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DNT020 - "Mash Mansum" $6ppd US/Canada $12ppd International
The time is now! It's summer and here's the year-in-the-making (delays) now-wave tape compilation "Mash Mansum". Some of these bands have broken up since giving their songs, but believe me, all the bands on this tape are ALIVE. While Hunting Lodge wait patiently for the bus, Neck Hold attack each other with their drums. Shearing Pinx stay put in the forest. The Sticks try to work it out. Gay Beast approach middle-age. Deaf! Deaf! aren't so hungry anymore, and Twin Crystals umm..well they've been eaten alive. Pro manufactured tapes in green shell with the DNT logo on the tape. Artwork and screen printed covers by Danimal (of Gay Beast). Edition of 100.
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DNT035 - Mudboy "MuDMuX Volume One" 7" $5.50ppd US/Canada $11ppd International
This is the first installment of a series of 7"'s to be released by various labels. Each record contains a single track on each side by a different band- produced, mixed, orchestrated, destroyed, mutilated and brought back to life by the dark dreams of Mr. mudboy. Side A of this first edition features an unearthed file by the Extreme Animals resurrected as a tribute to "Lil John Carpenter." Percussion by Jeremy Lazy "animal" Magnet Harris. Side B is a devastating whirlpool cliff walk based on a song written and sung by the DarkDarkDark band. Backup fingers by Alec K Redfearn of the Eyesores fame. Cover art is a hand made blue and gold 4 pass silkscreen by R Lyon in collaboration with Kevin Hooyman. Limited to 535.

"Eccentrics seem to gravitate to the organ. From the straightlaced dudes romping on movie house pipe organs to soul masters like Timmy Thomas to underground heroes like Quintron, the keys off an odd home. Mudboy is the name now burbling about the organ underworld. His album on Not Not Fun is a great mind blitz. Here he embarks on what is to be the beginning of a series of him screwing around with other people's songs. On Mudmux he remixes or adds to or something songs by the Extreme Animals and DarkDarkDark for one eerie ballad of sorts and a tune that resembles an outtake from a soundtrack of odd movie music." -SS (Z-Gun)

"You gotta check this Mudboy sleeve. It's all lovely and hand made and painted with lovely metallic paint and everything. It seems Mudboy have a habit of having records in wicked sleeves. 'MuDmUX' is just kicking in with its intense drums and lovely John Carpenter synth sound that does the business for me as i love John Carpenter. There's clattering moments and then gentle breakdowns with trippy electronics This is way cool and you so need a piece of it." -(norman records)

"Resuscitated remixes by organ grinder Mudboy of Extreme Animals and DarkDarkDark. To say he makes an improvement on either is modest; that he may have found the key within his own keys to make these pieces more meaningful than they’d be on their own is more like it. Doesn’t take too many left turns, but instead focuses on the inherent spookiness of the tracks themselves, and builds on their very present “circus just left town” motif. 535 copies, blue vinyl, impressive silkscreened sleeves. Other labels have committed to releasing future installments of these remixes." -dusted

"The first in an ongoing series of remixes, arrangements and demolitions of other peoples' tracks, MUDMUX was the first I'd heard of Mudboy. As far as I can tell, Mudboy's based out of the lively Providence scene, but this is hardly Lightning Bolt material. Rather, Mudboy plays the organ, whether it be old school Wurlitzer style (he hunkered down to the most epicly ornate organ I've ever seen at a free show at the Providence Performing Arts Center) or his own contraption, the "Mudboy Minnie," which is basically a small organ hooked up to a Yamaha FM synth. He'll even make you one for a cool grand if you want. Actually worth checking out his little website, it seems to give a bit of insight into his unique approach. As I said though, this is the first in a planned series, each one released by a different label with a different color scheme. I should start by saying that Tynan over at DNT did a great job with the packaging here. I mean look at that cover, it's super intricate. I guess he enlisted the apparently substantial screen printing talents of R Lyon and Kevin Hooyman so cheers to them. The blue vinyl only adds to it. As for the sounds, the first side is a remix of some Extreme Animals midi file called "RockRapPopRocks," which Mudboy claims was originally recorded onto a floppy disc! The remix is retitled "Lil John Carpenter Tribute Song." I don't know who Lil John Carpenter is, but this is some tribute. Starting off with a kind of pseudo-techno bass beat, the thing builds itself into real midi mayhem. It's pretty dancey stuff on the surface, but given that I have no idea which sounds are coming from Extreme Animals and which aren't, I don't really know who's doing what here. It's like some glitched out video game score, with the clattering and, well, muddy drums of--dig this name--Jeremy Lazy Animal Magnet Harris adding a weird sort of dementia to the whole thing. If I had to wager a guess, I'd say that all of the odd electronics in the background, lurching around like some manic circus sideshow score, are Mudboy making what once had to be a pretty grooving number a weird disfigured freak of the hipster dance party. The B side is another cover from a band I had only heard of to this point, DarkDarkDark. The original track was called "Come Home," and it seems the new one is too, though who knows why he would rename one and not the other. Consisancy is over-rated I guess. That said, this one's super weird. Odd little girl vocals a la Joanna Newsom are meshed with the accordion additions of Nona Marie Dark to create a super weird street performance diddy. The whole thing keeps slowing down and getting more and more looming, eventually warping from sun-shiny Shirley Temple stylings into a dark little sea chanty as sung by the captain's crippled daughter. The voice, despite the subtle background textures and increasingly warped accordion lines, maintains some semblance of it's cutesy delivery, cutting through the murk no matter how slow it gets until the very end, when everything is broken down to such a degree that the digital signals start to reveal themselves--a grim fade out indeed. The "backup fingers," whatever that means, are provided by Alec K Redfearn of the Eyesores. It's all very beautifully mixed and Mudboy clearly has a talent for putting his own touches on things without completely destroying the integrity of the songs themselves. Though the originals sound like they probably aren't exactly my bag, Mudboy keeps it interesting and intensely oddball--this is clearly someone with a grasp on their aesthetic. The next edition of the series will be orange and called Dub This! which sounds a little more like my style. Given what he did with this material, I'd love to see where he takes that one." -Ear Conditioned Nightmare

$5.50ppd US/Canada

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DNT023 - Shepherds "Bush Babies" 7" $5ppd US/Canada $10ppd International WHITE VINYL OUT NOW!
Vinyl debut by Brooklyn's Shepherds. Originally this was going to be used for the DNT 3" series, but it was far too long to be used for a 3" split, so we decided to upgrade it to a 7"! The best way to describe them would be free-form psych-drone, with different tape effects thrown in their too. Members of Woods, Non-Horse, Wooden Wand and others. Pro-printed full-color glue pocket sleeves. Pressing of 700. 200 on Black. 100 on Gold. 400 on White.

"Ahhhh here is a record one hopes to stumble upon: A totally satisfying, even inspiring, piece of out sound. Shepards on this disk is a duo and that is a mindfuck of a revelation once the music starts. Primitive yet sonically deep free jazz which grows with each listen, "Bush Babies" is one long song split over two sides. Using tapes, Shepherds create layers of horns which fade in and out of the mix, as well as guitar squalls and random noises which puncture and build. Somewhere there is a piano or a tape of a piano slowly decomposing. On top of these sheets lurk the drums, which slowly move and churn with restlessness but never break wild ‘n loud. The drummer’s restraint and the layering of the horns so that they sound like they were recorded in a distant room is either dumb luck or shows that these guys have considerable smarts when it comes to how to make a great free jazz record. More often than not the indoid dabblers of free jazz fail to grasp subtly, sonic depth, that tension and energy can be created by restraint, and that less is more. Shepherds seem to have caught on, at least for this record. A+." -SS (Z-Gun http://z-gun.org)

"Aw man! Brooklyn’s finest group of multi-project/same band members finally debuts a 7”. This time in duo formation of just G. Lucas Crane (Non-Horse/The Vanishing Voice/Time-Life) and Jermey Earl (Woods/Meneguar) lay down something that sounds a whole lot bigger than just two dudes. Totally different from their entire body of work thus far, “Bush Babies” is a ten minute long track stretched across both sides with a fade out/fade in separation(maybe the only bummer about this jam!). Skronk sax opens the void where tribal unwavering percussion joins in. Sax is looped and a guitar is picked up free-shredding/fret-fucking ensues and the drums just keep going and going. Such a rad jam has me stuck in the groove. As I said before, Shepherds turn their murked guitar psych sludge in for a totally rocking get on your feet slab of epic percussion and glorious guitar/sax/tape undercurrent." -Mike Pollard/Foxy Digitalis

