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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
8/28/2007	W!77iN6	Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake	CD	$10.99	Evolving Ear	"Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake, the new CD release from the visionary and sorely under-documented late 90's duo W!77iN6 (that's "Willing," kids), is out now in an edition of 300 on Evolving Ear. W!77iN6 are now dormant as a performing entity, having ceased to exist seven years ago after a few cassette releases, a U.S. West Coast tour with kindred spirits Harry Pussy, and scattered shows with Deerhoof, Gavin + Delia, and some long-haired guy with a SunnO))) amp who used to design Burzum album covers. Since then, members Fritz Welch and Ian Christe have gone on to such illustrious and profitable endeavors as (respectively) forming The Peeesseye and writing Sound of the Beast, that "definitive" history of heavy metal that you got for Christmas a couple of years ago. Recorded and shelved in Bushwick, Brooklyn back in 2000 when any number of Bushwick denizens of today's (or was it yesterday's?) New No Fun America were still taking driving lessons, Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake is like a time capsule of detuned, metal-tinged guitar, guileless synth blurts, splattering faux gamelan percussion, and disembodied voices. At the very least, it certainly points the way to Welch's more layered work with Peeesseye. But it's really just about the best record Evolving Ear has ever put out, and it's contemporary relevance is ever more apparent as the days of our lives pass like the sands of the proverbial hourglass."
9/29/2005	W-S Burn	Candy Striper	CDR	$10.99		"First self-released cdr by W-S Burn. All songs recorded in the van during the hot/homeless summer of 2004 in and around Knoxville, TN. Pixie singing and moaning, her heart drenched and beating past the blood of the non-believers while Steve Gigante keeps the thread stitched and then cut with an acoustic guitar. An intimately vital affair/offering. Serene nightmare music of otherworldly beauty. Closing with two a cappela songs. Hand-painted discs wrapped in paper with pictures and lyrics written/drawn by Pixie, wrapped in a gold sparkle bow."
3/21/2007	W-S Burn	Peek-A-Boo	CDR	$6.99	Abaton Book Company	"This release is a one track - fifteen minute musical journey with absolutely gorgeous and heartbreaking vocals which float on an instrumental architecture of guitar and harmonium. W-S Burn suspend time, allowing the listener to be transported to that rarefied space (called by writer Donald Keller as the "still point") where pure musical vibration envelopes the listener in deep bliss. W-S Burn have released 5 collections of songs so far and have shared stages with Xiu Xiu, Faun Fables, Wooden Wand, Jana Hunter, Marissa Nadler, The Weird Weeds and many others. Their music has been described as "simultaneously stark, intense, warm, and involving" (WNYC), "hauntingly beautiful" (Metro Pulse), and "...simply the most appropriate and honest sound to capture a feeling of exile, desolation, and repeated heartbreak" (Stylus Magazine).
12/17/2003	Walking Owl	Fa-Sol	LP	$24.99	Orpheus	"Modern psych folk, but happy. A singer, an acoustic guitar, tablas, fender rhodes and sounds of nature combined with complex songstructures. Jefferson Airplane, John Fahey and Bob Trimble are lurking in the corners. Spiritual fairytale music from a world reaching from the deepest roots beyond the stars. The lyrics, the singing and the overall beauty of the 17 songs on his first official release take your breath away."
5/1/2009	Wallace, Zach	Glass Armonica	CD	$12.99	Root Strata	"Glass Armonica is the first solo CD by musician Zach Wallace. When not counting fauna in the Montana wilderness, Zach can be seen performing across the incense sticks from Greg Davis in their stoic long form drone duo Sun Circle. Zach's Armonica, Based loosely on Benjamin Franklin's 1761 design, is built entirely from thrift store bought wine glasses and has been modified to handle multiple players. The performances captured here were recorded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the Spring of 2007. The results are not too far off from what you might imagine if you've ever coxed sound waves from the rim of a wine glass with your finger. Now just imagine multiplying that sound a few times over until you arrive at a dense fog of resonant tones that hover in mid air while concurrently penetrating your pituitary glad. That's getting close. Edition of 500 in an offset white case with silver ink."
6/27/2009	Wand	Born Bad	LP	$13.99	Mad Monk / People In A Position To Know	"Brand new VINYL ONLY LP by WAND aka James Jackson Toth, documenting an unraveling of psyche and soul. A psychedelic and almost comically intimate ode to abandonment and bad choices. Contains an insert with full lyric sheet, and pressed on swirly psychedelic vinyl (no two alike!). Second edition of 500 copies and going very fast." Comes with a download code so you can have a digital version, too. Killer lp - highest recommendation!
6/3/2009	Wand	Hard Knox	CD	$10.99	Ecstatic Peace	"To quickly address the elephant in the room -- certainly, collections of demos, outtakes and home recordings are mostly bogus, but obviously you're reading this, so obviously I've somehow been coerced into releasing this batch of tunes, and you've bought it or stolen it or borrowed it or gotten a promo or whatever, so let's cut to the chase. In my defense, all of the cuts contained herein are 'songs' in the traditional western sense -- my experiments in 'surf harmonica' and 'doom zydeco' will not be chronicled here, deep and plentiful as those archives may be. Everything here was recorded by me on either a Roland BR-8 digital 8-track or it's flashier, more cosmopolitan cousin, the BR- 1600, with incalculable assistance from Jexie Lynn, who accompanies me on many of these songs and who's encouragement and creativity allowed many of them to be. Most of the recordings were done at my then-home in beautiful Knoxville, TN between October 2002 and January of 2007, just prior to the retirement of the Wooden Wand name. You've already pardoned the narcissism, now pardon the cliché: I stand behind these songs as snapshots and enjoy them despite their many flaws. I hope you do, too." -- The Wand
7/30/2006	Wander	Wander	CD	$12.99	Small Voices	"Wander are Freek Kinkelaar and Frans de Waard, aka Beequeen. In Wander they explore drone music in its widest possible form, with each new release exploring a specific concept. Wander release their music on various formats, but every format only once. Each release is called Wander, and there is a total absence of any information on the cover. The material was recorded in the analogue studio Geluidswerkplaats Extrapool in late 2004 and early 2005, using a wide variety of vintage synthesizers and a Philicordia organ. The four long pieces breath an atmospheric, pastoral sound of slow and deep evolving drones. Released in a special cardboard wallet with spot varnishing. Strictly limited edition of 600 copies only."
9/23/2004	Warburton, Dan / Reynols	I Am Not Sitting in A Room With Reynols	CDR	$9.99	Absurd	“When in March '03 Dan was interviewing Reynols and was wondering of how to use the recorded tape, Alan suggested he put the tape recorder in the washing machine & tape the result. No matter that finally he didn't he managed however to surface w/ a new idea & under the great influence of Alvin Lucier's 'I Am Sitting in A Room' contemporary classic he started scratching, taping, editing, pasting the interview into a completely different and new thing, adding also in the mix Reynols's live from lile the result turned to be a thrilling broken psych electroacoustic recording that stands for me one Absurd's 'out' weirdos!!! You can can get more infos on it at www.paristransatlantic.com/warburton/reynols.html. Comes in a limited edition of 166 copies.”
8/4/2007	Warhammer48k	An Ethereal Oracle	LP	$17.99	Permanent Records	"The record starts off with a long scary radio broadcast track, you know, like one of those Emergency Broadcast System things warning you about "the big storm approaching", and just when you start feeling REALLY nervous, you start to get dizzy, everything becomes blurry, your head is spinning, your ears are ringing, you feel flush, you start to sweat, goosebumps, the hairs on the back of your neck standing on end, you try to resist, fight it off, but it's too much, you are completely under its spell.You let the jagged guitar lines, birds chirping in the distance, strange what-the-fuck acoustic folk fuckery, drugged out laid-back droned-out blissful warmness and full on red-line space jam experi-mental shredding pummelry drag you into the dark-ness. Before you know it, you're bruised and bloody, naked and tied up with broken guitar strings, ears ringing and bleeding, you have strange WH48K images burned into your flesh, laying atop a pile of blood- stained broken drumsticks, surrounded by a Stonehenge like circle of towering totem like amps, in front of which stand the mysterious members of Warhammer, smiling wickedly as they prepare to do it all over again.And that's only the first half of the cd!" - Southern Records. LImited 180g vinyl gatefold with 6 panel insert.
12/24/2005	Warheads Return!	Warheads Return!	CDR	$9.99	Spirit of Orr	"WARHEADS RETURNS is a noise duo whose members were both born on May 15 in Northern Maine (in the upper right corner of these United States.) That the two birthdays happened exactly 20 years apart, one in 1962, the other in 1982, may or may not have any relevance to the creation of these recordings perhaps as much relevance as any other coincidence. Regardless of these questions, there is no doubt that this effort is a blistering, harsh, multi-generational-yet common purposed, all out attack on the crippling effects of paternalism in our culture. Cover art by Ruth Garbus of the hippe clan known as FEATHERS. Limited to 100 hand assembled CDRs."
3/2/2007	Warm Climate	Agnomen 1	CDR	$7.99	Obsolete Units	"Warm Climate are an L.A. duo whose improvised cacophony is of the kind usually afforded to much larger ensembles. These two make a lot of alternately intimidating and gorgeous noise for such small numbers; think Jackie-O Motherfucker becoming a host for the late, great Sun Ra while Skullflower bumrushes the stage for a night of paranormal merriment. Don't know if the fire marshall would shut that down. Let's hope not! Quixotical hallucinations aside, this one's not to be missed! Two album covers as well! Regarding Agnomen 1: One day an old shepherd said to the effendi, "Nasreddin, I have raised many sheep in my life, but sooner or later most of them were eaten by wolves. According to you, are there any wolves in the world that do not eat sheep?" "Certainly," replied the effendi. "Which ones? Tell me quickly!" "The dead ones," answered the effendi. Edition of 50."
1/1/2008	Warmer Milks	Let Your Friends In	CD	$12.99	Release the Bats	"The current line up of Warmer Milks is probably not what it was yesterday or what it is today. Hell, there is talk of it changing up for next month. Blame this on schizophrenia or an urge to not run in circles but it's how things have always been for the loose group. Founder Michael Turner started Warmer Milks in 2003 and has refused to go backwards regardless of outside (or in house) opinions since it's inception. Warmer Milks have toured by themselves throughout the United States as well with the likes of Six Organs of Admittance, Bonnie Prince Billy, Arbouretum, Howlin' Rain and others The band did an extensive tour throughout Europe winter of 2007 and will be back on said continent Summer 2008. Let Your Friends In is another chapter in the more brash, aggressive side of Warmer Milks catalog. Leaning more towards skate punk and black metal, the group touched on intensities left behind from nerd critically acclaimed Radish On Light (Troubleman Unlimited 2006) but with a more street rock cum vomitorium feel. The flipside to the first track is a spook gang romper, drumless yet still punching the walls with a force no other rock can manage. The "Let Your Friends In" sessions went down in Shelbyville, Kentuckee at Rove Studios home to engineer Paul Oldham (Speed To Roam, Bonnie Prince Billy Band, ex-Broadcast Choir and Royal Trux) where various members present during the "Soft Walks" sessions (coming March 2008, Animal Disguise) took time to record this scorcher. Featuring usual WM attendees Michael Turner and Greg Backus the two lengthy cuts on "Let Your Friends In" also boasts the addition of Shawn David McMillen (Austin, TX solo artist, Iron Kite member and former member of Ash Castles) on guitar and Paul O. on dead wah guitar. Where the group has flirted with heavy rock in the past, it is easy to say that group now owns heavy rock."
9/30/2008	Warmer Milks	Lonesome Drifter	cassette	$9.99	Animal Disguise	"The audio on this release was a novelty recording by Michael Turner that was given to Gary Beauvais (Mammal), and was directly inspired by looking at the artwork/lyrics to Mammal's 'Lonesome Drifter' album. The songs on this release are not cover songs, but interpretations of what Turner believed the songs would sound like. Edition of approximately 35 copies."
11/4/2006	Warmer Milks	Radish on Light	CD	$11.99	Troubleman	"A brand new release from this Lexington, Kentucky group who take no prisoners. “There is an economy of perfect guitars, breezes of synth, and minimalist, emphatic drumming. This is a symphony of delicate, harmonious impressionism. And kudos to these guys for sculpting such a compelling arrangement.” - Travis Johnson
9/30/2008	Warmer Milks	Slave To Suicide	cassette	$6.99	Animal Disguise	"Solo Michael Turner recordings made right after the Soft Walks sessions find him in a psychedelic haze of scraping soundscapes and buried rock. For fans of the weird shit. Limited edition."
8/23/2009	Warmer Milks	The Figure	3" CDR	$9.99	Ruralfaune	"New 3" cdr from Lexington, Kentucky's Warmer Milks after releases on Fuck It Tapes, Release The Bats, and Animal Disguise. A new ode to freak wyrd noise folk coming down from the Mountain Dew of Christianity. Explicit." Edition of 55 copies.
2/20/2008	Warmer Milks / Collection of the Late Howell Bend	split	LP	$11.99	Begonia Society	"Are you kidding me? The amount of paganism oozing out of this cut is completely obscene. I'm not being coy or allegorical here either. When I finished the first side of this LP, from the Collection of the Late Howell Bend, a palpable pagan energy was floating around the room in the physical. Seriously menacing residuals... the experience was so strong, I nearly moved to the woods with some ancient books that teach you how to turn unsuspecting people into pawns for evil. Come to think of it, the books probably contained the very same nefarious riddle speak lyrics chanted by Irene Moon and her cohorts on this record. Luckily I keep a crucifix at hand when I'm nearby albums that have such bestial artwork. So, the musical troop's indoctrination attempts were blocked… at least this time. On the flip, expecting a bit of recovery (?), I found one of biggest industrial drool puddles the Warmer Milks have put to the public. If these sets weren't so unique then I'd recommend a mass LP burning for the sake of humanity, but… well… you pay twelve dollars and… moving on. From what I do know about the erstwhile Kentucky collaborative, the Collection of the Late Howell Bend is basically the musical component of the Auk Theater. If that's not ringing any bells, then get your webvideo search going and familiarize yourself with Nen Valentine or the Auk of Two Sisters… I'd say it nears transcendence. No joke. If you've been lucky enough to check the live set out then you know what I'm talking about. Anyway, Irene Moon, Sara O'Keffe, and Ellen Mole are the players on this record and the territory they sketch out would sound a lot less otherworldly had the analog sythtesizer been a mainstay in the medieval court music scene. Lovely cadences rise and fall in a cycle of carefully placed piano rhythms, violin strokes, and clarinet vibes. Then, before you've gotten completely comfortable, the blessed sounds drop out and some seriously cryptic poetry chants start happening. This is the point where I'm pretty sure I'm being indoctrinated, but I'm so caught up in the melodies that I barely notice. This is beautiful and dangerous stuff. Of course, when you get hypnotized you don't remember it. These might not be my words man. The Warmer Milks side of the cut cultivates a similarly pagan, and hypnotic, effect from a much more barbarous angle. If the Howell Bend contingent wielded an unassuming supernatural threat, then the Milks are much more overt with their menace. MT starts out with a confusion inspiring missive about love or something like that before unleashing a completely feral set of howls for the better remainder. Lyrics as a weapon? Maybe a worn out pair of bolt cutters or something, but I'm not so sure that's the right description either. Anyway, it's got to be as intense as any of the Radish on Light moments. By the end of the exegesis he's completely spent, you can just hear it. The drum line sets a primitive sort of lowest common denominator tone for the course with an unforgivingly repetitive and eventually mesmerizing repetition. One time WM electronicist and current don of the Pax Titania moniker, Chris Cprek lends some home crafted electronic stabs in the murk too. If they weren't on a Milks record I say they're surprisingly tortuous… but you know… For those who fell victim to the steadily restrained cruelty of the Radish on Light LP, then this WM cut is totally recommended. As a package, this could be the split LP of the year. Yes, I actually get to make that call. 9/10" - Chris Bush (12 September, 2007) - Foxy Digitalis
7/14/2007	Warmth	Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"Warmth has undergrone plastic surgery since this album was originally released as a criminally limited CDR on Belgium's best scuzz label, Audiobot. Back then Warmth was known as Roxanne Jean Polise. The name may have changed, but the sounds are still the same dense electronic forest fog that set Michigan-native Steev Thompson's music apart from most of his compatriots. "Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun" is Warmth's finest hour. It's his hypnotic, marrow-sucking opus. "Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun" is a thick blanket of unsettling doom. The smell of death is in the air, floating in-and-out of range like a black cloud. Warmth's mixture of distorted, haunted synth loops, hijacked guitar frequenices, and various injections of dirt-soaked piano fuzz. Thompson's drones are reminiscent of Andrew Chalk and Mirror in the way they lure the listener in during the early stages with his quiet and methodic approach. They're soothing and soft, but totally misleading. Once the eyelids start to get heavy, Thompson runs you down with discordant, often abrasive, missives. He plays this dichotomy up to perfection, and shows an amazing understanding of composition and layering. As each electronic swirl draws you in closer, like a moth to a buzzing streetlight, you get lost in this aural concrete labryinth. "Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun" will bury your mind under piles of dust. Warmth is painting the town with a gang of spectres on his back, sandblasting diseased tones through everyone's eardrums. For fans of Double Leopards, Hive Mind, and that ilk, it is only once you're destroyed that you'll be totally satisfied. Includes two unreleased bonus tracks, not included on the original album."
11/17/2007	Warmth	Warmth	LP	$12.99	Arbor	"Even though Warmth main man Steev Thompson still appears to be incommunicado totally epic recordings continue to surface. Before Roxanne Jean Police was officially over and Steev still lived in Chicago, he joined up with another then Chicago resident Branden Diven of Quilts/American Grizzly Records. The jams that were created filled a couple of cdrs and the Warmth side of the split with Quintana Roo on Not Not Fun. This LP consists of a remixed and edited version of the original cdr running at just under 45 minutes. Forgotten smog floats through a Northside basement. Sounds emanate but their source is totally unrecognizable. Quiet growing tonal blobs erupt into washes of aural color. A complete union of samplers, synths, vocals, guitar, organs, percussion, and electronics merge to create the sounds contained within; a loss of individual existence. Completely serene. In an edition of 300 LPs on creamy yellow vinyl with hand stamped labels in pro-printed and screened fold over sleeves with art by Roy Tatum and an insert by Steev."
