| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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." |
| 8/28/2007 | V/A | A Thousand Colors Blaze | 6 x cassette Box | $39.99 | Gods of Tundra | "6 tape, 6 hour box set. GOT is stoked to announce my first ever box set..and fuck, its a scorcher. 6 c-60s, all split tapes (except for 1 full 60 minute Hair Police "live frying" tape) featuring the GOT stable of jammers: Prurient, Burning Star Core, Faling Lights, Hair Police, Hatred, Birth Refusal, Walter Carson, Spine Scavenger, Three Legged Race, Sick Llama, Gate to Gate. Mostly brand new full 30 minute sides from each, while the Spine Scavenger/Three Legged Race tape consist of reissues of their very hard to find GOT cassettes ("Eremetic" and "Cloud Gore", respectively). Housed in a vinyl box with full color artwork. Edition of 100." |
| 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)." |
| 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 | |
| 7/16/2006 | V/A | Arbor | CDR | $8.99 | Arbor | "this has been in the works for just about ten months now. it is finally ready for you and yours to listen to and enjoy. a wide range of music from some of the raddest bands around. this thing has carpal tunell inducing construction featuring a 24 page handsewn book littered with glu-stiked art from the contributing artists. filled to the brim with something like 1 hour 19 minutes at 33 seconds of music. limited to 200 copies on sticky sprayed cd-rs. (the compilation booklets have been pro-printed and now feature subtle spraypainting as opposed to the mess that they used to be.)" Features 17 tracks - some artists included are Raccoo-oo-oon, Waves, Gastric Female Reflex, Goslings, Joe + N, Futurians, and Robedoor among others. |
| 9/29/2004 | V/A | Bats’I 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 Alderson’s years spent documenting the raw, rarely-heard songs and ritual performances of an acoustic ecology that’s 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." |
| V/A | Bedroom Ambience: A Collection of Home Recordings | LP | $15.99 | Enraptured | 1997 recordings from Roy Montgomery, Mogwai, Hood, Azusa Plane, Electroscope, Monaural, The Freed Unit, UHR, and Pipedream. Out of print. | |
| 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.)" |
| 3/31/2008 | V/A | Bollywood Steel Guitar | CD | $16.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Bollywood Steel Guitar is the most comprehensive collection to date of steel guitar pop instrumental music from India. All 21 tracks featured here were film hits from 1962-1986 and all the masters of the steel guitar sound from the period are represented: Van Shipley, Kazi Aniruddha, S. Hazarasingh, Sunil Ganguly, and Charanjit Singh. An entirely different approach that rocks, swings, and grooves through some of India’s most beloved film tunes, the electric steel guitar as lead instrument transforms the already infectious melodies into a multitude of higher sound dimensions. This CD was compiled and carefully selected from rare LPs over several years by Stuart Ellis." - FE |
| V/A | Bomolokoi | 7" | $5.99 | High Tension House | "Compilation of outsider Christchurch music, covering electro-acoustic, jazz, electronic, poemtry, free jizz, skronk, spastic and ambient musics. Those who lurk around altars picking up scraps of food are CM Group, Lynton Denovan (Satan's Pitbull), Hiatus, Nick Hodgson, Charles Horn, the Lost Found Sound, Luxor Dance Ensemble, Richard Neave, Hamish Noonan, Oistraka, Danielle O'Halloran, Ben Parsons, Periscope, Space Luxor, Peter Wright and the air." | |
| 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 | |
| 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 hear—Cambodian 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' B—sometimes 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 | Camp Bliss: A Davenport Family Compilation | Cassette | $5.99 | Polyamory | Recent Polyamory release featuring Davenport on side A and Jesus Balls on side B. Killer! |
| 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 | Sunlime 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 Pål 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/Øyvind 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 |