"G. Lucas Crane and Jeremy Earl (participants in the Vanishing Voice, Non-Horse, Woods and Meneguar between them), after a brief warm-up, lock into tribal drumming and a ghost orchestra of reeds, drone, and delay. No vocals or anything that dicks up the purity of the concept at stake. Could have come out as some NYC-based art loft 12” (actually huffs the same Holland Tunnel fumes as imPLOG, methinks) and would qualify as really, really leftfield disco. Pretty goddamn rad l'il record. 500 copies, sold out, repress forthcoming." (Dusted)

"The cryptic disc art may designate sides, in which case what I believe to be the first of both untitled tracks descends upon a motley flock of brassy overtures and deep, hollow percussion warm-ups in a lurching psychedelic of metal and wood. With each clattery pass of an unidentifiable mercury, the bedlam becomes more rhythmic – a beaty tempo and minimalist loop of notes – the percussion, horns, and effects gathering in unison so as to subvert this with embellished, reserved freedom. An unexpected Zornism, this sentiment continues through the ecstatic tribalism of the reverse, a tom-heavy rite agreed to by gullish bursts of horn, distorted in a guttural cry; assailed by heavenly drones like sunburst, the grief subsides momentarily as the brew congeals in spots with new textures and a solemn melody wafting in sincere farewell. Second pressing on white vinyl with insert and sticker art by Earl, and in a heavy, full-color pro sleeve featuring a faux-Lomo of non-sequitur fotos. Recommended, and definitely worth the extended pressing." -Animal Psi

"...Their Ltd white wax 'Bush Babies' seven incher has some tumbling tribal drums pounding over weird electronics that sound like some mysterious drug trip ritual. There's a slight free-jazz edge. The flipside is seriously good, again the percussion is the foundation reminding me of recent Boredoms but more Lo-Fi." (norman records)

another review (too large to post here)

"Despite the greatness of the duo on paper I’ve always been a little on the fence about them but Bush Babies has firmly swung me to the pro-Shepherds side of aisle. I think I remember reading that this piece of primal aggression and beauty was supposed to be part of DNT’s split 3” cdr series but it was too long/awesome Tynan (DNT’s head honcho) rightly decided the world needed 700 copies of this sucker. “Side A” starts with a driving, tribal drum workout. I’m guessing this is Earl. When Crane’s contributions finally poke their heads out things go momentarily apeshit. There are friendlier smoother sounds clashing with rougher distorted ones with the drums in the eye of the storm. At one point a trumpet (99% sure) suddenly appears, I’m wondering if this is a sample from Crane’s bag of tapes or what cause it sounds live but there is definitely other manipulation and whatnot going on so I think it’s impossible. Meanwhile, Earl is just pounding the shit out of the drums and I’m loving it. Then on a dime, the drums sputter out and a morose wash of brass seeps in. The b-sides takes up “Bush Babies” where the a-side left off, seeing the brass get more active/jazzy with the drums following suit. A nice little jam ensues, particularly nice for the appearance of a backbeat in the midst of the freejammin’. The track really hits its stride here, locking the listener into its hypnotics. I’m curious to know what exactly Crane was up to here (if it’s all tapes) because there is a grinding distorted violin-type sound amongst the spurts of brass and rounder keyboard-esque tones. A impressively broad mix of sounds while keeping up such a fiery improv attitude." -auxillary out

$5ppd US/Canada

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7" + "Loco Hills" CD $12.50ppd US/Canada

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DNT024 - Gay Beast "Disrobics" LP $10ppd US/Canada $18ppd International
Somebody give me some dope. (Just kidding mom) DNT has finally entered the LP realm--and all this time you thought we were only going to release cdrs and cassettes. "Disrobics" was originally self-released on CD by the band, but I felt it needed to be heard on vinyl. Gay Beast are a skronky neo-wave group of kiddos from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Silk screened covers and black vinyl. Hand numbered pressing of 500.

"Gay Beast are from Minneapolis and claim a “neo-wave” which is about a decade and a few hundred miles removed from Chicago’s now wave “explosion”, and they use that time and distance to their advantage. While I can quibble with some of the prog moments here (which come dangerously close to math rock), as a whole, Disrobics is an exciting record. At times I am reminded of Karate Party, Devo, Brianiac, Lovely Little Girls, and Lake of Dracula, but that recall comes in tiny pieces, small chunks in a bigger platter. And all that is good, and better that Gay Beast studiously avoids aural polish. There is a nice film of filth on this recording. If this is how they sound live: Wow!" -SS (Z-Gun http://z-gun.org)

"Like their first foray into vinyl for the Shearing Pinx 7” of DNT no. 3, the label saves their most definitive statements for wax debut, the latest from Gay Beast truly a statement of what may very well become the “DNT sound”. At the moment, they have left to conquer Lovepump United for this particular genre tract, an electro-heavy, integrated nor wave of the sort French Kiss would have liked to emit had they less promo bills to pay and proto-yuppies to feed. Sympathetic to labelmates HEALTH with a healthier attention-span, within the lineage ‘Disrobics’ leans decidedly toward a DNA sensibility with more macrobiotic flavor of Ex Models and Love Life (en particular their second, ‘Here is Night, Brothers’), though toward a more indulgent sing-song than the former and more reliable shine than the latter. The band denies the rigid kraftworks of electric keys with the many quivering bleats of a weak current (how much of this is due to my dying turntable motor, I cannot say), aggravating this by the all-to-human spontaneity of overanxious percussion. The sound is of regular irregularity such that, on the indiscriminate plane of the vinyl side (the gaps inter-song are no match for the intra-song), the songs flow into a homogeneous party like a house band, or better yet, a house record of skittled beats (particularly true of my second side, unfortunately warped to a thousand single grooves); the tracks only significantly differentiated when, at uneven intervals, new verses emerge to express an altered melodic pattern. In this sense, the instrumentation doesn’t always agree with the verses, and in fact more often crowds out the singer’s voice – my biggest gripe – though he manages to hold his own within the sirocco, the charming croon of damaged vocals emerging at odd signature. We meet in earnest on third track and ‘NOW That’s What I Call Music!’-worthy “Mama, Wrap My Coffin in the AIDS Quilt Cuz It’s Cold in Hell”, the devastating hook coming on like the waft of a pie on a sill following a non-committal build-up of channel surfing bleepbloop and Devo scat-lines, the chorus accompanied by interchange of rattled percussion and electrified guitar rubbings. The bratty exchange of “Good Government” recalls the Monorchid, and through the intense, full-band pummeling appears as the closest coalescence of players thusfar. “Cry” continues this evolution as the band continually tightens, brightening notes and inserting a more regular vocal presence to narrate the dance party, bleeding into the most overtly-hostile track, the title-track and closer “Disrobics”, a final call to bare arms. I know nothing of the band, but given the explicit-enough subtext of the band, I desire the lead at least to embody the gay beast – and here I picture a queer Zen Guerilla or a seven foot no wave Mukilteo Fairies. I want head-dresses and a sexually-aggressive stage presence. Make it so. Sleeve has two, three-color screen-jobs on fancy paper, with a sharp looking insert printed on gold stock. Black vinyl, limited to 500 moveable units. Get one!" (Animalpsi.com)

"There are too many bands out there futzing around with progressive rock, with “no wave”/”now wave” tropes, with neon-colored wackiness; bands that aren't putting the music out front; bands that have slid down the slope of being “off” (a slope which descends into Mike Patton's open mouth). Gay Beast, a guitar/synth/drums trio from Minneapolis, is not one of these bands, yet they play with all those parts in full swing, a real platespinning act of dynamics, abrasion, and genuine melodic innovation. All mistakes are studiously avoided and pratfalls are timed for maximum effect. All comedic qualities of the band are insular and intrinsic. Their attack is vicious and weird, processing their robotic fortunes under sheets of electronic duress, but their balance is impeccable. Bands like Gay Beast used to get me excited, but none have had such a gloriously bent and creative batch of songs to match up with the innovation. If handled correctly, Gay beast should tap into, then later usurp, the whacking off of outfits like Hella or Lightning Bolt or Deerhoof, or at least play in the same league. Very, very exciting stuff here, which hides its hand with masterful skill, and which plays down that which could easily wreck a less-capable band. Vinyl edition of 500 numbered copies in a silkscreened sleeve." (Dusted)