12/1/2004	Wascovich, Matthew	Apartment 36E	Book	$5.99	Slow Toe	8.5” x 11” page ‘book’ – it’s stapled not binded – featuring cover art by Dylan Nyoukis.
11/21/2009	Washed Out	Life Of Leisure	LP	$17.99	Mexican Summer	"This is the debut six song 12" from Ernest Greene aka Washed Out. Bent synth-pop gems that are equal parts psychedelia and anthemic club banger. All recorded in his parent's home in the rural Georgia town where he grew up. Essential and addictive. 1,000 pressing - first press 800 black vinyl/200 purple haze. The main single got 9/10 Best new Track review on Pitchfork and has spearheaded a massive buzz among the blog world (Stereogum, Gorilla Vs. Bear, Earfarm, Popmatters, and more). Read the Pitchfork review here: <http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11455-feel-it-all-around/>http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11455-feel-it-all-around/ "Both Ernest Greene's real name and artistic moniker sound like tired-out Pynchonian punchlines, especially given the guy's tendency so far for making sly robo-pop. The few (self-) released contributions from this South Carolinian have a homespun synthesizer arrangements and multi-tracked, faraway vocals that sound something like, say, the theme music to an instructional video from 1987. "Feel It All Around" serves as the natural progression from "You'll See It", the ravey little slab of diffident lo-fi pop <http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11399-youll-see-it/>reviewed by Pitchfork earlier this year, by bringing the curtain down on the little party suggested by "You'll See It". In fact, Greene seems to operate in a nexus of clubby little referents. Brief stabs of dub drums cheat into the mix. The synthesizers that drive the arrangement sound cheap and liquored-up, but are impeccably paced like a pour of great molasses. Somewhere, echoes of 10cc's breathy "I'm Not In Love" enter the picture, as does YMO's churning bass exploration "Naughty Boys". Greene seems dedicated to mapping a musical history that never actually existed but seems meticulously seen: a historical fiction re-imagining a lifetime of easy listening. Although Greene makes primarily keyboard-based music, his vision is stuck somewhere in an imagined euphoria set after the art rock of the late 70s, with a dotted line drawn directly through the swath of synth pop and all the way to the psychedelic, guitar driven Brit-pop of the Stone Roses. But leave the slippery musicology behind. "Feel It All Around" is a deliciously unbalanced track, starting into the groove right off the bat and unexpectedly fading out at the end. The unusual compositional style is tailor-made to entice you to spin it again, and Greene's little gem does little to convince you otherwise."
1/24/2009	Washing, The	Red Tape	cassette	$4.99	Celebrity Sex Tapes	"The Washing is Kevin Nebula of Out There Dudes / Eagle Nebula. 60 minute piece featuring new age power ambient drones, crackling dissipation, and strobe light shit blasts. Minimal passive aggressive tourture. Edition of 25." "The best noise tape I have right now" - Nicolas Murur (France)
3/21/2009	Wasteland Jazz Unit	Barren Sect	CDR	$9.99	Cut Hands	"Here's a record that doesn't waste time blasting your testicles up your throat! Wasteland Jazz Unit have been sandblasting ears throughout 2008 and it certainly feels like a privilige to kickstart a new WJU year with some of their most putrid Fried Jazz tracks to date. Saxophonist Jon Lorenz and clarinettist John Rich delve deeper into the Great Borbetomagus Saga than anyone else these days but add some extra k's of Noise crudeness to it to make it sound like freejazz for sewage rat biker gangs. The three tracks on this album feel like huge bolts of reed feedback sandblasting the grease out of your ears. A highlight in their discography so far and, let me quote Jon Lorenz here: "definitely some of the best stuff we've recorded yet". 70 copies in plastic sleeves with art by Jason Rohm.
1/24/2009	Wasteland Jazz Unit	Casting Of Heights	cassette	$11.99	Chironex	Limited to 30 different, hand-painted covers.
7/16/2009	Wasteland Jazz Unit	Drained Vault	c30 cassette	$4.99	905 Tapes	"Cincinnati's wju treat amplified reeds the way zed and his crew treated sweetchuck in the original police academy movie. it's just a brutal, fucked up mashing of sound as lorenz and rich coat every speck in beastly distortion. the duo is an early contributor to the 905 family, going all the way back to their split with torturing nurse (905.09), and drained vault is their mighty return to the fold. " Edition of 40 copies.
12/13/2008	Wasteland Jazz Unit	Ordained Solace	cassette	$8.99	Middle James Co.	"Wasteland Jazz Unit are John Rich and Jon Lorenz from Ohio on clarinets and saxophones respectively. if you ain't familiar with their recent assault on labels like American Tapes, Deep Fried Tapes, ExBx etc. etc. this horn duo sounds like their name suggests - Wasteland Jazz Unit - but doesn't some anything like a horn duo at all... "Ordained Solace" is a total holocaust absolute Hell feedback frier~ just burn! limited to 50 copies."
12/12/2009	Wasteland Jazz Unit	Space Denial	LP	$29.99	Nashazphone	"WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT is Jon Lorenz and John Rich on saxophone and clarinet. The first full length of this apocalyptic Cincinnati duo is simply akin to the sonic equivalent of pouring molten silver (at 700°C) inside an ear. "Space Denial" is a powerful destruction trip pushing all the limits of reed electronic manipulations to areas and heights only explored by the mighty Borbetomagus. Edition of 190 copies."
1/24/2009	Wasteland Jazz Unit / Eagle Nebula	Nebula Wasteland	cassette	$4.99	Celebrity Sex Tapes	"Eagle Nebula: Johnny, Tommy and Kevin Nebula of Columbus, OH holding down Skylab and terrorizing locals with cosmic freak outs. A ghostly guitar/reverb unit/guitar drone trash monstrosity reaching the dark realms. Wasteland Jazz Unit: Jon Lorenz and John Rich of Cincinnati, holding down Art Damage Lodge and bringing the chaos with a dual sax and clarinet overblown shit storm. High-Fi Trash at it's best.40 Minutes, Ed. of 75, Hand numbered/labeled, Photocopied cover"
2/23/2004	Watts, Alan	Haiku	CD	$12.99	Locust	"During his lifetime, Alan Watts (1915-1973) became, and remains, one of the most beloved interpreters of Eastern thought. For more than forty years, Alan Watts introduced the Western world to the full range of eastern philosophies and arts all filtered through his buoyant personality and charm. His life and work reflect an astonishing adventure. There remain few treats as wonderful and lively as this, one of three records originally put out on the Sausalito based MEA label. Haiku and its companion release, Zen and Senryu, hold the truly unique position of documenting a poetic form (Haiku) or philosophy (Zen) and Satire (Senryu) through both lecture and stunning performance. Both discs feature the instantaneous Japanese translations by Sumire Hasegawa Jacobs to the spare musical accompaniment of Vince Delgado, Robert Garfias and Henry Jacobs. This brilliant tension between Alan Watts' self assured delivery and Sumire's urgent cries, makes both Haiku and Zen and Senryu two of the most essential documents for admirerers of Watts' rich personality, eastern thought, and the heavy ways of 1960s counterculture."
2/23/2004	Watts, Alan and Friends	This is IT	CD	$12.99	Locust	"A psychedelic holy grail re-issued. This is it!¸originally cut in 1962, is regarded by many of the who’s who of psych fanatics as the first aural document of psychedelia. It is a plundering, blistering, free form freakout of totally unselfconscious group sonic exploration. What’s more: it’s a great, great album that stands the test of time. Legendary Zen guru Alan Watts led a cadre of musicians and non-musicians alike through communal chant, primitive choogle and raw American tribalism that features many of the same Bay Area Heads that appeared earlier on Locust’s Electronic Kabuki Mambo – the inimitable satirist and collage whiz Henry Jacobs, genius percussionist William Loughborough (early performer with Chet Baker/Harry Partch) among many others. This is where the so-called ‘Weird America’ begins and if you don’t find yourself with that rare facial twitch of awe, befuddlement and unbridled glee, then surely you need your head checked."
4/16/2007	Waves	12	CDR	$12.99	American Tapes	"Newest installment of Terror Tones Unit. Hated by many, even some noise dudes aint down. High pitch, let the tone do the work style. Unlistenable tone work, no jamming involved, sound system diseaserz. Best Mediation Headphones jamz around. Look out of the West Coast Romero/Wiese version!! Color Cover, edition of 100."
9/17/2006	Waves	Eight	CDR	$12.99	American Tapes	"First really available recordings from this totally unlistenable granite rock unmoving slice - toner project. The highest, most horrible clean tones stacked together and un-messed with for a frozen ear-clearing mediation experience. Killer on the headphones, terrible all around. Color Cover features mangled pic of Irma Glenn in all her peaceful beauty. Three static pieces, around 60 minutes of needle thru the ear drum non-action."
12/13/2008	Wavves	Wavves	LP	$14.99	Woodsist	"As of today, it's officially crispy in New York, so we are seeking one last summer solace with the California crust-pop of San Diego's Wavves. As you might expect from a SoCal band named after ocean motion, this shit sounds like a living version of Thrilla Gorilla & Da' Boys. As you might not expect, it is made by one kid named Nathan who has a classic rap blog called Ghost Ramp. Wavves has a follow-up coming in 2009 on De Stijl which will include 'So Bored' and 'Wavves' which is also ridiculously great and streaming on his MySpace." -The Fader
8/22/2008	Wax Ghost	Adze	CDR	$13.99	Cook An Egg	"Following her first two solo releases on Foxglove, here is the brand new cdr by Eden Hemming Rose who, in addition to co-running the Digitalis label & webzine with her husband Brad Rose, is also a member of Corsican Paintbrush and Eastern Fox Squirrels (with CD/ cdr releases on Digitalis, Last Visible Dog and Rural Faune amongst others). Using a great variety of acoustic instruments (auto-harp, piano, bells, flute, guitars, violin, etc.), Eden conjures up a very delicate and intimate atmosphere that is constantly changing shapes from one track to the other. Overall, the music is very introspective, demanding a special attention from the listener.Using every tool available (including her own voice) in a painter-like manner, she carves out a series of very fragile songs, blending them with more abstract sound sculptures. With each gesture, it's as if all the instrument were to come alive... for the fist time. Those who have been enjoying the music of Lau Nau, Kuupuu, Pefkin or Painting Petals On Planet Ghost will love this. Enchanting and mysterious. First series of 100 copies."
10/25/2008	Way of the Cross	Mind of the Dolphin	LP	$13.99	Phoenix	"In the Spring of 2007 a tour commenced from Latvia to Holland called "Way Of The Cross: On The Path Of The Ninefold Muse", titled from Robert Graves' book The White Goddess. The tour spanned Polish clubs, Dutch radio, Berlin galleries, and the Latvian beach; "Mind of the Dolphin" documents the music spawned at these stops. WOTC members include Dave Nuss (NNCK), Stellar OM Source, The Skaters, Jan Anderzen (Kemialliset Ystavat), Kuupuu, Mik Quantius (Embryo), and Tiitus Petajaniemi and Jari Koho (Uton, Keijo). "The White Goddess is far more than a long-discredited pagan deity. She is still alive, and her worship takes many strange forms both inside an outside the conventions of Western morality. In particular, she continues as the Ninefold Muse, patroness of the white magic of poetry." Recommended!
9/17/2006	We Have Heaven	2	CDR	$12.99	Easy Subculture	"Opening with some delicate eastern sounding violin, the second album from We Have Heaven is an intriguing blend of sounds and speech that is experimental and surreal in equal measure. Definitely improvised and defiantly lo-fi, the tunes have a Phillip Glass meets the Velvets feel to them with the violin adding a droning undertow as the guitars gently weave between, sometimes harmonising, occasionally becoming harsher, creating an album that could be defined as uneasy listening, the background noises and sound of the band talking to each other only adding to the homespun charm." - Terrascope Rumbles, August 2006.
7/30/2006	We Have Heaven	Demo #1	CDR	$10.99	Easy Subculture	"A lot of the time, I get tired of menace and pretense. I mean, there's only so much doom metal or harsh noise you can listen to. Sometimes, I get parking tickets, and I don't hate anyone for it. When I just want good dreams, I turn to posi-trippers like Yume Bitsu, Howard Hello, and some lighter Boredoms, but especially Landing, Windy & Carl, and, now, We Have Heaven. I tested it, and the strummy, loopy psych on this simply adorned CDr fits comfortably and perfectly alongside tracks by any of the aforementioned bands. Featuring members of xplanetandbethx and the Photon Band, and former classmates of Fursaxa's, We Have Heaven, for lack of a better phrase, totally takes me there. It doesn't matter where. Maybe the rain is just stopping or the ice is beginning to melt. Maybe things are All Right. I don't know, wherever you like to go when you imagine a nice place. Don't let the new age-y description or the fact that this is a demo scare you off, though. Granted I'm a sucker for tape hiss and ambient buzz, and these tracks seem to have been recorded on room mics, but the mid-fidelity only adds to the overall atmosphere. Tracks cut-off abruptly, bandmates whisper to each other, you can hear equipment being moved around- it's almost as if these are field recordings documenting the environmental sounds of the place I like to go to. I can't wait to hear more." - Nadav Carmel, Foxy Digitalis.
8/28/2004	Weapons of Mass Destruction	Weapons of Mass Destruction	CDR	$9.99	Deserted Village	“While everyone else was at the bloated corporate shitfest Witness, half of Papercop and 1/6 of Murmansk played this thrilling mangled free punk, psychobilly set to a tiny traumatised / thrilled crowd. This power trio playing drums, amplified steel sheets / electronics and Guitar / Zombie vocals will rock yr world.” "...these folks play a warped noise/free punk/rockabilly concoction that hits the skull like a bucket of bricks on opener ‘Here We are Over There’ with big punishing percussion and strangled guitar wankery that somehow sounds genius, even though all logic suggests otherwise.” - Lee Jackson, The Broken Face
7/16/2006	Weaver, Wes	untitled	CDR	$9.99	Fag Tapes	"Mysterious solo project from Wes Weaver (half of Really Depressing FT-033, a duo with Heath of Sick Llama, also plays in Full Meat Jacket and Human Loop). Totally wired cut-up destructo-dunt guitar and pinned feedback that sounds like Rudolph Grey stepping up to the plate in the wake of the Fag Tapes/Maim & Disfigure assault on form. Comes in sprayed slim-line jewel case with art and minimal info. Hand-numbered edition of 77 copies." - Volcanic Tongue
1/24/2009	Weird Weeds	Hold Me	LP	$13.99	Zum	"The Weird Weeds debut album from 2004 only existed in CDR form on Edition Manifold and Digitalis recordings. For the past five years the Austin, TX band has toured extensively and released three albums. Lovingly reissued by Zum, "Hold Me" is now available in a limited pressing on black vinyl, packaged in a screened chipboard cover with all new artwork by Lauren Pakradooni. "Hold Me" is also unique in that it's the only recorded document of The Weird Weeds' original 4-piece lineup that included Kurt Newman on lead guitar. The album is evidence that very early in their existence The Weird Weeds had developed a unique approach to songwriting that they've been honing and refining ever since. The core trio is Aaron Russell (Nitre Pit), Sandy Ewen (collaborator with Tom Carter in Spiderwebs), and Nick Hennies (percussionist who has performed with Jandek and Arnold Dreyblatt). Recently featured as a cover story in the Austin Chronicle, Weird Weeds have garnered much love from sources such as Drowned In Sound and Stereogum." Edition of 300 copies.
5/1/2009	Wellins, Matt / Zach Wallace	split	one-sided LP	$11.99	What The..?	"'Split' as in the side of record is split between two artists - one work each from two individuals Matt Wellins and one Zach Wallace (of such group Sun Circle). Two drone work from old 90's -- Wellins has "Dedicated to Lovely Music, Ltd." and indeed lovely one of our favorites from many years. We are excited to bring this to the vinyl format, finally. A saxophone and compyuter lovely patterns and just skitters and dances over delicate bed; just beautiful and simply. Zach Wallace offers an earlier work, "We Are Here" with viola, modified harmonica, sing saw, many other earthen soundmaker objects blending into a simple but deep and ever growing. We have edition of 111 copies, eye-catching silkscreen artwork and design by artist Paul Coors."
	Wellwater Conspiracy	Compellor	7"	$4.99	Super Electro	1998 single featurin John McBain (ex-Monster Magnet) & Matt Cameron (Soundgarden
3/21/2009	Wereju	Under the Receding Wave	cassette	$7.99	Middle James Co.	"Wereju is Irish droner Cathal Rodgers. His great tape on Anathema Sound sent me quickly in his direction and I got washed in waves of Wereju."under the receding wave" is four pieces of icy water imagery. these are dark and moody with an intense burn. so just close yr eyes & drift a while in the alien surf Rodgers unveils. with each swell, get pulled farther out to sea... limited to 33."
