copies only." |
| 8/21/2002 | V/A | Electrically Induced Vibrations | LP | $18.99 | Anomalous | "This is a collection of music created with electronic means by artists residing in Luxembourg, United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand and The Netherlands. Most of these people have been making music for 20 years or more, and have diverse history. Their music as collected here is varied, but arranged into a cohesive flow. By all means experimental to the general population, the first side consists of what might be consider the more musical contributions, while the second explores more abstract and ambient territory. Edward Ka-Spel is best known as the vocalist for The Legendary Pink Dots, which he helped found in 1980. however he is also an integral member of The Tear Garden and Mimir and has an extensive solo discography. as a singer and songwriter, he is one of the only in that field who can still take me into his world with his painfully real and cleverly articulated words. as a sound maker, he has not only created a great backing for his lyrics, but has also made many wonderful electronic soundscapes which are outstanding in the field of experimental music. Cyclobe is Stephen Thrower and Simon Norris, both known as members of Coil at different times in that group's history. And while the connection can be heard, their music stands on its own quite well, as their two albums, "Luminous Darkness" and "The Visitors", prove. Colin Potter is well known for his engineering work as his I.C. Studio, where he has worked with Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Ora, Organum, Jonathan Coleclough, Monos, and many many others. In many of these cases, his position was often elevated to collaborator, and his contribution essential. As his solo releases have been infrequent in recent years, and many were only on cassette, this side of his activity has been less appreciated, which is unfortunate. Among those things is the CD "And Then" on his own I.C.R. label, while the cassette "See" is about to re-released on CD by Infraction. Steve Thomsen was a member of L.A. band Monitor, who some may remember because of their associations with Boyd Rice and L.A.F.M.S., and later the ensemble Solid Eye (with Rick Potts and Joseph Hammer). Throughout his history, he has been recording solo works at home, and making tapes just for friends. It's only recently that some of those works have been more heard, due to a pair of CDs on Transparency and a string of CDRs which Steve resigned to put out himself. An avid fan of Forteana, his music often comes across as what would make a great soundtrack for sci-fi movie from a lost era. Omit is another artist who has released much music on cassette, but recent years have seen CDs on Corpus Hermeticum, including a collaboration with A Handful of Dust under the name Dust/Omit, and an LP in collaboration with K-Group on Fusetron, as well as several limited 7"s and CDRs. His music is enveloping, reverberant and spacious - the perfect soundtrack for both exploring the inner reaches of your mind as well as the open expanses of the world around (for example ominous mountain passes). Arkkon is the solo project of David Knight whose discography would stretch back to 1980 and include releases with The Fast Set, Five or Six, Danielle Dax, Shockheaded Peters, and Lydia Lunch. It is only in the last years that he has started to publish solo recordings though including CDs on Tonus Kozmetica and Soleilmoon Recordings, as well as a pair of very limited, self-released CDRs. Unlike much of the work in the rest of his discography, Arkkon is abstract electronics, often calling upon his vintage analog synthesizers. The Silverman is another founding member of The Legendary Pink Dots, and as such he appears on all of their releases (which number quite a large number by now). He is very involved in writing music for the band, and in the last decade has released four very beautiful solo albums. The Silverman also appears on all the recordings by Mimir. Mistress of Strands is one of the many bands from the Ventricle stable; a label dedicated to putting more cosmic and experimental music with female vocals into the world. In addition to this project, Dusty Lee has appeared on recordings from Mauve Sideshow, Torn Curtain and Angel Provocateur. Fibrillation is an artist who has been working in private for some years now, and this is the first track of his to be publicly released. His work is careful constructed, and has a great attention to detail. This track was created to invoke the childhood memories of walking through dark, mysterious woods. A very strong piece for a first release." Limited edition of 427 copies on colored vinyl. |
| V/A | Electronic Evocations Silver Apples tribute | CD | $17.99 | Enraptured | Excellent - Windy & Carl/Third Eye Foundation/Flowchart/Sabine/Amp/Loelei/ Scaredycat/Alphastone/Tranquil/Monitor/ & Outrageous Cherry | |
| 6/19/2002 | V/A | ElsieandJackandAube : Rewriting The Book | DBL CD | $15.99 | elsieandjack | "Elsie and Jack are proud to present, REWRITING THE BOOK a double cd monster that contains many genre defining moments within its 154 minute, 28 track lifespan. 2 years in the making, it encompasses an eclectic array of artists from around the world, all contributing recordings exclusively made for this release. For the previous elsie and jack release, PAGES FROM THE BOOK, akifumi nakajima (aube) created 61 sounds, ranging from 10 second loops to 4 minute drones, using a copy of the King James bible. These source sounds, in conjunction with the original concept, were open to so many different interpretations that they were then sent to a number of artists to create their own music. Some of the artists used nothing but the source sounds; some in a very minimal way, some in a more complex manner. Others used the sounds as a starting point to build their own music around, so that the samples become an integral part of their own particular vision. A few Drekka, Hood and Volcano the Bear - introduce a more obvious if unconventional song structure to the proceedings. The differing approaches create an eclectic sound, bound cohesively into a whole by the continuing theme of the pages from the book. This release marks the first time that aube has been remixed. However, the story is not yet complete ... the next stage in this epic sees Akifumi versus everyone versus Aube." |
| 3/20/2008 | V/A | Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam | CD | $15.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "This is the third volume in a series of tribal village music compiled by Laurent Jenneau from his continual journeys into the more remote tribal areas of Southeast Asia, featuring field recordings of the Giay, Lu, Red Zao, and Black Hmong peoples from North Vietnam. The five selections presented here by the Red Zao are of an unusual vocal style called Baozoo. The Baozoo singing technique can either be a responsive song, or canon singing where a lead singer has his or her words repeated with delay by one, two or three singers. Youve never heard anything quite like it before. The instruments used in other selections include kheng (bamboo mouth organ), jews harp, bamboo sticks with coins, and the piem zat (a reed instrument or oboe affiliated with Baozoo singing). Recorded in and around Sapa, this CD includes an extended track list with added information about each track recorded along with insightful liner notes by Laurent Jenneau with an excerpt included here: "The Lu are the most mysterious to me. First Im easily impressed by people who have radically different beauty criteria; their way to blacken their teeth with a thick layer of black stuff makes every smile special. They seem to have been established in northwest Vietnam since the 12th century. The Giay, like the Lu or Lao, belong to the Tay Kadai language group. They are well established in northern parts of Vietnam and Laos, but emigrated from China 200 years ago. They have three styles of singing for different occasions; for a feast, for night drinking or to sing farewell to someone." |
| 7/16/2006 | V/A | Ethnic Minority Music of Northeast Cambodia | CD | $14.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "For the first time ever from this part of the world, here is a recording that documents the ceremonial animist music from the mysterious tribal villages of Northeast Cambodia. The Tampoans, Krungs, Kavets, Braos, and Jaraîs of Ratanakiri Province and the Phnongs in Mondolkiri Province have been living amidst each other in this region for centuries, preserving and expanding their unique cultural heritage, sometimes at peace and other times in conflict with one another or with foreign invaders. The music includes hypnotic gong ensembles, guitar ballads, bamboo flute and unique local instrumentation such as the gungteng (a 10-string instrument comprised of a bamboo tube holding 10 metallic strings with a dried gourd as resonator) and the mum (a unique one-string Krung instrument bowed with a bamboo using the mouth as a resonator, attached by a string between the instrument and the mouth). The superb singing styles and vocals present throughout are absolutely mesmerizing. These tracks sound like nothing you've heard before, all magnificently documented, transporting the listener into the heart of each performance. Recorded on location by Laurent Jenneau over a 2-year period from 2003-2005 with his revealing liner notes and a detailed tracklist included within." |
| 3/20/2008 | V/A | Ethnic Minority Music of Southern Laos | CD | $15.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "This is a collection of landmark recordings by Laurent Jenneau, documenting music created by the Harak and various Brao ethnic groups in Southern Laos. This is the second release in a series of spectacular field recordings from some of the more remote ethnic minority communities in Southeast Asia. On this release, you can hear the true historic roots of Molam music (now a venerable popular music style in Laos and Thailand) played on the khaen along with vocal styles from this region. Also featured here are gong ensembles, various stringed instruments, cymbals, drums and sung poetry all captured live on location with the ambient sounds of the surrounding villages. These recordings were made in Xekong, Champasak and Attapeu provinces and because much of this music is unknown, this is probably the first time recordings have ever been released of indigenous music from these remote areas of Southern Laos. Features insightful liner notes by Laurent Jenneau and an extended track listing with added information about each track recorded." |
| 12/12/2009 | V/A | Every Noise Has a Note | CD | $14.99 | Trensmat | "Trensmat Records is an Irish-based Independent Record Label who has specialized in transmitting drone, noise, oscillations & grooves. Over the past three years they have released, to no little acclaim, 7"s from some of the most interesting artists operating in underground music. They celebrate their 20th and final release with a twelve track compilation spanning some choice cuts from those previous releases. All of the Trensmat's previous releases were very limited edition 7"s that have long since sold out. Artists included on the compilation: White Hills, Circle, Bardo Pond, Cave, Heavy Winged, Telescopes, Mugstar, Area C, Astral Social Club, Magnetize, The Shining Path, Cheval Sombre." |
| 12/1/2004 | V/A | February 03 | Book | $14.99 | Slow Toe | 6" x 9" book featuring the writings of Todd Colby, Alex Gildzen, Thurston Moore and Matthew Wascovich with an introduction by Byron Coley. 128 pages - first edition of 1500 copies. |
| 5/31/2009 | V/A | Feed Me With Your Bliss - Rare Shoegaze 45's | CDR | $9.99 | For Your Bliss Productions | "Homespun attempts and total rarities of the 1991-1995 shoegazer wall of sound era, including uncomped MBV flexi, limited hand-pressed Swervedriver 45, Ride/Motorcycle Boy Blondie boot tribute 45--plus total unknowns like Afterglow, Whorl, Crush Nova and Super Eight." 23 tracks. |
| V/A | Fit For Kings | CD | $12.99 | Drunken Fish | Compiles lathe cut records released by Crawlspace (NZ). Features Children's Television Workshop, Crude, Witcyst, Parmentier, White Saucer, & Aesthetics | |
| 2/16/2005 | V/A | Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol. 2 | CD | $14.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra (Volume 2) expands our presentation of the world's least-known, outstanding musical improbabilities. From the infectious trance beat of Sumatra's Folk Dangdut music, featuring Rabab (Violin) or Saluang (Flute), to the highly-refined and glorious Orkes Gambus (Orchestral Arabic music with 'Gambus' literally meaning 'Oud'), said to have been brought to the island by Islamic settlers from Yemen, the 18 tracks featured here will instantly convince the listener of the expressive beauty and diversity that Sumatra has contributed to the world music theater. Most of the musicians on this release are 'Minangkabau' or 'Minang' people who are devout followers of Islam as well as the world's largest Matrilineal society (a Minangkabau child is the descendent of his/her mother, not father). These tracks (chosen from stacks of old cassettes) were recorded from the 1960's through the 1980's and are all but dismissed by many Sumatrans who seem to prefer a more contemporary sound. This is an assortment of relics from a forgotten period of transition in Sumatran music when psychedelic organs echoed underneath arabic string sections and rustic violins sawed atop trance beats from poorly-lit night markets. The Minang sound is like no other and it represents a vital link in the somewhat cloudy history of Sumatran music. Keep in mind that this is NOT a document for the mere purpose of preservation, although it may serve as such. This IS among the very best music you've never heard and you need to hear it NOW!" |
| 3/5/2009 | V/A | Folkways I | cassette | $12.99 | The Trilogy Tapes | TTT selects an hour and a half (26 tracks from nearly as many LPs) from Folkways Records' 'Ethnic Folkways' catalogue. 50 copies only. Music from these LPs: Folk And Classical Music Of Korea Folk Music Of India Folk Songs And Music From Malta Drums Of The Yuruba Of Nigeria Arab And Druse Music Folk Music Of Yugoslavia Music Of Vietnam Folk Music Of Hungary Hungarian Folk Music Songs Of The Watusi African Drums Folk Music Of Japan Bongo, Backra & Coolie - Jamaican Roots Music Of Afghanistan Music Of The Jos Plateau & Other Regions Of Nigeria Music Of Chad Music Of The Diola-Fogny Of The Casamance, Senegal Instruments & Music Of Indians Of Bolivia Burmese Folk & Traditional Music Folk Music Of Romania Anthology Of Portuguese Music Limited stock - very nice! |
| 11/8/2003 | V/A | For The Dead In Space, Volumes 2&3 | DBL CD | $17.99 | Secret Eye | "The new double CD set FOR THE DEAD IN SPACE is a continuing tribute to TOM RAPP and PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. This special compilation features ALL EXCLUSIVE tracks from the likes of: Bevel, Thurston Moore with Mike Watt, Bardo Pond, Fursaxa, Noxagt (Kjetil Brandsdal), Kemialliset Ystävät, Alastair Galbraith, Aspera, Monster Island, Black Forest/Black Sea, Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), Cauldron (Spacious Mind), Adrian Shaw (Bevis Frond), Stone Breath, Kitchen Cynics, Dead Raven Choir, Oren Ambarchi + so many more... Tom Rapp himself has even contributed a RARE UNRELEASED version of Translucent Carraiges from 1967 including cello and organ!!Liner notes by Phil McMullen (Ptolemaic Terrascope. These volumes represent simply the finest artists in the folk, experimental and noise undergrounds paying tribute to an acid folk legend." |
| 9/6/2002 | V/A | Freakout Revisited (The bootleg of the bootleg LaMusica 'Psychedelic Freakout' | 10 CDR | $44.99 | "Features material culled from the Galactic Zoo Dossier cassettes and Plastic Crimewave's Jagged Time Lapse label. Newly annotated with liner notes, corrections, and a swell purple pouch. Underground noisy psych, drugged-out experiments, acid folk, etc. from all over the world. Fur saxa, Mirza, Plastic Crimewave, Musica Transonic, Mainliner,etc." | |
| 2/4/2007 | V/A | From Deepest Depths of a Bottomless Light | CDR | $9.99 | House of Alchemy | "house of alchemy presents its flagship release, a little behind schedule but surely worth the wait: FROM THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF A BOTTOMLESS LIGHT- a compilation of cuts from the dark and musty corners of America.....featuring tracks from Howlin' Magic, (VxPxC), The North Sea, Stone Baby, Anvil Salute, Antique Brothers, Songs About Flowers, Insect Mind Burial Ground, Sleepwalkers Local 242, The Goodwillies, Ajilvsga and Scott Valkwitch, mad sounds to cherish.....13 tracks of bedlam laid to tape......smashing cover design by Darryl Norsen, limited to 200 copies with silk-screened jackets......." |
| 3/26/2006 | V/A | From The Lips Of Lepers | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Gloriously bent compilation of tape manpulation/loop madness/whatever with John Wiese, Ashtray Navigations, Justin Meyers, Ones, Smack Music 7, Julian Bradley, Luke Younger, Green Mist, Neil Campbell, Aaron Dilloway, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Dylan Nyoukis, Skaters, Sisprum Vish & Gas Shepherds." |
| 11/3/2004 | V/A | Galactic Zoo Disk Sampler | CDR | $6.99 | Made originally to 'shop the label, this features exclusive tracks from Mainliner, Acid Mothers Temple, Fur Saxa, Taralie of Spires That in the Sunset Rise, the Golden Fleece (Pelt, Charalambides, Number None, Spires, and Plastic Crimewave Sound) a good full-length listen!!! Who knows if some of these releases will see the light of day anytime soon....... | |
| 4/16/2007 | V/A | Getting Rid of the Glue | LP | $10.99 | Pendu Sound | "Getting Rid of the Glue is a tribute to the continuing positive influence of John Cage on free /improv /creative /& noise music. It is a compilation of New York/Chicago musicians representing a wide-ranging diversity of experimental music that is both new and relevant to a chaotic and unstable 21st century. GETTING RID OF THE GLUE is a phrase first used by Henry Cowell before introducing the music of Christian Wolff, Earl Brown, Morton Feldman, and John Cage at a New School concert in 1950s. John Cage in his influential lecture entitled 'History of Experimental Music in the United States' recounts the remarks of Henry Cowell. 'That here were ... composers getting rid of glue. That is: Where people had felt the necessity to stick sounds together to make a continuity, we ... felt the opposite necessity to get rid of the glue so that sounds would be themselves.' - John Cage. Limited to 300 LPs so they won't last long. Includes a 11x17 xerox poster with art contributed by each of the bands." Featured are: Dirty Churches, Spin-17, K.P., BIG A little a, Fessenden, Eager Meek, Mialessot with Daniel Carter & Old Ghost, Maria Chavez, Talibam!, and Excepter |
| 10/14/2004 | V/A | Glömp6 | Book | $12.99 | Boing Boing | "After two years break we finally present the sixth issue of our hope-to-be-annual anthology Glömp. By introducing 25 artists, Glömp6 gives you a glance of what's going on in Finnish and Swedish comics scene, this all still going on beyond thematical boundaries. The album includes 27 graphic short stories from the following artists: Sami Aho, Terhi Ekebom, Roope Eronen, Jyrki Heikkinen, Heta Ilmonen, Merja Järvelin, Marko Kalliokoski, Ina Kallis, Inari Kylänen, Heikki Lahnaoja, Anna-Kaisa Laine, Knut Larsson, Jarno Latva-Nikkola, Marko Latva-Nikkola, Tommi Musturi, Marcus Nyblom, Camilla Pentti, Ville Pynnönen, Henna Raitala, Ville Ranta, Jenni Rope, Jouko Ruokosenmäki, Janne Tervamäki, Jari Vaara and Mikko Väyrynen. Glömp6 is another co-release with Hurry. English translation included! Edition of 800. |
| 12/13/2008 | V/A | Gods of Heavy: Unreleased Tracks by Rocks Heavy Masters | CDR | $13.99 | All Seeing Eye | Features rare live cuts by Taste, Edgar Broughton Band, Silver Metre, Out of Darkness, Slowbone, MC5 (post Thompson & Tyner) from 1972, Budgie, Ascension, Slade, May Blitz. |
| 11/15/2008 | V/A | Gothenburg 08 | CD | $13.99 | Fang Bomb | "The by now legendary compilation LP 'Gothenburg 84' was released by Radium 226.05 (record label/gallery/publishing house/breeding ground) in 1984. The LP is an excellent document of an unusually creative period in the musical history of Gothenburg, featuring the upcoming talent of that time. It has an impressive roster of artists, such as CM von Hausswolff, Freddie Wadling, Zbigniew Karkowski and Jean-Louis Huhta. Now, in 2008, Gothenburg's electronic and experimental scene is again soaring with talent. It's a scene of pioneers creating exploratory, unique music - completely new, but still connected to the spirit from almost 25 years ago. It is another unique era, and it is time to document it. This is what 'Gothenburg 08' sets out to do. 'Gothenburg 08' includes never before heard tracks by The Skull Defekts, Porn Sword Tobacco, Anders Dahl, Jasper TX, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Joel Brindefalk, Viktor Sjöberg & Jonas Lindgren, Tsukimono and Sewer Election." |
| 9/17/2006 | V/A | Green Gold | cassette | $8.99 | Gold Soundz | Compilation tape with 1 track each by ARMPIT, CRUSH THE JUNTA and COARSEBANGOR and 2 short tracks by JAZZFINGER. Green cassette, green paper fold-around cover. 40 copies. |
| 9/30/2008 | V/A | Hand Rolled Oblivion | 3xCDR | $35.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "3 jam packed cdr's containing 52 tracks gathered together over the last two years featuring tracks from mymwly regulars , friends and collaborators from all over this fucked up planet working/walking in the fields of noise , neofolk , psych and experimental music'this is an epic compilation that will surely create a history and a legend that will reverberate through the long corridors of time from now into forever.' Or not. Packaged in hand assembled , 5 piece card thing." Disc one: inhibitionists , no guru , catrider , hronir , cadavre esquis , kageplane , lamppukello and the north sea , ThrouRoof , mac temple , terracid , futurians with s.t.u.d. , autumn galaxy , charles curse , wolf skull , mark dagely , soulighters , ffehro , Corsican paintbrush. Disc two: medroxy progesterone acetate , the golden oaks , innig , ajilvsga , autistic daughters , c.g.o.d. , eastern fox squirrels , jitka , bloom , akhet , mansion , chuffo and the grillers , blank realm , soarwhole , eye baba , mosseisly , 6majik9. Disc three: alligator crystal moth , cja , demented thrugg , dyja , dinmuck#f , helen southall , horn and talon , iced bird spiral , mshing , didgebaba , brothers of the occult sisterhood , oriente lux , planadin , the mighty acts of god , the north sea , v , xelaeondion. |
