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The following records are sold out, and some are also out of print. Nothing from this list can be ordered at this time, if we restock, it will be moved to the appropriate section. But you can still have fun looking at all the pretty pictures and descriptions!!! This page can also help give you an idea of the type of stuff we carry.


Burnt Hills/Rambutan “Eye of the Sun” split cassette $6
“On a snowy night in March 2013 the Burnt Hills crew hosted a show at the Helderberg House with Chalaque, Jon Collin, Yek Koo, and Zaimph. With one longtime member on extended hiatus, Chalaque’s Nick Mitchell sat in with us…the resulting bruiser of a set is presented here on side A. Six guitarists, two drummers, one bassist, and a xylophonist baked up a crispy sonic nugget, held together at the seams by feedback, interwoven guitar tones, and a pummeling rhythm section. Burnt Hills has been shredding free-rock style since 2006 on labels like 8MM, Flipped Out, Carbon, and Noiseville–and this missive from the outer reaches of the multiverse fits right in with the band’s sprawling aesthetic, showing surprising restraint and unit-wide deep listening to go along with its massive ensemble onslaughts. Eric Hardiman’s Rambutan has had a fine year in 2013–highlighted by the excellent “Inverted Summer” LP on Fabrica Records. While on hiatus in Scotland Hardiman brought Rambutan out live on a number of occasions; this set at Glasgow’s Volcanic Tongue record shop finds Hardiman mixing abstraction and more formal melodic elements with characteristic skill, as ideas and textures combine and dissolve in the listener’s ears. Skell Records couldn’t be prouder to put this one out, and though there may have been physical separation between Burnt Hills and Rambutan on the days these jams were put down, the eye of the sun saw it all….art gracioiusly provided by Phil French.” -skell
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Hering und seine sieben Sachen/Parashi split cassette $6
“Daniel Voigt is well known in the underground as the man behind the wonderful Sicsic Tapes label. His Hering und seine sieben Sachen tape on Cae-sur-a from 2011 was one of my favorite releases by that fine label, and he has subsequently released material on Cosmic Winnetou and Sicsic. Voigt’s side of this split tape (entitled “Desiring Machines” utilizes four walkman cassette recorders as the primary sound sources, augmented by pedals and mixer treatments, and it’s a zoned-out beauty of a piece. Drones, voices, and odd sonic interjections all flow together into a ceaselessly interesting, rapidly-shifting river of sound. Parashi’s menacing sonic collages have appeared on labels like Tranquility Tapes, Stunned, and House of Alchemy. These two tracks feature modular synthesizer and a variety of tape sources, chopped and mangled beyond recognition. Parashi’s side (entitled “Sigil of the Shining Man” was recorded live at Heron Room North in 2013. These two pieces delve into the darker regions of the psyche, an area where the subconscious mind is the ruler of all it surveys.” -skell
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Vales “Boreal Head Trip” cassette $6
“Dave Doyen gets rough with his modular synth setup on this burner, a 28-minute trip that leaves scorched wreckage in its wake. Different in temper and feel from earlier Vales releases on labels like 905 Tapes and Ghetto Naturalist Series, Boreal Head Trip finds Doyen working with sharp-edged and brittle tones. Vales may have moved into harsher realms but Doyen’s sense of development keeps things intriguing throughout this journey into darkness.” -skell
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Nathan McLaughlin “Riding the Bronc” cassette $6
“Nathan McLaughlin is a busy man. Having released numerous tapes and LPs over the last few years under his own name and as a member of the groups: Tilth, Loud & Sad, and HMS. Solo, McLaughlin is best known for his Echolocation series, showcasing his improvisational work with tape loops. Through Echolocation and subsequent work, McLaughlin continues to create beautiful pieces of ambience that are at times fragile, subtle and quiet. Riding the Bronc is the latest release of tape music from McLaughlin. Displaying a talent for focus and patience. The title of this cassette is a reference to McLaughlin’s live sets, which are filled with an underlying sense of the ominous. In his own words:
“they tend to be very intense high frequency affairs…lots of tension, riding the bronco as i like to call it, and not of great volume….recreating that can potentially be hard because the tension is a product of the environment and mood.”” -nada
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Jovontaes “Paranoia Makes A Crazy Gift” LP $12
“JOVONTAES is a band from Lexington, KY. Since 2009, the band has consisted of Reid Small (always) on drums and occasional vocals, Mark Murray on guitar and electronics, and Josh Blaine on bass and home-modified electronics. Before that, Jovontaes was an ever-evolving ensemble which (at any given time may have) included members of Street Gnar, Trailblazer, Todays Hits, RC Pro AM, other Lexington locals and beyond. They’ve been labeled everything from “skater kraut” to “skategaze” to “surf punk” to good ol’ fashioned “psych rock,” even “noise” at times, but choose not to identify with nor adhere to any of the above. Instead, Jovontaes push forward without falling victim to the boundaries of classification, beating their own path while nodding their heads to the history of minimalism, improvisation, drug music, and experimental de-constructions of “pop.” Jovantaes are Lexington, KY. They emerge from (and possibly define) my town’s peculiar skate/Kraut/nihil/garage axis, evoking the smell of stale Miller High Life and burning couches: stumbling match-grip surf rolls, howling chorused-out guitar, droning Adderall haze, and a singer who makes Will Shatter sound like Scott Walker. Imagine Moolah playing at a beach party on the edge of the Kentucky River, big gray globs of unidentifiable garbage drifting silently past and the dense wet air becomes gridlocked with mosquitoes – Trevor Tremaine (Hair Police) ” -sophomore lounge
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Jovontaes “Things Are Different Here” LP $12
“”Jovantaes are Lexington, KY. They emerge from (and possibly define) my town’s peculiar skate/Kraut/nihil/garage axis, evoking the smell of stale Miller High Life and burning couches: stumbling match-grip surf rolls, howling chorused-out guitar, droning Adderall haze, and a singer who makes Will Shatter sound like Scott Walker. Imagine Moolah playing at a beach party on the edge of the Kentucky River, big gray globs of unidentifiable garbage drifting silently past and the dense wet air becomes gridlocked with mosquitoes”- Trevor Tremaine (Hair Police) The current line up, and longest running, consists of Mark Murray on guitar and electronics, Reid Small on drums and vocals, and Josh Blaine playing bass and home modified electronics. Recorded mostly at Small’s Void Skateshop in Lexington, “Things Are Different Here” is a fresh look at the future of underground improvised music.” -hello sunshine/woodsist
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Jovontaes “Hollow Body (The Tim is Now)” cassette $6
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Jovontaes “Roll the Dice” cassette $6
released on Gnar Tapes/Burger Records
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Ala Vjiior “Bemused Muses” cassette $6
different lands
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Totally Standup Guy and the Good Dudes S/T cassette $6
different lands
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The Zero Map “The Red Forest” cassette $6
different lands
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Crodar “Movie” cassette $6
“E-Mu synths, samples, and other filtered sounds compose Corey Mahaney’s latest solo work: six scenes of an imagined film, each written with a deft sense of musicality & an uncommon organic quality that belies its sources. From powerful Eastern-tinged drone to more subdued synth glow, each track represents a shifting audio backdrop of varying vibes, often displaying a reflective quality while always retaining a feeling of raw sincerity & thoughtful contemplation. Type II, high bias chrome tapes. Edition of 50 with mini-poster included from the artist. “-retrograde
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Kevolych “Abstract Frame” cassette $6
“Working with a stockpile of homemade synths & noise generators, Joseph Connelly jams out layers of circuits on circuits in exploration of texture, contrasts in intensity, and contemplative ohm-drone sans any sort of forced spiritual connotation. Starting in a godless synth temple, the atmosphere initially seems devoid of life until other writhing layers find their way in. Things take a turn for the worse & a wall of harsh noise buries the place with the listener inside it. Negative Nostalgia unfolds in similar fashion but in place of harsh noise the open air swells into the morass of a stirring insect jungle, dense with a squall of evolving noise & burnt-circuit clamor. Type II, high bias chrome tapes. Edition of 50. “-retrograde
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Zonal Taste Wand/ZX-9 “Negative Space/Partition Function Part 2” split cassette $6
“Two of Australia’s finest synth manglers, Ben Lynch and Luke Morris comprise a dual-Aussie split on Negative Space/Partition Function Part 2. Zonal Taste Wand starts us off with a lumbering, beat-driven electronic sandstorm that dissolves into a tense relative stasis just long enough to make the eventual paranoia of a bad trip hit even harder. Meditation follows. On the flip, ZX-9 creates minimal & mechanical test tube drippings spoon-fed to you by automatons in six short experiments, the results transmitted from a robotic lab deep underground directly into your lab rat brain. Type II, high bias chrome tapes. Edition of 50. “-retrograde
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Various Artists “Duets II” cassette $6
“Since the first Duets compilation was well received last year and there are so many other great duos making music within our orbit, a sequel only seemed natural. This time around we have a whole new set of duos for Duets II. Some of the same individuals from the first contributed to this edition, but they appear here in the guise of entirely different projects with unique approaches to collaboration and experimental sound. This is also a slightly shorter dose than the original, but rest assured that it is no less potent and diverse, especially when taken as a whole. Features new and unreleased tracks by Dozens, Glass House, Cream Juice, Roped Off, Perspectives, Nite Lite, Pendulums, Urkas, Coyote Image Revisited, and Morae. Pro-dubbed and imprinted chrome cassettes, featuring designs by Caroline Teagle.” -tranquility tapes
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Afterlife “Afterlive” cassette $6
“From 2010 to 2013, Ryan McGill and Franklin Teagle played shows throughout New York City and a few out of town gigs as a part of some incredible line-ups and through some extremely loud sound systems. Now that the duo resides on opposite coasts, a live show isn’t likely to happen again in the near future, but we’re happy to share a document of some choice performances from the past three years. Afterlive collects three different sets: One from 2011 recorded by Francesco de Gallo in Brooklyn, NY, one from 2012 recorded by Dave Doyen in Wilmington, DE, and one from 2013 recorded by Mike Griffin in Albany, NY. Each recording features entirely different material as well as different approaches to bringing composed and improvised sound into the live setting, all captured through raw, open air recordings. Pro-dubbed and imprinted chrome cassettes, featuring designs by Caroline Teagle and a photograph by Rachel Evans.” -tranquility tapes
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Roped Off “Roped Off Lifts the Invisible Tile” cassette $6
“From their respective solo work as Vales/Sound Out Light and Wether/Spectrum Tickets to their beloved podcast Tabs Out, Delaware’s Dave Doyen and Mike Haley are veritable kings (or perhaps court jesters?) in the realm of experimental cassette culture. Collaborating as Roped Off, they combine their powers through synthesis for intense and riveting results. Roped Off Lifts the Invisible Tile finds the duo in finer form than ever, carefully layering modular synths and keyboards with a distinct focus on texture and minimalist technique. Almost immediately, you’re hit with a deluge of dripping, trickling sounds as ominous drones and bleak, Carpenter-esque melodies gradually creep into the mix. At just over 20 minutes, it’s like a quick dip into a pool of primordial ooze, but one that’s so satisfying you’ll want to catch your breath and dive back in as soon as possible. Pro-dubbed and imprinted chrome cassettes, featuring designs by Caroline Teagle.” -tranquility tapes
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Iasos “Elixir” cassette $6
“This second Iasos reissue on Rotifer Cassettes comes in 3-D stereo, covering the full sonic range – from thunderous lows to crystalline highs that challenge your hearing. It is offered as a vibrational gateway, through sound, to the celestial realms of Light. Professionally duplicated on cassette for the first time since 1983 onto type II, chrome format. Original cover art by Andrew Annenberg, inner j-card artwork by Jonathan Dean.” -rotifer
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Iasos “Inter-Dimensional Music” cassette $6
“This is the album that began both the legacy of Iasos and the genre of “New Age” Music in 1975. This can be thought of as a sonic journey through a great many realms – from etheric tropical to inter-planetary – great for “consciousness-travelling” via sound. Professionally duplicated on cassette for the first time in over 30 years onto type II, chrome format. Designed for focused listening – definitely not as “background music”.” -rotifer
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Paul Hares “Shades” cassette $6
“Following ‘Blurred’ only 10 Rotifer’s ago, ‘Shade’s’ is an aerial mind mapping ejected precisely from Hare’s brain. An inmost inquest. Professionally duplicated on type II chrome cassettes. “- rotifer
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Ratkiller “Pantomime of Libertines” cassette $6
“Gleamy connections, lightened byways. Ratkiller’s third first rate encountering on Rotifer. Pro-home dubbed on type II chrome cassettes at Rotifer facilities.”- rotifer
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Seziki Tetrasheaf “Siroccos End” cassette $6
“Puzzling enchantments, lifted ceremonies, lasting shed beliefs. Spray painted shells, inserts with full track listing. Pro-home dubbed on type II chrome cassettes at Rotifer facilities.”- rotifer
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Subliquid “Apex” cassette $6
“First physical release from Sub Liquid (Graham Pisarek) local from Nevada City! After a by chance encounter, this release became inevitable. Pure, aerial beats sure to keep your head bobbin’. Much more to come, including shows around the northern California area and more new cassette and online releases. All sounds and artwork by Sub Liquid. Professionally duplicated on type II, chrome cassettes. Limited to 100 copies from Rotifer.”- rotifer
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Tuluum Shimmering “Before Us Is Our Ocean” cassette $6
“Back from a flowered grassy knoll hideaway somewhere in the UK, Jake Webster presents us with a new Tuluum sound. Peaceful vocals with a soothing aura. Professionally duplicated on type II, chrome cassettes. “- rotifer
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Brogan Bentley “Moments EP” cassette $6
“Just in time for a feel good summer, bay area mon Brogan Bentley holds it down with this crucial EP. A flavorful blend of ambient breathers and swelling vigorous flow. Cover Artwork by Casual Sniper/Silent Thunder. Professionally duplicated on type II, chrome cassettes.”- rotifer
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Paul Hares “Blurred” cassette $6
“Celebrating our 70th release, give a warm welcome to newcomer Paul Hares of Russia. A legendary first release dripping with tasteful, crisp beats the whole ride through. Professionally duplicated on type II chrome cassettes. Color inserts with track titles. “- rotifer
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SEZIKI TETRASHEAF “clannad matsoyu” cassette $6
“Broadened bodies, verging manias. “- rotifer
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Skyscraper & DJ DJ TANNER “Tan Sky” cassette $6
“Skyscraper & DJ DJ TANNER – Tan Sky by Warm Gospel Tapes“- warm gospel
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Moulttrigger “Drub” cassette $6
“Moulttrigger – Drub by Warm Gospel Tapes“- warm gospel
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DJ DJ TANNER “FOOL” cassette $6
“DJ DJ TANNER – FOOL by Warm Gospel Tapes“- warm gospel
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Stewardesses/Tires Split cassette $6
“Stewardesses/Tires Split by Warm Gospel Tapes“- warm gospel
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SEEZUREFACE “MESSY SETI CASSEVETES” cassette $6
“Iowa City’s space noise purveyor, Zach Straight, releases his synthetic explorations under the moniker SEEZUREFACE. With his second album on Warm Gospel, Straight has taken on something of an alien perspective, attempting to force field samples of ordinary human media and entertainment out of any recognizable context by scattering them across cosmic rings of synthesized noise. It’s like Earth’s radio signals, degraded by light years of travel, being picked up through layers of moving white noise outside of the Milky Way galaxy. On MESSY SETI CASSEVETES, his approach lies somewhere between the sonic walls of Tangerine Dream and the remaining puddles from 2012’s flash flood of vaporwaves. It leaves the music in a calming state of ambience, accompanied by soft drums ringing out like raindrops on your windows. The buried spoken-word samples from years of film history remind you that, despite the motion sickness from all of this interplanetary traveling, you are never really too far from home. Breathe. There may not be oxygen here, but the air is fine. “- warm gospel
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TRACEY TRANCE “101” cassette $6
This hand held saga of life on the road is comprised of multiple treatments of three distinctly different tunes, as well as several vignettes of other song skeletons. Heavily saturated locomotives rip holes through the tape heads and quick cassette deck to cassette deck edits act as the scene changers, as we follow Tracey Trance to the chiller zones of modern society, found under bridges, along the capes, the coasts and the rivers of the West Coast of the US. This cassette marks the transition from Tracey Trance’s mostly instrumental, hypno -circular modal compositions, to a more vocally structured form of songwriting, and these sketchy hog leg laden tunes are none the less infectious than previous riff oriented offerings. For those of you that have been following live and or magnetically captured sounds of Tyler Larson for a while now, think Tyler’s early 2000’s project Quincy Quartz and that’ll get you close to knowing what this may sound like. I might compare the root styling’s of Tyler’s vocal inflection to that of a less blues obsessed Jad Fair. Lo-fi, just as much because of the means at hand, as aesthetic value of the artist. Covers Risograph printed by Caroline Paquita.” – trd w/d
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Ancestral Diet “V.I.T.R.I.O.L.” 12″ $12
“Caethua and Debbie Diaper have been teaming up off air well before Thursday and tend to use those nights of their radio show INSIDE OUTSIDER SOUNDS to wind down after the week has just flown by. Put to tape and assembled in the last months of their sorely missed studio, WALKING ON ICE. Layers of loops and vocal sound forms, A.D. illustrate for the listeners a spelunking holiday that goes on a little too long, just a little bit further, the mouth is just around that corner. A small light illuminates a small cavern just fine. What did you see? Featuring Andy Neubauer of Impractical Cockpit, Doggerella Decided Upon, Flak Mask, Curtain Call, Uke of Spaces etc, and Caethua of Sports, Uke of Spaces Corners and SAX WAND fame.” – trd w/d
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Altered Gee “Rise From Yr Grave” LP $12
“Back in the closing days of 2011, a weird little tape (called European Gees) found its way into my review pile. After seeing its Altered Beast-inspired cover and laundry list of funny song titles, I thought, “What the hell could this be?” Of course, I had to put it in my stereo right away to find out, which quickly shifted my thoughts to “Holy shit! Where have you been all my life!?” Starting then, I wanted everyone to hear this odd little wonder that I was lucky enough to get my hands on. Playing something that falls halfway between video game music and late-80s/early-90s R&B, Altered Gee labelled their instrumental alchemy “G-funk instrumentals,” and honestly, I still can’t think of a better way to describe it. At any rate, I was really glad to find out that this Maine-based duo, now calling themselves Roach Dad and Young Prince individually, are back again with Rise From Yr Grave, another crushing collection of music on appropriately heavy vinyl. And its cover happens to look like it came out of a Sega game. I wholly approve of both moves.
As with their last album, Altered Gee build a unique sound from vintage synths (Siel OR 400, Roland Alpha Juno 2, Moog Taurus II) and drum machine (E-mu SP-1200). However, you get the sense that the duo has really refined its sound in the time since their last release. It’s definitely the same band, but the individual members have grown. The arrangements are tighter and more complex, and they seem to have dedicated themselves to bringing out new sounds and atmospheres from their instruments.
Rise From Yr Grave opens with its title track featuring a sample from the Altered Beast game, saying “rise from your grave,” naturally. The song rises up (see what I did there?) from a solid foundation of driving beats and a propulsive synth bass line, on top of which layers of synths bring melody, accents and rhythmic complexity. Put it all together and you have one solid dance jam.
Hearing the next song, “Gawdz Hands,” I don’t think it’s any coincidence that one of the guys calls himself ‘Young Prince,’ since it takes a few cues from the Purple One’s ’80s playbook. The swirling synth riff on this song sounds like one of Prince’s extended, virtuoso guitar solos, if he replaced his axe with a keytar. Even the background and rhythms of this one seem like they would be right at home in the same context.
“Young Guns Who Hate Holsters” (winner of the song title of the album award) is one part frenetic drum machine, one part fast synth riff, and one part Moog atmospherics. Together it morphs into an ear-filling, bizarro, retro club tune. Next up is “Dukes of Stagger,” a propulsive tune that lives up to its title. The synths and drum beats swirl in and out, just barely hanging on to the rhythm, but somehow never falling completely out of step with it. It’s like the song is staggeringly drunk, mind and body just the slightest bit out of sync, though they can still move forward.
There seems to be a spiritual divide between the two sides of this album, which, I might add, are elegantly labeled “A Side” and “G Side.” The first side is more frenetic, but the second digs into more chilled-out sonic spaces. Opening with “Gold Chain,” you definitely get the idea that this is the after party half of the record. The music is still incredibly layered and complex, but it feels much more spacious as individual synth sounds stretch out a little bit longer for a more head-bobbing vibe. “Slipper the Finger” is up next, and for my money it’s the stand-out of the entire album. This is everything you want in a laid-back Moog jam, conjuring up the magic of Parliament-Funkadelic along with every rap group that managed to sample them to good effect. The real clincher here is how the Moog is perfectly complimented by both a solid beat and a delicate electric piano riff, creating something groovy and strangely sexy. Whereas “Slipper the Finger” was languid and loose, the next tune “Lost Hit” is tightly syncopated with sharp drum and synth attacks brought together in tight rhythmic bursts for maximum effect. While not as wild as some of the A Side, it manages to harness some of that energy to bring the album to a fitting close.
Rise From Yr Grave is the perfect follow-up to Altered Gee’s début in that it sees them pushing their sound in new directions while still hanging onto the magic that made them so good in the first place. They’re still original, they still seem to have a sense of humor about them (those song titles!), and, most importantly, they still make some killer music. If you have yet to be introduced to the amazing world of Altered Gee’s G-funk instrumentals, quit wasting your time and check out this record.” (secret decoder review) – L’Animaux Tryst Field Recordings
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Tracey Trance “Pyper Kub” LP $12
“In today’s world of “internet presence,” the music of Tracey Trance is as “real people” as it gets. When Tracey (AKA Tyler, longtime resident of Hangtown, USA) does happen to get on a computer, it’s only to spin rainbow colored poetry to a friend or figure out the next spot he’s gonna park his truck. Although he’s been granted releases on such taste making labels as Not Not Fun and Night People, he’s turned in lo-fi home recordings that are difficult to pin down in any one time, place or genre. Pyper Kub will be his debut long playing vinyl and it is a startling and heartfelt departure from the hypnagogic keyboard recordings that many have enjoyed over the last few years. This is a song based record, focusing mainly on guitar, bass and vocals. There’s a little Slang Tang, some serious wah-wah, a dollop of Joe Walsh circa But Seriously, Folks… and there’s a lot of Tyler’s odd, elfish spirit. A collection of road songs that play out in some sort 70s mirror universe. This record has a way of growing on you, and I’ve played my copy of the original ultra-limited cassette release countless times. Nifty vinyl co-release with Trd W/d, Hot Releases, Feeding Tube Records, Faux Pas Recordings, L’animaux Tryst & Canada Goose Tapes. One time edition of 700 copies on cream colored vinyl.” – L’Animaux Tryst Field Recordings
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Drab Pony “Bulbul” cassette $6
“Bulbul, the debut tape from Drab Pony on L’animaux Tryst (Field) Recordings is a deep listener’s kind of tape. Drab Pony articulates its vision with loops and samples. The soundscapes are infused with shimmering guitar parts and elements of musique concrete. The variegated bud, bursting with purple, orange, green among other hues correspond to the varying atmospheres of the tape. Without any type of aural perforation, the quiescent, serene drones and tones of side D elevate the listener into the ether, where waves of resonant guitar are interwoven with feedback. Just like Olive Oyl, there is tremendous amount of ideas and depth to this tape. First, side D and P are both dynamic, meticulously-crafted compositions that reward the attentive listener. The subtle introduction, departure, and reappearance of sonic elements throughout the tape – especially the first part of side D – make the tracks sound anything but inert. Additionally, the composition throughout is excellent. Both sides form slowly through the introduction of various layers and ideas. On side D, a serene, pulsating drone seizes the listener’s head – perfect music for conscious breathing. Gradually, incipient transmissions become audible from the periphery. Fluctuating, voluminous tones interspersed with soft rhythms move into attention before departing and reappearing – lovely! Side P is just as delightful as buzzing low-ends combine intriguingly with elements of musique concrete and reverberating tones. Reverb-soaked guitar rings into the air, accentuating the mysterious vibrations. Dark, voluminous tones are a harbinger to a section of feedback. Just as the writhing feedback reaches its apex, it fades out and is concurrently followed by a part suffused with luminous, tranquil energy – quite beautiful and an apt ending to this magnificent tape.” (honest bag review) – L’Animaux Tryst Field Recordings
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Haunted Houses “Self Title” cassette $6
“”…distended mystical folk songs, battered tremelo guitar in the back corner of a room, slow-stomp swamp drums, and that signature soulful yelp of LoPilato that is reminiscent of early Isaac Brock.” – No Kings Record Co.
“The dark lyrical themes and blown out guitar drones give off some uneasy vibes, which only made me like it more…” – Cassette Gods
“LoPilato tackles heady topics such as the “inner realms” of consciousness and how “the power of the beyond is within ourselves.” – Boy Attractions ” – Marmara Records
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Jezzebeam s/t cassette $6
“”Cockrell appears to be reaching out for something experimental from his own perspective, and that simple pursuit has gently landed him amongst these hazily lulling atmospheric qualities that often lend themselves to the compositions to create uniquely quaquaversal sound structures.” – Sage Weatherford, HeathenHarvest.org ” – Marmara Records
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THE DREEBS “HUMILIATION EP” 1-sided 12″ $12
“Brooklyns shattered rust three piece The Dreebs relive the dream on this one sided 12″. Well known for their extended Feldman meets “The End” esq charred urban ragas The Dreebs opt for thin cut velvet tinted night trips on the Humiliation EP. With the song craft in the forefront & the fidelity’s brought out of the vhs tape fuzz “Humiliation” shines a brighter light & brings a closer focus on the groups cracked mirror polydeath gutter hymns. Tracked in Baltimore & mixed in Brooklyn by PC Worship’s J. Frye this disc is like seeing the flash reflections sputter & spin on the inside of a pair of closed eyelids. An otherworldly group to check out live The Dreebs reconstruct & plow fields unknown with an intense authority & density. Bittered, lush, & ripped The Dreebs “Humiliation” is their own fabric unwoven. Limited pressing of 150, highly recommended.” -company
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HUBBLE “MINGLE” 7″ $5
“Ben Greenberg unveils his newest charcoaled & curved primitive dervishes on this ping pong stereo one-take acoustic Hubble effort. When he’s not out globetrotting with his band The Men, Greenberg’s Hubble project feels like the jeweled shrine of a veteran road-worn head. Meditative, acute, & unrelenting this disc’s gift to the listener is the expansion of the medium itself. Darting in & out of prismed paths & tangled blissed folkways of new new york the two cuts on the “Mingle” act as cardinal directions to the “here” of now & the even more present “here” of now. Deep. Based in Brooklyn, NY Hubble appearances are rare & highly commanding. Like pouring moonshine into the pond of an inner city park “Mingle” is a memory, a ritual, & a celebration. Hyper instinctual & definitively American this disc is a pressing of 300. Grip it.” –
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DJ DJ TANNER “SIREN” cassette $6
“Part 5: But you do have to go to work today and of course it’s chaotic on this particular day. Those bass beats boom out like a hammer, and the copy machine sounds like a synthesizer. But then you get off work, and it feels great because you are off work, like better than it would had you suddenly realized you had the whole day off while sitting on your couch. You listen to music really loud and drive home like it’s summer, but the sun sets quickly and it’s night before you even realize it. ” – warm gospel
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Lockbox “Passion Beam” cassette $6
“…like smoking a hash oil pen in a parking lot on your break, things REALLY don’t change that quickly or vastly. But I’ve come to expect that as a music listener. I want more, and I want it fresh. So, what I’m trying to describe here is the difference between creative input and critical critique. As well, the only internet “sensation” is, like, Mark ZuckerBANG or, like, the person/people who invented it. When I see someone’s tweet or Facebook status online, I care as much as I scroll over it. Just like this post here, potentially. I have no doubt most people will scroll over this here writing so they can scope new music. Word. Word. In the end, does ambition trump talent?” -C Monster, Tiny Mix Tapes ” – warm gospel
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KM/MC/TR/RC/BBJr // Juxwl Split cassette $6
“Label collaboration split with Personal Archives. Recorded live at Zeitgeiest 2012, a noise festival in Boone, IA, this split contains the entire Juxwl set plus 5-way noise jam session wherein aspects of 4 different local noise and drone bands were combined to achieve something larger than the sum of its parts, which included synthesizers, drums, a saxophone, and various electronics. Recording by Matt Dake. ” – warm gospel
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Skyscraper // DJ DJ TANNER “Halloween” Split cassette $6
“For whatever reason, Halloween and Christmas are the only 2 holidays fully represented by the kind of garbage vinyl one finds littered all over the dusty shelves of thrift stores. To us, it’s gold. Repurposing the cheesy sounds of our parent’s childhoods, through mountains of effect pedals and tape hiss, we manage to turn the silver age of baby boomers into the second round of the dark ages. ” – warm gospel
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DJ DJ TANNER “CONSUMER” cassette $6
“Part 4: Your phone wakes you up as that really relaxing guitar alarm pierces through your shell of sleep and fades slowly into your eardrums. And you get up, realizing you don’t have anything to eat in the house, so you throw on a long jacket and drive through the residential streets to grocery store. Everyone seems so awake. Why do you seem so asleep? ” – warm gospel
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Skyscraper “Worn Gospel” cassette $6
“I started Warm Gospel with the idea of recreating the oldest trends in hymnals and gospel music using current techniques in noise, drone, and electronic music. This Skyscraper release is the closest I’ve come to pinpointing that exact vision. Chapel ceilings crumble as the choir sends the vibrations from harmonies upwards into the ceiling beams. And after the entire church has fallen into rubble, a warm light seems to reflect off the once hallowed stone and woodwork. ” – warm gospel
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DJ DJ Tanner “IDOL” cassette $6
““Here we go loop-de-loop!” Part 3 in the series feels familiar; like déjà vu, but not in a comfortable way. After the reel is just another reel. What are you so worried about? Have another drink, the night is far from over, although I know you were thinking about going home anyway. But the music starts to slow down. Not in tempo, but like its stretching, sagging downward, and you hear voices right next to you. ” – warm gospel
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Alan Gesso “Obliscence” cassette $6
“Step through into Alan’s world. Enrobed in his holographic panoply he glides through his garden as if digital liquid. Unperturbed he shears through the variable living surface of A/D converters that constitutes his visible realm into pure ROM space. Hands on the keyboard, he turns to smile, and you disappear. ” – field studies
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ZERFALLT “Ritual Systems” cassette $6
“Fetid ouija electronics via L?V?L Tindall (Astronaut, GRYD, Belarisk). Seated at the left hand of the blind Ydl the exalted Zonemaster prepares the final admixture. Wracked with fever, sonic apparitions hovering at the doors of perception, the Sign impressed on both palms, the congregant awakes in the dark dimension. Location unknown ” – field studies
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Daniel Wyche “A Judicious Observation…” cassette $6
“A nameless solid of infinite mass. A living construct of exquisite artifice, ceaselessly, invisibly reordering its inner structure without sign or command. An array of tone generators and voltage-controlled signal processors at his disposal, Daniel Wyche endeavors to break through its featureless exterior at substantial volume. ” – field studies
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Brett Naucke “Home By Now” cassette $6
“In an instant Presence wells around you. Naucke (Face Worker, Catholic Tapes) moves deftly through this suite of ambient works, filling the stereo field with dense timbral structures, transcending placid drift through a series of oblique compositional transforms. Resounding polyphony gathers and crests, interrupted by radiophonic counterpoint, reforming, and finally resolving into an alive, dynamic stillness. ” – field studies
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YEK KOO “Love Song for the Dead C” LP $12
“Released to coincide with her installation at Human Resources Gallery in Los Angeles as the first part of her musical hagiographies series (more info on that project here) ‘Love Song For The Dead C’ is a procession of drunkenly stumbling conceptual experiments. Between its humble paste-on sleeves swarms a double LPs worth of ideas crammed into a single LP, tumbling over each other in strange shapes. Bookended by two renditions of a Persian love song (one sung in Farsi, one in English) that trade in the same echoing confusion as her recent Alone Together 7″, ‘Love Song For The Dead C’ belongs to the tradition of the great outsider sides of the early 90’s (Twin Infinitives, Market Square, Harsh 70’s Reality) more than it does to anything of this desperately conformist epoch. Like those records it has a purity of form resulting from an individual working to tie the knots of the past into the shape of a personal present, outside of scene or market concerns. In ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’ dissonant chiming slowly unfurls into a vast chasm of sound over a mesmeric nine minutes. A disorienting or disoriented guitar wafts through a wah-ed swirl of delay and distant Dead C samples in ‘Rose The Provider’. ‘The Top Is The Bottom’ is a harrowing slow-motion crawl through alleys and sewers of room tone as captured by the tunnel-vision fidelity of the trademark Yek Koo dictaphone. This is living, breathing, human music – no ringtones, no product placement – just heart, tears and breath, easy and free. Edition of 288, with handmade bootleg style paste-on covers. Mastered by Sean McCann. ” – emerald cocoon
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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma “Faceless Kiss / Blut Mond” 7″ $5
“Jefre’s guitar beams directly down from Souvlaki Space Station and arrives gorgeously mangled via modular synthesizer. Romantically haloed chorus guitar floats widescreen across relentless static drum machines until the sky splits open in the final movement, spilling burning guitar fragments over everything. This same pink-out bliss was explored on his ‘Love Is A Stream’ LP on Type Records, only here it’s simultaneously more unapologetically pop and more aggressive. The B-side, ‘Blut Mond’ is a bass-heavy covert floater – night sky music. Fittingly enough the closing statement of the first round of our Alone Together series is the one that wants to draw you close and to fall gently asleep with you. Sound is bliss. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is of course a member of Tarental and The Alps, a regular collaborator with experimental film maker Paul Clipson and founder of the esteemed Root Strata label. Edition of 300, mastered by Pete Swanson. ” – emerald cocoon
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Pete Swanson “High Time / Trees” 7″ $5
“Pete Swanson’s love for the New Zealand underground is no secret (rumour has it that he engineered the entire Yellow Swans New Zealand tour of 2005 just so he could procure a copy of The Pin Group ‘Goes To Town’ 12″), so we were pleasantly unsurprised when Pete turned in two re-imaginings of classic NZ underground tracks as his contribution to the Alone Together series. What surprised us greatly though was the form that they took: sparkling acoustic guitar, audible vocals, audible room tone – this was a Pete Swanson we’d never heard before. Although his signature degradation systems are still in place (both sides end with a blown-out acoustic guitar emulating dirty-needled distortion), acoustic strings, four walls and a voice dominate, dislocated just enough to give you the sense that the world ends at your bedroom walls. This is a sound that shouldn’t be unfamiliar to anyone previously baptised by 4-track channelled lathe transmissions from the bottom of the world. The dusty gems re-interpreted here are ‘High Time’ by seminal Christchurch kvltists Dadamah (originally released as a 7″ on the genius Majora label circa ’91) and ‘Trees’ from Gate’s recent downer-techno masterpiece ‘A Republic Of Sadness’, both are redolent of the darkest, coldest Dunedin winter as imagined from half a world away. Edition of 300. ” – emerald cocoon
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MHFS “The Grey Lynn Homeless Set” 7″ $5
“New Zealand-born Tokyo-based physicist Mark Sadgrove aka MHFS aka Hometown Feilding has been quietly upsetting petty notions like ‘music’ since 2004 when his ‘West Auckland Driving Songs’ CDR barely drifted onto the scene via Campbell Kneale’s Celebrate Psi Phenomena label. From the start all the hallmarks were in place: site specific recordings, lyrical domesticity, systematically illogical recording choices, an acoustic guitar strung only with low Es (his favorite string – who wouldn’t want more of a good thing?), invented instruments, real-time linux csound programming, obsessively repeated lyrical fragments, an almost Buddhist sense of ‘sound as object’, songs buried so quietly under so much hiss that even the most jaded ‘difficult music’ fans double checked their players to make sure something wasn’t broken. In 2006 Metal Rouge played their first ever show (at the Wine Cellar in Auckland, New Zealand) which also doubled as Helga’s farewell party for her imminent departure back home to the US. MHFS was asked to play, but busy at work on his PhD thesis (‘Resonant Quantum Transport for Kick Atoms’) was unable to make it and handed us ‘The Grey Lynn Homeless Set’ to be played over the PA in lieu of an in-person performance. Billed as a ‘special non-appearance by MHFS’, Saturday night bar patrons were subjected to completely brutalized fragments of bone-dry pointillist guitar, seemingly random electronic beats jumping across the stereo spectrum and two sub sub sub low fidelity acoustic ‘folk’ songs buried under masses of hiss and digital haze – the only audible lyrics something about being ‘fucking angry’. I wish I could say the bar regulars stopped in their tracks, stunned by the sheer alien illogic of the misshapen audio tumbling from the bar PA, but alas… Most punters just assumed the PA was on the fritz and went back to their drinks – those sounds couldn’t possibly be intentional, right? Emerald Cocoon is now proud to present ‘The Grey Lynn Homeless Set’ in it’s short and confusing entirety. Check your cables, check your speakers – beauty has never sounded so broken. Part 4 of the ‘Alone Together’ series. Mastered by Pete Swanson. Edition of 300. ” – emerald cocoon
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Looks Realistic “Where Does It Come From?” cassette $6
“Joseph Bastardo and Ryan Mulhall erase the earth from all directions, drawing in a home where mountains grow, rainbows bow, and melodies play throughout the land.” -constellation tatsu
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Fluorescent Heights “Tidal Motions” cassette $6
“A hue technicolor and dominant. The sun is here, but we are not here, permanently folded by the sun’s vacation-pebbles that radiate like floating metal. What do they do?.” -constellation tatsu
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GREYGHOST “Memoirs of Dementia” cassette $6
“Controlling your heartbeat, peace pervades your space, bringing with it clarity and new life to the stillness of the indoors. Tones coalesce, lazily see-saw, and gallop away — rumbling out through the walls..” -constellation tatsu
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Hobo Cubes & Jonathan Carr split cassette $6
“Trudging through the choking darkness of an uncertain cavern, Hobo Cubes brings warm lights to forgotten sensations. Then along comes Jonathan James Carr with a continuum of transient beauties in this organically flowing work..” -constellation tatsu
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Perspectives/Josh Mason split cassette $6
“After excavating concurrent sonic paths for the past decade, ancient friends Josh Mason, Josh Tippery and Kyle Conklin have finally come together on this tape; almost like they planned it this way all along… Perspectives present a slightly more developed sound than we are accustomed, while Josh Mason continues to fiddle with space-time, vibrating us into the next plane.