2/11/2006	Werren, Phillip	Electronic Music (1968-1971)	DBL CD	$17.99	Cast Exotic Archives	"Brand new reissue of a impossible to find early Canadian electronic 4 Lp box by composer Phillip Werren. Only 100 copies where ever pressed of his early electronic work. It was recorded at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), McGill University (Montreal) & Radio Warzawa (Poland). It was recorded between 1967 and 1971. The LP has heavy elements of tape collage, Modular Synthesis, voice, and experimental thought. Some of the pieces where conceived by psychedelic and occult influences. Much of the record was done with a Buchla System 100, the first of their modular synthesizers. Original cover artwork was created by local Vancouver Artist JAS Felter. The Album was created for the most part at the height of the late 60's at Simon Fraser University. "1968 was a year of great upheaval: at SFU, Canada's Berkeley, 114 people were arrested for their part in the protest over the firing of the entire faculty of the Political Science and Anthropology department. Marcuse, Baba Ram Dass and others came to speak to us at peril to themselves; acid and mescaline abounded and apocalypse seemed to fairly shout out at us in the rarified atmosphere of Burnaby Mountain. The neo-fascist architecture of the university seemed to beg for anarchy and chaos and linear thought itself seemed doomed to extinction." "The electronic music studio at SFU was at that time probably the most sophisticated studio in Canada. After working in studios at Columbia and Radio Warsaw, both of which were small and somewhat limiting, I found it impossible to continue composing with the Princetonian precision in which I had been schooled. The SFU studio contained the most recent synthesizer designed by Don Buchla. I only vaguely understood what "it" did and realized that I would have to put aside my rigid preconceptions of how one sound should follow another. The sequencer, a device which can generate a sequence of sound events in a more-or-less random pattern and at times seemed to have a life of its own, became for me a sort-of window through which I could see/hear a universe of sound I had never imagined possible. It was necessary for me to "step back" from these sequences of sound-events, to control them in some other way: through the mix of one sequence with another in time and space." This album is a nugget of Canadian Psychedelic Avant-Garde history, up there with the early works of Bill Bissett, The Nihilist Spasm Band, and Intersystems. Also in line with early America works by Robert Ashley, Tod Dockstader, and Gordon Mumma. More currently, this would site nicely with a oddball release by Wolf Eyes, Double Leopards or Excepter."
	West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band	Part One	LP	$19.99		Reissue (legit?) of 2nd LP from 1967. Features Shifting Sands, I Won't Hurt You, 1906, Help, I'm A Rock, Will You Walk With Me, Transparent Day, Leiyla, Here's Where You Belong, If You Want This Love, 'Scuse Me, Miss Rose & High Coin. Recommended.
	West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band	Volume Two	LP	$19.99		Reissue (legit?) of 3rd LP from 1967. Features In The Arena, Suppose They Give A War And No One Comes, Buddha, Smell Of Incense, Overture / Wcpaeb Part II, Queen Nymphet, Unfree Child, Carte Blanche, Delicate Fawn, Tracy Had A Hard Day Sunday. Recommended.
	West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band	Where's My Daddy	LP	$15.99	Amos	4th LP from the band recorded in 1969. Reissue.
9/17/2009	Wet Hair	Dream	LP	$13.99	Not Not Fun	"When Iowa City freak-out free-rockers Raccoo-oo-oon called it quits last year it left a bummer scar in the Midwest underground scene. But time is a great healer, and so are new bands. So out of the ashes of the RAC pack comes Wet Hair, a synth-punk-trance duo composed of keyboardist/vocalizer Shawn Reed and keyboardist/drummer Ryan Garbes, and Dream is the band’s debut vinyl full-length after a series of increasingly shredding limited-edition cassettes on their own Night People label. Piling together an unlikely trash heap of Suicide-style drum machine beat-bops, zone-droned krautrock keys, and fucked up outsider crooning, the LP’s four tracks careen across a spectrum of moods and mangled melodies. Recorded at Flat Black Studios by Luke Tweedy and mastered by Pete Swanson, Wet Hair’s cult electric annihilation has never gleamed with such razor-edged weirdness; this is their dream made real. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Reed and Garbes, plus a pro-printed full-color 11x11 insert." Repressed edition of 450 copies.
9/17/2009	Wet Hair	Glass Fountain	LP	$13.99	Not Not Fun	"Welcome back. One of NNF's total favorite active bands return with a second full-length (most of which was recorded during the same sessions that birthed their debut LP, Dream) and we are pleased as spiked fruit punch. The Reed/Garbes duo mainly sticks to their guns, mining the same post-Suicide art-trance vein they perfected on Dream, but with Glass Fountain there's an added emphasis on the disembodied, oscillator pop mode that Wet Hair often toy with. Fountain's five tracks include some of the band's simplest but catchiest songs ('Crucifix In The Waves,' 'When The Right Time Comes,' etc), mesmerizing organ melodies over plink-plonky vintage drum machines with weirdo soulful singing and outer space electronics, like an outsider-punk Silver Apples or something. Hard to say exactly what universe Wet Hair are operating in and that's probably part of why we love it so much. A killer record that gets better each spin. In jackets with art drawn and designed by the band, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert." Colored vinyl.
11/15/2008	Wether	Complete Loss	cassette	$7.99	Fag Tapes	"Bent. your allergic to the sun and the moon is the only one you can talk to. *dub-style Ham Studios Production. straight outa the 905 TAPES represent ! hand-numbered edition 50."
1/24/2009	Wether	Options	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Neon black vibes from the 905 house band. you could call these stowaways, because they are always stowing away. but when the world is a race to the finish, all the muck will eventually find it's way out. even if it has to seep through the cracks and slide down the walls. what are the other options?"
5/29/2008	Wether	Post-Cave Music	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"The first Wether material to arise from the new homestead. side a is one looping burner focusing mainly on a steady cycle of decaying loops. the b side is split up into two feedback laden, rotten drone plagues. everything was recorded straight to tape with no "post-production" taking place."
8/22/2008	Wether + A Snake In The Garden	split	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Head to head harshness from two solo east coasters. this split is kind of like a replay of a show in hartford, ct many moons ago. snake killed the dining room, then wether immediatly brawled the living quarters. if i could remember anything from that night, i would share it here, but it's all pretty much a brain musher. one burner a piece, both 10 minutes of steady pedal pummeling. three different covers."
4/10/2009	Wetterling, Jacob	Shit Fuck Bleed & Feed	cassette	$5.99		"horror film sound clips, Swans like pounding, and childhood abduction. Motivated by anger! Made by "sometimes" mbv contributor."
7/14/2007	Wexler, Mike	Sun Wheel	CD	$12.99	Amish Records	"The next big name on the new-folk scene is a deeply engaging singer-songwriter free of affectations... with the most gorgeously sandy-textured voice we've heard in ages" -Time Out NY. "Sun Wheel is Mike Wexler's debut full-length and marks the arrival of an important new voice poised to be one of stars of tomorrow's underground. Crafted slowly over more than a year, this recording evidences Wexler's careful attention to detail and his affinities for progressive rock and the Canterbury scene of the late sixties and early seventies. Wexler is joined on Sun Wheel by Jordi Wheeler and Charles Burst of The Occasion and Brian Tamborello of Psychic Ills, all of whom also contribute to the arrangement and instrumentation throughout this recording. Though there are hints of the Soft Machine (Robert Wyatt is a professed and revered influence), Quiet Sun, and Meddle-ear Pink Floyd, Wexler's voice is completely contemporary and completely his own."
2/14/2008	Weyes Bluhd	Evacuating Zombie Milk	CDR	$6.99		"Live blown out grunge excursions."
4/10/2009	Weyes Bluhd	Liquor Castle / Shattered Mirror	cassette	$5.99		"originally made for tour. soon to be a 7"? Bucks County, Pennsylvania's dank songstress has played in axolotl & jackie-o motherfucker."
2/11/2006	Where The Moon Came From	Twin of Pangaea	LP	$22.99	Nasoni	"Superb debut album by this quartet from Cleveland, OH. In a very clever way they know how to fuse late 60's and early 70's prog and art rock, middle eastern vibes and celtic moods, as well as indie rock influences from the 80's and 90's to develop their unique and mystic sound. The album includes rock songs of epic proportions based on a formidable rhythm section switching from martial attacks to swinging calypso beats anchored by hypnotic guitar riffs swirling between sitar-like hooks to hard hitting heavy riffs complimented by intense and powerful vocals." Limited edition of 500 copies - 100 pressed on blue vinyl which is what is available here.
12/24/2005	White / Light	White / Light	CD	$9.99	Rebis	"Debut recording from Chicago-area duo. Punishing highs, earth-shaking lows: a must for lovers of transcendental drone guitar." "From time to time a friend of mine confronts me with what he calls the limitations of the drone scene and the fact that everything sounds the same. It goes without saying that he's way off base on this one but as to illustrate this I think I'll play him White/Light the next time he's around, because I don't think I've heard as many drone styles present on a single recording in quite some time. The opening '05:57' displays darkly contemplative drone webs while '01:43' is almost inaudible if you don't turn it up loud. '28:43' is a minimal tone excursion that kicks off with high-end frequencies and sustained drones that slowly shift and eventually build into a storm of sound whistling through a narrow tunnel of claustrophobic beauty. Other tracks maintain the magically resonating damaged soundscapery but at the same time pirouettes into something a whole lot more minimal and surprisingly organic. The last track even has a distant folk feel to it, which comes as a big surprise given the rest of the album. Despite the fact that White/Light covers such a wide range of drone terrain the duo manages to nicely hold things together. It's a challenging but also very rewarding listening excursion these Chicago residents invite us to attend."-Mats Gustafson, Broken Face, July 2005
10/31/2009	White Hills	Dead	12"	$14.99	Thrill Jockey	"Hailing from Brooklyn, White Hills were originally formed to help bring space rock into the 21st century and they'll be one step closer with the release of their limited edition Dead EP. Straddling the chasm between Hawkwind and Mudhoney, White Hills craft psychedelic swirls of feedback, bottom heavy bass riffs and soaring guitar solos that take listeners on journeys into the farthest reaches of the mind. This vinyl only release features three new tracks and a remix of 'Oceans of Sound' and is limited to 1,000 copies. Like all previous White Hills' releases, the demand for this EP is already foreshadowing that it will sell out instantaneously upon release! Title track 'Dead' was recorded at Oneida's Ocropolis studio in Brooklyn and features Kid Millions on drums. It's slated to appear on White Hills' LP that is set for release in early 2010. 'Oceans of Sound' originally appeared on the Heads On Fire LP and has been remixed for this EP by Antrønhy ØH who currently plays drums in Julian Cope's Black Sheep Band. 'Another Coming' and 'Red Sun' are exclusive to the EP and were recorded and mixed at 60B in New York." Out of print.
10/3/2009	White Out (with Spencer Yeh and Carlos Giffoni)	Live at No Fun	LP	$15.99	No Fun	"Recorded live at No Fun Fest 2008. White Out(Tom Surgal and Lin Culbertson) are true pursuers of the mythical everlasting improvisational fire. With a style thats both oblique and right to the point Tom's dynamic poly-rhythmic percussion and Lin's dynamic electronics and voice are augmented in this scorching live recording by C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) on violin and Carlos Giffoni on analog synth. This was their first collaboration and is full of amazing interplay that covers a wide spectrum of sound, From other-world evolving sounds to furious free improvisation to thick layers of dense drones, this is a totally bombastic and essential document of ageless modern improvisation. Limited to 350."
10/17/2009	White Rainbow	New Clouds	double LP	$17.99	Kranky	"A few things have changed for Adam Forkner since his last White Rainbow album from 2007, Prism of Eternal Now. A national tour with fellow kranky heads Valet and Atlas Sound, and countless hours jamming with Portland avant-music collective Rob Walmart inspired him to hunker down and dig deeper into his personal vision of what head music can be. The success of Prism finally catapulted Forkner's White Rainbow project from the deep semi-obscure trenches of the west coast psychedelic/noise underground into the fickle arms of a slightly wider audience. In a perhaps misguided reaction to the ever-widening trend of musicians trading in a pound of adventurousness for an ounce of 'accessibility,' Forkner has turned White Rainbow into an even more spontaneous and open-ended musical project and has shaped this new album into a dense, lengthy exploration of the relationship between hypnotic, circular, fourth-world drum rhythms, acid-boogie guitar, and drifting sheets of fuzzy psychedelic drone. The tracks on New Clouds are a tug-of-war between stasis and change, the desire to meld the meditative effects of a near static drone with the uplifting trip of free-flowing compositions. Slowly melting fluorescent sunsets morph into drapes of psychedelic fog, rumbling over cacophonous rhythms." Housed in a gatefold sleeve - nice!
9/30/2005	White Rock	Tarpit	LP	$11.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"Collaboration between members of Double Leopards and Mouthus. These songs are perplexing to say the least. Deep down, below the harsh sounds lies a subtle beauty- a hint of melody perhaps? If you close your eyes you can hear it trying to escape. This is sounds only these 4 people could make. Very odd mixture. The insanity of the more insane Mouthus stuff and the beauty of the more mellow Double Leopards stuff makes for one of the more intense listening experiences of recent memory. Limited edition of 700 copies." One-time pressing.
	White Winged Moth	I Can See Inside Your House	CD	$12.99	Poon Village	Debut solo release from Dean Roberts (Thela
10/25/2008	White, Ralph	Narasota River Devil Squirrel	LP	$15.99	Mystra / Spirit of Orr	"Ralph White of Austin TX has been a part of the more forward moving country-blues activities of this planet for quite some time. From his work & endless touring with BAD LIVERS to his duets with Amy Annelle in the outfit PRECIOUS BLOOD, Mr White has shown that he is of the intuitive and insightful ilk that can 'pick n' shred' beyond the earthly. As you may suspect few documents have appeared that demonstrate his powers and poetries as a soloist, where he is only peered with the most revered. Armed with fiddle, fretless banjo, kalimba, & button accordion, and his subtle and magnificent 'new high lonesome' croon, we are brought to a rare mirror. Yet another place where borders are erased and music is the only language. An intense & visionary outsider for sure. This record is a reissue of his first cd-r. It should surprise and win over even the most cynical record-hording ogre. A co-operative effort by MYSTRA & SPIRIT OF ORR, 600 copies total, hand glued cover art."
11/21/2009	White, Ralph and the Horaflora Soundsystem	Ralph White and the Horaflora Soundsystem	CDR	$10.99	Resipiscent	"The first collaboration of fiddle, banjo, accordion and kalimba-master Ralph White (Bad Livers) and San Francisco's electro-acoustic tinkerer Horaflora on prepared loudspeakers, transducers, and handmade objects. The results are evocative of Konono No.1 playing Ricardo Villalobos as recorded by David Tudor! Chain-draped kalimba played with the soft speed of Texas banjo, fiddle and accordion master Ralph White, its acoustic distortions convoluted through a range of materials (rigged to transducers) in Horaflora's custom-built sound system, yield a crumbling wet firmament of timbres. The songs by which the sounds were discovered are transfixing, psychedelic, transporting; in fact, they invite site-specific listening: Binaural methods make track one best suited to headphones, track two must be heard outdoors, track three includes unadulterated Weddell seals and is best heard underwater. Lose your map, this is music uncharted." Edition of 300 copies
4/20/2008	Whitman	White Sunrise	LP	$17.99	Folktale/Shrimper	"Upon listening to White Sunrise, you might ask, what kind of bizarre world does Whitman come from? You would be right to assume it's bizarre. Whitman grew up in Beaumont, CA, on the edge of the Mojave, as well as in a variety of camps for problem children in places like Provo, UT and rural Idaho. The sounds you hear on this album; rusted, dusted and forlorn, are much like the places he's resided. While Whitman plays songs about the age old topics of love, loss and guilt he does so in a fashion all his own, with disintegrated instruments, scraps of metal trash and guitars that would have been relegate to the garbage heap by anyone else. His withered plucking sounds something like the soundtrack to your brain being fried by the blistering sun; it is both intriguing and memorable. The albums intrigue is only added to by a slew of guest of guest musicians, a list that includes some of the most interesting players in Southern California. Including herein are shreds of oscillator sound courtesy of the enigmatic HENRY BARNES of AMPS FOR CHRIST, drums by COREY FOGEL of the MOUNTAIN GOATS and the MAE-SHI, vocals by ERIKA ANDERSON of the GOWNS, cello by JESSICA CATRON of CARLA BOZULICH'S NIGHT PORTER and clatter by JOHN THILL of AUM RIFLE. In a way the album is a representative of a burgeoning completely off-the-grid folk/noise music scene in Los Angeles, CA based around vacant lots, crumbling slumlord rentals and a variety of illegal spaces. Whitman's music is infused with the same sort of joy and brutality as the neighborhood in Pomona he calls home, where weeds sprout and couches get left on street corners."
3/21/2009	Wicked King Wicker	Wicked King Wicker	LP	$12.99	Noiseville	"The debut album from New York's WKW quickly jumped on the radar of noise, experimental, drone, and doom metal fans around the world. Brutal drone noise that as Nick Cave said is "blacker then the chambers of a dead nun's heart". Fans of Skullflower, Sunn, Whitehouse, Boris, Nortt and Wolf Eyes love WKW, and for good reason. The LP is a numbered edition of 490 copies."
5/23/2009	Wickham-Smith, Simon	A Seventh Persimmon	CDR	$7.99	Tape Drift	"Words are tough when it comes to describing music this astoundingly beautiful. A leading figure in the worldwide experimental music community since the early 90s, Simon Wickham-Smith adds to his sizable body of work with this masterpiece. Three tracks clocking in at almost 60 minutes, Simon's new work is the result of years spent honing his craft. His influences are drawn from sources far and wide, but the music that results is uniquely his own. Transcending genre altogether but most clearly informed by minimalism, this release is hypnotic, mysterious, and gorgeous. If you've followed the arc of his career, you'll be pleased to see how mature and powerfully focused his musical vision has become. If you're new to his world, it's an excellent introduction. To say that it's an honor for us to be releasing his music would be a massive understatement. A true classic."
9/15/2002	Wickham-Smith, Simon	dyrø	CDR	$12.99	Pseudoarcana	"New release from doyen of English bedroom 'underground' scene. Two epic tracks, the first a very skewed take on religious chant which retains a genuine and relevant reverence at the same time as it forges a whole new path through both laptop electronica and devotional music. The second is a huge track characterised by ripping great digitally distorted drones which seem intent on tearing through the bullshit (Maya?) to reveal a clearer world beyond... All recorded on a small island off the coast of Scotland..."
3/27/2004	Wickham-Smith, Simon	Rapt	CD	$11.99	Disposable Thumb	"On his latest release, with beautiful hand-printed foldover jackets of his own design, Simon continues to explore his obsessions and fascinations with reverence, wry wit and a skillful ear. Aesthetically similar to 2002's dyrø (PseudoArcana), the CD is an exercise in ‘wonderment and rapture’ via the friendly conduits of electronic drone, cut and paste minimalism and mischievous white noise. Oftentimes a confluence of contrasting disciplines and perspectives, the document is a rich work of intricate spells merging tension and release. Says Simon of Meiji13: ‘It's a very uncharacteristic foray into program music: the fuzz over the top is like a patina of age, like hearing Caruso singing I Pagliacci.’”