| 9/30/2008 | V/A | Home on the Range: An Open Range Compilation | CDR | $9.99 | Open Range Records | "Finallyyyyyyyyy! This compilation has been in the works for a long time. People from other labels had told me before how much it sucks waiting forever for everyone to get their tracks in and everything, but man I had no idea. I'd think it was done and ready, and that there'd be a last track in my mailbox when I got home and it'd be another two weeks. That's some difficult waiting. Anyway, housed in fold over 8x10 artwork by Thomas Bernard with silkscreened insides and glue-sticked tracklist is a stamped CDR with new/unreleased tracks from: Slasher Risk, Sky Limousine, Mike Shiflet, Cursillistas, Stone Baby, (VxPxC), Sore Eros, Sean McCann, Farngo, Tusco Terror, Ajilvsga, Fortress of Amplitude, Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, Gorman, and Manuel Giao. Limited to 50 numbered copies. Get it while it's hot." |
| 5/20/2009 | V/A | Hunters & Gatherers | zine + 3" CDR | $12.99 | Seymour Records | A full colour zine in an edition of 75 and has in it: Recipes by The Parasitic Fantasy Band, Words & Images by Helga Fassonaki (of Metal Rouge), Interview with Ged Gengras (of Antique Brothers, Pocahaunted, Vibes, Robedoor, Fantastic Sleep etc.), Reviews by Sam Hamilton (Parasitic Fantasy Band) & Andrew Scott (Metal Rouge), Art by Lucky Dragons, Poetry by Andrew Scott. Every copy comes with a live 3" CDR by Vibes (members of Sun Araw / Magic Lantern / Robedoor / Pocahaunted / Antique Brothers etc.) |
| 6/11/2006 | V/A | I Don't Think the Dirt Belongs to the Grass | 3xCD | $24.99 | Carbon Records | "a year+ in the making, and originally slated for a 10YR celebration, this compilation is documentation of amazing people/artists i've worked with over the past, now, 12 years. it also started out as a double CD project, but with the growing list of people i wanted to involve, and the overwhelming volume of confirmations, i had to grow it to a triple CD (and even had to do some trimming to fit that format). the release is packaged in a standard-size DVD case, with a full-color cover, and holds the 3 CDs as well as a full-color card-stock insert. the dvd case is then housed in a natural-color cotton bag with single-color ink stamp art/logo. the sounds range from quiet ambient sounds, to meandering guitar work, to outsider rock, to full on noise, as well as a folk/pop track here and there. [limited edition of 500]" artists include: aaron rosenblum, andy gilmore,anla courtis, antony milton, asthmatic, autumn in halifax, blood and bone orchestra, blood stereo, carlos giffoni, carpentry, caustic solution, chad oliveiri, chris reeg,cock e.s.p., coffee,craig colorusso, crawlspace, crush the junta, the davenport family, dead machines, entente cordiale, foot and mouth disease, g55, gastric female reflex,heathen prayers, hilkka, hinkley, howard stelzer, irene moon, joe+n, john charlton, justice yeldman, keith fullerton whitman, lunt, mike shiflet, nancy garcia, neil campbell, pengo, phroq, pumice, rainbeaux, sindre bjerga, sindre bjerga / jan-m iversen, sq, taiwan deth, taurpis tula, the body, the north sea, thurston moore, and tinnitustimulus |
| 2/12/2004 | V/A | I Remember Syria | DBL CD | $17.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "A jaw-dropping expose of music, news, interviews and field recordings from one of the least-known quarters of the Arab world. The country of Syria has been politically and culturally exiled for decades by the western media leaving little known of its rich heritage of art, music and culture. Recorded and surgically-assembled by Mark Gergis from two trips to Syria in 1998 and 2000, disc one of this 2-CD set features recordings made in Damascus and is a virtual documentary of sound from the legendary Capital including street scenes, a wedding, a mosque interior, spontaneous live music and interviews with citizens, radio broadcasts, a song about Saddam Hussein, and the mystery of an underground city called 'Kazib'. Disc two extends to Greater Syria with the same approach capturing live musicians, political opinions, radio excerpts, an interview with an anonymous homosexual, and unique sound documents from this small but highly-influential corner of the Middle East." |
| 4/5/2008 | V/A | Imaginational Anthem Volume Three | CD | $12.99 | Tompkins Square | "I struggle to recall any recent comps that glide together as seamlessly as these Tompkins Square projects, and Volume Three is no exception. Contemplative, intricate, a simple but ornate school of folk that hangs effortlessly between the ancient and the avant-garde -- I could listen to this stuff all day." --John Mulvey, Uncut. "NYC's Tompkins Square label releases Imaginational Anthem Volume Three, the third in a series of compilations devoted to acoustic guitar mavericks past and present. As with Volumes 1 & 2, the 3rd volume features extraordinary young talents such as Cian Nugent (Ireland), Ben Reynolds (UK), and Shawn David McMillen (Austin, TX) alongside unsung heroes from decades past, such as banjo master George Stavis, who recorded an album for Vanguard in the '60s; Richard Crandell, whose rare private press works will hopefully now come to light; and Mark Fosson, whose lost 1977 Takoma album was recently issued." Also included: Steffen Basho-Junghans, Greg Davis, Nathan Salsburg, Matt Baldwin and R. Keenan Lawler. |
| 4/5/2008 | V/A | Imaginational Anthem Volume Two | CD | $12.99 | Tompkins Square | "Released in October 2005, Imaginational Anthem Volume One featured two generations of important acoustic guitarists, from John Fahey and Sandy Bull to Jack Rose and Kaki King. Volume Two expands and builds on this theme with 70+ more minutes of guitar magic - all previously unreleased on CD in the US. 23-year old UK 12-string upstart James Blackshaw opens the record, while the late master Robbie Basho, a clear influence on Blackshaw's style, closes it. Basho's track is the only live recording by this groundbreaking guitarist ever released. Riches abound on Imaginational Anthem Vol Two, with new recordings by former Takoma roster alumni Peter Lang (who made an album with John Fahey and Leo Kottke), Billy Faier (an original Greenwich Village folkie whose late '50s Riverside records inspired a fellow crack banjo player, Steve Martin) and an archival home recording by Fred Gerlach (a favorite of Jimmy Page). The new breed is well-represented by fascinating figures of today - Smith, Carter, Sparhawk, Kraus, Rose and Blackshaw. Legendary singer/songwriter Michael Chapman, whose first albums for the Harvest label in the '60s are now seeing the light again, contributes as well." 2006 release. |
| V/A | International League of Telepathic Explorers | CD | $14.99 | Free City Media | Free City is proud to announce the release of our first compilation CD. This collection features new, rare and previously unreleased tracks by a variety of today's independent psychedelic rock artists. From undisputed masters of the form such as The Bevis Frond and Motorpsycho to talented upstarts including Aquarium Poppers and The Sand Pebbles, The International League of Telepathic Explorers displays the creative spirit passed down from the original psychedelic era. This compilation is a benefit for Free City's online magazine and label. We were very pleased that the bands that helped our magazine gain a wider audience were kind enough to contribute tracks to the album. They are some of our own favorite artists working today. A number of countries are represented: Australia (The Sand Pebbles), England (The Bevis Frond, Bitter Little Cider Apples, Lucky Bishops and Adrian Shaw), Germany (Mandra Gora Lightshow Society), Norway (Aquarium Poppers, Dipsomaniacs and Motorpsycho) and the U.S. (thebrotheregg, Dunlavy, The Minders and Photon Band). From our own label's roster, we have solo musician/producer Nick Bensen, the mysterious Polar Arc (who we only know from haunting CD-Rs postmarked from remote locations in Alaska) and 33 Tiger Infinity (surely a force to be reckoned with). The artists on this compilation record for many of the finest labels out there: Apartment, Camera Obscura, Darla, Fleece, Pink Hedgehog, Rubric, SpinART, Stickman, Swamp Room, 35g and (last but certainly not least) Woronzow. | |
| V/A | Intersect 3 | CD | $12.99 | Pale-Disc | "4.7.01 Ceremony Hall, Austin, TX didn't actually play in any capacity here but want to make note of this evening's passage. ceremony hall is a small wooden chapel on the campus of the sri atmananda complex, with beautiful sound and seemingly set off from the world despite its proximity to the accident-prone intersection of 41st and red river. many incredible shows have taken place here (tonight, 4.11, evan parker & susie ibarra). the intersect festival was started a few years ago by a coalition of local artists & musicians, and though involvement has changed, the usual suspects were in evidence tonight-- jgrzinich, rick reed, brekekekexkoaxkoax (aka josh ronsen), jeff filla, and thom grzinich. ('katie and rachel', though on the flyer, are mysteriously absent). thom grizinich (brother of j) begins the evening with strummed piano and tapes, minutely detailed repetitive sound mass expanding out through the darkness (illuminated by passing headlights). thom's first public performance, and impressive (his kalimba solo spontaneously inserted during technical difficulties in josh's performance was similarly intriguing). next was brekekekexkoaxkoax-- small, spacious minature guitar/bow sounds, broken by a piano solo w/ slideshow accompaniment (photographs of stark, dark limbed trees by Carmen Resendez). i particularly enjoyed the guitar, played with delicacy and restraint--and the film accompaniment (despite glitches) understated, shifting, layered, hallucinatory. jeff filla came next with a rare solo performance on his motors, gadgets, and miscellaneous electronics (fuzzy as to what was actually played, all performers were mostly hidden). ratcheting pops and howls, looped into a giant creaking tapestry, fascinating & uncomfortable. rick reed has been performing improvised guitar around town for years with various ensembles. tonight was the debut of his electronic instruments, which he recently began working with while in search of a satisfying approach to solo performance. several oscillators and radio receivers delivered sound that was huge & overpowering, supported by rick's amazing hand painted films, abstract shapes in scratched stop-motion, seemingly racing side to side overhead. rick's further exploits in this area are hugely anticipated... final performer was jgrizinich-- his first appearance since a lengthy jaunt in europe & environs. main instrument was a piano wire stretched from wall to wall, played with what seemed to be a homemade ebow (blueprints, anyone?)- nice cap on the evening, harmonically complex, fundamentally simple, luminous swirling underwater films. nice to have john back. in sum-- great night, straightforward presentation w/out pretention. efforts by all were excellent & look forward to everyone's future activities... Review of event by Tom Carter. CD features all 5 artists. 5 tracks 52 minutes. | |
| V/A | Intersect 4: August 25, 2001 Ceremony Hall Austin, Texas | CD | $12.99 | Pale-Disc | Excellent disc highlighted by the Charalambides recording! The focus of INTERSECT 4 was on experimental music, improvisation, video and various combinations thereof. A special quadrasonic PA system will was used for the evenings performances. Artist bios: Charalambides formed in Houston in 1991 (and relocated to Austin in 1997), and have evolved through various configurations based on the duo of Tom & Christina Carter. Starting with 1993's Union LP, they have released seven LPs and CDs on Philadelphia's Siltbreeze records and on the duo's own Wholly Other label, along with numerous other compilation appearances and CD-R releases. Since their inception, Charalambides' primary focus has been their recordings, and until recently they have played live infrequently, giving up live performance entirely for an eighteen month period from 1996 to 1998. Over the last two years, however, the duo has gradually moved toward music of a more public nature, with recordings assuming a new role as documentation of their continuously evolving sound. Currently the duo performs (frequently extended) guitar, voice, and organ compositions and improvisations that utilize volume, space, and silence as well as other elements of experimental improvised music, folk, and psychedelic guitar rock. The group is currently preparing releases on LP, 10 inch EP, and CD for Timelag Records, Beta Lactam Ring, and Eclipse Records. frequency curtain - a trio of performers (Grzinich, Reed, Ronsen) using both analogue and digital sine wave generators, processing and interventions from the radiophonic spectrum. An original piece of collaborative video work will accompany the performance. jgrzinich - John Grzinich has been using the artistic name 'jgrzinch' since 1995 when he first started building his own instruments and experimenting with non-traditional recording and processing techniques for sound. Rick Reed has been in the Austin music underground since the early eighty's when he was producing video collages with original electronic soundtracks for what was then ACTV. As of late he has been the driving force of local experimental improv group' The Abrasion Ensemble'. In 1998 he had the honor of having an Lp of his work released on Thurston Moore's label Ecstatic Peace called Experimental And Improvised Music From Austin, Texas. Reed has also had the honor of having a CD from english noise makers AMM named after him that was recorded in Houston in 1996. Two current works are soon to be issued by Beta Lactam Ring records, one an Abrasion Ensemble reissue and another a solo release from 1985 based on the dark paintings of the late painter Mark Rothko. The Rick Reed sound is one he has described as maximum sound from minimal means". Josh Ronsen has been producing juxtapositions of sound, light and movement since 1995 under the guise of Brekekekexkoaxkoax. Focusing on no one style or approach, brekekekexkoaxkoax performances have ranged from presenting Fluxus works to instrumental free-improvisation, to DJ-ing, to avant-classical composition, to action performances.Philip Gayle: born in 1969, Houston, Texas. plays guitar, stringed instruments, and percussion. has been playing since 1980 in several rock, folk, blues, country, funk, and free improvised bands in Vermont, Utah, New Hampshire, Japan, Texas, Colorado, and elsewhere. Now plays acoustic free-improvised music with waterphone, metallic objects, guitars, mandolin, ukulele, cello, viola, violin, piano, and anything else acoustic. Performs over 40 times a year all over.... Cltr Alt Dlt, aka Kurt Korthals is actively engaged is the Austin electronic music scene performing under the alias, The Buddy System. He is a regular at the monthly AMODA events and moderates the Oscillate mailing list. When not composing or programming he performs only the those duties most needed to support the basic functions of life. He can also be heard weekly on his radio show: sincerely, joe p. bear - Wednesday nights from 1-3am on KVRX. For INTERSECT 4 he plans to experiment with multi-channel anti-tonal minimalism. |
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| 7/29/2004 | V/A | Intransitive Twenty-Three | DBL CD | $16.99 | Intransitive Recordings | "Music by Jonathan Coleclough & Colin Potter, nmperign, Atau Tanaka, Olivia Block, Ronnie Sundin, Magali Babin, Nerve Net Noise, Gal, Le Quan Ninh, Artificial Memory Trace, das Synthetische Michgewebe, Frans de Waard, Haco/View Masters, Hideaki Shimada, Francisco Lopez, Eric La Casa, Lethe, Giuseppe Ielasi, Alexandre St.Onge, Birchville Cat Motel, and Thomas Ankersmit. I love compilations. Always have, ever since I started listening to music. A compilation is like an extension of a mix-tape, similar to those that I used to make in high school for my friends. It's a way of saying 'Here is all the music that I'm excited about right now, collected in one place for you'. Of course, a record label is also an extension of this enthusiasm I've been publishing electro-acoustic music for seven years now, and my excitement about it has only grown. I'm always hearing new stuff, or becoming charged about some artist's development or new projects. A compilation is a fine way for me to take stock of what music I'm listening to and step back for a moment to gather the best of it in one place. In a perfect world (one in which I suddenly became a millionaire overnight), I would publish 50-CD boxsets by everyone on this album. For now, though, Intransitive Twenty-Three should provide plenty for a listener to chew on, and some directions in which to continue exploring. As is true with all Intransitive releases, my concern is not one of refining some particular label aesthetic; to me, it's much more interesting to publish whatever I find compelling, and to let listeners make connections between disparate artists, approaches, and sounds. My hope is that one cannot know precisely what to expect from the label, but that some intuitive coherence emerges with time. That's not for me to worry about, though: there's too much great music to be heard now! Of Intransitive's previous 2CD compilation, Variious, the critic Michael Heumann wrote in Stylus Magazine that he found the album 'especially interesting because it so effortlessly bridges that imaginary gap between 'popular' and 'serious' electronic music, in the process demonstrating that those terms mean absolutely nothing. When I listen to Variious, I hear music and just music, and that's all I should hear when I listen to music'. Right on! I'm aware that the artists compiled on these CDs (and on Intransitive's releases in general) may be coming from very different conceptual or compositional places, but to these ears, all of this sound makes sense together. Just in case, I imposed a limitation on the artists: no one was allowed to use anything digital in the composition of their piece. And there you have it." - Howard Stelzer, Intransitive Recordings |
| 7/16/2006 | V/A | It's Over, We Don't Care | CD | $16.99 | Spanish Magic | "This new compilation CD from the excellent Australian imprint, Spanish Magic, contains a great combination of old favorites and new faces. These 12 tracks are put together in a way that makes this feel less like an assembly of random tracks, and more like a complete album. This is definitely some of the best music Australia has to offer. Kicking things off is the always great and vastly underrated, Hi God People. This group has been around since the '90s, spewing forth their pop-infused sonic goodness. "Egil Rotunda Mural," their contribution here, is the perfect opener. It's upbeat drums and extremely catchy keyboards & synthesizers set the mood for the rest of the compilation. You'll be tapping your foot in no time, ready for the sun to rise again. Beautiful music but an absolutely great, great band. Following this is the digital glitchery of Pimmon with "Sea Boy, Kol Kol." It's like hearing the ocean if it were electrified. The beauty here is in the subtleties. The somewhat post rock-ish aspects of II's "There Were Lakes" lasts just long enough to leave a good impression. Not the best track on the compilation, but nice enough. Next comes one of my absolute favorites, Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. The brother-sister duo of Michael & Kristina Donnelly set the world ablaze last year and haven't let up since. This stellar sacrificial lamb, "Circle of Eyes," is an organic spell cast to haunt the corners of your dreams. Bowed guitars and a heavy dose of reverb give you a full-on black forest blast. Over it's six minutes, this piece will melt all your skin away. Easily one of the compilations finest offerings. Keith Mason's '70s psych infusion, "VTR," pierces your eardrums next. As the longest track on this compilation, it unfolds slowly. Raucous electric guitars explode on contact while Mason's ritualistic vocals are trapped underneath the massive, distorted wash. It's a great piece that feels like it was rescued from another time entirely. The only track that can compete with this one for true sonic decadence is "Burning Eastor" by Hiss. Death noise at its finest, this track will kill you. It's fucking great. Anthony Guerra & Peter Biamey also get into the action with the loud and abrasive "#3." These feedback walls are more delicate, though, as if one tiny crack could bring the whole thing down. Guerra & Biamey utilize very subtle shifts to their advantage here, keeping this track moving along at a steady, but slow speed. Castings, who are the guys behind the Spanish Magic imprint, give us a short dose of their disjointed goodness. Electric guitars and minimal percussion are dragged through the mud by rusty chains, making sure that every inch is covered in dust. At just over 2 1/2 minutes, you get a quick taste of what this great band has to offer. There's also a bevy of quieter tracks that really push this compilation over the top. The Garbage & The Flowers give us "Elisabeth," a lovely duet that is taken from a Herman Hesse poem. The male/female vocals are lovely, and once the whimsical violin comes in, I will submit. This is a great piece. Not to be outdone, Rand and Holland's "Shanghai Lady?" closes the album in impressive fashion. Brett Thompson's quiet vocals lull you to sleep. The track is short, but sweet and the lyrics are great. Excellent song. "It's Over, We Don't Care" is a very good compilation with a great mix of artists and styles. For those wanting to hear more of the burgeoning Australian underground, this is certainly a great place to start.- Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis |
| 5/31/2009 | V/A | Kaleidoscope Cries - Rare Shoegaze Vol II | CDR | $9.99 | For Your Bliss Productions | "Rare EP tracks by shoegaze leaders like Ride, Bailter Space, and Medicine; plus long gone one-off album bands like Blindside, Whipped Cream, The Belltower and Swallow, 1991-1995." 20 tracks. |
| 9/23/2004 | V/A | Klang Spectrum 2: A compilation of underground music from Madison | CDR | $9.99 | 23 Productions | Klang Spectrum 2 is now available for all you sweethearts. Switching from the tranquil to the disturbing more than once, this comp surveys the wide spectrum of underground sound that is throbbing within the apartments, basements, and communal spaces in the city (Madsion, WI). Featuring stunning tracks from db Pedersen, Wyoming, Drunjus, Davenport, Candiru, and Nic Stage coupled with psychotic energy and fire from the likes of Metrocide, Right Arm Severed, Mumber Toes, Orphan Cocktail, and Loop Retard. This compilation is well worth having, and includes hilarious commentary on the local scene from Karen Eliot. |
| 9/4/2004 | V/A | Kokekomp I | CD | $15.99 | Kokeko | Out of print compilation featuring Makoto Kawabata (recorded live in Osaka 2002), Jean Francois Pauvros, Crazy River (Per Gisle Galaen), Aki Onda, Eric Cordier + Tetuzi Akiyama. Aya Collette, O-Pi-O, Amephone, S.S.S., Goth-Trad, Phroq, and Kouhei Matsunaga. |
| 8/17/2009 | V/A | Kraut Rock | LP | $19.99 | Cleopatra | Featuring Tangerine Dream, Can, Brainticket, Amon Guru. "Limited edition 12" vinyl compilation featuring the pioneers of the Kraut Rock genre - a perfect introduction to this little known but powerfully influential genre." |
| 7/14/2007 | V/A | Lal Lal Lal Festival | CDR | $8.99 | Lal Lal Lal | "Kind of gothic compilation of all the bands that performed on Lal Lal Lal Festival May 2007. Songs by Kukkiva poliisi, Reijo Pami, The Ray Pacino Ensemble, Mary Fist, Nuslux, Snake of Life, Master Qsh, The Skaters, Kemialliset ystävät, Maniacs Dream, Keijo, Kheta Hotem and Arttu Partinen & His Partiers. All the songs are previously unreleased except KPs track was released on Audiobot and MFs song on a self published CD-R. Edition of 200." |
| 12/12/2009 | V/A | Lal Lal Lal Festival 3 | cassette | $8.99 | Lal Lal Lal | "A festival compilation with Semimuumio, Suohumala, Fricara Pacchu, Astral Social Club and Pylon! Side A is more party song oriented, side B is a long noisy guitar/short circuit piece by Pylon." |
| 7/16/2004 | V/A | Land of Tuh | CDR | $15.99 | Audiobot | "Far beyond terrestrial territory, behind the spacious purple clouds and far beyond normal notions, there lies the intriguing Land Of Tuh. Quasi as mysterious and intractable as the Bermuda triangle, its a brooding wasteland of tin armed soldiers, yodeling cadavers and giant size albatross eggs. At night primitive creatures gather around the fuzz rattling out of muddy carstereo equipment, green puss emerging from all parts of their body. Someone goes home with a purulent spermcanal tonight. Hold your breath. By now the Tuhs are among the most tolerant groups of people in the world and cordially welcome foreign visitors. Every band rips through a head-drenching set of power violence outsideness, attacking the ear with a vulgar wall of death, spawned by trash and hardcores restless energy. The kind of two fingers in the air style that wants to irritate, shock and leave the listener chewing sacred hairballs. Stranded in a land of total death, furry slippers and a cut-throat circle of cannibals on a rampage. Sure to leave discopunk Mohawks burning in a hurricane of Marshall amped up anger. This very first Audiobot compilation gives an unhealthy insight in the smelly puddle of North American retarded freenoise disciples, breaking down the borders between metal, scrapnoise and overall Armageddon The future is here and its definitely not orange! Tracks by Wolf Eyes, Mephitic Ooze, Maximum Cloud, Nautical Almanac, Van Meter Viper, Discs Of Tronn, and Rubber-0 Cement. Limited edition of only 165 copies, dont sleep on it! Insane fold out 10" covers designed and silkscreened in 14 colors by Jelle Crama (covers for Tan As Fuck, Julian Bradley, Sickboy and shitloads more work for Prutpuss and Rotkop) in countless color combinations. The real packaging deal!" |
| 6/11/2006 | V/A | Lead Into Gold: Long-Form Works | DBL CD | $14.99 | Rebis | "top artists from the spiritual, minimalist, folk, psychedelic and noise undergrounds come together to contribute long-form pieces based on a theme of alchemical transmutation. includes exclusive tracks from birds of delay, son of earth, keenan lawler, the zoo wheel, the opera glove sinks in the sea, bird show + lichens, bruce russell, the gray field recordings, white/light, and of...ohv (loren chasse + christine boepple)." |
| 7/16/2009 | V/A | Learning for Insipid Zeal = Pool Water, People Pollution, Imaginary Unit In Electronics | one-sided LP | $12.99 | American Tapes | "Whoa! Hold on now! Here's the big one! All recorded in a one week in late April, here's the line up: Track One ) Pool Water: Super new heavy unit with Connelly, Zone One and Mega Mike Collino. Violin, kitchen percussion, slow tapes - every ingredient to make your pulse quicken/slow-en!!! The track sounds more akin to a Cook Labs recording of a train journey thru a snow covered mountain at midnight rather than three mug blokes in ultra concentrated jam mode.... Will make your skin stand at attention, soldier!! Recorded in Inzane-Dimension sound with the IZTF in full effect mode. Mad style: File Under: Misshapen Jam Growths. Track Two ) People Pollution: What the? Ultra distorted retardo basement rock trio with Juice & Raddix (AKA Raven Strain Matt and Fag Health AKA Sick Llama Heath) on guitar and bass and Inzane on plodding go nowhere drumming. Was meant to be a Justice-style garage unit turned Frankenstein- style into a twisted distorted Mega-mess! Recorded under the influence of afternoon sun, left over Milwaukee Beasts from the Aries Assault party, and the shadows of the dank interiors of the Frying Pan. WARNING! = worst guitar/bass tone on earth!! Would make Joe Young, Vorkriegphase, and Wretched sell they kitty littered amp speakers for opening a Baskin and Robin's Franchise. Just a stinking rocking mess of a track!! More to come by this mutant unit! Name taken from a strange puzzle the puzzler master Tovah found in a rotten Lansing thrift store. Track Three ) Imaginary Unit in Electronics: Im sure ya'll are like "Why not just call the jam J?" Well, Im not quite sold on the concept of being that you cant take the square root of a negative, but you CAN call it a J and then next thing you know it has a value of 1 or-1. Huh? When rad Instructor Max got asked the question by a stunned Electrical Math class, he just looked down, counted his voltage, current, and resistance markers and said, "Well, that's a discussion for Carl Jung." Shit, lost me too. Like the button my crazed mom had (no ya turkey, not the OVERSEXED one) , "Ninety Percent of Life is Just Showing Up." True. Soundtrack for confusion, included. So what the hell else for this heavy pack? How about a stupid-colorful overload hand painted collab jackets with artist Raymond Salvatore Harmon, painted in Automatic Writing Style. Why? Cause Tyfuss once told me "Zines and Collaborations keep the underground scene together and alive" You got it!!! Killer flow and strange new sounds will leave your day inzanity haunted with this new comp platter!!! Go nutzo young player. Edition of 100, numbered, hand done, THE WORKS." |
| V/A | Love Peace & Poetry: American Psychedelic Music | LP | $16.99 | QDK | Pretty cool psych comp that features: Damon, New Tweedy Bros., Brain Police, Music Emporium, Darius, Hunger, Patron Saints, New Dawn, Arcesia, Lazy Smoke, Sidetrack, Trizo 50, Victoria, Jungle, Michael Angelo, Zerfas, & Hickory Wind. This looks real nice, too, with a full color gatefold sleeve and swirl vinyl. | |
| V/A | Love Peace & Poetry: Asian Psychedelic Music | CD | $15.99 | QDK | One of the better psychedelic comps I have heard in a very long time! "Love Peace & Poetry Volume Three is undeniable evidence of the global impact of the music of the 1960s. Containing bands from Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, India, and Turkey. Features: Teddy Robin & the Playboys, Erkin Koray, San Ul Lim, Justin Heathcliff, Baris Manco, Cambodian Rocks, The Mops, Yuya Uchida & the Flowers, 3 Hr El, The Fentones, Mogollar, Confusions, The Quest, Jung Hyun and the Men." | |
| 1/20/2002 | V/A | Love Peace & Poetry: British Psychedelic Music | LP | $16.99 | QDK | "Fifth volume in this phenomenal series of compilations focussing on the weirdest and most uncommon records from the late 60s/early 70s, this time focussing on underground UK releases. Artists include: Red Dirt, Gary Walker & The Rain, Andwellas Dream, Dark, Dogfeet, Tony, Caro & John, Candida Pax, Pussy, Mark Fry, Motherlight, Light Years Away (Astral Navigations, aka Bill Nelson), Bodkin, Forever Amber, Oliver, Parameter." |
| 1/20/2002 | V/A | Love Peace & Poetry: Japanese Psychedelic Music | LP | $19.99 | QDK | "Fourth volume in this phenomenal series of compilations focussing on the weirdest and most uncommon records from the late 60s/early 70s. After volumes of American (QDK 021), Latin American (QDK 022) and Asian (QDK 029) obscurities, here comes Japan. 'Right up front I think it's only right to note that anyone allergic to heavily distorted blues-based psychedelic lead guitar may very well not survive this disc. Japanese psychedelic music of the 1960s & 1970s is very heavily invested in a hard rock aesthetic and much of what we've chosen to include here features some phenomenal over the top electric guitar excess. Many Japanese records from this period are either very heavy psychedelic rock, or they are very experimental and avant garde with little in the way of classic UK & US Sixties 'underground' psychedelia to be found. As a result, while Japan and the United Kingdom released a comparable number of records during this period, there are a great many rare and expensive Japanese records that remain virtually unknown on this side of the globe. A few of the top rarities are only now finding their way to these shores. The LP by Ceremony creates a musical trip based upon a Buddhist mass, employing exotic instruments and building to a guitar assault but is impossible to really excerpt a small piece of for our purposes here. Only two or three Japanese collectors own the $4,000 original album. My American and European friends who have visited Japan almost unanimously describe the experience as what they imagine visiting another planet might be like. A very friendly and inviting planet, but disorientingly different in many ways. I think what they are describing is really the experience of a first encounter with a non-Western culture and imagine the experience of a Japanese traveler's first encounter with, for example, Arizona or New Mexico, would resemble an even greater interplanetary experience. Unlike most compilations which focus on rare singles tracks, the Love, Peace & Poetry series collects tracks from the world's rarest and most obscure psychedelic albums believing that, no matter how passionate a music fan you might be, you shouldn't be too surprised to find that you may have missed at least a few things along the way. Our intent is to make the claim that the world is a bigger place than you first thought, and to provide some convincing evidence to back that up..' Artists included: The Mops, Yuya Uchida/Flowers, The Happenings Four, Foodbrain, Apryl Fool (Haruomi Hosono), Speed, Glue & Shinki, Blues Creation, Shinki Chen & Friends, The Jacks, Tokedashita Garasubako, Justin Heathcliff, Masahiko Sato & Sound Breakers, Kuni Kawachi & His Friends, The Beavers." |
| 11/23/2004 | V/A | Love, Peace & Poetry - African Psychedelic Music | LP | $16.99 | QDK Media | "This is volume eight of the Love, Peace & Poetry series. Many records on this compilation are from South Africa, but it also covers countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. As in the other six volumes of this series the tracks are only taken from rare LP's and some fetches prices over $1500 for an original. The biggest problem with original records from African countries are finding them in good condition. The turntables where very very poor and the hot and humid climate does not preserve records very good. Sometimes termites eaten away complete record covers. In addition earthquakes, sandstorms, floods, wars, revolutions and other heavy influences made it hard to release albums and keep them in good shape since the late 60's. All this makes this compilation very special beside the amazing good music. The Bands: Abstract Truth / A-Cads / Flames / Freedoms Children / McCully Workshop / Third Eye / Those Five / Suck / Otis Waygood Ten Light Claps / Wildebeest / Mack Sigis Porter / Blo / Ofege / Quentin E Klopjaeger / Rikki Ililonga / Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family." |
| 4/9/2003 | V/A | Love, Peace & Poetry - Brazilian Psychedelic Music | LP | $16.99 | QDK | "Music, and the arts in general, in the 1960s provided first hand experience with freedom and creativity of thought and ideas that stretched far beyond the confines and borders set by oppressive regimes and repressive political leadership in general. In Brazil the musical artists of the 1960s and 1970s blended rock, tropicalia, classical, jazz, eastern music and regional music with everything available to create an amazing music universe that we have just skimmed the surface of in this collection. Artists include: O Brando, Os Brazões, A Bolha, Liverpool, Bango, The Buttons, Assim Assado, O Têrço, Spectrum, Módulo 1000, Os Lobos, Rubinho E Mauro Assumpção, Sound Factory, Terço, Paulo Bagunça, Lula Côrtes E Zé Ramalho, Marcos Valle, Hugo Filho, Marconi Notaro." |
| V/A | Love, Peace & Poetry: Latin America Psychedelic Music | LP | $16.99 | QDK | Excellent collection of psychedelia featuring tracks from Almendra (Argentina, 1968), Laghonia (Peru, 1971), Traffic Sound (Peru, 1968, '70), Kaleidoscope (Mexico, 1969), We All Together (Peru, 1972), Los Gatos (Argentina, 1968), Kissing Spell (Chile, 1970), Los Macs (Chile, 1967), Los Vidrios Quebrados (Chile, 1967), Som Imaginario (Brazil, 1970), Ladies W.C. (Venezuela, 1970), Mdulo 1000 (Brazil, 1970), The St. Thomas Pepper Smelter (Peru, 1969) & Dug Dug's (Mexico, 1971). | |
| 6/2/2004 | V/A | Love, Peace & Poetry: Mexican Psychedelic Music | LP | $16.99 | QDK | "The most recent volume of the Love, Peace & Poetry series, Mexican Psych Music, takes as its focus what was one aspect of our second collection in this series, Latin American Psychedelic Music. While there are some parallels between the evolution of rock and roll in the US and Mexico, the stories are out of synch with each other in interesting ways. In the US, the first wave of rock and roll presented a challenge to longstanding racial divisions and repressed sexuality that was fought off (by 1960 Elvis was in the Army, Jerry Lee Lewis in exile, Chuck Berry in prison and Little Richard turned to Jesus) and replaced by the mostly bland and neutered pop of singers like Fabian, Dion, Paul Anka, Frankie Avalon and Pat Boone (if you've ever wonder what music might sound like in Hell listen to Pat Boone's covers of Little Richard; possibly the most frightening music ever made). Rock and roll became dangerous in Mexico when it began to be mixed with a challenge to the political status quo. Tracks from rare LPs by The Flying Karpets, Grupo Ciruela, Los Ovnis, La Onda De Survival, and Nahuatl help complete our tour through the various climates of 1960s-1970s Mexican psychedelia, and readily demonstrate the origins of a musical culture that continues on into contemporary times in the many bands that make up the active Mexican music scene here in the new century." Housed in full color gatefold sleeve. Nice! |
| 12/24/2005 | V/A | Maan Matoset | CD | $15.99 | Pohjoisten Kukkaisten | "Truly one of the most lovely looking & sounding comps in the history of compilations, Maan Matoset is the sound of Fins tinkering, shuffling, strumming,,, some of it in the form of gentle songs & some in the form of abstract squeaking & droning electronics or folk percussion. it all flows like an album or a river of broken church bells. tomutonttu, kiila, pekko kappi & kuupuu & keijo & taikuri tali & lau nau etc. etc?.. they are all here & more..." - Glenn Donaldson. Also features Hertta Lussu Ässä , Kemialliset Ystävät, Lauhkeat Lampaat, Avarus, and Päivänsäde. Highly recommended! |
| 8/7/2002 | V/A | Mandragora Sampler | CD | $7.99 | Mandragora Records | "The Mandragora Sampler is not what you'd expect. Rather than being a simple compilation of artists from the label, Amlee sampled a selection of tracks from the Mandragora roster into a freaky mix of his own. This actually has some of the calmest music on any of these discs, though no less strange. Dark astral space drones, tones, clatter, noise, and voices create a steadily evolving drama that's loaded with fun freaky sounds and often has a thematic feel. I hear industrial, space ambient, out of control acid freakouts, oddball Residents styled voices, and big gloms of all these things. There's some seriously spaced out music on here and one of the best parts is near the end when we hear what sounds like an army of flying saucers racing against multiple layers of ambient waves and drones. Lots of interesting stuff here and Amlee does a good job of holding my attention throughout. The action is continually shifting but Amlee makes the transitions seamless. There are 5 tracks but checking the Mandragora web site it looks like each includes several bits of tracks from various artists from the label. Indeed there's no breaking point even between tracks so I enjoyed this disc as a continual work rather than giving me direction toward any individual artist on the label. I think the message is to just go for it and start exploring some of the tasty oddities Mandragora has to offer." - Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations "A psychotropic journey through the world of Mandragora. Rather than putting together a straight compilation to showcase the unique sounds of our artists, Paradise Camp 23 samples and reworks the Mandragora catalog into an illbient hypermix. Carved into 5 tracks for your listening pleasure." |
| 7/7/2003 | V/A | Masters of the Scene: Abba Tribute | CD | $10.99 | Nihilist | Features I & Makoto (Cotton Casino & Kawabata Makoto), Plastic Crimewave Sound, Evil Moisture, Guilty Connector, irr. App. (ext.), Viki, Vertonen, Sudden Infant and many others. |
| 11/21/2009 | V/A | Mata la Pena | LP | $15.99 | Mississippi Records | "Compilation focusing on mellow dramatic music from around the world. Everything from Calypso to Flamenco to Thai ballads to Indonesian instrumentals to American country to Hawaiian music. Designed as a sort of sequel to our I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore compilation. Cover art by Chris Johaanson." |
| 8/17/2009 | V/A | Meet The Philly Elite | 7" | $6.99 | Kraak | Features MEG BAIRD/U.S. GIRLS/KURT VILE/JACK ROSE. "KRAAK loves Philadelphia. In recent years Marshall Allen, Bardo Pond, Espers, Clockcleaner, Fern Knight and many other artists climbed the KRAAK stage. With some of them we developed a modern internet relationship. As if we were young lovers we decided to fly over to their side of the water for an evening of cheese steaks, Rocky Balboa and live music. On 6th July 2009 KRAAK set up a show at Kung Fu Necktie. The Flemish Primitives met the Philly Elite: Jack Rose, Meg Baird, Kurt Vile and U.S. Girls. To celebrate our love we also pressed this very awesome 7" with four exclusive tracks! Master finger picker JACK ROSE is the mastodon of Philadelphia. His mix of drone infused raags, bluegrass and acoustic folk is as sweet as a crate of Saison Dupont. "mr. Rose visits Washington D.C" is a live improvisation from the first solo tour Jack did with Six Organs of Admittance and Fürsaxa. It's a raw piece dating from before his debut album. KURT VILE's hit singles were the big surprise of the most recent Kraak festival. Classic American road pop and nineties melancholia. The dude likes his Duvel cold. "I Wanted Everything" is an amazing new song in the melodic Vile tradition, containing the lyrical one liner of the year "I ain't never going to go to work no more". U.S. GIRLS is Megan Remy. With a reel-to-reel tapedeck, some delay and distorted vocals she became the Philadelphian queen of ultra lo-fi pop music. Sounds like tunnelvision Kinks after serious car accident caused by too much Orval. With "A day at the races" she delivers the shortest but most mind frying track on this 4-way split. We never had MEG BAIRD solo on stage here, but we did admire her when she came around with her psych folk friends of Espers. On her own she's pretty much digging in the same zone: sixties folk, traditionals, hippy love and tea OD. "Wave crashed on rocks" is a cover of British eighties rock unit Felt." |
| 4/10/2009 | V/A | Menagerie | CD | $10.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "An Eclectic compilation complied by my brother Jake that collects a bunch of new tracks and live tracks. The new tracks are from Winter Drones (members of Hush Arbors) and Ben Nash, some total bliss drone pieces, Cam Deas and Spoono show off their fingerpicking skills, Rivulets is a straight singer-songwriter guy, Skygreen Leopards do super nice dreamy folk song , and Jerusalem & the Starbaskets bust out a seriously raw garage blast! The live tracks are from Hush Arbors (with a fantastic guitar shredding version of 'Gone', MV+EE with The Golden Road and Beequeen. Limited to 500, cream card sleeves with baby blue print, and REAL CDs with kelly green Menagerie logo print!" |
| 3/5/2009 | V/A | Menhir | double 7" lathe | $19.99 | Root Don Lonie For Cash | a. 1.gfrenzy - memorial 1 (1:48) onehunga, nz 2.autoharpies - diamond talon (5:22) dunedin, nz b. 1.criadero en seres - rulo (2:36) Buenos Aires, Argentina 2.kraus - cr02 (2:14) devonport, nz 3.shelterdeath - where it hands above (0:49) orange county, usa 4.witcyst -wallace iti (1:22) whangarei, nz c. 1.fabio orsi - past dreams, future walks (6:52) turin, italy d. 1.flushing device - a dogs dream (3:00) turin, italy 2.cja & chrissie butler - lyric (0:37) wellington, nz (thanks kieren!) 3.bright duplex - feigned whir (2:59) austin, texas, usa |