reversible inserts & label art by Josh Mason. mastering & dubs by permanent nostalgia HQ. Edition of 48″ – permanent nostalgia
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ROYALLEN/LLANTEN split cassette $6
“Blessed recoveries from the minister himself. This track may or may not count as a cultural anthropology credit. Deep tribal lucidities with an impenetrable flow. Premier release from Llanten (a.k.a. Fill Spectrum)” – rotifer
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Stephen Molyneux “The Stars Are the Light Show” cassette $6
“Stephen Molyneux offers us here thirteen capriciously lovely and haunting songs. Distinct with a southern bewitching charm, a buried estate home transforms to a field expedition to distant lands. These ancestral memories point to a hybrid history. They seduce with a facade of whimsy, but they will leave an indelible mark. Tape art by Lynn Fister. Watercolor printed on j-card with unique collage work on each. Pro-dubbed chrome tape with kelly green shell. Limited to 75.” – watery starve
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Ryan Jewell “Infinite Light” cassette $6
“Ryan Jewell’s astral audition of Furniture Music and study in clairaudience develops through the serene modulations of its reflective, percussive bowing. Part I is an ember of yogic minimalism and cantabile, Part II is the slight return” – dungeon taxis
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Pak “Cast Shadow” cassette $6
“Artifact miniatures of choral filament and cardiac thump dunked in impish mains buzz and cyclic nice gunk. Lauren Pakradooni’s palimpsest of crawly melody is kindled in fungal medley, lattice of ooze. Entropy in the mouth of the earworm.” – dungeon taxis
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Witchuals cassette $6
. “Chrome hymn zone of nonstop doo-wop detourn by celestial grouches, LA Lakers and I.R.D. Laryngeal juice, fake rataplan, and Kyrie gunk in praise of The Honeycombs, Chordettes and Sharades.” – dungeon taxis
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Permanent Bedhead “Devolution Walkabout” cassette $6
“After sides on Sacred Phrases and Hobo Cult, Permanent Bedhead returns with a full length tape of deep mind music. Scott Johnson intuits his machines, producing immersive environments, abstract, yet terrestrial soundscapes that stretch off into a distance.” – cave recordings
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Mole Hole “Yurt Transmission” cassette $6
“Grainy document of a live solo performance, developed as part of an art installation at The Soap Factory Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. “Yurt Transmission” captures nearly a full hour of slow electronic drift and low-fi isolationism. Local artists Jess Hirsch and Beth Chekola joined forces to produce an indoor climate as part of the Northern Spark Arts festival. Jess filled the space with a set of stunning laser-cut “labyrinth” area carpets, and Beth cobbled together a beautiful open air shelter, or “yurt” built from recycled and abandoned home furniture. Select local sound artists were asked to perform inside the developed space for the event, providing obscure sonic tapestries to accompany the remarkable visual aspects of the space. Matthew Himes played an extremely minimal solo set comprised of waveform signal generator, magnetic tape manipulation, gong & bell percussion, and analog ribbon synth. Fully melted waves of transcendent murk meditation. Very pure sound. Originally released in a tiny private edition, this work has been given a new breath of life with this graciously public printing. Real time duplicated white shell cassette comes packaged with striking double sided yellow and black “Labyrinth” art paper J-card w/ matching yellow and black labels and printed white vellum insert in a clear Norelco case. Room sound soliloquy, tape warmth and profound warble tone for supremely heavy lids.” – lighten up sounds
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Sindre Bjerga “Radiant Flux” cassette $6
“Majestic balance burns through damaged synapse. Entrancing electro-acoustic scratch, long form isolationism and cavernous tape-drone meditation from Sindre Bjerga, who should need no introduction after his prolific string of releases on various labels across the underground spectrum. With “Radiant Flux”, Bjerga provides a well matched pair of profound live documents from his recent live actions in Norway. Broken tone acrobatics and crinkled tape stew, garble and wallow in the hopeless gurgle ditch. Side A was recorded live in Public Library! Each side features the same gear setup and deliberate sonic approach, yielding two obviously related but distinctly separate audio tapestries. An impulsive trance nod off, slashed silk. Pure room-sound environments! Real time duplicated bright yellow opaque shell cassette with printed bright yellow labels comes beautifully packaged inside custom fabricated machine-sewn plastic envelopes, featuring original full color/translucent collage art by M.H. with a hand-numbered printed vellum insert. Frozen fire shines brightly, an everlasting shard of light.” – lighten up sounds
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Saviour Self/Grab Ass Cowboys split cassette $6
“This split tape features two of the Albany/Hudson area’s most vital noise crews. Saviour Self is a duo from Hudson NY that works with mixers and pedals and various sound sources; the resulting sound is a distinct amalgam of patient dynamics and harsh textures. Albany’s Grab Ass Cowboys use tape recorders, home-rigged microphones, percussive devices, and an array of pedals to create their sounds. This live piece from May 2012 is a killer example of their style, explosive and cacophonous in some parts and restrained and almost pretty in other parts. Each side smokes, can’t wait to see where both these crews are headed next….. Edition of 50” – skell
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Skullorian Sound Sculptures cassette $6
“Thomas Gerendas has been a busy man this year. While handling the artwork for Ghetto Naturalist Series (the outstanding label that he runs with Cruudeuces’ Nathaniel Brennan), he’s also managed to drop a solid collab tape with Sicsic Tapes headman Daniel Voigt. Here Gerendas returns under his more familiar alias of Skullorian, bringing forth 60 minutes of his trademark murky, scuzzy noise trickery. Sounds appear and disappear, they float and stumble together, and it all flows like liquid concrete. Before long, the tape is finished, and all that’s left are the questions…. Edition of 50, pro-dubbed.” – skell
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Mortuus Auris and the Black Hand “The Transit of Venus” cassette $6
“Peter Taylor’s Mortuus Auris and the Black Hand project has been responsible for an intricate and unique body of work over the last few years. Outstanding releases on fine labels like Stunned and Reverb Worship have shown Taylor to be a clever and thoughtful manipulator of sound. On “the Transit of Venus” MABH creates an extended sonic ritual for the planet Venus that blends elements both old and new, giving the listener a deep look into a challenging, blissful, and well-ordered musical system. Accordion and warped vinyl and pitch-shifted tapes and electric organ all combine in forms that confound all expectations and yield a deeply meditative listening experience. Edition of 50, pro-dubbed ” – skell
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Urkas “Desert Shapes” cassette $6
“This is Urkas’ third release, and on it the duo of Russ Alderson (Xanthocephalus) and Mike Griffin (Parashi, Burnt Hills) continue to improvise dense, abstract soundscapes generated from bass, a variety of junk percussion, and modular synth. Within these pieces desolate areas expand and open up endlessly, only to suddenly contract and reveal themselves as labyrinths of mysterious design. Edition of 50, pro-dubbed ” – skell
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Fossils from the Sun vs. Parashi/Xanthocephalus split cassette $6
“As a member of Burnt Hills and Century Plants Ray Hare’s journeys into the deepest realms of guitar and vocal-based noise psych have inspired and impressed; while his long-running solo project FfrtheSun has released material on labels like Reverb Worship, Digitalis, and Peasant Magik. Parashi’s Mike Griffin unleashed a slew of material in 2011, on labels such as Stunned, Tape Drift, and Ghetto Naturalist Series before joining Burnt Hills midway through the year. Their soundclash uses guitar, synth, and voice to brew an amalgam that drones, scrapes, and creeps its way through a side-long 17-minute ride.
Xanthocephalus is helmed by Brooklyn’s Russ Aldertone, who released outstanding material on Kendra Steiner Editions and Ghetto Naturalist Series in 2011. He combines elements of harsh noise, field recordings, and occasionally furious bass playing, mixed together with a healthy sense of restraint amidst the chaos. COYE is a molten slagheap of sonics, powerful, menacing, and unique. Pro-dubbed, color covers, lurking in the unseen matter of the universe. Art manipulation by Julie Watts. Edition of 50.” – skell
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Cruudeuces “Various Skin Figurines” cassette $6
“Cruudeuces’ Nathaniel Brennan is a conjurer; utilizing tapes, percussion, clarinet, and various bits of electromagnetic interference, he creates cleverly detailed and utterly bleak zones of sound. After a slew of releases on labels like Kimberly Dawn, Tape Drift, his own Ghetto Naturalist Series imprint, and Existential Cloth, Brennan has a large and impressive body of work. On Various Skin Figurines, he uses a subtle palette, with thick and crunchy low-end tones balanced by swirling clouds of tape noise and darkness–the results are astounding. So happy to put this one out! Pro-dubbed, color covers, ready to disturb sleep cycles and create vague feelings of dread. Art manipulation by Julie Watts, edition of 50 ” – skell
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PARASHI/CRUUDEUCES split cassette $6
“Tons of GREAT recent output from Mike Griffin- all around busy busy – textured to the max on these 2 trks – prepare to get swallowed, every time. PARASHI offers up the balanced spectrum here- KILLER! CRUU side is “outdoor activities 6″ –field source material and reeds- settle in, zone out, dial in, drop out” – ghetto naturalist series
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seziki-tetrasheaf/quiet evenings split LP $12
rotifer
review and clips here: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-quiet-evenings-seziki-tetrasheaf-split-lp
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digital natives / seziki tetrasheaf split 2xcs $12
“The palmetto boys broke the heat and have landed on the west coast. To inaugurate these festivities, we present Plaid Lake’s finest to date, with 85 suasive minutes featuring such jams as ‘Mouther of the Incas’ and ‘Clops’ (see below). This marks the start of a new era. Full color covers & numbered inserts with accommodating track titles. Professionally duplicated on type II, chrome cassettes. Imprinting artwork by Juli Toro” -rotifer
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Innercity “Another Hard New Age” cassette $6
“And as it is, right there in front of here, trickles of “Distant Absence” flutter only senses. Nothing that surreal, or nothing. Just, in a waved motion. Something across — thick, but pure. Not in a gesture, pumping vigorously, light arises, peaking in through “OH!” those fucking cracks, creaking. Wish there was something more clean to “Life Live.” Seeing it right there, like a dream, and you’re not the one whispering because your mouth is clenched. White light tearing through now. Now and right there; here. Half-full, yet flooded already, and most of the time it’s just “Another Hard New Age.” Yet every age, no? How about the rocks and sticks and shit? Their age and grass and air, seeds, water. Prior music and natural sounds. Habitat on habitat, blending and fucking fast for fuss. Fuss and mystery. Mystery for source of light. Ra! Into the future. Again, roughly always and forward. Touch the cleanse. Feel it inside of your inside. Tubular. Everything comes rushing out in colors and streams, nothing solid or concrete, just all evacuation. Retreat//shine\become. Absorb Another Hard New Age. ” -rotifer (tiny mix tapes review)
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Tidal “Echo Dawn” cassette $6
“In the world of endless, immersive and wide-eyed synth drone, Tidal, UK’s Jimmy Billingham, runs with the best of ‘em. His releases have always been on the sunnier side of things – setting him apart from some of his sinister, darker minded peers – but on Echo Dawn, Billingham has created a true summer vacation of a tape. Pop this one in the deck and be swept away to a tropical island, all lapping shores and cooing seagulls with a smiling sun leaving its orange glow on everything. An absolute treat – just relax and let it wash over you.” -rotifer (review from here)“
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V/A “INSCRIPTIONS VOL. 2” 2x 70 Minute Cassette $12
“Sacred Phrases has compiled an apogee of contributing artists’ work… again. Inscriptions Volume 2 is a compilation that emphasizes the communal nature of music. Each track, heard individually, stands alone. When played as a compilation each track is brand new and together lead the listener on a journey like none before. This distinct aesthetic, which focuses on each track and the end effect produces a candid listening experience that takes the listener beyond the physical universe. Limited edition of 150.

Tracklist:
Tape 1
Quiet Evenings – Heights (8:38) Buchikamashi – Mujo (Transience) (6:54) Code: Suite 104 – Traps (2:47) Enumclaw – Kuxan Suum (8:31) M. Geddes Gengras – Untitled (3:40) Pierrot Lunaire – Grinning Mirror (4:20) Nite Lite – Accipiter (6:20) Fallen Axe – Endangered Love (2:57) Hakobune – Sazanami (5:38) Dr. Sean Gadoury – Siamese Alarm Cat (7:36) Gimu – Light Pillars (6:44) Sky Thing – Burried in the Attic (5:46)

Tape 2
Kyle Landstra – Headgrove (7:00) Dry Valleys – Natural Philosophers (5:30) Middle Kingdom – Fires in the Sky (6:50) Mohave Triangles – Star Gazer (5:01) Peyote Cristal – Underwater Mantra (5:07) Ophibre – Lactobacillus (5:14) Aerial Jungle – Table of Geodes (3:10) Venn Rain – Carried on the Wind (7:29) Black Velvet Stereo – Bad Noise 19 (5:24) Reedbeds – Motion Across (6:05) Sound Out Light – A Small Hole in the Sky (5:14) DJ Ecto Cooler – School’s Out, Maggots (7:20) ” -sacred phases
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Evan Lindorff-Ellery/Chapels split cassette $6
“Evan Lindorff-Ellery (Dense Reduction, Notice Recordings) and Adam Richards (Chapels, House of Alchemy) are two major figures in experimental music. Their eclectic, yet impeccable labels display their open ears and subtle understanding of sound. Likewise, their respective music projects have incredible depth and range. Evan’s piece, while a departure from the field recordings presented on past recordings, is no less intriguing as it takes on the domestic landscape of an apartment and the activity within. Evan is a master at collecting and assembling novel textures and timbres: objects can be heard quivering to life as a hive of activity builds and thickens to an almost overwhelming climax. Chapel’s side blends together home and live recordings into a dark, reverberating collage. Wolves howl as mysterious movements echo in a space that is at once a forest teeming with nocturnal rustling, and an abandoned building occupied by participants of some strange rite..” -cave recordings
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The Ether Staircase “III” cassette $6
“The saga continues on our third full-length tape which pulls together recordings made last winter and presents some odd gems. Side A is a dust devil, swirling together thrift store tapes while several keyboards of unknown origin struggle to navigate the murk. Side B is a slow burning epic that Ben thinks sounds like a primeval forest, while I would put the whole thing at the bottom of the ocean..” -cave recordings
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BLACK VELVET STEREO “METAL RAIN MACHINE” cassette $6
“Focused compositions that help guide the listener to realization. Bone-chilling at times, but warm enough to melt the sun. Clicks, buzzes, and mic sounds find their way in and out of this trip. limited edition of 100.” -sacred phases
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SPIRIT CATEPETL “LAI KHUR” cassette $6
“These tracks take the listeners on a post-ritual journey in the form of astral story telling. The listener is inserted into raw and mesmerizing, but obscured, strings accentuated by grainy electronics, which transport them on this late-night odyssey. limited edition of 100, art by adam.” -sacred phases
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Cursillistas “Observe Ember Weeks” LP $13
“Observe Ember Weeks is the final Cursillistas “studio” album, momentarily lost to time as Herbcraft took flight, now seeing a brief light-of-day. Written, recorded, and mixed concurrently with Wasp Stings (Digitalis), Joint Chiefs (Digitalis), and several small-run/tour-only releases between 2007-2009, O.E.W. touches on elements and styles of all these while also marking a return to a more song-based rural folk psychedelia. Nylon-string minor-key folk-pop commingles with naive noise experiments, breathless first-take improvisation, multi-tracked “full band” jams, wah’ed fuzz guitar abandon, electric slide glide, heavy tom-thumps & tambourine shakes, all presented with Cursillistas’ trademark rich reverb treatment and multi-layered vocals. This is perhaps the peak Cursillistas experience in all its bedroom glory, the fitting final chapter to a project that never stayed still for too long, and the definitive collection of the tunes that made up much of Cursillistas’ live set from 2007-2009. Deluxe 150-gram virgin black vinyl held in a 4-color, 5-layer silkscreened art paper jacket, with two-sided full-color pro-printed glossy heavy stock insert, hand-numbered to 225.” -l’animaux tryst recordings
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Cuticle “Mother Rhythm Earth Memory” LP $13
“When Cuticle CEO Brendan O’Keefe said he wanted his most recent 12 inch to be titled in honor of other 4-word acronym-ready masterpieces (like RHCP’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik, what’s her name’s Love Angel Music Baby, etc) we were obviously on board. So now we can add Mother Rhythm Earth Memory to this illustrious list, and it’s a suitably lofty robo rubik’s cube of electric glide, daft crunk, and digital riddling. Right from the start it’s clear this is a new Cuticle creature – gone is the compressed, post-noise overdrive production of last year’s Confectioner’s Beats EP, replaced by a gleaming, fiber optic resonance. “Liquid Crystal Drink (Pour My Dream)” sets the mood: a synthetic funk shuffle decorated with echo keys and computer-smeared vocoder vox that slowly submerges into a gurgling pool of malfunctioning circuits before resurrecting like a Herbie Hancock jam teleported into the Tron mainframe. That’s not the only strangeway stacked in this deck; there’s also cyber-jungle dub excursions (“Document Leak”), waterfall temple healing music (“Trickle”), and even a fucking Baronic Wall cover (“Night Of Romance”). A mesmerizing window into everyday sonic life on one of the weirder colonies in the hidden confederation of alien electronics. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with hypercolor emulsion artwork by Andreas Ervik, plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500. “-not not fun
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POLONAISE “TROCADERO” 12″ $12
“Scott Goodwin has elevated electronics through deliberate drone as Bonus and maximized minimal techno as Operative but with Avalon Kalin, the fine finder of Finesse, and tasty treater of Glass Candy, they’ve found a key-board to Portland paradise with Polonaise. The twosome remind that romance is alive and lively on “Trocadero,” a vibrant valentine to primitive piano-plush early house. As the San Francisco danger-disco-drug-dance destination Trocadero Club sucked you into its sparkle spectacle so, too, does this EP: down the K-for-Kraftwerk Hole into those chase-bassy Black and White balls, all trance tuxedos and superfluid Steinways. Polonaise patience keeps you measured and mindful, freely feeling a designed dance; the blueprint for boogie. Bot-bops and Polonaise sauce, eat it up.”-100% silk
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Bobby Browser “Just Browsing” 12″ $12
“Bay Area bruiser ANDRE FERREIRA aka BOBBY BROWSER makes PeopleMover music: taking his sweet time to glide. Side A Bass-ic backdrops are ever-changing: wade through winds on the night yacht, dewy fields for the drumline, front row Fashion Week, whirl-a-girl-globe-twirl. Side B Glist-opher Guest vocals by MARA BARRENBAUM give the EP that art-echo-deco, opulent opera, Blessed House happy-hedonist feel. Rollin’ Roland silly strings play cucumber-cool Q and A with bubbly-bath acid stabs. It’s sunny techno, rat-a-tat trance, Tom Bomb Club Dub, woodwind hopscotch, Rob Rouser five-star quality. For your Uplift Mo’ Blow Party Plan. Just Browsing? Just Buying. “-100% silk
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EXPO ’70 “Awakening” ” LP $13
“Long out-of-print cassette originally released on Sloow Tapes (Belgium). Recorded after Expo ’70 played France in 2008, just a week after the IAO festival where the label owner and musician met. Upon returning to the states, the experience spawned the 2 day recording session materializing these 2 improvised tracks.
“Awakening, features some super stripped down drumming (or drum machine, hard to tell), locked into an endless groove, pulsing over a swirling spacescape of smeared riffs and fragmented melodies, it sounds a bit like Goblin, very soundtracky and otherworldly, space-y and mysterious, and not at all cheesy, more sort of classic new age / krautrock, think Klaus Schultze, scoring some super abstract French sci-fi flick from the sixties, and you’ll sort of get the vibe.” – Aquarius Records “-sonic meditations
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SOUNDING THE DEEP “Anthems of Light” cassette $6
“Sounding the Deep have been very prolithic and ever-changing. The Kansas City based group has released three full-length albums. “Anthems of Light” collects outtakes from “A Union According to Energy” and unreleased material recorded prior to “Glacier” fills this album well, drifting tones and melodies the way Sounding the Deep does best. All material is solo performances by David Williams. “-sonic meditations
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Abusive Consumer “Crumbling Portals” cassette $6
“J Morales’s latest exploration of aural space brings a thirty-minute trip of evolving musique concrète vignettes & sound art sourced from a multitude of origins including prepared guitar, synth, field recordings, generated sounds, and various what-have-you seamlessly woven together to create an all-encompassing state of frigid sonic decay. By combining the influence of mid-20th century sound adventurers with modern compositional methods, Crumbling Portals creates an immersive experience in spatial & textural listening, not unlike wandering through miles of underground caves.High bias type II chrome tapes with full-color, double-sided J-cards. Limited to 50.” -retrograde tapes
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Parashi “Silenus” cassette $6
“At my first listen of Mike Griffin’s work I sat perplexed, really scratching my head over what I had just heard, wondering what the hell I’d just experienced. Even after countless listens later, more often than not I still don’t have much more than the slightest clue yet the mystery just makes the listening experience better. On Silenus, Parashi maintains that captivating mystery by employing the services of a beat merchant hell-bent on summoning some sort of lurching beast, then sits on the altar paranoid & afraid to leave the comfort of its confines after it materializes. A truly discomforting pair of recordings, even for those already familiar with his ominous & often hostile sound world. High bias type II chrome tapes with full-color, double-sided J-cards. Limited to 50.” -retrograde tapes
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Nodolby “Untitled” cassette $6
“Italian sound-shredder Nodolby contributes 40 minutes of frantic circuit bent cut-edits & gurgling synth jitter. Never still and never settled, the A side rewards the close listener with ever-changing texture sheets draped over cold drones that gnaw through frontal lobes like an injection of synthetic termites hungry for your cortex. The B side breathes considerably heavier after their feast, a dimming, emotionally somber piece that continually sinks deeper into a bleak, dark world until the light has fully faded. High bias type II chrome tapes with full-color, double-sided J-cards. Limited to 50.” -retrograde tapes
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Sleep Fern / The Ether Staircase split cassette $6
“Never mind leaky microwaves and humming power lines, Sleep Fern gathers the waves and radiation of the everyday and blurs it all into agitated, yet beautiful, clouds of voices and static. The flip presents an unhinged summer with The Ether Staircase, collaged fidelities of glass shards and magnetic tape.” -cave recordings
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RAGS “s/t” cassette $6
“RAGS continues to ride the line between structured songwriting and sonic exploration on this second release. These pieces travel through a wide range of moods and modes, utilizing complex layering of playback, guitar and keyboards, recorded with no overdubs. The result is infectious.” -cave recordings
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CAETHUA / SHEP and ME split LP $13
“Originally released on cassette in 2008, these fantastic recordings finally get the deluxe vinyl treatment they deserve. These newly remastered tracks reveal a remarkable subtlety, having been previously obscured by poor dubbing techniques and the inherent limitations of the cassette format. All has been clarified. Clare Hubbard stays busy with her musical projects Ancestral Diet and Sports, but she might be best known for her folk-based work as Caethua. Her side is entitled “Wrecks and Rescues”, and is an epic and dusty side-long track of beautiful creaking folk-craft. In the winter of 2008, Clare recorded herself at home in Bloomington, IN. She delicately layers synth, strings, horns, electronics, percussion and vocals, along with 5 years worth of field recordings taken from the St. Lawrence River and her wanderings through swamps, fields and forests. Soft tones and organic rustlings blend beautifully with melancholy string plunk and blown-out electro growl to create a brilliantly shimmering psychedelic-folk masterpiece. Shep and Me’s side entitled “Tube Mind” is more firmly rooted in traditional Americana folk and blues music, yet still manages to keep itself wedged into a pretty strange corner. All five tracks feature Matthew Himes collaborating with H. Caleb Gamble. Both sing and play nylon and steel stringed guitars in addition to using tape loops, french horn, lap steel, live percussion, drum machines, electronics and waveform oscillators to present a uniquely twisted vision of contemporary folk music. Masterfully recorded to 1/2″ 8 track tape by Ryan Fontaine in Minneapolis MN, May of 2008. Plaintive and stark gutter-country songs about seasonal shifts and the horrors of these modern times.” -lighten up sounds
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Astral Social Club / Tomutonttu “Wet Wheel/ Hot Wheel” b/w “Syvät Svyät” split 12″ $13
“Two of Europe’s finest collide on a 12” 45 RPM platter loosely inspired by the club single. On “Wet Wheel / Hot Wheel,” Neil Campbell of Astral Social Club succumbs to the heartbeat throb of house, but tops the bass with a frenetic squall of darting alien melodies. On cursory listen, the elements congeal into honest-to-goodness body music, but the track is riddled with stutters and gaps that the flooded synapses fill with aural afterimages. On the reverse, Jan Anderzén of Tomutonttu buries the dance influence, retaining only the genre’s neon shimmer and linear logic. “Syvät Svyät” overflows with cuckoo loops that briefly cohere into musical shapes before casting off, replaced by an ecstatic march of manic squiggles. One must focus to follow the train of musical thought, but Anderzén’s humor and intuition reward the effort.” -tipped bowler
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DAIN DALLER “The Tirehouse Tapes Vol. 1” cassette $6
“Dain Daller was part of the Chicago based electro-acoustic group Tiny Music, who have released a few great cassettes of epic machine music on Notice Recordings and Nihilist Records, as well as a few self released full length smokers. These days Dain has been keeping himself busy out in the desert of rural New Mexico, building a house out of recycled automobile tires. He is hunched over in full-on solo mode here, playing remarkable non-music seemingly without any instruments at all. Snippets of crackling vinyl and magnetic tape, bits of radio static, air compressors or whatever else got dragged in from the tool shed. Occasionally rhythmic, but proudly abrasive and atonal, perhaps a hint of garden hose or running motors? Seven sprawling serenades span these sides yielding a skewed sense of plunder-phonic/concrete structures carefully piled and stacked, resulting in a remarkably engaging narrative of squealing shortwave and relentlessly skipping 78’s. Desert dweller creak-howls, from a whisper to a roar. Dank opaque olive-green shell cassette comes beautifully packaged with full color labels and matching double sided full color wrap around U-card featuring photography of the actual Tirehouse shot by D.D. himself, and a stamped b/w photo insert printed on recycled sand colored art paper. Dry heat.” -lighten up sounds
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Rogue Cop “Act of Violence” cassette $6
“Drew Dahle, meet Electric Guitar. Electric Guitar, meet your abuser. Mr. Dahle, aka Rogue Cop, is badder than any wing-nut in a trench coat and fedora you’ve ever encountered. The brazenness with which Dahle handles his axe is insisted upon with every second of Act of Violence. This album is vindication for both the hard-headed purists and the die-hard experimentalists. No frills required, no rule book exists. Act of Violence is difficult to discuss simply because it has very few points of reference. It is simply the sound of a guitar being mangled. Though if you listen closely and perhaps long enough, you can certainly begin to create your own frame of reference. Rogue Cop has his own way of doing things, and if you give him a chance, you’ll start to come around to the idea that his way could be your way too. ” -avant archive
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Horse Marriage “Pee-Chee” / “I Need to Tell You…” b/w “Lay Your Hands on Me” 7″ $6
“After their beautifully subdued and dusty Mr. Tower’s Dead Trophy (2010), the San Francisco band Horse Marriage returned this year with Eisenhower Interstate, an altogether different iteration of Stewart Adams’ grainy and distorted pop visions. Avant Archive is pleased to present the first ‘single’ from Eisenhower Interstate, “Pee-Chee”, alongside two additional and exclusive tracks. Horse Marriage has almost entirely shed their calm western reveries, laying aside the acoustic guitars in favor of deep distortion, detuned strings, and a whole new kind of energy. Adams’ delay-touched vocals perfectly float above the band’s fuzzed-out guitars and simple, yet unforgettable compositions sounding simultaneously obscured and unmistakable. Rock and roll is back, and don’t come expecting gimmicks—you’ll find no ‘lo-fi’ or ‘x-wave’ here. This is old-fashioned rock and roll the way you might remember it. Remember it again!” -avant archive
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Pink Desert “Daytime Series” cassette $6
“Glistening shimmer from one the the finest; B Douglas (Different Lands label) delivers another thoughtful moment from his carefully released Pink Desert project. Circular soothing passages that recall past experiences. Meditation through synthesis.” – house of sun
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Buffalo Moon “Selva Surreal” LP $12
“In 2010, Buffalo Moon brought you “Wetsuit,” their debut release that made everybody want to go to the beach and get drunk and fall in love. More than a year later — after a stop at the gorgeous melodic shores of the “Black Magic/Low Tide Moon,” 7″ — the Buffalo are leading you away from the coastline, waving a pennant that reads Bienvenido a la Selva. If “Wetsuit” was playing love games in the sand, “Selva Surreal” (Surreal Jungle)— the new LP we are proud to release on Moon Glyph— is five young pranksters splashing euphonious paint in the Rainforest, trading in their cool blues for deep velvet and crimson. Fires are blazing. Cannons are blasting. Machine guns are pounding. And that’s just in the first single, “Chica de Luna”. “Salt in my Mouth” and “Amores Perros,” take you back to those sandy beaches but with tighter craftsmanship and more sophisticated swagger. “Raspberry Sorbet” and “Moses Baby” consult sexophone aficionado Michael Lewis to accomplish their schmoozy bedroom peccadillos. Indeed, in these hallucinatory wetlands, genre shifts hit you like catapulted coconuts, but if you can duck all the madness and sonic booby traps, you find the album for what it is: a feral portrait of a Blakean Innocence expiring before our ears. The Kids of Irony are alright, America, they’re just entering the Jungles of Experience. And it’s wild out there. ” – moon glyph
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Steve Hauschildt “Tragedy & Geometry” 2XLP $18
“Perhaps the least prolific and quietest of the three members of Cleveland trio EMERALDS, STEVE HAUSCHILDT is usually found at their live performances playing the serious scientist as foil to the other two members more animated stage presence. As a teen, Steve bypassed the typical young music fan obsessions over punk and hardcore musics, drawn instead towards mid-late ‘90s techno/electro-revivalism and finding himself alone in an electronic universe of his own choosing. Steve has always considered himself more of an artist than a musician, and sees his work both in group and solo settings as much a visual experience as it is an aural one. The title Tragedy & Geometry is an ambiguous but subtle reference to Melpomene (Muse of Tragedy) and Polyhymnia (Muse of Geometry), or more specifically the collision/overlap of what they invoke. The opening track is also a direct reference to “Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence”, the painting by the French artist Charles Meynier on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The album is a treatise on the idea that technology is becoming more disposable as it’s becoming more accessible, and how this circumstance has a more evident/direct effect on the interpersonal, i.e. relations, with others in the so-called ‘Age of Information.’ What results is a gorgeous, flowing, floating world of post-kosmische musik, Steve Hauschildt’s first widely available release, and his first major statement as a solo artist. ” -kranky
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Mark Mcguire “Get Lost” LP $18 (import)
“And yet another killer album from the ever-productive MARK MCGUIRE (EMERALDS). It just keeps getting better, as he delivers another fine set of tunes in his perfected style. A few more electronic elements than usual and even some voices, but still the unique blend of feel-good riffs, electric and acoustic loops and melodies that just stick in the head. This album is chockablock with short hits and one long jam of blissed-out McGuire ambience. Awesome. Electric and acoustic guitar, vocals, and guitar-synthesizer recorded digitally between June 2010 and July 2011 in Westlake, Ohio and Portland, Oregon. Mixed at Hardbodies, July 2011 by Mark McGuire. Mastered and cut by HELMUT ERLER at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Photography and art by Mark McGuire, 2011.” ” -editions mego
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Mark Mcguire “Solo Acoustic Vol. 2” LP $16BACK IN STOCK!