	Wickham-Smith, Simon and Richard Youngs	Asthma and Diabetes	LP	$19.99	Majora	Recorded on June 3 & 4, 1993. Experimental drone using a few dozen different instruments.
4/22/2009	Wiese, John	Circle Snare	CD	$10.99	No Fun	"Consider "Circle Snare" a hard-wrought souvenir. Composed and realized in the midst of a comprehensive Scandinavian/European tour in 2008, John Wiese found himself tangled deep in dialogue with his instruments and ideas. Wiese increasingly scrutinized his native tongue and vocabulary, seeking new forms of grammar and cadence, as only extensive dives in unfamiliar waters can inspire. His given electronic anatomy of drum machine, microphones, tapes, and MSP folded out of their hard accustomed formations, breaking out into a more cogent and vital arsenal. "Circle Snare" is the cumulative result -- a finely detailed and dimensional evolution of an already unique voice. Those who have been stalking Wiese all along -- through the landmark statement "Soft Punk," to the recent "Dramatic Accessories" LP -- will find "Circle Snare" to be a revelatory work. As Wiese continues to travel and work relentlessly and restlessly, we have no choice but to keep up; the circle is a spiral from the side, and the greatest trap is standing still."
9/30/2008	Wiese, John	Dramatic Accessories	LP	$27.99	Ultra Eczema	"Luckily wiese doesn't need no introduction, mang did 1234's of colabs, released tons of beauties on his own helicopter label, played with sunn o)), and is a great graphic designer! this record is painfully harsh at times and even more painfully sensitive at times! less a wall of nuttery and buckets full of zist and garbage thrown at your head, more of an aural test to see how much teasing your insides and your flappy ears can stand. a collection of cut-ups from his european tour last year, using guitar, drums, voice, tape, misc.. the perfect soundtrack for cutting your toenails out with a knife. comes in a silkscreened fold open cover design by dennis tyfus. numbered and limited to 300 copies."
3/29/2005	Wiese, John	Magical Crystal Blah Volume 2	CD	$8.99	Helicopter / Kitty Play	“Volume two of a recycling music project. All tracks created in 2004 using John Wiese's original Magical Crystal Blah as source material." Limited edition of 500 copies.
5/14/2007	Wiese, John	Soft Punk	LP	$12.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"After almost 10 years of performing solo and over 50 releases in every conceivable format, John Wiese (Sissy Spacek, et al.) finally unleashes his debut full-length. Thirteen songs of harsh yet beautiful soundscapes that explore the realm of piercing cut-n-paste assemblage and harsh noise."
2/7/2009	Wiese, John & C. Spencer Yeh	Cincinnati	CD	$13.99	Dronedisco	"The cooperative of composer/improvisers John Wiese (Sissy Spacek) and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) reveals itself again, presenting a collection of new works titled "Cincinnati." So far Wiese & Yeh's previous full-length documents have been culled from live performance situations and one could site "Cincinnati" as the duo's first studio album. Recorded face-to-face in late 2007 at Ashworth Tap Room in Cincinnati OH, "Cincinnati" reveals further unexpected developments and strategies of this ongoing partnership. Familiar machineries were primed, but an increasingly alien attitude was fed through and processed into churning and bewildering shapes. The results of these sessions were catalogued and surgically isolated into specimens by Yeh; a little editing employed to carve the forms somewhat presentable, but no "studio trickery" to mask the organic nature. Mastered by Saff Mastering to sharpen the bulbs and polish the blades, the whole of the fourteen tracks form a monumentally intimate body touched by indeterminate intuition, instant composition, and interior logic. Wiese and Yeh first joined together on a stage in Columbus OH, and since then have participated in the No-FI/CMN "Free Noise" 2007 tour in the UK, as well as fireworks-laden travels through coastal, midwest, and southern USA. With many finished missives yet to be issued, and many ideas discussed but not yet realized, the combined restlessness and curiousity of the team insures that "Cincinnati" gestures not only towards the past and present, but the future as well. "Cincinnati" is available in an edition of 500 copies in the increasingly alienated compact disc format. The included 8-page booklet contains a pictoral documenting the typical meeting between the two players."
1/1/2008	Wiese, John / Andy Ortmann	Grux One	LP	$24.99	Rococo Records	"Collaboration with Panicsville's Ortmann & Wiese who has been a member of both Sunn0))) & Merzbow. Limited to 200 copies. Blue Vinyl. Screened Silver on Blue Card stock 2-sided inner sleeve with 12"x12" Metal Laser cut covers."
9/30/2008	Wiggwaum / Poor School	split	LP + CDR	$15.99	Killertree Records	"There's no reason for Jazz not to attack - a split for all seasonz - SF's Wiggwaum terrorize the fuck outta sensibility and give no ga-damned reason for the scars - free sound IS supposed to make it feel not so right and this particular declaration is just the shit bomb hurled from many stories from above. Sometimes it's a Manson orgy audio buried in Death Valley, other times it's blissful fuckin' peaches falling from a Krishna tree. SF/Stereomother's Randy Lee Sutherland heads this one into the back alleys w/ some pals and lose sense of time and practicality in the best way possible. Poor School on the other hand are just trying to make money by "righting" hit records, but they fuck up every time they pick up an instrument - but y'know, when you hear drummer Niekrasz pound out this morse code in "mean method" and the sax/gtr combo add to the arguement - just back off and let 'em justify their "ambitions". Jazz wreckage and difficulties throughout. 300 lps - screened covers by Randy Lee - bonus CDR of lp w/ 2 xtra tracks."
8/2/2008	Wild Gunmen	End Ov The World	CDR	$12.99	Mad Monk	"We're pretty thrilled to offer up the third volume in this series of CDRs by Wild Gunmen. End Ov the World is our favorite of the bunch, because it offers the expected - chaotic wastoid jams, cacaphonous raging, and crude acoustic punk ditties - along with the entirely unexpected - essentially, the album's untitled 12 minute closer, which is by far the best thing the band has ever done. "12" is a monstrous piece of low bass tones, disembodied vocal samples, ominous cascading noise, spooky backward effects, and singer Kristy's deadpan voice (sample lyric: "I hate being raped every day / every day that I live I am raped / Everybody rapes me every day / do you know what it's like to be raped every day?"). Scary shit. This track is unlike anything else in the WG discography, sounding like a cross between Consumer Electronics' Teenage Nuremberg and "Revolution 9" for a post-Mullholland Drive world. There are other highlights as well, like the Godz-style punk of "Up Your Ass" (featuring rare lead vocals by either Ron or Witt), and a nearly lucid cover of "Folsom Prison Blues," complete with train whistle sound effects. Elsewhere, banjos collide with saxophones, guitars feed back mercilessly against found audio, chaos reigns. If you're new to Wild Gunmen, this is the place to start."
3/31/2008	Wild Gunmen	Volume One	CDR	$15.99	Mad Monk	"I was introduced to the music of Wild Gunmen by Russ Waterhouse, who handed me a tape wrapped in silver foil and told me I’d love it. He was right, and I immediately wrote to main Gunman Witt, just telling him how much I liked his band. He wrote me back immediately, promising "years" of more music, and telling me I’d better get ready, because this was some serious shit. He explained that the band - a trio - were ’bad on the biz end’ because they were all saddled with being drug addicts and had also been dealt the unfortunate blow of all being born under the sign of Libra (???). He also told me that two of the members were former FM radio DJs on Cincinnati’s WAIF. A few days later, a package arrived containing three unmarked 90 minute cassettes, and a handwritten letter. The letter featured color copies of a sexy drummer who, Witt explained, was dead now, and another photo of a very young girl who Witt claimed to have taken to see GG Allin. The letter, rife with more references to the copious amount of drugs the band takes, quotes from South Park, and casual boasting, was still not enough to prepare me for the amazingly twisted sounds contained on the tape. Eerie acoustic blues, with oscillator and other various noises, super confessional lyrics sung by what sounds like the demon spawn of Jandek’s gal Nancy and Niagara, and the unmistakable sound of several fucked up adults getting together to rock out in a self-described ’drug infested nut house.’ This one is hard to explain, and frankly, I’m at a loss - a very authentic psychedelic nightmare that may be a little too ’real people’ for it’s own good. Of all the amazing shit coming out of Cowtown lately (and there is a LOT!) this is some of the most fried by far. Some of it maybe sounds a little like Sam Esh? I don’t know, man. Anyway, this is the first of what we hope will be many releases of Wild Gunmen material on Mad Monk. We are super excited to share this with the world! I asked Witt to send me cover art and song titles, and he told me to "just make them up, cause no one here can ever agree on them...our singer Kristy is a drug addict...half the time I just want to kill her. And surprise us and cook up your own design for a CD cover - title it anything you want." Okay, then! Only 150 copies, hurry!"
5/29/2008	Wild Gunmen	Volume Two: Cocain Spyders	CDR	$12.99	Mad Monk	"The second volume in this exciting series by this wastoid troupe from the buckeye state is even better than the first. While the highly popular Volume One introduced the band as the parole board's answer to the Cherry Blossoms, Volume Two: Cocain Spyders (the misspelling is the band's) finds the group more stoned, introspective and deliberate, with oscillators, delay drones, horns, and high pitched feedback squeals taking the place of more 'traditional' instruments. Singer Kristy is, as ever, center stage, singing beautifully harrowing misfit tales of lonely strangers, train wrecks and dreams fading away. Volume Two also features what is perhaps, in our opinion, the quintessential Wild Gunmen track thus far - an untitled jam near the middle of the disc begins like any other paranormal WG track, until Kristy nonchalantly takes a break from singing to audibly converse with her captive party guests about sex and cocain(e), while Witt and Ron, undaunted, lock into a supremely fucked clarinet / guitar duet that sounds like a moonlight meeting between Rafael Toral and Little Howlin' Wolf. When Kristy decides to begin singing again, the track only gets weirder, stretching out over several parts and nearly fifteen minutes like a lost ESP side or perhaps the music the guy who left the desperate answering machine message at the beginning of Charalambides Market Square might have made. As if all of this weren't enough, Volume Two also includes the soon-to-be-punk-classic "(I've Got A) Washboard (For A Stomach)." This is the second in what we hope will be a long running series of releases by Wild Gunmen on Mad Monk, but each one could be the last - word has it a few of the band members are dead set against these releases - so treasure and cherish every minute while it lasts!"
3/21/2009	Wilder, Jeans	Jeans Wilder	cassette	$5.99	Night People	"Jeans Wilder is new loner fuzz under the rug bedroom pop from San Diego that sits both on the sunny side and under the night time. Nostalgic, hazy, real pretty and low key, this one shines when it needs to for sure. Hushed melodies abound and peak through the weird fog for a little bit of glory in the sun when the feeling is suited. Play at night on your headphones, thinking about lost love, abandoned dreams, and what's next. Artwork by SDREED."
2/12/2008	Wildlife	Six	CD	$12.99	Crucial Blast	"A couple months ago (we're talking mid-Spring '07, here), I received an email from Robotic Empire boss Andy Low commanding me to check out a couple of songs that a band from San Francisco called Wildildlife had posted online, immediately. I knew that the dude has a solid idea of what kind of sounds I'm into, so I pulled up the link immediately and was totally blown away by the two Wildildlife tunes that I heard. Heavy, crunchy riffage rolling over celestial FX freakout and gang choral voices, part pop, part neo-psychedelic noisiness, part metalloid skullcrush. Super melodic and catchy but vaguely menacing and dark all at the same time. The band toured through here about a month later, and I was even more floored by their manic live energy; the band summoned up a wicked whirlpool of dense distorto crunch and freaky singing, raging metallic percussive pummel, tribal rhythms and crushing effects-soaked guitars, subdued floatational drones and ecstatically gorgeous melodies, all let loose in a series of sky-streaking eruptions of psychedelic lowcore and swirling, cosmic sludge. Going back to a review that Terrascope Magazine wrote about one of the band's earlier CD-R releases, this sounds vaguely like Black Sabbath and Butthole Surfers jamming together with ancient forest mystics, an experience both brutal and beautiful, and which proves that Wildildlife have already established themselves as serious purveyors of blown-out psych heaviness.These guys have become one of my favorite new bands, and I'm MEGA excited to be presenting their first full length Six through Crucial Blast. The CD version of Six comes in a posh, full-color 4-panel gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton Printers, which houses the disc and a full-color 8-page booklet filled with amazing, surreal photographs by Sabina Holber."
10/1/2002	William Switzer	The Illusion Of Technique	CD	$10.99	Fleece Records	"Improv shenanigans from the duo of Mike Switzer (Slight Surface Noise/Avijit) and Jason Bill (ex-Charalambides / currently Migrantes). Think Incus meets Portsmouth Sinfonia. Kind of like the music that seeps from the moonshine-addled brain of my Uncle Stumpy as he steps in a fire ant mound on the way to the bayou to check the muskrat traps. Ltd. edition of 500 copies."
12/11/2002	Williams, Julian	leaf rain: 1995-2000	CD	$12.99	Rhizome	"A compilation of solo studies from Mr. Williams - leader of Solids, Above Ground Pool, Bamboo Sel, and the mighty, mighty Hi-God People. Whereas in band format Williams goes for all-in group-mind, solo sees the great JW expanding singular vision, with a series of oracular noise and drone masterpieces which touch on Suicide, Gate, outsider rock hermeticism, and so forth. Drawn from self-released titles including 'Makara Dhwaja', 'Effecting Pylons and Medallions' and 'Invisible Soundtracks for Kinetic LSA Lands', this is the premiere document of JW's post-song solo sprawl - guts and all." Edition of 60 copies.
	Windy & Carl / Hopewell	Green/Jim Laffin	7"	$5.99	Burnt Hair	Out of print record from 1996
1/28/2004	Winter, The	Parataxes	CDR	$12.99	Pseudoarcana	"The Winter are a Wellington based improvising trio, and Parataxes is their 1st release. It documents both acoustic and electric live sets that drift from eastern sounding cello led pieces to fairly extreme feed-backy noise. A key member of the group is Wellingtons master of pseudo-autistic intensity, Dave Edwards, whose guitar and harmonica work definitely moves the whole into a fairly edgy sphere. Over such a duration this can make pretty harrowing listening, but sometimes such immersions are worth it."
5/14/2007	Wire Thicket	Dust, Static	3'' CDR	$7.99	Students of Decay	"In describing the debut Wire Thicket album, released on Pseudoarcana in 2006, Antony Milton applied to the duo the term "power-drone." On their second outing, the pair have fully embraced this label and taken it to new, delirious peaks. The title track is a fifteen minute blast of singing, celestial metal; an impassioned, deeply meditative flight into the starry night conjured from guitar, electronics and field recordings. Characteristic of the duo's prior work together, the piece is an excercise in accretion -- with layers and layers of meticulously detailed sound arranged into a furious, beautiful blanket of howling drone. Emerging from the tonal rubble is a second, shorter piece: a reworking of Taiga Remains' "Brilliant Dead Highways" (a piece featured previously on a split 7'' with CJA) - akin to a delicate, drifting calm at the end of an immense storm."
5/7/2004	Wire, The	April 2004 Issue	magazine	$7.99		On the cover: Ghost; Features: Rammellzee, Jack Rose; The Primer: Cecil Taylor; Invisible Jukebox: Luc Ferrari; Dean Roberts, Cocorosie, Pelican.
9/30/2005	Wire, The	August 2005 Issue	Magazine	$8.50		On the cover: Mayo Thompson (The Red Krayola: Since 1967, this Texan guitarist has been pulverising the art and language of rock). Features: Marissa Nadler (The Boston artist and singer owes more to American Gothic than free folk's drifts); Ikuro Takahashi (The ex-Fushitsusha drummer on his switch to rape alarms and mechanical toys); The Skaters (Karaoke machines were never intended for the vocal experiments this Frisco duo put them through); Carla Bozulich's Invisible Jukebox; Musique Actuelle (Byron Coley reports from the Victoriaville Festival); Once upon a time in Brixton: (The first in a new series revisiting significant musical sites: the story of London's Cold Storage studio); Pierre Schaeffer (Goran Vejvoda and Rob Young reappraise the life and work of France's founding father of musique concrète).
12/26/2005	Wire, The	December 2005 Issue	magazine with CD	$8.99		"On the cover: Lightning Bolt (Alan Licht visits the Rhode Island duo who are reconfiguring US Hardcore with their breakneck drum and bass thrash). Features: Tujiko Noriko (The Japanese electronic musician and film maker's naive charm belies a touch of steel); Kang Tae Hwan (The pioneering Korean sax improvisor recalls the tribulations of blowing free under martial law); Susanne Brokesch (Since moving to Brooklyn, the Austrian artist matches her electronica to the paintings of Paula Brook); Invisible Jukebox: Ray Russell; Vashti Bunyan (Rob Young meets the forgotten 60s pop star turned singer-songwriter now championed by the free folk generation); Ken Hyder (Will Montgomery follows the Scottish percussionist's quest for the link between Improv and shamanic trance); The Primer: Jamaican deejays (Brian Marley toasts the titans of talkover, including I-Roy, U-Roy, Big Youth, Dr Alimantado, Dillinger, Trinity and more. All copies of the December issue will come complete with an exclusive free 16 track CD, The Wire Tapper 14. The Wire Tapper 14 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD will be given away free with every copy of the December issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks that together will span the spectrum of the kind of new, underground music that gets featured in the magazine each month, from electronic music, avant rock and new jazz, to dub, hiphop, traditional musics and beyond."
2/5/2004	Wire, The	February 2004 Issue	magazine	$7.50		On the cover: Einstürzende Neubauten in Berlin. Features: Sun City Girls, Primer: Mingus (25th anniversary of death), Joe Boyd, Steven Wray Lobdell, Greg Tate: Invisible Jukebox, Portable, Anthony Pateras. Really cool article/interview with Sun City Girls. Also features Eclipse in the label lore section
2/16/2005	Wire, The	February 2005 Issue	Magazine	$7.99		On the cover: Anthony Braxton ("the grandmaster's apocalyptic new music is informed by a panoramic take on ancient civilizations"). Features: Mike Ladd (American Rapper in Paris), The Primer: Underground Metal (by Edwin Pouncey), Invisible Jukebox: Soft Pink Truth, Dylan Nyoukis (Prick Decay), Gang Gang Dance ("NY's shit-hottest spontaneous rock quartet") Oki (Ainu dubmeister), Hugh Davies (obituary by David Toop).
