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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
9/30/2005	Ya Ho Wha	Penetration, An Aquarian Symphony	CD	$18.99	Swordfish	"Official reissue of this album from 1974 - one of the heaviest albums from Father Yod and crew. Along with I'm Gonna Take You Home, it's just the best - one of the finest sacred space cadet acid-mantra psychedelic death trips of all time, for sure. Captain Father Yod moans & groans a perfect vocal chime over the top of the searing guitar rip of "Djin" and a massive cloak of tribal percussion and general peaked whatsis. Touched & tipped by higher forces you can only dream of - this contain the most intense passages created by the band Ya Ho Wa 13. One of the best album covers of all time, too. 'This was called an 'Aquarian Symphony' back in 1974 to herald through music, the coming of the Aquarian Age, September 17th, 2003. It was ahead of it's time. Now it's time has come!'" - Djin Aquarian, (guitarist), May, 2003.
5/7/2004	Ya Ho Wha 13	I'm Gonna Take You Home	CD	$18.99	Swordfish	"New reissue of this all-time classic from 1974, licensed directly from Father Yod's Source Foundation in Hawaii. Previously only available as a long gone bootleg or as part of the 13CD Capt. Trip box, now readily available. This is one of deepest Ya Ho Wha albums, right up there with Penetration. 'The ultimate acid album ever! These seminal west coast weirdsters are rumoured to have had members of the 13th Floor Elevators and Sky Saxon involved and perform with them. True or not, this album is extremely rare and musically very, very weird! This mystical and drug-influenced collection of lysergic acid heads created some of the scariest sounds ever, definitely NOT for the faint hearted. After you light the blue touch paper, stand well back, because this toxic concoction will liquidize any cerebral matter within a 10 metre radius! Manic, screamed vocals are accompanied by relentless 100% twisted guitar on this mega rare platter. Presented in its original and totally authentic gatefold sleeve with the 'lovers and the chariot' tarot card cover and the proclamation 'divine communion time is here, little kitties -- YA HO WA 009 --Licensed to give life!' 'I could write a book on the cover. It is an absolute masterpiece of design, and probably the greatest cover in music history. Suffice it to say if you were to fully grasp the meaning and symbology of it, you would have the keys to magically transform your person and environment into your hearts desire and ride the chariot of god into the future of your own will, one with god.' -- Djin Aquarian (Guitar) on I'm Gonna Take You Home.'" – FE
6/27/2009	Ya Ho Wha 13	Magnificence In The Memory	CD	$13.99	Drag City	"The legendary Father Yod was a wealthy man, with a rich inner life, a family of disciples that loved him, many, many women and seemingly unlimited power. So why at the height of his success, did he choose to spend his time playing rock and roll? Having a band in residency at Father House provided him and all his children with another path to travel in their never-ending search for experience and wisdom. Taking time out from their busy schedule as Father's students and spiritual seekers in the Source Family, Sunflower, Octavius, Pythias and Djin took instruments in hand and, at a mere gesture from Father, turned up the amps and began tapping into the cosmos. First, they recorded themselves. The energy was good. Equipped by Father with instruments and effects pedals to ensure that they could create music that came 'from the spheres,' their sounds provided spiritual growth to everyone in the Source Family. After a time, Father became the lead singer, as 'a way to record wisdom in a modern, youth-oriented way,' Djin tells us. And YaHoWha 13 was born with Sunflower, Octavius and Djin. The music was recorded at a studio in the Father House on a TEAC 4-track reel-to-reel machine and was released on the Source Family's Higher Key Records label. In a couple short years, nine LPs were created, to be sold at the Source Restaurant and at YaHoWha 13 shows. Much sought-after items today, they've all been reissued. Even more exciting is the material that wasn't released - enough music to fill over sixty albums, all of them mind-blowers. Skimmed from the riches in Isis Aquarian's vaults (by Dave Nuss of the No-Neck Blues Band), the nine tracks on Magnificence in the Memory run the gamut of YaHoWha 13's rainbow of styles, from the whispered funk of 'Camp of the Gypsies' to the screaming and stomping of, well, 'Camp of the Gypsies.' Storming through moments with abandon, Father and his Sons never repeated themselves, committing everything they did to tape in a single take. The capacity of their riffs and grooves to sound like German rock bands of several years previous or the as-yet-uncreated avant sounds from the indie rock movement a decade away is testament to their ability to tap the source of human inspiration. Adds Octavius, 'These cuts will always be a source of inspiration.' The songs on Magnificence in the Memory were chosen to provide a non-stop exciting listening experience for Source fans and neophytes alike - and as Sunflower has stated, 'Father's music is our legacy and represents the voice of the times.'"
9/30/2005	Ya Ho Wha 13	Re-Visiting Father and the Source Family	DVD	$27.99	Swordfish	"This 2 1/2 hour documentary traces the history of the Source Family, Father Yod/Ya Ho Wha/the man formally known as Jim Baker. Going back to the Beatnik era of the late '50s when Baker ran a sandal shop in Hollywood it goes through the origins of the Family in Los Angeles in 1967 to the dispersal in the mid '70s. Many of the original members of the Family are interviewed and the new and extensive footage from the '70s is featured throughout. For anyone who has been fascinated by this mysterious cult/commune, this documentary should provide the answers to most questions and allow you to make up your own mind as to who Father Yod / Ya Ho Wha / Jim Baker was. 'A story that not even Hollywood could have scripted to be more entertaining.'" NTSC format DVD, Region 0.
11/15/2008	Ya Ho Wha 13	Sonic Portation	CD	$15.99	Prophase	"Back in the early '70s a curious group owned and operated a health food restaurant in Los Angles. The Source Family was a religious group of young people centered around the father figure of Father Yod, a WWII flying ace and spiritual searcher. This group of young people also performed improvisational music backing Father Yod under the name Yahowa 13. When Father Yod died in a hang gliding accident in 1975, the group dispersed. In 2007, with the publishing of a book about the Source Family, the original Yahowa 13 reunited for some shows and did some studio recordings. These are the long awaited results, the first studio recordings in over 30 years by Yahowa 13! Original members Djin, Octavius and Sunflower jam out like the ensuing years never happened. Incredible improv pieces with mind melting guitar and the psychedelic low end throb that all Yod fans will immediately recognize. Literally, the best reunion album of all time!"
4/3/2010	Ya Ho Wha 13	Sonic Portation	LP	$24.99	Prophase	"If Oliver Stone decided to make another movie featuring the psychedelic period of the late sixties, Sonic Portation would be the perfect soundtrack" - Marc Roy, Proggnosis. "...say turn it up loud, close your eyes, and feel the divinity of sound itself." - Todd Zacharitz, Goatsden. "Seldom has 'religious' music sounded so simultaneously earthy, spacy, guttural and evil. This sure ain't the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.' " - LA Weekly. Gatefold LP version, edition 500 copies.
4/25/2008	Ya Ho Wha 13	The Feather of Wisdom	LP	$20.99	Phoenix	"Sound at One is pleased to present the first Yahowa 13 album in 33 years on a new subsidiary, "Phoenix Records," releasing music specifically oriented towards the elevation of consciousness. This is a recording of the Yahowa 13 reunion show in San Francisco, November 2007. This live document reveals that the band's music remains completely burnt. Hand silk-screened, edition of 500, full color fold-out poster insert designed by Arik Moonhawk Roper."
10/26/2004	Ya Ho Wha 13	The Operetta	CD	$18.99	Swordfish	"The psychedelic find of the decade-their long-lost final magnum opus. Rumoured to exist for years-often put down as just rumour though. Here it is, unearthed from tapes thought lost forever but now found after nearly 30 years. The first thing to be released from Ya Ho Wha 13 since 1975. In the spring of 1975 the Family was homeless and was travelling on the West Coast after having been driven out of Hawaii by local laws (they would return later that year for what would be the final time with Father). Ya Ho Wha had taken a spontaneous journey to the East which had culminated in his initiation in the Great Pyramid of Egypt on Easter Sunday. Upon his return to the San Francisco area a warehouse in Corte Madeira was rented for the Family to gather for their Aquarian style morning meditations and meetings to greet the dawn. This is where The Operetta came down. It represents the first musical channelling from the time after Ya Ho Wha's Easter Ressurrection in the Great Pyramid (returning transformed) and the last total musical recording he would make with the band. The 6 pieces which make up The Operetta form the culmination of all the YaHoWhan recordings -- thunderous percussion, massive psychedelic guitar swirlings are all vying for space with Ya Ho Wha's spontaneous chanting in this intense journey into inner self. The final and most awesome of all their creations." 1975 recordings that was issued (and still available) as a double vinyl lp earlier in 2004.