| 9/17/2006 | V/A | Molten Strings, Train Wrecks and Birdsong | CD | $12.99 | Students of Decay | "Almost two years in the making, 'Molten Strings, Train Wrecks and Birdsong' is an expansive compilation loosely centered around sound made by stringed instruments. Strings are the primary sources of sound on all of these recordings, and the majority of the works are generated solely from them. The record offers a wealth of different approaches to these instruments. From the scathing, feedback blasts yielded by Fred Lonberg-Holm's cello and mini-amplifiers, to the dexterous blur of C. Spencer Yeh's violin fretwork, and from the pastoral vistas of Peter Wright's Danelectro 12 string, to the billowy dirges of Birchville Cat Motel, Zaimph, Family Underground, and Taiga Remains. Lending the record even further diversity are joyous bouzouki renderings from The North Sea, and damaged, eerie and beautiful contributions from Robert Horton and Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. Presented together, the record is cohesive in the same way that the best compilations are, flowing effortlessly from track to track and, in the process, demonstrating the diversity and immense capability of all things stringed." |
| 1/13/2004 | V/A | Monumentally Retarded | CD | $5.99 | Nauscopy Records | "Few grasp the magic of this. Sure, it has the FEEDERZ and SHEEP SQUEEZE and STIKKY on it. But here's what I mean: Suppose you're taking an exam at school, and you are positive you're going to fail. You could skip that class, you could try to get the right answers by chance, or maybe turn in a blank test. Fuck that. What you'd REALLY need to do is make up impertinent, absurd answers. If confronted with an impossible question, give your answer in morse code. Draw a stick figure with his finger in an electric socket. Give history answers on a math test. Answer by gluing pieces of cloth just below the questions. That is what this disc is all about. Lower-fi than a bag of dirt. 58 tracks." A deliberate abuse of the CD medium. A ton of lo-fi nonsense. |
| V/A | More Oar: A Tribute To The Skip Spence Album | CD | $15.99 | Birdman | Features: Alastair Galbraith, Flying Saucer Attack, Robyn Hitchcock, Mudhoney, Beck, Tom Waits, and others. | |
| 7/30/2002 | V/A | More Tell-Tale Signs of Earworm | DBL CD | $12.99 | Earworm | Out of print & unreleased tracks by Cul de Sac, Green Pajamas (unreleased Missing Miss. Maccoll), Sunray, The Apples In Stereo, Lenola, Ma Cherie For Painting, The Minders, Echoboy and 12 others. |
| 10/31/2009 | V/A | Mortika: Recordings From A Greek Underworld | double LP Box Set | $20.99 | Mississippi Records | "Amazing 2LP set of Greek underground folk music sometimes called "rembetica" &/ or "Greek Oriental Music." Compiled by Tony Klein. Songs about drugs, sex, crime, poverty, & heartbreak. Housed in a box & includes 20 page notes with extensive archival photos & full lyric translations." |
| V/A | Music For The Psych Eye! | CD | $14.99 | Cast Exotic Archives | Volume One in a new series features Ashtray Navigations, Brian Ruryk, Glands Of External Secretion, Staked Plain, Metabolismus, Eyelickers, Las Dirty Arcades, -Outhern Acific+, Bushwick Trio, Terminal Waste Band, TonalMotl, Kopfende, & This Was Your House Until We Moved In. | |
| 1/27/2004 | V/A | Music Makes A Quiet Mind - Musically Incorrect Compilation vol.2 | CDR | $8.99 | Musically Incorrect Records | "Noise and experimental compilation featuring Haare, Rats With Wings, Toni Kandelin, Uton, Armenia, and Gelsomina. Over 75 minutes of uncompromising sound art, ranging from warm lo-fi experimentalism to extreme noise. Limited edition of 100 copies." |
| 12/12/2009 | V/A | My Estrogeneration | LP | $12.99 | Not Not Fun | "Over-a-year-in-the-assembling 12" comp of all femme musical energies. Spans the spectrum of modes and moods. Includes NNF friends/fam like Zola Jesus, Tickley Feather, Inca Ore, Pocahaunted, Talk Normal, Valet, etc. In a beautiful art-jacket designed by diva dompe plus comes with a full-color double-sided insert. Edition of 500." |
| 4/24/2006 | V/A | My Favourite Magazine | zine | $8.99 | Sloow Tapes | Winter Book, 88 pages. "Old school paper magazine featuring extensive interviews with Julie Mittens, Samara Lubelski, Fabio Orsi, Plastic Crimewave and Wally Shoup. Writings and drawings by Nemo Bidstrup, Tara Burke, Sara Czerny, Bart De Paepe, Bram Devens, Bridget Hayden, Jani Hirvonen, Robert Horton, Jonna Karanka, Steve Krakow, Lieven Martens, Chris Miller, Maurizio Opalio, Roberto Opalio, Andy Ortmann, Stefano Pilia, Eva Van Deuren and Ronny Van Hee. Comes in eye popping two-sided silkscreened cover by Jelle Crama. Thick zine featuring writings and drawings from Jelle Crama, Nemo Bidstrup (Time Lag / Drona Parva), Robert Horton, Bridget Hayden, Wally Shoup, Stefano Pilia, Roberto & Maurizio Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien), Tara Burke (Fursaxa), Jonna Karanka (Kuupuu), Samara Lubelski and more." |
| 8/2/2004 | V/A | New Music New York 1979 From the Kitchen Archives | DBL CD | $18.99 | Orange Mountain | "Founded in New York in 1971, The Kitchen is internationally known as a leading center for video, music, dance, performance, new media and literature. Orange Mountain Music has begun the restoration of audio reels from performances at The Kitchen with the goal of producing a series of CDs entitled From The Kitchen Archives. New Music, New York 1979, the debut release in this series, is a two-disc set offering re-mastered recordings from the landmark concerts of 'New Music, New York: A Festival of Composers and their Music,' which took place in SoHo June 8-16, 1979. 25 years later, these recordings are an invaluable time-capsule -- a privileged view/listen into a historic event, initially heard by only a few hundred people. Beyond their historic value, they offer brilliant and exciting music by composers now considered masters of the genre, as well as remarkable performances by figures nearly forgotten. Composers featured include Steve Reich, Michael Nyman, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Philip Glass, Jon Gibson, Garrett List, Gordon Mumma, George Lewis, Tom Johnson, Charlie Morrow, Barbara Benary, Phil Niblock, David Behrman, Joel Chadabe, Tony Conrad, Charlemagne Palestine. |
| 2/11/2006 | V/A | New York Noise Vol. 2 | DBL LP | $23.99 | Soul Jazz Records | Music From The New York Underground 1977-1984. "The new wave of New York art/rock groups such as DFA, the Rapture, Juan McLean, James Murphy, The Strokes, The Liars and Radio 4 all have their roots in the early 1980s New York No Wave music scene. This is the second volume of Soul Jazz Records' New York Noise and delves further into the post-punk/dance world of New York in the 1980s. The music ranges from the guitar-driven experimentation of Sonic Youth, Red Transistor and minimalism of Rhys Chatham to the dubbed-out disco of Arthur Russell and Nicky Siano and Pulsallama. All alongside a healthy dose of punk-funk from the likes of Y Pants, Vortex and more. Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham (minimalist classical composer), Jim Jarmusch (film-maker and founding member of Del Byzantines), Arthur Russell, Ned Sublette (writer), Thurston Moore - all included here - played key roles in bringing the New York music and art scene together in the early 1980s alongside the artist Jean Michel Basquiat, actor Vincent Gallo, poet Lydia Lunch and a host of other characters. This album features text, original photos and interviews documenting this amazing period." |
| 11/8/2003 | V/A | Night Recordings from Bali | CD | $13.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "The island of Bali is Indonesia's most popular place. With the modern beach resorts at Kuta and Legian, the lovely, tropic interior of palm-covered hills and rice paddies, and a rich variety of art, dance and music, it is a destination of choice for travelers around the world. But, regardless of their increasing role of servicing an ever-demanding tourist industry, the Balinese are a strong-willed and tight-knit society. The island is a tiny enclave of Hinduism within a massive nation of Islam, yet, their Gamelan music is faster, tighter, and louder than their mighty neighbors to the west, the Javanese. Balinese Gamelan stylings and the Ketchak dance are legendary throughout the world and have been immortalized in sound recordings and on film for decades. But, beneath the creeping exterior of a pseudo-western culture slowly overtaking an amazing tradition of unique human expression, the moods of the island are governed by magic and superstition. The hills, forests, rivers, and crossroads are alive with tales of demons (Leyaks) and a flesh-eating Ogress (Rangda). A lesser-known darker side of Balinese life secretly balances the lighter side 'tropical paradise' of tourist brochures. This CD is composed of field recordings from August and September of 1989. The majority of the recordings were made at night in and around the villages of Peliatan and Ubud. Amidst the excerpts from Gamelan performances, rehearsals, and Ketchak, are sounds of the surrounding forests and mysterious crossroads where packs of dogs seem to take on forms of angry demons. Also encountered here are odd folk stylings for flute and drum, outdoor village theatre, and other various sound anomalies from the Balinese interior." |
| 4/10/2009 | V/A | No More Noise | cassette | $5.99 | Scissor Death | "Illinois noise compilation with tracks from: Bumbrella Donkey, Astronomy, Swim Ignorant Fire, Locrian, Mike Hamende + Nick Hoffman, Katchmare, Eyeless Executioner, Yea Big, GOD-EATER, and Wilt." |
| 7/10/2008 | V/A | No New York | LP | $22.99 | Lilith | "One of the brightest and most famous projects of the entire punk/new wave scene, No New York was released in 1978 on Island's sub-label Antilles and became a total cult in the indie scene. Featuring some of the most incredible rule breaking bands of the underground New York art and music scene, the project -- strongly pursued by Brian Eno -- is a genuine snapshot of the massively creative NYC scene, from which innumerable trends started and became part of the modern pop music as we know it. Influential, powerful and ground breaking, this collection features four of the top icon shattering Gotham City no-wavers like James Chance (Contortions), Arto Lindsay and Ikue Mori (DNA), Lydia Lunch (Teenage Jesus) and Sumner Crane (Mars). If you missed the original it's time to get your hands on this reissue." |
| 1/9/2003 | V/A | No Tribute - Music of the Nihilist Spasm Band | CD | $10.99 | Carbon Records/Sunship/Breathmint/Little Mafia | "Features: baku, u can unlearn guitar, jacopo andreini, madame chao, del, dapper, carlos giffoni, hijo kaidan, glands of external secretion, inca eyeball, alan licht, panicsville, pengo, the pin vs. bellchamber, roughage, cock e.s.p., smell & quim, unconditional loathing, winter carousel, reynols, newton, v/vm, wolf eyes, wrong. Limited to 500 copies." |
| 4/5/2008 | V/A | NOHIO | 7 x cassette boxset | $37.99 | Together Tapes | "A lot has changed in the 4 years since I found the box of medical noise cassettes that would inspire the Nohio tape series. Many of the artists featured no longer live there, some projects no longer exist, and a whole new crop of sickos has clawed up into place. Each volume of the original tapes were released in an extremely limited edition of 30-33 copies and featured one of my favorite Ohio artists on one side and the found med fucked sounds on the other. The project served as a transition from my involvement with Epicene (who the original tapes were co-released with) and living in Ohio to Together and moving to Portland. The box represents a sliver of what was going on in Ohio at the time but is a personal snapshot of the weirdo scene in Ohio circa 2004. For this set Mike Shiflet has provided a bonus side of heavily concentrated visceral nerve noise not a part of the original series, which serves as a tribute to Ohio friends. Plus the inclusion of my favorite "found medical sound" side with the name Samuel T. Washington enscribed on the original. All boxes feature heavily painted, silkscreened artwork, with all over tape labels and strange silkscreened patches all glued together and clear gunked over. This an edition of 100." Vol.1- Leslie Keffer Vol.2- Iovae Vol.3- 16 Bitch Pile-Up Vol.4- Ultra // Vires Vol.5- Jason Zeh Vol.6- To-Night Golden Curls Vol.7- Steam Drapula Vol.8- Organs Vol.9- Yes,Collapse Vol.10- Burning Star Core Vol.11- Crack In Iraq Vol.12- Sword Heaven xx1- Mike Shiftlet xx2- Samuel T. Washington |
| 5/7/2004 | V/A | Northern Unlights: Musically Incorrect Compilation Vol 3 | CDR | $8.99 | Musically Incorrect Records | "Ambient, drone, sound collage, experimental and even a bit of a noise compilation of Finnish and Scandinavian artists. Featuring: Sindre Bjerga (if Neil Campbell had a dip in the Arctic Ocean he would sound like this), Perkust (metal junk sound manipulations, less noisy than their earlier efforts), Iversen (excellent collage of manipulated field recordings and other sounds), Lokustus (darkest possible analog synth / guitar drone ambience), Gelsomina (up and coming harshnoise artist with more ambient/drone type material) and Ovum (Pan Sonic meets darkest ambient). Altogether over 70 minutes of dark sound art. Limited edition of 100 copies." |
| 4/24/2006 | V/A | Not Alone | 5xCD | $37.99 | Jnana | "Five-CD box featuring music by a wide variety of artists traversing many boundaries and genres. All proceeds go to benefit Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), specifically their work on the AIDS pandemic in Africa. The majority of tracks on this collection are previously unreleased and exclusive to this set." Artists: Marissa Nadler, Vashti Bunyan, William Basinski, Bill Fay, Simon Finn, Six Organs of Admittance, Angels of Light, Antony, Baby Dee, The Hafler Trio, Pearls Before Swine, Jarboe, Devendra Banhart, Pantaleimon, Faun Fables, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, irr. app. (ext.), Thighpaulsandra, srmeixner, Little Annie Anxiety, Jim O'Rourke, Lynn Jackson, Small Creatures, Michael Yonkers, Linda Perhacs, Edward Ka-Spel, Teenage Fanclub, Richard Buckner, Mary 5E, Anomoanon, Isobel Campbell, Allen Ginsberg, David Surkamp, Matmos, Jad Fair, Sundial, Ghost, Mirror, Bonnie Prince Billy, Marc Almond, Damon and Naomi, Charlemagne Palestine, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Unveiled James William Hindle, Rose McDowall, John Maslen, Larsen, Mr Durt, Shannon Lyon, John Contreras, Brett Smiley, Cyclobe, Blue Eyed Black, Stephanie Volkmar, Howie B, Bevis Frond, Thurston Moore, Shockheaded Peters, John Terrill, Max Richter, Colin Potter, AUBE, Keiji Haino, Jeremy Reed, The Hollowings, Tom Recchion, Fursaxa, Amy Curl, Joolie Wood, Genesis P-Orridge, Suishou no Fune, Coil, Eric Lanzillotta, Scott Stapleton, Shirley Collins, Ghostigital. |
| V/A | Optional Ingredients From A Vile Recipe Vol. III | 7" | $4.99 | Trackshun | Tracks by Prick Decay,Bone Cure,Everest... | |
| 11/15/2008 | V/A | Oz Days Live | Double CD | $29.99 | Oz | "New CD reissue of the super-rare 1973 2LP set commemorating 'The 'Oz Days' benefit festival for the owner of Tokyo's legendary Oz Rock Cafe, which had been shut down after one too many drug busts'. Authentic packaging, with hand-stamped outer bag and gatefold insert. The Les Rallizes Denudes and Taj Mahal Travellers sides have been briefly reissued before -- here's the complete picture!" Also includes Miyako Ochi, Acid Seven and Minami Masato. Nice! |
| 2/23/2004 | V/A | Patchouli & Echoes | DBL CDR | $15.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Finally in orbit, this is a hot smoocher with the beast people, universal indians, the mini-systems, the beserk metro quartet, ron of japan, blowhole & the climax golden twins, un, the lidz, tight white, malta, s*t*a*r, pork queen, points of friction, paekong mae, tower recordings, shadow ring, inca eyeball, gernols (reynols plays germs), anti-nephi-lehi's, musica transonic, kitten sparkles, don bolles and ex CGB, die todliche doris, beautiful music co, damian bisciglia, space machine, ashtray navigations. compiled, mixed and remixed by hitomi arimoto, don bolles and dylan nyoukis." |
| 9/17/2006 | V/A | Pink Gold | cassette | $8.99 | Gold Soundz | Compilation tape with 1 track each by FUTURIANS, BLOOD STEREO, ANVIL SALUTE and VILLE MOSKIITTO. Pink cassette, pink paper fold-around cover. 40 copies. |
| 2/12/2008 | V/A | Playing Sound | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Claudia | "This is a short compilation of four 5 minute long guitar tracks. The initial concept was for a collection of tracks all "using guitars but not sounding like guitars." This might have offended some of the participants, so now the revised concept is simply "guitars". Ranging from the deep glacial drift of Un Ciego, through the scratchy feedback broadcasts of Ben Spiers, and the cosmic processed fizz of CJA & Jani Hellen, to the binary "noise versus silence" melodies of Pumice." |
| 7/10/2002 | V/A | Polyvox Populi | CD | $12.99 | Nexsound | "Nexsound records in collaboration with Sale records presents all versatility of Ukrainian experimental and underground music scene. Musically varying from ambient to experimental, from minimal emotional and abstract fields of soundscapes, to concrete sources and analogue transforms. Attention gained to the music beyond the dance floor; it lies somewhere inside the listeners imagination, resembling difficult however ordered synapses movement. CD features Alphonse de Montfroyd (Ad Noiseam, Evasto Media, Nexsound), Caste' (first appearance), the Moglass (Nexsound, Sale, Evasto Media), Sidhartha (WAN, Retina Scan), Filius Macrocosmi, Nihil Est eXcellence (DTA, Dark Seeds, White Rose, DarkAmbient, Soul Worm, Nexsound, Falcata-Galia), Kotra (Nexsound, Stan, Grief, Moon), Cold War Mechanizm (Nexsound, Soul Worm), First Human Ferro (Soul Worm), Fragments (Counter Attack Productions)" |
| V/A | Poor Minstrels Of Song Vol. II | CD | $10.99 | BlueSanct / Secret Eye | "17 exclusive tracks by the Iditarod (USA), Ring (Norway), Peter Scion (Sweden), Drekka (USA) and assorted side projects to celebrate their Feb 2002 joint European tour. Comes in a slipbag with bios and info on the bands on nifty trading card sets. Limited to 300 copies." | |
| 7/29/2004 | V/A | Psych Out | LP | $17.99 | Soundtrack to the 1968 cult hippie-exploitation flick, this has 10 tracks of '60s garage-psych madness by The Seeds, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Storybook, and Boenzee Cryque, originally released on Sidewalk Records and produced by Dick Clark! The highlight of this has to be an 8-minute-plus wild garage-psych freakout track by Strawberry Alarm Clock. Euro import. | |
| 12/30/2002 | V/A | Pull Up The Paisley Covers: A Psychedelic Omnibus | CD | $14.99 | Aether | "Sixteen songs from the 1960s-1970s performed by sixteen contemporary bands from seven different countries. Sixteen fantastic performances recorded exclusively for this compilation by The Bevis Frond (UK), Rock Four (Israel), Mushroom (San Francisco), Abunai! (Boston), Murder In The Cathedral (France), P.G. Six (New York), Kaminumada Yohji (Japan), the Sand Pebbles (Australia), Peter Scion (Sweden) and more. Over one hour of music that melts in your mind, not in your ears. From LA, Sunseri has female vocals to die for on a version of The Doors Morrison Hotel track that is both totally contemporary and exquisitely psychedelic at the same timeBoston's Abunai!'s cover of the Satanic Majesties track Citadel explodes from your speakers with pure abandon. Zane Armstrong's cover of The Apple's The Otherside is swirling psychedelia at its finest. Sweden's Peter Scion offers a take on The Fox's Butterfly that sounds in places like a blend of COB and Skip Spence. San Francisco's Mushroom, most often heard as an instrumental band, do full male & female vocal treatment to The Jefferson Airplane's You're Only pretty As You Feel. NYC's femme psych trio, The Wyld Olde Souls offer up a wonderful take on the classic folk track High Flying Bird. The other half of Walter Ghoul's Lavender Brigade (along with Zane Armstrong), Damien Youth, reworks The Bee Gees' Kilburn Towers into a melodic tour-de-force I haven't been able to get out of my head since I heard it the first time. The Bevis Frond offer up a flaming cover of The Syn's Grounded, followed up by a perfect version of The Who's The Good's Gone by France's Murder in the Cathedral. The Australian band, The Sand Pebbles, add some sitar flavoring to the classic Living In A Child's Dream originally done by The Master's Apprentices. Pretty Thing Phil May phoned from London not once but twice to tell UHF how much he like their cover of The Pretties' She's a Lover, (Keep the flame burnin' lads.). The Garden from Ed Askew's obscure E.S.P. album is given a disjointed and thoroughly psychedelic arrangement by Chicago's Taurus, while Diana Senechal does a version of Linda Perhac's Parallelograms as delicate and fragile as the original. On the Incredible String Band's My Name Is Death P.G. Six offer up a version so stark and sparse that a set of basic spinal chills are included. Finally, who better than Israel's Rockfour to offer a perfect cover of Israel's The Churchills Song from the Sea. A delicate live improvisation based on a track by Comus and performed here by Japan's Kaminumada Yohji brings this journey to it's perfect close." |
| 3/12/2005 | V/A | QBICO U-nite in Bruxelles | DBL LP | $39.99 | QBICO | side A: Alan Silva (solo), Lauhkeat Lampaat. Side B: Vibracathedral Orchestra. Side C: Vibracathedral Orchestra. Side D: Vibracathedral Orchestra, Lauhkeat Lampaat, Chris Corsano & Paul Flaherty side B & C: Vibracathedral Orchestra (Michael Flower/Bridget Hayden/Adam Davenport/Julian Bradley) side D: final jam with Vibracathedral Orchestra, Lauhkeat Lampaat and Chris Corsano/Paul Flaherty recorded live @ Cinema Nova on April 8, 2004 "QBICO was kindly invited by brother Fab to open this exciting Festival on free music (with also many rare films on the subject) @ the wonderful 1920's disused Cinema Nova, such an honour ! more then 300 people united and packed the Nova, what a memorable night !" |