"Gay Beast is a trio of guitar, synthesizer, drums of Minneapolis. Music therefore gay. But to play the mad service, unsure whether the ideal soundtrack. Or very big crazy neurotic. Top meaning of abstraction. It would end 70 in New York, it is taxed no-wave. However, the wave, there a. From broken, the spray. It is hysterical, anti-melodic, it'll happen over by cutting slices is not far from having neither head nor tail. A packed for a music tapette. Each gives the impression of playing his score alone in his corner. It becomes almost trash the Flying Luttenbachers on Pairs of eye. But singing tampered not change the situation poorly, referring to a nonsense continued to Devo or Brainiac while Danimal Mal (the nickname of the singer) randomly its poor keyboard. It is vicious, strange, with a red wire not obvious to follow. Gay beast loves péter between your hands, elusive, thirty-six neon lighting in a torrid fireworks. Prepare your high heels and your postiches, it will be your birthday tonight." (translated from french..poor translation probably) (http://www.perteetfracas.org/zine/kros2007/kros_g/gaybeast.htm)

$10ppd US/Canada

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DNT042 - Family Underground "Helium Rug" 1-sided LP SOLD OUT
Denmark's drone demons release another one. A helium rug would float, which is exactly what your melted mind will do while listening to this record. Whistling blown by the birds of hell. This has been in the works for quite some time. Originally intended to come out last summer on their US tour, but we didn't want to flood the market (they already had 3 LPs coming out the same time). Edition of 299 on black vinyl with bi-color stencil on b-side. The front cover is what you will look like after listening to this. Your mind will split open unleashing the helium rug from within. Screenprinted covers. Artwork by Zachary Fleming.

"Edition of 299 copies limited edition LP w/screenprinted covers from these Danish heads, driving a spike through the sound of post-Velvets fuzz-dosed oblivion and levitating a whole warehouse full of singing drone via electronics, guitar and tunnels of subterranean wow. Heavy Kosmiche-via-UK bedroom vibe to this which is extremely sticky." -volcanic tongue

"The best thing to come out of Denmark other than pastries is are droners Family Underground (Phil would argue bacon too but I don't dig on swine). So the Family have a top one sided LP on DNT. 'Helium Rug' comes in a mouth watering silk screened sleeves. One side of the record has been sprayed with spray paint and the other has some way out psychedelic shit going off. They take it way beyond the drone with swirling harmonics and super freaky furry alien sounds. Pretty damn sweet..." (norman records)

"Spindly, tense drone from the Family, rattling with a mechanical anxiety throughout one side of a 12” record. The piece takes a little while to reach its full impact, but is fairly busy and interesting once it gets there, as guitar-based tones give way to pit yowling and a semblance of rhythm beating against the walls of the silo that holds it. 299 numbered copies, silkscreened sleeve, painted B-side; ultimately one more patch for the many holes in your life." -dusted

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DNT040 - "Caked Paradise" zine/compilation cdr SOLD OUT
Guess what everybody? DNT has now been around for two years! This is the compilation to celebrate it! Who wants cake? Totally (not really) in the making since last year's birthday comp. This one tops it for certain. Drone cake batter by Warmth & Quilts. Psychedelic icing by Moonmilk. The socks that grandma always gives you by German. Stringed folk-balloons by The North Sea & Nomen Dubium. Pink the tail on the donkey by Plankton Wat. Melted ice cream by The Mighty Acts of God. Art by: Puff & Magic, Dean Sullivan, Zach McCraw of Night Wound fame, Matt Maceda, and Zach Fleming. Writing by DJ Rick (Art for Spastics), Eric Hesson (maan), Matt Maceda, and Jon Isaac plus reviews of the past years releases, by Z-Gun, Animal Psi, Britt Brown of Cassette Gods & more. Plus then it's like, flip to the back bro and pop in the disk (remember when 'disc' was spelled with a k? what changed that?). Anyway, full-color art for some of it, black ink-colored paper for the rest of it. In a 'dvd' case with birthday stencils and invisible cake. Hand numbered out of 150. Eat up!
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DNT038 - Nomen Dubium "The Bering Sea" cassette (I have a few left, email to get a copy)
Nomen Dubium (aka Zachary Fleming) and I have been sharing music for quite some time now. And although I've always enjoyed his music, it's never quite fit in to the DNT-framework, but I've always been waiting for something that did. So when he sent me this song, I was excited and eagerly awaiting more. Well, now this tape is complete and ready for the world! He did the artwork too! (what you see right now might be the temporary image though..problems with the camera). Black cassettes with labels also designed by him. Limited to 50.

"Apparently this is one of Tynan’s friends, and the dude’s first tape. It’s not bad. Reminds me a lot of that Pillars of Heaven CS from several reviews back. Woozy one-man loop-scapes…lots of echo, oscillating tones, loosely new age hazy electronics beauty. Never gets too intense or purposeful, but I guess it’s less wishy-washy than some stuff in this genre."- Cassette Gods (http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/)
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DNT037 - Super Minerals "The Piss" cassette
New cassette by Long Beach's Super Minerals, which is Phil and William from psych band Magic Lanterns. "The Piss" takes a different route than ML using murky drones and faint cries for help. Heavily influenced by old zombie films. Limited to 75 hand numbered copies on piss yellow cassettes with gross hairy label art. Red fishy cover art with yellow splatter.

Ear Condtioned Nightmare Review (too long to post here)

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DNT036 - Moonmilk "Hidden Speech" cassette SOLD OUT
Lia Tsamoglou and Kell Derrig-Hall make up this Australian drone duo. Umm..tape effects and dronescapes. partial field recordings? If I were good at writing descriptions I'd write like 10 pages on how good this tape is..but uh, yeah.. Anyway, crazy swirly intricate black and white cover art design by Zachary Fleming (who also comprises 100% of the project Nomen Dubium) in a DIY shrinkwrapped case with label-maker labels and red cassettes. Hand-numbered and limited to 100 copies. 'Poof!

"Moonmilk is Lia and Kell and they find frequencies they like and let them oscillate in muted stasis for several minutes, then add a high-pitched whine, or an extra layer of radio static, or a stereo-panned air conditioning unit, then fade out. Despite the name, there’s very little lunar or milky about the proceedings here. More of a numb, mechanistic sleepwalking vibe to these recordings, like a field recording of an electronics reply shop in the Valley after midnight…just one or 2 tired individuals slowly dealing with dusty machinery. The B side is twice as loud and ten times more new age (well, the first half is anyway…then the rotating turbines get turned back on), so I prefer it on principle."- Cassette Gods (http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/)
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DNT034 - Plankton Wat "Alchemy Of Darkness" cassette WE HAVE A FEW COPIES LEFT, EMAIL TO ORDER!
Solo project of Dewey Mahood of Eternal Tapestry. "Plankton Wat is a beautiful, graceful thing of looped and picked acoustic guitar, following a wander-glimmer-drone structure that psych fans in Portland should be well aquainted with. With barely any of the cacophony or aggression Eternal Tapestry sometimes builds to...[this album] beckons us to fall back into our own head. Not the busy part–the worry and chaos cortex–but, the part that I’ve had a hell of a time finding lately, the pocket where our thoughts go when we’re perfectly happy to just drift and stare." (Willamette Week description of PW). Edition of 100 on pro-dubbed red tapes, with art by Dewey Mahood.