“The second installment in VDSQ’s (Vin Du Select Qualitite) Solo Acoustic guitar series curated by STEVE LOWENTHAL of Swingset Magazine. Solo Acoustic Vol. 2 features melodic ballads and new songs from EMERALDS guitarist MARK MCGUIRE that spark new innovations and memories thought to be lost. Packaged in letterpress sleeves with a picture of the guitar used on the recording.” -vdsq
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Outer Space “s/t” LP $15
“John Elliott’s Outer Space project is a laboratory for electronic investigation. Acting as a continuance of the studies of mid 20th century electronic music composers such as Nik Pascal and Laurie Spiegel, Elliott’s music is deeply indebted to the inner workings of the electric signal. Acting almost as a meditation, through the simple gesture of translation Elliott’s process begins to reveal itself as electricity is converted into acoustic pressure and potential; the melody of physics. The six recordings on the album are each a microcosmic view into Elliott’s practice; a keystone, illuminating his solo practice as well as his work as a member of Emeralds. Composed and recorded over the past three years without the use of digital synthesizers and arpeggiation; a record closely connected to a personal path, attempting to make sense, to understand one’s journey. Mastered by Keith Fullerton Whitman; pressed in a second edition of 350 copies on black vinyl with full color gloss covers and black and white printed inner sleeves.” -arbor
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Rangers “Pan Am Stories” 2XLP $23
“Tape-warped phantom band Rangers finally unleashes the grainy, soaring, expansive prog-pop opus we always knew was floating inside the fretboard (and imagination) of multi-instrumentalist mystery maestro Joe Knight. The north Dallas-raised, San Fran-residing head Ranger grew up taking classical guitar lessons from a dude who claimed to have ‘toured with the Dead,’ and some of that brain-wonked jam agenda obviously seeped into the young Knight, who began recording his own loose, lo-fi jangle sprawls in 2005. But whereas last year’s critically lauded Suburban Tours LP found him condensing his cassette-crushed alien pop into 3 minute radio nuggets, Pan Am Stories uses the reverse strategy, letting each blurry strum pattern coast away and ride the breeze a bit before steering it into a fresh counter-melody or flanged-out guitar comedown. The extra breath and space gives the 13 songs a real sense of freedom and lightness and flight, layered in gentle blankets of fuzz, silky reverb, and audio collage riddles. A total saga, and a summit achievement of next-level invention for Knight as a musician (it’s insane he played/recorded every instrument on this thing!) and artist. Have been soaking in these tracks non-stop since we first heard ‘em this summer and are thrilled to get to share Stories with the world. Black vinyl LPs (mastered by Carl Saff, who worked on Suburban Tours too) in gatefold jackets with micro-detailed collage art by Mr. Rangers himself; interior artwork by Knight and Anthony Yuen. Edition of 850.” – not not fun
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Heather Leigh “Jailhouse Rock” LP $13 BACK IN STOCK/OOP!
“It’s been a while since Scorces sorceress, Jandek collaborator, and Volcanic Tongue branch manager Heather Leigh has ventured out on vinyl under her own name. And it may be a while longer, as Jailhouse Rock is in fact a wax reissue of a long OOP 2006 cassette classic on Michigan crud factory Fag Tapes. It was a fave of ours that year (and every year), so it feels extra celebratory to be able to offer up a freshly remastered (by Pete Swanson) LP edition of the album for global re-appreciation. Sprawling, long-form descents/ascents into mythic electric disorientation, powered by her trademark recipe of FX-soaked pedal steel and voice. Jailhouse feels loosely more aligned with a mid-aughts drone/noise aesthetic than the outsider dirt road Americana of her Devil If You Can Hear Me LP (also on NNF), but the distinction is a slight one. Side A swims in swooping sheets of vox and tempestuous wind tunnel dynamics before slowly dying away to wheezing disembodied harmonica. The B piece begins in a more overtly beautiful mode, a trinity of crystalline notes picked and stretched until they’re transformed into a rapturous sky of textural distortion. Sensual and vertigo-inducing in equal measure. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with brand new paint/collage artwork by Heath Moerland (of Sick Llama, Slither, Odd Clouds, etc). Edition of 400. ” – not not fun
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Duppy Gun Productions “Multiply/Earth” 12″ $13
“The first in a series of new outer orbit dancehall 12-inches recorded in Los Angeles and Portmore, Jamaica by DUPPY GUN PRODUCTIONS (aka CAMERON STALLONES of SUN ARAW and M.G. GENGRAS). Features DAYONE’s cut “Multiply” backed with EARLY ONE’s “Earth.” Includes vocal and instrumental versions of each. Mastered, cut and pressed on 45 rpm vinyl at Capsule Labs, LA. Packaged with a silkscreened poster insert. Another bullet from the Duppy Gun.” – duppy gun
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James Ferraro “On Air” 2xlp $24
“Electrocuted Moon Hair, Cone Headed Space Punks in Fast Forward Neo Tokyo’s Virtual Flat Screen Pop Stars, Jetset Tabloids Zebra Print Moon Boats Splattering Ketchup Packets are just some of the themes that pour out of the Musical Imaginarium of JAMES FERRARO’s highly anticipated Fully Restored and Remastered Version of the 2009 Limited Edition CDR Classic On Air, featuring the online hit singles “Cinderella,” “On Air,” “Flashy Kamikaze” and more. Take a electric bite out of the Space Age Glam Sound of Metal Spaz Punks combing their 30 ft Tall Green Mohawks under Saturn’s Post-American Desert Skies and find out what happened after MTV laser-ed their logo into the moon. Made available by Underwater Peoples Records, two LPs fully loaded with Pop Art Mania guaranteed to give all the 21st Century Digital Children a fresh breath of Glam Rock Magic! Twenty-five tracks.” – underwater peoples
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MAGIC TOUCH “I CAN FEEL THE HEAT” 12″ $11
“Groove into Magic Touch’s pleasure factory, a floor-to-ceiling inventory of disco-covalence, guitar gush rush, even-better-than-the-real-thing sample soaring, and jumpin’ jackin’ flash. The A side has you feeling the burn after a serious night of get-down. Or tasting the burn after a serious night of get-up. Flip to the B side when you’re looking for love in all the ripe places. A vice is nice, but pills will never thrill you like the sensation of Magic Touch, that feverish fantasia of sweet heat. Let his fingers do the work, let the magic take you away, and please pump up these jams. If only to stop the longing…“I Can Feel The Heat” features bonus shredding by So-Cal amigo Josh Anzano and “Clubhouse” stars additional instrumentation by Miracle Clubber Honey Owens.” -100% Silk
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TRAILBLAZER “S/T” cassette $6
“Following the Lexington, Kentucky thread from the sludgy krautrock of Jovontaes to the effortless pop of Street Gnar led ultimately to the blasted Americana of Trailblazer (Night-People), making a trilogy of work based around the beloved Void Skateshop. Trailblazer belongs to a group of artists like Wet Hair and Dirty Beaches who have turned to the classic records of Suicide as the starting point of their explorations. These musicians place a great deal of emphasis on rhythm, finding beats that cruise into infinity, and use their voices as a foil — brief words that quickly fade into the distance. American Motorik. Art by Adam Zeek” -eggy
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PLANETS AROUND THE SUN “WE O WE” cassette $6
“Ditching the domestic life for a stint of wild-abandon nomad drift, Planets Around the Sun departed from Maine in July to unplug and roll on down the line… WE O WE is their parting gift to the musical community that launched them into new orbits. Drawing from every era of the band’s career and pointing forward to new phases, it is a carefully crafted full-length mixtape of past trysts and future haunts. From the opening acousto-electro instrumental shimmer we move to a stretched-out heavy drone-folk version of the classic White Light side “Saraswati”, here completely re-figured with the addition of guest baritone guitar and cello from local duo South China. The Ian Paige solo excursion “Agnes” follows, with drones and steel strings lulling raga moves into your atmosphere; once the tablas and electric guitar hits, you’re halfway between Demolition Derby and Country Stash, truly a vapor to be savored and returned to often. The B-side hits with “We Owe”, a possession-ceremony standard with netherworld vocal chants circling around watery bass wobbles and wah’ed synth stabs. This flows into “May Day” and its extended doom-dub treatment “Version”, moving from Velvety melodic guitar-scorched psych to a half-tempo high-stepping astral-funk groove. But enough about the past. Planets point to their present/future with the closing track, a cracked lo-fi country-folk tune that serves as their on-the-road calling card. Sure to be a counterculture hit in 22nd-Century America. Hand-written (in white paint) cassettes held in a case with full-color pro-printed art, featuring a reproduction of a totally psychedelic needlepoint by Paige’s grandmother. Limited to 75.” -l’animaux tryst field recordings
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RAGS/The Ether Staircase split cassette $6
“Separated at birth, these two projects were bound to meet further down the road and here present an engaging dialogue in sound. On Side A, the inimitable Oakland artist and musician James Seevers under his solo RAGS banner issues a patchwork of melody and noise–clear blasts of interwoven darkness and beauty hold the listener rapt throughout the side-long journey. The Ether Staircase offers a murkier affair on Side B–something is quivering to life beneath the surface of a turbid pond. Edition of 20” -cave recordings
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The Lesser Siren “Rowan Ash” cassette $6
“Evoking excursions into California’s North Coast where the summers pass like forgotten promises, cold and hazy. Occasionally, there is light that filters down through the trees, warming the mulch, prompting the seeds of slow time. Edition of 20” -cave recordings
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Wet Hair “Radiant Lines” 7″ + art book $15
“Wet Hair heads Shawn Reed and Ryan Garbes have been jamming sideways strains of long-lensed electricity music for years now, but their trajectories as visual artists arc back even farther. So after a small infinity of J-cards and zines and LP sleeves designs, it’s a real pleasure to finally be able to present a preferential suite of some of their finest (and, till now, unseen) compositions in a glossy, full-color, pro-printed 22-panel art volume, bookended by a brand new black vinyl 33 RPM single of joyously multi-hued keys/drums merry-go-rounding. “Radiant Lines,” a longtime live favorite. spirals a fuzzy circus organ riff around a splashy-crashy kit pummeling till it dissolves into burbling kaleidoscopic come-down bliss. The B, “Decay,” is more like their songs from the Naked On The Vague split 12”, a slow-motion Suicide-style sweetheart blues trance, buried vocals crooning in a gentle sea of woozy keyboard grooves. A nice warm-up for their upcoming De Stijl full-length and U.S. summer tour with Rene Hell. One-time pressing/printing of 500 copies.” -not not fun
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MEANING “THE BEGINNING IS THE END OF THE BEGINNING OF THE END” cassette $6
“the dayton trio of matt ries (teeth collection), josh fink (plamsmic formations), and eli caudill (original tongue) strut out the bat shit free-imrpov sessions. imagine your upstairs neighbors are pumping a pink floyd vhs bootleg while your downstairs neighbors (who, for whatever reason, are crazy-nervous about earth quakes) are doing another one of their mid-night drills. and while the weirdo dad in 2f is throwing pots and pans at his kids, and sage keeps telling trey to “whoa! whoa! rewind that part one more time!” up in 4f, you’re eating cold pizza and smoking resin off of a clothes hanger in 3f. what’s it all f’n mean? f’n meaning. (edition of 50)).” -905
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DIRTY HOLE “FUDGE BOX” cassette $6
“newish delaware unit dispensing gnarled electronics, flat tire beats, and lo-fi guitar chomps. total technicians of mixing off the wall bonkerness with on the spot, structured brainstorms. it’s like living on sesame street, in more ways than one. (edition of 40)).” -905
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WINTER RITUAL “BETWEEN LIGHT” cassette $6
“four pulsing, warped cuts from max gambill. dude dropped a 25 minute jammer last year on 905 under the name cave. he has since ditched that handle has been recording obtuse brain dwellers as winter ritual, bellowing that bleak muddiness by way of guitar and synth. (edition of 40)).” -905
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CHAPELS “CALL IT KILLING YOU OFF” cassette $6
“If you have ever wondered what it would sound like to sneak into an abandoned Victorian mansion during a blizzard this is it. Translucent voices, bits of metal debris, found sounds and what sounds like some percussion all meld into a collage of frigid archaic beauty. When not running his House of Alchemy label Adam Richards has stayed rather busy the last couple of years maintaining a strong body of work with his Chapels project, creating hauntingly striking sound compositions. Like many Chapels releases the sounds within are opaque and eerie often hard to decipher but I think I like it better that way. ” -imminent frequencies
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Six Heads “The Popeye Scat” cassette $6
“This cassette moves with surprising fragility and restraint for a six member experimental project, the sound infected with a surrealist vibe, not too dissimilar to the audio equivalent of a Tanguy painting, or maybe Mlehst on quaaludes. Floating through blue green vapors, only occasionally does concrete reality come to the forefront. Two sidelong tracks filled with alien instrumentation, and title appropriate tape collage. Few releases and some high profile collaborating make this a release to investigate further. Color digital printed three panel transparent j-card, and a one panel unique art for each copy, floating orchids over rainbow blood on gray cardstock. Silver labels, black hi-bias chrome tapes. Edition of 100. ” -black horizons
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Tecumseh “Sea(s)” 12″ EP $10
“Tecumseh presents here their second vinyl release for Black Horizons, two concise and highly listenable tracks clocking in at 11:00 and 10:00 minutes for the A and B sides, respectively. The first track starts with singular sub bass, plodding forward in the trademark meditative manner the band has gained a reputation for, fading into the dual guitar attack with a riff that sounds locked into place like a freight train and electronics that are as always subtle and tasteful. On the other side the band moves into some weirder territory, with faint mumbled, almost mechanical and somehow processed vocals, this time giving way to pure minimal drone, accentuated by more window shaking low end. Then suddenly, the riff kicks in, and it is possibly the thickest, most expansive example they have put forth yet, drowning out any sound within it’s vicinity, a black hole for anything positive. The rift fades out, and we are left with acid rain electronics, making muddy the charred Earth that remains. Limited to 333 copies in 3-color screen printed sleeves courtesy of Seizure Palace. ” -black horizons
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Godseye “No More Cake Here” cassette $6
“Godseye (Eden Hemming Rose, Brad Rose, and Nathan Young) continues its work with lush, dark synth textures focused around spoken-word readings. Texts from Natalie Diaz, Edward Kuznetsov, Emma Goldman, and Seth Abramson are read in these four tracks. From the opening words, the intensity present in the slow, even readings and barely concealed chaos is unmistakable. Beneath wells of feedback and roiling synths, occasional bursts of light emerge to complement the distinctive readings. This tape mines beauty in the darkness lurking in all corners. -Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery, foil stamped on heavy card stock. -Edition of 100 -Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.” -notice recordings
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A. DILLER “STILL LIFE” cassette $6
“Still Life is an outsider’s sampling of half forgotten urban environments, cracked electronic soundscapes that form abandoned cities replete with radioactive fallout. Brooklyn-based Adam Diller leans toward his more experimental side, creating his first cassette release from a variety of sound sources: field recordings, synth, electric piano & sampling keyboards. Layered synth passages, textures, and melodies seamlessly mix, often making it difficult to distinguish the source. The result is a truly innovative soundscape work. Diller’s diverse background consists of free improvised music (BNSF on Locust), ultra minimal acoustic improv (Doublends Vert on Line/12K), deformed free jazz/hip hop fusion ($.99 Dreams, self-released CDs & LPs), and audio production..” -draft
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sir isaf gul s/t cassette $6
“Deranged free improvisations for homemade 4 stringed guitar and voice. B.B. (of Styrofoam Duck, Free Boys) plugged in, hit record and went totally ape-shit bonkers. Circular uber skronk anti-riffs and garbled stream of consciousness shrieking. Dark catharsis for isolation tanks. Black out the windows baby, I think I’m gonna puke. These bizarre solo recordings were originally self-released as a ridiculously limited cassette (…like 10 copies?) and absolutely deserve to be bounced off a few more foreheads. Deeply strange freak-fest, indeed. Bizarre falsetto screeching and tourette’s syndrome growls over de-tuned string torture and distinct non-structures. Sounds for the nuclear age, and strictly off the cuff. New artwork this time around with all tracks freshly mixed and mastered for the ultimate Isaf-fidelity. Made newly available in time for the greatly anticipated “Free Boys” appearance at the upcoming “Heavy Focus” festival in Minneapolis, MN. Real time duplicated black shell cassette with bright ocean blue labels comes packaged with fold out double sided cardstock J-card. Artwork features an evocative full color photograph by Paul Borman portraying the good Sir himself crawling on the floor wearing his Janet Reno outfit and digging through a half empty refrigerator. Classic. After a recent solo performance in NC, a random gentleman from the audience commented, “What you just did, what I just saw, was quite possibly the worst thing that I have seen in my entire life”. He must be doing something right. Don’t sleep on this one. “-lighten up sounds
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The Alters “Blue Hole”cassette $6
“Cosmonaut snake charmer reed/synth/electronics freak-ness from KC. Not entirely unlike MRP on PCP w/ a zurna firmly clenched in jaws. Strangeness projects into the stratosphere, and everyone dreams about their teeth falling out. On their previous cassette “Apples of Gold”, The Alters brought to mind a massively psychedelic early organic Residents vibe, reciting disturbing excerpts of Grimm’s Fairy Tales as interpreted by damaged space cadets. Helmets intact, on these jams they strap in and strip down to the essential duo form and deliver aquatic wake-and-bake groovers. Clarinet / synth workouts for underwater hibernation rituals. Real time duplicated clear cassette with full color lacquer sealed labels comes packaged with matching full color double sided fold out cardstock J-card in a clear Norelco case. The porthole is fogging up kiddies, and the sonar is on the fritz. “-lighten up sounds
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GAY BEAST “To Smithereens” LP $10
Gay Beast formed mid-2005 during a fit of anxiety towards Midwestern passive aggression and as an attempt to make music that was queer in composition and aesthetic. Wielding a battery of drums, scraped and hammered guitars, chanted vocals, retro-future synths, saxophone, and other electronics, the trio (Angela Gerend, Daniel Luedtke, Isaac Rotto) build songs on grounds that adjoin complexity and catchiness, a space where both abrasion and tunefulness inhabit. With releases on DNT, Gilgongo, and Skin Graft, Gay Beast have garnered a reputation for uniqueness on the rock fringe, their sound being both too weird for the stereotype of a “gay band” and “too gay” for the noise-rock set. Upon examination of the influence blender, one finds remnants of Devo, Captain Beefheart, equatorial pop-rock from the 60s and 70s, no wave, and feminist theory. This concoction, delivered via Gay Beast’s unique political approach to composition, is explored heavily on their third album “To Smithereens”, appearing on Skin Graft Records. “-skingraft
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MADE IN MEXICO “Guerillaton” diecut gatefold LP $10
Short description: Providence-based No Wave influenced punk, combined with Reggaeton sounds…. Like Teenage Jesus and the Jerks mixed with Calle 13, or Daddy Yankee. Post-Punk with a Dem Bow beat, and a revolutionary flavor… the soundtrack to Simon Bolivar’s march through The Americas. includes former members of La Machine, and Arab On Radar. Guerillaton is the highly anticipated follow up to MADE IN MEXICO’s debut LP “Zodiac Zoo”. Available on compact disc and as a limited edition Diecut Gatefold Vinyl LP. “-skingraft
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The Ether Staircase “Medicnoid” cassette $6
“Late night swatches of guitar and keys stitched together in dream logic” -cave recordings
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The Lesser Siren “Clouds in Static Pools” cassette $6
“Guitar and tapes dredge up a child’s sense of the sublime: The vast echoes of a museum. Trails forever forking in dirt lots. Vast storms in mud puddles” -cave recordings
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Hoefizer & Quilt split cassette $6
“Our first release is Hoefizer (David Mitchell) from Montreal. 3 tracks of bass loops and drone. Quilt is Seth Graham from Brooklyn. 4 Tracks of relentless oscillation, filters, sounds, random notes and over all feeling of schizophrenia. This split plays like a full record when listened to all the way through.” -orange milk
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Andrew Coltrane “Persuasion” cassette $6
“Andrew Coltrane is at it yet again. This is probably his millionth tape release, but it is the first one on Rainbow Bridge. Junk noise, synth disgust and programmed “drums,” all completely saturated, concluded with a surprise sound clip at the end. This tape drones but it’s never uninteresting and is always unrelentingly harsh. Bright yellow tapes with pink, hand-painted labels and full-color inserts. Limited to 41.” -rainbow bridge
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Sadistic Candle cassette $8 (high wholesale cost)
SADISTIC CANDLE is straight from the heart of a man, broadcast from an expanse of quilted bedroom somewhere deep in Los Angeles, fueled with the dust hanging motionless in window-light over a stack of Hawkwind LPs, made crooked by the pure-hearted trickster, sighing with troubadour spirit, revealed with a 4-track. A statement of purpose.*member of sun araw/magic lantern* ” -sun ark editions
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Red Electric Rainbow / Reptile Brain split cassette $7 (irish import)
“Nearly 30 minutes of that fingersmith action! Chicago’s 21st century facemelter Neon Blossom main ‘the man’, Dan Smith, meets Dublins 18th century fancy boy Dandrew Dogarty. Produped, c30s” -munitions family
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Paul Vogel “Godwit Songs” cassette $7 (irish import)
“You may know him from euroboys, Chipshopmusic or 2009’s Phil Durrant, Lee Patterson, Paul Vogel – Buoy but if you don’t, let me introduce Dublin’s monster of microsound, the lord of lowercase, PAUL VOGEL! (crowd goes wild) Making his munfam debut with some Messaienic songs about the GODWIT! Poo-tee-weet? Poo-tee-weet? Paul Vogel is an improviser based in Ireland. His original instruments were piano and clarinet, but in recent years, he has incorporated electronics into his set up. He was a member of the Bristol Musicians Co-op in the late seventies and is currently co-curator (with David Lacey) of i-and-e, an organisation which promotes improvised and contemporary music in Dublin. He has composed music for radio and contemporary dance groups and has worked with Phil Durrant, Angharad Davies, Lee Patterson, Keith Rowe, David Lacey, Toshi Nakamura and Mark Wastell, amongst others. He has released recordings on Cathnor, Confront and Homefront.” -munitions family
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JON SCOTT DENNIS/FIBROUS BLONDE “MEDICINE MEN” split cassette $6
“The newest addition to the Early Morning archives has emerged. Over forty minutes of introspection and expansion captured on cassette tape. The first side is from EM newcomer Jon Scott Dennis, when i first heard these tracks i was utterly blown away by the sparse and compelling sounds coming from this guy. These tracks play like a bleak landscape from an old western film, terrestrial sounds and textures invoking the loneliness and subtle hallucinations of a peyote healer wandering the desert. Fibrous Blonde is the reincarnation of the fading project Guyute, and the sidelong track presented here is a transition from a visceral world of humoral imbalances to cerebral atmospherics washed in hermetic imagery. Oversized J-cards and full color inserts featuring artwork by Fibrous Blonde, on clear c44’s.” -early mourning recordings
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Guyute/Terrortank – “Severed Sons” split cassette $6
“Odd sounds for your future from early mourning. Edition of 40 clear black tapes, double-sided card stock inserts, and hand stamped labels.” -early mourning recordings
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Netherfriends “Alap” cassette $6
“Chicago’s Shawn Rosenblatts Netherfriends project has been touring this great country of ours almost non-stop for as long as I have know him. Stopping back in Chicago only briefly, he managed to take a break from his 50 Songs in States concept to make an album of heavy drones and sonic architecture. Recorded in seven days, these seven tracks are filled with polyphonic keys, shimmering guitars, piano trills, and quiet chirps to make for a relaxing listen. This is a huge departure from most Netherfriends albums, leaving the pop at Pitchfork Fest and coming out for an new-age bullshit night at your local DIY loft space. Limited to 75 copies on clear cassettes with a smoke shell insert and full color J-Card. Also, comes with an additional insert with art by the artist.” -hyperdelic
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Color Zoning “A Series of Seriously Flawed Landscapes” cassette $6
“New Delaware synth/bass duo of Andy Lees and Mike Haley (Wether) craft an immersing debut cassette. Phased spaces and chattering rhythms grounded by rumbling bass swells and drones. Deep oceanic explorations on distant planets. Pro dubbed chrome tapes. Limited to 50 copies.” -2:00AM tapes
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Death In Death Valley “Fossil” cassette $6
“Olivier Dumont and Nicolas Thirion craft a meticulously focused tour de force on Fossil. Hailing from France, this duo achieves masterful results through the use of unnamed objects and live data processing. Textures abound in a tangible framework, painting vivid abstract pictures of mechanical collapse. Stunning. Pro dubbed chrome tapes. Limited to 50 copies.” -2:00AM tapes
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Chefkirk + Staplerfahrer “Crystal Memory Shreds” cassette $6
“Live collaboration between Roger H. Smith (Chefkirk) and Steffan de Turck (Staplerfahrer) recorded in Tilburg in March of 2010. Hypnotic murmuring rhythms, caustic metallic blasts , and wavering drones all meld together beautifully in a raw room mic’d audio document. Pro dubbed chrome tapes. Limited to 50 copies.” -2:00AM tapes
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Winter Ritual + Vales split cassette $6
“Delawarean Max Gambill, formerly known as “Cave” tries on his new moniker “Winter Ritual” with this debut track of bottom end scuzz warble. The tape sounds like its going to vibrate off of the spool, but I’m pretty sure it won’t. (No refunds if it does). Vales tries some blustery cold modular synth caroling on the B side. Melodic drone ghosts haunting the neighborhood. Pro dubbed chrome tapes. Limited to 50 copies.” -2:00AM tapes
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Joe Breitenbach “Outlander” cassette $6
“Those who aren’t familiar with Joe Breitenbach’s work really should be. No matter what name he’s releasing under (Methadrone, Gallows, and my sources tell me he’s got another few hidden up his sleeve) his releases are consistantly great; this tape being no exception. Side A is a gorgeous white powdery textured drifter decorated with christmas light synth patterns. Side B is wet black muck washed down with a bubbly orange soda. Limited to 50 copies.” -2:00AM tapes
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Roped Off “Blows Glass In Space/Discovers A New Angle” cassette $6
“Forces to be reckoned with in their own right as farmers of prime Delaware sound crop, Mike Haley (Wether, 905 Tapes) and Dave Doyen (2:00AM Tapes, Vales) tag team a set of bent synthesizers on this c40, bringing their new duo Roped Off into snarling maturity. We presume that blowing glass in space leads one to smoke something especially dank out of that glass in space. Let’s further assume that the discovery of a new angle was not only novel, but an inevitable consequence of these actions. No matter how it’s sliced, or slices through the listener, it’s an entirely unpredictable ride in the opposite direction of a safe synth reality. These boyz mean biz. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c40 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.” -stunned
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Sound Out Light “Ornamental Skies” cassette $6
“Transmissions from distant planes pulse, transferring energy, propagating their call, inviting all who hear to join on their total journey into other realms. ltd. 100” -sacred phases
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Parashi “Troika” cassette $7
“Using guitar, synthesizers, metal objects, pieces of wood, kalimba and contact mics, Parashi summons eerie shadows and drops anchor in the underworld. Here, crumbling circuitry hums alongside lone wolf cries and whispers from subterranean ruins. With masterful focus and deliberation, ‘Troika’ finds New York’s Parashi in top form after an impressive three album run-up on his home label Skell LLC. Few are willing to align their ship straight into the gritty unknown, but Parashi does just that with an array of entropic frequencies as his travel companions. When the hammer comes down during Side B’s 18-minute long apex, watch for the white-hot sparks emitting from your electronics. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c54 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.” -stunned
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Garrincha & The Stolen Elk “We Were Wyoming” cassette $7
“Following up their recent 905 Tapes burner, Garrincha & The Stolen Elk’s members Davy Bui (Weird Forest Records) and Matt Kretzmann uncork a bottle of straight up rock & roll. It’s pretty damn refreshing having a band like this around, ready to rip through four tremendous songs in twenty minutes and still managing to cover all the right bases along the way. G+SE’s chops are unarguably tight and not a second is wasted as fun house blurt and a wicked sax (!!) spice up the group’s own totally original brand of rock madness. It’ll be hard putting the cork back on this one for a long, long while. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c20 tapes w/ double-sided color jcard.” -stunned
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Air Sign “Our Galactic Covered Wagons to the Stars” cassette $7
“When reminiscing on the unsung champions of Los Angeles’ underground arts community (and trust us – there are many), one of the figures that most consistently springs to our mind is Justin McInteer. Founder of the seminal Echo Curio performance space, accomplished visual artist & gallery installation wiz, urban gardening expert, and heart-wrenching bard of the harmonium: this is a mere sample of the many roles the guy slips into with equal ease. His debut here under the Air Sign name is a relatively new endeavor in McInteer’s extensive home recording lineage, as he turns to multiple keyboards, drum machines, and samples of nature and pop music ephemera. A thing of complexity springs forth as Air Sign’s altered instrumentation helps him braid nostalgia, catharsis, and celebration into a single alluring strand. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c38 tapes w/ double sided jcard and insert.” -stunned
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Toning “Pitch the Drone” cassette $7
“Cody Brant is a man of many talents, known best for his involvement with renowned Portland groups Flaspar and Smegma as well as helming the Meandering Recordings label. Most recently, he’s honed his solo game and has apparently pitched the drone in favor of sounds with a decidedly strange bounce. Cody resumes the unpredictable Toning program here on the heels of his Eggy Records debut. With the help of a handful of buds along the way, nine numbers are stacked end-to-end which forms a chain of wheezing analog electronics and disembodied chant. Acetate patterns are diced and dried in the sun, then spliced and reconstituted from their dehydrated state back into gelatinous electro-tribal tape goo. Sound weird? It is. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c31 tapes w/ double sided jcard and insert.” -stunned
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Steel Dangerous s/t cassette $6
“Spoken word about my favorite powedered drinks, the wnba, and tim mcgraw shows at blossom sold out” -fairchild tapes
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Isle of Sodor “Still Point” cassette $6
“Super Focused laser beam from Adam Miller d.d.s one of ohio’s current champions. Kid is beasting it these days check it out.” -fairchild tapes
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Daughters of the Sun “Visions of the Ocean Head” LP $13
Visions of the Ocean Head was originally self-released in 2007 as a limited screen printed CD. The lineup consisted of Bennett, Nick and Ryan. Chris Rose (Vampire Hands) was in a early incarnation of the band and helped write some of the material. Several of the songs are fan favorites that are still included in the band s live set today. The record was recorded at Old Blackberry Way with Neil Weir and was mastered at Magneto by Brooce Templeton. Now this classic debut full length is finally available on vinyl in a limited pressing of 300. Jacket artwork was painted and designed by Lisa Luck. Daughters of the Sun have rapidly become one of the best psych-rock bands in the Midwest which eventually caught the attention of Los Angeles label Not Not Fun who will release the band s new LP Ghost with Chains . DotS have been road warriors the last 4 years touring the entire country several times over. They have been featured in the Black Angels curated Austin Psych Fest for the last two years and will be headed down to Austin in the Spring of 2011 to play a number of shows as part of SXSW.” -modern radio
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Vampire Hands / Daughters of the Sun “Skull Judge” split 12″ $13
“When Colin Johnson left local psychedelic powerhouse Vampire Hands last year many people wrote off the band as finished. The now three-piece however, continued to play on – lacking the frenzied energy of their dual percussion sets perhaps, but still drawing crowds. Now the group has released their first EP as a new entity, Skull Judge, and having listened to it, I am happy to report that Vampire Hands is anything but finished. Where the band’s signature sound no longer has Colin’s eerie high pitched vocals, bassist Chris Bierden is more than able to fill in with a howl of his own. Guitarist Chris Rose’s singing struggles a bit under the added weight, but his vocals too give the songs a rough hewn quality that is listenable in its own right. Skull Judge is actually a split EP with the B-Side taken up by one epic seventeen minute track of distortion-fest from Daughters of the Sun. “Dry Ice” takes a little while to get its legs, starting with about six minutes of distortion and minimal guitar before the drum and maraca rhythm kicks in and the thing begins to take off. Add in some more drums eventually, as well as discernible guitar licks, and reverb-laden vocals, and at around the nine minute mark the tune has built into an epic piece of slightly tribal sounding psychedelia. It’s a rewarding, if bizarre, listen if you have the patience for its length. DOS’s live shows have started to turn them into a must-see local band lately, so I am happy to see that their massive sound translates well to magnetic tape. Hopefully this single will lead to lengthier studio releases in the future. — Jon Behm ” -modern radio
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CORNUCOPIA “QUASAR” cassette $6
“plush drone rides from jorge castro and claudio chea. the duo keep the tones crunchy and on a oscillating bender, delivering lacquered tremors with sonic saturation. the kind of contributions you tune in on and just let time pass.” -905 tapes
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V/A “BRAINS ON BACKWASH III: BACKWASH TO THE FUTURE!” C100 cassette $7
“backwash to the future! the third in the ongoing series of burners is here, this time pro dubbed on chrome tapes. 100 minutes of audio from opponents, circuit wound, 2673, isa christ, deep magic, gx jupitter-larson, dead pilots, quicksails, c.lavender, vestigial limb, derek rogers, thom elliot, plasmic formations, m.geddes gengras, roped off, cornucopia, mccord, jon lorenz, ophibre, dry valleys, skin graft, dads against vietnam, al qaeda, malibu wands, colorguard, red electric rainbow, and cruudeuces.” -905 tapes
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BATTLESHIP “NEON RANCH” cassette $6
“chicago duo battleship harness smooth satellite signals here on “neon ranch”. layers of mist-like drone and scattered buzz shots go back and forth on the neon side. ranch, though pretty much a continuation of the jam, gets a bit more flustered as the steady winds turn into typhoons.” -905 tapes
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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN & BJERGA/IVERSEN: s/t – LP $15
“2 psyched-out sides from the collaboration between mighty Aliens and Norways own answer to Hall & Oates – Bjerga/Iversen. These sides are boiled down from about 2+ hours worth of material recorded last summer in the stunning alpine village of Luserna San Giovanni, just outside of Torino, Italy. Space electronics, weightless freestyle strings, buzzing voices from the outer heliospheres and garbled and warped messages from the great beyond handed down on recycled trashcan tapes…. celestial harmonies from a neon universe… There was a double-exposed rainbow over the foot of the Western Alps this evening in late June, and you can hear the colors seeping through the cracks… Both My Cat Is An Alien and Bjerga/Iversen have extensive discographies and both units have collaborated a lot with others, as this is an important part of our musical universes. So we were all happy to work on these recordings together in a full-blown extensive and focused session…. The recordings are edited by MCIAA. Edition of 268 copies in ultra-cool neon-colored silkscreened jackets, 5 different varieties.”. -Ikuisuus
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MONKS OF MALASPINA: Volume One – LP $15
“The MONKS OF MALASPINA debut release is a phantastical psychedelic mystery musical filled with dark woods wonder and honey comb clouds over sparkling fjords from deep within the mountains of Canada’s British Columbia. Highway 101 ends here, or like this new record, begins. Members of the band call up roots from First Nation relations with Jesuit missionaries co-mingled with a diverse offspring from a free love commune started in the 1970’s. Most of the music on this record is gloriously strange with a capella outbursts both finely tuned and guttural. Decomposing abstract rock anthems stretch out alongside primitive beat-boxing. There are more familiar sounding songs as well giving the whole album an aura of storytelling magic, like it is all based on some fabulous old book. M.O.M. was produced and arranged by Theo Angell who lead the group into some pretty tripped out improvisations. Quotes Theo: “The film, I mean the album, is like an abstract musical of sorts. There are some lyric-less ‘soungs’ where Raven meets Hanuman for instance and they tangle in an epic battle in the sky. Or the one where they try to conjure up the feeling of a month of rain in their mind. The world of the Monks is populated by a drinking man-beast who is missing a foot and a bear who ravishes the garden and fruit trees of the Cryptic Master and the Kinetic Gardener of Ronanda. Some of the songs address particular members of the band, “Forthwith Lorraine” for instance. “Taking Off Your Feet” is a re-occuring theme, by which they mean trippin’ the way out or getting seriously unsettled. They’ve really come up with their own syntax and insider myths where even the humor is mystical in nature. They’re an odd group of C.O.P. s (children of hippies) with very little outside references. I played this for someone and they said it reminded them of the Holy Modal Rounder’s ‘Moray Eel’ album. Besides using their voices they also play the autoharp and guitars, as well as “the staff”. I tried to get them to play a live show but they insist on recording the sequel first. We’ll see. I told them they were Fjord Folk.” The Monks of Malaspina are Sofar Lorraine, Pournt Falster, Freel Bequelle, Frist Clupps and Thlowlth Fissure. The album was engineered by Dreetmont Accel with mastering by Josh Stevenson. .” -Ikuisuus
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MAGNETIC NORTH DUO / GREY PARK: split cassette $8 (finnish import)
“Magnetic North Duo:Sindre Bjerga & Nils Rostad from Norway are the Magnetic North Duo. Constructing layers of improvised guitar strumming and warbling drone reverberation, textured density and distorted hazy sonics… These recordings, from April and June 2010 are more sparse, but more intense… guitar shivering and contact-miked uneasiness…. Magnetic North Duo has previously released discs on Stunned Records and Tape Drift, so make sure to hunt down these as well.” -Ikuisuus
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Toning “Drained Brains” cassette $6
“First solo tape from Cody Brandt — Meandering Tapes main-man, current Smegma member, sometime Kommisar Hjular collaborator and formerly of Flaspar. Culled from literately hours of home recordings made over the last couple years, Drained Brains is the work of a restless experimenter working in a more classic ‘experimental’ music idiom, utilizing tape-speed manipulation and the juxtaposition of textures. Really proud to be issuing the debut missive. Pro-dubbed tapes, hand-colored sleeves.” -eggy
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DuneBuggy – “Live: White Paint/High Jinx and the Perfume Tuxedo” cassette $6
“Dune Buggy Live from from a warehouse gig in Iowa City, sounds surprisingly good for being recorded on handheld cassette, maybe as suspected more Denudes pysch style vibe here then the post Seeds/Troggs sort of rock n’ roll they sometimes swim around in pretty slimey as usual with some real downer jammers thrown in to make the girls and boys sad about not liking each other anymore. Pretty killer indeed.” -night people
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STEVE KENNEY “OUTSIDE THE CIRCLES OF TIME” cassette $6
“steve kenney, who some may know from the insane visual/audio unit demons, goes solo on “outside the circles of time” delivering two synth sleep-away sessions. both side-long tracks trickle penetrating patterns that plume and swoon like a soundtrack to outer space. this shit is like yoga for the mind. mind yoga 2020. ” -905 tapes
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Ducktails/Rangers split 7″ $6
“Ridgewood, New Jersey’s patron saint of palm tree listening takes a break from the real estate market to strum out a couple summer sunset polaroid instrumentals. Rangers serves up a similarly faded slice of TV bumper music, “The Bride Of Marin,” that surfs down from the clouds on a rainbow-trailed wave of phasered guitar licks. Sleeve art by Spencer Longo. ” -not not fun
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CARL CALM “Dayglo Port” LP $17 (german import)
“Limited edition of 300 copies!