| 3/12/2005 | V/A | QBICO U-nite in New York | DBL LP | $39.99 | QBICO | side A: Steve Dalachinsky- Phenomena of interference (excerpt), Andrew Barker/Charles Waters duo & trio with Daniel Carter side B:Andrew Barker/Charles Waters/Daniel Carter/Shanir-Ezra Blumenkranz/Perry Robinson 5et side C: Arthur Doyle/Nuuj duo, Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble with special guests Daniel Carter and Perry Robinson side D: Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble with special guest Daniel Carter, Arthur Doyle solo recorded live @ Tonic on March 18, 2004. "This record has a loooong story to tell and even with yr highest imagination you'd not imagine all the efforts behind it... so i'm more then happy about this release ! special mention to the fact that Arthur played again with Daniel and Perry after nearly 30 years, since the golden NYC loft era in the mid 70's!" |
| 1/1/2008 | V/A | Qbico U-Nite V, Turku, Finland | LP | $24.99 | QBICO | "Two unique sides: on side A you'll hear a rare meeting among Rakhim (Circle's more dark side project) and Hans-Joachim Irmler from legendary Faust! While on side B, a two male/two female playful affair (Qbico's idea) among brothers Tolvi (Rahun Orkesteri) and Antti Tolvi's wife Lau Nau with Kuupuu. True united spirit and perfect balance between both sides with opposite moods..." Recorded live @ Dynamo Klubi on March 11, 2006 by Mikko Lagernohm and pressed on blue marbled vinyl. Recommended. |
| 7/16/2006 | V/A | Radio Algeria | CD | $14.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Radio Algeria is a multi-dimensional assembly of audio culture from the Mediterranean coast to the undefined border areas of the Sahara Desert and beyond. This is perhaps the most diverse collection of the Algerian listening experience ever presented featuring raw Berber folk, modern Arabic pop, sacred Islamic traditional, Andalusian orchestral, Guesba (the origin of Rai), classic early Rai, Khabyle, Tuareg, Saharaui, and hybrid music styles influenced by Europeans to the north and sub-Saharan Africa to the south. The presence of French culture is a relevant factor in some of these tracks as modern history would suggest and the language is still spoken by a large portion of the population. No English is spoken on Algerian-produced radio. Collected, assembled and edited in 2005 from AM, FM, and shortwave broadcasts recorded in Algeria, there are radio finds here that defy categorization. Excerpts of bumper music, DJ announcements, advertisements, and radio station IDs reinforce the transitions between the musical segments throughout this production." |
| 11/8/2003 | V/A | Radio Java | CD | $13.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Java is the center of Indonesian culture. Three out of every four Indonesians live on Java. It is the home of some of the most elegant musical styles to be found anywhere. To the veteran international sound collector, Javanese music is no secret. For the uninitiated, rather than going through an introductory outline of Javanese music history, I will wish you away to the internet, a library, or bookstore where you can find plenty of information on the subject. The selections on this CD are a combination of random radio excerpts sequenced in collage form and assembled in the summer of 1989. This disc is a highly unique document featuring many angles of Javanese sound finally slipping through the cracks. Among many other oddities, you'll hear several examples of Javanese pop (from Dangdut and Keroncong to Hard Rock and Disco), news snippets, folk music, radio commercials, Jakarta DJ's, The west Java Sundanese sound, spooky theatre extracts, and high-octane Jaipongan variations that are completely over the top. There has never been anything like this!" |
| 2/12/2004 | V/A | Radio Morocco | CD | $14.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "It was the summer of 1983 in Morocco. The Polisario guerillas were operating in the Southern Sahara and the mood was tense in the Arab world. The Government of King Hassan was suspicious of anything out of the ordinary. Checkpoints were everywhere along the highways. AIDS was the new disease. The American entertainment industry was grinding Michael Jackson's Thriller into the world consciousness as US export culture supreme. Dr. J won his first and only NBA Championship ring. I knew all this from the small transistor radio I carried from Tangier to Marrakesh. I rented an apartment in Essouira on the Atlantic coast and began my swan dive into international radio collage. A songwriter by the name of Younes Megri had the number one hit during the summer of 1983 in Morocco. Radio Tangier International had the strongest signal in Northwest Africa. They played everything from Euro-pop to Be-bop to Heavy Rock to Moroccan folk trance. Less-powerful stations played berber folk music late into the night. This collection is 20 years old and has grinded into my skull as Moroccan export culture supreme. This is some of the greatest music ever known displayed here amidst snippets of news, commercials, radio noise and a host of otherwordly transmissions. Arabic music is HIGH ART. At its best, it transcends western music even as it utilizes it as a display of emotion and celebration. The Moroccans are deep contributors to the high art of Arabic music. May this disc download into your mind as an anti-virus. It worked for me. I don't even remember Thriller by Michael Jackson." |
| 7/10/2008 | V/A | Radio Myanmar (Burma) | CD | $15.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "The Union Solidarity & Development Association (USDA) has grown to become one of the most pervasive organizations in Burma, claiming over 22 million members (nearly half the country's population). Very little is known of the USDA to the outside world, but it has become embedded throughout the social infrastructure of the state. Its widely-published statutes expressing the importance of state sovereignty and public solidarity can be found in all mediums throughout the country: newspapers, television, billboards and radio broadcasts. Known as the "Three Main National Causes," "Four-Point People's Desire," "Seven Point Road to Democracy" and "Twelve Political, Economic and Social Objectives," each broadcast day begins with their recitation. Most of the recordings featured in this radio collection were captured in Yangon during March and April of 2007. With the authorities attempting to control all information coming into or leaving the state, rarely does the world catch a glimpse inside Burma. This is a special opportunity for listeners to delve behind the headlines and into the airwaves; to hear for themselves the sounds, rhythms, and voices of urban Burma's radio experience, unfiltered by the international press or state-spokesmen. Myanmar's Voice broadcasts nearly 24 hours a day across much of the country, playing an assortment of Burmese classics; USDA pledges; and recitations of articles published by the state-run The New Light of Myanmar Times. Due in part to the near-blackout of all foreign music on state airwaves, the few FM stations that do exist in Yangon and Bago divisions, transmit a rather bizarre assortment of music from 7am to 9pm: synth ballads, hip-hop jingles, and internationally popular songs re-recorded in Burmese. This release also features assorted tracks recorded between 1994-2002, highlighting many wonderfully strange and beautiful pop, folk, and classical music styles. There are vast resources easily available to anyone interested in learning more about Burma or the USDA; this recording is simply intended to showcase the extraordinary sounds rarely heard beyond its borders." - FE |
| 2/16/2005 | V/A | Radio Phnom Penh | CD | $14.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Cambodia's people, economy, and culture have been 're-mixed' perhaps more than any place on earth for the past 50 years. The name was even changed to Kampuchea and then back again to Cambodia. So it almost seems natural that modern Cambodian record companies have been re-mixing the old classic pop and rock tracks from the pre-Khmer Rouge era, overdubbing drum tracks, and sometimes all instruments leaving only the original vocal in tact. These re-mixes, designed to hold the interest of younger listeners, are the staple for current programming on Phnom Penh's FM radio stations as the AM flagship 'National Radio of Cambodia' remains the only source regularly featuring the original master recordings. This brain-melting concoction of Radio transmissions is a combination of AM/FM samples from the airwaves of Phnom Penh. The older, classic Pop/Rock FM cuts are ALL re-mixed versions while the newer forms/other styles of Cambodian music collected here are not. All AM recordings are from the Original masters. Regardless of the debate between 'original' and 're-mix', this is the most diverse assortment of Cambodian musical treasures you've NEVER heard. Flowing from traditional to Modern, from rock and pop to folk and hybrid, all excerpts are as unique as the best of what's been presented by other compilations of late. And it's sequenced here in the spirit of how it was captured: as radio programming designed to immediately transport you into the heart of Cambodia's Capital." |
| 2/16/2005 | V/A | Radio Sumatra: The Indonesian FM Experience | CD | $14.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "The music and production encountered here represents a cross-section of Sumatran FM radio and to a greater extent, what's happening now in Indonesian culture. From the signature sounds of Sumatra (Melayu, Minang Pop, the Batak ballad) to the widespread Indonesian phenomenon of Dangdut, this exclusive 'FM only' Radio Collage will leave your skull shattered, wondering why it's taken so long to be turned-on to the modern pulse of the world's fourth largest country. Some of these selections come from Java and other parts of Indonesia via the FM airwaves of Sumatra's major cities. Islamic Folk, Gambus Rock, and gorgeous anomalies are also placed in the mix amidst brief news reports, advertisements, prayers, and karaoke call-in shows. Many of the station ID's could be mistaken for American or European networks and much of the music is highly influenced by western pop/rock/punk/metal/rap/etc. But beyond these obvious comparisons is an explosive musical kaleidoscope; still fresh, somewhat sincere and naive, and a bit resistant to the grasp of the world's cultural export Moguls. This is an essential listening experience. There is undeniable evidence here of how Indonesians have crafted some of the world's most thrilling popular music....yet the rest of this world somehow refuses to recognize it....that is, until now! (Recorded, assembled and edited by Alan Bishop/ 2004)." |
| 7/16/2006 | V/A | Radio Thailand: Transmissions from the Tropical Kingdom | DBL CD | $17.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "This 2CD set is an exhaustive collection of Thai Radio transmissions recorded over a 15-year period from 1989 to 2004. These 23 collage tracks have been assembled and distilled from dozens of cassette and mini-disc recordings captured on location from the capital of Bangkok to Chaing Mai and Isan Province in the north to Hat Yai in the south. The music presented here is relentlessly mystifying and seductive: Molam, Luk Thung, Kantrum, folk and pop, classic Thai guitar rock, antique ballads, novelty tunes, traditional ceremonial music and other miscellaneous styles rarely heard outside the Kingdom. Also featured are various commercials, DJs, radio IDs, news reports, mysterious folk radio, language lessons, sacred chants, bumper cues and plenty of audio anomalies only the sheer genius of Thai Radio can supply. Tune in to the amazing audio experience of Thailand's Tropical Kingdom!" |
| 2/4/2007 | V/A | Random Sounds Volume 2 | CDR | $11.99 | indieworkshop | "Three tracks from three big hitters. All previously unrealeased jams. One track each from Everlovely Lightningheart, My Cat is An Alien, and (VxPxC). Clocking in at just under 50 minutes, it's sure to be your new bedtime treat. This one will be going fast, you can just smell it in the air." |
| 4/29/2004 | V/A | Record Of Shadows Infinite | CD | $12.99 | Crucial Blast | "A diverse collection of modern drift, neo-minimalism, and cinematic audio experimentation. This compilation gathers together eerie twilight drones, harrowing field recordings, intoxicating soundscapes, and hazy psychedelic ambience from across the globe. From pastoral to apocalyptic, a wealth of evocative aural vistas are contained within. Features: Ruhr Hunter, Troum, Unearthly Trance, Thuja, House Of Low Culture, Scot Jenerik, Amon, CHaos As Shelter, Beneath The Lake, & Francisco Lopez. |
| 2/16/2003 | V/A | Research Center for the Definition of Happiness | CD | $9.99 | Absurd | "Documentation of a series of events that took place in the province of Phokis in July 98. Including recordings of Sons of God, cm Von Hausswolff, RLW, Ilios, Illusionist, Costis Drygianakis, Chondros / Katsiani, Nicolas Malevitsis." Limited edition of 199 copies packaged in beautifully printed cardboard covers. |
| 2/26/2003 | V/A | Rewriting The Book | DBL CD | $14.99 | elsieandjack | "elsie and jack are proud to present, REWRITING THE BOOK a double cd monster that contains many genre defining moments within its 154 minute, 28 track lifespan. 2 years in the making, it encompasses an eclectic array of artists from around the world, all contributing recordings exclusively made for this release. for the previous elsie and jack release, PAGES FROM THE BOOK, akifumi nakajima (aube) created 61 sounds, ranging from 10 second loops to 4 minute drones, using a copy of the King James bible. these source sounds, in conjunction with the original concept, were open to so many different interpretations that they were then sent to a number of artists to create their own music. some of the artists used nothing but the source sounds; some in a very minimal way, some in a more complex manner. others used the sounds as a starting point to build their own music around, so that the samples become an integral part of their own particular vision. A few drekka, hood and volcano the bear - introduce a more obvious if unconventional song structure to the proceedings. the differing approaches create an eclectic sound, bound cohesively into a whole by the continuing theme of the pages from the book. this release marks the first time that aube has been remixed. however, the story is not yet complete ... the next stage in this epic sees akifumi versus everyone versus aube." |
| 7/10/2008 | V/A | Rishikesh Rising | CDR | $13.99 | Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam Recording | "Another excellent instalment of Indian field recordings on the Uton label complete with a classy 7" repro style sleeve and a fold-out poster. Features temple chanting, percussion, spiritual music, street musicians, Krishna chanting. Hand-numbered edition of only 60 copies." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 8/31/2008 | V/A | Runner: A Compilation of New Zealand Music | CD | $14.99 | Next Best Way | This was the 2nd release on Alastair Galbraith's Next Best Way label released way back in 1996 I believe. This excellent comp features Garbage & The Flowers, Bruce Russell, Sandoz Lab Technicians, Alastair Galbraith solo as well with David Merritt, Demarnia Lloyd, Chris Heazlewood, Matthew Middleton plus many more. |
| 5/18/2004 | V/A | Rural Psychogeography | CD | $14.99 | Nexsound | New (May 2004) release from Ukranian label featuring these artists: Tom Carter and Vanessa Arn, Francisco Lopez, Jason Kahn, Anla Courtis, Andrey Kiritchenko, Tomas Korber / Gunter Muller, The Radian, Martin Tetreault, Rosy Parlane and The Moglass. Psychogeography as a socially critical art practice could reveal itself only in the city. Psychogeographers of the sixties searched for the secret territories, where suppressed desires were particularly intense, expecting to find them primarily in the points of concentrated sociality. In these points sociality reached critical mass and broke out between the disciplinary realm of the city and a spontaneous self-actualization of an individual. As a result, the events that were provoked and captured by psychogeographers, turned out to be transgressive evidence of the holiday of revolution. The locales where turmoil and confusion, demonstrations of madness and mental play and other curious occurrences were the most frequent, held pride of place on psychogeographic maps. However, the time when the philosophy of schizy-analysis and the aesthetics of situationalism spurted out to city streets, has passed. The post-coital depression that followed the orgy discouraged and upset the participants, and they left city streets. The resistance remains important and actual, although its methods change. It is no longer a strike; it is rather a partisan movement, resistance through escape. Those who are unable to accept this fact turn into terrorists, blow art up or start revolutions and rebellions in their own minds. However, the real partisans retire and hide, secluding themselves from everyone, confining themselves to external and internal country roads and wood trails, and staying off the beaten tracks where the solitude in crowd and garish sameness await the creator. The lost simplicity and naturalness are in provincial marginalias, not in carnivals of barricades. The message/transmitter corresponds to the location of transmission. This is neither a manifest nor a general discourse; it is more of an attempt to convey the meaning in the most compressed way, for instance, through free musical improvisation. The message/transmitter itself gives an impression of the situation on the certain road or trail, and, moreover, an immediate and clear one. But what is more important, since psychogeography here is valuable by itself and does not have to pursue any other objectives, the transmitter is also valuable per se, and the message about the event that takes place within the secret territory is considered as the event itself. Herein a partisan can use the latest achievements of the civilization for the demolition of this same civilization. The result comes through as a laptop in the woods serving as the most mobile psycho-prosthesis which creates, captures, stores and transmits meanings. City [p]artisans keep in touch with rural psychogeographers and readily adopt their experience. As a result, an underground station in Paris all of a sudden becomes reminiscent of a country backyard filled with sounds made by domestic animals, insects, people attending to their chores, and even power supply lines. Generally speaking, any psychogeography that allows finding a valuable method of personal expression that previously seemed impossible, can be considered rural. We cannot say that the realization of personal expression is getting back on track in postmodern era, but the impossibility of realization turns into its possibility which can be carried into effect far from semantic highways and avenues. Moreover, since any expression, whether it is signed or not, is personal in one way or other, and the signed but unmade one is personal twofold, a lot of secret spots reveal themselves on country roads. This is why the path of a rural psychogeographer is long. He will not encounter the Minotaur in the labyrinth of country roads because this labyrinth does not have a center where the Minotaur could have taken up his residence. This is why the labyrinth looks like a rhizome of surface; having entered it once, one can wander about for ever, endlessly discovering new liaisons between the well-known locations. This is why the wayfarer must take care about the durability of his footwear and take a die knife with him. The handle of this knife is located in Europe and North America, the cutting blade passes through Ukraine, and the blade end is directed towards New Zealand which is one of the most distant and at the same time most impressive secret points. - Natalia Zagurskaya |
| 1/17/2010 | V/A | Ruralfaune Collective I | 3" CDR | $8.99 | Ruralfaune | "Recording of the first show in june 2008. Something between noise, robedoorlike incantations and schizophrenic drums. Featuring Monks of the Balhill, Sorch'enn, Xochipilli..." |
| V/A | Sandnes / Stavanger | 7" EP | $5.99 | self-released | "THE Nor Wave sampler! Featuring Noxagt, Kulteretaten, Louise & Kate, Kjertl del Brondo Group, Fibo-trespo, Shotguns, Nils Erga, Agur-K, Anfie and Hellfire. Exclusive tracks." | |
| V/A | Sculpting From Drake Volume One | CD | $12.99 | elsie and jack recordings | "elsie and jack recordings are proud to present a celebration of the poetic natural landscapes found in Nick Drake's thoughts. His music gradually formed relationships with so many, some of whom you will find within this tribute. This diverse mix of artists have aired their interpretations for this tribute which will hopefully enthrall and introduce his songs to a new audience." Features Archer Prewitt, Au Revoir Borealis, Flashpapr, Ben Vida, Northern Song Dynasty, Electroscope with Zurich, Warn Defever, Drekka, The Autumns with Simon Raymonde, and Ray Speedway. | |
| 9/24/2009 | V/A | Shadow Music of Thailand | CD | $15.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "This is the CD issue of the sold-out limited LP vinyl release from 2008. "Shadow Music" was a broad term given to the Thai guitar pop movement of the 1960s and the groups that came out of it -- all under the profound influence of early Western rock and roll. British instrumental wonders The Shadows (as in Cliff Richards & The Shadows) were the origin of the genre's title -- also coined "Wong Shadow" or early Thai "string" music. Shadow records were often marketed as "Thai Modernized Music," which it was in the truest sense. Traditional Thai melodies were given the Shadow treatment -- incorporating rock, surf, a-go-go, exotica, soul, blues, Latin and other worldly styles of the times. Inventive compositions and instrumental genius meet the occasional odd vocal arrangement and the results range from plaintive guitar and organ-driven lullabies to full-blown electric garage folk-psychedelia! Featured on this collection are a handful of the leading recorded artists from the time; P.M. Pocket Music, The Son of P.M., P.M.7, Jupiter, and Johnny Guitar. Throughout the 1960s, these groups forged a unique and highly self-referential Thai sound. Includes an 8-page insert featuring the gorgeous original Thai Shadow LP artwork and liner notes by compiler Mark Gergis." - FE |