"Plankton Wat is Dewey from Eternal Tapestry's solo guise where he sits in a chair, oils up his wah pedal, and goes to fucking town. Total one-man instrumental space-drift raga-blues with an emphasis on delay (reverse and regular), wah, and brain-ooze. One could make the claim that there's a lot of this kinda stuff flying around out there on the information superhighway but in truth you could really say that about anything, so that doesn't hold much water for me. To my ears, this is the best Plankton outing I've yet heard, great grey mood rings flashing with shadows of color and layers of refracted light, gently picked strings, bursts of hypnotizing distortion, falling leaves of echo and hush. Would be nice to lay on yr back on a fucked up rug and have Dewey serenade you with these blissed, blue ballads. Could use a pillow too, as long as we're dreaming." -bb (Cassette Gods)
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DNT032 - James Fella/Nomen Dubium split 3" cdr
James Fella is a busy guy. He plays in Tent City & Soft Shoulder, plus he runs the label Gilgongo Records. Some of his past solo outputs have been beautiful soft intricate works, others have been loud blissful guitar pedal'd pieces. Total brain-fried intensity for this one. The 3" finishes with Nomen Dubium from Berkeley, CA. Nomen Dubium create incredibly beautiful (some will say new-age, but c'mon!) guitar pieces, run through a zillion and one pedals. Think My Bloody Valentine or something.
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DNT031 - German/Red Needled Sea split 3" cdr
Glad to do another release for the finger-piano kings German. On this one they expand out to many other instruments too. Red Needled Sea are Athens, Greece, and that's about all I know about them. They make murky drone you'd expect from a band from Greece.
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DNT030 - Apple Snails/Treetops split 3" cdr
Some of you might remember Apple Snails from his split CS with The Mighty Acts of God (DNT012). Well since then he's been busy doing releases on some awesome labels, including Digitalis/Foxglove. He makes dark ambient stuff. Perfect for the fall. Treetops is Mike Pollard of the ridiculously awesome label Arbor. Bedroom guitar loop/fuzz awesome. He just did a tape on Ecstatic Peace, so watch out!
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DNT029 - Oh Home/Mythical Beast split 3" cdr
Oh Home are from Redondo Beach (ex member of Le Joshua) and make really beatiful epic guitar/pedals/drums music. Also:2012. They share the 3" with Mythical Beast, who use their basses to create some moderately heavy riffing, but gentle too. umm..
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DNT028 - Tent City/Horse Head split 3" cdr
Tent City from Tempe, AZ are a group of five people and use everything around them such as pots and pans and toy instruments and looped guitars to make blissed out music along the lines of Raccoo-oo-oon. Horse Head from OC, CA make teenage drone. past releases on arbor, nnf, friendly biceps, etc.
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DNT027 - Monitors/KK Rampage split 3" cdr
"March’s battle of Monitors v. KK Rampage provides nine tracks of experimental, yes, but totally premeditated and practiced RnR. Of like mind, Missouri’s Monitors and Chicago’s KK Rampage give-up four and five tracks, perfect 7” EPs of jagged post-punk familiar to GSL, 31G, and related rosters of Southern California noise-makers. Monitors’ wordless approach is dominated by Polvo guitar and tom-tom racing on complete tracks like “Tycho Brahe” and the six-minute jam “Demophon”, a bit of keyboard added to the latter’s airy lead-in, and with more grind-and-lurk on the opposing tracks. The VSS grind of “Dark Desire” links both bands as the trebly, discordant replies of the band to the pained pleas of KK Rampage vocalist Johnny Rampage recall many the AmRep band, particularly Hammerhead, and late-90s California like early Rapture; “A Fading Moment” is so sincere it could be a cover for all I know, and “Teeth Like a Knife” is a fine, Factory-style closer with dance bass-line and entrenched vocals before a group sing-along among the downpour of crashing cymbals. Rad! Two full bands of 2xgtr/bass/drum formation, they may prove to be the only classic rockers in the series." (review by Animal Psi)
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DNT026 - Acre/Haunted Castle split 3" cdr
"For February, Acre of Portland channels one ballsy, 10-minute monochromatic drone: microtonal to the extreme, this beast doesn’t move, it errods. On the flip-side we enjoy some gapped-tooth electronics by Haunted Castle, the first non-Portland contributors to the series. Overtaking a pillaged soundtrack of adult-contemporary radio, this duo from Detroit address “Crumbling Kalamazoo” with a sharp feedback hiss which whips and snaps like a snake, punching holes all along the muffled bass of their gagged hostage." (review by Animal Psi)
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DNT025 - Tunnels/Bird Costumes split 3" cdr
"The pairing of Bird Costumes and Tunnels has proven quite apt: sharing a common backyard in sunny Portland, Oregon, the two artists also share a similar ominous, human-absent approach to composition - though from opposite sides of the spectrum, with Bird Costumes taking a more mechanical approach to compliment Tunnels’ more textural drones. Stepping up for tracks one and two, Bird Costumes (Daniel Osborne) begins his half of the split with metered strafes of what sound like strings played beyond the fret-board or from within a piano; sparks of high-vibration which evoke the New antics Cowell or Partch. Natural-harmonic tones emerge from behind these pulses of sound, gaining in volume with each release until they fill both channels with a torrent of skillfully layered distortion. Track two is another exercise in guitar virtuosity, this time over a canvas of hand-muted guitar, with noodles and slides layered vertically in various states of distortion. At five and three minutes, these two tracks work well on their own as sketches, but could do equally well as seeds for larger movements. Tunnels (Nicholas Samuel Bindeman) takes to task the last track: at 10 1/2 minutes, the untitled piece (all three tracks are suitably untitled) oscillates quickly in a cresting mid-range helicopter drone, behind which tonal drones glint and shift with a rare narrative quality found only in the works of masters like Stars of the Lid. All three tracks are brilliant, well-executed, and far larger than this tiny disc would elude." (review by Animal Psi)
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DNT Shirt Version 1 SOLD OUT
Rockin' d00d! DNT's gotz teh kewl shurts now! Psychedelic design by Tony Fauci (ex-member of Hot Girls Cool Guys). Tie-dyed and silk-screened madness. All shirts are different colors/color combinations. Some are v-neck, some are "normal". youth large, small, and medium. Some are less tie-dye than others if that matters to you. there are only 30 of these puppies, so get yours now!
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DNT022- Bonecloud "Drawing Spirits In Crystals" cdrSOLD OUT
"Drawing Spirits in Crystals" after a few listens sounds like perhaps it should have been titled "Carving Spirits Out of Crystals" because that's exactly what they do here. It's known that when light passes through crystals, it produces a wonderful spectrum of colors. This cdr somehow makes that true of sound passing through crystals too. Beyond the melodic drones, somewhere in the distance, you can hear a mechanical gear that sounds like the spirits inching their way closer and closer. Very immersive textures. One long 40-minute track. Edition of 100.

"Bonecloud are one of many shambolic drone collectives popping up all over the world with alarming frequency. Dublin is where this particular manifestation occurs, although it could have come from Finland, New Zealand, Brooklyn, or anywhere on the US West Coast. Groups like Bonecloud fortify the ever growing international communion for muffled mantras of shimmered frequency and sustained ululations, even if their output is nearly interchangeable with anything on Yarn Lazer, Students of Decay or Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. On Drawing Spirits In Crystals, they offer a 50 minute snippet of lo-fi ritualism with polyrhythmic vibrations of agitated guitars spiralling in chorus with dusted vocalisations, which give way to a hallowed blur of amplifer distortion dappled with occasional jingling handbells and a wooden flute." -Wire Magazine July, 2007

"Drawing Spirals in Crystals’ is a 40-minute epic by Irish couple Bonecloud, from my vantage their best work to date. Front to back the track is veiled behind the static of disintegrating tape reminiscent Basinki’s ‘Disintegration Loops’, though with spacious improvised drone/spirituals replacing those tightly wound little loops. Accompanying a shifting array of metallic instrumental-weaponry, a vast howling mediates each leg of this track with regional vernaculars to identify the terrain like a map. Whether spooked or stoned from this way-out voyage, the high notes of the track’s last quarter begin to resemble horns playing some dust-laced jazz with the growling menace of electric guitar beneath the heavy fog leading to the question, where am I? Well, that’s what love songs often do. Sprayed and stamped CDr comes bagged with nice paper insert. Limited to 100 copies." -Animal Psi (animalpsi.com)
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DNT021 - HEALTH "HEALTH" cassette SOLD OUT
HEALTH's first full-length! 11 songs in just over 30 minutes, this album blazes by and is over before you know it. Ex-Models/Liars-influenced sound waves you're used to plus new dancy songs you aren't..unless you've seen them live recently. If you haven't, you can! Because they're about to embark on a 40 day US tour!! Full-color cardstock j-card covers in plastic case, on solid yellow cassettes and pro-dubbed/pro-imprinted cassettes. Limited to 200 copies. "Triceratops" MP3
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DNT019- Warmth/Yellow Swans split 7" SOLD OUT
Wowie Zowie! This one is sure to rip your mind apart. [Insert deep abstract description here]. Crazy artwork by the crazy (in the good sense of the word) Belgium artist Jelle Crama. Listen to the record, take three hits of acid, and you'll understand the music & artwork fully. Inksplot band logos on the 7" label, on American-dream White Vinyl. Limited to 300. Go!