Carl Calm ist the solo project by Chicago citizen Eric Lanham of Caboladies. “Dayglo Port“ was recorded and mixed over two days in the tiny back bedroom of The Fact House (a house Chris and Eric of Caboladies used to live and host shows in Lexington, KY) in the fall with the windows wide open and gear eliminating any floor space. In contrast to Caboladies’ extensive jam-heavy explorations “Dayglo Port“ favors a more introspective and rural atmosphere recalling the mood of seminal home electronica classics such as Nuno Canavarro’s “Plux Quba“, Sunroof!’s “Cloudz“ or Microstoria’s “Init Ding“. Eric Lanham started playing music in 2006. His then roommate and longtime friend Ben Zoeller got him going and they started playing together. They then added Chris Bush and formed Caboladies. They were enthralled with the experimental music they saw coming through Lexington, KY (where they were all living) and decided to go for it. It started with pedals and feedback mangling and they eventually moved to samplers and synths. They did their first tour in 2007 with Three Legged Race (Hair Police). Chris and Eric moved to Chicago in 2009 and continued Caboladies as a duo. Been grooving ever since…. Although they are considered one of the spearheading groups of a new age/synth revival scene in the USA along with Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never, Caboladies have always been equally influenced by the likes of Francois Bayle, Gil Melle, Bernard Parmegiani, and other acousmatic composers, which clearly sets them apart from likeminded artists. “-dekorder
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Expo ‘70 / Rahdunes Split 12″ $10
“A limited edition split LP from two of the country’s most popular traveling noise syndicates. Expo 70 create a long and atmospheric drone track, taking up the entire side of the LP. Rahdunes chime in with three amazing tracks, some of which include drums (a first for them!) by Indra Dunis of Numbers. Limited to 500 copies with silk-screened covers, this one will be a crowd pleaser for sure.” -kill shaman
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Skin Graft “You Deserve Nothing” cassette $6
“Psychedelic scum electronics from Wyatt Howland. Intense dark zones and wet cold clutter. A real jaw dropper of pissed noise that at moments sounds as if Wyatt chose to set a modular synth rig on fire. The absolute best of OHIO.” -pizza night
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pine smoke lodge/deep magic split cassette $6
“Pine Smoke Lodge takes the listener deep in the woodlands, where moon light peaks, abated, through the old-growth trees while glistening sounds of bells, chimes and percussion lead the way. the whispers help keep the listener on the path, where he quickly slips into reverie. Deep Magic keeps the ears at ease with subtle, layered hums and sounds of nature. A constant underlying whir, comes in and out of focus, providing continuity while more layers build up. ltd. 65, art by adam. ” -sacred phrases
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Black Eagle Child “Born Underwater” b/w “The Arquebus” cassette $6
“Composition has always been a difficult process. When I decided to stick close to my comfort zone and start building music from foundations of guitar, writing music became a little easier. Before Black Eagle Child reached this point, my composition process did not exist. Mostly the result was failure, but from this lack of discipline also came a couple pieces I really felt proud of. Here they are finally in an official production.” -avant archive
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past utopia cassette $6
“Minimal drones wreathe through crisp air like autumn leaves. Bright reflections glisten as time is lost, bringing the focus to the pulsating high frequencies, which clear the mind. ltd. 65, art by adam. ” -sacred phrases
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Tracey Trance “Learning To Your Stuff” cassette $6
“Really nice tape of shorter tracks that covers a lot of the Tracey Trance territory — scuzzy blasts, wistful melodies, woozy speak-singing and a little sneak peak of the more rhythmic direction Tyler has been going in lately. Pro-dubbed tapes and hand-colored sleeves.” -eggy
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Kplr “Atomic Revolutions” cassette $6
“Electronic music has many faces, and sometimes placing a face can be a heck of a task. With Atomic Revolutions, Kplr’s Dex Brightman & Jair Espinoza have issued the challenge: “What is it?” What are you listening to? The duo delivers demented expressions issued through that ever-taboo marriage of analog and digital synthesis. In 45 minutes, Kplr runs up and down the range of audible frequencies, turning the mood from bewilderment to terror and sometimes just back to good old-fashioned fun. Visualizations of grainy, black-and-white laboratories full of slight figures milling about in white jumpsuits would not be far off the mark. Atomic Revolutions is maybe too obvious a title for this over-the-top science-experiment-gone-wrong; nonetheless, there it is. Titles and imagery aside, it is really the music that will thrill you here. Truly abstract electronics from two explorers looking to break new ground.” -avant archive
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Cloudland Canyon “Silver Tongued Sisyphus” LP $13
“Recorded in Brooklyn, Germany, and Memphis, Silver Tongued Sisyphus followed Cloudland Canyon’s well-received Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004. The album’s secular calls to prayer with humming, looping, and loping ambient passages are interspersed with bursting rhythmic energy and agitated guitar lines. Pulling influences from the foggy ether of generations past, the band stakes their claim to the shadows of the cult musical culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s German underground scene. Live shows sound like unauthorized soundtracks to netherworld versions of The Swimmer or Scorceror. Originally released on vinyl in an edition of 96 copies on Germany’s Mediamuerte label, Silver Tongued Sisyphus is now available once again.” -holy mountain
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Uneven Universe/Sam Goldberg “Beast / Falling Pyramid ” tour split cassette $6
“A split of incredibly contrasting tracks. Uneven Universe’s “Beast” is a psychedelic romp of electronics and sax that sounds as if the master had been cut into thousands of pieces then pasted back together. Disjointed yet still cohesively meshed together in a steady current of killer creepy improvisations. A track that adequately represents the best of the michigan youngbloodz. Sam’s side pairs up his reverberated guitar styles with his current exploration of minimalist sequencing and analog synthesizer droning.” -pizza night
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Baronic Wall “Traditional Appearance” cassette $6
“On “Traditional Appearance” Baronic Wall taps even further into his curious universe of synthetic detritus. Casios, drum machines, and madcap Welsh mouthings hurtle across eleven tracks of doofy, minimal pop freak-out, obliterating any partition between genius, dementia, and prepubescent clap trap. While ‘nostalgic’ visions dominate the musical atmosphere of hypnagogia, Baronic Wall seems bent on creating bona fide futurisms—even presenting a dialectical criticism of them: cyborg anxiety, apocalyptic human hunting, ultramodern horror romances. BW’s vision is abrasive, unprecedented, and absurd, and he knows it. The truth is nobody understands Baronic Wall; his vision is unique to the point of total befuddlement. In the true Baronic rearward fashion, the title “Traditional Appearance” tells you everything that this tape is not..” -goaty tapes
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Death Light “In the Chamber” cassette $6
“Loner of all loners, for all we know Death Light takes pride in remaining almost completely unheard. Despite the obscure origins of the Death Light project and the near-total anonymity of its maker, the music really lays itself bare. Slow, low, and deliberate acoustic guitar plunks and a sonorous croon sit right at the front of the mix. Synthesizers and post-industrial drum clunks flicker across the background. We might infer some neofolk influences, but I have no doubt that Death Light is far too involved in his own world to let any established musical genus penetrate very deep..” -goaty tapes
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Swanox “Dawnrunner” cassette $6
“Anthony Swanox has been shadow-walking the greater west coast for a half-decade-plus at this point by our count, operating in various capacities, from helming the moss-cult micro-label Caligula Recordings to contributing percussion for live Sudden Oak actions to his own erratic stream of tranced private modes under the Swanox moniker. Past CDRs and tapes were bathed in a blacker light, crawling through various doom-haunted ambient sludge parking lots, but Dawnrunner hitchhikes down a markedly different road. The album opens with a hot springs soak in glowing, long-form new age ritual electricity before slowly dissolving into a patchwork of mumbly, loner drone-folk and hypnotized dusk hikes through fields of wet ferns. There’s an inner peace vibe to many of the B side pieces that’s never been heard in a Swanox sound-structure before, and the evolution feels brave. A strange collection of questing songs from a rad west coast lifer. Pro-dubbed cassettes in cases with cool photo portrait covers of Swanox’s brother, smoking by a beamer in the forest. Take the ride. Edition of 100.” -not not fun
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HEALTH / FOOT VILLAGE / CAPTAIN AHAB / JASON FORREST remix 12″ $11
“Another Ravesploitative 12″ destined to get any dance party ramped up to its sexual peak. So have fun with this mysterious combination of HEALTH, Foot Village, Captain Ahab, and Jason Forrest. All parties bringing their best to become a strange entity indeed.” -ravesploitation
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Pink Luminous Invocation “The Pink Sea” 1-sided C60 cassette $9 (belgium import)
“Riding high on the lazy waves of pink twilight, this journey sets off with an illuminated chorus of exotic northern sounds before inhaling a nasty smoke of dark feedback. 100 copies.” -sloow tapes
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Mi Ami “Echonoecho” b/w “Version” 12″ single $6
brand new mi ami single on Quarterstick/Touch & Go Records. Members of Black Eyes. very dubby/funky
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Eternal Tapestry “Invisible Landscape” LP $14(repress)
“Last year’s Mystic Induction LP captured PDX wah junkies Eternal Tapestry at their hairiest hour, awash in color trails and nightshade flashbacks. Since then they’ve reverted back to their original power trio line-up, circled the tube amps, and written a fresh, flooring set of brand new electric rippers. And The Invisible Landscape is the fruit of this from-bliss-to-blistering evolution/revolution. It’s packed deep with six kraut-punk psych-shredders, huffing fumes from the twin guitar hero dogfighting of Dewey Mahood and Nick Bindeman while drum demon Jed Bindeman does barrel rolls and nosedives into the eye of the storm. There’s also a rawness and warmth to the production that helps the songs bleed into the ear with more electricity than before, and the riff/vocals interplay is streamlined for optimum mainlining. A fiery high point for a fiery high band. Hit it or quit it. Randomly colored LPs (hues range from silt grey to swamp green and beyond) in pro-printed jackets with art by the band plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500.” -not not fun
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driphouse “FM radio ’10” cassette $7
“two new workouts from nyc technician daren ho. longer pieces, blissed out melodies & daren’s patented “soloing” technique. dynamic & peaceful, meditative & fresh.” -Agents of Chaos.
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Blank Realm “Heatless Ark” LP $13
“We’ve touted this Brisbane clan on multiple occasions in the past (the Mind Peril and The Returner tapes on NNF) but they say the third time’s the charm and clearly that’s true because not only is Heatless Ark Blank Realm’s vinyl debut, it’s also by far the weirdest, deepest, punkest, freakiest, aka BEST album the band’s ever made. And so for all these reasons (and more) we are happy as heaven to offer it up for the world. The porous BR line-up allows for a lot of instrumentation flux and this transience translates on record here to a strange range of agendas: open electric ecstasies (“Fabulous Terror Index”), dissonant outsider-wave art-punk (“Saint Tegram,” “Heatless Ark”), loner Jandek-y demos (“Blues Helix,” “Blues Helix 2”), slow-diving femme-sung dream-gaze (“Till I Clear My Own Name”), and beyond. Varied, wild, and intensely ambitious, this LP establishes Blank Realm as high on the high heap of the rich Australian underground, with miles more expansion potential. Hopefully western world touring plans can congeal soonishly to drive the point home. Black vinyl LPs in beautiful metallic ink smoke-ritual jackets (these jpegs don’t do them justice) screenprinted by art-wizard Ryo from Topping Bottoms. Edition of 400.” -nnf
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DEEP MAGIC “planetary roots” cassette $8 (uk import)
“Deep Magic is the spiritual drone project of Alex Gray (Dreamcolour). Planetary Roots sees an exploration of the Deep Magic sound; new vistas are reached in this hour-long release which implements faraway climbing-yet-balanced stretches of sound. 75 copies on pro-dubbed white cassettes; printed labels; pro-printed j-cards.” -colour ride
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Panabrite “wizard chimes” cassette $6
“Submerged journey toward a glowing pearl; Juno-60 driven fantasy soundtrack. Seattle-based Panabrite is the brainchild of synth musician and record collector Norm Chambers. Wizard Chimes carefully layers drifting arpeggiated melodies, forming the soundtrack to an epic journey through fantasy landscapes.” -gift tapes
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ZS – “Arms” LP $12
“Simultaneously complex and minimal, avant-garde post-jazz composers, ZS new full length “Arms” offers nearly 50 minutes of insane new studio recordings. “Brooklyn quartet Zs play the real hard, real minimal, real painstakingly worked-out rock etudes that kids with beards and concentrated stares prick up their ears for. However, the real news is, this stuff actually does rock, though perhaps not as ragingly as bands to who they’re likely to be compared (Orthrelm, Don Caballero, Flying Luttenbachers). It helps that I first heard Zs live: four guys (drums, guitar, guitar+keyboard, saxophone) seated facing each other, sheet music and stand-lights illuminating some very focused faces, and playing stuff that pounded a lot more than you might think given the monkish air of the room”. – Dominique Leone / pitchforkmedia.com. Vinyl version of the new full length studio recording, an initial run of 500 on opaque white. ” -gilgongo records
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Mountain Fold Music Journal issue #3 $5
“The third issue features:
– Oren Ambarchi
– Rowland S. Howard
– Pink Reason
– Release The Bats
– Sun Araw
– UV Race
Cover artwork by Tom Polo
72 pages. 148mm x 210mm. Perfect bound. Softcover. Full colour offset.
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Mountain Fold Music Journal Issue #2 $5
“Mountain Fold is an independently published music quarterly based in Sydney, Australia. An interview-based magazine concentrating on both Australian and international acts, Mountain Fold also acts as a forum to discuss art, film, literature and culture, both high and low. Issue #2 of Mountain Fold Music Journal features interviews with and artwork by Sean Bailey, Philip Brophy, Circle Pit, The Dead C, Wet Hair and Woods. Cover artwork by Rhys Lee. 72 pages, full colour offset print, perfect bound, A5 format.” – Mountain Fold.
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Mountain Fold issue #1 $3
“Mountain Fold is independently published music quarterly based in Sydney, Australia. It is an interview-based magazine concentrating on both Australian and international acts. While primarily music focused, Mountain Fold also acts as a forum to discuss art, film, literature and culture, providing the reader with intelligent and informed interviews. The publication is available for free throughout Australia. Internationally, the only cost occurred to stockists will be to cover postage. Issue #1 features: – Beaches – Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Fabulous Diamonds – Naked On The Vague – Michael Rother – Songs” -Mountain Fold
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DUCKTAILS- “LOST” cassette $7
“30 minute collage style cassette combines outtake from the new record, plus some lost gems from the past. limited to 200 for his European Tour” -fuck it tapes
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Dlx Othr “Nineties Youth Experience” cassette $6
“Controls more or less permanently set for cat shit and a hammer. Gutter-sourced and wooden-fingered collage of twin guitar assault from the latest iteration of the ongoing Bee Mask/Skin Graft collab. Disgusting patinas on elaborate bronze machines. Hot coals/black holes uneasy contemplation energy, with an unexpectedly quiet/majestic finish. Mark McGuire (Emeralds) and Nate Scheible make cameo appearances, amid fragments culled from wasted home jams and performances at the Tower2012 in Cleveland.-deception island
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GITCHE-ANAHMI-BEZHEU – ‘MAHPIYA SKA IN: GUIDE TO NOWHERE PLATEAU’ cassette $6
“Abysmal breezes whisk upon Mahpiya Ska, inducing a daze. Trickling delicacies disperse like eggs in the moss. Nothing to retain but the White Cloud guide, emerging from the cave, closer to Nowhere Plateau.” -rotifer cassettes
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Sohni Chambers “Yaw-Mah-Ha”cassette $6
“Cameron Stallones and Nick Malkin seem two sides of the same moebius strip. As Sun Araw, they take pride in an almost ascetic game of self-restraint; honing rhythms, programming synthesizers, and modulating a long chain of effects until they hit a perfect, balanced and restrained groove. Sohni Chambers, a side project in the truest sense of the word, finds an official release for pent up musical energies. As the title suggests, Stallones and Malkin are still traversing the same semiotic badlands, where pop culture signifiers are recontextualized with a dopey fineness and humor. But here Stallones and Malkin have a rougher and more honest program and the outcome drips with an unprecedented consecration. The rhythms hit harder, organ exercises swirl endlessly in a Dionysian blaze of primordial oneness. Ya they might induce the sort of meditation we’ve come to expect from Stallones and his cohorts, but the genuine focus of these works lies in a sort of fetishized materiality: it’s just a Galaxie 8180 electronic organ and a five-piece drumset—odd timbres, distortions, broken keys, buzzing echoes and all. A dialogue vocal howls that flits in and out concretizes the intimacy of this musical space; while Stallones and Malkin are indeed wizards of levitated, shamanistic, and disembodied musical realities, here we see them straight on; two bros just letting shit out, warts and all..” -goaty tapes
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Sleetmute Nightmute ‘Night of the long knives’ LP $13
*RADDEST BAND. IF YOU ARE INTO NO-WAVE EVEN REMOTELY, THIS IS ESSENTIAL. PLUS THIS IS A PIECE OF HISTORY BECAUSE OF THE DELAY OF THIS RECORD..WAS SUPPOSED TO COME OUT ON TMU IN 06 AND THEN WAS STUCK IN LIMBO FOR YEARS*
“500 copies. Comes w/digital download, poster and weighs 180 grams. This is a document of one of my favorite bands. They existed for only two years [DNT note: 2003/4-2005/6?] but they will now shred forever.” -fast weapons
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Lawrence English ‘A Colour For Autumn’ LP $15
“Edition of 300 copies total, silkscreened packaging. When it comes to contemporary experimental and drone music, one of the first names on the team sheet should always be Australia’s own Lawrence English. When he’s not busy running one of the best and most innovative labels around, Room40, or playing in the modular synth duo Holy Family, he’s cranking out incredible solo works for the likes of Touch Music and 12k. This, his first full-length available on vinyl, was originally released on the latter and finds new life inside these black analog grooves. “A Colour for Autumn” is the second in a series of albums from English that explore the changing seasons and his innate ability to transform such esoteric imagery into sound is immediately on display. ”Droplet” opens the record and immediately grabs you and cradles you beneath undercast skies. Dean Roberts’ lends voice to the track, giving it an otherworldly feeling but also a degree of warmth against the underlying sea of tones. But it’s on “Watching it Unfold” where the album really takes flight. English’s simple guitar patterns reek of nostalgic debris. As the piece coalesces and the leaves change from green to gold, everything gets washed over by brassy drones. The horns return, but more muddled, on “Galaxies of Dust” and add another element of cacaphony to an already dizzying track. It’s in passages like there were English’s incredible compositional talent shines. Fennesz lends his electronic expertise to “The Surface of Everything.” Whenever I hear this, I always think of crisp October nights, the smell of chimney smoke perfuming the air while you wax nostalgic about summers past. English provides the spine with his methodical crystal-toned guitar exercises but it’s the added crackle and texture from Fennesz that makes this the stand-out song on the album. There’s so much depth and subtlty to “A Colour for Autumn” that it would be easy to gloss over on first listen. On repeated trips, however, the whole picture reveals itself. This is an approachable album full of all the emotion and understated beauty that I associate with the fall. English covers the spectrum expertly. And then, as the glassy remnants of “…And Clouds for Company” begin to shift and fade away, you can smell the snow coming and winter is almost here.” -sweat lodge guru/digitalis
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Dylan Ettinger “Bringin’ The Heat” cassingle $4
“Companion cassingle to the Smokin’ 7 inch (NNF177) finds Ettinger out on his own, sans The Heat, but even without back-up he still brings it. “Bringin’ The Heat” is a killer coast guard coda, searchlights fanning out, SWAT Team guitar licks, hypnotized Kevlar keyboard prisms, delicate synth wah surf spray misting up your fuschia Oakleys. It’s make-it-or-break-it time; be a pro. The other song on here is “Cancer,” which washes over the closing credits as the cast and info scroll down and people leave the theater. A melancholic cocaine-y synth-pop outro ode with multiple micro-solos and some defeated echo vocals crooning out the final fade-to-black vibes: we did what we could, it was what it was, but forget it Jake that’s life on the squad, another day another dollar (or something). Material repeats on both sides to save you some flipping. Pro-imprinted cassettes in full-color J-cards with art by NNF. Edition of 125. ” -not not fun
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V/A- “WELCOME HOME/DIGGIN’ THE UNIVERSE” cassette $7
featuring ducktails, woods, run dmt, skygreen leopards, moon duo, etc. “”It’s true–the sons and daughters of Homestead, Xpressway and first-wave Drag City (et al.) are now making good music. The ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and ’00s are all there, bound together by shitty tape machines, reverb and easy chord changes, but melody is back and so is the joy of jamming a perfectly mangled pop song. Welcome Home might hit some new kids the way Human Music or Nuggets did back in their day. In any case, it’s one of those rare compilations you can play straight through and over again.”-Glenn Donaldson. All tracks (excepting WHITE FENCE’s “The Love Between”) are exclusive to this release.” -fuck it tapes
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sundrips cassette $6
“This audio is constantly staying active- quivering, shifting and hovering. The constant phase change instigates meditation. Portions of the tape ripen, while others liquefy. Strings shudder and futures are told. ltd. 65, art by adam. ” -sacred phrases
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Mama Baer / Kommissar Hjuler Allstar-Band split cassette $8 (german import)
split tape on tape tektoniks from germany
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xNoBBQx / Bruce Russell. Split cassette $9 (new zealand import)
“Swarm minimalism’s an imaginary genus, but both of these sides invoke hive spirits from an ultra limited instrumental capital. Matt Earle and Nick Dan’s crashy blues and slowly volatile trench/crest punk is made up from guitar and drums but it sounds like the fly-tipping of an entire neighborhood’s broken cutlery on some credulous English garden. Ripping cassette-recorder solo two-thirds through, decides to drink and burble the mix for about a minute probably through incapacitated puzzlement? Not really Nigerian pop music, but if Jùjú means ‘something being thrown’ then these two fit the description. Flip has to be one of the wildest manifestations of Russell’s stereo guitar Qigong actions – bustling and pumpy heterodynes and crepitating silences conjured like paper wasps in some cyclone-like resonance. Exorcised but in no way removed from the premises. Pretty sure he’s a Warlock. Some of you may know him?.” -Dungeon Taxis
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Raccoo-oo-oon “s/t” 7″ $6 *WAYY OUT OF PRINT, WAREHOUSE FIND*
“Released along side their newest full length, “Behold Secret Kingdom”, Iowa City’s Raccoo-oo-oon’s self titled 7″ has three new and exclusive songs, going from dark, erie broken layers of cello, vocals and percussion (Mud Mound), to the precise, triumphant and uplifting, post-everything feelings of the actual song, “Behold Secret Kingdom”.”- gilgongo records GET THIS, GET THIS!!!