1/28/2004	Wire, The	January 2004 Issue	magazine	$7.50		On the cover: 2003 rewind, our annual survey of the best underground and outsider music of the last 12 months, including records of the year, writers' pros & cons and musicians' reflections. Features: Arthur Russell, Jerome Noetinger, Basil Kirchin, Matt Rogalsky, Paal Nilssen-Love. Invisible Jukebox: Damon & Naomi.
7/23/2004	Wire, The	July 2004 Issue	Magazine	$7.99		On the Cover: Alvin Lucier. Features: Damo Suzuki, Devendra Banhart, Ellen Fullman, Bark Psychosis, Dylan Nyoukis, Dengue Fever. Invisible Jukebox: Sunn O))).
3/27/2004	Wire, The	March 2004 Issue	magazine	$7.50		On the cover: Clouddead. Features: Double Leopards, Mars, Gyorgy Ligeti, Art Bears, Bernhard Gal, Olga Neuwirth. Invisible Jukebox: Four Tet. Epiphany: David Stubbs on Faust.
5/10/2004	Wire, The	May 2004 Issue	magazine	$7.99		Cover story: The state of song: a major survey of alternative, underground and outsider music that offers an idiosyncratic take on the songwriting tradition in rock, pop, jazz and beyond, from David Sylvian writing songs that incorporate the tone and character of collaborators like Jon Hassell, Derek Bailey and Fennesz to Jamie Liddell deconstructing soul to Patti Smith's wordscrees on the legendary Horses album to Diamanda Galas's dirges, elegies and covers, and on. Features: The Hafler Trio; Takehisa Kosugi; Buck 65's invisible jukebox; Nautical Almanac; Steve Hubback; Laurie Spiegel.
5/8/2005	Wire, The	May 2005 Issue	Magazine	$7.99		On the cover: Electrelane (How Steve Albini, The Ex and a passing US military train helped shape their formidable rock noise). Features: Foetus (With a new album and a bunch of orchestral side projects, Jim Thirwell's career just changed gear); Kali Z Fasteau, Alex von Schlippenbach, Josephine Foster, Boris (Japan's heaviest power outfit); Annie Gosfield (the star-mapping soundworld of this innovative New York composer), Wojt3k Kucharczyk (the founder of Poland's Mik.Musik!. electronica label); Steve Beresford's Invisible Jukebox.
12/10/2003	Wire, The	November 2003 Issue	magazine	$7.50		Aphex Twin on the cover - features on Taku Sugimoto, Spectral Music, Burning Man Festival / US Anti-Rave Legislation, Earth, Gloria Coates, Erik Friedlander, Tim Hecker. Invisible Jukebox with Christian Marclay.
12/24/2005	Wire, The	October 2005 Issue	magazine	$8.99		"On the cover: Boards of Canada (In a rare interview on home turf, the Scottish gnarly electronica duo share campfire stories with Rob Young). Features: Jarboe (The prolific ex-Swans singer tells Marc Masters about The Men Album in her life); Alexander Tucker (The UK guitarist and comic book artist clears up some foggy notions about his dark avant folk); Birchville Cat Motel (New Zealand feedback guitarist Campbell Neale discusses his Metal project Black Boned Angel); Invisible Jukebox: Warren Ellis (The Dirty Three/Bad Seeds); Elaine Radigue (The Parisian electronic composer discovers an appetite for collaboration with The Lappetites); New London silence (Clive Bell remaps the city with third generation improvisers Mark Wastell, Phil Durrant, Rhodri and Angharad Davies)."
4/16/2007	Witch	Local Band Nitemare	DVD-R	$9.99	Blueberry Honey	"A genuine 'fan club' style look into the phenomenon that is WITCH. Though the band's gene pool gathers from a variety of places, there is a feeling from their most basic inspiration that reveal them to be much like any other small town band. And from there they present their message of ROCK. This short film (just over 20 minutes) captures these most honest and inside moments of a band just getting it's feet on the ground, only to find the ground moving at unimaginable speed. Live footage, practice room insights, hotel rooms, vansŠ packaged in a folded sleeve like all BLUEBERRY HONEY releases thus far. Also has bonus presentation of the first song from WITCH's first ever live performance!"
3/26/2006	Witch	Witch	CD	$14.99	Tee-Pee	"The debut album from this new band featuring DINOSAUR JR.'s J MASCIS on drums, along with longtime friend DAVE SWEETAPPLE, and FEATHERS members KYLE THOMAS and ASA IRONS. A mighty sonic tumult that harkens back to the classic heavy metal sound of the early 1970s, while maintaining a modern feel." - Revolver
4/24/2006	Witch	Witch	LP	$15.99	Tee-Pee	"The debut album from this new band featuring DINOSAUR JR.'s J MASCIS on drums, along with longtime friend DAVE SWEETAPPLE, and FEATHERS members KYLE THOMAS and ASA IRONS. A mighty sonic tumult that harkens back to the classic heavy metal sound of the early 1970s, while maintaining a modern feel." - Revolver
9/30/2005	Witcyst	did an eggburger	CDR	$12.99	Beniffer Editions	"I heard recently that New Zealand is home to a glut of overzealous noise-boys, striking preposterous stances on main intersections with their personal-sized stereos trumpeting polished Anita Baker/ power-electronic remixes. They strike those kinds of poses like they're fitting their digits into the belt-loops in their dungeries, but they're just kind of fitting them into they elastic waist-bands of their boxer-briefs/ horking up all kinds of rewired heart moniters and black shit. If this is the case, you'll find our good man Michael on all fours in the cracked-out part of town, barking at a ventilation duct with all sorts of malfunction taped to himself. I haven't heard much Witcyst, but I know what i like! So does Michael. And what we have here is an assured mix of radio autism, clunk n' slop geetar and dismantled tape-fuckery, all somewhat down-played by looming smog cover, low fidelity as all shit! Think of a three-way bastard son of Le Forte Four, Ryoji Ikeda and Inca Eyeball. Or y'know, Witcyst. Comes in a handmarbled foldover and some New Zealand weather trivia."
9/30/2005	Witcyst	Epino	CDR	$12.99	Root Don Lonie For Cash	No idea what this one is - not even sure the title is right. I ordered these in March 2004 - got them in July 2005!
	Witcyst	Roslyn	CD	$13.99	Insample	"Witcyst is a collagist of discarded rubbish as much as creator of more of the same. Muffled lullabies, creepy atmospheres, low-fi skree, tape manipulation, found sounds and snippets of all sorts of crap are attached to one another like a big, sick worm-dog. Packed in a full-color 7" booklet." "Roslyn" was originally planned as a 7" release several years ago After much delay (on our part), it will finally emerge, expanded, on the digital format. And provides opportunities far beyond those offered through the dozens of acetate 7"'s, hundreds of tapes available in very limited quantities on his Extemporization imprint - to hear Whangarei's Witcyst. What is offered here is a 44 track take on over 10 years worth of sound creation that runs the gamut of expression; be it lost in the woods alien folk mumble to blinding, planet colliding psyche excess to primitive 'noise' mayhem. Witcyst fleshes out an unheralded dimension of the contemporary NZ scene. The project is now completed with the printing of the 8 page, full colour 7" sized booklet of Witcyst's unparalleled collage art." 1999 release.
5/8/2005	With Throats As Fine As Needles	Czechoslovakia	CDR	$14.99	Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon	"Recorded in abandoned artillery bunkers and tunnels in the hills around Wellington, 'Czechoslovakia' represents the unleashing of a beautiful new duo featuring Mr Pseudoarcana and Mr Psi Phenomenon. Damp concrete cellars resonate ever so gently with the breeze of voices raised to a whisper. Grimy soul-expansion from the inert mouths of AA batteries and rolls of sellotape. Filthy psyche of a most minimal variety. Cough... cough..."
4/16/2007	Withdrawal Method	Live Letting	cassette	$8.99	Heavy Tapes	"We first met Drew from Withdrawal Method / Since 1972 at the first No Fun festival -- he was selling tapes and hanging with the Nyoukis/Brighton crew, and his tapes were killer. After finding about his music project Withdrawal Method by a few bootleg live shows and officially released cassettes, we asked Drew for a master, and he gave us two live performances -- an optimal way to enjoy his sounds. Rough, live, purely electronic, these two pieces defy description -- just bury your head in the sand and trust us on this one."
3/2/2005	Witthuser & Westrupp	Trips Und Träume	LP	$18.99	Think Progressive	“First issued by the ever-legendary OHR label in 1971. An absolute classic of drifting, cosmic folk, easily sitting up there with other German stoner classics like Broselmaschine, Emtidi, or Holderlin.” - FE
3/2/2005	Witthüser & Westrupp	Der Jesuspilz	LP	$18.99	Think Progressive	“This 1971 release by the German acid-folk duo takes on the Bible with this wacky, experimental interpretation played out with mellotron, electric guitar freakouts, flute, accordion, wind chimes, acoustic guitar, vocal drones and more. Gatefold sleeve, original artwork, 180 gram vinyl, German import.”
3/2/2005	Witthüser, Bernd	Lieder von Vampiren, Nonnen und Toten	LP	$18.99	Think Progressive	“Actually the first album by progressive acid-folk duo Witthüser & Westrupp, this 1970 release on the Ohr label is much more minimal than their later releases, concentrating on what they call ‘pop cabaret’: purely acoustic, emphasizing their vocal harmonies and spare, though sometimes odd instrumentation, and ranging from very dark to downright sweet to very traditional-sounding cabaret tunes. And yes, it's all in German. Gatefold sleeve, original artwork, 180 gram vinyl, German import.”
11/21/2009	Wizzard Sleeve	Make The World Go Away	LP	$14.99	Horizontal Action	"Just as the harrowing chill of summer's slow death drifts across the land, the skin-crawling death-punk masterpiece debut LP from Alabama's confederate glue-wave goth 'tards, WIZZARD SLEEVE hits the shelves and drags all the sinister vibrations from the ugly side of psychedelia right up front where it belongs. As their influences have cited, and the self-described trinity of Chrome, Crime and Creedence settles into place in your chemically-damaged skull, and the unexpectedly danceable hits from their string of vile, self-depreciating 7-inch singles are reborn with a devastatingly murky effect that will drag you down into a hole faster than any over-the-counter anti-anxiety cocktail you've ever ingested. Like Peter Murphy sucking on a tailpipe, Wizzard Sleeve are the end of the line for your happy good times and the start of a new atrocious standard in head-expanding, zooed-out and shut-in true punk weirdness that won't be getting many brownie points with mom, dad, church leaders, or parole officers anytime soon."
3/2/2005	Wlight, Johann	All Thee Starres Laugh Softly Like Five Hundred Million Little Bells	3" CDR	$7.99	Firstperson	"All Thee Starres Laugh Softly Like Five Hundred Million Little Bells new release of wonderfully understated, melancholic hiss, drone & stutter from former Nidnod head honcho". 3" cdr housed in hand-made clear acetate covers with information printed on one side and an image on the other.
7/14/2007	Wolf Eyes	Black Wing Over The Sand	CD	$17.99	Kning Disk	"Since Wolf Eyes formation during the end of the 90s up until today, their musical output has grown into an impressive oeuvre and gained them successes granted only a few bands. Their style places them somewhere in the border area between experimental music, freeform, noise and harsh industrial. Black Wing Over The Sand is one long session (on vinyl divided on side A and B) that from the very first beginning lays bare the roots of Wolf Eyes: here is an evident presence of the industrial music of the early 1980s with bands such as Throbbing Gristle, Maurizio Bianchi (MB) and Gary Mundy's cassette label Broken Flag. Instead of the harsh dissonances and compact walls of noise Wolf Eyes are well known for, the wholly instrumental piece moves slowly forward over a basis of silence. In that way Black Wing Over The Sand belongs to one of the band's more accessible pieces of music, and is an excellent introduction to the dark cosmos of Wolf Eyes. With oscillating movements, Wolf Eyes conjure up short bursts of noise with screaming high pitched tones where a rhythmic deep and slow bass soon sets in, disappears, returns, increases pace, disappears and returns again. Electric guitar, echo effects and sweeping sounds creates powerfully nerved effects over the slow rhythm. Black Wing Over The Sand is yet another proof of how Wolf Eyes, simultaneously looking backwards and distinctly lets themselves be influenced by the hidden musical undercurrents that lies most close to their heart, with little means and creative craftsmanship succeeds in creating something altogether new, exciting and always unexpected."
9/17/2006	Wolf Eyes	Dog Jaw	LP	$13.99	Heresee	"Everyone loved it so much on cdr we brought it out on lp. This is audio recorded before dilloway left the band and mixed by twig harper at the wolf eyes studio. The lp is 33 on one side and 45 on the other, screenprinted cover, 600 pressed."
11/25/2004	Wolf Eyes	Fuck Pete Larsen	CD	$12.99	Wabana	“As a follow up to their second release 'Dread' on Bulb Records, Ann Arbor's cassette culture noise therapists hit back hard with an unofficial LP release on Bad Glue Records. Even though the band won't take credit for the album's pointed title, they later agreed that it was very fitting. The LP was limited to 600 copies and sold out immediately. That was in the summer of 2002. This is a CD re-release of that LP which is part of Wabana's ‘Re-issue the LP’ campaign. Wolf Eyes utilize old school analog electronic equipment to lay the basic tones of their music which is then highlighted and ripped apart by electric guitar, horns, homemade noise contraptions and intense vocals. For those unfamiliar with these guys, comparisons are often drawn to Throbbing Gristle or Whitehouse. Since the release of the original LP version, Wolf Eyes have released material on Hanson Records, Troubleman, as well as turbo limited cdrs and lps on a plethora of small underground labels.”
3/2/2005	Wolf Eyes	Fuck the Old Miami	12"	$13.99	Important Records	"12" vinyl featuring the entire live performance on the A side and a B side etching hand carved into the original laquers by Wolf Eyes. On their home lathe Wolf Eyes cut playable grooves into and around the etching, playable at your own risk. We're not aware of any record ever released to contain a playable etching on the B side."
2/4/2007	Wolf Eyes	Live Lawrence, Kansas / Chicago	cassette	$8.99	Fag Tapes	"....live to tape recorded by juice. this tour was so fucking amazing !!! SIXES in the sound booth bitch !!! edition 77."
5/31/2009	Wolf Eyes	Moods In Free Time	CDR	$5.99	Gods of Tundra	"New tests from the Comfort Zone. Minimal distortions and disturbances..gearing up to remain always wrong."
2/11/2006	Wolf Eyes	Six Arms and Sucks (Live in Porto)	CDR	$19.99	Esquilo Records	"Recorded live in Porto this release shows a different side of Wolf Eyes. Clearly uncomfortable for playing to a sitted audience, the band throws an unsetting 30 minutes long improvised track ranging from quiet moments - where scrapped metal, electronics and horns melt - to the most explosive harsh noise and guttural vocals. But this was not the end. Without warning, Wolf Eyes start a 2 songs medley. Both well know for the Wolf's concert goers. Minimal beats, distorted guitars, cracked-up electronics and noisy vocals fill the remaining 20 minutes. This edition comes in a gatefold cardboard sleeve with silkscreened original art designed by Soopa. Limited to 200 copies."
7/30/2006	Wolf Eyes	The Driller	12"	$6.99	Sub Pop	"There's a new Wolf Eyes single on the horizon! "The Driller" is from the upcoming Wolf Eyes album Human Animal out Sept 26. Mixed By Aaron Dilloway and BMG." Fucked up.
4/24/2006	Wolf Eyes	untitled	7"	$25.99	AA Records	One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label.
5/7/2004	Wolf Eyes & Black Dice	Wolf Eyes & Black Dice	CD	$12.99	Fusetron	"The first young shorty that ever made my preteen heart sweat at night was Brandy Salem. So fine. The stage was set for some serious 8-year-old dating action but I got snaked by this lame dude named Shawn Murphy who won Brandys eye by shuffling baseball cards faster & being a little crazier on his four-wheel green machine. It killed me ... all summer I tried to get faster on the cards & upstage everyone on the street big wheel scene, but alas, no Salem. She moved to Iowa, still think of her when that "Im in love with the sea" song comes on. Fucking Shawn.... Fast forward 21 years ... in the game of pure electronic hard-core insanity, Wolf Eyes hear rumors of this RI band of PCP chair-throwing HC yahoos who hold the crown on violence & sonic terror. Fuck that. We thought we were the end of the well in electronic napalm. This Black Dice band wanted to play in Detroit ... no one will do it. Fear of violence/death threats/general horror left them with no gig. "Why would I wanna book a band who is gonna beat up my friends?" was the local consensus. So BD get a Monday gig at Club Olson/my basement in quiet Ferndale, home to a handful of whacked out electronic misfit gigs. Neighbors of the crib being left side= young couple / right side = quiet lesbian couple with child. My cell rings nonstop days before the gig with crazed young HC fiends asking if the gig is true. I start to get nervous, then I hear they need like 30,000 watts for their gig. What the? Gig day/come home from my office job & the Dice dudes are waiting for me. These are the horrible terror junkies who stab people when they play? All I see is smiles, loafers, Bjorn playing with a kid, and starry-eyed-vacant-brain Danny. Weird. Then they load in; mounds of amplifiers, mounds. The whole basement looking like Iron Maiden was gonna play. Wolf Eyes jams, we think it is intense, whatever. Then they play ... starting with solo recorder and then / WHOA /the most violent, insane, Hiroshima tidal roar of basement sonic terror EVER. EVER. We never heard or witnessed anything so massive. We have seen the Merzbows, the Skin Crimes, the Gravitars, Youth In Asia, whatever.. This was in a totally different sound universe where the air is filled with concrete. It was louder in the street than it was in the basement black hole of sound. Imagine Black Dice playing in your fucking basement on a Monday night! Jesus. No neighbor complaints. Changed our view on sound/terror/attack. This was our challenge; meet this Dice volume unholiness on the same sonic field before Shawn Murphy & his Outlaw band does it better. Dudes were so cool two of them even slept in the basement. Awesome. So we became best friends. Nate called me at work the next morning & said "we are gonna do a record together" I laughed ... that would rule... So fast forward another two years. Here is it is. Recorded at a subterranean Chinatown studio in two days. Tons of jacked EQ, no space, cases of brew, clouds of smoke, Guinness record for most times 'Dude' was said. We met on equal ground here. Total respect/the record really sounds like the shadow of each band. It was a blast. Play it on 16 rpm in a closet and jam along with the bones of an enemy. Me, it would be playing the remains of that rat fucker Shawn Murphy, dude couldnt shake shit at this horrible eerie black pond sound." - John Olson, Wolf Eyes, October 2003. Different recordings than the American Tapes CDRs. Recorded Oct 2001. CD features 2 extra tracks.