"I’m pretty sure this one is untitled as well but there is a giant (intentional?) blotch of screenprinting ink over the info so who really knows. Not I, that’s for sure. This track isn’t quite as monolithic as the other Yellow Swans 7inchers but it features some real nice guitarwork courtesy of Gabe. Lots and lots and lots ecstatic ringing notes. Pete cooks up some real nice whirring and whooshing in his electronics kitchen as well. My big complaint is that the track feels way too short. It’s poised for a sonic implosion/explosion but instead tapers off. It’s still a nice track though, it just means I’ll have to give it a few repeat spins to get my fill, which doesn't sound bad at all now that I think of it. On the flip comes a track by Warmth a.k.a. Steev, a former Jean Poliseman. It may have a title but I’m not in the mood to squint my eyes to death to make it through that deep endless blue. I'm not actually sure what Steev uses to construct his brand of musics, synth or a sampler maybe? There are what sounds like vocal clips and Vietnam movie helicopter sound effects, which makes me think “Sampler?” Anyway, that’s not really too important. The track begins with about half: short repetitive loops and half: sounds trickling in and out. The first part of the track is alright but doesn’t totally impress me, however about halfway through there is a shift where a subtle but thick synth loop takes over and rides the track to it’s end. It sounds sort of like early Excepter (“Vacation” maybe?) minus the constant machinebeats and I like it a lot. Overall, it’s a nice outing and I’m interested to hear more from the Warmth moniker. ...features involved double-sided (nice) fold out artwork by Belgian crazyman Jelle Crama. I have no idea what’s going on on the sleeve but I like it. It also has cool inkblot logos for each side, I really dig the Wu-Tang by way of Batman label on the Warmth side." - Auxillary Out (http://auxiliaryout.blogspot.com/)

"Another blast of Yellow Swans, this time splitting a 7" with the appropriately monickered outfit Warmth. Yellow Swans here are on the noisy side, but even at their noisiest, there is much going on below the surface that keeps their sound from devolving into mere 'noise'. A crumbling and gritty distorted lowend soundscape, noisy and blown out, but murky and muddy with thick synthy swells and surprisingly sweet melodies buried under the roiling clouds of damaged guitars and fried electronics. Harsh and heavy, but also quite subtly dreamy. Warmth take the opposite path, offering up almost nothing at first, just the sound of tape hiss, and bits of found sound, like a field recording, before eventually bits of rumble and whir and static and crackle begin to surface, as do distant high end creaks and haunting swells of barely there drone, the whole thing very murky and mysterious. Near the end, some very strange Star Trek like FX are introduced, sort of alien and angular, giving the Warmth track a bit of a sci-fi vibe. Cool stuff." -Aquarius Records
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DNT018 - The Pope "Do You Wanna Boogie?" cassette
The duo of Paul Kneejie and Brian Watson are American popular musicians known collectively as The Pope. They met in elementary school in 1953, when they both appeared in the school play Alice in Wonderland (Kneejie as the Dodo, Watson as Dweedle Dum). They formed the group Tom and Jerry in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey Schoolgirl... Boogie". As The Pope, the duo rose to fame in 1965 backed by the hit single "The Sound of Silence Boogie Woogie". Their music was almost featured on the landmark film Star Wars, propelling them further into the public consciousness. They are well known for their close harmonies and sometimes unstable relationship. Their last album, Boogie Over Troubled Water, was marked with several delays caused by artistic differences. Kneejie and Watson were among the most popular recording artists of the 1960s, and are perhaps best known for their songs "The Sound of Silence Boogie", "Mrs. Robinson Boogie", "Boogie over Troubled Water" and "The Boxer Boogie". They have almost received several Grammys and are hoping to be inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2007). In 2004, Rolling Stoned ranked The Pope #420 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Boogie. Hand-numbered edition of 40 on blue cassettes. Cover photo by Macklin Vietor
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DNT017- Jazzfinger "Wixxon Flag Bearer" cdr SOLD OUT
Jazzfinger, from the UK, have been making music for quite some time now. The main thing that I've noticed about them, is that they never stay put with just one sound. Their sound can change from song to song even. The first song on this cdr has a keyboard (or is it a melodica?) drone, changing chords a few times, with a guitar or other screeching sound over it. The second song continues right where the first one left off, this one is a quarter of an hour long. This time, it builts up in substance, with some drumming from cans and various toys. The next few tracks continue the calmness, and five songs in a piano joins the mix, with pots-and-pans drumming. Water-color splashes over a weird drawing of heads. Edition of 100 MP3

"New Jazzfinger album that skirts the very edges of known sound with some unlikely melodica/guitar/scrape moves that are intensely melancholy giving way to what sounds like synthesizer hymns played deep underwater. One of the stand-out recordings of the recent Jazzfinger run." -Volcanic Tongue review

"Another long sold-out DNT from across the Atlantic, Jazzfinger’s ‘Wixxon Flag Bearer’ is 64 minutes of the English duo’s particular concoction of miniature melodies dwarfed by the group’s uniquely-pointed noise flurry. The damn-near pleasant “Birth of the Knife” pits a simple harmonium tune against long daggers of shrill metallic feedback, a duet in the vein of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood which leads seamlessly into the 15 minute “Autumn Leaf Call” which tempers the noise and introduces clattering, arrhythmic percussion, half-human vocals, and a near-eastern string and wind dance number fractured by each errant burst of treble. Two deep, droning meditations transition into the fantastically-titled “The Machine That Turned Off Mars”, a playful piece of improv scattering various metallic gamelan over a repetitious piano song as the soundtrack to some 1940’s science fiction throw-away. The 24 minute “Caves” is a relatively abrasive test of stamina, discharging a plethora of mid-range feedback while rendering moot whatever complexities lay beneath. The degraded quality of this recording becomes most evident in the undying noise this and of final track “The Arrangement”: a murkiness which shaves of the group’s distinctive yet subtle perks, leaving a decent back-end of little dissimilarity from many of their No Fun-type cohort. And this is certainly nothing to gripe about. Sprayed, stamped disc comes with full-color paper sleeve and insert. Limited to 100 copies." -Animal Psi (animalpsi.com)
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DNT015 - Mudboy "Livish 2007" cdr SOLD OUT (I still have a few copies left, email for info)
Beware of Mudboy, it creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor..right through the door and all around the wall a splotch, a blotch. Be careful of Mudboy! Crazy full-color artwork by Matt Lock (puffandmagic.com) plus a giant green cardstock monster insert! Enhanced cdr, put in your computer for videos! Limited to 50 copies! 7" coming soon!
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DNT014- Non-Horse "Drone Moral" cassette SOLD OUT
Non-Horse, a.k.a. Gabriel Lucas Crane is my hero. It's clear from every release of his I've heard that he's been doing this for awhile. For those of you unfamiliar to him, he collects sounds. What do I mean by that? Exactly that. The way I picture it, is he goes around with a tape recorder trying to document the (un)familiar world. I've never met him, but I imagine this house is covered from floor to ceiling, and wall-to-wall with cassettes. Non-Horse uses field recordings, tape loops, tape manipulation, circuit bending, and all sorts of other amazing things that most of us only wish we could do. This tape is blue, with a light mist of spraypaint in a purple case with cover art by NH himself. Same music on both sides of tape. Insight on this recording on the insert.. Edition of 100.

