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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).
6/11/2006	Waldron, M.S. / Steven Stapleton / Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson / Jim Haynes / R.K. Faulhaber	Sleeping Moustache	CD	$15.99	Helen Scarsdale Agency	"Let's begin with the introductions. M.S. Waldron may be best known for his work as irr. app. (ext.), an unwieldy moniker that begets uncanny, hallucinatory sound. Steven Stapleton is the genius behind Nurse With Wound, the consistently unpredictable project that scrambles musical obsessions for Krautrock, surrealism, and avant-garde composition into a brash quest for expressionism through experimentation. Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson hails from the Icelandic electro-absurdist duo Stilluppsteypa, which continues to investigate the finer points of drunken minimalism. Jim Haynes prefers to merely state that he rusts things. R.K. Faulhaber is something of a mysterious figure, looming around Mr. Waldron's irr. app. (ext.) recordings and performances while keeping his own work a hermetic secret. Each with a peculiar understanding of the audio arts, these five artists came to the proverbial table and thought it a good idea to collaborate. Given the predilection for the surreal and the sidereal that each of these five employ in their many audio and visual projects, those agendas oozed from the recordings that became known as The Sleeping Moustache. An epiphany of controlled disorder, a convulsion of beauty, a cascade of thought from delirious minds, The Sleeping Moustache is an exquisite manifestation of sound poetry scattered into a tortuous collage mired in an oblique melancholy. Magnetic tones extracted from the ether, mechanical sounds smeared into a lugubrious growls, horns trumpeting straight out of John's Book of Revelation, ululations sliced into information overload that Schwitters himself would be proud of. The Sleeping Moustache presents a psychically instable landscape, where dreams and nightmares wreak havoc upon the drudgery of daily life. The closest audible territory for The Sleeping Moustache might be the psychoactive constructions of Nurse With Wound's 'Homotopy To Marie,' although the characters in this drama happened upon an entirely different map of that terrain."
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."
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."
3/23/2007	Warmth	Death as a Young Child	cassette	$6.99	Arbor	"After months of attempting to acquire the final (now lost) tour recordings of Roxanne Jean Police (RIP), Steev Thompson presents his most recent incarnation, Warmth. Fresh out of a Brian Wilson-esque disappearance Steev brings deep visceral layers of synth and electronics that churn and grow. Clouds of fog envelope the tones emanating from Michigan's forgotten forests. This tape acts as the precursor to the upcoming Warmth LP co-released by Arbor and Double Fantasy. In a numbered edition of 90 tapes in sprayed paste-on manilla envelopes."
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."
11/17/2007	Warning Sign	Live at Copymax Jason's Birthday	one sided LP	$15.99	American Tapes	"All right...this is going to take a while to explain..Hang in there with a mug: While still in union at the cove, me and the Conn Artist would always hit up the local Office Max (re: Copymax) and scam copies, grip supplies - usual underground lurker shit. So after months of doing this, a Max worker finally talks to us and is into noize= dudes is Jason, sayz all his coworkers are freaked out of me and Connelly cause we copy weird shit, wore shorts and look like Heroin addicts (????)... So we hit it off with Jason, hang with his crew and let the good times roll...... Enter PE PAUL, AKA Mr. Nutzo AKA New Pledgmaster AKA dude most likely to get naked at a crew gig with no ladies present. You might also know him as the wacko who was kicked outta the last No Fun during the Smegma set for being shirtless, on acid, and crazy. When Paul was getting escorted out, Weise turns to Dilloway and says.. "Man...what a loose nut....causing a ruckus......you know him?" "Yeah I do, He's Paul from Boston. Me and Olson have a band with him called Warning Sign" So fast forward a month or so, middle of summer/ Ann Arbor= crazy PE PAUL sublets a huge crib christens it the GSPOT. Turns out to the be the summer spot for all gigs underground and nutz. A gig twice a week, ruling times, massive final show literally hours before Paul has to vacate. Rumors spread of destroying the spot and burning it down...comes pretty close. Turns out when the renters come back to reclaim the house Paul is passed out on mounds of broken glass and bottles on a some Iggy trip shit and the parents threaten his life....ruff scene. Warning Sign/which never end up being with Dilloway/becomes a house band at the GSpot....duo with reeds, drums, and ?????? Every gig was pretty strange, you never knew what PE PAUL was funna do. The mug apparently studied music in Boston but none has seen proof of it. ..... So aanyhow...black to Copymax Jason...his birthday is coming up and his lady at the time Alicia (re: Alicia Warning) wants to have a birthday show at they house before their lease runs out. The only band that signs up is Warning Sign. No Wolves come cause we are leaving the next morning for Barcelona, no crew members show up. Weird gig/scene. Only lurkers and some weird dudes on BMX bikes that "kinda know Dilloway AKA that weird dude at Disks & Tapes" are around. Turns out there is no place to jam......except a basement that hasn't been opened "in forever." Me and Paul crack the door, peer inside, nothing but low ceilings, cobwebs, dampness, and a mound of something that died a slow horrible death months ago. Totally gross. So we set up and its the middle of summer and like 110 Degrees in the basement. Fully Nasty. Turns out Alicia is a flute goddess and wants to jam along/sweet....so we start playing..... and within minutes every Nutzo in the basement is playing a horn, jammin, freaking out, yelling...weird shit/brain jolting/numbing gig. Woke up the next morning and sent the tape to the plant =Pressed here on wax for eternity is the results of the gig. Super strange ultra crude echo chamber basement jazz cubism. Edition of 113 on black wax with paste on covers. Copymax Jason Postscript: After moving out, Jason and Alicia broke up, all them + "Copymax Chris" (re: Brian, who never worked at Officemax or Copymax) who also played on the above WS record, and nearly everyone on the record moved into the short lived "Pleasuredome" in Ypsi that did two gigs, one with Corsano, Traum, Laundry Room Squelchers/both busted hard by Copz and shut down permanently......."