6/19/2007	Ya Ho Wha 13	To The Principles For The Children	LP	$29.99	Swordfish	"This was the legendary cult/commune's penultimate album-thunderous native American Indian drums mixed with acid drenched feedback guitar, twisted vocals and a childrens song make for one of the most mind-altering albums ever. Comes with an insert of reflections on the record from the family. "At the end of 1974 The Source sold their restaurant and moved to Hawaii. There they went looking for paradise only to encounter hostile locals, who were reluctant to rent out a pad for Yahowa and his 13 wives, forcing them to temporarily retreat to Northern California. But they eventually reconfigured themselves and returned to Hawaii for a final fractious stand. "To the Principles, for the children" dates from this period and the tension shows. Its two long tracks are broken into untitled fragments, one of them an ode to "woman power" worthy of Helen Reddy. More frequently Yahowa locks into heaven chant mode, surrounded by instrumental rings that recall The Magic Band of "Abba Zabba". Very possibly, this album explains a great deal of the Father's philosophy-that is, if you can make out the words, of which there are many. By way of compensation the ensemble seamlessly blends effects and percussion, and when the kids' chorus of "Yahowa" starts up at the end you'll know you've already been somewhere." - Byron Coley A more personalized painfully vulnerable album style of songs. Odd.
5/16/2010	Yair Yona	Remember	7"	$7.99	Great Pop Supplement	Edition of 300 copies on clear vinyl, numbered in circular die cut sleeves. "Stunning debut 45 from amazing Israeli slide / picker Yair Yona. Much admired by the likes of Glenn Jones and the late great Jack Rose, the single here features 3 fabulous tracks of killer 6 / 12 string acoustic guitar, Weissenborn (an acoustic slide guitar), Resonator guitar, Bass and Banjo, over a layered drone backing, an awesome EP in cool circular packaging..."
	Yamada, Chisato	Fantastic World	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Here Yamada's amazingly vibrant, percussive attack and spirit power are featured in two avant settings. Two tracks recorded late last year feature Keiji Haino on guitar and percussion, amply fulfilling Kan Mikami's prediction that these two masters would create a fuckin' immense music if they ever met. The other three tracks are a suite for contemporary flute/percussion trio and tsugaru-jamisen, composed by Ken'ei Sasamori, recorded in 1978 and promptly lost for the next 17 years. Yamada is a true out-on-the-edge innovator, and these classic recordings prove that his experimental leanings have a long history. Yamada's age (he's now in his sixties) has only served to increase his unique power 7and authority. An essential, and too little known voice!"
12/2/2008	Yamamoto Seiichi & Acid Mothers Temple	Giant Psychedelia	double CD	$18.99	Acid Mothers Temple	Live recording from AMT Festival vol. 6 on December 8, 2007. This is dbl CD set with 6 panel card board jacket limited to 1000 copies. Recorded on digital 16 track multi recording system. Features: Yamamoto Seiichi : guitar, voice (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, Rovo, etc) -- Tsuyama Atsushi : bass, voice (Omoide Hatoba, AMT & TMP U.F.O., AMT SWR, etc) -- Shimura Koji : drums (AMT & TMP U.F.O., AMT & TCI, Miminokoto, ex.High Rise, ex.Mainliner, ex.Nagisa Nite, ex.White Heaven, etc) -- Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer (AMT & TMP U.F.O., AMT & TCI, Galax, Cosmic Dew) -- Tabata Mitsuru : freak out, voice (AMT & TCI, Zeni Geva, ex,Boredoms, Leningrad Blues Machine, etc) -- Kawabata Makoto : guitar (AMT & TMP U.F.O., AMT & TCI, AMT SWR, Gong, ex.Mainliner, etc) with Kuriyama Jun : voice (Jiyujigen, ex.Ox)
3/6/2010	Yeh, C. Spencer	Bergen	CDR	$7.99	Dronedisco	"Live set of violin and voice from Landmark at the Kunsthall Bergen, Norway, early 2010. "Landmark is foremost a space for new medias and cross-genre art. In addition to the artistic activity, it also serves the function of being a restaurant and bar. The space itself is designed and adapted for screening of videos, electronic art, concerts, DJs, movies and lectures." -- Last.fm. With glued covers and insert.
3/6/2010	Yeh, C. Spencer	Helsinki FI / Berlin DE / 09-10	double c34 cassette	$11.99	Dronedisco	"Two complete live sets of violin and voice spread out over four sides, from Helsinki Finland and Berlin Germany, in 2010 and 2009, respectively. Amplified hands, bow, mouth, throat, air, etc. In chunky vinyl case with insert. Edition of 75."
3/6/2010	Yeh, C. Spencer	Trondheim	CDR	$7.99	Dronedisco	"Live set of violin and voice from Dokkhuset Jazz Club in Trondheim, Norway, early 2010. "In an artistically converted former pumping station (look through the glass beneath your feet at the old engines), the Dock House is at once an auditorium - where if it's the right night you'll hear experimental jazz or chamber music - restaurant and café-bar. Sip a drink on the jetty or survey the Trondheim scene from its roof terrace." - Lonely Planet. With glued covers and insert.
1/24/2009	Yeh, C. Spencer + Lasse Marhaug	The Elementary Particles	7"	$6.99	Arbor	"This collaborative work between US improviser C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and European sound artist Lasse Marhaug is one of the most diverse and rewarding efforts by either artist. It is the result of hours of recording, cut up and spliced together, giving the listener a glimpse into various short snippets of the sessions. Harsh quick sonic blasts, violin scrapes and drones, field recordings, vocal exercises, room clatter and more are used in the process, but the way that they are assembled and woven together provides a nonstop experience that goes best with highly concentrated listening. Still the result is so varied that something new can be heard on every listen; a recording so intense you can never truly grasp what is actually happening; most definitely a highlight in both artists' discographies. In an edition of 400 7"s in proprinted foldover sleeves with art Jose DeDiego and an insert."
11/2/2008	Yeh, C. Spencer / Sick Llama	split	7"	$6.99	Arbor	"The malformed compositions of C. Spencer Yeh and Sick Llama come from opposing spectrums of noise music, though their similarities are undeniable. Whether it be Yeh's solo piece for violin or Sick Llama's gunked tape work, the spirit of improvisation shines through. On Yeh's track, the churning sounds of metal scrapes and light tinges, like crossed electric static and growing, buzzing drones are the result of one violin. His unique approach to the instrument marks him as one of the most exciting improvisers today whether it be with his solo work or through his work in Burning Star Core. Sick Llama's untitled piece is one of his most concise and interesting tracks; crushing and dirty with the hiss of tape static. Coming from the stoned mind of Heath Moreland of Fag Tapes, the expected tape aesthetic is transferred to vinyl with a compilation of cut up compositions, evoking a series of mystery sound sources. In an edition of 500 7"s in proprinited fold over sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives."
5/1/2009	Yeh, C.S.	Songs 2002	one-sided LP	$11.99	What The..?	"Songs 2002" are recorded from 2001-2002, having no home and no direction, just being one big question it was decided to pass along and eventually have released, so that the matter is settled and we can all move along to the next. Guitars and words. Another language to learn breathing and another see what dreams to come! Artist Paul Coors designs and silkscreens ghostphoto symmetry cover, 135 copies total at last count."