| 7/23/2004 | V/A | Dawn of the Dead - Unreleased Incidental Music | LP | $18.99 | Trunk | "An absolute classic release from Trunk records, the unreleased incidental music from Dawn of the Dead including unique original and unseen artwork. Romero's cult classic Dawn Of The Dead is possibly the greatest Zombie movie of all time. Often copied but never bettered this thrilling gorefest has over the years gained literally thousands of fans throughout the world. There are dedicated webrings, websites, fan clubs and magazines just for the film, it really is one of the great cult movies of the 70s. The music from the film was played by Goblin (the progressive Italian rockers), and their soundtrack was issued at the time and has never been out of print since its original release. However the Goblin score is only a small fraction of the soundtrack. What eager fans have always wanted are the incidental cues. The weirdo electronics. The dramatic underscores. The bonkers ragtime jazz. The truly strange big band numbers. Seriously, fans of this film have been waiting years for this one very special release." |
| 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 Brett’s Sage, Demon Fuzz. Mike Cooper, and more." |
| 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." |
| 12/10/2003 | V/A | Doob Doob O' Rama 2: More Filmsongs From Bollywood | CD | $15.99 | QDK | "A super slab of of Bollywood kitsch. Not remixes, but the actual soundtrack cuts from the films that made India famous. Get the Indian film spin on Japanese music with Lata Mangeshkar's 'Sayonara' from the movie Love In Tokyo. Big band country boogie woogie Bombay-style with Getta Dutt's 'Mera Naam Chin Chin Chiu' from the movie Howrah Bridge to western swing the eastern way with Kishore Kimar's 'Ina Mina Dika' from Aasha. Asha Bhosle's and Mohamed Rafi's 'Gulabi Raat Gulabi' mixes Cab Calloway's 'Minnie The Moocher' with Indian-style spy movie guitar and smoldering call and response duet vocals." |
| 11/6/2003 | V/A | Doob Doob O' Rama 2: More Filmsongs From Bollywood | LP | $17.99 | QDK | "A super slab of of Bollywood kitsch. Not remixes, but the actual soundtrack cuts from the films that made India famous. Get the Indian film spin on Japanese music with Lata Mangeshkar's 'Sayonara' from the movie Love In Tokyo. Big band country boogie woogie Bombay-style with Getta Dutt's 'Mera Naam Chin Chin Chiu' from the movie Howrah Bridge to western swing the eastern way with Kishore Kimar's 'Ina Mina Dika' from Aasha. Asha Bhosle's and Mohamed Rafi's 'Gulabi Raat Gulabi' mixes Cab Calloway's 'Minnie The Moocher' with Indian-style spy movie guitar and smoldering call and response duet vocals." |
| 12/10/2003 | V/A | Doob Doob O'Rama: 70´s Filmsongs from Bollywood, India | CD | $15.99 | QDK | "Bombay Bombshells doing great moviesongs from Bollywood, India. As you might know, India is the biggest producing film industry. There is an awful lot of music in all these films. They use every style you can imagine. Fast rhythms, exotic instruments, howling organs, cheap synthesizers and amazing vocals. This is pure High Speed Music." |
| 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. You’ve never heard anything quite like it before. The instruments used in other selections include kheng (bamboo mouth organ), jew’s 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 I’m 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." |
| 12/1/2004 | 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. |
| 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!" |
| 11/8/2003 | V/A | Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol.1 | CD | $13.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "The equator runs through only ten countries on earth and I bet that you cannot name them all without consulting a map. Indonesia is one of them and the only nation in Asia with the equatorial stripe impaling it. There are so many different cultures spread-out on these islands, that it would take several lifetimes to experience them all properly. Within this umbrella of diversity is one of the world's richest and most dazzling sound museums. Sumatra is the northwestern entry point to the great archipelago. It is a large island approximately the size of California. There are jungles, mountains, swamps, various forms of myths and folklore, hustlers, Padang Food, Tigers, the Durian, dozens of cultures and languages, and more music than you've ever been allowed to hear. The selections on this CD are a combination of droning beat pop, pseudo-gypsy songs, jungle folk trance, and other improbable traditional and hybrid styles heard by only a handful of outsiders. These recordings are from old cassette tapes received as gifts, in trade, or purchased from sources in Sumatra in 1989. Some of the tapes are unmarked with the artists unknown, yet all of them are decaying documents of various sound quality containing some of the most eccentric artifacts ever uncovered from this fascinating island." |