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Ensemble Economique “Psychical” LP $13
“Brian Pyle is well-known for his enterprising shamanism as one half of Nor Cal improv gurus Starving Weirdos but when off-roading in his Ensemble Economique buggy he seems to stumble onto even weirder psychogenic artifacts. Psychical is Pyle’s freshest full-length and easily his most drugged and dense. Thick, humid banks of synth-fog descend over looped cult hand-drum patterns, strangely panned waves of brainwash tones, and snippets of third world voices mumbling about blood and marijuana. As the name half-jokingly implies, EE is 100% Pyle’s creation intrument-wise, although his wife Phoenix does intone some possessed doom poetry over the crushing war drums of “Forever Eyes” and Tom Carter (of Charalambides) cameos with some searing white light guitar shrapnel on the creep-out raga of “Real Things.” All the pieces dissolve into one another, giving Psychical a dark-trip soundtrack mood, an upriver lost soul convoy into hostile off-radar territories, a thousand spectral voices misting down like blackening monsoon clouds. A total haunter, and an LP we’ve been spinning many midnights around NNF HQ. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with occult VHS artwork by Manda Beth Brown. Edition of 470. “-not not fun
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Street Gnar “Street Gnar EP” cassette $6
“Totally breezy, effortless pop. You just slip into it like talking to an old friend. This is the latest missive from the Void Skateshop crew who are ripping it up in Kentucky, totally on a roll right now. Check out the Jovontaes tape if you haven’t yet. Street Gnar is hitting the road next month, North-East and Mid-West in early June if you are lucky enough to live in those parts. Silk screened covers, pro-dubbed tapes.” -eggy tapes
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The Honeys “Phraze Haze” cassette $6
“The Honeys are your friends. They are two of your smart, talented friends who decided to start making music together because that’s what creative people do in the small city where you live. When you listen to their music it sounds like your two friends making music together, and it sounds like the city you live in and the lives being lived in it. Kersti’s voice is honest and clear, and her guitar playing energetic and intuitive. Jeff’s voice is rough and emotional, and his drumming simple and effective. These songs have a magnetic attraction. I have listened to this tape many many times. Recorded by Nick Bindeman and Zachary Reno. BACK IN PRINT! PRO-DUBBED ON OLIVE GREEN TAPES!.” -eggy tapes
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Pageants – “s/t” cassette $6
“Pageants hail from Melbourne Australia and take up some of the same scene space as bands like Super Wild Horses, the Twerps, the Ancients etc. Surfing on a kind of upbeat but droney reverb soaked guitar pop sensibility, they ride out with catchy somewhat melancholy vocal verses that remind us a bit of the best of the 90’s Byrds influenced bands from the USA, the UK and NZ. Pageants totally has the epic jangly guitar pop sound down but do it in there own way that has the same sort of fresh feel and brightness of the recent Twerps tape. Perfect summertime jams..” -night people
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The Savage Young Taterbug – “Syrupy Evenings” cassette $6
“Fresh off an epic US tour with Tracey Trance and Sci Fi Sam, this new tour tape of lost wandering and hazy abandon delves further into Taterbug’s obsession with burnt American musical detritus. Recorded pre tour in loner isolation in his mom’s Des Moines basement, Syrupy Evenings falls further into dreamy gospel stompers, loner bluesy piano ballads, AM radio fuzz and funky drug jams. Taterbug’s quirky karaoke style got even weirder for this one..” -night people
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Broken Water – “s/t” cassette $6
“With a fresh new debut LP on Night-People catching some attention, we follow up with a limited cassette of Broken Waters early demo material. Recorded just a few months before the songs for the album these six tracks of killer drumming, shimmering wall of noise guitars, dreamy vocals, and psychedelic shoegaze showcase how killer Broken Water was right out of the gate..” -night people
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Orphan Fairytale “Dragons of the Deep” cassette $6
“Orphan Fairytale is as strange and enchanting as the name implies. Dragons of the Deep is sublime lo-fi exotica and minimalist melodicism from a cold and perfect land. Eva van Deuren crafts a fluid sound sculpture from snarling dogs, electronic tom-toms from a cable-access suspense movie, slushing snow, malfunctioning music boxes, interstellar transmissions intercepted by common household appliances–sounds returning from a distant, failing memory, reassembled in impossible configurations. A perfect soundtrack for your next fever delirium.” -rampart tapes
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Xiphiidae – ‘Sewn Within a Circle’ double cassette $10
“Recalls recordings passed, circa 2002 to 2009 – has the same kind of “feel” as ‘Crystal Marvelous Fruit’ (released late in ’08 on ExBx) in that it’s a collection of older material sorting through a wide array of instrumentation and sourcing but this also includes select tracks from the first few Xiphiidae releases on Housecraft like: ‘Honeyguide’, ‘Our Bodies Anointed With Lightning’, Royallen split CDr, and ‘Celestial Rag Rug’, as well as a couple tracks from the s/t cassette release on Scumbag early in 2006 – all with a pinch of virgin material/fold-out art and here’s our #100″-housecraft
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NASA “High Cube” cassette $6
“One of the most recognizable structures at the Walt Disney World Resort, Spaceship Earth plots a timeline from the origins of prehistoric man to the dawn of the 21st century. This post-everything Orlando trio, likewise, takes you on a half hour headtrip thru the dawning of blown-out blues to the trance-inducing psychedelia of tomorrow with a little slow-burning drone and groove-damaged stoner sludge along the way. Recorded in 2007, High Cube leaves no sonic bowl left untoked, picking up where past releases on Not Not Fun and H-tapes left off.” -baked
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Pocahaunted “Threshold” 7″ $6
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, bands to solo projects – it’s all the same arc. And here it is, the final RIP action by star-crossed NNF institution Pocahaunted and the only recorded document of the final triforce-vocal line-up featuring Leyna Noel on keys/crooning/dance magic. On the final day of their 3-week spring ’10 US tour, the band booked a session at Louder Studios in San Francisco with Tim Green (Nation Of Ulyssess/Fucking Champs, etc) and it marks Poca’s first & last time working in a proper studio setting. The results blaze/amaze. “Threshold” was written on the road and melts through a river mistress intro before revving into a tense kraut-funk burner with catchy (and surprisingly non-FX-soaked) femme-soul vocables cascading down from every side. The B, “Echolocation,” is a tranced ghost-reggae comedown ballad and classic slow-dance live staple. Nimble bass maneuvering by whimsy princess Diva Dompe leads the melody up through the choruses into the torch-song bridge climax that leaves everybody on the floor. Roll the credits, this is the end. Black vinyl 7 inches in sleeves with collage/paint artwork by Manda B Brown and Diva Dompe, plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500.” -not not fun
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Nathan Mclaughlin “echolocation #3” cassette $6
“MS-20 & room-length tape loops; flowing ambient subsonic immersion. Nathan Mclaughlin (currently residing in Sauk Centre, Minnesota) reveals a new chapter in his recent series, following up a previous release on Digitalis. Echolocation #3 is ambient music, rich in color and mood. Layering vintage synths on room-length tape loops, Mclaughlin crafts music for meditation..” -gift tapes
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Second Family “Dirty River” C35 cassette $9 (belgium import)
“Crunching, raw and abstract psychedelic blues improvisations by this collective featuring Clay Ruby of Davenport and Burial Hex fame. Tasty keys, moody rhythms and two long, relaxing and dirty tunes. Edition of 70.” -sloow tapes
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Plante – ‘Temples On High’ cassette $6
“Andrew Plante lays down a thick set of amplified guitar drones with support from Breathing Flowers’ McKinley Jones on synth. A 40 minute slow-motion drift that ends in a field of white light – it’s amazing what you can find in Kansas City these days. Limited to 100 pro-dubbed cassettes.” -sweat lodge guru
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Dylan Ettinger “New Age Outlaws” LP $13
or + bonus cassette $17
“Back in March of this year we released Dr. Ettinger’s New Age Outlaws album on cassette (NNF192) and it was great. But artists – in case you didn’t know – ain’t easily satisfied, and so Dylan felt compelled to return to the master tapes and further articulate the new age sci-fi ambient drift jazz vision of those pieces into something even grander and more elegant. Sounded like a worthwhile cause to us, so here’s New Age Outlaws: The Director’s Cut, mastered fresh for vinyl and bedazzled with new layers of robot noir synth lines, back alley cyber sax, and insomniac drum machine heartbeats. Dylan even architected a new track sequence and re-named a couple songs. There’s also a bonus feature: for only an extra couple bucks you can buy the record with an exclusive supplementary D Ettinger cassingle featuring a brand new track plus a Human League cover! Black vinyl LPs in jackets with stunning alien vista artwork by Dan McPharlin, plus a photocopied cardstock insert. Edition of 490. “-not not fun
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Umberto “Prophecy Of The Black Widow” LP $13
“The one Umberto performance we had the rad fortune to bear witness to involved at least a dozen dudes, dads, and ladies all on stage wearing sunglasses at night and shredding keyboards/keytars bathed in a sea of fog machinery and strobe lights and extraterrestrially-costumed interpretive dancers. Shit was BEYOND. Umberto mastermind Matt Hill allegedly went to legit music school back in the day and used to play bass for Expo 70 (Justin/Expo released the debut Umberto tape/CDR, From The Grave, on his Sonic Meditations label) before splintering into his current electro-satanic Goblin worship guise – and we for one can’t get enough. Prophecy Of The Black Widow is his sophomore LP and though the badass evil Italo goth-synth horror-score blueprint of Grave remains, the main variation is subtle vibe-shift from 70s Argento/Carpenter-isms into more early/mid-80s new wave creep-scapes. There’s still plenty of eerie nightmare keyboard riffs and vintage witch-disco breakouts but the synths squelch with more of a neon retrofuturist bent and there’s even one brazenly feelgood soaring-into-the-sunset closing credits anthem (the literally-titled “Everything Is Going To Be Okay”). Whatever prophecy Prophecy is foretelling, we’re on board. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with sick fake-3D lettering and art by Seth Johnson. Edition of 485. “-not not fun
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FORM A LOG + TOTEM MOLD GROWTH SPLIT cassette $6
“alert! bizarro happenings going down here. tape-slayers form a log, the newish philadelphia trio of ren (god willing), noah (social junk), and rick (the new flesh), mingle and injure analog loop-dee-loops in heteroclite formation. remember that scene from khan with the brain bugs? so do i. more tiny blips on the radar from totem mold growth, bouncing insect language off the walls to see what sticks. so weird it just might work! ” -905 tapes
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keith fullerton whitman “live generators 1.5” cassette $7
“this tape needs no introduction. kfw has been killing it. two 20 minute live pieces showcasing keith’s mastery at transformation of environment in real time! just mind blowing stuff here. great moment on the b side with an angry spectator yelling at keith.” -Agents of Chaos
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any given sunday “take me to your dealer” cassette $7
“collaboration between keith whitman & geoff mullen. perfectly paced side long pieces. slow rhythms, rising & falling cascades of synth voices, moments of waiting & diving back in. I’ve been playing this a lot lately, in the afternoon.” -Agents of Chaos
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Banana Head/Rosemary Krust split cassette $6
“Banana Head and Rosemary Krust obsess over the basic structures of popular music, deconstructing the same formulas until they dissolve into reflective plainness. Banana Head nods to the wedding ballad, schmatlz indulged to the point of confusion, eagerness and imprudence, a distant relative way too old to be that hammered bleeding an oldie-but-a-goodie into monotone. Rosemary Krust draws out the essentials of guitar-drums-keys, abstracts, flattens them into hissing post-pop atmospherics. Paired up like two Moby Dicks of dopeness.” -goaty tapes
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Silk Ears “Bed Room Water” cassette $6
“New Aussie three-piece Silk Ears seriously push the limits of basement naiveté. Songs continually threaten to fall apart; slothful male/female vocals materialize briefly and then fall back behind the sweltering hiss of Dictaphone fidelity. Still, the Ears pack in a healthy range of moves; post-punk guzzlers, languid, syrupy off-beat pop, and some darker spooks. It only takes a second to trace their roots to the Nueve Invention of Door and the Window or the scummier bits of Flying Nun, but Silk Ears seem to take even greater cues from the Surreal: the House/domestic, the ‘schizophrenic’ and abnormal..” -goaty tapes
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Smegma/Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer split cassette $7
“There’s very little I can say about these puff-poetry sound pundits that hasn’t already been said at least twice over the last forty years. Smegma and Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer’s long-standing shared interest in mutilating neo-con philistinism take on very different forms; while Smegma indulge in the aural vacuum of radio randos and FX ooze, K. Hjuler & M. Baer blast Hugo Ball’s voluble word play into the 21st century. On this tape, however, we find both bands almost making actual ‘music’; laying down some rhythmic infrastructure and arranging their weirdness accordingly. Smegma tumble through some Henry Flynt/Harry Partch trans-American hoboism, goosebumps gloop, and set a new bar for sleaze rock; K. Hjuler & M. Baer smear their rantings across the lilting wonk of a music box..” -goaty tapes
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Pine Smoke Lodge – ‘El-Ahrairah’ cassette $6
“Conceived in fire, wreathed in smoke and wrought from the charred and blackened bones – 68 minutes of nocturnal textures and arboreal emissions from the enigmatic free-drone duo known only as Pine Smoke Lodge. Limited to 100 pro-dubbed cassettes.” -sweat lodge guru
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Sparkling Wide Pressure – ‘Nowhere Time / Cruising Reflections’ cassette $6
“Sparkling Wide Pressure mines rich tones and melodies from his electric guitar, performing psychedelic slight-of-hand that pulls the colors from your speakers like the proverbial rabbit from the hat. Limited to 100 pro-dubbed cassettes.” -sweat lodge guru
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caboladies “atomic weekender” cassette $6
tape reissue of oop lp on digitalis. released on smooth tapes
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Dirty Beaches – “Night City” cassette $6
“This all instrumental Dirty Beaches cassette has us really excited about the kind of depth and space that is created in the approach to this project, with a Debut LP coming out on Night People later this year the amount of variety being showcased in recent recordings and demos leads us to think that something truly great is coming together. Night City stretches out like an endless shimmering world of cinematic movement and light, layers of synth and organ jamming glide over a steady backdrop of analogue rhythm machines and textural ambience. This cassette is as good as anything released on Night-People and is the kind of music that could complete any moment or movement in travel to the extent of just simply ing to this while getting from any point A to point B.” -night people
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EMA – “Little Sketches On Tape” cassette $6
“EMA is Erika Anderson of the recently broken up long running west coast band Gowns. Despite being recorded when Gowns was still active this cassette seems the perfect moving on of sorts for Erika’s vast creative potential. This release of solo guitar, piano, voice, and tape collage couldn’t be blessed with more heartfelt beauty, it seems almost impossible as is, the amount of intimate feeling that resounds in the tape. The tape itself taking on properties of the composition used as an instrument in and of itself to accompany Erika’s amazing voice and lyrics. This release took a long time to fully come together and actually come out, it was well worth the wait, it doesn’t get any better then this. ..” -night people
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FLOWER MAN “ANOTHER OZONE HEX” cassette $6
“Chris Bush (OF CABOLADIES) has been REALLLLY blowin my mind with his solo project Flower Man. After seeing a preformance of him while on tour in lexington, i was hooked. An equally beautifully reserved and chaotic offering of completely unbelievable synthesizer music. High end crunch mixed with new-agey pad-synth sounds play off each other in un-real and head-spinning harmonic motions. Engaging and mezmorizing. Truly amazing. Reminds me of Eno’s “ambient 3: day of radiance”. This releases’ last track “wonder what you are” wlll have you cooped up in front of your tape deck playing it again and again and again! be warned.. nicely color printed, in an edition of 75 copies.” -catholic tapes *normal case version*
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Baronic Wall – “The Golden Sword/In Granite Parlor” cassette $6.50
“Baronic Wall is former Iowa City resident Jack Gilbert who recently moved back to his home turf in the Welsh countryside. This cassette is a re-release of the ultra limited self released “Golden Sword” cassette and the Agents of Chaos issued “In Granite Parlor”. After a series of destructive freak out prone live shows Baronic Wall was put to tape with help from Jeff Witscher and what found its way onto those tapes is a fucking weird stew of sci fi synth punk and sordid artistry. Dry as hell poetically fucked British ranting over torched keyboard sludge, the mannerism of this music are obessesion with detritus. There is a Lambkin/ vintage Fazzini vibe here, and the far out heights of this spaceship see no bounds. Art by SDReed.” -night people
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Pink Priest – “Gulls Diving Into the Ocean” cassette $6.50
“Pink Priest is Arkansas resident William Cody Watson, who also spends time co-running the Bathetic Label, and playing with Wild Safari. Real deep loner zone feelings on this cassette. Low rumbling synth and electronics blowing over a windswept landscape by the sea. Isolating, atmospheric and gloomy but with subtle touches of light almost airy tones floating in and out to create a deeper more dynamic composition. New LP out on La Station Radar as well, and more on the horizon for sure. Art by SDReed.” -night people
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The Pheromoans – “s/t” cassette $6.50
“The Pheromoans are from the UK and poses some of the best forward potential in contemporary artsy garage punk. With prior 7inches out on Savory Days, Convulsive, and Yakisakana, a prolific discography is already in the works. Comparisons have been made to the Fall, the Shadow Ring, the Scrotum Poles etc. and that all fits well and good, but this cassette even further highlights The Pheromoans distinct collage inspired mess of lo fi spoken word junk, savage riffing, and pop tinted abandon. Really great stuff. Art by SDReed.” -night people
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DuneBuggy – “Suck Me Through a Flavor Straw” cassette $6.50
“New DuneBuggy via the Garbes/Taterbug axis, two longer jammers. A side is DeNudes loner guitar vibes transitioning into a short garage punk stomper. B side is Dunebuggys best moment yet, a long upbeat organ ripper, raw and on the spot, hazed, sad and heartfelt. Art by RGarbes.” -night people
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ester poland “hippi, kanuuna ja Kiinan torni” cassette $7
“man, finland… it never stops does it? it really never does. just when you think the terrain has been scoured and every last pore drained til the last drop, something new comes along with such star-searching bombast that you get knocked square on your ass all over again. ester poland are the latest in a long line of impeccable sound sculptors out of finland, but this screeching duo are riding their own astral baby well into the new millenium. guitar freakouts worm there way into cavernous squalls, stretching from here to forever. even when they pull things back and break out the acoustic strum, there’s so much cacaphony happening under the surface that you’ll never escape the chaos. these blasts are psychedelic as fuck and will strip you down to the absolute core. finland wins again. edition of 60, pro-dubbed green-foil foliage. ” -digitalis
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disguises “aeolian hookers” cassette $7
“let the insanity begin! these beasts from toronto follow-up their mind-melting LP from last year, “post-mortem depression,” with absolute avalanche of hell. jagged guitar swirls get the beat down from a pommel horse of drum bombs. screams escape from the abyss only to be sucked back under by crawling basslines. and then the guitars come at you again and again and again. there’s no avoiding this minefield – you’re gonna lose a leg. this is clusterfuck city folks and disguises are your tour guides. these jagged excursions will cut your face open and make you want to apologize for bleeding all over the brand new carpet. edition of 80, pro-dubbed with broken golden fairy art and smeared labels.” -digitalis
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DRIPHOUSE “Romati & Gains” cassette $6
“Daren Ho, former shredking of Raccoo-oo-oon and recent NYC transplant, has been melting minds like a hot knife thru warm space butter under his synth-ladden solo moniker Driphouse through a handful of releases from the likes of Night People and Ho’s own Gel imprint. Here, Daren offers two intensely psychedelic excursions which lull the listener to a deep peaceful pyschosis, before dissolving into thin air. In a word, mesmerizing.” -baked
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HIVE MIND “beneath triangle and crescent” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
” first official release for Fag Tapes! the last few Hive Mind gigs i’ve seen have been real sick and it’s too bad the Super Street tape recorder missed out on all of them. studio recordings. edition 50.” -fag tapes
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The North Sea “Royal Arsenal” cassette $6
“Two ten minute tracks come smeared across this tape from Brad Rose’s The North Sea. Drone music, slowly shifting, and peppered with acoustic folk-oriented instruments and percussion, hinting at this artist’s background, but obviously looking forward to a drastic change in sound that is obvious from his recent releases under this project as well as activity in Ajilvsga. Color digital printing on a royal arsenal of metallic vellums; silver, gold, plum, purple. 2-panel j-card, 1 panel of real marble, an internal horizontal OBI, and silver labels. Edition of 100 on hi-bias chrome tapes. ” – black horizons
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Shearing Pinx – Haruspex EP 7″ $5
“Vancouver’s Shearing Pinx have been on fire lately, releasing one tripped out slab of no-wave goodness after another. This latest offering pushes onward with some of their most doped up freak-outs and weirdo jams. Until recently, the Pinx saved the wildest material for tapes, CDRs and the road, but as proved on their recent split with the Mutators, they can let loose on wax too. Haruspex is the next open door. Artwork by Nicholas MacMillian. Limited to 500 .” -divorce
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VIKING JEWS – WHEEL BITE TAPE $9 (swedish import)
“First proper release from Utmarkens Viking Jews, one of Gothenburgs most promising new acts for the moment. Hannes Norrvide explores the beauty of the endless summer with three droney tracks. Melancholic and very youthful stuff with sweet melodies. Warm and nostalgic. Wheel Bite has Concrete Surfing from his first tape as well as two new(er) tracks added. 24 minutes. LP on RTB to follow. 50 copies. ” -utmarken tapes
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soundpressings “s/t” cassette $6
“oklahoma turned out to be crimson red this year, but for those of us living here, we know that this place is a fucking hole of an enigma. case-in-point: soundpressings. this newly unearthed oklahoman gem came out of nowhere to blow our brains into piles of swiss cheese. the inimitable danny mitchell comes to us from out west in norman (via nathan young’s stomping grounds in tahlequah). soundpressings, though, is all over the map. hearing soundpressings is like wandering into a mountain of lost & found tapes from a million different sources, all playing at once. mitchell crafts these collages together in an original and addictive way, finding sweet, ghosted-out drones in the midst of a sheet of noise or a plodding, electronic rhythm. once you enter his domain, you never know where exactly you’ll end up. oklahoma’s not dead yet. limited to 80 copies, full color covers by mitchell.” -digitalis
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Woods – “Ram” 7″ $6 *WAYY OUT OF PRINT, WAREHOUSE FIND*
“Half of NYC band MENEGUAR (though everyone helps out on this recording)! Precise songwriting meets mind-expanding experimental folk. Beautifully recorded follow up to their double cassette on Fuck It Tapes and much more “song” oriented than their material on the already out of print split LP with Raccoo-oo-oon. Beyond intense full color art with a ram emerging from the dark, shady woods! For fans of everything from Amps for Christ to Little Wings to Wooden Wand.” -gilgongo records
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Sleep Over – “s/t” cassette $6
“This Austin three piece comprised of members: Christa Palazzolo, Sarah Brown, and Stefanie Franciotti is as fresh of a new band as they come. Featured recently on the sold out Bathetic tape comp “Dark as Night”. Sleep Over has a dreamy psychedelic pop/ druggie elctro pop sound that eludes to a sort of ethereal but dynamic minimalism that is as deep and heavy as it is lite and airy. Something beautiful and haunting runs through these four tracks to create a stunner of a first release by this great new band..” -night people
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Rene Hell – “Baroque Arcade” cassette $6
“Will anyone ever fully catch on, be able to keep track of, or catch up with Jeff Witscher’s mysterious output? like trying to understand alien technology, like feeling space and time itself like a drug, this cassette of new Rene Hell material falls easily amongst Witscher’s best offerings and falls like a prelude to his upcoming LP on Type. An intense abyss of ambiguous voices, decaying rhythm tracks, synth ambience, super hi fi production and panning techniques, Baroque Arcade endlessly stretches out from the speakers like some new world being born..” -night people
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warmth/medroxy progesterone acetate split 7″ $5
“One track from each on the vinyl, Limited to 300 total copies.” -small-doses
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Caboladies / Oneohtrix Point Never split cassette $7BACK IN STOCK!!
“This split unfolds as a singular and flowing journey. Caboladies reaches out to solar gods above while OPN wanders through the arid deserts of the mind and heart.” -nna tapes
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“The latest work from Portland, OR synthesizer veteran Daryl Groetsch. Layered, melodic analog synth music for astronauts that yearn for the earth below.” -nna tapes
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Dunian / Monster Rally ‘Split’ cassette $6
“This split collects sounds from two musical prodigies – one from Latvia, one from Ohio. Beats that speak to all cultures, classes, creeds and deeds. Dunian’s side is part wonk, part bass, part post-rave, all absolute neck-melting material. After the flip, Monster Rally conjures a tropical beat mirage that sounds like Madlib conducting your grandmother’s favorite cocktail hour orchestra. Each side fires you up for the other and yields maximum summertime repeat potential. Limited to 70 pro-dubbed cassettes. ” -sweat lodge guru
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Mirror to Mirror “Heart” cassette $6
“Beautiful synthesizer by the fairly new moniker of Alex Twomey (Jugular Forest label). Perfectly paced, orchestral ambient music that takes you places far beyond the “sit and listen” approach so commonly utilized at the moment. Highly inspired by the weight that came along with the massive fires literally feet from his home in the angeles national forest this summer.” -ekhein
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Toby Aronson “Tonal Music” cassette $6
“Toby Aronson brings forth a cosmic exploration of two acoustic instruments: the Pipe Organ and Gong. Toby lives in Burlington, VT.” -nna tapes
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SUN ARAW- “Boat Trip”- 12″ $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Boat Trip might be some hidden soundtrack to Donkey Kong warp-whistling straight into Ayahuasca Country. In about twenty minutes Sun Araw manages to navigate a psychedelic jungle cruise through canopy din & spooked drone, then he noses the boat out of the water and lifts into uncharted dub-spheres. The back half of this entranced tour is like being (fortunately) trapped inside an old Upsetters jam played at half-speed with twice the shaman-chant and reverb drenched percussion. Normally we wouldn’t trust taking this kind of trip with just anybody, but with wheel and rudder alike in the hands of Magic Lantern co-captain Cameron Stallones, we can sip our yage-of-choice in peace and share the Sun Araw vision as one. Originally issued on Stunned Records as a limited CDR, here it gets the deluxe vinyl treatment. Limited to 500 on black vinyl.” -woodsist
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DEAD MACHINES “MINISTER TO A MIND DISEASED” cassette $6
“Hub and wife deliver another assault of fluttering dead electronics… Moving more quickly than most DM releases…Gutted Horrorbleness sketched by psychic sickness. Could be the soundtrack to Harry Harrison’s DEATHWORLD if they ever made it into a movie. Sick Sci-Fi horror nastiness!” -hanson records
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the old rig “trembling static sky” cassette $6
“lost under a blanket of overgrown weeds and fallen branches is the remains of the old rig. this duo of patrack singleton and frank baugh (sparkling wide pressure) create organic webs of sonic detritus and sew its roots into the fertile, tennessee soil. black as night and sullen under a metric ton of fuzz, “trembling static sky” has washed out all the glitz and glam and taken these stellar drones into their mossy core. utilizing a variety of field recordings, these pieces are like a warm, flowing river of molasses. epic in scope and persistence, add the old rig to the list of growing concerns in tennessee. baugh & singleton are in it to win it. incredible artwork by bob vore. edition of 65, pro-dubbed and ready to go.”- digitalis
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Driphouse “50/50” cassette $7
“Catacombs of electronic espionage from former Raccoo-oo-oon member Darren Ho. A tape of many chambers, each containing clues to a greater unknown.” -nna tapes
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Nonhorse “Subtle Revenge” cassette $7
“Enter G. Lucas Crane’s (Woods, Vanishing Voice) warped and damaged world of tape collage hysteria. “Subtle Revenge” is the full spectrum of bizarre sensations experienced during full-on party mode, and the hazy reflection on the morning after. Snip, snip…” -nna tapes
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Breathing Flowers “Audiomancy” cassette $6
“McKinley Jones (ex-Expo ’70) dollops out a spoonful of star-gazing cosmic folk/astral flower picking, full of fly-by guitar buzz and synth warbles, melted field recordings intertwined, dipping from dark vibes to light all the way to the melodious happy ending. A short but sweet collection full of interesting twists and turns in a cohesive vision of nights laid out in the grass dreaming of blooming lands. Tied up in wrap-around sewn wallpaper border pouches with an insert and a flower bud. Edition of 50.” -cabin floor esoterica
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FACE PLANT “GET HIGH & LISTEN” cassette $6
“face plant is the new solo project of aaron coyes (peaking lights, rahdunes). while maintaining the same buried pop feel as peaking lights, coyes goes completely off the wall on “get high & listen”. with wild swinging delays over lo-fi tape madness, coyes rarely lets up on this rollercoaster ride of a release enabling all the senses into total pop motion sickness. like takin a ride through the desert on bright day, total mario-kart style. extremely uplifting and rhythmic while maintaining an unusually free and wild style. a really fun listen!” -catholic tapes
*NOTE: There are two versions: one in a normal case, one in over-sized case*
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Mi Ami “Ark of the Covenant” 12″ $12
“Heavy and frantic dub punk from San Francisco’s Mi Ami, featuring Dan and Jacob of Dischord’s Black Eyes. A spacious exploration of 21st century paranoia and psycho-sexual body terror. “I don’t wanna live, I wish I was dead.” Debut release from Lovers Rock. Limited to 500 copies, 45rpm, 140 gram vinyl, hand screened covers.” -lovers rock
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Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou “The Vodoun Effect” 1972-1975 (Funk & Sato from Benin´s Obscure Labels) 2XLP $23 (german import)
“The cultural and spiritual riches of traditional Beninese music had an immense impact on the sound of Benin’s modern music. Benin is the birthplace of Vodun (also Vodoun, or, as it is known in the West, Voodoo), a religion which involves the worship of some 250 sacred divinities. The rituals used to pay tributes to those divinities are always backed by music. The majority of the complex poly-rhythms of the vodun are still more or less secret and difficult to decipher, even for an accomplished musician. Anthropologists and ethnomusicologists agree that this religion constitutes the principal “cultural bridge” between Africa and all its Diasporas of the New World and in a reflection of the power and influence of these sounds many of the complex rhythms were to have a profound impact on the other side of the Atlantic on rhythms as popular as Blues, Jazz, Cuban and Brazilian music. Two Vodun rhythms dominate the music of Orchestre Poly-Rythmo: Sato, an amazing, energetic rhythm performed using an immense vertical drum, and Sakpata, a rhythm dedicated to the divinity who protects people from smallpox. Both rhythms are represented here mixed in with Funk, Soul, Crazy organ sounds and Psychedelic guitar riffs. Bandleader Melome Clement explains: “Sato is a traditional rhythm derived from Vodun. It is used in Benin during annual rituals in memory of the dead; you can’t just play Sato at any given time. Sato is also the name of a drum which is used during the ceremonies. It’s huge: about 175 centimeters high. The drummers, armed with sticks, dance around it and hit it all at the same time. It’s very coordinated. The Sato drummers are backed by an orchestra of smaller drums and shakers. We also did some modern versions of a Vodun rhythm called Sakpata. ‘Mi Ni Non Kpo’ and ‘Houi Djein Na Da’ are Sakpatas, which in Fon means “god of the Earth” -analog africa
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Tracey Trance – “Fountain” cassette $6.50
“We first came across Tracey out on the road, passing through Bloomington Indiana. His organ with a big Dutch Hex painted on the back and keyboards piled up in a corner looked liked an interesting mess. The live result was a weird stunning mix of drum machine baked psychedelic zydeco, Tiny Tim like vocals, and sunny pop goop. The music was really fun, people danced, and Tracey turned out to be just as charming and interesting as his music. With a recent tape on El Tule and more to come on Not Not Fun, expect more from Tracey soon. Art by SDReed.” -night people
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Topaz Rags “Capricorn Born Again” LP $13
“Grey clouds stay grey. Low light situations birth low-lit moods. It’s all bummer clockwork. West Coast lurk-jazz triad Topaz Rags return to vinyl with their debut long player, Capricorn Born Again, an eight-song comedown recorded/mixed from spring-to-fall of ’09 via a complex 4-track/boombox assemblage method. Everything creaks and hisses, there’s smoke in the air, players at the end of their ropes, lyrics washing over faded raga ballads, slinky electric piano bar depressions, shadow gauze cavern pop. The bell jar is half empty, obviously. Slow dive and sink in. Black vinyl LPs (mastered by Pete Swanson) in jackets designed by Amanda. Edition of 400. ” -nnf
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Sam Goldberg “Current” LP $13
“Sam Goldberg is a Cleveland, Ohio multi-instrumentalist/ composer who has been running in the garage rock/electronic underground circles for the last half of the ’00s. He also curates and operates the Pizza Night cassette label, one of the most beloved underground cassette headquarters of the midwest as of late. Unique, timeless, and clever constructions of sound created with many instruments like synthesizers, rhythm boxes, and electric guitars provide a wide scope of varied colored tones from release to release. This debut record, Current, is an early document of Sam’s solo guitar work. Side A consists of a hazy and humid melodic stasis that may be known from the Emeralds/Sam Goldberg 2007 tour cassette. An untitled piece that evokes a sense of longing and discontent while simultaneously hitting the deep and raw channels of the subconscious past that bring an understanding to the spaces between experience and memory. A gorgeous wash of clouded, ringing guitar not unlike Glenn Branca’s “Symphony No. 2.” On the flip side another phantom composition played only a few times live and recorded over a year ago in a similar weightless, sky guitar fashion rounds out the double side long debut. “Carol” is a great example of massive tone landscapes that can be born with minimal processing and careful compositional dynamic. Indeed, the sound of the instrument remains quite impressive throughout the album. The universal longevity of this record, however, will lie in the perfect placement of simple musical practices like chord changes, timbre and dynamics. Current has a style quality all it ’s own from the avant garde to pop rock with everything in between. No pretentions, no exponentiating contemporary concerns. Current stands as a pure and unwaivering document of self-expression, a characteristic that the all-time best albums have. It’s a rare case when a music with no lyrics or vocals can pave a path to an extraordinary understanding to one ’s own augmented reality. Outstanding debut album that defies the past and future and only breathes in the present moment. — John Elliott, 12/01/09, Cleveland. ” -weird forest
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Huh ‘huh’ cassette $7 (UK import)
“Hailing from Japan Huh are a duo consisting of Takuma Mori and Kyosuke Terada. Their glacially textured improv jams swirl in and out of dub, pop, punk, freeform jazz, psychedelia and noise. The first side is a continuous 45 minute jam that takes in all manner of explorations driven by some of the most awesome Improvised drumming and weird space alien vocalised mantras. Laser beams swirling amidst kaleidoscopic guitar, moments of sweet beautiful jewels build up into cacophonous mountains collapsing upon themselves and as the remnants settle, another biker lullaby is born riffing into oblivion… The flip side is broken down into five improvised pieces which bring us more ferociously pounding loose rhythms and synthesized skoozing vocals, like a playful dub roots petting zoo, reminiscent at times of the Slits, Cotton Casino, and NNCK. These guys are breaking through with these immense freeform jams and an emphasis on freeform! Huh receive and transmit something so accurately and pure that it emits liberation upon the listener. These guys sound like a present day Boredoms covering themselves from 15 years ago!” -bum tapes
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Julian Lynch/Zodiac Toys split cassette $7 (UK import)
New Jersey’s Julian Lynch brings three laidback songs from the Garden. (for fans of Ducktails, Real Estate et al) Zodiac Toys are from Bristol.” -bum tapes
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a wake “s/t” cassette $7
“let’s just admit this first off: we all want to fucken rock sometimes. ok, maybe a lot of the time. well, live vicariously my friends through the psychedelic sprawl that is the UK’s a wake. rising from the ashes of one of my favorite bands of the last few years, beach fuzz, this trio of barry dean, nick mitchell, & fliss horrocks. dueling guitars blow smoke through heavy wattage while ramshackle drums offer a grenade path to nowhere. these four long pieces just freaking howl. moon shots be damned, this is how us regular folk get high. edition of 70, pro-dubbed purple stars.” -digitalis
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Vibes “Psychic” 7″ $6
“Every family has a freak (or 2). Every deck’s got a wild card. We’ve got Vibes. Ante up. NNF’s loosest cannons return to the recording fray with, Psychic, a blown-out briar patch of basement garage fantasy masquerading as obscurist protest funk – and the band’s first vinyl statement. Recorded in Eagle Rock on a “last legs”-style 4-track, the EP’s four songs are jacked deep in the red, with fuzz bass, wah shrapnel, vocal sloganeering, and drum racket all fighting for tape room. Competition is fierce. Recent live faves like “Dead Horses” and “Night Court” appear in particularly revved-up form, as do the first two Vibes songs ever written, “Psychic” and “Prisms Of Fame.” All bases are covered. All soul trains are derailed. Here comes the judge. Black vinyl 33 RPM singles in full-color fold-over sleeves with collage artwork and lettering by Cameron Stallones, photographs by Caitlin C. Mitchell, plus a rant-y revolution scrapbook insert. Edition of 400.” -nnf
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ZAIMPH/JENNY GRAF TAPE $9 (swedish import)
“Recorded live at Utmarken 2009-03-15. Limited to 50 copies. ” -utmarken tapes
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Bermuda Link “Exit” cassette $6
“A confusing, patchwork astral soundboard controlled by Josh Burke and Jeff Astin. Cut-up sheets of electronics and tapes overlap, mix, and degrade to a wash. Edition of 70, with full-color fold-out art.” -exbx
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color dream “infinite gravity” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
“new way chill project outa arbor records treetops. a must have for all fans! edition 50.” -fag tapes
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Waterside Gala “Composure & Recreation” cassette $4
“New sax/keyboard-driven project from Sean McCann and Kellen Shipley. Sustained, dry, jazz-influenced recordings. Full color artwork and painted tapes. c13, limited to 60 copies.” -roll over rover
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Archers by the Sea/Kawrelia Soul Collective split cassette $6
“A glorious split from foreign land brothers and sisters. The A side’s got Vincent Caylet, a french-man who has been dropping little fog clouds for the past few years as one half of Monks of the Balhill and sittin’ solo as “V” and The Pistil Cosmos. Now as Archers by the Sea he works out a set folk songs, overflowing with precious melodies and covered in layers and layers of heavenly memory-clouded reverb, warm tape hiss, and in-the-red muffles. Over the course of these five tracks he pulls it all together into ear-filling dense beauty. On the flip side are Kawrelia Soul Collective, a family of folks from the Republic of Karelia, with a room full of pots and pans and an affinity for making kitten noises. Delay-stuttering acoustic lullabies, coos and squawks, junk percussion, and the great feeling of the open air. Water-colored and handwritten tape labels in a embossed sewn-felt pouch with an insert and a painted-tied-pouch of shells found on the banks of the Gatton Rocks swimming hole. Edition of 50.” -cabin floor esoterica
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Gorman “Farm Bells” cassette $6
“this tape is the perfect companion for those dreary lonesome mornings when all you can see is the steam from your breath. when all you can feel is your desire to sleep, to dream. sparse and minimal with the winter cold wrapped right around it, these sounds submerged creep through your blood blue veins and crawl towards the surface. a slow motion trip. created simply, in a certain meditation it seems, with tambourine, tibetan bells, effected banjo, drone guitar and contact mic vocals. hand numbered clear tapes with art on one side, wrapped in a green leaf pressed recycled paper pocket tied with hemp. collage art insert by j. limited ed. of 28.” -tired trails
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Sean McCann “Lower Decks” cassette $6
“A collection of early recordings by San Fransisco’s prolific Sean McCann. Oddly enough, these recordings sound as well executed and lush as some of his most recent work. Ranging from crystal clear drones to delicate piano pieces, field recordings you can’t help but place somewhere familiar from your own youth and some of his most dense guitar work on tape yet . All in all a perfect reason to take a moment and look back on a simpler time.” -ekhein
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RELIC TAPE $9 (swedish import)
“Anthology tape with this shortlived Gothenburg act which consisted of members from Gloomy Sunday and Sewer Election. This compiles the studio album which was never released as well as the Unchained Satanic Lust demo from 2006. Bleak and disturbing sludgy doom metal. 8 desperate low life anthems. 100 copies.” -utmarken tapes
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Muffin “Tane” C35 cassette $9 (belgium import) BACK IN STOCK!!