| 9/29/2004 | V/A | Shadows Infinitum | CDR | $10.99 | Crucial Blast | "Companion piece to the Record of Shadows Infinite compilation CD on Crucial Blast. The wrangling of top-notch drone artists continues with this full length, extremely polished CD-r release, limited to 250 copies. Exclusive tracks from Dead Raven Choir, Encomiast, Korpersschwache, Existential Dilemma, Burning Star Core, Feverdreams, Nadja, Marax, and Unholydeathmachine run the gamut: these further explorations of the drone touch on blackened folk creep, glacial hum and gorgeous ambient bliss, buzzsaw feedback rituals, imploding-sun droneblast, improvised clatter and drift, epic dronemetal, vampiric dronenoise, and schizophrenic kool-aid burble riots. Another exercise in intelligent, outsider droneworks from Crucial Blast. Packaged in a full color DVD style plastic case (with full color insert) with top-notch packaging design." |
| 9/24/2009 | V/A | Siamese Soul: Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s-1980s Vol. 2 | CD | $15.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "This second volume in the Thai Pop Spectacular series brings together regional artists from across Thailand. Some were modest pop players of their time, while others were major stars. Siamese Soul features 1970s hard-grooved roots funk, hypnotic Luk Thung tracks from the Northeastern Thai countryside, 1960s rock & roll and 1980s groove anomalies. All cuts come heavily laced with electric organs and guitar, thick horn sections, the traditional khaen, driving bass and stunning vocal performances with a richness that can easily be called Thai soul music of the highest order. These creative sounds formed by hybrids with Western instrumentation and genres, result in an incredibly dynamic music that is distinctively Thai. Selected from cassette tapes and vinyl found buried on bottom shelves in rural locales, these tracks serve as further evidence of a vital Thai pop scene that's been kept from Western ears for far too long. This CD comes with a 16-page booklet of amazing exclusive photos documenting the era with translated song titles and liner notes by Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop." - FE |
| V/A | Simla Beat '70/'71 | DBL CD | $19.99 | Shadoks | "Simla Beat is an India compilation set up by a 'Tobacco company'. They might had the idea to catch hippy-non-smokers with cool sounds. If you can imagine to join the Yardbirds or early Velvet Underground in their home studios you might get an idea how this records sounds ike. Great all-English vocals, fuzz-guitars and organ. Totally stoned and rough. We personally think those bands are actually from US. There is not a single sitar/tabla or other India influence music on it. Instead: rough garage-sound and fuzzed-out mayhem. Originals are rare as gold dust." | |
| 11/4/2006 | V/A | So Much Fire To Roast Human Flesh | CD | $14.99 | Bastet | An anti-war compilation curated by JOSEPHINE FOSTER, who states All of the musicians represented here are US citizens. Our voices join with many others across this land that freely question and openly oppose war. All proceeds from sales of this compilation are being donated to specific counter-recruitment and pacifist organizations. We hope to assist them in their efforts promoting peace and non-militarism in the United States. Track listing: 1) The Cherry Blossoms Dragonfly 2) Feathers Dust 3) Michael Hurley A Little Bit of Love for You 4) Meg Baird Western Red Lily (Nunavut Diamond Dream) 5) Andrew Bar Dont Trust That Man 6) Goatgirl President Combed His Hair 7) Devendra Banhart I Know Some Souls (demo) 8) Kath Bloom Baby Let It Come Down On Me 9) Charlie Nothing Fuck You and Your Stupid Wars 10) Diane Cluck A Phoenix and Doves 11) John Allingham and Ann Tiley Big War 12) Josephine Foster Would You Pave the Road? 13) Angels of Light Destroyer 14) Rachel Mason The War Clerks Lament 15) Pajo War Is Dead 16) MVEE Powderfinger 17) Kathleen Baird Prayer for Silence 18) Lay All Over It A Place All proceeds from sales of this compilation are being donated to specific counter-recruitment and pacifist organizations. We hope to assist them in their efforts promoting peace and non-militarism in the United States. All of the musicians represented here are US citizens. Our voices join with many others across this land that freely question and openly oppose war. --Josephine Foster |
| 5/31/2009 | V/A | Soft As Warm But Snow Inside - Rare Shoegaze Vol. III | CDR | $9.99 | For Your Bliss Productions | "More rare EP's and album cuts by noisy/swirly unknowns 1991-1995 like Fury Things, Sweet Jesus, Majesty Crush, and Ultra Cindy." 18 tracks. |
| 7/30/2002 | V/A | Songs For A Crimson Eggtree | LP | $9.99 | Earworm | "Stunning comp in beautiful sleeve featuring the cream of the modern psych pop crowd. Gems galore from The Essex Green, Dressy Bessy, Bright Eyes, The Orange Alabaster Mushroom, Dipsomaniacs, Elf Power and more...superb album!" |
| 9/29/2005 | V/A | Sonic Protest | CD | $14.99 | Textile Records | Textile Records released a CD compilation featuring unreleased tracks from bands who played there (France). It's a 14 tracks CD w/ Excepter, The Other Method, Gang Gang Dance, Melted Men, Sinistri, Volt, Magik Markers, Joshua Burkett...and more. |
| 6/11/2006 | V/A | Sonic Protest 2006 | CD | $12.99 | Features 18 artists including The Skaters, Tomutonttu, Zaimph, Hair Police, Panicsville, Prurient, Volcano the Bear and others. Nice! | |
| 12/24/2005 | V/A | Sound Surrounds Us Volume 2 | DBL CDR | $15.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "double disc compilation of stretched sound structures made long for the many minded. featuring majik,the golden oaks,terracid,castings,davenport,brothers of the occult sisterhood,james and ove,dinmuck#f,the north sea,ffehro" |
| 2/16/2005 | V/A | Sound Surrounds Us, Volume 1 | CDR | $15.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "The 'Sound Surrounds Us' series will focus on sound as environment. Each copy comes housed in a hand made collage sleeve. Volume 1 contains contributions from Terracid, Ffehro and Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. Focusing on the abstraction of space and time through the manipulation of rhythm and tone, these tracks are designed to open the mind." |
| 10/31/2009 | V/A | Spiritual Machine | CDR | $9.99 | Deep Water | "While our fourth split release isn't quite tied to a "theme", it does share an intentionally atmospheric state of mind: We contacted three Transatlantic individuals who we knew to be particularly skilled at the creation of musical-electrical inscapes, and asked them to bring us something "hypnotic" (however they interpreted that) from their respective audio laboratories. Spiritual Machine is the mesmerizing result, an hour-long interlaced energy meditation that takes their distinct creations - France's Enfer Boréal offers up a densely vibrational 3-part suite that confirms his status atop of the Euro avant-drone pile; the.bricoleur, a UK-based sound sculptor who has worked with the likes of Current 93, contributes the spectral concréte of the title track; and PA's own Tuscarora Borealis, also a member of the Evening Fires family, beams in a brace of looping nature drones that channel classic kosmische impulses - and weaves them into a larger sonic hologram that encompasses whatever you might find there and more. Best heard quite loud from a position of comfortable stasis." |
| 2/12/2008 | V/A | Stay in School Drugs are for Losers You Suck | cassette | $7.99 | Teen Action Records | "Featuring: Lambsbread (Ohio's favorite jam band), Gagging Nuns (gtr/drm duo delivers screeching pulsations), Nathan Snell (solo gtr waves of spastic bliss), Homo The Wolf (howling noise of the warm blooded variety), Honey Mountain Whistlers (members of 16BPU, Sword Heaven & Anna Ranger, no-fi mouth music), Furfur (conjuring up the black magic of banalty)" |
| 3/26/2006 | V/A | String of Artifacts | DBL CD | $16.99 | Resipiscent | "Yep, this is the compilation you heard about. Solve the enclosed crossword with your ears or find the cheat sheet hidden inside; your clues include: Sun City Girls, Caroliner, Nautical Almanac, Metalux, Wolf Eyes, Mono Pause, Hans Grüsel's Krankenkabinet, Tarantism, Tom Recchion, Fat Worm of Error, Sixes, Bran(...)Pos, Masonic Youth, Pod Blotz, Smegma, Panicsville, too many more." |
| 11/15/2008 | V/A | Sub Gothenburg 08 | cassette | $8.99 | Fang Bomb | "Completing what whas started with the Gothenburg 08 compilation earlier this year, 'SUB GOTHENBURG 08' digs even deeper in the Gothenburg scene, guiding you through noise, black metal, lo-fi industrial scrapings and some science fiction-type retrofuturism to boot. Features new tracks by Frozen Faces (aka Deutsch Nepal), Trepaneringsritualen (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words), SMEA, Ättestupa (Sewer Election), and many more. You need this to obtain full knowledge. Strictly limited, 100 tapes only." |
| 3/26/2006 | V/A | Super St. 7 | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "how to make brains" c60. all live comp. featuring : odd clouds, fe-mail, taliban, luasa raelon, charlie draheim. 5 heavy hitters w/ the longest jam by Norways (?) fe-mail.edition 77. |
| 4/24/2006 | V/A | Super St. 8 | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "nervous downer" cassette. all live comp. featuring: newton/knifestorm, jessica rylan, evenings, sick llama, slither, odd clouds, cotton museum, paranoid time. total raw lofi sound captures. edition 77. " |
| 7/16/2006 | V/A | Super St. 9 | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "the mind changer" c60 all live comp. featuring : burning star core, charlie draheim, sick llama, graveyards, cygnus. |
| 9/17/2006 | V/A | Super Street 10 | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "s.o.s. c60. all live comp. featuring : dj dog dick, door, lambsbread, prurient, hair police. edition 77. horrible." |
| 2/4/2007 | V/A | Super Street 12 | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "destroyed grounds" all live comp. featuring : wolf eyes{milwaukee}, raven strain {chicago} , cygnus {orfordville, WI} , sick llama{s.f.}. |
| 3/21/2007 | V/A | Super Street 13 | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "Deserted Angles" all live comp. cassette featuring : juice and bondo, failing lights, slither, lambsbread. edition 77. |
| 4/16/2007 | V/A | Super Street 14 | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "let's fuck this dog" all live comp. featuring: wolf eyes, sick llama, charlie drahiem." |
| 5/14/2007 | V/A | Super Street 15 - Strangers In The Night | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "all live comp. featuring ; evenings, emeralds, sick llama, graveyards, lambsbread, halibet tin metal sewage band. edition 77." |
| 9/16/2007 | V/A | Super Street 19 | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "nah look no wuk" all live cassette comp. featuring : evenings, paranoid time, sick llama, fossils, wig wam, sick llama/barf thoth. edition 50." |
| 2/14/2008 | V/A | Super Street 21 - Cock Pit | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "All live comp. featuring: Aaron Dilloway / Leo Dilloway, Raven Strain, Sick Llama, etc. edition 50." |
| 11/15/2008 | V/A | Super Street 22 'Hot Numbers' | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "All live comp. cassette featuring: BILL NACE, SLITHER, HELICOPTERE SANGLANTE, SICK LLAMA,HOLLOW BUSH + SICK LLAMA colab. all hail the return of the S.S. series! raw from the streets recordings. raw from the streets recordings from the streets recordings. hand-numbered edition 77." |
| 5/31/2009 | V/A | Super Street 24 "Straw Dogz" | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "All live comp. cassette featuring: Slither, Steve Kenney, New Pledgemaster. raw live recordings from El Garage, Monterrey MX + Steve and New Plegdemaster played after the gig on a sick roof top after-party + Slither live in Atlanta. c62. edition 50." |
| 11/21/2009 | V/A | Super Street 26 'Drog Rapid' | cassette | $7.99 | Fag Tapes | "all live comp. cassette featuring: Dog Lady, Hatred, Drug Abuse, Sick Llama. amazing sets, last live performance by Fag Tapes Super Group Drug Abuse (Raven Strain, Sick Llama, Charlie Draheim, New Pledgemaster, Evenings) + solo sets from insane lost weekend shred tour. what the hell does "drog rapid" mean? hand-numbered edition 50." |
| V/A | TA/W | CD | $12.99 | krkrkrk | "Recorded in March 2001 at a kRkRkRk house party and laced with all the special ingredients usually present at such gatherings. Noise, chaos, drugs. Various solo performances from The Drawing Room, Richard Neave, Ed Wilson, Polio, KYN & NoTV. A stunning recording presented in an equally stunning package including accidental photography by Peter Wright." | |
| 12/12/2009 | V/A | Tarantismo Summit: Volume 1 | LP | $11.99 | Rampage Recordings | "If you look closely at the four points propping up the initial installment of the Tarantismo Summit, none of them seem to make much sense inhabiting a split LP together. KK Rampage are punk-ish brutes with guitars that dent skulls. Smegma are a poop-y Portland improv outfit with enough underground cred to rival the greats. Insect Joy play a sort of impenetrable freak-prog. Ghost Moth are noisy and have a hard-on for ornate instrumentation and skronk. The one bond linking these bands to the same quad is the will to push things forward, as The Streets would say, and there's no excuses if you're not ready to jump aboard, my friend. All four of these acts are wacky enough that no one in their right mind would listen to them, yet all four likely find that when they are appreciated, they're really, really, really appreciated. Tarantismo finds all four in top form. Smegma contribute the first half-side of vinyl, and it's a doozy. What do kazoos, drops of water, retarded tom- and hand-drumming, sudden blurts, chants, whistles, skittering electronic tones, and shakers have in common? Smegma. What do choppy digital effects, voice samples, cymbal crashes, and a total lack of structure have in common? Smegma. What do high-pitched squeals, TV static, radio dials, short-lived bass guitar bloops, and random drum-stick-on-kitchen-counter taps have in common? You guessed it: Frank Stallone. I mean, Smegma. They rule shit. Next up are KK Rampage, and the Chicago act offer a tweaked version of their tweaker-scum vitriol. They're definitely recording in a cave or an echo chamber on this shit; either that or singer Johnny Rampage stowed himself in a meat locker for a few months and used the starvation to push himself to new heights. Either way, this is hungry music, urgent and looking for something, anything, to cure its aching head. Of course, if you were to incur a headache you would never leave a KK Rampage record playing; that's just stupid. KK are, as I've said so many times, the rightful continuation of the momentum created by Rhode Island bands like Arab On Radar and Six Finger Satellite, especially when you focus on their rhythm section, but the multi-layered vocals, overall sloppiness of the guitar sound and haunting sections of songs like "Dark Voices Calling Out" are all calling cards of a project very much its own influence. Flailing, flapping, floating, flipping and flopping, KK Rampage are that fish you caught but can't bring yourself to club. But you will; you will if you want to eat. Insect Joy? I'm just going to skip them... Kidding!!! IJ are like a bad cabaret act on rewind or a mariachi band that plays only pitch-bended keytars or a fuzzy nightmare from which you may or may not awake. The Floridians conduct their songs much like a maestro conducts her/his ensemble, only they really seem to have little control of their subjects. Like an author using simple, snappy sentences to get out of the way of a story, Insect Joy channel inner dementia and move to the effin' side once they do. The sounds that emit are disorienting but tethered to a rhythmic component, which helps the whole dish go down smoother. The space-age sine wave that follows doesn't make any sense coupled with the preceding performance, and that somehow renders the song cycle perfect for the likes of Tarantismo. And now, finally, Ghost Moth from Brooklyn, an army of noise instruments gone horribly wrong, a saxophonist tooting away on a deep-city rooftop to no one in particular as the ravages of the city crackle on below, a high-pitched tone sounding from the netheregions of the soul that could either be a patient's heart rate or an aural warning of impending dddoom, depending on whether you're conscious or dreaming (I like to hover in between!). GM produce with machine-like efficiency the chaos of a bleeding, burning city, a land torn between greedy capitalists and the Rest of Us. Or at least that's how I read it. What else do you need to know? Pick up this crumpled-up piece of noise-waste before it disappears like your friends will if you play this at a party." - www.tinymixtapes.com/Various-Artists-Rampage |
| 2/26/2006 | V/A | Tasty Soil Live Vol 1 | DVD-R | $11.99 | Tasty Soil | "The first in an ongoing series of live sets from tasty soil bands & freinds! This volume contains three sets from the theremin & electronics weirdo Cotton Museum, two sets from the primative horn hermits named Odd Clouds and the imfamous 'Surgery Part 1' set from Detroit's weirdo performance artist Jamie Easter. Most videos filmed & professionally edited together with multiple camera angles by filmographer Natasha Beste!" |
| 8/22/2008 | V/A | Ten Grand Tonearm | LP | $17.99 | Heard Worse | Features: Arse Lunch (from the blue mtns, triple guitar feedback jam) ~ Castings (from sydney/newcastle, releases on Chocolate Monk & American Tapes) ~ Cygnus (heath moreland of sick llama and his bro) ~ Loachfillet ~ Marco Fusinato ~ Mark Harwood (synaesthesia records) ~ Misty Lavender Doughnuts Of Shame ~ Pigs in the Ground ~ Rahdunes (post Unborn Unicorn band) ~ rlw (ralf wehowsky) ~ Sun of the Seventh Sister (25 piece big band ) ~ The Vitamin B12 ~ Werewolf Jerusalem ~ William de Cunting ~ xNoBBQx (local harry pussy style drums/gtr - recent album on siltbreeze). Housed in recycled classical covers with attached A3 poster, locked groove at the end of each side. |
| 9/16/2007 | V/A | Thai Pop Spectacular: 1960's-1980's | CD | $15.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Thai pop history has been largely ignored and neglected by the international musical community for far too long. By the late 20th century, Thai pop music had developed as many faces as localized roots music such as molam or styles like luk thung or luk krung (each with their own respective pop-sectors). Bangkok - always the hub of the Thai recording industry - attracted musicians and singers from across the country that were both informed by tradition and inspired by the wealth of international sounds entering the region via radio and phonograph. Jazz, for instance, had a profound influence on early Thai pop music, the King of Thailand himself being a noted jazz composer. This superb collection features modern Thai music styles combining with elements of surf, rock, funk, disco and comedy, revealing the use of clever instrumentation, brilliant vocals, great arrangements, twisted breaks, and resourceful production techniques. Discover the Queen of Luk Thung, the 1960s "Shadow Music" sound, classic tracks from Thai films, blazing examples of Bangkok disco from the 1970s, legendary Thai comedy pop, and the most outrageous version of "The Night Chicago Died" you'll ever encounter. Thick horn sections, wah-wah guitars, tight drums, and funky organs help round out this astounding set which proves beyond a doubt that the Thai were a completely unique and powerful force during the 1960s, '70s & '80s global popular music explosion." |
| 11/4/2006 | V/A | The Beast | DVD | $16.99 | AA Records | Features Aaron Dilloway, Nate Young, John Olson, Tovah Olson, Mike Connelly, Burned Mind, Dr. ID, Conroy, Joseph Hammer, Angie Tarantism, Rock and Roll Jackie, and Ju Suk Reet Meate recorded live at No Fun on March 19, 2006. |
| 1/17/2010 | V/A | The Continuing Saga Of The Visiting Kitten | CDR | $12.99 | Sonic Dust Recordings | "Excellent new compilation out together and released by Andrew Paine and Brian Lavelle with all proceeds going to Cats Protection. The biggest draw on the disc are the two previously unreleased tracks from Richard Youngs, one a virtual Richard Youngs Band track with Richard playing guitar, bass, drums and keyboards on a beautiful pop song that could easily have sat on his recent Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits CD-R and the other a classic unreleased Ilk track from an album that was later abandoned. The track is co-written with Andrew Paine although its performed solo by Richard and it rivals The Point Of Heaven as one of the most beautiful song-based chord ascensions of that groups career. The rest of the compilation is no comedown, with great tracks from artists associated with Sonic Oyster, all of whom turn in complimentary keyboard/drone/kosmische-styled tracks that almost segue into each other to create a beautiful nowhere zone. Andrew Paines solo track is one of his darker electro creations, with infernal vocals and voids of noise while the Space Weather track moves even closer to that odd half-light choral synth sound of early Coil. Also great tracks from Texlahoma, Brian Lavelle, Alastair Crosbie and Brian Lavelle & Andrew Paine. I rate this comp even higher than the earlier Glasgow Wassail. Edition of only 100 copies, one time pressing, already sold out at source. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 1/13/2004 | V/A | The Date Fork Seeps the River | LP | $8.99 | Nauscopy Records | "Wow. A whole mess of wonderful bands, projects, and unclassifiable whackery. 65 tracks plus 4 lock grooves squeezed onto one LP. Eclectic as fuck and quite the romp. Don't miss this one." 69 non-musical tracks on one LP. Completely nuts. Edition of 200 copies. |