10/25/2008	Yek Koo	Psychic Atonement for Land Deaths	CDR	$9.99	Digitalis Limited	"Metal Rouge has emerged as los angeles' best kept secret in 2008, but they're luckily getting some air underneath those silver wings. yek koo is another side of that same coin, though. this solo project from helga fassonaki, who is half of metal rouge, shimmers under the weight of leaded gold. "psychic atonement for land deaths" is an excursion through the shadowhills, built on a foundation of lapsteel and head-swirling vocals. it is boundless. on this album, fassonaki pushes new boundaries. with hints of the trails traveled by the likes of heather leigh-murray and fursaxa creeping in from the peripheral, yek koo deconstructs these flowing drones into flecks of silver and gold. these are serious times and this is serious stuff for all that ails you. limited to 81 copies."
1/1/2008	Yellow Swans	At All Ends	LP	$16.99	Weird Forest	"At All Ends is the third major record in the Yellow Swans vast body of work. This record is an assured record of chiming drone and heady pelvic sky fuckery. New sounds emerge from the Yellow Swans camp that are more hushed, and whisper with the logic of deep space. Whereas the last record was a laser beam guided minimal transmission with dark overtones, this new release injects sonic clouds full of pink oxycontin. Guitar lines sketch out a melodic vision that stupifies with hypnotic repetition with layer upon layer of rich and dense guitar chug build into multi-orgasm songscapes that leave the loins sore and the mind spent. An exhausting journey into pleasure and single-mindedness. Elements of lush drone stretch the proceedings in vast strokes. Yellow Swans veer towards krautrock territory with this new record, and it will go down in the big books as their most beautiful and vibrant record thus far. Limited to 1000 copies with beautiful single pocket gatefold jackets with art by Jamie Potter."
5/14/2007	Yellow Swans	Descension Yellow Swans	LP	$21.99	Three Lobed Recordings	"The Yellow Swans have presented Three Lobed with some wonderfully dark and brooding drones for release as "Descension Yellow Swans." Taking a slightly different direction from their recent work, here Swanson and Saloman go and totally lay a psychedelic YS trip on all of your asses. Don't say we didn't warn you. Recorded by peter swanson and gabe s. in late 2006. from a one-time pressing of 489 hand-numbered copies. heavy 180g vinyl. housed within sleeves that were individually silk-screened by alan sherry (SIWA)."
11/4/2006	Yellow Swans	Psychic Secession	DBL LP	$17.99	Weird Forest	"This is the third Yellow Swans vinyl release on Weird Forest and they've really tattooed it out of the ballpark on this one. It's a pulse-pounding, synapse-blasting expedition straight to the cacophonous pleasure points of your innards. It must also be known that it's one of the most grooving releases I've heard all year, dig? Makes me shake it maniacal. Yellow Swans? Yeah, they do all these things, baby. Their ultimate release — simply phenomenal — features a treasure-trove of guests including Christina Carter, Inca Ore, Axolotl, The Dead Science, Gerritt, Silentist, The Cherry Point, Leif Sundstrom, White Rainbow, and Jeremy Romagna. Includes a side-long bonus track not on the CD versions! This is the vinyl edition of the CD release on Load Records."
4/24/2006	Yellow Swans	Psychic Sessions	CD	$13.99	Load	"Beaming down from the sky like a ray of white-hot light intent on saving us from ourselves, the Yellow Swans come up with their second studio record. Psychic Secession is a work of uncompromising vision, weaving together all sides of this duo's 20-sided die. Moments of quiet hum but up against crunchy speaker burners to make this record essential listening. The last few years have seen the Yellow Swans coat the planet with live dates in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Songs on this record were road tested in front of this planet's hungry eyes... you might have heard 'True Union,' which has been a staple of many of these live sets. This record was originally released in Australia by the Numerical Thief label, and comes to you on Load in a remastered format."
1/1/2008	Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core	Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core	LP	$19.99	Blossoming Noise	"Collaborative LP from Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core featuring GMS, Pete Swanson, Spencer Yeh & Mike Shiflet. Recorded from 2005 to 2006. Artwork by The Wyvern. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies on 140 gram red marbled vinyl."
2/14/2008	Yellow Swans & Mouthus	Conan Island	LP	$15.99	Weird Forest	"An inevitable match made in Hades. Four titans workin' it out in the primordial mulch and all the gods are cowering in their presence. The dual intertwining guitar-attack impacts and fragments into the dense concrete percussion forest surrounded by a shroud of pulsing caterwauling skree. A harum-scarum locomotive ride of thick, bombastic & heavy proportions..just like you want it to be. Play loud for optimum effect! Cover art by Brian Sullivan." Limited edition of 500 copies.
12/26/2005	Yellow Swans (aka D Yellow Swans) and Jim Altieri	Drowning Yellow Swans	CDR	$9.99	Carbon Records	"28+min of swelling and dro(w)ning guitar, glitched up blips and beeps, and ghostly vocal fragments. another amazing installment from D Yellow Swans, with help, this time, from Jim Altieri. connecting, connecting, connecting, click............."
12/24/2005	Yellow Swans (aka Dove Yellow Swans)	Live During War Crimes	CD	$13.99	Release The Bats	"live during war crimes is a collection with the best parts from various older releases, all remastered and edited to work as a new fullenght album. the result is a epic mayhem. 6 songs in about 47 minutes. a industrial wasteland of futuristic electronics, hypnotic feedback assaults and atmospheric drones - a beautiful, yet grim, sonic bliss. the material is taken from the dusk tape (released on jyrk, the bands own imprint), the demonic cdr (hung like a horse) and the drill cdr (snse). everything was recorded live between may and june 2004. comes packaged in a special dual plover styled fullcolor digipack. cover drawings by devendra banhart."
1/23/2003	Yellow6 / Rothko / Landing	New Found Land	CD	$11.99	Music Fellowship	"The Music Fellowship is excited to announce a series of Tryyptychs - three-way split CDs containing three 20+ minute ‘tryyps’ by three individual but complementary artists. The first in the series, New Found Land, is where Yellow6, the ambient journey of Leicestershire guitarist Jon Attwood, Rothko, the impressionistic bass odyssey charted by London’s Mark Beazley, and the many musical byways traveled by Connecticut-based Landing finally meet. Constructed in a digital studio, Yellow6’s looped, cut, and pasted compositions are layered and elegant, uniting bliss-out drone, airy rhythms, and melodic inflections. Attwood’s contribution to New Found Land is on the more structured side of his sonic spectrum, revealing facets perhaps not seen on his previous releases (for such labels as Ochre, Rocket Racer, Jonathon Whiskey, and Enraptured). His music has also been featured in several BBC projects. Rothko began in 1997 with a unique three-bass lineup. Founding member Beazley has since expanded Rothko’s sound with additional instrumentation. Recorded solo during the project’s early years, the intensely atmospheric ‘Halftones and Metatones’ continues Beazley’s patient exploration of the infinite possibilities of four strings. While it’s classic Rothko, as heard on Lo Recordings, (K-RAA-K) 3 and Bella Union, ‘Halftones’ anticipates the new directions Beazley is pursing on Too Pure. Over the past three years, Landing has retained a lush, hypnotic aura while spanning pure improvisation and gentle songcraft. The band’s contribution to New Found Land presents a new chapter of the quartet’s ongoing adventures in sound and texture. This is Landing’s fourth release on the Music Fellowship, and other recent releases are available on BaDaBing! and Strange Attractor’s Audio House. Their forthcoming 2003 album is being released on Olympia’s K Records."