“Tremendous fragile folk and pop songs with gentle hints of psychedelia by this female Japanese singer/songwriter. Lonesome late-night transmissions from a bedroom somewhere in Tokyo. 80 copies.” -sloow tapes
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Sam Goldberg “Live” cassette $6
“Three live cuts, two recorded live on Ryan (Dr Quinn) Keuhn’s Radio show, the other at 75 Blake Street in New Haven. The first side, “Wanderjahr” is particularly different than most of my live sets. Recorded using a synth and a record player rather than reverberated guitar. Art by John Elliot.” -pizza night
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Telecult Powers”A Beginners Guide to Hoodotronix” cassette $6
– Two spectacular zones of homemade synth exploration from the best new act in NYC. Although, they have been performing for years and years (much of which spent in Cleveland,OH), they are just now entering a full realization of the sonic partnership between Matt and Stephen of TP. The well deserved acclaim they are currently receiving on the east coast comes as no surprise to the Cleveland crew. Sit close to the speakers and let your wildest imaginations come to life. Art by the one and only, Witchbeam.” -pizza night
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dino & nic “plays theme from dino & nic” double cassette $10
“catholic tapes is pleased to announce the debut chunk of recordings from dino and nic, an italian-american digital synthesizer group featuring dino st. claire (face worker) and nic llamb (flower man). influenced by both the plasticity of the digital synth flavor palate and the idea of being italian-american, dino and nic sculpt a crisp amalgam of ascending washes, pocketed sequences and finely chiseled digi-glyphs across two cassettes. while the techniques or modes exhibited across the recordings vary, there’s a generally inorganic fidelity found throughout that should raise the eyebrow of even the most casual analog fetishist, all the while nourishing the lcd-burnt. white vinyl 2xcs cases w/ insert. chrome tapes.” -catholic tapes
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Pan to Scratch “Oxbow Crossing” cassette $6
“Environmental and banjo improvisations recorded at the Oxbow River Crossing, in rural Wisconsin.” -object tapes
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Dead Machines “Having Holding Patterns Backwards Vol. One” c40 cassette $6
“The first of a grip of new DM material from massive rehearsal sessions previous to Sweden’s No Fun whoolop. New ultra stripped down lo tech homemade machine exorcisms in all sorts of audio twister contortisms. Electrical mangel couple mediation continues and lurches forward strong. If you were going to insulate a building, its akin to this tape but using a collection of dried tongue salvia for coatings over a nice common-brick veneer exterior finish. A Building Code Nightmare!! Color covers. Edition of 40. AM-839” -american tapes
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Dead Machines “Having Holding Patterns Backwards Vol. Two” c90 cassette $6
“Second magnetic comp of tracks pulled together from pre No Sweden Olzone couple late evening jammerz. The interior plot of a building with askew rise/run stairwells assembled all over the basement walls. No sense flow style homemade electronic excursions. After the jam, the Tovinator went straight for an OD of Gossip Girls. “XOXO” Color covers edition of 40. AM-842″ -american tapes
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Night of Desired Objects “Nighttime Schedule” c90 cassette $6
“Nighttime Schedules including submerging your head instead a bees nest at the bottom of a murky river, drinking hourglasses full of crushed lung membranes seasoned quiet breaths, lying a bed covered in blankets of magic insect shells, and dreaming of meetings with mothers w/o facial features in middle of a rotten fruit field while they play somber tunes on strings from dried rings of discarded muscle tissues. Backwards. Electric and acoustic afternoon music enfant terrible. Color Covers edition of 40, numbered. AM-843” -american tapes
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Invasion Status “Live For Traffic” c20 cassette $6
“Not live for Windwood and crew silly, Live for rush hour traffic on Howard St. Bunch of cars speeding up to hit the entrance ramp for US 96, most likely going home. Soprano sax, wooden flute, and double trouble horn explorations in real time, with traffic speeding by, unknown that’s its being captured. Bite into a reed, make your own future/present. Raw homethought via home stewed brass and pvc. Color covers, edition of 40, numbered. AM-851” -american tapes
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Infecto “Painted Pangs” c60 cassette $6
“First tape by this INFECTED new unit. Looking to spread painted pangs of creeping electronic somber New Years End soundtracks to massives of purging hog-things. Live and INZANE studio four track abstractions galore from SLOBBER MAN. Drooling, repetitive and on the chase of a Plot Plan of a castle surrounded by transparent columns, all leading nowhere. Blueprint reading for braile abstractions. Making a building out of wheat waste and rotten husks. Nasty Sound Alert! Strange maps from strange internal zones. Color covers Edition of 40. AM-849” -american tapes
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arizona jaguar “1993-2009” cassette $6
new project featuring daren ho (raccoo-oo-oon) mike pollard (treetops, arbor records) and peter friel (young tapes). c10. limited to 48 copies. label description: “glistening in the sun.” -white circle.
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Excavacations/Nick Stone & Clovis split cassette $6
“I’ve never been in a long distance relationship, but this might be close enough. Resonance from either side of this tape might be responsible for blurring Hubble photographs in the future. There is a sort of pursuit in this split, echolocation, steadiness. Buy two copies in case one evaporates.” -offices of moore & moore
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BODY MORPH- “NEGATIVE FACE” cassette $6
“Dan Dlugosielski (of Uneven Universe, Mossy Throats, etc) has kept his Body Morph project relatively wrapped up until recently with only a few limited releases on his own Excitebike as well as stellar appearances American Tapes and Gods of Tundra. Body Morph finds Dan at his simplest; a minimal take on strange-fidelity. Smooth saxophone waves wash over a dense bed of electronic warmth, mirroring the ambience of the ocean. Sonic contortions from a willing pallet; a fresh sense of control. In an edition of 100 tapes with textured cardstock covers and printed labels.” -arbor infinity
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wether “welcome to the rigid swale” cassette $6
cassette on husk records. sold out from source
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Korperschwache “Fear The Hex” 3X-cassette $14
“Black Canyon Drone starts things off right away with a blast of hyper distorted guitar and doesn’t stop for the remainder if the cassette. Hidden melodies float in and out, with the occasional riff and drum beat surfacing. Death Disco slows things down with stumbling drums over layers of murk and blackened filth. Dissonance and Submission finishes everything off with walls of buzz and shards of feedback. Not for the open-minded. ” -peasant magik
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Sarah’s Charity “Mirror of Abundance” cassette $6
“Squealing feedback and tortured guitar movements spread overtop thick black, droney buzz. Think Hendrix, but he accidentally set himself on fire. Or maybe Wall without the Wall? Simultaneously overwhelming and lulling. ” -peasant magik
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N.213/JESSE TAYLOR split cassette $6
“N.213 delivers the fagnoize dance numbers, and JT is twisted dark disco heavy. First solo release by JT who you may know from TWIN CRYSTALS and Ch. 3×4…… /// Ltd. 47 copies.” -INW
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MODERN CREATURES Split Forgery Vol.3 Cassingles Series cassette $6
“Kick ass dirty trixx brought by Vancouver’s very own Modern Creaps!! All infiltrating the B-sides of yr Top 40 icons>>>featuring the brilliant track: “TOOK YOUR GIRL” + ?/// Ltd. 59 copies” -INW
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Nimby detrivore full length cassette $5
“pretty much out of ideas with this set up but before i felt like that here are 6 songs.” -detrivore
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yo mi me conmigo full-length detrivore cassette $5
“Josh Harringa’s solo device is all over the place just like his resume. Drum intensive ‘loveless’ sectors blown onto recycled tapes. Full length fits on side A, side B is a mystery major label artist from the 80s-90s.” -detrivore
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CHOUSER/GUSSY DOWN split cassingle $4
“Circuit bent pulsating emerging harshness from chouser. Amphetamine Reptile-esce fat dude punk by skinny kids is Gussy Down.” -detrivore
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CUTICLE/SINGLE INDIAN TEAR split cassingle $4
“house music by Daren Ho [of raccoo-oo-oon] and I. Instrumental trip hop future hijackings by Single Indian Tear.” -detrivore
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Anakrid – “Crash your Putrid Minds” cassette $6
“”Confused alien clockwork music on this release”. Thick and strange beats fill both sides of this tape, always floating in a thick synth syrup and filled with finely crafted loops. Squeaky doors and backwards footsteps. Upcoming releases that are sure to impress. Hand made j-card in the same style as the previous Anakrid tape, color labels in an edition of 100 on hi-bias chrome tapes.” -black horizons
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DAVENPORT “Recycled Music” cassette $4
RRR Records. Madison, Wisconsin’s most unruly musickal skull-cult, Davenport. Eerie psychic vibes and scorched earth folk death hymns emanate from battered acoustics, amplifier ghosts, demonic rural clatter, and doomed calls of the wild. (not the labels own description, nor mine)
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Dead Luke – “Cosmic Meltdown” cassette $6.50
“Dead Luke’s Cosmic Meltdown is a full length album full of disenchanted wandering, psychedelic annihilation, working man blues, and torched pop mysticism. Some great stuff here from this prolific Madison WI resident. With previous releases on Sacred Bones and an upcoming LP on Floridas Dying this tape is a great primer for the newer more psych rock influenced songs Luke has been crafting. Cosmic Meltdown has a bit of a bitter broken heart vibe, and it fits really nicely with the blasted reverb soaked approach. Art by SDReed.” -night people
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Abe Vigoda “Skeleton” cassette $6
“Shit is cliché, but ya can’t fight the fact that time changes EVERYTHING (or wait, maybe it’s money?). Either way: we’re pretty old but not so old we’ve forgotten the cradle days of early Abe Vigoda shows when they only liked Smashing Pumpkins, short shorts, and boating shoes, and their sets were short spiky blasts of post-Unwound lo-fi outsider-punk (a la the Sky Route/Star Roof LP). That was a long time ago. But like all good bands the Vigodans have re-invented themselves a half dozen times over since then, and it’s been a totally rad ride to witness the evolution/transformation, especially since their journey’s culminated in the total sparkling tropic magic sunbath of Skeleton, the best AV record ever. Years of fiddling with delay pedal settings and intricate bass/drums equations somehow resulted in a weird, bright, upbeat island punk sound that’s as catchy and life-affirming as it is tripped-out and overwhelming. Who knew? Catch these die-hards at a show in yr neck of the woods any day now; they are now on PERMA-TOUR. Pro-dubbed cassettes in a “Columbia Records”-style super legit J-card. Edition of 200.” -not not fun
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Sbarro “Floating” cassette $6
“Recorded inside of a bucket of original recipe while climbing a ladder made of the moon… our moon… All jokes aside… this is the debut release from a new band.” -smooth tapes
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Telecult Prowlers “Twilight of the Oscillators” c60 cassette $6
“a c60 reissue of our cdrs “Dedicated to Robert Moore” and “Twilight of the Oscillators” -temple of pei
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mortuus auris & the black hand “s/t” cassette $6
“this uk outfit plumbs the depths on their self-titled debut offering, searching for the caustic mud that makes things tick. mortuus auris & the black hand are an analog for the demons trapped beneath the seas, whispering sweet missives to a disenchanted world of black. casios and synths intermingle with field recordings and god knows what else in an effort to block out the sun. these three efforts take hold immediately, whirring their way into your bones. mortuus auris hold their own against stifling winds, blasting out of the gates and into a sonic crevice. bleeps and bloops pulse like an electronic heartbeat waiting to be put out of its misery, hopeful that what awaits on the other side is bathed in liquid silver. limited to 50 copies, forensic-style cassette labels.” – digitalis
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meditations “precipice” cassette $7
“with a name like meditations, you’d probably assume something with a spritual bend would be coming up the tubes. but no worries – these sprawlers are looking to take you deep down into the muddy depths. this trio absolutely kills it on “precipice.” blown-out, brooding synths pummel your senses left and right while vocals from hell taunt you into taking the fall. this is one dark fucking ride, a cut-up masterful mess. specks of light try to escape in the form of distant, bright melodies but they’re quickly destroyed by the impending hellacious mess. awesome. edition of 65, pro-dubbed purple monsters.” -digitalis
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the shitty listener “constant stranger” cassette $7
“the shitty listener is the current nom de plume of jewelled antler acolyte, jason honea. “constant stranger” collects recent & past excursions, a sort of best of if you will. many of these songs were on criminally limited (we’re talking 30 or less, babies) tapes/CDRs, so now you can suckle on them for the first time. disjointed folk strums with whimsical vocals – it doesn’t get much better. honea tackes it a capella on occasion only to singe the hairs on the back of your neck. it’s such a beautiful, disjointed mess. edition of 90, pro-dubbed on a clear day.” -digitalis
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ossining “s/t” cassette $7
“ossining was always in the cards. this is the collaboration between yours truly (the north sea) and kevin danchisko (sovetskaya gone). synth excess, volume 1. pro-one vs. juno. journey through black sand beaches and white heaven. etc etc. mad men. all the fucking way. edition of 70, pro-dubbed crystal blue.” -digitalis
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m. geddes gengras “triptych of the divine & blackened arts” cassette $7
“m. geddes gengras aka ged made his bones in the duo he christened with his bro, cyrus, aka antique brothers and in his original solo guise, fantastic ego. but gengras has been throwing knives at the wall in recent years, changing things up. now a full-time member of robedoor, vibes, and the band formerly known as pocahaunted, more importantly he’s built himself an epic modular synth setup. on “blackened arts,” that baby sings. stone-cold electronics will fry your circuits, teasing you with endless corridors through dark space. gengras bends tones to his will, creating an aural moonscape that stretches to infinity. you’re not going to find much better modular synth explorations out there. edition of 80, pro-dubbed red death.” -digitalis
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cyquoia “age of aquarians” cassette $7
“from the washed-out minds of housecraft head honcho jefry astin and his floridian partner-in-crime evan galbicka comes a late farewell to the tropics before treks to the mountainous north. cyquoia have much in common with their housecraft brethren like tricorn & queue and xiphiidae, yet this duo has it’s own trail to the flourescent pink sea mapped out in gold.
these blissful drones feel as though they’re being drowned in a summer storm. astin & galbicka barely keep their heads above water, but with every breath drawn they churn out an endless flow of synthetic guitar waves. the sound just rolls over you in waves. who needs gold at the end of a rainbow anyway? edition of 80, pro-dubbed on lilac tapes, gold labels.” -digitalis
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sovetskaya gone “live in the darkness, die in the light” double cassette $12
“i will tell you, kevin danchisko has fried my synapses on so many occasions this year, i’ve completely lost count. it’s no secret that sovetskaya gone has quickly emerged as one of my absolute faves and as a digitalis anchor. so all that being said, “live in the darkness, die in the light” has been in the works for almost six months now, but the wait will prove worth it. nearly an hour of new synth explorations for moog & ms2000. exquisite packaging designed by danchisko. this is the stuff you want to hear when you dream. just a pure liquid beauty. art edition of 30 in repurposed film cannisters / regular edition of 60 in black vinyl album. pro-dubbed.” -digitalis
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Body Collector “Acidic Maze b/w Cold Bred Scum” cassette $6
“Long-form metal morphing and tape-loop slime from Body Collector. For his sophomore EXBX release, we see a more warped side of the Body Collector spectrum of black cloud sound walls. Raw, unsettling sound worlds stretched and destroyed. Edition of 70 with full-color, fold-out art. C45.” -exbx tapes
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rambutan/derek rogers “street secrets” cassette $6
out of print tape on existential cloth recordings
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BURNING STAR CORE ‘AMELIA’ 10″ $12 (UK import)
“First in the series of six 10″s by C. Spencer Yeh entitled ‘Mes Soldats Stupides 96-05’. Hard to find reissues on vinyl for the first time. Includes insert with design by guest artist Robert Beatty (Hair Police).” – no fi
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Mattress “Heavy Duty” CD/LP $10 (please specify which you want)
new lp released by reluctant recordings. hear them here: http://www.myspace.com/rexmattress
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V/A – NO STATE = NO SOUND – one-sided LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!
“Comp lp with one minute of silence from: NO FUCKER, IRON LUNG, HIVE MIND, ALISHA WARNING, BODY MORPH, HELLFIRE HOLLY, BIRTH REFUSAL, THE HAUNTING, 16 BITCH PILE UP, SICK LLAMA, AC & KHURST, DAMION ROMERO, HAIR POLICE +others!!!! Fucking amazing…sounds like the Folkways SOUNDS OF THE SEA lp. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Edition of 100 copies.” -american tapes
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V/A “Radio Malaysia” cassette $6
“Malaysia is a den of consumerism as the now-aged concept of post-modernism has not hit their recent first-world lifestyle. The basic impressions of underground music follows: Crust and thrash bands are the rage while Black Metal is deemed as anti-islamic and thus recordings of Satan are banned from the country, unless one has the money to bribe the customs agent. The last noise show to occur was in a flashy bar of a mall whose Pyramid-themes take on the post-modernity sans irony. This happened to be a Justice Yeldham set. They shut his sound off after a few minutes because tourist customers were leaving the outdoor techno bar in flocks. So what do the common people listen to on the radio? Radio Malaysia presents a sound of various FM-band frequency scanning. The multi-cultural hub provides sounds ranging from pop in the style of Mandarin, Cantonese, Indian, and some American disco, while another spectrum provides traditional tunes of Indian raga and Islamic prayer and a bit of foreign conversation.” -gel tapes
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plankton wat “our solar beings” cassette $7
“all love to the master, dewmah has arrived. dewey mahood is probably best known these days as being the non-bindeman third of portland’s fuzz kings, eternal tapestry. but when he’s not burning down houses, he moonlights as the inimitable plankton wat. fractured folk-infused meanderings with warm strings and organic dressing. mahood’s vocals are the ideal accompaniment to these bright, understated anthems. minimal percussion and mbira pick up where the vocals leave off, finding a balance with the acoustic haze. it’s been a great year for plankton wat (check his DNT lp!) and eternal tapestry, and “our solar beings” is another vital feather in his discography. edtion of 80, golden red suns.” -digitalis
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Explorers “Bermuda Telepaths” LP $12
“Bermuda Telepaths is the latest title lifted out of the fruit-and-photocopy-strewn Outer Limits Recordings archive and into the ears of the world at large. Recorded under the never-again-used Explorers moniker and first edited into album form about a year ago, this hallucinatory patchwork trip into the ether synthesizes all of OLR’s deepest loves – boombox fidelity, quick cuts, keyboard loop sorcery, underwater pop, general mind surfing – into a humbly hypnotic whirlpool of energies. Apparently there was a concept/thesis behind the album’s genesis somehow involving psychic powers, lizard people, and the Bermuda Triangle, but the details are hazy. Which befits the audio in question. Read your palm. Take a walk in your thoughts. Explore away. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork designed by the artist, plus a copy shop poem insert. Edition of 330.” -nnf
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Expensive Shit “Powwow With Chopper” cassette $6
“Named (hopefully) after the scorching ‘75 Fela LP that was inspired by an incident where Nigerian cops planted a joint on him but then he ate it to destroy the evidence and then they detained him till they could inspect his feces (can you believe that?!), Expensive Shit are a wrecked wrecking crew from Austin that specialize in braindead riff carnage of the rawest order. By their own interweb admission they consider their influences “sludge meditation” and “winging it” and their band policy is “no practice, we play anywhere.” That said, Powwow With Chopper – the band’s first public release as far as our we know – road-blasts through gnarly terrain: pulsing avalanches of zen distortion, basement garbage drums, mono-chord ascension marches, etc. No maps, no artifice, just now-minded in-the-blood-red street fighter rock chaos. Pro-imprinted tapes in wild double-sided full-color J-cards with crazy “Zangief chain fight” artwork by Pittsburgh rip-nagogic scholar Spencer Longo. Edition of 128.” -not not fun
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Faceplant – “s/t” cassette $6.50
“Faceplant is Aaron Coyes from Peaking Lights solo recordings generated from his distinct home built pile of electronics and hand-made modular synths. Rhythmically propulsive space tones glide over a broken landscape of fractured cut up noise bursts and dystopian uneasiness. Faceplant sounds like the dark corners of Peaking Lights dreamy ethereal world. There is sometimes something nice to uneasy listening. Artwork by RGarbes.” -night people
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Wild Safari – “Cave Sequins” cassette $6.50
“Wild Safari is a mystery synth/electronics duo with connections to Pink Priest who record shimmering walls of atmospheric dream time music. The kind of jams that are perfect for headphone headspace, late night time spent in mind jungles and deep space orbits around tropical new planets. Isolating lush and uplifting. Art by SDReed. ” -night people
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1958-2009 II cassette $6
“Second in the series of collaborations between Alex Twomey (Mirror to Mirror) and Matthew Sullivan (Earn). Synthesizer and guitar ballads. Slow and hypnotic songs for the grieving process. Taking things a little slower. Building things a little bigger. Dedicated to Michael Jackson. 1958-2009.” -ekhein
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derek rogers & hashem assadullahi “tape loop sax hiss” cassette $6
out of print tape on existential cloth recordings
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lakes “monument of nests” cassette $6
“i’m honestly surprised that lakes AKA sean bailey isn’t more of a household name. through the years, he’s put out some killer damage on his inverted crux label and his own projects (paeces, lamp puffer w/ peaking lights’ aaron coyes, wasted truth, etc). well, “monument of nests” is one of his best and we’re damn pleased to make it available again. originally self-released in a micro edition, it’s now hear to stay. disjointed, deconstructed pop songs that lean heavy on primitive, almost tribal rhythms and ramshackle instrumentation. acoustic guitars sound like they’ve been overblown to smithereens. makeshift electronics find their way through the fog, splattering everything in waves of analog fuzz. all the while, bailey’s deep, monotone vocals spell the end for anyone who moves to close. punk in spirit, fucked in sound. edition of 70, clear as day.” -digitalis
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pummeler “s/t” cassette $6
“i don’t know if there’s a more aptly named project around than denmark’s pummeler. mikkel dunkerley is bounding around down in the murkiest depths. this stuff feels like it’s been stripped bare by vultures, the bones left to freeze in the scandinavian air. distant metallic pings call you to your grave. these are heavy, black masses you can’t avoid without being swalloed whole. dunkerley’s use of varying textures is exceptional. his work is minimal yet enthralling. each piece, no matter how long or short, feels like an expansive wasteland of sound. listen once, you hear one thing, listen again and it’s something else entirely. it’s time you rolled it all downhill. 60 copies, pro-dubbed & erupted.”- digitalis
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Saudade “The Hooded Ones” cassette $6
“Fragmented songs emerge from layers of delayed guitar, keys, and everything else these guys could get a hold of.” -peasant magik
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WHITE – TEARS OF PISS TAPE $9 (swedish import)
“Remastered reissue of the debut tape from White, which is another sideproject from Dan Johansson (Sewer Election/Ättestupa). Sleazy electronics that reeks of cruising culture, cheap drugs and smelly, old porn rags. Originally released in a very limited amount of copies on Spanking Ritual/Harsh Head Rituals in 2007. Tears Of Piss was followed by the Tormented tape on Segerhuva last year. Playtime of 30 minutes. Both tracks repeated on the B side. 50 copies. ” -utmarken tapes
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SEWER ELECTION – RASET TAPE $9 (swedish import)
“Recorded during 2008 in preparation for the Sewer Election US tour which happened in May last year. A-side shows early signs of what would be fully executed on Bristning a little bit later, with the same organic approach. The B-side is a via tapeloops deconstructed version of the first side. 36 minutes. Second press of 50 copies. ” -utmarken tapes
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Topping Bottoms “Towers Of Spines” cassette $6 *WOW*
“Don’t even bother trying to fathom the name, it’s a bottomless game. Here’s what we do know: Topping Bottoms are a loose liberated squad of itinerant Tokyo drifters that traffic in a billowing, burned out brand of post-millenial psych-loitering that feels like someone slow-motion shattering a lava lamp over yr skull and letting the fluorescent slime drip-drop into yr eyes. That good/weird. Featuring sometime members of an odd constellation of other projects (Ainotamenishis, Evangelista, Duchesses, etc), the semi-steady TB line-up (Kate, Masaki, Tracy, Ryo) wields shadow-sleaze PSF guitar licks over dark drugged drumming lightly splattered with Bore-junk electronic sludge. Towers Of Spines is actually a reconfigured and re-sequenced version of an earlier OOP self-released CDR (on Ryo’s own Create Evil imprint) but packed out with a fresh unreleased live cut tracked at a riotous spring 2008 performance. Tapes come in insane double-sided fold-out silkscreened j-cards designed by Ryo which are in turn housed in stunning exterior cassingle-style art shells, all done up in a spectrum of shades and art-paper variations. Basically: the visual quotient on this tape is huge. Edition of 150.” -nnf
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Blank Realm “Dirty Ark” cassette $6
“killer C33 companion album called Dirty Ark (culled from the same sessions as the LP) housed in yet another radical silkscreened J-card courtesy of Ryo.” -nnf
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Sun Araw “Sun Ark” 7″ $6
“Left coast karaoke machine enthusiast Cameron Stallones leaves no loop unturned in his endless questing for the ultimate kaleidoscopic island-psych cocktail, and relocating from the LBC to Glen Rock (half Glendale, half Eagle Rock) freed him up to construct his own hermetic jam cove – dubbed Sun Ark Studio – thereby ratcheting up his workaholic-ism several levels. And so this Sun Ark 33 RPM single serves as both a love letter to his new musical HQ and a curious vinyl document of Araw’s next next-wave. Dubby basslines and reverbed drum pad action still reign hard but the song construction is less western and more liberated than ever before (echoing his new all-solo live set up), with micro-cycles of flute, voice, FX, and organ cascading down like fuchsia sunset light across the plastic rhythm section. “Bump Up (High Step)” is a warped reggae club heartbreaker, flangy cheese guitar leads and jungle rattles, a constant chorus. “Live Mind” is the B side, and it’s descended from the Heavy Deeds lineage, lots of equatorial sweat, low end pulse, dry funk guitar, bucket percussion, etc. A cool new boat trip on an evolved vessel. Black vinyl 7 inches in glue-pocket jackets with art by Stallones. Edition of 500.” -nnf
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Infinite Body cassette $6
“Two short and sweet sides by Los Angeles’ Kyle Parker. Dizzying and degraded melodies to black out to. A perfect moment. A lasting impression. US tour this spring with Earn.” -ekhein
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ORCS “JAW BONE” cassette $6
“a monolith of sound, followed on the flip side by a series of developing vignettes of squealing mutant radio hiss. a thick black soup falling from the speaker cone”-different lands
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Trudgers “Bedrooms on Fire” cassette $6
“Brent Mitzner’s Trudgers project seems so inert and so real, but somehow eludes simple account. It’s probs the disconnect between his meticulous multi-instrumental song craft and the thick austerity of his neo-goth baritone that makes this six track charger transcend the catalog. A vision of industrial unhappiness that condenses the whole history of popular music into bit-sized fuck you’s and synthesizes California sun daze with cold/late night cogency (read: almost danceable). “- goaty
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HEAVY WINGED – TAKING THE VEIL TAPE $9 (swedish import)
“Another slab of sheer, remorseless destruction from Brooklyn’s finest face-melting psych warriors. “Taking the Veil” was originally released by the band in a micro-edition of around 30 copies for Terrastock ’06. Far too beautifully ugly and perfectly brutal to bless so few, here we have two 20+ minute tracks brimming with cascading streams of sick tonal lava, thumping low-end shitstorms, and a barrage of utterly wrecked, carnivorous bombast that’ll have you running, tail-between-your-legs, back to your PSF and Alchemy collections to rest your shattered cochlea. ” -utmarken tapes
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Sun Araw “Heavy Deeds” LP $14
“Heavy Deeds, indeed man. One of our So-Cal hometown heroes steps back up to the vinyl plate with a new set of songs that are at once loftier, sweatier, deeper, groovier, and wilder than anything he’s done before (and that’s not said lightly, cause we were stupid-huge fans already). Five focused tracks meshing together the cosmic feedback of The Phynx with the sunshine ecstasy of Beach Head and the equatorial swelter of Boat Trip, plus a potent mainline of primitive rhythm, drug funk, and broken glass, it’s a sick step sideways for the Sun Araw solar system, and an easy contender for Album-of-’09 status. Check the blazing wah streetfight that breaks out mid-way through “Get Low,” the magic brainbath haze soaking into the joints of “Hustle And Bustle,” or the endless feel-good float-away of the climax of “All Night Long;” these are mountaintops, these are trophies, these are heavy deeds. Here’s to hoping the Araw-iverse keeps on keeping on. Mastered by James Plotkin with lil’ Stevie screengrab jacket artwork designed by Stallones, plus a full-color pro-printed double-sided insert. Edition of 600, 400 on marbled blue wax, 200 on black.” -nnf
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Blues Control “Local Flavor” LP $12 *POSSIBLY ALBUM OF THE YEAR!!*
“A few years back, former Quiet Sun / Roxy Music / 801 behind-the-scenes mastermind Gill Manzanera–no relation to guitarist Phil Manzanera (whose real name is Philip Targett-Adams)–offered up a beguiling reminiscence of those heady days to the Swiss fanzine Sombre Reptiles: “What we were trying to do, you see, was harness the future into the present. However, we were severely at odds with technology, a ring modulator on a Fender Rhodes and a bit of funny business through an analog synth being about as far as one could go then. The work with Quiet Sun was the foundation, then later Phil and Eno built upon that within Roxy and if only Ferry had acquiesced to Brian having a go at ‘Bogus Man,’ I think the results would have been stunning (as well as longer-lasting). But alas, so then for 801, the decision was to incorporate the progressive and avant garde through a chamber of fusion (so to speak), the results of which are undeniable. Mind you, this was all during the burgeoning punk era, so it took a bit of time for some to settle in with what was happening. But isn’t that the future, really; someone has to be the first out the door to know if the rest of us will need a jumper or not. It was all quite brilliant in that way, absolutely so, I should think.” Hmm, well, that all sounds… quite English. Oddly enough, that sliver of quinine-sotted nostalgia could be used as a swab of historical DNA pap to describe the fantastic newest shimmer from Blues Control. While past releases have been beauteous extrapolations into the miasmic core of psychedelia and billowing fog of ambient space, Local Flavor is the one where all the chickens have come home to roost. The opening track “Good Morning” is practically a sideways step into boogie rock (horn accompaniment provided by none other than Jesse Trbovich and Kurt Vile); with the proper seismic shift, it could almost be heard as an alternate reality take on “Re-make/Re-model.” It’s easily the band’s longest stomp in the forest of rock since their debut cassette, and, man, them boots leave a bruise! The remaining three tracks morph and ebb harmoniously–in true Blues Control fashion–the timbre occasionally elegiac, yet more often riffing on a plane that has yet to be transcribed. Local Flavor is 801 plus an extra one (8101, if you will), providing an unimaginable future that will take your breath away. So make sure you’ve paid your oxygen bill, because there are no free rides in the 82nd Century.” -siltbreeze
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VAMPIRE BLUES “Turkish Petroleum Company” cassette $8 (UK import)
“Swirling drones smothered in pure electric guitar anthems from two Jon’s, one being Jon of The Hunter Gracchus / Singing Knives, and the other being Jon from Serfs. This is their debut release and is a real beauty, psyched out blues for a dark back room in hut out in the woods. Limited 100 hand numbered copies.” -blackest rainbow
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Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Russian Mind’ LP $13
“Transcribed by the Material Eye Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia. 6 baseless marble pillars not yet completed, covered in white strata against the backdrop of a simple three-dimensional plane with soft edges. 1. Synesthesia outside venue. 2. If you lived here, you’d be home right now. 3. Lopatin designs preset “Prismata” ascribed to Trujillo, 2003 and goes downstairs for air. 4. He comes from a long line of shovelers 5. Life On An International Space Station video 32min / falls asleep. 6. An astronaut beyond his prime and no longer able to carry out his father’s work rests in a hospital bed in a room on the east wing of a orbiting infirmary, facing a window overlooking a grove of holographic birch trees. Hums.. Limited to 500.” -no fun productions
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Dylan Ettinger & The Heat “Smokin’” 7″ $5
“We had heard a couple cassette outings by this Bloomington young-bloomer over the last 4-6 months and each one hit us better than the last but nothing had prepped us for Ettinger’s most recent evolution into neon skyline chase scene soundtracker and that’s part of what makes it so amazing. For Smokin’ he wrangled together a small posse of close comrades (enter The Heat) and tracked a sick session of smoky synth themes, Corvette noir moods, echo dystopia, faded voices, and sleazy Miami sax. The A, “Smokin,’” is the more ballad-y of the pair, sad and smooth, just fired-from-the-force, midnight cruising on the strip, no one to call. The B, “Miami Heat (The Stakeout),” amps the tension, camera zooming in over palm trees and blue-lit swimming pools, a deco mansion on the coast, the place is surrounded, the heat is on, all that. A cool sleaze-psych vision, sickly executed, by a rad fresh energy from the underground. Fingers are crossed there’s more where this came from. Black-vinyl 7 inches, plus a photocopied insert, in full-color sleeves with art by NNF. Edition of 380.” -not not fun
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Dreamcolour “Spiritual Celebration” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
SECOND EDITION
“There’s currently a glut of bands dog-paddling around the trans-continental psych-pond with names involving words like ‘color,’ ‘dream,’ and ‘infinity,’ and Ventura County brass-groove arkestra Dreamcolour are smack thick in the middle of this ’08-‘09 nomenclatorial zeitgeist (though to their credit they use the British spelling). Yet, semi-ironically, the mood of the zones they explore on Spiritual Celebration are wonderfully vintage, with a strange, reverential “out of time” quality that seems decidedly non-NOW. Hand-drums beat along with a steady, easy lope, saxes are crooned (not skronked) smoothly up towards the sun, Farfisa trills further brighten the corners. There’s no damaged FX-abuse or lo-fi freakouts; all minds are fused into one gently simmering open-air spiritual jazz homage. Echoes of Don Cherry abound. The tape is split into three chapters: a stunning 20-minute A-side hayride (“Spiritual Celebration”), a briefer horn flurry piece (“Sun Ritual”), and a gorgeous lunar meditation chamber (“Moon Ritual”). A great West Coast force with an exotic back catalogue and a killer live vibe, worth keeping tabs on. Pro-dubbed cassettes in cases with full-color marker/collage J-cards designed by Amanda. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Pedestrian Deposit “Recycled Music” cassette $4
RRR Records. the dude who does emaciator’s old project.
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social junk “champs 09” cassette $7
social junk tape on digitalis
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EVAN MILLER “TRANSFIGURATIONS ON LAP-STEEL GUITAR” LP $13
“Iowa City’s Evan Miller is never one to stay in the same rut for too long. His earlier releases were composed of Fahey-esque spells, heavily emotional acoustic guitar work emanating tones of nostalgia and simplicity. On “Transfigurations” a new zone is crafted with lap-steel guitar and tape collage, creating equally nostalgic music from the other end of the spectrum: delicate, minimal drones. Tones interweave and textures evolve: it is Evan’s most personally progressive work, combining past themes and reinterpreting them on another medium: electric lap-steel guitar. Mastered by Pete Swanson. In an edition of 450 full color pro-printed cardboard LP sleeves and printed labels designed by Jeff Witscher (Secret Abuse / Callow God).” -arbor
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Body Morph “Bone Alone” cassette $6
new tape by dan of uneven universe/mossy thorats/exbx tapes/etc.
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mold resin “plays behind the door II” $6
new tape by mold resin on exbx tapes. limited to 18!!!