| 4/24/2006 | V/A | The Date Fork Seeps the River Volume 2 | LP | $11.99 | Nauscopy | "Round two of unmusical goofiness, splatteronia, and just plain weirdness. This time NINETY tracks, including 30 lock grooves! Includes the Sun City Girls, the Haters, Alvarius B, Id M Theft Able, Dick Panthers, Edith Bunker's Demonized Vomit Insurance, Roman the Edge, and tons of others, from places as far away as Denmark, Italy, Puerto Rico, and yes, Saturn! Plus the mystery you might attempt to expect..." |
| 2/23/2004 | V/A | The Golden Road (To Unlimited Edition) | 7" | $6.99 | Humbug | 2003 compilation of experimental music featuring Bruce Russell, Antonym, Sindre Bjerga / Anders Gjerde, and Taming Power. BRUCE RUSSELL has spent the last 20 years refining a unique approach to musical practice which owes much to more esoteric disciplines such as sound art, free 'noise' improvisation and electro-acoustic composition. Coming from a 'rock' background, he has broadened his interests, methods and arsenal of techniques to include practices and approaches to sound that have moved him to a position outside any musical mainstream one could care to name. At the same time he has done much to network like-minded New Zealand artists, and to actively promote these artists in the international music scene. He is now a minor but firmly established fixture in the international improvisation underground, known both for his own work and that of his label, Corpus Hermeticum. He plays and records with the Dead C., A Handful of Dust, and Pieters/Russell/Stapleton, as well as solo under his own name. He has recently collaborated with Ralf Wehowsky, Birchville Cat Motel and Greg Malcolm. ANTONYM is a one-man project working in the fields of both rhythm and non-rhythm, utilising electronic with found sounds and loop tapes. It should be considered 'Concrete' yet falls outside most people's idea of how alienating and limited this might be. BJERGA/GJERDE have been constructing sound collages on and off for about a year and a half often using acoustic improvisation, found sounds, processed field recordings.........some tracks have appeared on a few compilations, and a full length disc, entitled 'stavanger' was issued recently on the greek 'editions_zero' label. TAMING POWER came into existence in 1987. This project has over the years come to encompass a wide musical range from radio ready-mades and électronique concrète to pieces using only el.guitar or piano. An important part of the project has been to explore the possibilities of tape recorder technology - used not only for recording/editing but also as independent musical instruments to generate electronic sound. Several vinyl and cassette releases on Early Morning Records. |
| 3/26/2006 | V/A | The Planet 1 - January 24, 1999. Live Performance at Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo | DVD-R | $16.99 | There | "Features collaborations between Chie Mukai (Che-SHIZU, East Bionic Symphonia; er-hu, voice, percussion), Christophe Charles (computer, lighting), Jutoku Kaneko (Kosokuya; guitar, vocal), Ikuro Takahashi (ex-Fushitsusha, Kosokuya, High Rise, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Nagisa Ni te; percussion), and Yoko Muronoi (dance). Inlcudes full color photo/postcard. 140 min. Numbered edition of 150. "As a missing piece in a puzzle thats still a lot larger than anyone suspects, this is an essential document."- Alan Cummings. |
| 7/30/2002 | V/A | The Tell-Tale Signs of Earworm | DBL CD | $12.99 | Earworm | "Disc one compiles a dozen or so tracks previously released across a number of out of print singles (13 tracks by Jon and Dave (pre-FSA), Orange Alabaster Mushroom, Avrocar, Novac, Ma Cherie For Painting, Electric Sound of Joy and others). Disc 2 is a collection of tracks which, had time and money permitted, would all have made onto 7" vinyl (The Minders, The Vertical Smile, Echoboy, Southall Riot and more)." |
| 8/2/2008 | V/A | The Tryst Haunt Series #3: Spring 2008 | 3 x 7" set | $22.99 | L'animaux Tryst Field Recordings | Three limited edition (300 copies) 7" records from Visitations & Big Blood, Prisma / Drona Parva, The North Sea / Corsican Paintbrush "Visitations & Big Blood's ''Lectric 'Lashes': in the true spirit of the occasion, southern maine's outerworldly psych-folk beacons visitations and big blood decide to forgo the concept of the "split" release and instead launch forth into a mindbending collaborative effort. the bands are not new to performing together: they've toured together and have even backed each other up under various names. but this release marks the first physical release by their combined forces, and, unbelievably enough, is big blood's first vinyl release ever. the ease with which the bands complement each other is astounding - five clear voices reaching together to guide the record through a buzz-guitar singalong, a breathless pastoral folk tune, a chugging nightmare rock-dirge, and a sweetly-lighthearted vocal exercise. this 33rpm 7" record contains four tracks in a 14-minute official runtime, but will play forever if you let it. in addition, the record comes with a bonus cd-r of tracks from the late-night jam session that pre-dated the recording sessions for the 7", as well as the four tracks from the 7" itself in digital form. a one-of-a-kind package, with each record sleeve offset printed with the bands' artwork in dark blue ink on colorful, individually hand-painted sheets of heavy art paper. embossed, hand-numbered limited edition of 300 record/cd-r sets - Prisma & Drona Parva's 'Best Buds" 7": the two spectral ladies of prisma mark their debut release with this 7" split with drona parva. prisma has been performing the quietest shows in and around portland for a couple years now, mixing softly echoing vocals with flute drones, only the gentlest plucking of various stringed instruments, and the occasional analog noise rumble. their a-side track resonates with beautiful restraint and delicacy; the stunning debut all of us entranced by their live show have hoped for. on the b-side, drona parva--the long-running solo project of time-lag records' nemo bidstrup--turns in a blissed-out muti-tracked free-flowing guitar composition. trance-inducing acoustic plucks and strums eventually give way to shimmering waves of fuzz guitar until the whole thing becomes impossibly beautiful. the minimal packaging for the record complements the gentle touch of the recordings held within: the 45rpm 7" record is a custom, slightly-marbled avocado green color with a yellow-green mandala-design center-label. the record is held in a semi-transparent vellum sleeve that has been hand-punched on the corners, giving a soft mask to the striking colors on the record itself, and hand-numbered to 300. The North Sea's "nikolette (reborn)" b/w Corsican Paintbrush's "under storm skies": anyone familiar with the extensive north sea discography is aware of brad rose's keen ability to mix it up between eastern-tinged folk instrumentals and more straightforward strummers, which usually feature rose's classic low-in-the-mix mumble-drunk vocals and charmingly loose playing. "nikolette (reborn)" finds him revising a beautiful, quivering folk song from 2007's baby blue bones cd (mymwly) with the more-confident-than-ever vocals now at the forefront, and an army of acoustic strings and hand percussion backing this boxtop prophet's hymn. corsican paintbrush's contribution follows suit, foregrounding eden hemming rose's soft, lilting vocal melody and some rhythm-driving strums while keeping a lush, hazy swell of drones and cave-echo vocals as the backdrop. equally ethereal and dusty, like 4AD dream-pop marred by dirt under fingernails and ash from the campfire turning cheeks black. black 7" vinyl record has a hand-stamped center label, and comes packaged in a textured black art paper sleeve with flower petal inclusions, with line-drawings and stamped titles in white ink, and an embossed screenprinted insert featuring liner notes and a topographic street map of tulsa. limited edition hand-numbered to 300." |
| 2/7/2009 | V/A | The Tryst Haunt Series #3: Summer 2008 | 3 x 7" set | $22.99 | L'animaux Tryst Field Recordings | Three limited edition (300 copies) 7" records from GHQ, Vollmar, and Elephant Micah. "GHQ's "requiem for bhophal" - this veritable brooklyn all-star team of marcia bassett (zaimph, hototogisu, double leopards, zaika), steve gunn (check the solo digitalis cd sundowner), and pete nolan (magik markers) has been killing it on releases on time-lag, three-lobed, not not fun and others since their debut in 2005, and this 7" includes guitarist marc orleans (sunburned hand of the man) in orbit as well. the extended-playing 45 (six minutes on each side) finds ghq hitting that bliss-drift stride, with droned-out atmospheres of guitar layers soothing your headspace into a fully-conscious trance. occasional vocals just barely peak through the blanket, and there's definitely enough noise to remind you this ain't just about good vibes. black 7" vinyl record is held in a black art paper sleeve, with gold-ink offset printing on the back and a paste-on full-color cover. limited edition hand-numbered to 300; embossed for authenticity. Vollmar's "new best friend b/w flood punch & holy blessing" - justin vollmar's recordings often sound wonderfully and pleasantly small-scale; they begin with gentle strums like a feathered wing brushing a rusted-out six-string, soon joined by the fragile voice of a reluctant singer who's got only one person's ear in mind. occasionally calling to mind lo-fi songwriters like oldham and elverum, vollmar's songs are focused on the intimate and intricate, and recently his presentation has become fleshed out with full-band-type arrangements - modest drums, mini-synths and warm electric guitars in service to the songs. this 7" single presents alternate, more pared-down versions of three songs from his upcoming tell the dirt lp. black 7" record held in a tri-fold chipboard sleeve, in-house screenprinted on front and back, with full-color paste-on photo on front and a hand-written note on the third fold. limited edition, hand-numbered to 300, with embossed dust sleeves. Elephant Micah's "in midnight b/w ocean floor" - as consistently great a songwriter as we've had this decade, elephant micah's joe o'connell is always affecting and almost unbelievably right-on, with a subtle vocal delivery, modest home-tracked recording fidelity, and slight country-western touches. which is what makes this 7" release so intriguing - this is elephant micah interpreting two songs written by friends of his (time and temperature & microwave background), and they are his most recently-recorded works. as expected, elephant micah truly makes these songs his own through no subtle re-interpretation. synth tones, backwards noise guitar, and even a trumpet solo set these songs apart from both their original versions and elephant micah's past work, and yet joe's voice and vision comes through as accurate as always. befitting the "recycling" theme of the songs, this black 7" record comes packaged in discarded 12" LP sleeves, which have been cut down to 7" jacket size, and then in-house screenprinted over with the release info. limited edition, hand-numbered to 300." |
| 5/29/2008 | V/A | The Tryst Haunt Series 1: Autumn 2007 | 3 x 7" | $22.99 | L'animaux Tryst Field Recordings | "Three limited edition (300 copies) 7" records from Bad Bus/Tempera, Cursillistas, and Lightning strike Lightning, bundled together with 100% natural jute twine. Lo-fi vibrations in handmade packaging: Bad Bus/Tempera in a hand-ripped, machine-sewn patchwork fabric sleeve; Cursillistas in an offset print/hand-drawn India Ink art paper sleeve; LSL in an in-house screenprint-over-photograph heavy chipboard sleeve." "A marvellous trio of records from this Maine based label, which specialises in small runs of handcrafted releases of the most esoteric rural nature. [...] Thoroughly delicately lovely" - Byron Coley, The Wire, January 2008 |
| 5/29/2008 | V/A | The Tryst Haunt Series 2: Winter 2008 | 3 x 7" | $22.99 | L'animaux Tryst Field Recordings | "Three limited edition (300 copies) 7" records from Bird Microphone, White Light/Barry Burst, and The Red F/Sarah Ramey, bundled together with white 100% pure wool yarn. Icy child ballads from Bird Microphone in an in-house screenprinted and offset printed art paper sleeve; psych-pop and Bollywood-on-acid jams from White Light and Barry Burst in an in-house screenprinted, letterpressed, and die-cut chipboard sleeve (with letterpressed insert); beautiful outsider-folk melancholy from The Red F and Sarah Ramey in an offset printed and hand-painted art paper sleeve. |
| 12/10/2003 | V/A | The Vegetable Man Project | 10" | $9.99 | Oggetti Volanti Non Identificati | "After releasing The Vegetable Man Project CD, In December 2002, our tribute to Syd Barrett gets another materialization. In this 10" slab of vinyl there are 60 bands and single artists, from all over the world; all of them performing their own 10 seconds interpretation of Syd s song Vegetable Man. The outcome is a schizoid 10 minutes long Vegetable man suite composed by those sixty tracks set in a row, without solution of continuity, all together on the A side of the disc. Love is great! Isn t it?" Featured are (among the 60 artists) Kawabata Makoto, Crevice, Floorian, Lazily Spun, ST37, Hugh Hopper, and Mandog. |
| 3/5/2003 | V/A | The Vegetable Man Project | CD | $9.99 | Oggetti Volanti non Identificati | Really good compilation of 20 artists / bands versions of Syd Barretts Vegetable Man song which is a classic (for those who have never heard the song). There are lots of interpretations of this song found on the cd with some staying pretty true to the original version. The highlights, for me anyway, are from Tom Carter (Charalambides) - a killer version!, Kable, Linus Pauling Quartet, and Mandragora but there are not many weak attempts on this cd which also features Drona Parva, Nick Bensen, Effetto Doppler, and a bunch of other Italian artists. The packaging is nice, too. All covers are handmade (gatefold cardboard sleeve with printing on it) with lots of cool different types. Some have drawings, others have paste on artwork over the cardboard, etc. Overall, very nice! |
| 12/29/2004 | V/A | The Vegetable Man Project Vol. 3 | CD | $10.99 | Oggetti Volanti Non Identificati | "The Vegetable Man Project is a paranoiac/surrealist project started in 2002 by two musicians, Dario Antonetti and Max Dolcini.At that same time the record label Oggetti Volanti Non Identificati was set up to produce, support and promote the project. The Vegetable Man Project wants to be a homage to Syd Barrett, Pink Floyds founder, and to his music, but it especially wants to be a homage to Vegetable Man, a song written by Barrett shortly before his departure from the band in 1968. The song was never officially published and its sadly and ironically autobiographical. 'Ive been looking all over the place for a place for me, but it aint anywhere, it just aint anywhere' Vegetable Man, with a clear awareness of the own disarming incapacity to adapt oneself to the world, is in reality the proud and desperate scream of the solitary searcher lost in the sidereal spaces which divide people. The project is an attempt to put different musical realities and space-temporal worlds, very often isolated among themselves, in touch with each other, and the project is spasmodically looking for the experimentation and the creativity which characterized the artistic activity of Syd Barrett. TRACK LIST:berna park hotel (italy) hyperbubble (usa) alberto motta (italy) floorian (usa) electric orange (germany) larsen lombriki (italy) mondobliquo (italy) le monochrome (canada) in the labyrinth (sweden) new planet trampoline (usa) I/O (italy) swedish whistler (sweden) low philosophers (???) madcaps (italy) kokoro mayikibo (italy) storm of depression (italy) baba zula (turkey) jan van den dobbelsteen (the netherlands) znorty (italy) dario antonetti (italy)." |
| 6/2/2003 | V/A | The Young Machines Original Soundtrack Album | CD | $9.99 | Stick It To the Man Records | "Psychedelic theatre requires a psychedelic soundtrack, and the soundtrack to John O'Donoghue's latest mind-bender, The Young Machines, doesn't disappoint. >From the krautrock spy themes of the Pins, to the paranoia of Molloy and the existential dronescapes of Barlow/Petersen/Wivinus, this album offers a strange and sometimes un-nerving trip." The play was performed at Franklin Art Works, site of the recent Heliotrope music festival, also produced by Flaneur Productions. Psychedelic theatre requires a psychedelic soundtrack, and the soundtrack to John O'Donoghue's latest mind-bender, The Young Machines, doesn't disappoint. From the krautrock spy themes of the Pins, to the paranoia of Molloy and the existential dronescapes of Barlow/Petersen/Wivinus, this album offers a strange and sometimes un-nerving trip. The disc is a limited edition with hand silkscreened cover art, and is nearly sold out already. |
| 6/10/2004 | V/A | They Keep Me Smiling | CD + Book | $36.99 | UUnited Acoustic Recordings | A collection of underground music from New York City compiled by musician/visual artist HISHAM AKIRA BHAROOCHA of BLACK DICE. You get sixteen across-the-board tracks from BLACK DICE, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, WHITE MAGIC (members of QUIX*O*TIC), DELIA GONZALEZ & GAVIN RUSSOM, SAMARA LUBELSKI (HALL OF FAME, TOWER RECORDINGS), GANG GANG DANCE (ex-CRANIUM and ACTRESS), BLOOD ON THE WALL, ANGEL BLOOD (feat. DAVID NUSS of NO-NECK), TURRESTRIAL TONES (members of BLACK DICE and ANIMAL COLLECTIVE), HSDOM, COPTIC LIGHT, TES (Lex recording artist), and more. Packaged with a 24-page hardbound book featuring artwork by the musicians involved. Really beautiful package nicely done! |
| 6/5/2005 | V/A | Time and Relative Dimensions in Space: Long Form Works | CD | $10.99 | Rebis | In 2004, Rebis Recordings approached five acts with an invitation to produce long form works designed to alter the listeners perspective of time. Time and Relative Dimensions in Space is the result. Featuring exclusive pieces from Italys My Cat Is An Alien, Scotlands Taurpis Tula, Chicagos Number None, and Bay Area acts Jim Haynes and The Skaters, Time and Relative Dimensions in Space is a continuum-dilating collection of drone works that will expand your experience of space-time. Killer collection highly recommended! |
| 9/29/2005 | V/A | Tokyo Flashback 5 | CD | $15.99 | PSF | "Fresh from the darkest depths of the Tokyo psychedelic underground, another crop of ten of the cityfs wildest sounds. The fifth volume in the modern psychedelic worldfs most reliable compilation of out-of-nowhere urban mind liberation. As ever, Tokyo Flashback brings you some old faces alongside the hottest young gunslingers from the wrong side of the Tokyo tracks. Old favourites this time include White Heaven with a vintage track of live acid cool isolationism, Kyoaku no Intention burning down the barn with themselves inside, and Overhang Party ruminating on contemporary world affairs. Most surprising showing is the first track to be released of Keiji Hainofs experimental DJ-ing sessions - full-on and unmistakeable Haino, with little fader action and no scratches. New names to juggle with are the dense and crushing tortured muzz of Aural Fit, hallucinatory analogue noise from the mysterious Kabemimi, dark and melancholic gloom from Suisho no Fune, and the beautiful and fractured late-night textures of Hisato Higuchi. 200% head-spinning action." |
| 5/20/2009 | V/A | Tokyo Flashback 6 | CD | $15.99 | PSF | "The long awaited return of PSF's legendary, scene-defining compilation. For two years since the release of Tokyo Flashback 5 in 1995, we have been scouring the deepest dives in the darkest alleyways of the Tokyo underground in search of the newest mutated manifestations of the lysergic paradigm. The quest has not been an easy one, but now after dozens of gigs and hundreds of hours listening to demo CDRs, we have finally reached its conclusion. Tokyo Flashback 6 presents the fruits of that search, a treasure trove of the unheard. Twelve new groups poised on the cusp of greatness, driven by a fervent belief in the transformational potential of sound and the dimension-altering power of cranked amps, delay pedals and a third-eye opened to the cosmos. The groups included span a wide definition of the psychedelic, from the no-wave intensity of Onna (led by underground manga artist, Keizo Miyanishi), to the acid-punk splatter of Ainotamenishis, the art-school insanity of Kinky Pigeon, and the loner canyon-magic of Genshi. - Alan Cummings. Featured groups: Ahobune, Hananoyoni, Onna, Yamashirube, Sarod, Retort Mandala, Ainotamenishis, Kinky Pigeon, Yakochu, Ogikubo Connection, Masami Kawaguchi, Genshi. |
| 5/14/2007 | V/A | Trees in the Attic | CDR | $13.99 | Akoustic Desease | "a compilation dedicated to the visionary art&philosophy of HUNDERTWASSER..it's called TREES IN THE ATTICS and you can find in the fabulous sounds of Seht, (Etre), Valerio Cosi, Fabio Orsi, A Man&A Guitar, Stonebaby, VxPxC, Donato Epiro, The Mighty Acts Of God, Clan, Cold Solemn Rytes In The Sun, K-ConJog, Die Stadt Der Romantiche Punk, ThrouRoof, Mark Hamn, Alligator Crystal Moth.." |
| 9/27/2002 | V/A | Tryptaphonic Mind Explosion | CD | $12.99 | Mandragora Records | "Our first compilation CD showcases the most powerful and advanced musickal shamans from around the planet. Way beyond acid rock or the avant-garde, these bands employ every tool and instrument to smash thru the gates of reality, conjuring feedback demons, weaving sonic spells, and invoking the primal chao Divine. The perfect soundtrack to your next black mass, datura trip or freakout party. Destined to be a classic and essential collection of extreme entheogenic exotica." Excellent compilation features Acid Mothers Temple, Reynols, Circle, Primordial Undermind, Escapade, Paradise Camp 23, Interferents, Robot vs Rabbit, Pine Tree State Mind Control, Delayed Sleep, At The Eat, and MANDOG. |
| V/A | Turn Century Turn | CD | $12.99 | Mother West | Psychedelic/spacerock compilation featuring F/i, Volcano The Bear, Iron Bong, Tangle Edge, Holy River Family Band, Chameleon, Ektroverde, Alien Planetscapes, Zen, Chateau De Fleuirs, Escapade, Tibra Comal, & Beyondomatic | |