| 3/2/2004 | V/A | Folk Music of the Sahara - Among the Tuareg of Libya | DVD | $21.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Folk music of the Sahara is an intoxicating experience of sight and sound captured among the Tuareg and Libyan people of North Central Africa. Filmed from the perspective of actually being one of the performers, this mind-blowing in your face document captures the spirit of Libyan folklore and the essence of emotion armed with pounding rhythms and wailing vocal choruses. Both men and women are featured here equally as overseers of the hybrid forms of expression where central African traditions collide with the tones and colors of the Arab world creating one of the most unique overviews of Saharan folk music ensemble and dance the outside world has ever witnessed. The diversity of faces is extraordinary, every costume is stunning, and the women are among the most beautiful on earth. If you ever wondered where some of western music's more exotic ideas originated from, this is a great place to start." (8-page color insert with additional photos and text). Color/ 60 minutes; NTSC All Regions; Aspect Ratio 4:3. |
| 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." |
| 8/28/2007 | V/A | Frannce | 3 x CDR | $31.99 | Ruralfaune | "Frannce is a collaboration between Ruralfaune and the french newborn label Labelledamesansmerci. It's a 3cdr set about France, and what evokes that word in the mind of the artist. The compilation is limited to 300 copies, all handmade : baroque orange and red front cover, A4sized insert with tracklisting and art by David, a french artist, and a piece of blotting paper impregnated by red wine! All tracks are totally unreleased and exclusive to the compilation!! Features 45 tracks including cuts by Tom Carter, Fursaxa, Silvester Anfang, Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood, The North Sea, Ben Reynolds, Uton, Black Forest Black Sea, Quetzolcoatl, Volcano the Bear, Mike Tamburo, 6Majik9, Alligator Crystal Moth, Ajilvsga, Seht, Valerio Cosi, Heavy Winged, Birds of Delay, The Futurians, Ashtray Navigations, Taiga Remains plus a lot more. Recommended! |
| 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 1950’s. 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.” |
| 7/30/2006 | V/A | Graag Traag | cassette | $9.99 | Sloow Tapes | "Yellow birthday release with contributions by a couple Belgian bands. Featuring psych casio drones by Orphan Fairytale, Gart & Seekatze's rooster minimalism, cool guitar cactuses by Ignatz, Silvester Anfang's evil improv, happy toy rhythms by Buffle, Shattered Minds' radioactive guitarnoise, vocal acid weirdness by Hardline Elephants and Benjamin Franklin's genius. Edition of 80 copies with very sloow drawings by Eva Van Deuren." - label. Out of print. |
| 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. |
| 12/24/2005 | V/A | Guitars of the Golden Triangle: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 2 | CD | $15.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Follow-up to 2004's well-received Princess Nicotine: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 1. Shan State is Myanmar's largest province and larger than the entire state of New York - a massive sub-tropic tableland with an average elevation of 3,000 feet, perfect for the cultivation of poppies for which it is well known as the center of the "Golden Triangle." Never before presented outside a tiny minority of the Burmese community, this unbelievable collection of garage and psychedelic rock, raw folk-blues ballads, and country-western styled music is a product of Shan and Pa'o musicians hailing from the early 1970s. Discover the music of Lashio Thein Aung (aka the "Burmese Texan"), Khun Paw Yunn (a "Black Shan" Pa'o rocker) and Saing Saing Maw: the original Shan legend who wrote and sang garage psych-rock songs, usually backed by a tight unit of organ, bass, drums, and perhaps the most stinging electric guitar in Burmese history. There is little reliable information about these mysterious pioneers and most Burmese have never even heard this material. Compiled by Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls), the cuts on this CD are almost impossible to find in ANY form or quality. They were transferred directly from old cassette tapes and a few tracks have dropouts (some of them quite severe). Most of the master tapes are thought to have been lost or destroyed many years ago so this may be the only link to a phenomenal "lost scene" and Sublime Frequencies is thrilled to resurrect it for those interested in folk, rock and pop styles from lesser-known regions of the globe." |