2/11/2006	Yeti	#3	Book with CD	$12.99		"Book + CD: 244 page 6" by 9" matte gloss journal (gorgeous metallic cover), comes with a packed-as-possible CD of unreleased/ rare music fastened to inside back cover. CD CONTENTS: Unreleased music by Devendra Banhart (3 songs), Henry Flynt, Steffen Basho-Junghans, the Mad Scene, the Lights, Dan Melchior, Ian Nagoski, World, Birdbrain, the Apes, Dead Science, the Robot Ate Me, the Blues Goblins, KRMTX,the Postal Service, Iron & Wine, Jolie Holland, Colin Meloy from the Decemberists (a Morrissey cover), Haley Bonar, the Dream Lovers and Timesbold, plus rare tracks by Washington Phillips and the Fruit Bats (during their incarnation as I, Rowboat). BOOK CONTENTS: Unpublished interview with William S. Burroughs conducted in 1997 by Alan "Love in Vain" Greenberg; R.J. Smith's discovery of a hard-boiled anonymous crime scene reporter from 1940s African-American Los Angeles; rad felt-tip drawings by Mark Dwinell from Bright; Erik Davis on "West Coast art and spiritual collage"; Naomi Yang on her design work; comics by Jeffrey Brown, Jason Miles, Souther Salazar and Carson Ellis; diaristic photo letters by Michael Galinsky; a selection of BloodNinja's finest AIM conversations; a 'lost' manifesto by Henry Flynt; many pages of photos of modern Vietnam by Charles Peterson; the editor's interview with a discharged marine who may or may not be conning him; the 9-page "Apes Guide to Apes" (where the band the Apes tells in picture form what it is like to be the Apes); Nate Lippens on Eileen Myles; a parable by Steve Arntson; interviews with Neko Case, Schneider TM, Devendra Banhart and Timesbold; plus Goldcard in conversation with the Blues Goblins (Sam from Quasi). Full page illustrations by some of today's most excellent graphic artists--Sammy Harkham, Carson Ellis, Jeffrey Brown, Jordan Crane, Eric Reynolds, Gregg Einhorn and E*Rock--accompany each article."
11/15/2008	Yeti	#6	Book with CD	$11.99		"On the CD: Rare & unreleased tracks from: the Clean/the Great Unwashed (plus covers of Clean/ G.U. songs by Times New Viking & Crystal Stilts); Megapuss (debut of Devendra Banhart's new band); Sun City Girls; Frankie Rose's awesome noisy demo of the Vivian Girls' 'Where Do You Run To'); Mingering Mike; Cause Co-Motion!; Eat Skull; Brothers Unconnected (Richard + Alan Bishop); Collections of Colonies of Bees; Blank Dogs; Sad Horse; Dixon Brothers; Ilyas Ahmed; E*Rock & Mat Brinkman; Grass Widow; Way of the Ancients (Thom Bullock from Rub 'n' Tug doing a lengthy tribute to 'Set Your Controls for the Heart of the Sun'!) & a few more. Inside the book: Sic Alps + Eat Skull interview each other; The Clean: a career-spanning interview with the legendary NZ pop band; Vivian Girls interviewed by Rob Simonsen; Mugshots From 1920s Australia: selected and introduced by archivist/author Peter Doyle; Sun City Girls: Lengthy, archival oral history (one of the very few times that the late, great Charles Gocher ever talked to a reporter); Tim Lawrence on the neglected role of disco in NYC's '70s Downtown scene; Mingering Mike: Eric Isaacson pays tribute to the self-taught visual artist about his newly unearthed a capella recordings; Luc Sante: Folk photography (incredible portfolio of hand-made postcards from the 1920s); Thom Bullock: Andy Beta's hilarious & enthused interview with the roots-disco DJ, formerly of ARE Weapons and a dozen other groups; David Fair's paper-cut artwork; More!"
2/21/2005	Ykeo	Clot Too Brown	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	“Pretty boy Daniel Mitha serves up a diamond noise goiter. Arcade game cut-up hookum meets candle lit face drill romance. Dedicated to his future ex-wives 16 Bitch Pile-Up.”
12/25/2005	Yonkers, Michael	Australian Tour	7"	$7.99	Art School Drop Out Records	"To accompany his one-off Australian appearance, the legendary Michael Yonkers put together "The Big Balloon" (1986)/ "It's You Again" (2005) for a tour 7". The Big Balloon comes from the same Michael Yonkers Band - Microminiature Love sessions of 1968 that earned him cult status. Strangely this track has never before been released and didn't even appear on the expanded Sub Pop reissue of a few years back. "When we recorded Microminiature Love, we only had enough money for one-hour of studio time. We didn't need the entire hour for Microminiature Love, so, in the time remaining we, just for the hell of it, recorded another song - The Big Balloon. This was a song that, although it was a different style than the Microminiature Love material, we did live as a big inflatable sculpture I had made was blowing up on stage..."Michael Yonkers, 2005. It's you Again is a sheer-attack buzzing psyche-noise monster which Yonkers recorded solo in the recent months. The 7" is packaged in a silk screened covers with artwork by local Melbourne artist Nathan Gray. The release is limited to 500 copies."
7/16/2010	Yonkers, Michael	Goodby Sunball	LP	$14.99	Secret Seven	"Secret Seven Records is proud to release the first ever reissue of the lost psych-folk LP Goodby Sunball by cult favorite, Michael Yonkers. Privately released in 1974, Goodby Sunball was recorded at Yonkers' home studio a few years after Microminature Love and just before Lovely Gold. Limited to 500 copies. "The music for Goodby Sunball was written during the recovery period following serious spine surgery. The surgery had not gone well, I was laid up for months, and had to learn to walk again. So, the music was written using an acoustic guitar, while laying in bed. When I was able to be up and around more, I started recording the songs...a little at a time. It took about 7 months. I recorded the tracks in the little studio I had in my place. It was all recorded on two-channel, tube type machines (back and forth between machines). The vocals were done in the bathroom, to give an expanded sound."- MIchael Yonkers. Nice!
4/3/2010	Yonkers, Michael	Lovely Gold	LP	$17.99	Drag City	"As of late 2009, the legend of Michael Yonkers has taken its place among the great stories of underground rock and roll music. He'd been playing rock and roll for nearly forty years when Microminiature Love was finally issued in 2003 (Sire had taken a pass way back in 1968). A thousand noise-rock ears pricked up -- for Yonkers, a reclusive Minneapolis dancer-musician with a handful of self-released records over the years, had seminally prefigured proto-punk/metal/noise through his own brand of amped up garage rock. Since the revelation, Michael has picked up where he left off, exploring blown-out frequencies with collaborators around the globe, and his work has claimed a seat next to immortals like The Fugs, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth and even ol' Jimi. What a lot of folks STILL don't know is that Michael put aside his hand-built fuzz boxes and bellowing vocal style in the 1970s to record and self-release some truly curious albums of lilting loner-folk music, including Grimwood, Goodby Sunball and Michael Lee Yonkers. Of this holy trio of albums, only Grimwood has yet seen reissue. Throughout this time, Yonkers layered madrigal-like vocals, simple acoustic guitars, and used electricity in only the most subtle of ways - all to serve his somber, mesmerizing songs. This brings us to Lovely Gold. Planned as the fourth LP in his 70s trilogy, it was never released - a true crime, because it is an exotic work of homespun brilliance. Recorded in 1977 on a four-channel 'tube type' tape recorder that Michael built himself by combining parts of other machines, it is perhaps his most multi-faceted solo album. The trademark Yonkers chug appears (though more stripped-down and dreamlike) and even some spraying acidic guitar on the title track, but the sweeping choral voice arrangements on gorgeous hymns like 'Will It Be' are entirely unique and indeed lovely creations. What's more, while digging through his archives Michael located previously lost cuts intended for the album, including the harrowing, near-Krautrock glide of 'Nevermore.' Utilizing original photos and the exact layout specs/fonts/and notes of the planned 1977 Lovely Gold release, a lost classic at last becomes available -- once again! How many more reside in the Yonkers vaults? Only time (and Michael) will tell..."
7/30/2003	Yonkers, Michael	Microminiature Love	CD	$13.99	Sub Pop	"Originally recorded in 1968 and slated for release on Sire Records, Microminiature Love languished unreleased until last year, when it was finally unearthed by Destijl Records (who put out a limited, vinyl-only pressing of the original album). Its creator, Michael Yonkers, is a legendary figure in Minneapolis music-lore, who, through his own modifications, created his own guitars and effects. However, Microminiature Love is no mere curiosity or feat of gadgetry. Raised on a steady diet of Link Wray and the Trashmen, Yonkers pushed the boundaries of distortion and truly transformed it into a powerful voice. The songs on Microminiature Love defy immediate categorization, but in them are shades of Pere Ubu, the howl of Iggy, the blunt primitivism of the Godz, and the seeds of countless other underground heroes. Upon its release last year, Microminiature Love immediately became a record-head favorite and Yonkers' later albums began trading for not-insignificant sums. The original seven-song album is accompanied on this CD edition by six bonus tracks recorded circa 1968."