11/20/2003	Wolf Eyes & Black Dice	Wolf Eyes & Black Dice	LP	$29.99	Fusetron	"Here is it is. Recorded at a subterranean Chinatown studio in two days. Tons of jacked EQ, no space, cases of brew, clouds of smoke, Guinness record for most times 'Dude' was said. We met on equal ground here. Total respect. The record really sounds like the shadow of each band. It was a blast. Play it on 16 rpm in a closet and jam along with the bones of an enemy. Me, it would be playing the remains of that rat fucker Shawn Murphy, dude couldn't shake shit at this horrible eerie black pond sound." - John Olson, Wolf Eyes, October 2003. Recorded Oct 2001 - different material than the limited cdr's on American Tapes.
11/4/2006	Wolf Eyes & John Wiese	Collection	CD	$11.99	Hanson	A wicked-ass collection of all the songs from a 7-inch and two CDRs released by WOLF EYES with JOHN WIESE on the American Tapes label between 2003 and 2004. Digitally remastered by Wiese this year, and available for mass consumption for the first time. Not to be confused with the recently released Equinox CD.
11/4/2006	Wolf Eyes & John Wiese	Equinox	CD	$9.99	Troniks	"Equinox is the fourth collaboration between WOLF EYES and JOHN WIESE. Following several JOHN OLSON-produced releases on his American Tapes label, Equinox is the first collaborative album produced by Wiese and features the lineup of AARON DILLOWAY, John Olson, NATE YOUNG, and John Wiese. "After jamming onstage early in this period at the Casbah in San Diego and using the material to put out the "Live" 7-inch, this CD further pushes the electronic confusion hurricane into truly brain fungus clawing vine sound territory. Wieses horror/librarian approach to noise sculpture and his surgical skillz at scattering sound is fully matched and paired with the lurking, sweating Anti-Intelligence live Wolf Bombast. Including totally strange piece with the crew watching fireworks in Echo Park and chuckling it up with brews in hand after a three hour drive from homeland Michigan. Hopefully your CD player in car will spit this disgusting sound platter back at you to stuff inside a lacquered decay piece of road killed raspberry splatter babies."
12/4/2003	Wolf Eyes & John Wiese	Live San Diego 2003	7"	$24.99	American Tapes	"Finally out, Two sides of live death -ray hollowness captured raw in the horrible city of San Diego at the Casbah. Side one is stow away tone skull drift, thick & eerie. Side two is a crunching version of ‘Reign of Terror,’ & ends with a violent clip from the notorious MPLS Church riot gig. The amazing & death serious ex-Youth of Today Wiese plays all handmade tone generators on both tracks. Split release with the killer Helicopter label, was gonna be screened but due to the gnarly cover & tough back photo of the jam boyz, had to go with the Copy Max Xerox, but still hand-painted & primitive. Edition of 400, numbered. Third Wolf collab, Smegma one out in a week or so on Destijl."
5/14/2007	Wolf Eyes / Failing Lights / Spykes / Nate Young	untitled	DBL LP picture disc	$24.99	Troubleman Unlimited	Also known as the 'solo' record. This is a reissue of a double cassette that came out a while ago on Gods Of Tundra. Each member of Wolf Eyes does a side solo, and then the band does a tune together. Failing Lights = Mike, Spykes = John, Nate Young = Nate, Wolf Eyes = Wolf Eyes. Intense double picture disk LP housed in plain black gatefold cover. Ltd to 1000 copies."
9/17/2006	Wolf Eyes / Grey Daturas	The Black Plague	CD	$16.99	Heathen Skulls	"To coincide with their Australian Tour together, Industrial Noise pioneers Wolf Eyes (Detroit, USA) & Art Noise Rockers Grey Daturas (Melbourne, Australia) have recorded a number of exclusive tracks each for a Limited Edition (1000 copies only) Split Tour CD entitled The Black Plague. Released by Melbourne label Heathen Skulls, the Australian CD version of the Split Tour EP is packaged in a dark black deluxe Digi Pack. All 8 tracks presented by Wolf Eyes and Grey Daturas on this EP give you a taste of things to come, as both artists have new Albums out later in the year."
12/26/2005	Wolf Eyes / Prurient	The Warriors	CD	$12.99	Hospital Productions	2005 release (already out of print) featuring the current Wolf Eyes lineup of Young, Olson and Connelly and the brutal noise from Prurient's Dominick Fernow. Nice!
4/25/2008	Wolf Eyes / Sickness	There Is A Part Of Me That You Will Never Know	LP	$15.99	Hospital Productions	"Hospital Productions is proud to release the first ever collaboration between these two legends, Wolf Eyes and Sickness. This is not haphazard but a symbiotic collaboration bridging distant roads. This full length LP is a dark casket of scorched earth sounds, the remains of the cracks at the after shock of discovery. Reminding us of the peaks in either artists catalog There Is A Part Of Me That You Will Never Know processes the deepest sounds of these four masters in a haze of lone atmosphere and true noise. This is not not a terror shock, this is the end."
11/23/2004	Wolf Eyes / Smegma	The Beast	CD	$12.99	DeStijl	"Smegma man, fucking Smegma. They started the whole damn thing. Sure there was Lee Rocky & some soundeffects 78s that set the crew in motion but screw it.. you wouldn't be blasting The Beast or any Weird Handdrawn LP with rotten ears if it wasn't for this truly motley crew. In high school my sweet momma would give me ten bones a week for lunch, come Monday by noon that shit was blown at the local rec shop. When I only had a couple of raggedy bux left from gripping Zorlac stickers, the only option was the dollar bin at the store. It was there that John Bender, Haystacks Balboa, Nik Reicnek, & Peter Catham LPs blew open my teen mind to the netherworlds. Among the giants was this homemade wreckord by Ju Suk Reet Meat. Looked amazing.. had no idea. Threw it on for nearly every day since. Mutant loops, improv from alien swamp prom & deviant horrible ideas. Changed my life. Just what a young mind needed to replace the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Found out later it was from the Smegma camp, a strange unknown mystery troupe from Portland. No photos ever... just a numbling clip on a RRR comp video Lessard gave me & Dilloway, a tunnel view into the spiritual mecca that would the Smegma klan. Before the first Wolf jaunt out west we dropped them a postcard saying it would be good to meet. Soon it mangled into a recording session. We would be so honored. The day came. The Smegma house, totally pink, queued us in to rainy green Portland. We knocked. A femme voice said through the door, 'use the bell'. Nate pushed it and out came a gargled electronic siren. The door opened, Rock 'n Roll Jackie, 5 foot tall, grinning & long beautiful grey hair. We all fell in love. Soon after we meet Ju Suk & one by one slowly met all the Smegmas in one of the strangest nights ever. Burned Mind, Meltzer, Stan, Amazon Bambi, others. All weird as hell, checking us as much as us checking them. Yep, this is who we wanted to be with the rest of our lives... the Michigan crew had never been so inspired & moved but by this unholy blending of mutant minds... So we jammed. It was fucking amazing. Here are the results. Every year we are going to see them & hang like the best friend weirdo family. A total pilgrimage. Nate & I once got so blasted from Portland cloud that we projected that Smegma has always existed, ever since the beginning of time. Someone will always carry it on... might be this dude in Ypsi who has no face. Really. No nose, barely a mouth, always has a broken arm or something.. smells like shit. Dude is totally in Smegma. Fucking life rules." - John Olson
7/16/2006	Wolf Eyes / The Skull Defekts	Yes, I Am Your Angel	LP	$17.99	Fang Bomb	"A dark split LP battle featuring noise gigants Wolf Eyes and experienced Swedish newcomers The Skull Defekts. Wolf Eyes needs no further introduction, and neither would The Skull Defekts, had you already known the musical history of these men, ranging from Union Carbide Productions and Kid Commando to Alvars Orkester, as well as Anticimex, Cortex, and Lucky People Center. Hear feedback and rhythm merge and/or collide, slowly." A recorded by Wolf Eyes. B recorded by Henrik Rylander & Joachim Nordwall in Studio Dental, Göteborg, Sweden on January 11, 2006. Pressed on white vinyl.
12/24/2005	Wolf in the Breast	Wolf in the Breast	cassette	$6.99	Skullfucking Tapes	"Rural Wisconsin mystery gang appeared near the center of the city to stage outdoor ritual here captured on cassette."
7/14/2007	Wolfmangler	Cooking with Wolves	CD	$13.99	Digitalis	"Where there are wolves, there is the digger Smolken. Left for dead two years ago when he left the murderous heat of Central Texas for the place of his birth, Poland, Wolfmangler has now been recast in rusted iron for its latest incarnation. Once a revolving door of different lineups, Wolfmangler is now the sole brainchild of Smolken. One thing remains the same, however. This is still some of the grimmest, most desolate doom metal on the planet. Following a split CD with Moss and a full-length release on UK metal institution, Aurora Borealis, "Cooking With Wolves" is Smolken's first Wolfmangler release in it's new Polish form. What he concocts barely qualifies as music. It's more like the sonic equivalent of the Black Death. Heavy bass riffs, pounded and beaten into tracts of molten lava, spew pure dissonance like venom from a forked tongue. It is music for the funeral of civilization, an epic dirge to finally burn out the fire of the sun. Wolfmangler is a unique entity, creating music unlike anyone else. Somewhere between black metal forests and Eastern European folk lies this bizarre hybridization. "Cooking With Wolves" uses an arsenal of acoustic and electric basses, bent and bowed into a cohesive, battered doom-orchestra. Smolken combines traditionals and Cole Porter tracks with original compositions. Further, no guitars were used in the making of these recordings. It's what classical music would sound like in hell. Inside each aural molasses coccoon, Smolken's trademark growl pierces through the murk to lead everyone and everything through the mountains to the sacrifice. These songs are a complete experience, each one drawing more blood than the previous. "Cooking With Wolves" is a slow-acting poison. These shattered, shambolic acoustic death folk romps are a thing of pristine grandeur, boiled into a bubbling black mess. I can think of no better way to march toward the gallows with rotting skulls in hand. Packaged in beautifully silkscreened black-cardboard jackets."
10/25/2008	Wolfmangler	Cooking With Wolves	LP	$17.99	Black Horizons	"This is the vinyl edition of Wolfmangler's CD release on Digitalis Industries, minus the bonus tracks. The core tracks of the release make for a perfect LP. This has been extensively written up all over the place, so I won't go into detail, expect avant folk by way of doom metal depression. All acoustic. Packaged in a silkscreened glue pocket sleeve, red and silver on black stock, same as the CD version, but with expanded art. Includes 3 inserts, screened in the same colors with printed labels. Edition of 500, 250 on black and 250 on red."
11/4/2006	Wolfmangler	Dwelling in a Dead Raven for the Glory of Crucified Wolves	CD	$13.99	Aurora Borealis	"Smolken of DEAD RAVEN CHOIR returns with 6 forest dirges. Perhaps even more lumbering and grim than the acclaimed split with MOSS? 'Dwelling in a Dead Raven for the Glory of Crucified Wolves' "follows the chamber doom quartet lineage of their previous releases, the bass/bass/double bass here being augmented by what sounds like a flute and maybe a French horn. And a big drum. The drum and flute give songs...an almost Korean court music feel, but the French horn pulls the soupy bass throb closer to Noggin The Nog territory. There's also a kind of Ray Harryhausen feel, something reminescent of the awakening of a plasticine dragon or the approach of clunkily animated skeletons holding swords, maybe one skelly has one of those spiky ball and chain thingies. If you could sonically render the effect of heavy rags being hypnotically stirred into a cauldron of molten pitch with a severed antler this is the sound you would get. " - PLAN B magazine. Cover art by ALEXANDER TUCKER.
3/2/2008	Wolfmangler	Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves	DBL LP	$23.99	Aurora Borealis	"Wolfmangler is the musical vision of Polish revelator D. Smolken, formerly of Dead Raven Choir. His music is slow, grim, noisy and shambling, a deconstructed hybrid of twisted folk and hinterland doom-metal. Bowed double bass, electric bass, flute, French horn and violin merge with sinister growls and whispered vocals rich with the symbolism of life and decay, creating a listening experience at once unsettling, twisted and darkly beautiful."
11/21/2009	Woman's Skin	"...Is Seen Thru..."	CDR	$9.99	American Tapes	"Ugggh.....just a creepin creepy image there. This new anti-tone unit is, sadly to say anti BLACKHAWK. If you have seen a mug in the last half a year, chances are: you've either seen or chilled in the zone whip supreme THE BLACK HAWK. The Hawk is down, it wants to work with you, take your crew there, be along for the good times, road style. BUT: It HATES Woman's Skin: Everytime I bump it, the audio system shuts down. Dead. Has to restart. TERRIBLE TONES. Sharp cuts. NOISE. LOUD. Woman's Skin: Cant be Played in the BLACK HAWK. Its like Waves cousin from up north, with OCD and Restless Leg Syndrome, speaking at an engagement w/o a PA and screaming loud. Nasty! Seen Thru but not seen in the HAWK!! Maybe your ride is more accommodating. Could only be on CD b/cause of shriek factor. Color covers, edition of 30, numbered."
5/14/2007	Women in Tragedy	Constellations	CDR	$13.99	Cut Hands	"Twilight drone damage to rock out to from one of the most promising dudes to come out of Canada. Some of these pieces stretch from ecstatic Mouthus junk to drugged out Skaters vibes. Beautiful slowmo build ups with Klaus Schulze like organ tones, drifting vocal bliss and even some textured harshness to highlight this guy's versatility. Limited to 40 numbered copies in plastic vinyl sleeves with paint splattered covers."
10/25/2008	Women In Tragedy	Total Fucking Romance	LP	$16.99	Music Fellowship	"Coming out of the dank dark testosterone-fueled underbelly of noise, Bob McCully's Women In Tragedy project offers a skewed perspective in that he is kind of a softy. His music sits nicely beside the post-Wolf Eyes noise/industrial/drone genre that focuses on depravity and doom which includes acts like Robedoor, Prurient, Hive Mind, etc. However, McCully takes his name from a series of Lars von Trier movies: Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, and Dancer in the Dark, and this sort of sensitive and woeful take on people in extreme agony is just as evident in his music as the horror film torturer's glee that is common to the genre. Kneeling over a vast array of distortion pedals and processors, he pipes in synthesizers, guitars, and screams to create thick, harsh sounding loops and walls of sound. The emotional warmth evident despite the deafening buzz and crumble gives the project a Jesu or Nadja-like intamcy and immediacy. Limited to 300 LPs, Total Fucking Romance is Women In Tragedy's first mass produced album after dozens of earlier long gone limited edition releases on a wide array of both important and unknown microlabels, including Ruralfaune, Cut Hands, Turgid Animal, Long Long Chaney, Middle James Co., Brise Cul, and others, including a split cassette with Mouthus on the Wintage label. Being his first major release, Total Fucking Romance is Women In Tragedy's most thoughtfully planned and executed work yet. Half of the album delves into more structured "pop" terrain, using rigid drum patterns and heavy rock melodies, while the other half swims in his usual free drone psychedelia. Both styles still sound uniquely Women In Tragedy - a big, multilayered sound of bells and buzzsaws perfect for headphone-based sensory overload."
2/23/2004	Wood, Bill / Fredrik Ness Sevendal	Song of Degrees	LP	$19.99	Humbug	"Collaboration between New Zealand's Bill Wood (1/3 Octave Band)and Norway's Fredrik Ness Sevendal (Slowburn, sometime DEL member,etc). Both have pursued impressive anti-careers, dabbling with homespun guitar abstraction which they've taken to new ends here...."Song of Degrees" is an out-in-the-open navigation through alien swamp-blues, shimmering drones, churning, slow-burning feedback, gritty textures....we're pretty excited about this one, our first LP release! Ends with a solo track from each. 200 copies made - numbered."
12/25/2005	Wood, Cameron	Cameron Wood	3" CDR	$7.99	Rhizome	"Modern fog banks from reclusive guitar king. Think Ashtray Navigations, Total etc.. The real mist. Ltd to 50, no repress."
3/3/2005	Wooden Cupboard, The	Animals Speak The Spirit Tongue	CDR	$9.99	267 Lattajjaa	"Ritualistic psychedelia, includes an insert. This recording dries the blood off the dark forest with candles, then unearths the lead goblet where animals speak to spirits and trees." "The moral to Animals Speak the Spirit Tongue is that you have to do a lot of mediation before you can achieve Zen. The album's first three songs and 18 minutes are relatively confrontational and atonal, but once you break through those songs, the last six minutes are beauty and bliss. The album starts with 'Crystal Agony' where sustained tones from feedback create an Eastern European folk vibe. The clarinet creates a slide-whistle type sound as tribal hand-drumming and distorted chants and ohhms create tension. This tension gives way to 'Eternities Diamond Prison Syst,' where muted screams, scratches, and banging haunt the space. 'Enternity Has a Landlord' begins the transcendence, as chimes and meditative guitar create pleasant tones underneath a hailstorm of clatter. The last two songs, 'Spirits and Retribution' and 'Walkin' Gilded Coals,' are the blissful end to the album. In the first, a fluttery flute floats on top of a bellowing cloud of keyboards. The soft sounds melt into each other, creating a gentle, free glide. In the latter, a clutter of clanging keyboards, chimes, and metal percussion creates a dense but pleasant bed of texture. The wyrd folk version of 'Acknowledgement'/'Resolution'/'Pursuance'/'Psalm'? 10/12' - Jim Steed, Fakejazz
9/15/2004	Wooden Cupboard, The	Boiling the Animal in the Sky	3" CDR	$9.99	Pseudoarcana	"One of the most exciting listens I've had this year was the Skaters and Wooden Cupboard releases that have come out on Nature Tape Limb. I'm still unsure exactly how many people are involved in these particular projects but they sure manage to make a hell of a joyous and utterly insane ecstatic racket on their disks. The overall sound they capture is reminiscent of the recordings by Angus MacLise of tripping screaming hippies involved in dodgy rituals in Nepal in the early 70s, with crazy drumming and loops of lo-fi noise, except that rather than hippies it sounds more the ritual is being conducted by a cult of hyperactive and demonic elves... But its GOOD! Extraordinarily energising music and one of my all time faves for the label so far."