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The Mossy Throats and Ryan Jacari “Boys Will Be Boys” cassette $6
“Uh oh, sounds only a mother could love. But probably not her either! Totally ugly rager sound from tapes, vocals, LOUD electronics, LOUD metal scraps, LOUD everything. Two side-long waves of alien feedback. Edition of 40. c-47, with xeroxed art. EXBX-064 ” -exbx tapes
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Temples “Bestial” cassette $6
“Two 20+ minute long track inspired by Jens Bjornboe’s Moment of Freedom.”-peasant magik
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Foot Village “Fuck the Future 2” CD $10
“In anticipation of their upcoming full length “Anti Magic” on Upset the Rhythm, LA’s FOOT VILLAGE have compiled a second batch of vinyl only tracks. Four humans (you know them from Gang Wizard, Friends Forever, Rose for Bodhan and A++, and as members of 2008’s Boredoms 88 drummers performance) emerge from the apocalypse, exploring the primitive wasteland and creative a new nation of their own, using only drums and their voices. Housed in a digipack made using partially recycled material, with art work by Brittany Gould (Married In Berdichev!), “Fuck the Future 2″ collects the material from: their split LP with Black Pus (Deathbomb ARC / DNT), two recent 7”s (on Too Pure and Rock Is Hell), the “Pisspounder” triple LP (w/ Sword Heaven, Aa, Grey Skull, Rainbow Blanket and Dreamhouse also on DBA) and the recent, wild, collaboration 12” with Health, Captain Ahab and Jason Forrest on Ravesploitative,… assembled and mastered together by Pete Swanson.” -gilgongo records
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Ducktails LP $14
“Plastic palm trees. Beach scene snowglobes. Airbrushed neon sunset hotel paintings. All shining examples of potent Fake Escapism at work, in real life. And if you’ve ever wondered what the audio equivalent of this kind of cheap coastal utopian simulacrum is, take a good listen to the recorded works of Mr. Matt Mondanile aka Ducktails, a crazy talented suburban New Jerseyan who serves up masterpiece after blasterpiece of shimmering, smoke-and-mirrors exotic fantasia, rainbow psych-pop muzak for imaginary helicopter rides over crystal lagoons and lost waterfalls. His self-released tapes dropped over the past year-plus have seen his basement guitar/rhythm hypnosis instincts gently arcing upwards into a total art form, and this, Ducktails’ debut full-length LP, is the absolute zenith of the vision. Lazy island percussion loops under blissed horizons of hovering synth colors, warm jangly wah-wah guitars lap like waves alongside casual hammock-chilling vocals; song titles like “Beach Point Pleasant” and “Dancing With The One You Love” further articulate Mondanile’s mood agenda: maxin’ & relaxin’. A few numbers get a bit more tripped/spaced in a loosely post-Pacific City model, but those parts function less like a drug ride and more just like the hazy time of night after the beach bonfire’s burned out and you pass out on the sand, holding hands with someone special, staring up at the stars. What do you see? Endless blackness? Or a new BFF? Black vinyl LPs mastered by Graham Lambkin (of The Shadow Ring) housed in matte jackets with cover artwork by Jan Anderzen (of Kemialliset Ystavat/Tomuttontu), plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 600.” -nnf
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Mossy Throats “Cold Lunch” cassette $6
“Cold, vibrating tapes and low-crawling soundscapes get covered in seaweed and served for lunch. For fans of non-music. A second edition of 30 with full-color, fold out art. C47.” -exbx tapes
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The North Sea “Daytona” cassette $6
“Daytona is an epic drone work formed of textured synthesizer and layered electronics. The North Sea’s (Brad Rose) high-density sound projects degraded memories that lead to abandoned tunnels and empty into sunset skies. Both noisy and meditative, this gorgeous piece is the perfect compliment to lone autumn walks. Definitely another exciting addition to the North Sea catalog.” -gift tapes
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Dreamcolour “Solar Gaze” cassette $6
“A MASSIVE, throbbing, wailing, thrashing jammer squashes itself onto the a side of this c51. The B side gets there, but not before you do the dead man’s float through a warm mineral mud bath.” -earjerk
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Dirty Beaches – “s/t” cassette $6
“Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai who has been living in Montreal for the last few years but has spent time in California, Hawaii and China and has plans to move to Vancouver soon. The aspect of distance, moving, upheaval seems significant to Dirty Beaches sound and aesthetic, drifting, weaving, pulsing… somber droney garage pop tunes, that seem to float off in some distant geography. Sonically there in your head but out of touch. the sound has a disconnected but beautiful feeling, a series of mental refractions going on, like looking into the infinity mirror at a packed night club from some old technicolor movie while good looking people from some other uknown lands dance around you. Strange stuff that feels right in its strangeness. ” -night people
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Mossy Throats “D.N.A. Mismatch” cassette $6
“Stunned electronic systems. Shocked, froze, reversed, slowed. Taped response melded with constant electric torrent. Edition of 30, with full-color fold out art. ” -exbx
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Truth Syrum “Why We Look at Our Neighbors” cassette $6
“Why We Look at our Neighbors documents Will Kapp’s move from Iowa City to the West Coast last fall. The songs parallel personal displacement, straddling the line between brazen, youthful mid-west basement scuzz and new found pop intimacy/bald, romantic holism. The little punk almost gets in touch with nature, but he still swears by the half-stack and the DigiTech Grunge pedal his mom got in for the Christmas.”- goaty
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HNY “Dead in a Year” cassette $6
“Heather loves playing with her bros in Social Junk but sometimes you just have to be alone, let some fem energy loose in the headspace and be a girl in the 21st century. This time, however, there’s no fancy ersatz spiritual dazzle—no pleasant gold-lining on the drone clouds. On Dead in a Year Heather gets brutal: the vocal mantras don’t dissipate into nebulous drone ephemera, but hold their ground as a physical human reactions that almost hit the grunge wipeout USA nerve. Before you know it she’s punching the deep-base drum machine, discharging synth breakdowns ala The Dream and calling you out on your shit.” – goaty
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TULUUM SHIMMERING – ‘IN THE GREAT SWAMP YOU WERE CONCEIVED’ cassette $6
“A luscious hill rises up from the undulating swampy mire. Slurping and grumbling as it grows. A gentle earthquake causes upholstered rocks to tumble slowly down hill into the sludge below. Upon union, sludge and rock conceive new forms paddled with patterns, unravelling feverishly, soaking up every ounce of liquid. ” -rotifer cassettes
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Om “God is Good” LP $15
“God is Good is Om’s fourth studio album, and the first with new drummer Emil Amos (Amos made his first official recording with Om in the single “Gebel Barkal/Version” on Sub Pop last summer). It’s a big change, obviously, for a two-piece, and a fairly unqualified success. Amos, who also records with Grails, Holy Sons and Shrinebuilder, is far more flamboyant than Chris Hakius, less tethered to the steady chink of cymbals, more apt to range free-form over toms, rims and, in places, various hand drums. Listen, for instance, to how he keeps time in the simmering “Meditation is the Practice of Death,” a click and clash of cymbals measuring the four beats, but, in between, the hands and feet floating free of tempo in abstract flurries and syncopated slashes. “Cremation Ghat I,” the album’s fastest and most percussive track, hurtles ahead on clipped, rim-shot 16th notes, the bass speeding in tandem, turning almost funk against a revival hall backing of handclaps. Throughout the album, Amos makes the most of his kit’s variation in pitch, the high clipped tones of sticks on rims, the resonant rumble of low toms, the various notes elicited from different parts of the cymbals. Om has never been a super melodic band – you can pick out most of the riffs on a handful of black piano notes clustered round E Flat – but the drums have become a good deal more tonal and varied. There are also a handful of other instruments in play, a cello and piano in the long “Thebes,” a flute in “Meditation,” some sort of Middle Eastern woodwind in “Cremation Ghat I” and sitar plus string section in closer “Cremation Ghat II.” A sort of minimalism is still in play, with short ideas repeated until your sense of time collapses, sameness building until the slightest change raises the ante. Like Pilgrimage, God is Good borrows its cover imagery from Greek Orthodox icons, its polyglot spirituality from a range of religious traditions. The lyrics, fairly indecipherable even when the words themselves are plain, are chanted in clusters, usually following the bass’s minimal melodies, and evoking Allah, St. Paul’s roadside conversion, and Hindu mythology without much differentiation. God is good, it seems, but not very particular about what you call him. And while everything is kept at a smoulder – the words unclear, the tempos slow – this new Om album is anything but boring. It moves at its own pace through vast spiritual landscapes, and if you can’t quite make out the melody drifting in from miles away, just wait a bit and it will come clear.” -drag city (dusted review by jennifer kelly)
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Wavves “s/t” LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
“lo-fi beach punk anthems by San Diego’s Nathan Williams. beautiful timeless melodies on top trash can guitars and blown out drums.14 tracks in 35 minutes. follow up full length to be released by De Stijl.” -woodsist
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keith fullerton whitman “hallicrafters, inc. / 10 POKE 54272+INT(RND(1)*25),INT(RND(1)*256) : GOTO 10” cassette $6
“two utterly satisfying pieces of electronic music for automatic processes and modular synthesizer. to me, this just about sums up keith’s uncanny ability to blend technical prowess with an innate musicality – something that i find to be pretty rare in the world of “academic” electronics. side a features an old shortwave radio (made by hallicrafters, inc.) run through keith’s ever-expanding modular set-up, while side b is fueled by old commodore patches being processed by an iphone and sent to the suitcases…” -rare youth
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Hochman & Hopkins – “Live NYE” cassette $6
“Jonathan Hochman (Holy Balm, Pagan Dawn) and Matthew Hopkins (Naked on the Vague, Near Tapes etc.) are from Sydney AU and this is there live Synthesizer project focused around otherworldly tonal eruptions, trance inducing electronics washes, science fiction fucked vocal sludge, and generally weird psych synth vibes. Lost mind submarine rides, drifting sitting at the point where the desert meets the sky, volcanoes erupting onto cities, all moving along past out of your control in your ears and across your mind. Artwork by SDReed.” -night people
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CHARALAMBIDES “Rose/Thorn” LP $15
“Blissful Klang Industries vinyl issue of two vintage side-long improvisations performed by Christina and Tom Carter as a duo. Far removed from their more recent song-shaped enters, the pieces here (recorded in 2000) strive for a different kind of goal, stretching out exquisitely complex organic drone tones that draw on organ, various sustaining (bowed?) instruments and a line in supremely elegant pedal steel glissando whose esoteric delights are matched only by Christina’s unceasingly remarkable voice. The interweaving microtones shift around with an intricate harmonic nuance, Tom’s slowly morphing guitar strings vibrating with a beautiful motion blur effect while organ chords stretch out into the horizon and wordless utterances float around the ether. There’s not a great deal of value in further describing what this sounds like, just flick through the Jukebox samples Buy while it’s still around.” -klang
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JEN PAUL “1965 GHOST” cassette $6
“guitar trances, metronomic melodies, haunted voices, indistinct conversations and telephoned messages are all obscured in a shoegaze gauze” -different lands
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YUHASZ – “12 | 28 VARIATIONS” cassette $6
“a wandering, instrumental song cycle. new details and themes emerge with each listen. hard to believe a work this massive can exist on a cassette tape”-different lands
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TULUUM SHIMMERING “THUNDEROUS SLIT-GONGS ON ISLANDS OF CLOUD” cassette $6
“slowly built temples of sound, wherein the conventional measures of time are rendered absolutely useless” -different lands
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PINK DESERT “SEE YOU LATER” cassette $6
“a phrase used at parting, and not necessarily implying that the person being addressed will be seen later by the speaker”-different lands
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ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER – SCENES WITH CURVED OBJECTS TAPE $9 (swedish import)
“Hot on the heels of the Zones Without People LP (Arbor), Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never is back with a limited tape on Utmarken. Selections comprised of live and in-studio performances, Summer 2009 Ridge Valley Digital. Tomaso Albinoni appears on ‘Adagio In G Minor Screw’ courtesy of mimioware inc. Teddy Pendergrass disappears on ‘Let It Go’ courtesy of the industrial revolution violator and subject to severe penalties and will be prosecutedt to the full extent of the jam “Melancholy Descriptions of Simple 3D Environments” aired on Rare Frequency, WZBC Newton, Massachusetts 90.3 FM 7.23.09. “Piano Craft Guild Edit” was assembled using multiple recordings of a live performance at The Piano Craft Guild in Boston, Massachusetts on 6.2.09. Total playtime of 30 minutes. 100 copies.” -utmarken tapes
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Altar of Flies – Eremiten cassette $9 (swedish import)
“After loads of releases during the past years Altar of Flies have evolved into a beast. With the help of vintage electronics Altar of Flies creates organic and gloomy sounds. This is the first release after a longer break and is really something extra. The three long tracks on Eremiten feels like a weekend in hell, tormented and claustrophobic. ” -klorofyllkassette
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ABOLICAO – ‘VERSAZI YENISEI’ cassette $6
“Deep gusts from inlands satiating harvest. Painted fabric j-cards. Artwork by Jeffry Astin.” -rotifer tapes
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Robedoor “Pagan Drugs” 7″ $6
“Pair of dungeon bummers recorded in the trio formation at the same east L.A. hillside studio where the Raiders LP/CS was tracked. Deeper into the isolation, down to the resin, a long lost walk through dog alley. Written/taped/mixed from Feb-April 2009. White Vinyl. Includes MP3 download card (192 kbps).” -ketchup cavern
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Robedoor “Raiders” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Following their 2008 East Coast tour with Woods and Pocahaunted the Robedoor agenda has mainly been: hibernating in the City Terrace zone above east LA, adding a drummer/modular synth dealer, and letting the smoke rise. Raiders is the first RBDR LP since 2008’s Endlessly Blazing and is the result of almost six months of slow-burn transformative tape machine meditation helmed by Mr. Ged Gengras. Bummed guitars, loner drone tones, low caverns of reverbed drums and rumble, echo dislocation, and dead voices cascade down into the isolated highways. Song modes are carved out and then left to rot. Features early trio live set staples like “Indo Shadow” and “The Downcast Eye.” You can’t stick your hand in the same black river twice. Change or be changed. Pro-imprinted cassettes in J-card appropriation of LP artwork. Edition of 100. ” -nnf
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Padna “Siberia / Hinterland” cassette $6.50
“Geiger counters, crystal radio sets, sonar consoles, and broken walkie talkies chatter their way through a binary snowdrift on the opening side of ‘Siberia/Hinterland’. Chilly, spooked, and Siberian for sure, but it could just as well be an eerie code transmitted from the dark side of Pluto. Who knows? Brooklyn’s Nat Hawks might begin to answer, as he is the purported brains behind this sprawling enigma. He’s also responsible for running the totally fresh label LittleFuryThings and performing in avant NY outfits like Christian Science Minotaur. Clearly, his solo Padna role is no stranger to wrangling strange cargo such as found at the front of this c56. Side B’s ‘Hinterland’ reciprocates these anti-drone motions with a brightened palate of its own. Seven protean orchestrations run a whole rainbow range of opaque tones. Both sides of Padna’s coin are landed on throughout the trip, flipping from dark atmospheres to warped merrymaking at a whim. Being introduced to these creations has definitely been one of the highlights of Stunned HQ’s listening year, and echoes of the Padna endeavor are bound to be near. Limited edition of 100 pro-dubbed & imprinted c56 tapes with insert card and double-sided color jcard.” -stunned
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v/a “Legends Of Benin” 2XLP $22 (german import)
“Analog Africa presents Legends Of Benin, a collection of super-rare and highly danceable masterpieces recorded between 1969-1981 by four legendary composers from Benin: Gnonnas Pedro, Antoine Dougbé, El Rego et Ses Commandos and Honoré Avolonto, each with a sound all their own. What you are about to hear is distinctively Benin — a thick brew of agbadja, soul, cavacha, funk, Afrobeat, and Afro-Latin sounds all mixed in with heavy traditional rhythms. Gnonnas Pedro is the king of modern agbadja: a rhythm hugely popular in Togo, Benin and Ghana, based around three pieces of percussion, each with a different tone. Traditionally a rhythm used during burial ceremonies, Gnonnas adopted and modernized it in the mid-’60s, calling it “Agbadja Modern.” The track “Dadje Von O Von Non” was originally recorded in 1966 and is Gnonna’s first modern rendition of agbadja. Also featured here is the crazy, kick-ass funk track “Okpo Videa Bassouo” recorded in 1973, as well as the sublimely contagious track, “La Musica en Verité.” Honoré Avolonto was one of Benin’s most prolific composers, releasing Benin’s most successful LP in the late ’70s. That album was recorded with Black Santiago, a band fronted by amazing trumpeter Ignace De Souza, another legend, with whom he recorded the Afrobeat track, “Dou Dagbe We.” Avolonto has fronted some of Benin’s most powerful bands and some of those “partnerships” with Orchestre Poly-Rythmo and Les Commandos are presented here. Beware — killer Afrobeat meets frenetic funk. El Rego et Ses Commandos were responsible for Benin’s first Afro-soul-funk track with the support of Ghanean singer, Eddy Black Power. The “Jerk” scene in Benin was triggered by the success of “Feeling You Got,” and its infectious accordion riff. “E Nan Mian Nuku” is an Afro-Latin tune combined with a kind of bossa nova, and “Vimado Wingnan” is Benin’s most sought-after funk track. Out of all the artists here, Antoine Dougbé is the least known even in Benin, but he created his own style which he dubbed Afro cavacha — a fantastic mixture of Congolese rhumba, Latin sounds and traditional vodoun rhythms. All of his vinyl releases, especially the ones released on his own Editions Dougbé Antoine label, are incredible and have become some of Africa’s most sought-after collector’s items.” -analog africa
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UTMARKEN COMPILATION 10″ $12 (swedish import)
“Gothenburg 2009. There’s something in the air and something is stirring in the eclectic underground. Brewing magic, movements in every corner and truly exciting times. This is a small document of the first year of Utmarken with four acts contributing one track each. Street Drinkers, the soloproject of Viktor from Ättestupa, uses layers of synths and vocals to create minimal and dreamy music reminiscent of Wet Hair and Peaking Lights, but with a unique Swedish touch. After the feedback-mayhem on the Gothenburg Blood Cult Tape, Källarbarnen is now back with a more subtle and somewhat mellow track, here using synths, drums, bass and vocals. All lights are out and everything is falling apart. White is Dan from Ättestupa/Sewer Election, and the project should be known from the tapes on Harsh Head Rituals and Segerhuva. Hitting it hard with distorted synthbuzz and vocals, it ends up like the bastard child of Suicide via filth, crime and abuse. Ättestupa ends everything with the best song they have done, a haunting and intense piece called Änglamakerskan. Freezing winds evokes the mean spirit of an long forgotten era. Total Swedish coldness and there is no way back. The 10″ comes with liner notes by Matthias Andersson as well as a photo collage from Utmarken. All tracks were recorded at Utmarken between fall 2008 and spring 2009. Mastered by Pete Swanson. Front photography by Andy Liffner, mugshots on the back by David Eng. ” -release the bats
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Thoughts on Air/Tricorn and Queue split cassette $6
new tape on housecraft
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sundog peacehouse “brosound” cassette $7
“the first time i heard this trio i was absolutely smitten. sundog peacehouse are chris mucci, sal farina and austin redwood and will soon be taking over their native pittsburgh by lulling everyone into a codeine coma. shimmering walls of heavily-processed vocals, guitars and samples ease you down into emerald green pools of total bliss. pure waves of spiralling sonics drench you and hold you close. there is something so unbelievably comforting about this music that it’s impossible to get away from, impossible to ignore. having shared bills with caboladies (past) and bardo pond (future), you get any idea where these soaring aural dreams are going to take you. sundog peacehouse are stunning, simply put. don’t wait around for the surf to break you out, just stay sunkissed and in love. edition of 70, fuschia waves to the stars.” -digitalis
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dream safari “river submersion” cassette $7
“following up his recent burner on excitebike, dream safari is back in the haze clawing his way to the summit. these miniature trips are lost inside a maze of urban caves with nothing but a burned-out lantern. cyclical vocal drones that rise and fall like an ancient sea creature escaping from a blackened abyss. these are the sounds of dying ghosts. drenched in reverb and delay, there’s only one way out and that’s straight done. dark & hypnotic, you know the rest. editon of 65, pro-dubbed in the light.” -digitalis
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Time Life “Drumlins” 7″ $6
“To those not well versed in the studies of esoteric land mass terminology, the word “drumlin” might be pure WTF. But to Heidi Diehl and G. Lucas “Non-Horse” Crane it’s the key to a musty trunk ripe with memories, magic, mystery. In plain terms it describes a specific sort of glacially-carved hillock endemic to upstate NY (and Antarctica and Greece) which in recent years and regions have been utilized as dumping grounds for mining town industrial slag. A childhood spent summering on such junkyard drumlins spawned the strange smoggy swan-songs of Drumlins, Time Life’s vinyl debut. Decaying tape loops rumble beneath somberly sung lyrical riddles and bowed-string tonal arcs. Electric Appalachian regression fantasies. Metal mountain music. All of this and more (more or less). Black vinyl 7 inches with snowflake stickers in hand-cut full-color cardstock fold-over sleeves with drumlin collage by Manda and adorned with 2 pairs of (the hills have) eyes. Edition of 252.” -nnf
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TSUKIMONO “TIME CANVAS” 2xLP $18 (swedish import)
“Long anticipated vinyl version of Tsukimonos grandiose Time Canvas, originally released as a limited CDR on Kning Disk spring 2007. A true gem when it comes to drone-based music, this recording still stands out as Tsukimonos finest moment. Each track is based on a sample on one specific instrument. Slow and quiet and big and brutal at the same time. Incredible beauty indeed. The deluxe 2xLP version also comes with a side-long bonus track recorded in 2008. Letterpressed silver ink on black cardboard sleeves. Liner notes by Matthias Andersson (RTB Records), PM Jönsson (Sound Of Music/Sonic), Gustav Rosengren (Kalligrammofon) and musician Viktor Sjöberg. Also comes with a coupon for a digial download of the album, which also includes The Lesson, a second bonus track. Limited to 525 copies.” -release the bats
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Robedoor “Exorcist Blues” cassette $6
new tape by robedoor on monorail trespassing
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Blues Control “s/t” LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
“As you may or may not know, it can sometimes get pretty hairy being in a record store when some smelly denim clad-dude walks in asking for the blues. If you’re lucky he’s wearing a belt when you point him over to the records that are now relegated to an open spot on the floor. That’s just one scenario because who doesn’t love those other blues that are fondly recalled with names like Blues Addicts and Blues Creation. And let’s not forget that other queen of the blues-Barbara from “Just Farr a Laugh.” Blues Control might just be the missing link between Van Halen and Henry Flynt. They are a duo. Lea Cho plays swank but grounded atmospheric keyboard parts [think Harold Budd] for guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table Russ Waterhouse to cut through, whittle and lay waste to. It’s a hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, a lazy stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all a la a guy named Florian-and you can choose which one you want. Oh yeah, did I mention the humid bikini-vibe that permeates the entire album? So is there a blues angle to it? Yeah, but you’ve got to bury yourself in it or dig your way in. Come out stinking if you want.” -holy mountain Boiled Peanuts mp3
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Mark Mcguire “Solo Acoustic Vol. 2” LP $16 (high wholesale cost)
“The second installment in VDSQ’s (Vin Du Select Qualitite) Solo Acoustic guitar series curated by STEVE LOWENTHAL of Swingset Magazine. Solo Acoustic Vol. 2 features melodic ballads and new songs from EMERALDS guitarist MARK MCGUIRE that spark new innovations and memories thought to be lost. Packaged in letterpress sleeves with a picture of the guitar used on the recording.” -VDSQ
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Sonic Youth “Goo” 4XLP box set $28 *THAT’S ONLY $7 A RECORD!!*
“The Deluxe Edition of Sonic Youth’s 1990 album Goo includes thirty one songs: the original album remastered; remixed and remastered versions of the band’s 8-track demos; the album outtake “Lee #2” (previously unheard with vocals); rehearsal outtakes “Tuff Boyz” and “Isaac”; “Can Song” (a never-before-heard demo of “The Bedroom”); the Beach Boys cover “I Know There’s an Answer”; “Dr. Benway’s House,” the band’s contribution to William Burroughs’ Dead City Radio; B-sides “The Bedroom” and “That’s All I Know Right Now” (the latter a cover of the Richard Hell/Tom Verlaine pre-Television group Neon Boys); and the promotion-only “Goo Interview.” A 16-page book is included with an interview-essay by Byron Coley, an essay by Mark Kates, and never-before-seen photos.” -goofin
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social junk “born into it” CD $12
“Social Junk have blasted through walls, east & west, over the past few years cranking out some serious sparklers along the way. Now after dropping a megaslice of deliciousness on Not Not Fun last year, this duo follow it up with a journey through the mother earth canal. “Born Into It” stretches across the lands with thudding percussion and hypno synth excursions. Waves of swirling vocals from both Heather Young and Noah Anthony. You may have just been born, but stretch those wings baby because it’s time to fucking fly. There’s no going back once you take the first plunge on “Born Into It.” Immediately, through no fault of your own, you’ll be drawn in and tied down. At times it feels like Young & Anthony are scouring the lands, taking in whatever technological progress they can find and chewing it up and spitting it out into a gloriously dissonant pile. This is music for the next wave; music to find your way back to the sun. Social Junk are soaring like never before and “Born Into It” is their latest testament to a new world. Limited to 500 copies.” -digitalis
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Sean McCann “Phylum Sigh” CD $8
“Remastered CD issue of sold out DNT tape. Includes extended mixes and an additional song. Full-color art, shrink-wrapped. 9 songs, 63 minutes. Limited to 200 copies” -roll over rover
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James Fella / Shivers split cdr $8 (german import)
“James Fella is the Gilgongo label head and member of Soft Shoulder and Tent City. Rhythmic electronic weirdness and wilderness, oursider sounds and dazed clarinets lead you through the zone and back. Shivers offers one long track of total clinical cut up bustle. Feedback exploitation / head in the dryer style.” -tape tektoniks
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Wet Hair “Dream” CD $8
“Wet Hair is Shawn Reed and Ryan Garbes from the now defunct Raccoo-oo-oon. It started out as a soloproject of Shawn but after a while Ryan joined in as well. After several tapes and a 12″, the duo is now unleashing Dream, their first fullength album. Four long tracks of analog synth atmosphere and industrial trance punk. Sure some Raccoo-oo-oon echoes can be heard if putting an ear close to the speaker, but Wet Hair is in many ways different. Melodic, upbeat, focused, dark, warm, cold, catchy, and confusing at the same time. Hints of everything from Suicide and Public Image Ltd to Spacemen 3 shines through. Dream has a strong nostalgic feel, fragments from the past is passing by and at the same time we get a strange glimpse of the future… Glowing stuff. ” -release the bats
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DUCKTAILS “BACKYARD” CD $8
“Ducktails is Matthew Mondanile from New Jersey and Backyard is an anthology of his first recordings. Raw-sounding and shimmering 3-minute diamonds, longer trance-inducing journeys into heated minds and blurred visions of the Pacific City… This is laidback music for late, late summer nights. Though being remastered to suit the CD format, the roughness from the casssettes are still here. Included here is all the tracks from the II tape, the 1992 demo tape, the split tape with Mudboy, some stuff from the Dreams In Mirror Field session as well as some new cuts. Playtime of close to 74 minutes. Glossy 4-panel digipack.” -release the bats
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Foot Village “Fuck the Future 2” CD $10
“In anticipation of their upcoming full length “Anti Magic” on Upset the Rhythm, LA’s FOOT VILLAGE have compiled a second batch of vinyl only tracks. Four humans (you know them from Gang Wizard, Friends Forever, Rose for Bodhan and A++, and as members of 2008’s Boredoms 88 drummers performance) emerge from the apocalypse, exploring the primitive wasteland and creative a new nation of their own, using only drums and their voices. Housed in a digipack made using partially recycled material, with art work by Brittany Gould (Married In Berdichev!), “Fuck the Future 2″ collects the material from: their split LP with Black Pus (Deathbomb ARC / DNT), two recent 7”s (on Too Pure and Rock Is Hell), the “Pisspounder” triple LP (w/ Sword Heaven, Aa, Grey Skull, Rainbow Blanket and Dreamhouse also on DBA) and the recent, wild, collaboration 12” with Health, Captain Ahab and Jason Forrest on Ravesploitative,… assembled and mastered together by Pete Swanson.” -gilgongo records
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Binges “Return to Whatever” cdr $5
“Binges are a hometown favorite here in Chicago. Up until this point their music has existed to the public in one form: the live set. For the benefit of those outside of Chicago, the duo, comprised of drummer Chris Robert and guitar/bass/drum/mic/tape dude Anthonyy Decanini, recently teamed up with Midwestern Raccoo-oo-oon to cover the west coast with their syncopated improvisations. It is only fitting that their first release be made up of live material(recorded to DAT tape and mastered with the utmost care). Decanini creates a vast number of growing and receding loops from his guitar, bass, contact mic, tapes, and other sources which act as the perfect foil to Robert’s percussion(a serious thing to behold). It isn’t so much one person acting as the leader as much as the two creating an absolute sonic union of sounds blurring the line between free jazz and noise. In an edition of 200 screened CDRs in screened sleeves.” -arbor
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STEPHEN STEINBRINK “Ugly Unknowns” CD $9
“STEPHEN STEINBRINK makes his 11 song debut release under his own name after playing and constantly touring as FRENCH QUARTER for the past several years. His last full length has been a personal favorite and this new one has shaped up to be the same. Blissful and uplifting survival songs recorded throughout Arizona at various friends’ homes. Urgent, sincere and real. ” -gilgongo
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Totally Dad “Video for the Snake” cdr $6
Three hell-hermits from Middleton Street extra choose to live like field mice. one yea cooks, one ha cleans, and one cuts doh paper. if they notice the night late has begun, they drop their gold duties and fold instruments into towels bang. It has all been full saved. Somebody does it better than.” – abandon ship records
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the julie mittens cdr $6 (abandon ship version)
“Oh fuck yeah. Stoked beyond belief to finally drop this. Last September The Julie Mittens dragged their suitcases filled with (un)Holy Fire across the Atlantic to play a couple of hard earned gigs. Their first time ever in the States and they sure realized they couldn’t leave without leaving behind scorched earth. Cellars got torn down and basements wrecked, a band on fire from Syracuse to Virginia. This release is evidence that the tour was a massive succes, recorded live in Albany NY, the Dutch trio unleash two face melting jams much in the vein of Fushitsusha but with the spirit of the most out there freejazz units (think late period Coltrane, Raphe Malik, Evan Parker et al) branded in their way of playing. ” -abandon ship
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shoeb ahmad “sea songs, dead ends and sleeping pills” cdr $6
“exploratory soundscapes and leftfield pop from canberra’s shoeb ahmad, recorded during a year-long stay in the coastal town of wollongong in 2006. features contributions from machinefabriek, plinth, felicity mangan, m.rosner and william ryan fritch. 75 hand-made copies in wax-sealed envelopes and screenprinted inner sleeves.” sound&fury
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Tent City cdr $5
“Past the desert smoke and arid dust trails of Arizona lies an Oasis of broken folk. Occupied by Tent/City, this area is like a river of creativity and blessed drones. Six artful dwellers armed with instruments ranging from pots and pans to synths and guitars, pianos and flutes, have the perfect recipe for clattery commune psych. Taken out of their natural habitat and thrown into the studio they offer these five tracks to the coyote spirit. The first three tracks act as studies focusing on different pairings of the featured instrumentation. This culminates in the fourth track, an epic 12 minute long jam full of rotted synth, flute prayers, electric guitar with hints of the raccoon’s good blessing, all over a foundation of unwavering percussion. In an edition of 90 triangle stickered cd-rs with an insert all in a hand sewn paisley pouch complete with button clasp.” -arbor
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Mattress “Heavy Duty” CD/LP $10 (please specify which you want)
new lp released by reluctant recordings. hear them here: http://www.myspace.com/rexmattress
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Big Nurse “Time Trip” cdr $5
“wonderful romp down memory lane and back” -high density headache
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The Pope “Sports” CD $7
“The Pope sound something like an kamikaze Fokker Jachtkruiser on a midnight strafing run over London. Humongous flak guns fill the sky with steel in a vain attempt to bring them down, but nothing can keep this chugging, lethal bird from being aloft. As you should know, the Pope is bulletproof, and when it’s ready to drop it’s payload, pulverization results. The Pope comprises two men and their wall of overdriven solid state power. They come from the land of avocado trees and Colin Farrell sightings, but rather than play Jane’s covers, they go the route of mighty forebearers like godheadSilo, Karp, Unwound, and Hammerhead, Steel Pole Bathtub and the Whip as well as contemporary nut-jobs like Lightning Bolt and Big Business. Sports is a theme record, interspersed with wild soundbites from real-deal sporting events. The music ranges between triumphal and milataristic metal to wild spasmodic blasts. Daniel “Bad Dudes” Haworth made sure that this was their best recording to date, and the good people at Golden Mastering cranked it up so it practically turns itself up, once lodged in the player. At 17 total tracks and thirty plus minutes, it’s ambitious and labored-over piece of work that is set to break minds from here to Bishkek. RIYL: godheadSilo, Karp, Hammerhead.” – Wantage
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Shepherds “Loco Hills” CD $10
“Loco Hills, the debut full length from these Brooklyn bush babies,is the sound of a rolling southwestern road trip. It is the sound of unknown terrain, and appropriately Loco Hills finds Shepherds entering full band territory for the first time. A fully realized jam document, toying at times with structure, Shepherds never lose sight of the “drop everything and make music” mentality that makes them so exciting. Swirling strings, tape manipulations. Bongos and wah, fire and bone. This is our music.” -Release The Bats
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alphabets “pow sound” cassette $7
“what an absolute revelation. alphabets is the brainchild of denver savant, colin ward and his first ever tape, “pow sound,” is the bedroom dance party of your dreams. total synth overload and excess like somebody stole all the jewels hollywood has to offer and hid them in ward’s keyboard. cut & paste pop bliss that is heavy on the heavy beats. seriously, the beats and the hooks are the stars here. you can’t help but get sucked in and shake your ass. days later, the songs will be stuck in your head, you’ll be humming the shower… from here on out, it’s over. don’t fight it. give in. enjoy. it’s over. edition of 70, aqua blue beauties.” -digitalis
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Xiphiidae “Pass Hidingly Seek” cassette $6
new tape on housecraft
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James Ferraro “Clear” LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
“”Clear” and “Discovery” were originally released as two companion CDRs by James Ferraro (of the whole Skaters / Lamborghini Crystal / 90120 / Splash / Nirvana axis) and comprise the August 1974 (Taj-Mahal Travellers) of his discography. Both albums contain absolutely beautiful whirling hall-of-knives-style synth drone that makes one want to reference Klaus Schulze or Bobby Beausoleil. “Clear” bursts with flam beats and a cluster of melodies muffled like a calliope wrapped in a soggy tarp, while Discovery is comparable to Daft Punk’s album of the same name but played in reverse at 16 rpm through a boombox in a boiler room. These two records contain the sounds of pulling out with tapping beats of fluid dropped on a soft convertible top (open), much like those fictitious Giorgio Moroder songs for the upcoming Olympics in Atlantis or a reworking of that award-winning song from “Revenge of the Nerds”–or is it “Wonderwall”–into a theme for a future ski jump at the Great Pyramids. Are you ready for the lizard people to compete? Now available as mastered vinyl LPs with a digital download.” -holy mountain