10/17/2009	Yonkers, Michael & Plastic Crimewave Sound	Bleed Out	LP	$12.99	Spiral Staircase	"After some 5 years in the making, at last the first official collaboration between Chicago acid-punks Plastic Crimewave Sound and Minneapolis noise/folk guitar legend Michael Yonkers has come to fruition! Sir Yonkers should need no introduction, as his godly unreleased-in-the-day album, "Microminiature Love" blew the doors off anyone who was lucky enough to pick up the DeStijl LP or Sub Pop CD reissue. This seriously ahead-of-it's-time, pre/post-punk, jittery noise-rock sounds as fresh today as when it was recorded back in 1968. Yonkers 70s folk LPs also continue to impress (and to be reissued) with their mix of homemade electronics and poignant melodies. More recently, Michael has returned to and refined his buzzing fuzz guitar sound to new heights, with his tuneful-yet-bellowing voice often adorning the skree. Numerous releases, from LPs to CDRs, over the past decade have re-established Yonkers as one of the world's most distinct and uncompromising underground voices. Plastic Crimewave Sound have been bringing it since 2001, with their scuzzed out brand of free-fest psychedelia, putting the "rock" back into spacerock on some 4 Lps, split releases, and too many other appearances to mention. Collaborations/tours with Oneida, Comets on Fire, Ya Ho Wha 13, Simply Saucer, and countless others have spread their bad trip gospel. Leader Plastic Crimewave also is the brainchild of the acclaimed Galactic Zoo Dossier Magazine published by Drag City. The sessions for this unearthly collaboration began back in 2004, and a seemingly perfect one it is--driving guitars, reverbed static, rippling electronics, and Yonkers' urgent vocals meld into a freaked-out stew that truly bleeds out of one's speakers. Side 2 of the LP is perhaps even more fierce, as it captures PCWS and Yonkers' first live appearance together at the first Million Tongues festival at the Empty Bottle in Chicago, also in 04. Clocking in at nearly the 20 minute mark, this shredding bit of synapse-frying abandon is simply titled "No Urge," and was recorded by the late Malachai Ritscher. Don't miss out on this limited LP in an edition of 500, sure to go as fast as Yonkers and PCWS's other now out-of- print releases."
8/20/2004	Yonkers, Michael / Plastic Crimewave Sound	Where Flowers Bloom / Hibiscus Blue	7"	$4.99	Captain Spazz Records	“Side A is two overdriven guitar attacks from Yonkers, a legendary survivor whose pre-punk genius has only recently become available in the last couple years. Both of these tracks are exclusive to vinyl and this release features an interview with Yonkers conducted by the Plastic Crimewave Sound. Side B is one massive psychedelic punk tidal wave from PCS. The overamped guitars, pained howls and rippling electronics frantically chug along like Chrome and Hawkwind. This track is completely exclusive as well. This release is also hand-numbered and limited to 500.”
	Yoshizawa, Motoharu	Cracked Mirrors	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Reissue of a fantastic solo bass album from 1975. With tracks dedicated to Steve Lacy, Barre Phillips and others, this is bowed, flowing higher-key music for the spheres and probably the most interesting Yoshizawa document to date. Not to be dismissed as a mere 'solo bass' album." - FE
	Yoshizawa, Motoharu	Empty Hats	CD	$15.99	PSF	"1994 recording for solo electric vertical five strings bass, one of Yoshizawa's personal inventions, a terrain previously explored on PSF 8 & 22. The sound here is small, noisy interludes and quirky improv, very quietly recorded & tough to really get into." - FE
	Yoshizawa, Motoharu	From The Faraway Nearby	CD	$15.99	PSF	Again, the five string bass that he invented plus the addition of electronics on this recording.
	Yoshizawa, Motoharu	Play Unlimited	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Yoshizawa is beyond doubt one of the most important, yet unknown, giants of Japanese free improvisation. He has been playing for forty years and was a leading figure in the Japanese free jazz scene of the late sixties and early seventies, both in his own (undocumented) trio, and in groups with such groundbreakers as Masayuki Takayanagi, Masahiko Togashi, and Kaoru Abe. He ranks shoulder to shoulder with Barre Phillips as the leading bass innovator/ improvisor. Yoshizawa is perhaps best known in the West for his work on his effects-laden five string bass, which has dominated his previous releases on PSF (Gobbledygook, From the faraway nearby, Angels have passed, Uzu, and his guest spots with folk-singer Kazuki Tomokawa). However Yoshizawa started off on acoustic bass and his three solo LPs (The Cracked Mirror and the Fossil Bird has been rereleased on PSF) on that instrument from the mid-70s stand as unsurpassed monuments to his genius. Twenty years on, this CD again features Yoshizawa on acoustic contrabass, recorded live at Shibuya Appia. The beauty, invention, strength and spirit on display are truly peerless. A stunning document from a player who should be as well known as Bailey, Parker et al." - Alan Cummings
12/29/2001	Yoshizawa, Motoharu / Takehisa Kosugi / Haruna Miyake	Angels Have Passed	CD	$15.99	PSF	Recorded live in 1991 with Yoshizawa on home made 5 string bass, Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travellers) on violin, and Miyake on piano.
7/16/2009	Young Boys / FM.Face	split	c28 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"Oh this little gem of mine, spit & shine spit & shine. young boys and fm.face are two newborn projects hailing from opposite coasts, but when they join forces on this tape it's to melt your face off. young boys kick it on first with thick reverb post-punk spirit and stonewalled vocals belting it out, these five songs are covered in new york slime. these songs are bleak but laced with something sweet that keeps you coming back for more and more. fm.face is like the rascally younger brother who is out to show how he can really fuck shit up in a royally awesome way. these songs are punked-out wastelands. angular guitar lines repeat to infinity on top of overblown drum machines while fm.face just absolutely fucking belts it out. look out below. edition of 100, half on black, half on white, pro-dubbed pounds."
3/13/2003	Youngs, Richard	Airs of the Ear	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"Richard Youngs' impressive body of work continues to mount. It resembles, unwittingly for sure, a slow zig zag march towards some Hegelian musical ideal in the distant horizon. Youngs, the leading wizard of droney and minimal psychedelic folk, has unleashed Airs of the Ear, his new opus invoking new magic looking for new ears to ensnare. Building on his esteemed recordings Advent (1990), Sapphie (1998), Making Paper (2001) and May (2002), Airs of the Ear goes beyond merely residing in what is the essential ecology of Richard Youngs - the spiritual nexus between the oft disparate realms of traditional folk and the avant-garde; it now embodies this ecology. Acoustic instruments coexist perfectly with electric ones, while neither class of instrumentation is ever trumped by the other contraptions on the record, namely ring modulation, the square wave or the theremin. Perfect balance is almost achieved. There is harmony, true emotional resonance, even on what is Youngs' most captivating work on the record, ‘Fire Horse Rising’. Despite the ever-escalating nature of this song, where Youngs powerfully and repeatedly invokes ‘...and I don't understand, ...and I don't want to know...’, the listener is never allowed to feel overwhelmed or be pushed out of that special meditative and trance-like space. The spell is never broken. English born and bred, but residing in Glasgow, Scotland (where Airs of the Ear was recorded), Richard Youngs has remained busy over the last two years. In addition to his recent Jagjaguwar offerings, Youngs has remained a very active collaborator (releasing albums with Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple, Simon Wickham-Smith, Neil Campbell, Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra, as well as being featured on the latest Damon & Naomi live album Song to the Siren on the bonus DVD)."