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.
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."
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
6/5/2003	Weeks, Greg / [[[VVRSSNN]]]	split	7"	$4.99	Spirit of Orr	New release from Greg Weeks and Adam Forkner is the latest installment of the quiet weather singles series.
7/31/2006	Weisman, Kurt	More is More	7"	$5.99	Mad Monk	"We were crazy about the music of Kurt Weisman from the first second we heard it. You can Google at least two or three examples of us publicly gushing over "Past The Moon," one of Kurt's songs played with his band Feathers. It's probably our single favorite song of last year. Needless to say we are overjoyed to release Kurt's debut on vinyl, following an excellent self-released CD-R. Possessed with the rare talent of writing tunes that are at once whimsical and strangely ominous, Kurt's music is reverential without being anachronistic. His solo work is even more far-reaching, adding electronic elements without sacrificing the charisma and charm inherent to the songs. While somewhat poppier than his work with Feathers, don't worry - Kurt's solo vinyl debut is just as possessed with the spirits of Canterbury. Fans of Les Maledictus Sound's cut up / collage work, (not to mention their affinity for speeding up vocals) will be delighted, as will those who can't understand why the Beach Boys didn't make "Vegetables" a sidelong jam. Elsewhere, Kurt conjures Comus as remixed by Otto Von Schirach. He also writes some of the most compelling melodies we've heard in a long time - timeless, beautiful ones. Remember the feeling you got when you were a kid and you first saw that last scene in Over The Edge, where they play Valerie Carter's version of "Ooh Child" as the kids head off to juvie? Kurt's single gives you that kinda feeling. Your life totally needs this." Amen.
	Wellwater Conspiracy	Compellor	7"	$4.99	Super Electro	1998 single featurin John McBain (ex-Monster Magnet) & Matt Cameron (Soundgarden
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.
8/2/2008	Wet Hair	Wet Hair	one-sided 12" silkscreened picture disc LP	$12.99	Night People	"This is the first solo work of Shawn Reed as Wet Hair, recorded during late fall of 07. On this LP we find Wet Hair discovering its attitude, its approach, its dark underworld aesthetic, of cult zone dub, blasted vocal purge, trance snyth uneasiness. More direct, focused, and eclectic then the Irifi cass. this one burns blown out and electric, amplified to the point of breaking and then subtle and brooding once more. Play it loud. Ultra deluxe silkscreened artwork by SDREED. As much of a visual artifact as a medium of sound."
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."
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."
2/14/2008	Weyes Bluhd	Strange Chalices Of Seeing	CDR	$9.99		"Ex-Jackie-O Motherfucker bass player Natalie Mering (18years old? 19?), from Philadelphia, releases her solo efforts under the Weyes Bluhd moniker. Also known as 'Nathalie Wiseblood', hence the name. Raga inspired, drone music in a lovecraftian mood, using guitar strings as basic sound material and sound effects as an instrument. Home-made one string bass stick (see b&w picture) used to produce low bell-like sounds out of an horror movie. The bleak 'Ballad Of The Broken Skull' sounds like a classic gothic song. Most tracks have vocals, usually strangely deformed through effect pedals. Track editing and cueing is kept to a minimum in the DIY, abrupt tradition, giving freshness to the music – check the very strange 'Raga Of The Spine', for instance. There is even a chance, odd as it might seem, that the album was actually recorded on cassette. This all stems from a creative, inspired mind." - http://continuo.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/weyes-bluhd-strange-chalices-of-seeing/
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
3/29/2005	White Magic	Through the Sun Door	CD	$10.99	Drag City	“White Magic is influenced by Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Karen Dalton, Love, Great Society, Sun Ra, Eric Satie, The Fugs, The Zombies and all good music of the world."