| 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 musicŠ'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. |
| 2/16/2005 | V/A | Harmika Yab-Yum: Folk Sounds From Nepal | CD | $14.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Harmika Yab Yum is a divine blend of Radio excerpts and field recordings from Nepal compiled by Robert Millis. This exciting mosaic snares among other oddities, a 'King Cobra' snake charmer, the sounds of slaughtering buffaloes and guns firing amidst a Durga Puja festival, dreamy folk music, Sarangi and Harmonium players seeping in from unknown radio signals, pounding drums, praying monks, child choruses, street sermons, loudspeaker promotionals, and quiet footsteps at the top of the world. Millis has produced many curious audio works as a member of the group Climax Golden Twins and this collection of Himalayan ephemera captures the timeless beauty of the world's highest Kingdom, land of the rhododendron, the Kumari (a 'living goddess'), and the legendary 'Yeti'. (Recorded in Kathmandu, Pokhara, Gorkha, and other undisclosed locales in 1996)." |
| 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." |
| 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 Vols. 1-3 | 3 x CD | $24.99 | Tompkins Square | "Imaginational Anthem Vols. 1-3 brings together all three volumes of the essential acoustic guitar series. Released in October 2005, Imaginational Anthem was featured on NPR's All Things Considered, and received 4 stars from Uncut ('Entrancing'), All Music Guide ('Masterful') and Mojo ('Groundbreaking'). Rolling Stone's David Fricke wrote, 'the history and beauty here speaks for themselves, at the perfect volume.' Jon Pareles wrote in The New York Times, 'old and new, the music meditates on blues, Appalachian music, raga and ragtime, and traditions are transfigured by a deep love for the sonority of the acoustic guitar.' Released in June 2006, Imaginational Anthem Volume 2 opened with the gorgeous 'River Of Heaven' by Tompkins Square recording artist James Blackshaw, and featured unreleased recordings by legends such as Michael Chapman, Fred Gerlach, Billy Faier, Peter Lang and Robbie Basho. The album was supported by a national Arthur Magazine-sponsored U.S. tour with Blackshaw, Sharron Kraus and Sean Smith. Pitchfork wrote, '[IA2] pairs some of the leading lights of the current avant-folk subculture with unearthed vintage folk rarities.' Tompkins Square has been steadily mining the genre known as 'American primitive guitar' with a string of acclaimed releases." Others included: Jack Rose, Christina Carter, Shawn David McMillen, Sharron Kraus, Max Ochs, Brad Barr, Suni McGrath, Harris Newman, Harry Taussig, Steve Mann, Glenn Jones, Gyan Riley & Terry Riley, Bern Nix, Bob Hadley, Janet Smith & Steve Mann, John Fahey, Kaki King, Sandy Bull, Jose Gonzalez, Jesse Sparhawk, Sean Smith, Richard Crandell, Ben Reynolds, Greg Davis, Nathan Salsburg, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Cian Nugent, Matt Baldwin, Mark Fosson, George Stavis, and R. Keenan Lawler. |
| 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 |
| 7/23/2004 | V/A | ISAN: Folk and Pop Music of Northeast Thailand | DVD | $21.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Welcome to ISAN, Thailand's forgotten frontier, where Lao, Thai and Cambodian folkloric traditions have conspired to create a mystifying pageantry of music and dance still relatively unknown to outsiders. Explore the raw cultural heritage of the Mekong interior, land of the Phin guitar and the bamboo Khaen and discover musical styles such as 'Molam' and 'Pong Lang'. Take a forbidden look into the sultry Go-Go scenes of Gentleman's clubs and witness a spectacular Lam Sing stage show cabaret backed by a psychedelic Rock band! Experience the intoxicating pulse of Thailand's Tropical Northeast." Region free NTSC DVD - 50 minutes. |
| 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 was |