	Youngs, Richard	Festival	CD	$14.99	Table of the Elements	"In this, his first solo CD, he fuses disparate instrumentation (homemade electronics, plaintive vocals, clock chimes and found objects) into a lengthy series of pealing, minimal compositions that owe more to the slowly evolving drones and repetitive themes of Advent than any of his subsequent works. Dense electronic squalls are juxtaposed against shimmering percussion, culminating in the marvelously hypnotic 20 minute finale, 'The Sea Is Madness.' "
10/31/2009	Youngs, Richard	Like A Neuron	LP	$18.99	Dekorder	"Richard Youngs is a prolific British musician (located in Glasgow) with an extremely diverse output. Dusted Magazine once wrote he is "defying strict genre classifications since the early nineties, swapping labels, styles, partners, motifs, and recording techniques as the desire has struck him". So his new album for Dekorder might not be a surprise to anyone following his career. Still, a self-proclaimed all-electronic "ecstatic House record" comes somewhat unexpected. With a line of distinctive synthesizers often used for Techno/House Music Youngs recreates the energy, euphoria and frenzy of these styles without ever trying to recreate the music note by note. The final outcome sounds like recordings made by aliens who have received transmissions about House Music but never listened to the music itself. The album reminds of the sound of hallways/corridors inbetween large House parties where you can hear the music from several floors collide. While it's an emulation, interpretation or replica of House Music, it's still managing to evoke similar feelings even though some might find it difficult to dance to the music. In the past, Youngs has released several albums on a dozen labels such as VHF, Jagjaguwar, Table Of The Elements, Gipsy Sphinx, Majora, Chocolate Monk, Celebrate Psi Phenomena, Fusetron and his own No Fans outlet. He has collaborated with Neil Campbell (aka Astral Social Club), Matthew Bower, Simon Wickham-Smith and many others and was a member of the A-Band and has performed live and in the studio with Sunroof! And Skullflower. Additionally, Youngs played bass for Jandek, appearing on three of his live records/DVD's. Limited edition of 500 copies!"
3/11/2004	Youngs, Richard	River Through Howling Sky	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"If the 'musical' real number line is infinitely dense, then the most recent work of Richard Youngs endeavors to fill in all of the holes on it. River Through Howling Sky is Youngs¹ latest full-length. It returns to the more meditative and drone-y side of his songcraft (circa Sapphie (1998) and Making Paper (2001)), although this is no true devolution: all of his recordings to date have some measure of these qualities. So what is it that sets River Through Howling Sky apart from its predecessors? It is the density on the recording, both intra-spatial and otherworldly. The howling guitar that points unerringly to some imagined horizon line. Throughout, Youngs is the calm and steady wolf, chanting odes to infinity. Expose the ancient Brotherhood of Pythagoras to River Through Howling Sky, and you would find knowing nods, pursed lips, and secret incantations in caves. An unwitting acceptance that not everything is rational or conceptually circumnavigable. Our western tonal system relies on ratios, i.e. strings whacked at particular intervals. Young’s howling guitar and circular chants‹with the help of a spartan amount of percussion and electronics‹ may just encompass all the possible ratios and, mystically, more."
11/17/2007	Youngs, Richard	Summer Wanderer	LP	$17.99	Gipsy Sphinx	"An acapella record, written, sung and recorded by Richard Youngs in Scotland, September 2004. First only available from Richard as a gift for friends, the album was later released on his No Fans imprint in a micro edition of a couple dozens of cdr's. Now, three years after being recorded, this stunning album sees the light of day on thick, heavyweight vinyl. Think of the ambiance Richard evokes consistently throughout his solo output. Cut off the strings, the drones and all other skillfully arranged overweight and trickle that feeling down to its core essence. The name of Richard's gift is Summer Wanderer, its beauty timeless. One-time limited edition of 525 copies pressed on heavy 180g vinyl, housed in thick handnumbered paste-on sleeves."
2/11/2006	Youngs, Richard	The Naïve Shaman	CD	$12.99	Jagjaguwar	"Richard Youngs has been making music for over two decades. The Naive Shaman, released in dual format (cd and lp), is a deeply personal work. Created on a computer at home, it is a high density digital song cycle driven by heavy, heavy electric bass guitar. The opening "Life On A Beam" combines a modal vocal line with throbbing sonics and non-linear percussion. Elsewhere a plaintive voice threads itself through frosted atmospherics and we hear Richard's first recorded kazoo work since 1992's New Angloid Sound. At the core of the album is "Sonar In My Soul", a bass loop on to which are collaged strangulated guitar, singing and more singing. The track climaxes in a hollered plea for "unity". The second half of the set contrasts "Once It Was Autumn", a succintly crafted dub chant, with the epic "Summer's Edge II", whose sprawling 16+ minutes anchor a floating vocal melody and free-flowing drums with fuzzed bass octaves. At a time when he has increased his commitment to live performance, Richard has--paradoxically--produced an album that explores recording technology as an instrument, a work where song is modulated by sound. By critics and true music fans everywhere, Youngs has been deemed the king of the progressive minimalists. He has now released seven full-length records in addition to multiple collaborations with other artists such as Makoto Kawabata (of Acid Mothers Temple fame), Simon Wickham-Smith and Neil Campbell." - Jagjaguwar
1/15/2005	Youngs, Richard & Alexander Neilson	Beating Stars	LP	$12.99	HP Cycle	“Beating Stars is the second release by Richard Youngs and Alexander Neilson and finds the duo working a celestial vibe over the album's four tracks. The LP begins with a cosmic folk interpretation of the traditional ‘Rolling In The Dew’, with Richard's voice transplanted amongst electronics, acoustic clatter and steady minimal percussion. From there the record ventures into more abstract territories where hovering electronics, searing guitar and explosive drumming all meld into a psychedelic haze. The album concludes with the side-long ‘Sent Onto The Stream’, a twenty-two minute journey of skittering percussion and sustained tones of bent frequencies. Pressed in an edition of 420.”
2/12/2008	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Collodion Positives: Volume 2	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"This one picks up on the more abstract fourth world free jazz and improvisation style of volume one, with Paine on acoustic guitar, electric bass, piano and keyboards and Youngs on shakuhachi, percussion, harmonica and glockenspiel. There’s still a touch of The Sea Ensemble to the way breath and small single tones are combined in subtly psychedelic patterns and some of Youngs’ shakuhachi work touches on the exploratory moves of Sabu Orimo but it’s all pretty singular, with stately, slow moving pieces that have a nicely stoned/hallucinatory Gamelan feel." - Volcanic Tongue
2/12/2008	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Collodion Positives: Volume 3	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"New 2008 third volume of this on-going collaboration series between Youngs and fellow Ilk member Andrew Paine, released in a limited run on Paine’s own Sonic Oyster Records. The sound here seems focussed more towards late-60s/early-70s electric jazz, with keyboards pushed to the fore and basslines rendered with the kind of squonk quotient that sounds most like On The Corner-era Miles Davis or some of the wiggier, plugged in Sun Ra material. Richard plays shakuhachi, electric bass guitar, percussion and keyboards. Andrew plays electric guitar, electric bass guitar and keyboards." - Volcanic Tongue
10/25/2008	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Collodion Positives: Volume 4	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"New limited CD-R on Sonic Oyster from Youngs and Paine, the fourth instalment in their on-going Collodion Positives series. This one forsakes the whole electrified 70s Miles feel of the earlier instalments for a tougher, heavier more overtly 'progressive' stance. Each track is named after one of the players' 'favourite' prog/rock groups while attempting to tie the particular vibration to the mode of the dedicatee's music. That the dedications run through Utopia, Journey, UFO, Dire Straits, REO Speedwagon, Mountain, Focus and Heart is as terrifying as it is confusing. Features a guest appearance by synth wunderkind Sorley Youngs." - Volcanic Tongue
8/8/2009	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Earth Rod	CDR	$9.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Limited new collaboration from Richard Youngs and fellow Ilk member Andrew Paine. Going by the titles alone - "Back To Santos", "Collodion Neptune" - this one feels like an overview of alla the various moods that the duo's previous collaborations have investigated and the sonics certainly bear that out. There are weird prog-styled monologues that reflect on the more portentous Ilk work ("Tokyo Garden"), searing acid rock guitar ("Gabriel"), weird songs with bastardised world music rhythms ("Mariachi Woman)Š. but the overall feel is dark and claustrophobic, with the more self-consciously experimental nature of early Youngs sides like LAKE given a progressive update and at points an atmosphere that almost sounds like The Fall circa Bend Sinister. An oddly affecting release from these too, though I'm still trying to get my head around it. Guest appearance from Sorley Youngs on percussion and vocals is the gravy." - Volcanic Tongue.