9/30/2005	White Mountains	This Timbered Choir Will Sing Our Collapse	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"From the fruited plain and the rusted carcasses of ohio's industrial sea comes the fresh-faced, doe-eyed white mountains. "this timbered choir will sing our collapse" is a pinecone-laden excursion through the soft underbelly of decaying forests and greying thickets. white mountains employs washes of feedback and hum to navigate through the dense tangles of acoustic scree. cool blasts of treated field recordings fill in the gaps. by the end of the albums 41+ minutes, your leaf-covered body will feel all at once exhausted and rested. oh, to be 15 again.." Edition of 100 copies.
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."
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."
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.
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."
11/4/2006	Wiese, John	Tumbler	LP	$17.99	No Fun	"Total Head Crush Destruction from Mr Wiese (also of Sissy Spacek and LHD, works with Sunn 0)), etc,etc), if your head was made out of a boulder the sounds here enclosed are still designed to leave behind nothing but blood stain dust. Side A is the eternal acid rain that we all fear slowly melting your skin away and reminding of your insignificant humanity, Side B is a metallic behemoth continously punching you from all directions leaving you with just enough unbroken bones so that you can breath. Another No Fun Classic. Limited to 300 no re-press ever."
4/25/2008	Wiese, John & C. Spencer Yeh	New York / Atlanta	CD	$9.99	Helicopter	"JW — CSY — NYC — ATL. Two best sets from 2007 tour by developing audio partnership, direct soundboard recording. Steel string binds knobs, vocal cries machine code, fuzz and foil avalanche, fireworks and drought. Epic movements in entirety, minimal editing meddling. Words no good, just jam. Bye!"
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!"
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.
10/25/2008	Windy & Carl	Songs For The Broken Hearted	Double LP	$16.99	Kranky	"Most everyone has experienced love as well as heartbreak. The 10 songs that form the new Windy & Carl album are interpretations of those emotions that run the gamut from pain, anger and longing, to warmth, admiration and joy. Started in early 2007 and finished in the spring of 2008 in the midst of some sudden inspiration, these songs are some of the best Windy & Carl have to offer, and a new mark in their always-developing sound. The opening track addresses the denial of trouble at home, while the title of 'La Douleur' ('The War,' named after the Marguerite Duras book) is self-explanatory. The touching words of 'My Love,' a song about the renewal of faith and hope, flows on to the genuine sentiment of 'Forever.' The title of the closing track notes the idea that no matter how near or far two lovers are, they still exist on the same plane. This fall, Windy & Carl will have been together for 19 years. And in these sounds you get a sense of what love encompasses, how there can be bliss in any oasis, and trouble in any paradise, the highs and the lows, the reality of time and depth of emotion that go into any relationship that has lasted so long. Long time fans will hear similarities to earlier works, but anyone who listens to Songs For The Broken Hearted will no doubt find emotions they can respond to and identify with. A collection of love songs, whether it be a presentation of love gone wrong or new love in full bloom, the album is an expression of timeless emotion and universal feeling. We have all known love in our lives, and we have all known loss. This is an album that encompasses both and shares those feelings with the world." Housed in a gatefold sleeve.
	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."
7/16/2006	Wire Thicket, The	The Wire Thicket	CDR	$12.99	Pseudoarcana	"The Wire Thicket is the swirling shimmering US power-drone duo of Alex Cobb (Taiga Remains/ Students of Decay label) and David Kirby. Processed acoustic(!) guitars and voice etc are layered and sculpted to construct dense spine-tinglingly intense edifices that soar ecstatically high above the plebeian mire. The best of this disk is reminiscent of Simon Wickham Smiths great tearing epic 'Katotohanan' (from Dyro), and the more God-fearing of Birchvilles bliss explosions."
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!"
7/10/2008	Witch	Paralyzed	LP	$18.99	Tee-Pee	"Witch is no indie metal supergroup or side project.. After their self-titled debut in 2006, Witch returned to the studio to work on their sophomore album Paralyzed. The new album remains true to the classic heavy rock sound of the first, but has evolved as the band has learned to play to each others strengths. The Vermont based band's new songs highlight the rhythm section of DAVE SWEETAPPLE (bass) and J MASCIS (drums) who return to their punk roots and attack with a more aggressive tempo. This foundation allows KYLE THOMAS (guitar/vocals) to construct wailing vertical melodies of guitar and sinister vocals. Witch has turned out a record that burns with hostility."
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 o