"Cinematic mechanized soundscapes/soundtrack for an emotional documentary on a run-down appliance repair shop in east Brooklyn? Esoteric, but strangely moving. Gabriel Lucas Crane’s solo tape hiss enterprise forgoes the circuitry vignettes of Haraam, The Circle of Flame and Rigor Lore in favor of a single 23 (symbolic like the Jim Carrey movie?!!?!) minute disembodied drifter. Warbling murk loops, echo clatter, stuttering tape delay…Non-Horse speaks the language of sound effects. And, on Drone Moral, he seems to be saying something pretty deep."- Cassette Gods (http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/)

"With the ascent of James Toth’s solo career, Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice have gone on indefinite hiatus. Since the band was little more than a collective in the first place—expanding and contracting with line-up changes—this new arrangement doesn’t at all prevent the sonic endeavors of the remaining members of WWVV. Beyond the relatively high-profile Vanishing Voice releases that have appeared on Important and Gypsy Sphynx, a few interesting side projects have cropped up as well, the most cryptic of which is Non Horse, the long-running, long-dormant project of G. Lucas Crane, one of the founding members of the Vanishing Voice. While the more psychotropic moments of the Vanishing Voice may have toyed with the esoteric, Non Horse is willfully and delightfully impenetrable, a multi-layered stew of manipulated tape loops, electronic tones, mangled recordings, and other sonic debris. While Drone Moral is far more accessible than the earlier Rigor Lore, it veers far from folk, even the freakiest niches that WWVV inhabit. What keeps Drone Moral from lapsing into the opacity that burdened Rigor Lore is an emphasis on a few key sounds—a man saying “Pardon Me,” old dusty slide-steel scrapes, and seabird screeches. These basic layers are twisted and multiply recontextualized, paired with electro-cave-dweller reverberations and dubbed-out aquatics. The effect is narcotizing and vaguely worshipful, a chopped and screwed version of a chopped and screwed version of a spooky spoken-word-and-organ cassette; codeine syrup for the Christian soul. The sludgy whole is so jaw-slackening I listened to the tape a couple times over before realizing that the A and B side were identical. Perhaps the decline of WWVV is not such a bad thing, as the release schedule for Non Horse (not to mention Time Life, a duo of Crane and Heidi Diehl) has been accelerating in the old band’s wake. With the sheer variety of sounds gathered for each of his first two cassettes, the future promises to be beyond eclectic." - Stylus Magazine (http://www.stylusmagazine.com/)
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DNT013- Errol Flynn "s/t" cassette SOLD OUT
The "real" Errol Flynn is most remembered as playing the swashbuckler role is many movies in the first half of the 20th century. Well this cassette will show you the REAL Errol Flynn, and not just the roles that he played. De-tuned keyboards and almost-not-there guitars underneath field recordings and fuzzy left-of-the-dial mexican radio. Wrenches and tin cans and all sort of tape loops will help you to discover Mr. E.F. Green cassettes housed in a plastic case with a photo of Errol Flynn holding a shrunken bon-fire he stole from the rich to give to the poor. Edition of 50.
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DNT012- Apple Snails/The Mighty Acts Of God split cassetteSOLD OUT
Those of you lucky enough to have heard Not Not Fun's "Free Beasts" cassette compilation may remember Apple Snails from it. That's all I had to hear from them to know that I wanted more! Apple Snails cover the first side and are about as close as you can get to folk drone (is that possible?). Lots of slide guitars and dark drones that will leave you with an amnesia induced trip. Side B belongs to The Mighty Acts of God, which is a lovely lady, Niwi. Electric guitar is the main instrument used, with others guitars and keyboards(?) soaking through that create this very vibrant transcendent feeling, that honestly, the first time I heard, left me speechless. Red cassettes with 'grid' labels, and fabulous artwork by the even more fabulous Jeremy Earl of Fuck it Tapes. Edition of 100.

"What we have here is an interesting case of “tape splitting”. It’s fronted by Apple Snails and The Mighty Acts of God brings up the rear and despite not really sounding a whole lot like each other they actually complement each other pretty well. I don’t know a whole lot about Apple Snails other than they had a nice track on Not Not Fun’s Free Beasts compilation and they have a recently released cd-r on Foxglove. I tried the internet but wading through all the real Apple Snails sites is kinda taking too long. Oh well. TMAoG is Vanessa Niwi Rossetto, Foxy Digitalis contributor, painter and, um, musician. She has put two other releases out this year, one on the excellent Music Your Mind Will Love You label and the other on the also excellent Ruralfaune label. I also spoke to her briefly on soulseek about a James Ferraro tape… I can tell this intro isn’t really going anywhere special, heh, so I’m gonna get to the music now. The Snails go first as previously mentioned, and hit you with an odd amalgam of creepy drones and slide guitar and organ-type sounds. The track, “Wind Presses Against Stubborn Beams”, is kind of like sleepwalking through a haunted house. The atmosphere, though pretty placid and drowsy, is also that of unease. There is a real nice part at the end where the slide guitar becomes clearly revealed and takes the song out on a brief solo. “Blood Rain Falls No Matter” follows, indulging itself in the drone before it’s broken up by an electric guitar. The elements introduced in the previous tracks cohere in “Ten Mile Circle of Fog and Thundr”, guitar and drones are more seamlessly integrated in a peculiar but pretty piece of music. It moves at a nice steady pace, ambling along through eternity. I kinda wish it was a bit longer, though I suppose that's a good thing. Lastly we have the most Cormac McCarthyish titled “Death’s Seed Runs From Her Thighs”. It is the longest and features the broadest arrangement, organ and piano show up along with a host scattered sounds, including, what sounds like, a ‘voice’ patch on a keyboard. The track’s quiet chaos is actually really intricately woven. Like the soundtrack to some fucked up psychedelic western where the anti-hero is wandering through desert deliriously, hallucinating and probably high on mescaline and eventually curling up in the shadow of a craggy rock formation. I don’t know, that’s what it makes me think of anyway. I really like how each track gets better/more refined as the side rolls along. Going second is The Mighty Acts of God, and it’s quite a change of pace. Where Apple Snails were really heavy on the drone dread, TMAoG is, well, not. The first track “Song of the South” is loops of various strummed and plucked instruments, it also sounds like there is some sort of chord organ/harmonium in there too but maybe it’s just a keyboard. While at first the elements sound pretty disparate by the end they coalesce into a lightly churning quilt. “Words are Spelled” follows much more minimally. Again it’s a stringed instrument(s?) of some sort. But there is only one track (perhaps two), so the result is a starkly beautiful bit of playing and nothing else to distract you from that. “Vegetable Lamb of Tartary” (hmm, wonder what that is) is the longest and builds very slowly. A good portion of it is mostly autoharp but with some casio-type sounds and whatnot in there too. At some point the track goes nuts with looped vocal babble and a flute and bells and new age keyboards and percussive loops. Definitely the weirdest most abstract track on the side, pretty interesting as well. “This Toiler in Light” is similar to “Words are Spelled” in that it is short and sounds like it’s coming from one instrument. Though, instead of the starkness, there is lots of looping and manipulating and so on, creating a real nicely cascading shimmer for the original instrument to work it’s magic against. Maybe my favorite track on the side. DNT did a pretty nice job putting the release together (except the tape was dubbed pretty quietly). There is some really rad psychedelic b-ball hoop artwork on a foldout paper insert by Jeremy Earl of the Fuck It Tapes crew (how many are in that crew anyway? 1?). The music comes on red cassettes with neat, though sloppily applied, graph labels too. So pats on the back all around." -Auxillary Out (http://auxiliaryout.blogspot.com/)

"Oh great, just what the world needs: two random acts thrown together on a red C40. Just kidding! That IS what the world needs. Apple Snails’ side is pretty freaky. Muffled nothingness oozing into waves of hissy tar. Haha…what a phrase! I can’t imagine that helps much. Ok, it’s basically four obscure pieces of dark ambience, edited on a computer and layered with scary/gothy sound effects. The M.A.o.G. is apparently a lady from Austin I believe, and her stuff is on the folkier end of the spectrum, lots of acoustic stringed things being plucked and fucked with. It sounds like there’s autoharp playing on most songs…plenty of flute and shakers too. Could be confused with a few of those Finnish folk-drone bands from back when. Or not. Some nice sparkling meadow-lolling vibes that would be cool stretched across her own full-length. Cover has a sweet Jeremy Earl drawing of what looks like a basketball backboard-and-hoop ringed by feathers."- Cassette Gods (http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/)
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DNT011- Hide And Seek "Tales From The Fourteenth Dimension" 2xcdr
I unfortunetly found out about this band a little too late; they had already broken up. This band is from North Carolina although listening to them they sound like they might come from D.C. A friend of mine said they sound like "black eyes if black eyes were FUN". And I definetly agree. The band is three people, one is a girl, and all of them sing at different parts in different songs. There are keyboards and drums. And a cow-bell. This release is a two disc discography of this dancey punk-funtacular band. Housed in a thin, white dvd case with a full-color cover, art by Zach the keymaestro, and spray-painted cdrs and cases. Edition of 100. MP3
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DNT010- "DNT Is One Year Old" Compilation cdr
This compilation is PACKED! If I had an otter-pop for every band on here I'd have like....13 otter pops! (13 green ones for sure...mmm...). For those of you who missed out on the first compilation, don't feel bad, this one's totally better. This time around you get to hear bands from three different countries (Australia, Canada, and America respectively). This cdr is what punk rock would be if the ninties never existed! This is to celebrate DNT being a year old, and what's the best way to celebrate a birthday? You guessed it, with a birthday card! (uhh..) This comp comes in a "birthday card" in full color, on fancy cardstock (I maxed out my card printing these) with a foam-peg-thingy holding in the cd, and the cds have freed-from-the-zoo animal stencils on 'em to keep you interested. Break off the top of your boombox so you can Lenny the Lizard chase his tail!