8/22/2008	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	English Channel	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Brand new pitch-black live séance style from the duo of Richard Youngs and Andrew Paine. Recorded with an armoury of unknown instrumentation sprawled around a room in the dark and then overdubbed with vocals without reference to the first recordings, this one combines the logic of the classic Durian Durian side with a much creepier, low-level ritualistic atmosphere featuring Paine and Youngs gargling wordless chants like electrified monks while bells, small instruments and thick, hovering silence builds to a crescendo of black-on-black. Very psychedelic." - Volcanic Tongue
2/20/2010	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Guide to Music	CDR	$10.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Strictly Limited Edition (Numbered) 100 Copies. A range of oblique and idiosyncratic references from the musical spectrum. The whole thing represents a collision of popular styles, providing an energetic, exciting tour of undiscovered musical hinterlands."
5/29/2008	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Hot Canyon Butter	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"New limited collaboration CD on Paine‚s own imprint from Richard Youngs and Andrew Paine. Nothing like anything these two have done before, this one crosses drum machines, wah-bass, stylophone, harmonica, percussion, guitar and keyboards to birth an odd electro-punk upstart, with aspects of UK DIY outfits like Storm Bugs et al alongside punk takes on 70s Miles, skewed auto-destructive keyboard shuffles and insistent minimalist motifs." - Volcanic Tongue
12/24/2005	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Mauve Dawn	LP	$14.99	Fusetron	"For the past eight years Andrew Paine and Richard Youngs have met on almost every Sunday and recorded music. Mauve Dawn is the result of ten meetings during 2004. Its nine tracks feature processed epinette des vosges, glockenspiel, vintage keyboards and guitars alongside granularly synthesised household objects hacked together with resonated voices and filtered bells in a stereo field heavy on ring modulation. One part of the Mauve trilogy, this is an instrumental album of classic length." - Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine.
5/16/2010	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Robot	CDR	$9.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Sonic Oyster Records presents 'Robot', a new release from Andrew Paine & Richard Youngs. 'Robot' is the result of adhering to every 'oblique strategy' card randomly chosen from the deck. No compromise; no quarter... no matter how painful, no matter how against the moment, we worked with it and the music flowed through us... a strange new sound, at times liberating... at other times totally ridiculous. Ultimately, it was a very enjoyable album to make... riddled with surprises... taking the construct and process we first started on ' The Horizon Project' and moving forward to a new experimentation. A progression, if you will." Edition of 50 copies.
8/28/2007	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Rock Traveller	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Brand new limited duo exchange from long-term collaborators Richard Youngs and Andrew Paine on Paine's own Sonic Oyster imprint. Described as their "heaviest outing yet" this one features electrocuting bass/guitar psych monoliths that are as fuzz-fixated as Sound Of Confusion-era Spacemen 3, Skullflower-esque hurricane rhythms and extended trance-inducing feedback/electronic hoverings. Features a guest appearance by Richard's son Sorley Youngs on electric guitar." - Volcanic Tongue
7/11/2008	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Snapshots of Rural England	CDR	$12.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Bizarre new limited release from the duo of Richard Youngs and Andrew Paine: Snapshots· has little to do with English traditional music, as the title might suggest, but rather follows on from the weird dystopian/Industrial sci-fi environs of the previous Roman Concrete, with vocals like numbers stations, Nurse With Wound-style barren drone environs, submerged environmental recordings and concrete sine wave hypnosis. Features voice, electric guitar, harmonica, ring modulator, sine and square waves. One of the most disturbed and disturbing releases in the Youngs catalogue for sure." - Volcanic Tongue
5/1/2009	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	The Great Level	CDR	$10.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"New limited collaborative album from Youngs and Paine, on Paine's own Sonic Oyster imprint. This set is a little more subtle than previous installments, with two short tracks based around flickering vocals, delicate electronic melodies and puffs of flute giving way to a long piano/fuzz guitar instrumental that would reconcile Mazzacane-style overdriven string action with lugubrious single note melodies." - Volcanic Tongue
11/21/2009	Youngs, Richard & Andrew Paine	Tokyo Garden Suite	CDR	$11.99	Sonic Oyster Records	"Tokyo Garden Suite is one of the most beautiful, stately and oddly melancholic releases in the Sonic Oyster catalogue. As well as Paine and Youngs, the disc sees the return to the fold of Steve Todd, who the No Fans hardcore will immediately recognise as the duo partner Youngs cut the great Georgians CD with for VHF back in 1996. Todd opens the 30 minute piece with a sombre, atmospheric reading of a text which introduces a slow, single note piano motif behind which Paine and Youngs' spoken vocals create a feeling of a post-apocalyptic Albion, with lyrics that reference the buzz of Geiger counters double by overblown shakuhachi. In many ways Tokyo Garden Suite is an extension - or perhaps more accurately a dilation - of the minimal logic of earlier Youngs pieces like Advent while factoring in the later more Prog-tinged aspects of the best Ilk recordings. Outside of Ultrahits, this has probably been the most played Sonic Oyster disc in the office. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue.
7/16/2010	Youngs, Richard and Simon Wickham-Smith	20 Years	LP + triple CD	$32.99	Vhf	"20 Years celebrates two decades of music from Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith, featuring four previously unreleased albums. The set includes the first new vinyl from the pair in almost 15 years, plus three other projects (presented here on CD) that were all completed and intended for release by the duo in the '90s, but fell by the wayside for various reasons. 20 Years, the newly recorded LP, is one of the heaviest, most uncompromising records of the duo's long career. It consists of eight electro-acoustic reworkings of their first (unreleased) recording from 1987, and is a blistering set of tracks as wild and weird as anything they've ever done. The SMIRR CD features four epic instrumentals in the vein of classics such as LAKE and Asthma and Diabetes, flowing with extended grandeur, mixing drone and eccentric instrumentation in the duo's immediately identifiable style. Songphase's ten simple, lovely tunes are a reminder of their considerable "trad" songwriting and performing prowess. While Youngs has worked in this style on his solo efforts, hearing Wickham-Smith match him track for track is a revelation. "Dream Song" is among the former's most moving pieces. Finally, LIVE!!! is a head-scratcher of an album, recorded live in-studio in full-on Dadaist style--extended clavinet mania, Casio jams and plenty of outre expression. This set is packaged in a gatefold jacket with essays by David Keenan, Neil Campbell, Marc Masters and Jon Dale and an extended interview with Youngs and Wickham-Smith. The CDs are housed in a custom-bindered insert in the pocket opposite the LP, with each disc held snug in its own die-cut pocket, and the audiophile-quality LP was cut by John Golden." "Magnificent and ridiculous." --Neil Campbell. "In its own way, 20 Years is a testament to another form of resistance, one that is polite, well-behaved, English-eccentric but still as bloody-minded, anti-corporate and determinedly individual as the most radical punk rock." --David Keenan. "Call 20 Years a film shot on wax, a book printed on plastic, an uncontainable career folded inside a hairless gate. I think you better turn off your cell-phone-addled brain and clamp your fists to your chair for this one." --Marc Masters
2/21/2009	Your Intestines	Untitled (Green)	CDR	$10.99	Black Petal	"Maybe we can see Your Intestines as a sort of noise rock supergroup. It has in its ranks Matt Earle, who performs also with X-Wave, Stasis Duo, Muura, 2779. He plays guitar. Anthony Guerra, the label boss of Black Petal, and collaborator in the field of improvised music with Joel Stern, Antony Milton, Mark Sadgrove. Also on guitar. Adam Sussman, a bass player, of Stasis Duo, 2779 and improvising with Toshimaru Nakamura, Annette Krebs, Jim Denley, Tim Olive, Jason and last there is drummer Peter Blamey, who recorded an excellent work with Jim Denley. This quartet had a particular fruitful day on June 19th 2005 in Sydney. It was then when they recorded the material of these two untitled CDR releases. They can be recognized by their color, pink and green. About one hundred minutes of music of improvised free rock music with largely a noisy undercurrent. Feedback flies about, but the recording quality seems like rehearsal space area, so not over produced and smeared with lots of post sound effects. They play some nice tunes, but you may have guessed: one hundred minutes is quite a lot to digest at once. I think some of the pieces could certainly benefit from being cut down and edited a bit, although I certainly can see their point in making things this long. But times two? That's over done. Nice in a smaller dose." - FdW, Vital Weekly. "i already told you once...pure fucken pounding fucken rock fucken action. peter blamey. matt earle. anthony guerra. adam sussmann."