4/10/2009	Wooden Shjips	Dos	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"How many music bloggers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, computer screens are backlit. Here we have a WOODEN SHJIPS record the world saw coming-not titled II, Sophomore, or Second, but Dos. The group maintains its strident pace like a silverfish rave in perfectly folded bedsheets, with more bounce per ounce as life goes jogging with bopping heads and digging heels. Five numbers whose style might fit as cozily at La Cave in 1968 as at Ibiza in 1988. Natural loops with just enough vocals take you where the khakis and the cut-offs play together. Dos sounds off as the inauguration speech of a group accepting the minimalist psych bop crown that once adorned the likes of Neu and Loop. If possible, their brand of whipping fuzz hooks have gotten groovier. Wooden Shjips' debut album and various singles have established them as one of the best psych bands to inhabit this earthly realm."
4/22/2009	Wooden Shjips	Dos	LP + download coupon	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"How many music bloggers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, computer screens are backlit. Here we have a Wooden Shjips record the world saw coming-not titled II, Sophomore, or Second, but Dos. The group maintains its strident pace like a silverfish rave in perfectly folded bedsheets, with more bounce per ounce as life goes jogging with bopping heads and digging heels. Five numbers whose style might fit as cozily at La Cave in 1968 as at Ibiza in 1988. Natural loops with just enough vocals take you where the khakis and the cut-offs play together. Dos sounds off as the inauguration speech of a group accepting the minimalist psych bop crown that once adorned the likes of Neu and Loop. If possible, their brand of whipping fuzz hooks have gotten groovier. Wooden Shjips' debut album and various singles have established them as one of the best psych bands to inhabit this earthly realm. LP includes a free download coupon."
7/10/2008	Wooden Shjips	Vol. 1	CD	$14.99	Holy Mountain	"The Wooden Shjips' earliest material was released on vinyl, pressed in small quantities that were either free or hard to come by and are now hopelessly out of print. Who is Holy Mountain to keep you away from the rush of "Shrinking Moon for You"? Vol. 1 collects all the tracks from the free 10-inch, the Dance, California 7-inch, and the SolL 7-inch. The band will be out playing live, in their own nimble way, this spring and summer, road-testing new material for their next record. On tour this summer."
7/10/2008	Wooden Shjips	Vol. 1	LP	$14.99	Holy Mountain	"The Wooden Shjips' earliest material was released on vinyl, pressed in small quantities that were either free or hard to come by and are now hopelessly out of print. Who is Holy Mountain to keep you away from the rush of "Shrinking Moon for You"? Vol. 1 collects all the tracks from the free 10-inch, the Dance, California 7-inch, and the SolL 7-inch. The band will be out playing live, in their own nimble way, this spring and summer, road-testing new material for their next record. On tour this summer. LP version includes a 24"x24" poster."
11/17/2007	Wooden Shjips	Wooden Shjips	CD	$14.99	Holy Mountain	"Wooden Shjips, a quartet from San Francisco heavily influenced by the experimentalism of psychedelia, classical minimalism, and garage rock excess, started as an experiment in rhythmic primitivism and group improvisation. The current roster brings a more structured rock approach to its performances, utilizing a traditional lineup of drums, bass, organ, guitar, and vocals. "Wooden Shjips are from San Francisco, but the concentrated ferocity of the freakouts on their two very-underground releases-a white-label ten-inch EP (the band gave away the first 300 copies) and a clear-vinyl single ("Dance, California") - arrives via the '70s Germanic-guitar lunacy of Guru Guru and the confrontational repetition of VU." - David Fricke, Rolling Stone. DBL CD version is now out of print.
5/14/2007	Wooden Spoon	2	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"It's been a banner period since we last heard from the multi-talented owen hills (aka wooden spoon). after a couple releases (vinyl and CD) on the excellent bo weavil imprint, wooden spoon is back with another new offering on foxglove. running the myriad of acoustic guitar transgressions, hills is an original voice in a crowded field. wooden spoon 2 mixes things up like its predecessor, setting banjos and pianos afire in the process. these folk-infused instrumentals are the dawn of a new day, cut fresh from the branches."
1/17/2010	Wooden Veil	Wooden Veil	LP	$17.99	Dekorder	"Belonging to a world that is at once pre-millenial and post-apocalyptic, Wooden Veil's music is the drumbeat of an ancient yet technological past channeled through the sounds of a post-human race. Masked and costumed, the players invoke a musical force as a shaman would a ghost. Collecting rhythm like wind collecting a storm, Wooden Veil gives grand form to noise - they make it an event. Drums, drones, harmonies and screams clamor in their songs, erupting now and again into a plainsong that rings just long enough for a melody to take shape, before it dissolves back into sonic entropy." - Carson Chan, Program - Initiative for Art + Architecture, Berlin. "Playing like a semiotic mist, Wooden Veil approach their performances as handmade, patchwork quilt-like structures with emphasis on showing the lines of assembly, sewing together mythologies, traditional song, craft, ritual and acoustics." - Steven Warwick (Heatsick, Birds of Delay). "Wooden Veil is a Berlin-based art group formed in 2007. Inspired by the shared hauntedness of their respective homelands, they combine elements from forgotten and misremembered traditions to create a microcosmic world which only Wooden Veil inhabits, complete with its own symbols, clothing, food and shelters. Performances, installations and videos are characterized by an expansive wardrobe of ritual dress, and the creation of shrines, relics and talismans used to create music. The group consists of artists Marcel Türkowsky (also a composer, founder of Snake Figures Arkestra, Cones, Uuhuu, collaborations with Datashock and Christoph Heemann), Hanayo (known for her solo work as a photographer and singer, collaborating with the likes of Christoph Schlingensief, Merzbow, Red Crayola, and Kai Althoff), Christopher Kline (Valkenburg Hermitage, †, Night Music, and Soft Peace), Dominik Noé (member of krautrock legends Lustfaust), and Jan Pfeiffer (Songs For Rocks, Soft Peace, Purple). To understand: Hold right hand, cupped near right ear; turn hand back and forth slightly with wrist. Bring left hand to opposite eye with the second finger pointing in the direction one is looking. With index and thumb of right hand, form an incomplete circle, space of one inch between tips; hold hand towards the earth, then move it in a curve across the heavens and back toward the horizon."
7/16/2006	Wooden Wand	From the road Vol 4 Goat General and other Delusions	CDR	$9.99	23 Productions	"The best moments from two killer solo performances by Wooden Wand. Here we have just the man alone (acoustic guitar and voice) performing many new songs including a few of his best unreleased tracks, songs from the upcoming "Second Attention" and beyond, a rare cover and even a few old standbys. A mellow and intimate encounter with one of the finest of modern American songwriters."
12/25/2005	Wooden Wand	Harem of the Sundrum & The Witness Fig	LP + 7"	$29.99	Time-Lag Records	"From the moment the first notes of the original polyamory cassette edition hit our ears last year, we’ve been way sucked into this one... wooden wand steps out solo from behind the vanishing voice and lays down one of the sweetest, most timeless, acid tinged loner folk journeys this side of 1974. intimately striped down and strait forward, but at the same time extremely psychedelic. these songs are the kind of inner skull reverberations that only gush forth when yr mind is alone... vocals whisper in yr ears, double up, echo, and soar through a warm web of acoustic guitars, sparse westcoast electric moves, and hazy bedroom ambiance the thing that really sets this it apart from the pack though, is the pure quality of the songs. this is thoughtful, beautiful stuff folks, the kind of album that just grows with each spin... the bonus 7inch dishes up 3 even more bare boned cover songs, all exclusive to this vinyl edition... packaged in a private press style, letterpress printed, textured art paper cover. hand numbered edition of 760."
9/30/2005	Wooden Wand	Harem Of The Sundrum & The Witness Figg	CD	$11.99	Soft Abuse	"Wooden Wand's first album as a solo artist (he regularly records and tours with bongtastic loft-psych champions The Vanishing Voice) is influenced in equal parts by legendary hedonists Fleetwood Mac and West Coast sad sac Judee Sill. The intention to create something timeless and ageless informs each note of the music, for better or worse. For those of you subscribing to the 'art as immortality' school of thought, consider this Wooden Wand's first mark, his initial score against the reaper." Recommended!
	Wooden Wand & Satya Sai Baba	Moray Elks Themes	7"	$29.99	Gold Soundz	Lathe cut edition of 50 copies.
2/23/2004	Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice	Angel Hair	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"Face tripping you since the Golden Calves went up in a puff of rink-smoke? Then worry not as many of the players from that stinkship are back with Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice. The spirit is there but the skulls are way more warped, like ESP-folkies pulling on the hate chain."
4/10/2005	Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice	Sunset Sleeves	LP	$29.99	Weird Forest	"Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice along with Weird Forest command you to dissolve caps in Grandma Moses? kool-aid and seep deep into a genuine American-psychedelic-industrial gospel--languid repetition of mechanical percussion, rural disrupted electronic meandering, haunting altruistic guitar melodies, hymns guided by deceased maritime constellations sucking life from borrowed resin--the sum of all parts is an exact, chance ability of preordained primitive precision: The way Metal Box/Second Edition should've sounded if the Godz weren't so crazy. Travel north archaic gypsies-gather desert sustenance-keep praying!!! Edition of 500 copies."
12/25/2005	Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice	The Flood	CD	$11.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"A brand new album from enigmatic psychedelic-folk do-gooders Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice, and the group’s most collaborative release in their prolific and ever-evolving career. On The Flood, the group continues their twisted and droning take on proto-spiritual, cryptic, folkisms, maintaining the ideals of goodness and decency they’re known for." Recommended!
12/26/2005	Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice	The Flood	LP	$11.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"A brand new album from enigmatic psychedelic-folk do-gooders Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice, and the group's most collaborative release in their prolific and ever-evolving career. On The Flood, the group continues their twisted and droning take on proto-spiritual, cryptic, folkisms, maintaining the ideals of goodness and decency they're known for." Highly recommended!
6/25/2004	Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice	Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice	cassette	$15.99	Polyamory	June 2004 tour only release but I’ve managed to snag some copies. This is a 60 minute cassette with nice glossy covers and is limited to 100 copies. Grab one now if you want one!
9/30/2005	Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice	Xiao	CD	$11.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice is a geographically scattered band of individuals seeking to undermine the grotesque banality of group-based music by utilizing sacred tools (country, folk, blues) and applying to all an 'anything goes' ethos. But to call them 'improvisers' is redundant - the group feels that everyone improvises at least once. Better, they are a close knit group of fantasy camp survivalists. Together they solicit sympathetic bodies and minds to assist in The Great Lift Up, wringing new and spectacular bounties from the omnifaceted modern collective spirit. Plainly, this is soul music. Those who know don?t say - those who say don't know." First time available on cd.
9/30/2005	Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice	Xiao	LP	$11.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice is a geographically scattered band of individuals seeking to undermine the grotesque banality of group-based music by utilizing sacred tools (country, folk, blues) and applying to all an 'anything goes' ethos. But to call them 'improvisers' is redundant - the group feels that everyone improvises at least once. Better, they are a close knit group of fantasy camp survivalists. Together they solicit sympathetic bodies and minds to assist in The Great Lift Up, wringing new and spectacular bounties from the omnifaceted modern collective spirit. Plainly, this is soul music. Those who know don?t say - those who say don't know." Reissue of vinyl pressing DeStijl released in 2004.
6/11/2006	Wooden Wand (Hassara)	Backyard Vol.3	CDR	$10.99		"Third volume in this popular series of solo electric guitar improvisations by Wooden Wand in his "Hassara" guise. For this one, Hassara is back to exclusively playing guitar (no vocals, harmonica, bass, etc as on Volume 2), with a heavier emphasis on drone. The trademark boogie of previous releases is still intact - in fact, the brief "Zodiac Blues (w/ intro)" is the ruling-est stoned blues jam Wand has ever committed to tape - but for the most part, Volume 3 chooses to explore the dark side, with the two part "Road to Nowhere" (a reference to the Carole King song of the same name?) taking up the bulk of the disc. A friend said: "Sounds like brother's been sniffing around for affordable real estate in New Zealand." WhatEVER, chump."
9/17/2006	Wooden Wand and the Sky High Band	Second Attention	CD	$14.99	Kill Rock Stars	"Possessed with the heart and soul of Neils both Hagerty and Young, Wooden Wand leads the band - featuring members of Skygreen Leopards, The Vanishing Voice and Davenport - through ten rollicking tunes that recall such cracked masterpieces as Tonight's The Night and Mendocino. Wand has become somewhat well known in certain circles for his surreal lyrical imagery, an uppity blend as informed by Robyn Hitchcock as by the Zimmer Man himself, and on Second Attention, he spares no detail, whether discussing the pitfalls of the American idealist, sneakily tossing in references to Alexander Jodorowsky films, or weighing in on Stanley Burroughs' controversial guide to fasting, The Master Cleanser. But to what do we owe this newfound barbarism, this unhinged performance that has no precedent on any of Wand's previous sides? Is it the rubber-legged and starry eyed band that's to blame for leading our fearless narrator into the dark rock and roll abyss? Or perhaps it was the surroundings themselves that caused the mostly urbane Wand to rebel against the distinctly beauteous and pastoral? Maybe the whole godforsaken gang just spent too much time listening to - and possible misinterpreting - Songs of Love and Hate? No matter. There is beauty in the periphery but more in the small details. Second Attention is where East truly meets West. Where the shimmer suddenly gets grimmer. Sunshine meets grease. It will likely be remembered as the album that remains after any and all 'movements' inevitably move on. Or, perhaps more to the point - to paraphrase the late, great Townes Van Zandt - don't let the sunshine fool ya, motherfucker."
9/17/2006	Wooden Wand and the Sky High Band	Second Attention	LP	$13.99	Kill Rock Stars	"Possessed with the heart and soul of Neils both Hagerty and Young, Wooden Wand leads the band - featuring members of Skygreen Leopards, The Vanishing Voice and Davenport - through ten rollicking tunes that recall such cracked masterpieces as Tonight's The Night and Mendocino. Wand has become somewhat well known in certain circles for his surreal lyrical imagery, an uppity blend as informed by Robyn Hitchcock as by the Zimmer Man himself, and on Second Attention, he spares no detail, whether discussing the pitfalls of the American idealist, sneakily tossing in references to Alexander Jodorowsky films, or weighing in on Stanley Burroughs' controversial guide to fasting, The Master Cleanser. But to what do we owe this newfound barbarism, this unhinged performance that has no precedent on any of Wand's previous sides? Is it the rubber-legged and starry eyed band that's to blame for leading our fearless narrator into the dark rock and roll abyss? Or perhaps it was the surroundings themselves that caused the mostly urbane Wand to rebel against the distinctly beauteous and pastoral? Maybe the whole godforsaken gang just spent too much time listening to - and possible misinterpreting - Songs of Love and Hate? No matter. There is beauty in the periphery but more in the small details. Second Attention is where East truly meets West. Where the shimmer suddenly gets grimmer. Sunshine meets grease. It will likely be remembered as the album that remains after any and all 'movements' inevitably move on. Or, perhaps more to the point - to paraphrase the late, great Townes Van Zandt - don't let the sunshine fool ya, motherfucker."
12/24/2005	Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice	Buck Dharma	CD	$15.99	5 Rue Christine	"The latest from mysterious New York-based collective WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE. Nine tracks of cryptic, proto-spiritual, emotionally bare, brashly exuberant, and completely entrancing cosmic/karmic folk/psych magic." Killer! Superior vinyl version also available on Time-Lag Records.
6/11/2006	Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice	From the Road, Vol 2: The Philosophy of Fuck It	CDR	$10.99	23 Productions	"Very thrilling and energetic set from WWVV, 45 minutes of blasting psychedelic madness. Raging rhythms, long fuzzed out guitar solos, spirit voices, poetry rants, crippled boogie, lost groups chants, blissed blues journeys, feedback trances, hootin and hollerin, and a fuck all version of "The Flood" tacked on at the end. This WWVV jam really gets us moving, reminding us of every reason why we fell in love with this band; easily one of their most compelling and intense workouts of 2005."
6/11/2006	Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice	From The Road, Vol. 3: Dead Lecturing 7.20.2005	CDR	$10.99	23 Productions	"We've really been soaking up these mid to late 2005 era jams. The band started this ridiculously long tour, hoping to play many of Wooden Wands songs mixed with the occasional jam. After many long nights on the road, some of WWVVs most cerebral and far out moments started to surface. As we are going through the tapes from this tour, it has become apparent that these kids may have come damn close to losing their minds on this tour. Well, this disc is from one hot night in NYC, it is the first day of the last week of a two month long tour and WWVV take to the stage at Tonic and drop this dead lecture. Starting out with a stunning version of "Genesis Joplin", featuring Satya Sais beautiful voice soaring above the din. Then they all flow out into a deep zone jam made up of some of the most sparse and meandering stuff weve ever heard them do. Then, right about the time you become convinced that WWVV have forgotten they are on a stage, in front of a packed house, Wooden Wand grabs the mic and just looses it. I cant spoil it further, but we could not avoid including this unique moment in the series. 36 minutes of straight heavy tension. Enjoy!" - 23 Productions.