| 6/17/2004 | V/A | Undecided | CD | $15.99 | PSF | Artists included: Keiji Haino (hurdy-gurdy, etc.), Kazuo Imai (guitar), Junichiro Okuchi (piano), Michihiro Sato (tsugaru-jamisen), Yoshihide Otomo (turntable), Masayoshi Urabe (alto sax). "Free music or improvised music is the most direct expression of music's primal aspects (questions like why do we sing?), and its experimental aspects (what do we mean by musical expression?). This is why the best free music leaves such an intense impression in peoples' hearts." - Yuji Itsumi. "Compilation containing six lengthy solo tracks by some of the most fascinating improvising musicians currently active in Japan. The CD documents a series of lecture-concerts, exploring the meanings, methods and implications of free music, which took place between September 2003 and February 2004 at Mesar Haus in Tokyo. Approaches vary between the endlessly fascinating, grey kaleidoscopic fields of Haino's hurdy-gurdy, the art-brut physical terrorism of Masayoshi Urabe, the traditional improvisatory, plucking style of Sato's tsugaru-jamisen, and the anti-fundamentalist feedback dialectics of Otomo's turntable work. All bore channels through time-space continua and consensus reality like no one's business." - Alan Cummings |
| 12/25/2005 | V/A | Underground Series Vol. 1 | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "First Volume in the long awaited HANSON UNDERGROUND SERIES. 6 artists on a C-30. Only the most gutterball in experimental & noise music.. Except for maybe Wiese....This volume contains tracks from SYNDROMES, THE NEVARI BUTCHERS, RAIONBASHI, LEE ROCKEY, JOHN WIESE, & TWIG PARKER." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 2/26/2006 | V/A | Underground Series Vol. 2 | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "Second Volume in the HANSON UNDERGROUND SERIES. 6 artists on a C-30. Only the most gutterball in experimental & noise music.. This volume contains tracks from SICK LLAMA, SMEGMA, FAILING LIGHTS, OUBLIETTE, TUSCO TERROR, & HIVE MIND." |
| 2/23/2004 | V/A | Untitled Double Compilation | DBL CD | $13.99 | Humbug | "(a.k.a., benytt denne glimrende anledning til å ta en titt inn i musikkens virkelige skattekamre gjennom den dør som humbug holder åpen for deg). The very best of Norwegian music! Galåen, Anders Gjerde, Ivar Grydeland/Øyvind Torvund, Continental Fruit, Düplo, Dag-Are Haugan, HOH, Dr. Poliakov Egseth's Kvartett, This Is Music Inc., Fredrik Ness Sevendal, MBD, ARM (w/ John Hegre), Waffelpung, Duo Kanel, DJ Bra Nesegir, Vehiculos De Ocasion, Vår Venn Gitaren, Bogus Blimp, Fusel Music, The Nordic Miracle, UM & the Detonators From Hell, Marakel, Reidarwebster, Lasse Marhaug, Andreas Meland, Cosmic Jinx, Dadaistisk Danseensemble, Pål Asle Pettersen, t++, o.melby, KA, Fibo-Trespo, Sindre Andersen, Two Shot Sons, Origami Arktika." |
| 8/17/2009 | V/A | Utmarken Compilation | 10" | $14.99 | Release The Bats | "Gothenburg 2009. There's something in the air and something is stirring in the eclectic underground. Brewing magic, movements in every corner and truly exciting times. This is a small document of the first year of Utmarken with four acts contributing one track each. Street Drinkers, the soloproject of Viktor from Ättestupa, uses layers of synths and vocals to create minimal and dreamy music reminiscent of Wet Hair and Peaking Lights, but with a unique Swedish touch. After the feedback-mayhem on the Gothenburg Blood Cult Tape, Källarbarnen is now back with a more subtle and somewhat mellow track, here using synths, drums, bass and vocals. All lights are out and everything is falling apart. White is Dan from Ättestupa/Sewer Election, and the project should be known from the tapes on Harsh Head Rituals and Segerhuva. Hitting it hard with distorted synthbuzz and vocals, it ends up like the bastard child of Suicide via filth, crime and abuse. Ättestupa ends everything with the best song they have done, a haunting and intense piece called Änglamakerskan. Freezing winds evokes the mean spirit of an long forgotten era. Total Swedish coldness and there is no way back. The 10" comes with liner notes by Matthias Andersson as well as a photo collage from Utmarken. All tracks were recorded at Utmarken between fall 2008 and spring 2009. Mastered by Pete Swanson. Front photography by Andy Liffner, mugshots on the back by David Eng." Edition of 525 copies. |
| 1/13/2004 | V/A | Video Games of the Twelfth Century | CD | $8.99 | Nauscopy Records | "Diverse to the point of absurdity. The jumps it makes are wide. A real curiosity shop. Multi-multi-multi-emotional. Includes such wondrous beasts as FAXED HEAD, SOCKEYE, TRUMANS WATER, DAVID PHILLIPS, MSBR, EEYORE POWER TOOL, BROWN CUTS NEIGHBORS, ATTA, DRAMATICS, and many many more. 40-some-odd tracks (accuracy is difficult with this disc - you'll have to see what I mean)." Hand-made covers. |
| 4/24/2006 | V/A | Video Madness | DVD-R | $17.99 | AA Records | "It's finally here, the VIDEO MADNESS DVD, for the VCR challenged. After much debate whether VIDEO MADNESS should come out in this digital format we have taken pity upon those stupid enough to get rid of their VCRs. As a result we have the VIDEO MADNESS DVD. Features: VIDEO MADNESS I, VIDEO MADNESS II, The Moonlanding The Video, Lochness Visualizer, AA Records Commercial." |
| 7/30/2006 | V/A | Wailing Bones Volume 6 | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "This is the sixth installment of an ongoing series of cd-r releases, split between four artists, each contributing longform tracks. volume 6 features exclusive squallor from emerald cloud cobra, keijo, ville moskiitto, & bjerga / iversen. 150 copies." - label |
| 7/30/2006 | V/A | Wailing Bones Volume 7 | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "This is the seventh installment of an ongoing series of cd-r releases, split between four artists, each contributing longform tracks. volume 7 features exclusive missives from robert horton, niagara falls, gart & seekatze, & seán óg's trihornophone." - label |
| 4/16/2007 | V/A | Wandering Archive One | book | $17.99 | S@1 | "Beautiful soft-bound fiction journal published in 1998. 100+ pages of writing, art, and color photos by the community surrounding NNCK and its Hinthouse environs, including members of the band as well as Graham Lambkin, John Godbert, Daniel Carter. Preface by Bryon Coley, and full color cover art by Rob Thomas of Sunburned Hand. Previously thought sold out, a few copies were recently unearthed." -- S@1 "Somehow these Wandering Archive folks have managed to condense what reads like one big cut-up between The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs, The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard, some of the more wacked-out Faulkner (Absalom, Absalom or Oxford Pigeon), poetry from the back covers of random free jazz albums, and the manifestos and memoirs of convicted serial killers." -Tony Rettman, Blastitude |
| V/A | We Are Hello | CD | $12.99 | Machine Machine Records | Norway comp with: Arm, Lasse Marhaug, Del, Urd Barbarian, Origami Replika, Slowburn, and 9 more. | |
| 9/29/2005 | V/A | We Would Be Happy (A Noise Opera) | CD | $12.99 | Nihilist | "This is the long overdue collaborative narrative commenting on such classic human emotions such as love & pain. This opera is composed & executed by such noted performers as COSTES, KK NULL, SMELL & QUIM, LASSE MARHAUG, RICHARD RAMIREZ & COCK E.S.P. This soon to be 'classic' really must be experienced to be believed. You'll never be the same." |
| 12/13/2008 | V/A | West Coast Fog: Rare Bay Area Psychedelia 1965-1970 | CDR | $13.99 | All Seeing Eye | Rare live / demos by Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Country Joe & The Fish, The Final Solution, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother & The Holding Co., Canned Heat, Kaleidascope |
| 7/30/2002 | V/A | West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Covers EP - Outta' Town Outer Space | 10" | $8.99 | Earworm | "Great 10" six track collection of WCPAEB cover versions. Tracks are Will You Walk With Me In The Morning (Lucky Luke), Smell Of Incense (The Smoke Rings), I Won't Hurt You (The Transparent Fan), Until The Poorest Of People (Orange Alabaster Mushroom), Tracy Had A Hard Day Sunday (The Clientele) and High Coin (Southall Riot). A long overdue tribute to one of the great bands of the sixties. Great cover art too!" Yes - this is nicely done and features cool artwork by Steve Krakow (aka Plastic Crimewave)! |
| 9/16/2007 | V/A | West Coast Post Asiatic | LP | $12.99 | Urck Records | "The term Post Asiatic may come across as another ridiculous entry in the dictionary of contemporary sub-genre music but the name is the most appropriate encapsulation for what has easily become the most interesting musical movement in nearly twenty years. Due to space limitations the West Coast Post Asiatic compilation fails to include the majority of artists on the Western Coast of the US who focus on or dabble in Asian/Eastern influenced avant-garde art. However; it offers a glimpse into the fierce beauty and embracing expressionism these artists are conveying. The compilation includes work from Amps for Christ, Soriah, hop-frog's drum jester devotional, Auto Da Fe, Sikhara & Refrigerator Mothers with sound that travels from electric sitars & winding guitars to tribal animalistic percussion, cyclic dron-e chanting, gamelan-esque free-spasm metal percussion to dreamy Chinese dulcimers and moon guitars. The marble vinyl is limited to 505 copies and varies in color." (FROM THE LINER NOTES) "Post-Asiatic" is a term I invented around 2002, while I was running an experimental music series at a Chinese restaurant and tiki room called The Jasmine Tree in Portland. It was a way of succinctly describing to the press a movement of musicians and other performers who arrived at their commingled bodies of work by interpolating the traditions of various Asian and Middle Eastern peoples through a distinctly Western deconstructionist methodology. By and large, these troupes and individuals resided on the West Coast, and as the years passed and the Work continued this sub-sub-genre grew both in number and in the ambition and mastery of its component artists. Last year, I received the first submission from a band identifying itself as "post-asiatic" whom I did not personally know. It's strange the way words work. The word connotes the inherent contradiction of the music it describes. Despite the respect and reverence we feel toward the cultures which inspire us, the post-asiatic ouvre has a certain minstrel-show element that's difficult to ignore. From a lifelong gestalt of images transmitted through movies, books, and live performances; a pan-asian aesthetic emerges that is true to no existing tradition. Through costume, movement, and sound we reflect a deeply-flawed history of appropriation on the part of the entitled and ill-informed Occident. We paint ourselves with white make-up instead of blackface. On the upside, the post-asiatic influence has in most cases been positive on the forms we emulate, and even saved some arts from extinction. Odissi, arguably the world's oldest form of dance, has all but died out in India but survives in the United States among mostly "white" practitioners; Hijikata and Ohno's creation of butoh was in the simplest terms a meeting of German postmodern dance with the most ancient Japanese peasant spiritualism; and the entire history of bellydance begins with suspiciously post-asiatic roots in the Victorian burlesque period. So please don't take offense at the fumbling of our clumsy fingers at the fragile crystalline perfections of the Orient. From love our desire springs, and like a callous lover we mar the object of desire in our quest to understand it. 5000." - Noah Mickens, Halloween 2006 |
| 12/1/2004 | V/A | What's Your Function?: A Tribute to Franco Battiato | CD | $16.99 | Sillyboy | "Sillyboy, the label owned by Italian band Jennifer Gentle (now on Sub Pop Records), is proud to announce the release a tribute to the legendary Italian avant-composer Franco Battiato. Loved by artists like Julian Cope, Jim O'Rourke and Steven Stapleton (NWW), Battiato is now a famous and successful popstar, but in the early Seventies, alongside with Area and PFM, he was one of the prime movers of the burgeoning Italian prog-rock scene. What made Battiato completely different from other progressive acts of the era was his strong sense of humour and quirky approach to music, while his lyrics were an idiosyncratic mix of Gurdjeff teachings and Flash Gordon sci-fi imagery. Pretentious, naive, but always compelling, Battiato's early works are a milestone in the otherwise slim canon of Italian rock - an unholy, fucked-up mix of krautrock, electronics and Stockhausen-influenced sonic collages never to be equalled. In order to salute this strange looking, out-there pioneer, we called friends from all around the globe - we asked to cover his songs and the result is a sampler of fine fine artists approaching the oblique, bizarre art of Franco." Featured artists are: Volcano the Bear, Kinski, Hrvatski, Zu vs. Okapi, Jennifer Gentle, Land of Nod, Cul de Sac, Los Natas, Circle, Oneida, Acid Mother's Temple + Ruins. Limited stock. |
| 2/23/2004 | V/A | White Music | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "30 minute compilation featuring Julian Bradley & Neil Campbell, Golden Calves, Smack Music 7, Damian Bisciglia & Dylan Nyoukis." |
| 11/2/2002 | V/A | White Trash Motherfuckers | CD | $8.99 | Shock | "Featuring the psychotic sounds of Ascension, Beautiful Penis, Cosmonauts Hail Satan, Derv, The MikePostMortem and Splintered." Out of print compilation from 1993. |
| 7/29/2004 | V/A | Wild Angels Vol. 2 | LP | $17.99 | More nasty but tasty fuzz guitar tracks from Davie Allan & The Arrows and friends, on this 2nd collection of themes from 1960s biker flicks, first released in 1967 on the Tower label. Euro import. | |
| 2/11/2006 | V/A | Witching Hour - Field Recordings of night-time | CDR | $12.99 | Claudia | Limited edition cdr (200 copies) featuring Lau Nau, Richard Francis, Phil Dadson, Tim Coster, Paintings of Windows (Antony Milton), P. Westbourne, Un Ciego, and Felicity Ford. |
| 11/15/2008 | V/A | Wooden Guitar | CD | $12.99 | Locust | 'Fall 2008 marks the 5th anniversary of locust's inaugural Wooden Guitar compilation touted then, as today, as a simple title with a simple concept. Back in print on CD.' 'Wooden Guitar is an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern deltadelica & a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore (remember that great Kottke, Lang, Fahey collection?) where guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists -- Germany's Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattle's Sir Richard Bishop (the Sun City Girls), Japan's Tetuzi Akiyama & Virginia's Jack Rose give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with gloriously stretched out solo compositions." - label. "A compilation has the potential to become legendary. When presenting a set of related artists, a compilation has the power to inspire and create legions of followers, birthing entire scenes...Locust Music's Wooden Guitar doesn't feature many different artists-four performers over five tracks in seventy minutes-but shows plenty of diversity within the limits of the instrumentation. And in sticking to the purity of the acoustic instrument-refusing to use electronics, effects or overdubs-Wooden Guitar presents these artists' visions in a way that may become, well, legendary Wooden Guitar is one of the finest examples of the avant-garde embracing folk elements. Relentlessly pursuing new approaches to this most conservative of instruments, these artists don't lose sight of tradition. Instead of pure aural exploration, we are given five compositions that exhibit a good degree of soul." Tom Eigen, Fake Jazz |
| 11/4/2006 | V/A | Wooden Octopus Skull | Magazine & CD | $15.99 | PsychForm Records | "Wooden Octopus Skull 2006 pFestival Program Guide with V/A CD - originally these program guides were given to the ticket purchasers for the pFest in Sep. 10"x10" pro printed magazine, 32 pages, full color cover with art by Santos. Magazine contains info/bios/interviews/photos of the 2006 Wooden Octopus Skull artists line up including: Japanese New Music Festival (Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Ruins Alone, Zubi Zuva X, Zoffy, Akaten, Scikazoku, Shrinp Wark), Midmight (of Hans Grusels Krankinkabinet), MV Carbon (of Metallux), Dialing In, Tovah Olson (of Dead Machines, Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice), Laticia Casteneda, Replicock (Jackie of Smegma teamed up with Angie Sharkieface), 16 Bith Pile-Up, Amber Asylum, irr.app.(ext.), Ear Venom, Soriah, Waldteufel (members of Crash Worship). Magazine also contains the most up to date and complete discographies of the Noise night artists + a pro pressed CD with exclusive tracks by these artists as well: Wolf Eyes (2 pages worth of discog!!!), Dead Machines, Double Leopards, Yellow Swans, Hive Mind, Cherry Point. Magazine press run of 2000....but only 1000 came with the CD." |
| 8/31/2008 | V/A | X-Pluralus | LP + 7" | $17.99 | Mystra Records | "We now have some remaining copies of a limited compilation LP of western Mass music available. It was made to be released in concurrence with a week long series of music events in the area. This comp attempted to chronicle 10+ years of musics by solo artists, bands, & ex-bands from west mass like: Noise Nomads, Squidlaunch, Chris Corsano, Laudable Pus, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Shurt Kwitters/Bromp Treb/Chris Cooper(all from Fat Worm Of Error), Head of Wantasquit (Paul from Sunburned), Bill Nace, Red Favorite, Viking Funeral, Avocet & Kurt Weisman(from Feathers), Aaron Rosenbloom, Matt Krefting, Lil Dusty (Pete from Magik Markers), Gastric Lavage, Jow Jow, Mirror/Dash (kim & thurston), Whyte Kastles, & Slander Puff (Dredd Foole meets John shaw & Tarp). All music has previously unreleased on vinyl and most has never been released before in any format(!) All copies come w/ 'bonus' 7", hand assembled "3-D art(?)" covers, liner notes by Byron Coley, & local area flyers(!)" |
| 3/5/2003 | V/A | You Can Never Go Fast Enough | CD | $14.99 | Plain Recordings | "The tribute album to Monte Hellman's cult favorite Two-Lane Blacktop. Featuring new exclusive tracks by Wilco, Sonic Youth, Will Oldham/Alan Licht, Calexico, Giant Sand plus Suntanama, Charalambides, Mark Eitzel/Marc Capelle, Roy Montgomery, Alvarius B. and Steffen Basho-Junghans. Also includes rare tracks by Cat Power, Roscoe Holcomb, Leadbelly and Sandy Bull." |
| 2/16/2005 | V/A | You Will Love Your Music Mind | CDR | $12.99 | musicyourmindwillloveyou | "Our first release from the musicyourmindwillloveyou sightsoundcollective, a compilation of artists and genres. Free / folk / psyche / noise / experimental madness. A good introduction to the world of the musicyourmindwillloveyou community, featuring tracks by Ffehro, Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood, Snowfox (ex-Holyblood), Godzero (featuring Cotton Casino and Billawtm), Nada and more." |
| V/A | Yr Agog | CD | $15.99 | Oggum | Excellent compilation featuring Magic Carpathians, Flying Saucer Attack, Nimbus 2000, Hydroplane, Electroscope, Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band, Longstone, Ole Lukkoye, Ectogram, Stylus, Vom, & Valvola. The profits from this cd help the homeless in Wales. | |
| 4/19/2004 | V/A | Zabriskie Point | LP | $13.99 | 4 Men With Beards | "Originally released in 1970, the soundtrack from Antonioni's weird and wild classic features the debut solo recordings by Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia (only available on this soundtrack) as well as a number of songs recorded especially for the movie by Pink Floyd. Also includes 1960's nuggets from the Grateful Dead, John Fahey, The Jessie Cohn Young & The Youngbloods, Roscoe Holcomb, and David Lindley's Kaleidoscope. Deluxe gatefold sleeve includes rare photo stills from the movie and new liner notes about the music and film by maverick journalist Steve Dollar." Original cover art. 180 gram HQ vinyl. |
| 4/24/2006 | V/A | Zum Audio Volume 3 | CDR | $9.99 | Zum Media | 23 tracks featuring Axolotl, Yellow Swans, Can't, John Wiese, Beak Full of Rubies, Deerhoof, plus lots more. Mastering by Weasel Walter, cover artwork collaboration by George Chen and Lart Cognac Berliner in a gatefold sleeve from Pinball Press in Portland. |
| 12/24/2005 | Veliotis, Nikos / Nicolas Malevitsis | Murder Melody | CDR | $12.99 | Absurd | "Nicolas Malevitsis is probably best known for his Absurd label, releasing CDs and CDRs of all kinds of experimental music, but he has dabbled around himself with experimental music too. Here he releases a recording of himself on turntable and Nikos Veliotis on cello. Veliotis released an excellent solo CD of his drone related cello playing on Confront (see Vital Weekly 405). On this almost eightteen minute recording, Veliotis takes the leading part with some soft and subtle playing of his cello - and maybe a bit of delay on the microphone. Long sustaining sounds occur over which Malevitsis improvises with obscure scratches of vinyl, rather than making long spins. In the second half of the piece both sounds seem to collide together and play unisono. Nice work, but a bit short." - (FdW). Edition of 111 copies. |
| 10/25/2008 | Vivian Girls | Vivian Girls | LP | $10.99 | In The Red | "With their debut 7-inch on their very own Plays With Dolls Records already sending out waves of panic and adoration to the outer limits of the underground pop contingent, The Vivian Girls have become the newest breakout sirens of the New York loft-pop brigade. Within seconds of hearing their seductive three-part vocal harmonies lushly interwoven with chest-pounding waves of beautiful feedback. The Vivian Girls' self-titled debut album appeared recently on Mauled By Tigers Records in a vinyl-only edition of 500 which sold out before the band had completed their recent three-week US tour. In The Red now proudly presents the re-release of this essential pop platter in both vinyl and compact disc formats. Swirling noise topped with sweetly angelic vocals is practically a can't-miss concoction, so expect your fruity neighbors and your attention-starved friends to chime in with unabashed praise when you spin this record." |