2/21/2009	Your Intestines	Untitled (Pink)	CDR	$10.99	Black Petal	"Maybe we can see Your Intestines as a sort of noise rock supergroup. It has in its ranks Matt Earle, who performs also with X-Wave, Stasis Duo, Muura, 2779. He plays guitar. Anthony Guerra, the label boss of Black Petal, and collaborator in the field of improvised music with Joel Stern, Antony Milton, Mark Sadgrove. Also on guitar. Adam Sussman, a bass player, of Stasis Duo, 2779 and improvising with Toshimaru Nakamura, Annette Krebs, Jim Denley, Tim Olive, Jason and last there is drummer Peter Blamey, who recorded an excellent work with Jim Denley. This quartet had a particular fruitful day on June 19th 2005 in Sydney. It was then when they recorded the material of these two untitled CDR releases. They can be recognized by their color, pink and green. About one hundred minutes of music of improvised free rock music with largely a noisy undercurrent. Feedback flies about, but the recording quality seems like rehearsal space area, so not over produced and smeared with lots of post sound effects. They play some nice tunes, but you may have guessed: one hundred minutes is quite a lot to digest at once. I think some of the pieces could certainly benefit from being cut down and edited a bit, although I certainly can see their point in making things this long. But times two? That's over done. Nice in a smaller dose." - FdW, Vital Weekly. "pure fucken pounding fucken rock fucken action. peter blamey. matt earle. anthony guerra. adam sussmann."
	Your Team Ring	Homelife	CD	$9.99	Perhaps Transparent	"Homelife is an apologetically conceptual yet unabashedly fractured psych-pop album. The recording group Your Team Ring narrates a circa-era 1928, science fiction story featuring a flying brownstone apartment, homemade clones, mechanical ants and the living dead. Musically, Homelife is a rapid-fire series of densely layered garage-rock songs tinged with droning exotic instrumentation, faux tin-pan alley buffoonery and bizarre, otherworldly production tactics. This album sounds like zanier side of ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ era Beatles, the studio-centricity of Sagittarius, and the darker elements of the Elephant Six Collective with allusions to early Eno, Joe Meek and, dare it be said, New Vaudeville Band."
10/25/2008	YS TRYS	untitled	cassette	$8.99	Rayon Recs	"Gritty basement jams from two of stuckometer's finest stir up a foggy blend of mutant riffs/midnight moods/free splutter. cover photos by legendary Joincey. edition of 50."
5/16/2010	Yuganaut	Sharks	CD	$12.99	ESP-Disk	"Calling the three members of Yuganaut "multi-instrumentalists" is a little too easy. What is needed is some kind of word that would connote being multiple bands. Between them they could be a small brass group, an electric chamber ensemble or a straight-ahead jazz trio. But such formal confines may not leave room for the moments of playfulness or the passages of spacey psychedelia that sneak in between their evocative and highly original sounds. Between them, band members Stephen Rush, Tom Abbs and Geoff Mann play Fender Rhodes and Moog synthesizer; trumpet, trombone and tuba; bass, cello and violin; and drums, toys and didgeridoo. Does that sound streamlined? Their previous release also included mandolin, euphonium and vibes. More important than the listing of implements is the fact that the three gentlemen of Yuganaut are more than conscientious about leaving room in the music, not just for each other but to let the music grow. Between them they can boast of Reggie Workman's tutelage, performance with the Warsaw National Symphony and membership in the Fela-inspired Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra. Which is to say there is tradition, formalism, groove and a sense of fun at play. They are at core, perhaps, a jazz band; but being a jazz band means (or should mean) that anything is possible. There's ritual, there's storytelling, they're contemplative, extrapolative, expressive, even impressive. Yuganaut is not here to be pigeon-holed. They're just here to play for you. Yuganaut's first album, This Musicianship (ESP 4044), was released on ESP-Disk in 2008. Personnel: Stephen Rush (rhodes, moog, trombone, toys) Tom Abbs (bass, cello, violin, tuba, didj) Geoff Mann (drums, percussion, trumpet)."
5/16/2010	Yuganaut	Sharks	LP	$19.99	ESP-Disk	"Calling the three members of Yuganaut "multi-instrumentalists" is a little too easy. What is needed is some kind of word that would connote being multiple bands. Between them they could be a small brass group, an electric chamber ensemble or a straight-ahead jazz trio. But such formal confines may not leave room for the moments of playfulness or the passages of spacey psychedelia that sneak in between their evocative and highly original sounds. Between them, band members Stephen Rush, Tom Abbs and Geoff Mann play Fender Rhodes and Moog synthesizer; trumpet, trombone and tuba; bass, cello and violin; and drums, toys and didgeridoo. Does that sound streamlined? Their previous release also included mandolin, euphonium and vibes. More important than the listing of implements is the fact that the three gentlemen of Yuganaut are more than conscientious about leaving room in the music, not just for each other but to let the music grow. Between them they can boast of Reggie Workman's tutelage, performance with the Warsaw National Symphony and membership in the Fela-inspired Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra. Which is to say there is tradition, formalism, groove and a sense of fun at play. They are at core, perhaps, a jazz band; but being a jazz band means (or should mean) that anything is possible. There's ritual, there's storytelling, they're contemplative, extrapolative, expressive, even impressive. Yuganaut is not here to be pigeon-holed. They're just here to play for you. Yuganaut's first album, This Musicianship (ESP 4044), was released on ESP-Disk in 2008. Personnel: Stephen Rush (rhodes, moog, trombone, toys) Tom Abbs (bass, cello, violin, tuba, didj) Geoff Mann (drums, percussion, trumpet)." Limited edition of 100 copies with hand silk-screened cover - includes digital download.
1/17/2010	Yuko & Chino	Sensory Deprivation Techniques	CDR	$10.99	Ruralfaune	"New album for the Sasqrotch member Danny No/Fi. Sticky guitarz, distorted vocals and heavy pounded beats." Edition of 64 copies.
12/24/2005	Yura Yura Teikoku	Na.Ma.Shi.Bi.Re.Na.Ma.Me.Ma.I.	CD	$12.99	Mesh Key	"Available for the first time outside Japan, this 2003 hour-plus live recording captures Japanese psych rock legends Yura Yura Teikoku at the height of their powers. Former PSF and Captain Trip recording artists, Yura Yura Teikoku have spent the last 15 years honing their experimental yet infectious, ecstatic pop-psych sound. Their studio recordings were all recorded at Soichiro Nakamura's (of Japanese psych legends White Heaven) peace studios with You Ishihara (also formerly of White Heaven) producing. Yura Yura Teikoku bass player Chiyo Kamekawa also plays in the Stars (PSF) with Ishihara. Michio Kurihara of Ghost (Drag City) plays second guitar on a number of Yura Yura Teikoku tracks as well."
3/29/2010	Yves / Son / Ace	Parade of Thoughts / Can't Sleep	LP	$15.99	Night People	"Yves / Son / Ace is a solo outlet from the Factums / Love Tan camp out of Seattle. Less an experiment in synth noise and drone then the Cold Showers Night-People cassette, Parade of Thoughts / Can't Sleep evokes a sort of deconstructed synth pop aesthetic. Druggy, hushed vocals float over vintage rhythm machines, synth noise goop, and lost world music radio tones. Minimal, isolated, deranged, and savage, Yves / Son / Ace is junk pop music for a disconnected world full of detritus and longing. A subtle sound that grows in your skull like fungus on rotting wood."