Bands on this swell comp:
Hips
Pretty Thigh
Channels 3x4
HEALTH
Party Fowl
Soft Shoulder
African Greys
Naked on the Vague
Ikebana
Shearing Pinx
Twin Crystals
The Pope
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DNT 009- HEALTH "Live//Smell" cassette
This tape is from a live recording of them at The Smell in Los Angeles back in May. It captures uhh...their sound? HEALTH (not to be confused with the shitty lower-cased health from the east coast) are the leading noise-rock experimental band of Los Angeles..says me, and everybody else I've talked to. The bassist/electronics dude John has like, two suitcases full of pedals and effects, including these weird electronic drum pads, that he assures me are very expensive and delicate. Some songs feature two drummers! Every time I see the drummer he just refers to me as "DNT" which, I'm not sure is a good thing? The tapes are transparent-dark green, with label-maker labels and are housed in a plastic case with six different versions of the covers. (bright green, bright orange, fushia, baby blue, and a orangish-red). First edition of 100 on green tape. Second edition of 100 on purple tape

"Total lo-fi, weird noise-rock eclecticism here. The mood goes from tribal to spastic never really sure what's coming next. For a live recording on cassette the sound is clear enough to have a vague idea of what's going on and still leaving a few mysteries to be solved along the way. Nice to know stuff like Health and Night Wounds are keepin the west alive." - Swingset Magazine ( http://www.swingsetmagazine.com )

"‘Live//Smell’ is a fine introduction to HEALTH, a slightly schizophrenic noise-rock band from Los Angeles. The tape’s five or six tracks (it’s hard to tell) are at their best when they resemble the new math-rock of Battles, particularly the opening track, suggesting that band’s brilliant forthcoming LP, sure to be one of the year’s best; subsequent tracks are a bit more heavy-handed, rock-smart like Neptune, and then a bit thrash like a Dmonstrations or Arab on Radar. Despite the live recording (at The Smell, thus the title) and rock and roll formation, the EP sounds pretty good – if at times drum-heavy – and the tracks a solid survey of the band’s repertoire." -Animal Psi ( http://www.animalpsi.com )
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DNT008- German "German" cdr SOLD OUT
Who knew that Germany had such lush finger piano players! This project is called German, although every thing about it is distinctly not German. The drums sound like an African tribe ritual on congo drums teleported deep into the Amazon. While the (Russian?) Finger Piano is run through so many pedals the electricity may have caused them to travel back in time to the days of the Scythians. (What the hell is that supposed to mean?!?!?!?) MP3
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DNT007- Quintana Roo/Quilts "White Bone Snake" split cassette SOLD OUT
"Two Q-band units panhandle for spirit contact. Quintana Roo unearth another pit of holy bones and Aztec ash, classic "rumbling tombs" style drone-spelunking with post-straight edge summertime Josh Feola guesting on the drum throne. Communal seance zoning. Quilts' "Pink Hotel" rents a room/suite of space heater fuzz fog and falls asleep. Enough muffled murk-moans and endless echo to earn lucrative sponsorship from at least 4 of the 5 major US delay pedal companies. Heavy WARMTH. With fucked-up-and-photocopied covers of burial dirt. Hand-numbered edition of 100." -bb

"There’s a weird psychology to splits such that, when two bands share a tape or record which have two sides and are therefore oppositional, that they are on some level competing; on the other hand, when splitting a side or a format free from sides such as a CD, this aggression is greatly reduced or absent altogether. In reality, there are few gestures from one artist to another more endearing than creating a split together. If anything, shared sides should appear more rivalrous as they create a chronological hierarchy which places one artist apart from the other. Despite this awareness, listening to the split ‘White Bone Snake’ (‘Black Snake Moan’?), I cannot shake the sense of competition between the two bands, and then the need to award the prize to Quilts over Quintana Roo (though the race was very close). Both bands are in top shape for this cassette, working within their ideal 15 minute parameters. Though the sides of the tape have been effectively masked by spray-paint, the insert lists Quintana Roo first, and the tape is wound to begin on this side, so they go first: as the original vehicle for today’s megastars Robedoor, Pocahaunted, Changeling (and all their babies), Quintana Roo is still very much its own band, only tangentially suggesting these unique projects through its own free-doom metal. “River Obsidian” comes from a session last summer - surely a dark day - during which these three miscreants (with the help of an unholy guest-drummer) summon with an extraordinarily wicked selfish indifference a sonic demon of coal soot and dark soil with freeform drones, human howls, stretched strings, and schizophrenic percussion of high and low. The track moves at its own unrest through the murk, lulling itself back down to the hard-packed floor. Quilts don’t quite fill out their side (ending a minute or two early - the Quilts M.O.?), which though unfortunate for a cassette release, I take as a sign of wellness as the band does not conform to their adversary, and vice-versa. Like a distortion-free Skaters, “Pink Hotel” begins as a duet of manipulated voices over a steady synth note, a second keyboard set to “chimes” riffing alongside and against the voices with ghostly reverb smearing streaks across the track; tambourine and flute are used sparingly; the keyboard effect calls to mind ‘The First Power’ or some similar neurotic horror, while the distended vocals evoke the L.A./Lou Diamond-menace of Ariel Pink. Texture and (fucked-up) narrative are both achieved, and the track a smashing success."- Animal Psi (animalpsi.com)
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DNT006 - Grime Hut "Live at Il Corral" cassette SOLD OUT
This band is so good they don't have to practice. So good they don't have to record in studios. So good they don't have to be booked to play shows. Grime Hut is an improvisational experimental act..wannabe metal? Featuring members of Night Wounds, Shearing Pinx, Pretty Thigh, and Hide and Seek. They hardly ever play shows. This is one of their shows. From a show at the Il Corral in Los Angeles on July...27th, 2006 I believe..some time that week.. Some members were "inspired" before the set. ahem. what? Recorded live. Unmastered copies on home boombox to recycled tapes salvaged from the sewers where Grime Hut belong anyway. Limited to the amount of tapes in the limited amount of shoeboxes full of tapes I have.
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DNT005 - Gang Wizard "I Remember You From the Party in Long Beach" 7" SOLD OUT
This was supposed to come out awhile back, but who cares, because now it's out. I'm bad at describing music, so here's a description of them: "...an angelic force, delivering a unique thrash-bliss sound to the world. Sparkeling synths and homemade glitter electronics are combined with whirlwind drums, screaming vocals, and aluminum spring guitars. A fantasy of blindness cycling through your lungs." members of foot village, rose for bohdan, and many other bands. Edition of 300 on black vinyl with minimalist cover.