2/26/2006	Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice	Gipsy Freedom	CD	$15.99	5 Rue Christine	"Gipsy Freedom is the sound of the band combining their influences more fluently than ever before. While past releases saw the band's avant folk dosed somewhat conservatively with the blues, free jazz, heavy psych and metal, Gipsy Freedom brings these other, non-folk elements to the fore and generally turns the volume up. You may hear the faint echoes of "Island Harvest" era Albert Ayler on one track, Iommi-derived riffage on the next, torch songs that sound torn straight from the Gershwin songbook on the next, and Can-style epic grooves on the next. Radically different, yet sustaining the band's high level of musical and thematic consistency, Gipsy Freedom is the sound of a band breaking out of the box and using the discarded shapes to construct strange new universes."
2/26/2006	Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice	Gipsy Freedom	DBL LP	$15.99	5 Rue Christine	"Gipsy Freedom is the sound of the band combining their influences more fluently than ever before. While past releases saw the band's avant folk dosed somewhat conservatively with the blues, free jazz, heavy psych and metal, Gipsy Freedom brings these other, non-folk elements to the fore and generally turns the volume up. You may hear the faint echoes of "Island Harvest" era Albert Ayler on one track, Iommi-derived riffage on the next, torch songs that sound torn straight from the Gershwin songbook on the next, and Can-style epic grooves on the next. Radically different, yet sustaining the band's high level of musical and thematic consistency, Gipsy Freedom is the sound of a band breaking out of the box and using the discarded shapes to construct strange new universes."
5/8/2005	Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice	L'un Marquer Contre la Moissonneuse	CD	$13.99	Three Lobed Recordings	"Over the course of their recording career, Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice have proven to be a multi-faceted and difficult to define. They have successfully allowed the body of their work to be cryptic, proto-spiritual, emotionally bare, brashly exuberant and, throughout it all, completely entrancing. L'un Marquer Contre la Moissonneuse is an exploration of the goodness inherent in the human heart and how that decency can help transform the world into a better place. Sound grandiose? Well, revolutions do begin with ambition. Long-held beliefs state that every morning that one rises from bed they have cheated Death once more through the grace of God. Through the extension of this theme, every good deed a person performs during those waking hours may very likely stand as a mark against the Reaper on the great cosmic score sheet."
3/26/2006	Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice	Live From the Road: Born Free (6.12.05 Columbia, MO)	CDR	$10.99	23 Productions	"40 minutes of psychedelic musings and mystic rambling by the band just after recording their amazing new "Gipsy Freedom " 2xLP. this first edition is a cdr limited to 277 copies." Recommended!
2/16/2005	Woodman	In the Beach	C60 Cassette	$5.99	23 Objects	"Dan Woodman (Drunjus, Davenport) recorded strange sounds while in the beach. Cryptic field recordings and silent meditations. Handmade packages by Woodman. Limited to 50."
5/9/2009	Woods	Dark	7"	$6.99	Captured	"Two great songs from one great band." Very limited stock.
4/21/2008	Woods Family Creeps	Woods Family Creeps	CD	$13.99	Time-Lag Records	"Digital version Red Records 2. Newest incarnation of NYC's wondrous Woods, as the trio of Jeremy Earl, Jarvis Taveniere, and G Lucas Crane. For sure the finest yet from these folks. Lysergic and infectiously bent acid-folk mashed into Faust IV style electronically dosed pop grooving, all awash in odd studio effects, motorik percussion, cracked fuzz, unique vocal gush, twisted lyrics, and burning psych jams. Plus enough sweet hooks to get yr next freak-out party moving right. Hell yes, it's a wicked one. Sweet glossy mini LP style gatefold covers. Woven Japanese inner sleeves. Edition of 1000."
7/16/2009	Work / Death	Contained In Proper Place Names	c24 cassette	$6.99	Monorail Trespassing	"Reber can do no wrong. synthesizer processes that reach a near-orchestral level; a rich and multi-dimensional work of pure and emotional noise rarely seen now -- or ever. still the most unique project out there. 100 copies, full color covers and glossy labels."
6/11/2006	Work/Death	Vasectomy Desires (Version)	cassette	$7.99	Tone Filth	"Drastic measures taken to reclaim control of the body from self hatred. Recreation of a live event in many layers of sound compossed with upright bass and prepared piano among others. A really engaging piece of work. Work/Death LP on Tone Filth someday. Edition of 125 with hand screened cases, inserts, and tapes."
4/24/2006	Workbench	Hod 1	one sided LP	$15.99	Heavy Tapes	"A new kind of stasis, focusing on discernable layers buried in the sound mist, flavored with organs, bubbles, and metal. Two tracks, sixteen minutes. In custom die-cut chipboard sleeves, with Heavy Tapes 12" design screened on the A-side, printed logo labels, and screened workbench logo on cover B-side. Conceived and recorded in the Black Lodge, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York." Edition of 150 copies.
2/21/2005	Workbench	Live From The American Snake Machine	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	“Mike Bernstein (Double Leopards) serves up some black electric goo. A humming attack on ghosts, full on primitive ear confusion from NYCs king of bearded wha?”
12/25/2005	Workbench	Seeking Stasis Volumes 14&15	DBL cassette	$14.99	Heavy Tapes	"The 14th and 15th volumes of the Seeking Stasis series which was initiated in January 2005 to explore the ability of frozen time to effect your perception and listening abilities. This double tape set comes in a vinyl box with sticker insert of the "Seeking Stasis" discography. Material for this set was stolen from various Hive Mind recordings, as a sign of ultimate respect and brotherhood. Edition of 100 copies."
3/21/2007	Workbench	Synapse Transit	3" CDR	$7.99	Chondritic Sound	"Reissue of the criminally limited double cassette released for our tour together last summer, released here in unedited / unbroken purity. synthesized tones and vocal moans fill this disc with erratic spacial rhythms. the sound of conjuring. oh yeah, this dude is in double leopards, white rock and religious knives. xerox art, quality paper and painted CDr."
4/14/2006	Workbench & Black Quarter / Cornucopia	Live in San Juan	cassette	$8.99	Heavy Tapes	"The trip from the Western part of the Island to San Juan is smooth and dramatic -- the trees melt away and a metropolitan bulb protrudes. Right in the shadow of the bulb is Santurce, where the Cubo space is a jagged realm of concrete and hyper productive thought and action. Workbench and Black Quarter were lucky enough to be invited to play in the San Juan Noise Fest and this is a partial document of the evening -- our live set on one side, and Puerto Rican noise mainstay Cornucopia on the other. A small slice of a magical evening in Puerto Rico."
6/27/2009	Workbench + Magneticring	Live In A Room With All The Windows	double c36 cassette	$11.99	Rundownsun	"Michael Bernstein (Double Leopards, Heavy Tapes, Religious Knives, etc) and Joshua Stevenson (ex-Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Cast Exotic, Staked Plain, far too many projects to name here, etc.) captured live, direct-to-tape, in march of 2006 somewhere in Brooklyn NY. a collection of musical fragments and motifs ranging from sparse, abstract electronics to pulsating synth chill-out(think KLF?), to cluster & eno-esque ambient, oozing drone, and even some moments of abrasive rhythmic/synth driven industrial. all material culled, edited, and mastered from the original tapes by Joshua Stevenson. limited edition. hand-numbered. high-bias 2xc36. black offset-printing on textured paper. side-by-side style double cassette box."
11/4/2006	Wovoka	II	CDR	$15.99	Holy Room	"heavy atmospheric vibrations thicken the air on this mindmelting followup to wovoka's self-titled debut from a few months back.....wovoka has amassed a cast of heads and freaks to help him beam up and out of this dimension....ripped silver finger acoustic sparkles undercut with shreddy electric axe waves to the top, supreme basement humidity and humility soaking the memory of a dearly departed soul, chants from the bottom of the heart, sawing stringed saturations and salutations, blotter acid insert, paste on covers, "vinyl" cdrs, edition of 100, shimmering and sweet....sold-out at source & flying away!"
6/19/2007	Wovoka	Paiste De	CDR	$15.99	Holy Room Records	"Another glorious instalment in the on-going Wovoka saga, this one comes in a numbered edition of 199 copies and features some of the most beautiful, elegiac acid rock/folk trance moves this side of Gila's classic 1973 side Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, cut with a similar feel for peyote ritual, American Indian psycho-spiritual topography and the combination of acoustic raga forms with wiped 60s/70s psychedelic drug-bust modes. The degree of surging six string power on here is pretty jaw-dropping and should appeal to fans of Billy TK's Powerhouse, Jessie Harper et al while the hand percussion and mesmeric acoustic guitar sorcery sounds like Jack Rose plays the Tyrannosaurs Rex back catalogue during an all-night foo flight. Hard to believe that folk/rock this deliriously focussed is actually being made circa now but this is another perfectly rendered pro-drug bomb from this ensemble and is highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue
8/28/2004	Wrecking Ball	Grunt Work	CDR	$9.99	Deserted Village	“Wrecking Ball is Steve Fanagan. A collection of improvisations for voice, microphone, effects, amplifier and a bell. It is 35 short bursts of sound, performed and recorded at home, straight to mini disc.” http://www.stevefanagan.com
8/23/2009	Wretched Worst	Inside an Animal	cassette	$5.99	Gods of Tundra	"These sewers hold a stench too repulsive to maintain. Wretched Worst are my very favorite BAND right now. Minter (ex-Hair Police), Darryl (Walter Carson), Ben (Caves) and Thad (Kraken Fury). They have been stewing in the depths of Lexington far too long now..its time let it spill over. These two sides of true damage recall post-PE Ramleh but far more foul...this is music from the gut, about the gut. "The Unlivable" hangs us out in the rain....accepting discomfort, accepting the shivering cold. "Inside an Animal" twists our arm into hypnosis...it lingers far too long, in the best way possible. Real basement dirge. This is a dark and alien hell. Wretched Worst replace power with desperation, aggressiveness with forced submission, and precision with pure filth."
6/16/2003	Wright, Jack & Bob Marsh	Birds in the Hand	CD	$11.99	Public Eyesore	"Nothing more, nothing less: ‘Birds in the hand’ is a stern - but at the same time pretty humorous - example of absolute freedom in improvising; through saxes, clarinet, cello, violin and processed vocals, the two friends always find a way to entertain and going for the listener's throat, all the while keeping a wry smile on their face. They don't care about being all the rage, Marsh and Wright just take out their instruments and ride you around, looking for that spot in your stomach that will be promptly occupied by their funny lines, raucous dissonances, crazy dialogues. Jack and Bob mop the floor with a lot of so-called ‘names’ but they keep you unaware of that, their only apparent goal having a lot of fun with themselves and the world. Nevertheless, the music is damn difficult - and quite amazing." - Massimo Ricci
10/22/2009	Wright, Jack / Ben Wright / Mike Pride / Nate Wooley	Tenterhooks	CDR	$8.99	Bug Incision	"This is a 2006 recording of a quartet featuring Jack Wright (saxes), Ben Wright (bass), Mike Pride (drums), and Nate Wooley (trumpet). The music is tightly coiled, coming across as an unsettled focusing and unfocusing of a variety of intersecting sounds and extended playing techniques. The players all possess masterful control of their instruments, and exhibit a fine sense of balance and pacing. Nobody overplays and the role(s) of background/foreground is constantly shifting, creating an uncluttered, thoughtful unfolding of events. Another fine slice of Wright and his ever-shifting company. Edition of 100 copies, color covers in plastic sleeves, insert."
11/2/2008	Wright, Jack with Hell & Bunny	Over The Transom	CDR	$10.99	Bug Incision	"The well-traveled saxophonist Jack Wright in an excellently balanced trio with cellist Hans Buetow and percussionist Ben Hall (Graveyards, Melee, Editions Brokenresearch). This set was recorded in Easton, PA in 2007. Features fine playing from all, but noteworthy for its inclination towards mind-meld. A united effort throughout." CDR in clear plastic sleeves, b&w artwork, edition of 150.
8/31/2008	Wright, Nigel & Tim Coster	Cathedrals	CDR	$10.99	Claudia	"From the islands down under hail Tim Coster and Nigel Wright, both of whom have been active in the areas of field recordings and computer processing. The two pieces on 'Cathedrals' were recorded between July 2007 and May 2008 and showcase what these boys can do best: lengthy exercises of drone sounds, slow developments, minimal changes, all based on field recordings (perhaps in cathedrals?) which are processed to an extent that they are no longer recognizable. They do a very fine job, be it that there is hardly a surprise in this music. In that respect the music is stuck firmly in a well-fenced territory, which hardly allows anything odd or surprising to happen. Besides that, which is mere nagging on my part I guess, this is some wonderful dark atmospheric drone music." (FdW) - Vital Weekly
9/24/2009	Wright, Peter	Bright Failing Star	LP	$16.99	Release The Bats	"Born in New Zealand and a true veteran of the experimental scene, Peter Wright has spent more than a decade developing his mesmerizing guitar work close to perfection. As fellow New Zealand underground acts like Antony Milton and Birchville Cat Motel, Peter Wright has been very prolific during the years and released a huge amount of releases around the world. RTB are very proud to present Bright Failing Star, the first vinyl-only album from Peter Wright! Perhaps a bit more slow-paced and somber than other of his recordings, the sounds on Bright Failing Star are calm while yet being powerful. With the beautiful open air dynamics and the somewhat colder feeling, the subtle tones of Bright Failing Star are very autumn-like. Coldness with a warm undertone, darkness with some hints of light. Organic drone music at it's best. Assembled with recordings from England, USA and Norway. Limited to 300 copies, black vinyl, full colour artwork by Peter Wright and mastered by Viktor Ottosson. "Bright Failing Star is probably one of the most straightforward albums I've made, and under some of the most trying circumstances I've encountered in recent years. The south London flat we were in at the time had suffered flood damage during the summer before we moved in, and our room had it's sodden carpet ripped out and the bare concrete floor exposed. This was never fixed in the duration we lived there so by December it was bloody freezing. To compound this we had no hot water for 5 months, coping by boiling pots on the stove for showers and cleaning. Why did we stay there? It was cheap and we were saving money to travel. We can laugh about it now, just. Somehow in the midst of this almost third world style living arrangement, a hectic day job, and planning for our forthcoming travels and return to NZ, I managed to find enough creative head space to record an album, albeit as part of the process of rehearsing and preparing for a show in Paris supporting Stars Of The Lid. It was done with the utmost economy and efficiency, live to disc, no frills or overdubs, plugged directly into a laptop with headphones for monitors, with the post-production addition of a field recording on a Philadelphia-bound Amtrak train and a short piano segment taped in Oslo that happened to fit as a kind of coda. It's still surprising to me how spacious and panoramic it sounds. And not at all bleak as it could have been. It's like I was dreaming of the open spaces I'd rather have been in at that time and transmitting those thoughts via electronic signals to the computer. The title Bright Failing Star is a direct cop from a David Bowie lyric ('Subterraneans'), and I love the opposing positive/negative idea in the phrase, which mirrors the glittering decay of the music within." - Peter Wright, September 2009
4/24/2006	Wright, Peter	Desolation Beauty Violence	CD	$14.99	Ikuisuus	"Desolation Beauty Violence is an album that's all about patience and seeing the beauty in vibrant, droning soundscapes that slowly evolve and shift character. If you ask me it's a totally mesmerizing and beautiful sound excursion that is overflowing with mood and atmosphere. The static opener "Above Lewis Pass" is the perfect tool to seductively pull you into his world of densely layered guitar drones, minimal effects and field recordings and "Adrift at 30 000 ft" is by no means less dark and desolate. The following "Like Clockwork," "Kashmir" and "Point Blank" are all slightly more folky in a Pelt meets Thuja kind of way and provides us with some tasty drifting clouds of heavenly organic textures. As the title of the album suggests there are also some harsher moments present but it's the emotional resonance, delicately fluctuating ambience and densely tangled drone webs that will stick to your mind. When it all fades out it leaves behind a beautiful, chilling calm." - Mats Gustafsson / Broken Face
2/12/2008	Wright, Peter	Pretty Mushroom Cloud	CD	$13.99	Archive	"Five track droner from this New Zealander via London. A mix of ambient guitar work, field recordings, and soundscapes recorded between 2005-2006. Housed in a double sleeve with outer sleeve being semi transparent vellum, all graphic work by Mr. Wright. Single pressing of 500 copies."
6/11/2006	Wright, Peter	Red Lion	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"You can remove a Kiwi from New Zealand but you sure as hell can't remove New Zealand from a Kiwi. Such is the case with Christchurch transplant, Peter Wright. Over the course of a decade, Wright has etched his name in glass in the annals of drone-world superstardom. And while I'm not sure what that really means, the point is that when it comes to soaring dronescapes, few do it better than Peter Wright. He has helped pave the way with contemporaries such as Birchville Cat Motel and Double Leopards, but clearly has his own distinct voice. With his past few albums, Wright seems the logical successor to native Kiwi, sound manipulator extraordinaire, Roy Montgomery. "Red Lion" is Wright's latest incarnation and, once again, pushes the boundaries of what he can do with his trademark 12 string Danelectro to the absolute outer limits. He pushes the limits of simplicity without ever breaking. Wright's albums are a thing of sheer, pure beauty, existing in a vacuum where nothing on the outside can tamper with their grace. Even with his lofty intentions, "Red Lion" is immediately approachable and grabs the listener from the opening notes. As always, Peter Wright offers up something wholly infectious and undebatably magnificent."
5/9/2009	Wright, Peter	The Terrifying Realisation We Might Be Wrong	7"	$4.99	Dirty Knobby Industries	"Peter returns for a 2nd single on Dirty Knobby. This three song EP is an organic wash of gorgeous drones made from a contact microphone, Bulbul Tarang, 12-string, found noise/field sounds and laptop effects. The pieces run the gamut from abrasive machine noise grind to blissed-out ambient hush and back, maintaining a strong sense of craft and human warmth. 500 pressed."
12/24/2005	Wyoming	Wyoming	cassette	$6.99	Skullfucking Tapes	"Finally we have the balls to let it all go. 3 years ago we received a cassette of two madmen road dogs doing their thing at 85 miles per hour. This music was a revelation for us. My hope is that we haven't heard the last from this freewheelin' pack."