"This Gang Wizard 'I Remember You From The Party In Long Beach' is a totally wonky record that sounds like a detuned guitar is being played with a cat instead of a plectrum. Gang wizard are cool and did stuff way back on Black bean and Placenta and more recently Load...WOW I've just noticed the sticker attached to the weird fibre glass sleeve and it has a tiny picture of an old E.T stuffed toy hugging a cat. I bet it's the same cat that was used to play the guitar. If that doesn't make you want tio buy this mighty record then you don't deserve your ears." -(norman records)

"Beginning with the end of another song, lead off track “Lemonade Folly” easily, immediately stakes its claim as my favorite track here. With a super catchy, slippery/sloppy slide guitar riff leading the pack, the rest of the band gets the message and follows with their own ramshackle pounding and whirring, resulting in a deliciously pseudo-atonal, pseudo-arrhythmic treat. The title-track is a brasher affair. I’m digging the clanging guitarkeyboarddrum brew but the Magik Markers-esque female vocals kill my buzz a bit. The track doesn’t get very far before the cut but “I Remember You From the Party in Long Beach” continues with “I Remember You From the Party in Long Beach (cont)” on the b-side. There’s an excellent breakdown with sustaining feedback, plinking keyboard hits and a drum solo where things really come together for a while dissipating into extended coughing(??). However, things pickup again for the finale with another drum solo this time mainly dueling with a squealing oscillator." -auxillary out
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DNT004- "Musisica Moche" VHS 3-way with Shearing Pinx/Soft Shoulder/Lord Galvar SOLD OUT
"Musisica Moche" was originally supposed to come out in June of last year, but between bands breaking up (Hot Girls Cool Guys) and bands not being able to complete their videos (Party Fowl, Mikaela's Fiend), this release has been far delayed, and has seen many line-up changes.With that said, this video is going to light your hair on fire (in a good way). This isn't just some live footage type thing. These are actual messed up ARTworks, with tons of vibrant colors and twirls and all sorts of psychedelic headspinners. Each video is different, and each one is very far out. Dolphin-skin teal tapes with warped looking labels and bumpy spine in a spraypainted cardboard case with huge DNT logo on the back. Edition of 50
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DNT 003- Shearing Pinx "Caves" 7" SOLD OUT (I have cover-less copies lying around..couple dollars? inquire within)
Oh-oh-oh! Yes! Yes! This is what I've been waiting for for so long: a band I love enough to release vinyl by. And this is that band, Shearing Pinx They're sort of like, a no-wave influenced, totally shred-tastic group of three bandits from Vancouver, British Columbia. I was lucking enough to see them not once, but TWICE last week in Los Angeles, which, unfortunetly was not the release show, due to delays at the plant. But here it is: A four-song 7" at 33rpm on transparent-green vinyl with green labels in silk-screened covers, artwork by the Pinks themselves. It's a limited edition, of 400, hand-numbered. Git 'em while they're hot, because nearly half are already gone, thanks to some sweet stores and distros. Enjoy!

"Make way for the specific and somewhat imposing presence of Vancouver’s Shearing Pinx, cutting ties with all music since Sonic Youth in ’83 and kicking up a mighty cloud of clattery guitar racket. Displaying quite a bit of punk-alley abandon and anti-heroic anthem to go with the Thurston/Lee soundclash, the trio bashes away at these mostly longer songs with patient precision, muddled by a lo-fi, redline quality to dirty things up." - Dusted Magazine

"For 7 inches, Shearing Pinx play an energetic no-wave with loudspeaker vocals and jangly-as-hell guitars, each side of the record featuring one full song and a shorter, more abstract noise piece made of feedback: “Caves” on side A recalls the smart-alecky post-punk of The Monorchid though more melodic, with singer Nic huffing well below Chris Thomson’s piercing decibel; on the reverse, “Chaos Patent” leans toward the tangled surf-rock of mid-era Sonic Youth, then switches into a chugging rhythm with staggered guitars like a grungier version of late-90s indie-boppers Tanner or Mocket. Both tracks are rousing and well-executed, as are their brief appendices; to great nostalgia, DNT presents ‘Caves’ in classic indie form, even including a flyer for one of the band’s shows (now long past). Transparent-green vinyl comes in a three-color screened sleeve with inserts, 400 copies made. Very nice!" - Animal Psi (animalpsi.com)
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DNT002 - Mantut "Mantut" cdr SOLD OUT
Mantut features members of both The Pope and Books and Tape...well it features all the members of both bands. (Right?) So I guess it's more of a collaboration than a side project. During the time I was waiting for the master, one of the members kept saying "we're having fun" "just have fun" and other sentences involving the word fun. Hm. Seems it took six months for them to get "inspired". Hehehe. The one time I saw The Pope play the bassist had all these crazy sounds going, and then he took his hands off the bass and drank some water. He's magic!! Just like the REAL Mantut. I think Mantut is also a city in Egypt. This cdr is limited to 50 copies, so don't wait any longer! You should already have it! Listen to an MP3
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DNT 001- "DNT Record...Compilation" comp. cdr SOLD OUT
Ah. It is finally made. A couple months ago when I came up with the idea for a compilation, I had no idea that dealing with ten bands would be so difficult..that being saidYES! it's done! If I wasn't sitting down right now, I'd most definetly be jumping up and down. I'm not very good at giving reviews....these bands make music. They play shows. I have their records in my distribution. I have many copies, but I'd like to have zero copies. Help me out! These cds were burned, painted, and put into a handmade sleeve made of construction paper. Five different colors, and each one has a different drawing, hand-numbered out of 100. Yes!
Here are all the bands on this delightful compilation:
Child Pornography
The Pope
Forbici
Rose for Bohdan
Dead/Bird
Hot Girls Cool Guys
Lacoste
Groovy Cave Paintings
Robedoor
Haunted Castle
Gang Wizard


Coming Soon/Discography:
dnt 001.......DNT...Compilation cdr
dnt 002.......Mantut "Mantut" cdr
dnt 003.......Shearing Pinx "Caves" 7"
dnt 004.......VHS tape w/ shearing pinx,lord galvar, soft shoulder
dnt 005.......Gang Wizard "I Remember You From the Party in Long Beach" 7"
dnt 006.......Grime Hut "Live at Il Corral" cassette
dnt 007.......Quintana Roo/Quilts "White Bone Snake"split cassette
dnt 008.......German cdr
dnt 009.......HEALTH "LIVE//SMELL" cassette
dnt 010.......Birthday Compilation cdr (august 2006)
dnt 011.......Hide and Seek "Tales From The Fourteenth Dimension" 2xcdr
dnt 012.......Apple Snails/the mighty acts of god split cassette
dnt 013.......Errol Flynn cassette
dnt 014.......Non-Horse "Drone is Moral" cassette
dnt 015.......Mudboy "Livish 2007" cdr
dnt 016.......German cassette (Fall 2008)
dnt 017.......Jazzfinger "Wixxon Flag Bearer" cdr
dnt 018.......The Pope "Do You Wanna Boogie?" cassette
dnt 019.......Warmth/yellow swans split 7"
dnt 020......."Mash Mansum" cassette [NOW AVAILABLE]
dnt 021.......HEALTH "s/t" cassette (co-release w/Lovepump United)
dnt 022.......Bonecloud "drawing spirits in crystals" cdr
dnt 023.......Shepherds "Bush Babies" 7" [Now Available]
dnt 024.......Gay Beast "Disrobics" LP [Now Available]
dnt 025.......Bird Costumes/Tunnels split 3"
dnt 026.......Acre/Haunted Castle split 3"
dnt 027.......Monitors/KK Rampage split 3"
dnt 028.......Tent City/Horse Head split 3"
dnt 029.......Oh Home/Mythical Beast split 3"
dnt 030.......Apple Snails/Treetops split 3"
dnt 031.......German/Red Needled Sea split 3"
dnt 032.......James Fella/Nomen Dubium split 3"
dnt 033.......Bobb Bruno cassette (Fall 2008)
dnt 034.......Plankton Wat "Alchemy Of Darkness" cassette
dnt 035.......Mudboy "Mudmux Volume One" 7" [NOW AVAILABLE]
dnt 036.......Moonmilk "Hidden Speech" cassette
dnt 037.......Super Minerals "The Piss" cassette
dnt 038.......Nomen dubium "The Bering Sea" cassette
dnt 039.......Sean McCann full-length cassette (Fall 2008)
dnt 040......."Caked Paradise" cdr zine compilation (DNT 2-year anniversary)
dnt 041.......Mudboy/Ducktails "Summer of Saucers" split cassette (Summer 2008)
dnt 042.......Family Underground "Helium Rug" 1-sided LP
dnt 043.......Uneven Universe cassette (Fall 2008)
dnt 044.......Deaf Deaf cassette (2008)
dnt 045.......Sasqrotch/Yuko Chino split cassette (2008)
dnt 046.......Jazzfinger cassette (2008)
dnt 047.......meadow argus cassette (2008)
dnt 048.......Black Pus/Foot Village split 12" (Summer 2008)
dnt 049.......Taiga Remains/C. Spencer Yeh split LP (Fall 2008)
dnt 050.......3-Year Anniversary 2X Cassette (Fall 2008)
dnt 051.......Tropa Macaca 7" (2008)
dnt 052.......Social Junk LP (co-release with Deathbomb Arc) (2008)
dnt 053.......Ducktails LP !!! (2008)
dnt 054.......Barrabarracuda LP (2008..or 2012)