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James Ferraro “Discovery” LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
“”Clear” and “Discovery” were originally released as two companion CDRs by James Ferraro (of the whole Skaters / Lamborghini Crystal / 90120 / Splash / Nirvana axis) and comprise the August 1974 (Taj-Mahal Travellers) of his discography. Both albums contain absolutely beautiful whirling hall-of-knives-style synth drone that makes one want to reference Klaus Schulze or Bobby Beausoleil. “Clear” bursts with flam beats and a cluster of melodies muffled like a calliope wrapped in a soggy tarp, while Discovery is comparable to Daft Punk’s album of the same name but played in reverse at 16 rpm through a boombox in a boiler room. These two records contain the sounds of pulling out with tapping beats of fluid dropped on a soft convertible top (open), much like those fictitious Giorgio Moroder songs for the upcoming Olympics in Atlantis or a reworking of that award-winning song from “Revenge of the Nerds”–or is it “Wonderwall”–into a theme for a future ski jump at the Great Pyramids. Are you ready for the lizard people to compete? Now available as mastered vinyl LPs with a digital download.” -holy mountain
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Mayyors “Deads” 12″ EP $10
second pressing of new 12″ by sacto’s mayyors
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Six Organs of Admittance “Luminous Night” LP $13
brand new lp on drag city
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julian lynch “orange you glad ” LP $15
“Orange You Glad is the debut full-length LP from Julian Lynch, following a string of self-released cd-r’s and a recent split 7″ with his childhood friend and frequent collaborator Matt Mondanile of Ducktails on the Underwater Peoples label. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Julian has had a busy summer playing countless shows both solo and as a member of Predator Vision, Ducktails, and Real Estate offshoot Alex Bleeker & the Freaks. This album is comprised of 4-track home recordings made in his hometown of Ridgewood, New Jersey and also in Madison, Wisconsin where he is a graduate student in ethnomusicology. His interest in Indian & South Asian music blossomed several years ago when he was living in Washington, D.C. and working for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. This exposure to their vast library of world music has informed his output, and he blends instruments such as harmonium & tabla with guitar-rock instrumentation. Also of note is his use of circular breathing techniques on the clarinet — often a focal point during his meditative live shows.”-olde english spelling bee
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Heavy Winged + Inca Ore “Ring Mining” LP $14
“Been waiting multiple years for this mind-melting meeting-of-minds to finally manifest itself in physical form, and there’s actually a story behind it. Rewind to 2006: Heavy Winged is an active, Brooklyn-based psych-rock band who’ve yet to dissolve into the bi-coastal logistical tangle they exist as now; meanwhile, Eva/Inca Ore is on tour (for The Birds And The Bees maybe); meanwhile, Nick Bindeman happens to also be in NY hanging out. Since all are friends or friends-of-friends, Heavy Winged ask Nick and Eva to come jam with them at a show at Northsix for the heck of it. They do. The set is a charged, psychotropic cyclone of ragged electric weight and possessed pixie shriek, stomping up and down over several damaged mountains of riff-wreckage. Miraculously, someone thinks to record the performance. Jed Bindeman sends us a copy. Our speakers implode, we high five. Fast forward to Fall 2008: Heavy Winged record a new 20-minute epic (“Into The Fog”), send it to Eva, and she records her own hypno-bliss keyboard mirage over the top. Eureka. So goes the nearly three-year history of Ring Mining, a slow-burn triumph of long-distance collaborative patience and alchemy between two of our favorite creative institutions. Mine on, you crazy diamonds. Black vinyl LPs mastered by James Plotkin and housed in jackets with mountain-collage artwork by Eva Saelens, plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500.” -nnf
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Bent Spoon Duo “Fossils of Slumber” cassette $6
“Chris Dadge and Scott Munro of Calgary take a different approach than Schnüffler to the act of breathing new life into improvised experimental music. The close listening and quick interactions are there but instruments, players, forms, and listeners all seem damaged. It’s as if the Art Ensemble traveled in a time machine with all their tiny instruments to the present day but got all fucked up in the process. edition of 56” -holy cheever church
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Sean McCann / Black Eagle Child “New Molluska” split cassette $6
“Another ‘twofer here, this one being the second in a (hopefully) long chain of splits between Sean McCann and Mike Jantz (BEC). SM’s side features squished synth and dripping strings, while BEC’s side journeys to new lands, sailing from peninsula to peninsula until sundown. Produbbed, purple shells – limited to 100 copies. ” -roll over rover
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Emeralds “Allegory Of Allergies” 2xLP $20
““About a month ago, as I watched Emeralds levitate a packed house at Brooklyn’s Glasslands, I couldn’t help but wax a bit misty-eyed, recalling the years we all spent orbiting the basements of the upper midwest with a cabal of like-minded fuckups. This opportunity to revisit Allegory of Allergies isn’t exactly helping me regain my composure, and for that, I’m profoundly grateful, insofar as time, distance, and a seriously killer record can put a pretty impressive sentimental gloss on virtually anything, from spacing out and driving two hours past the gig in a thunderstorm to blasting the Gods of Tundra c120 on a half-dead portable deck while scrambling to dodge a sketchy eviction threat. Those, apparently, were the days. In its formal aspect, Allegory shares much with the recent and justly lauded What Happened, though in nearly every other sense, they’re night and day. Where the extended vignettes of What Happened share a certain crystalline expansiveness and astral sheen, Allegory offers a crumbling labyrinth that’s at once humid and frigid, crammed to the gills with moss, lichen, cobwebs, brick dust, rotting boards, peeling paint, and narrow shafts of light. It’s a blurry and bleary vision, in which John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark McGuire improvise on synths, guitar, voice, and tapes like three cats batting at an enormous calder mobile, a sound thoroughly native to the moldering interiors and indigenous dystopian/psychedelic culture of the American Rust Belt. Those approaching this work for the first time will have much around which to warp/wrap their heads. Emeralds are possessed of a slow-burning, Cluster-like sense of patience, an accompanying willingness to assume the appearance of burbling sideways in low gear while stealthily turning the universe on its edge, a rare mastery of perspective and scale, and an ability to make audible the slipperiness of the slope between harmony and timbre. Just as crucially, they manage to be ambitious and sprawling without compromising their aura of raw immediacy and handmadeness. It is precisely this sort of fried grace that secures Emeralds’ place in the history of vernacular experimental music and situates Allegory of Allergies squarely in its hallowed canon of epic double LPs.” — Chris Madak” -weird forest
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Six Organs of Admittance “Dark Noontide” LP $12 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Dark Noontide is the third full length release from Six Organs of Admittance. While listeners were pleasantly surprised by Ben Chasny’s out-of-nowhere acid-folk genius on earlier releases, Dark Noontide comes in a notch or two higher with another spectacular merging of dreamy, hypnotic, finger-picked melodies and psychedelia concrète, not to mention some very fine fuzz guitar.Eight incredible tracks seamlessly blend powerful blues foot-stomp, backward interludes, strange strings feedback, dark, tabla-infused vibrations, and the amazing debut of Chasny’s electric guitar as a lead instrument. Minds can only be blown by this album. Initiation is only a matter of time. This is the dream follow-up release that fans of Six Organs of Admittance have been waiting for.” holy mountain
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christopher riggs “live in michigan” cassette $6
“christopher riggs is 1/2 of the soulcrushing duo, trauma (w/ graveyards’ ben hall), but has been cranking out mounds of cryptic debris in his own right for years. “live in michigan” documents one of his rare live performances, recorded in december of 2008. riggs turns his guitar into a sonic chainsaw, dismembering strings and notes with the precision of a blind surgeon. this is not a safe environment and soon you’ll feel your bones cracking under the pressure. good stuff. limited to 60 copies, smeared & beered.” -digitalis
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Chris Riggs “Dead in Michigan” cassette $6
“Raw and mangled guitar explorations from the undisputed champ of current six string skronk. Furious brutal guitar damage recorded directly to tape. A unique take on guitar death with an element of the classic no rules approach. Don’t miss this guy on the road jammin’ solo or in free music gangs like trauma (with Ben Hall).” -pizza night
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Theo Angell “First Recordings” C-90 cassette $6
“Unearthed recordings from 1994/1995 featuring Theo solo except for a fewsampled answering machine messages. Recorded before Theo was in Hall ofFame/Jackie O Motherfucker. Lost first solo recordings that have not beendistributed in any way prior to this release (the only other person, otherthan myself and Theo, to hear them has since passed away). Program repeatson both sides. Creepy how contemporary this sounds.” -really coastal
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Sparkling Wide Pressure “For All From Lucy” cassette $6
“Private blotter voyages narrated with melancholic folk psychedelia accessibly infused with a headfull of introspective starburst haze ‘n glaze. Edition of 40” -housecraft
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Przewalski’s Horses “Pripyat Holidays” cassette $6
“Noodling romantics meandering high on nostalgia, digging deep in six-string dust. Edition of 44” -housecraft
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Autoerotic Asphyxiation/Vestigial Limb split cassette $6
“Controlled burning. All you can do is destroy the things around you; blistering, mortally damaged. Liberation is imminent. edition of 40” -housecraft
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OM “Conference of the Birds” LP $13
“Comprised of two songs that build on OM’s use of cyclical rhythm, riff, and vocal intonation, the duo’s new album Conference of the Birds blends metal, chant, drone, dub, and psychedelia. The band’s lyrics expound upon the structure of the universe, potentiality, and freedom from the physical body. Engineered by Billy Anderson and produced by the band, Conference of the Birds progresses beyond their debut, Variations on a Theme, with more fully realized songwriting and production.” -holy mountain At Giza mp3
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OM “Pilgrimage” LP $14
“The 3rd sacred voyage of drone mantra purity from Om! Helmed by the master rhythm section of Chris Hakius (drums) and Al Cisneros (bass) (both formerly of Sleep) Pilgrimage contains four brand new songs featuring the gropus unique use of riff, cadence and chant. Lyrical themes address the processes of mind, psychic reality, astral and causal planes of being, and the nature of the soul. Pilgrimage was recorded and engineered by Steve Albini at his Electrial Audio studios in Chicago and produced by the band. Mastering was handled by Bob Weston (also of Shellac). Of particular note is how much the song-writing has developed and in turn makes the dynamics of the songs much more intensely powerful. The present journey finds the band expanding their vision into new territories. Deluxe 180 gram Vinyl, gatefold jacket, version of the 3rd album from OM! Clear vinyl (limited to 550 pressing). Lacquer master cut by Bob Weston. SOUNDS HUGE!!” -southern lord
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A.M. Shiner “Bananarchy” C100 cassette $6.50
“Sulfuric post-music debut by the young & troubled Andrew Michael Shiner, whose sonic vernacular on this special edition long playing cassette never strays far from snotty concrete chomping noise. Side A is seven widely varied attempts at funneling assaultive energy thru a black hole in the hopes of its emergence as a pure & beautiful force of healing through the white hole on the other side. Just barely making it there and catching glimpses of the toxic information field being refined in the analog shitstorm is enough to let this single side roll out the length of a full album. Side B matches the first fifty minutes with two more minimally-oriented pieces that include Andrew’s first ever “metahistoric live performance” (were you there? probably!). All is finally capped by a half hour time-freezing monolith wash guaranteed to mellow any harsh incurred by contact with the bananarchic agenda. Also look out for new chapters of the A.M.S. crisis to unfold soon on Housecraft and Sound Holes. Hand numbered edition of 80 pro-dubbed black & white c100 tapes in vinyl album with cover collage compiled from a year’s worth of strung out doodles from A.M. Shiner’s old bummer-job phone log.” stunned
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WORMS IN DIRT/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
“Brooklyn’s Worms provide the serene glance into freeeeeform angles. Featuring members of Cutter, Fxxxing Lion and AST. …… SHPX let out a studio jammer and a live something something. //// Ltd. 50 copies.” -INW
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Social Junk “Concussion Summer” LP $12
” The greater midwest ‘hood is responsible for so much of the U.S.’s most living musics it seems like lately. Out here on the west we tend to get a bit blissed and burnt and, conversely, eastern seaboarders can fall into a condensed-consciousness that sometimes doesn’t translate well to those outside their bubble. But in the middle country there’s often a rawness that’s honest and real and really clears the ears/mind, and for our tastes Ashland, Kentucky’s Social Junk are champs at this direct, red-blooded approach. Somewhere between the Bible Belt brutality of Sword Heaven and Tusco Terror and the sticky southern electronics of Pax Titania or even recent Wet Hair, SJ navigate an interesting interzone, boiling together ominous loops, mangled sax, heavy riffs, various vocal moods (pissed, lost, aggro, angelic), militant tribal drumming, and a mess of electric atmospheres into something genuinely gripping and wholly their own. And right on the eve of both a behemoth bi-coastal tour (six weeks long!) and a brave re-location to CA’s Bay Area, we are amped-as-shit to announce their vinyl debut after a million killer limited tapes and splits. Concussion Summer rumbles through noisy drum circles, hypnotic thrash, and even a couple creepy ballads, with Noah Anthony and Heather Young’s co-dependent chemistry channeled into eight concise hybrid pieces of perfect/classic JUNK. High-time, and fully worth the wait. See them soon. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Hair Police’s Robert Beatty. Edition of 435.” -notnotfun
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Matt Carlson “Stereo Face” cassette $6
“Matt Carlson’s recent solo efforts venture into the sounds of early electronics pioneers. As a member of the minimal noise drone trio Bonus & former member of the Parenthetical Girls, Carlson’s efforts have included pop music, noise, free improv and performance art. His new work, Stereo Face, is modular synth wizardry all over the stereo field and steeped in science fiction themes that nod at the 1960’s while simultaneously hyper-driving towards the future.” -gift tapes
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SIR RICHARD BISHOP ‘PLAYS SUN CITY GIRLS’ 7″ $7 (UK import)
“First release in NO-FI’s Archive Series recorded live at Morden Tower, July 2005, and featuring SCG classics from Torch Of The Mystics: ‘Space Prophet Dogon’, ‘Esoterica Of Abyssynnia” and a touch of ‘The Vinegar Strokes’. Live recording by Andrew Hodson.” -no fi
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Sean McCann – A Wind in Their Way” cassette $6
“crisp recordings of heavily layered and processed strings, created with much attention to detail. another in a seemingly endless chain of top-quality material from McCann. Edition of 125, color covers and labels.” -monorail trespassing
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Metal Rouge “EPHEMEROPTERA 1-5” 5x cdr boxset $25
new boxset by metal rouge that collects the five cdrs in the Ephemeroptera series. limited to 50 copies released on seymour records. (that photo is not of the boxset)
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ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER “ZONES WITHOUT PEOPLE” LP $13
“Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never represents a rift in time; an isolationist expedition into the archaeology of sound that utilizes the analog polysynth as a means of organic creation. “Zones Without People” is the second record in the OPN trilogy; acting as a bridge between the drifting, nebulous landscapes of “Betrayed in The Octagon” and the finely detailed sound sculpture of Lopatin’s present work. An exercise in ‘in between-ness’: reconciling noise and melodicism, drone stasis and the transience of concrète, and the amorphous zone between 70s Kraut synth music and 80s techno. Arpeggios and sequencers play a key role in this amalgamation, as these forms of repetition create an attachment to a certain sentiment neither human nor machine. The record reflects this transformation; the A Side has distinct emotional flourishes, while the majority of the B Side seems to be overtaken in cold, mechanized melodies; attempts at teaching a machine to feel. The final track “Hyperdawn” is a solution to these two disparate modes of interpreting stimuli: a pure union of veins and patch cables. In an edition of 500 copies in proprinted cardboard sleeves with pro printed labels and an insert by Christelle Gualdi.” -arbor infinity
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RALE “WHISPERING GALLERY” 12″EP $11
“Following recent tape releases on Young and Ekhein, Bill Hutson’s Rale project should no longer be an elusive one. His modular synthesized low-end focus reaches new depths with each release; managing to provide a richness in texture and a deep listening experience in slow moving forms. Hutson exercises a dedicated control and mastery in composition as a result of his overwhelming knowledge of the potentials of sound. Far off organ chords become enveloped by an atmospheric heavy air; melody isn’t shunned, but obscured. Frequencies arranged seamlessly, with a modest approach; like the growth of a grey cloud. In an edition of 400 12” EPs cut at 45rpm in proprinted cardboard sleeves with printed labels.” -arbor infinity
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Blobs “Hey Hello” cassette $6
“Lieven Martens (Dolphins into the Future, Taped Sounds) and Eva Van Deuren (Orphan Fairytale, Pluim) are sea sponges on this tape. Edition of 100” -goaty tapes
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Jah Lion “Dub Bible” cassette $6
“Summer recordings of this improv trio. The Rover family having too much fun? Features an appearance from underground reggae’s future star … RAS Iretha-Franklin III… This dub goes to 11. Hand-painted rasta tapes, numbered insert, limited to 40 copies. ” -roll over rover
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The North Sea/Bones of Seabirds split cassette $6
“Prolific, heavy Midwest and Southeast minds join up for an unprecedented analog synth tag team. Brad Rose leads the way with two distinct burners. One swirls between beauty and menace while threatening to suck you into its hypnotic vortex—a place you’ll surely want to go. The other burrows straight into your skull and blows rainbow bubbles in your grey matter. Ryan McGill goes the distance on the flip with a sidelong piece that sculpts a gentle, soothing pulse into a towering monolith and finishes with a truly hellacious descent—the likes of which haven’t been heard on a BoS recording in quite awhile. With full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub.” -anathema sound
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Bestia Ferida ‘Live Wounded’ cassette $6
“3 piece from barcelona Bestia Ferida (means “wounded beast” in catalan)….Arnau Sala of Ozonokids and Adrian De Alfonso with Marc Cunningham of Mars…playing something that simultaneously touches on past/current free mind melt and focused blistering stumble and then shreds all of that for crackling-pure sound…This release is a compilation of different live acts around Barcelona, all of them during year 2008 at places like la Pedrera, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Convent de Sant Agustí, Sala Apolo and Sala Big Bang. ” -scumbag tapes
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Ugly Husbands / Old Softy – “Salmon-Chanted Evening” split cassette $6
“A total ‘twofer. Exceptional work from both artists, complementing and completing eachother’s music. Stew’s work mirrors the sound of plants digesting magnetic tape, only to be sewn back together by your Gamma. And if U.H.’s side represents the deep soil, then Old Softy’s sound is ringing in the wind, floating by the moon. By far my favorite tape this year. Edited/mixed together by Sean McCann, who also plays on each side. Produbbed tan shells, unique hand-glued collages on each case, limited to 100 copies.” -roll over rover
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AARON DILLOWAY “CHAIN SHOT” CD $8
“DIGIPAK CD reissue of my CHAIN SHOT LP which was originally released on LP by THRONE HEAP. Contains a 28 minute bonus track and copies ordered directly from HANSON come with a 11×17 full color poster. Below is a review of the original LP:
‘With only tape loops, metal, and horns (and sometimes, it seems, metal on horns) the two side long pieces, ‘Chain Shot’ and ‘Execution Dock’ respectively, explore the ugly underbelly of noise before just scraping right through and aiming for the insides. In a genre that has quickly turned into a broad and often inaccurate description of a certain breed of every-man experimental music, Dilloway sticks to the old-fashioned definition of noise, doing battle with the materials in front of him as he continues the construction of his impressive body of work. Dilloway, a former member of noise-titans Wolf Eyes, has recently been releasing solo work that explores much more abstract and thoughtful terrain than his previous group’s onslaughts. ‘Chain Shot’ is more a sound collage than anything, and while it is a heaping glob of muddled debris, it is also a highly controlled one. Looping samples on top of samples, Dilloway builds a slowly encroaching beast before slowly disintegrating it, bone by bone. This is some highly textural and immediately emotive soundscape work. ‘Execution Dock’ begins with a repeating loop of what sounds like the beginning and the end syllables of some nut’s conversation with a lamppost. In the distance sounds a pained song of sorts, like a rodent’s death cry, or maybe its birth one. I’m guessing maybe this is the horn, though it would be tough to be certain about much of anything here. Delayed creaks and groans float in and around as the vocal sample dissipates, leaving you sloshing through the mud puddle only to realize that its a tar pit the size of La Brea.—HENRY SMITH, http://earconditionednightmare.blogspot.com/’ ” -hanson records
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Emeralds & Dilloway “Under Pressure” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
“2008 collaboration between EMERALDS and AARON DILLOWAY. aka the KEITH EMERWAY sessions. Emeralds zoneing / Dilloway mangling their sound and adding some grit.” -hanson
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the north sea/current amnesia split cassette $6
“car commercials’ david sutton takes it to the streets on his side of this megawatt splithour. “delusions of the triangle” is a journey through the underbelly, seedy & poignant, like a lost prayer to magic mountain. hypnodrones galore. sutton bends and twists aural shards into glasslike works of art. i want to keep on livin’ in his world. the north sea is shimmering like a sunken stone, drowning in a torrent of silver piss. voices and chimes blown apart in an epic battle to be king of nothing at all. underwritten with a wall of synth dreams and other churns. edition of 80, pro-dubbed with the four horsemen of the apocalypse.”- digitalis
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Pocahaunted “Passages” LP $14
“The latest from Los Angeles/New York drone/pop/noise duo POCAHAUNTED. Limited edition of 500 copies, so don’t sleep. ” -troubleman unlimited
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Pocahaunted “Chains” LP $14
” Originally the vision for Chains was “fucked up Tom Tom Club palm tree pop” (or something) but, as often happens when Manda and Bethany get in the studio with too much smart water and too many wisecracks, shit changed as soon as the 8-track tape started to roll. Oh well. The results are still rad and weird, 4 diverse songs that dance between post-rocky grooves, shoegaze drama, drugged funk, and Fleetwood Mac. The LP also does a good job of capturing what the Pocahaunted live set was like for most of the spring of ’08: torrential, dramatic, rhythmic, estrogenic. Bobb Bruno kicked in some serious arrangement assistance, and pro-friend Josh Klinghoffer helped with some sick drum stumbles too. On champagne pale yellow vinyl second pressing baby blue vinyl, in jackets with art by the band. On Cali Dewitt’s labor-of-love Teardrops label.” -teardrops records
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The North Sea “Hundred Flowers” cassette $6
“Brad Rose as been channeling some seriously heavy vibes lately. Picking up where Ajilvsga left off, Rose spews forth even more thick unholy shimmer. Hints of past pursuits loom just beneath the surface, lush forest drones are completely overpowered by caustic metallic doom.” -peasant magik
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Ajilvsga “Three Heaps of Skulls” cassette $6
“With their third release for Peasant Magik, Ajilvsga push their sound even further. Huge slabs of densely layered scum continuously churn while Rose and Young summon shards of electricity from the high heavens.” -peasant magik
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Primal Scream/Suicide split 10″ $14
“The Scream get all glam-rocked up for this bouncing, sing-a-long led by Bobby “Stardust” Gillespie with the luverly stealth viciousness that is The Miss Kittin. A record that makes us think of Pans People, tight yellow and blue satin shorts and big, big hair. The B side features a version of Suicide performing “Ghostrider” from an only recently rediscovered demo taping of that first legendary album……. partnered with a slinky, Roxy Music-esque rendition of D.F.C. by Devastations, long tall leader, Mr Conrad Standish. A late night seduction reprise to the Primal’s disco dong waggle.The perfect three course meal served on this very vinyl platter.
A Primal Scream – Diamonds, Furcoat, Champagne 3:33 (2007)
B1 Suicide – Ghostrider Demo 1976 (2:47)
B2 Conrad Standish Diamonds, Furcoat, Champagne 6:10 (2008)” -blast first petite
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Bruce Springsteen/Suicide split 10″ $14 *OUT OF PRINT/2ND EDITION LIMITED TO 4000*
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – DREAM BABY DREAM 6:55
The Boss solo, live from his 2005 Devils & Dust Tour pays tribute to Mr Alan Vega. A haunting interpretation of the Suicide classic, a heartfelt lament for “lost America”. Surely should be THE alternative Obama campaign song !

B1
SUICIDE – DREAM BABY DREAM (MIDNIGHT SPECIAL LIVE TV 1978) 3:51
Recently recovered from a lost Suicide vault……1978 The Cars are America’s biggest band. ….they air their own live TV “Midnight Special” nationwide on NBC and invite their pals Suicide. America, untouched, sleeps soundly through this event, gathering it’s strength to throw shoes at Mr Vega & Mr Rev when they open for The Cars on the stadium tour.
B2
BEAT THE DEVIL – MR RAY 5:30
Sadly now defunct contemporary New York band. Singer Shipa Ray tears Suicide a new one!” -blast first petite
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the north sea & fabio orsi demix “far & wide” cassette $6
“this unearthed excursion was found behind a bucket of dust in the hallowed cellar of the north sea past. tanpuras explode under beds of drones and field recordings. junkyard rhythms resonate inside the blacked-out hole in a dead oak tree. couples travel hand-in-hand through the streets of berlin, looking for the last taxi to take them straight to moscow square. fabio orsi and your fearless leader take each others tracks apart, piece by piece, and reassmble them into something shiny & new. “far & wide” is certainly a ghost from the past, waving goodbye and never to be seen again. killer cover art by dream magazine’s george parsons. limited to 79 copies.” -digitalis
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Lydia Lunch/Suicide split 10″ $14.50 (limited to a criminal 2,000 numbered copies)
“Lydia Lunch. Known to Rev & Vega as the Baby Faced Killer who they so kindly chaperoned through that lost downtown night world crucible from where both their futuristic, and highly influential, black arts would be born. Artistic Kings & Queens from the dumpster side of town. Lydia gets all wet and dirty with thought of what young Frankie Teardrop might do to her, over a twisted frug of an electronic beat-nicked soundscape by David Knight. Rules are for breaking. Here we like to break our own. So our tried and true E.P. format of inviting a young ‘un to try their strength on the Vega meter is torched in grace and favour of blessing the planet with one THE great lost Suicide archive items. This is the thirteen minute epic 1976 recording of Suicide dropping da’ bomb on what was then known as “Frankie Teardrop, The Detective vs The Space Alien”. Yowsa, yowsa ya all. Wrapped in the sleek horror-show of the Met Police’s recent publication of an X-Ray of some teens head with a knife in it. Frankie T thru Alien eyes perhaps….. Lights out kiddiewinkies
A Lydia Lunch – Frankie Teardrop (5:33)
B Suicide – Frankie Teardrop vs the Space Alien 1976 Demo ( 13:04)
” -Blast First Petite
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vorg vessel | “the queen of fish mountain / illuminated by stripes” cd-r + 3″ cd-r $12 (netherlands import)
“Another stunning project courtesy of psychfiend Adam Kriney (La Otracina, Dragonfrynd). This man does not sleep, nor shouldn’t he. Just like on the Dragonfrynd album there’s no drums on this double album. No guitars either this time. Just miles and miles of tripped out organ jams. Straight lines get transformed into a sprawling, blurry ocean of dubby overtones. Space age slowjams….this must be what shroomheads in love dance to. Sweet. 50 copies in slimline dvd cases with six page booklet and art by Peter Friel. ” -cut hands
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Masons / Molten Honey “In the Basement of the Temple / Molten Honey” split cassette $6
“During the winter of 2005, NY filmmaker Matthew Lessner (Darling Darling; By Modern Measure) and his then 14-year old sister Sophie fortuitously gained late-nite access to the basement of their hometown’s Masonic Temple. Creeping under dark cloaks and employing the sense of sibling telepathy, the two managed to set up their gear and capture the session of what is now their delirious 2008 debut tape side In the Basement of the Temple. We’ve enjoyed playing this demo the last few years for any Stunned houseguest wanting the ultimate nutso explosion of graveyard confetti punk. We also can’t think of a better bush-era sayonara statement, hence the three year wait on properly unleashing this fifteen-minute flash. Totally freaked out, all manner of esoteric energies pent up behind the boiler room doors of the lodge are channeled furiously thru the duo – Sophie’s lacerating clarinet feedback & guitar punctuations bleat in perfect pulse to Matthew’s neon war cries and punished drum kit. One would think flipping this tape over might provide some relief from the A-side’s secret society onslaught. But that’s exactly where John Frank’s Molten Honey awaits in a den of sound dementia, hammering his former psych’d folk styles into even more obtuse angles of guitar rattle, contact mic probe & synth key slap. This self titled B-side provides eight vastly different post-2012 snapshots that wiggle their mercurial imagery under our mesmerized gaze. Hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed c30 tapes in imprinted hot orange shells & fold-out color j-card.” -stunned
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SHEARING PINX “AMMUGAMMU” 2xcassette $12
“Four sides each a piece of the Pink. SHPX/Les Beyond/N.213/Mongst all share the stage in tribute to Pink Floyd’s amazing “Ummagumma” 2xLP!!!. Housed in a recipe box in Aqua, Red, and Blue. //// Ltd.50 copies” -INW
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SHPILBERG/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
“Quebec City’s Shpilberg skronk it up and SHPX deliver the bomb to the drum. /// Ltd.50 copies” -INW
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SINDRE BJERGA – ‘Crystal Cranium, Diamond Head’ cassette $9 (uk import/limited)
“Solo live blurt from 25 June 2008 from Sindre Bjerga, one half of Bjerga/Iversen. Background drones hit in immediatley accompanied with some minimal scrapes and sputtering kinda growth aura from aforementioned drone, there’s a real static vibe cruising through this. Occasional clunk and taps blur away as the heavy dense drone consumes the lot like an electric mist, with feedback clots clogging up your lungs, and creepy terror sounds.” Limited to 50 hand numbered copies, each with indvidual handmade weird paper and an insert, everyone looking entirely different.” – blackest rainbow
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Ajilsvga “Last of the White Buffalo” cassette $6
“Sometimes it’s primitive and baked in the clay-infested dirt that sucks most of the life out of the dust bowl that is Western Oklahoma. Sometimes it’s drenched in caustic rain in Green Country, out near the foothills of the Ozarks. But the obscured rhythms, the sludge, and the decaying bits of black magic wisdom that suckle the young ones dying on the vine? Fuck ’em. They never were of this world anyway.” -abandon ship
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KAEZM- “HYDROGEN FALLS” cassette $6
“Denmark is a place teeming with half fried organic drone crews such as Sarah’s Charity and Family Underground. Kaezm is the solo output for Nicolas Kauffmann of FU; here he channels electricity through criss-crossing patterns creating a midrange din full of lament. Nic’s drones move with static builds from a variety of sources and multiple levels of echoing chorus: airy, buzzing mantras tinged with Middle Eastern vibes and a deepening sense of time beat down like an incessant rainfall in a storm of hiss. In an edition of 100 labeled tapes with full color art by Nic.” -arbor
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Treetops/Dan Marino split cassette $6
“Subterranean Midwest boys sure got some reputation, but Treetops and Dan Marino represent a novel and downright invigoratin’ duality. Treetops rips through effects with overwhelmin’ honesty. Scrapin’ up amplifier discharge and molding passages of raw sentiment and ageless boon. Dan Marino pairs truth in field recording with a burbly gurgle and solid crystal synth. Less destructo, more dazer. Something for everybody, straight from the jabbers of our young future!” -goaty tapes
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Bjerga/Iversen “Empire of Dirt” cassette $5
“Bjerga/Iversen have been exploring the sound ghosts of the grey area for 3 years now. Deep studies in amplified clutter, tape hiss and the mesmerizing nature of the psychedelic drone has resulted in close to 40 records and a bunch of gigs through Europe and the UK as well as Norway. No rest, no second thoughts, no quality control (some might say) but always in the “now sound”, always mucking about, always trying to catch that ghost….. This is a live set from the Overtoom 301 club in Amsterdam, recorded April 6th, 2007″ -Sindre Bjerga: Tapes, contact mikes, guitar, kitchen utensils -Jan-M. Iversen: Electronics. -abandon ship records
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Jacob Smigel “Eavesdrop: a wealth of found sound” CD $10
“a collection of anonymous recordings found at thrift stores, yard sales, and in trash bins over the past four years. These unaltered tracks come from audio or micro-cassettes, 8-Tracks and home-recorded records. Many of the clips are segments from audio diaries, tape-letters, the sound of road trips, fights, crying, family moments, telephone conversations/messages, or the amusements of children or the mentally handicapped. A minimum of editing or manipulation was used in the making of this album. I did not add music to the tracks (or mash them up), but instead served as preservationist (or curator) to present the listener with the most powerful recordings in their natural state. Some are funny, some are ridiculous, others make no sense. A few are so ‘perfect’ I can’t believe I actually found them. Eavesdrop is a scattered documentation of what I call “the golden age of personal recording (1965 – 1986).” It is about the wonder that is putting our experiences, feelings, and lives down on tape. The album’s ~80 minutes is spread over 40 tracks. The album includes 28 pages of track notes, transcripts, background information, and additional resources. Album art is a collage of found photos collected over the past two years, and each CD comes with unique ‘found scraps.’” (self released)
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Sonic Youth “Daydream Nation” 4XLP box set $28 *THAT’S ONLY $7 A RECORD!!*
“Daydream Nation was Sonic Youthis sixth album, their first double LP, and their last for an indie label before signing with Geffen. Widely considered to be their watershed moment, Daydream Nation catapulted them into the mainstream and proved that indie bands could enjoy wide commercial success without compromising their artistic vision. The original 1988 album has been remastered under the bandis supervision. The bonus platters begin with previously unreleased live performances from the Daydream Nation Tour. Culled from performances at CBGB in New York, The Paradiso in Amsterdam, and several other primo venues, iLive Daydreami includes live versions of every song on the original album. Added to that are four studio bonuses: iWithin You, Without Youi (a Beatles cover from the NME-sponsored charity Beatles tribute album Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father), iComputer Age,i from the Neil Young tribute album The Bridge, iElectricityi from the Captain Beefheart tribute album Fast And Bulbous, and a cover of Mudhoneyis iTouch Me, Iim Sick,i originally released as a Sub Pop 7-inch single. Lee Ranaldois original demo of iEricis Tripi concludes the album.” -Goofin
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Wet Hair “Glass Fountain” LP $13 *A MUST BUY*
“Welcome back. One of NNF’s total favorite active bands return with a second full-length (most of which was recorded during the same sessions that birthed their debut LP, Dream) and we are pleased as spiked fruit punch. The Reed/Garbes duo mainly sticks to their guns, mining the same post-Suicide art-trance vein they perfected on Dream, but with Glass Fountain there’s an added emphasis on the disembodied, oscillator pop mode that Wet Hair often toy with. Fountain’s five tracks include some of the band’s simplest but catchiest songs (“Crucifix In The Waves,” “When The Right Time Comes,” etc), mesmerizing organ melodies over plink-plonky vintage drum machines with weirdo soulful singing and outer space electronics, like an outsider-punk Silver Apples or something. Hard to say exactly what universe Wet Hair are operating in and that’s probably part of why we love it so much. A killer record that gets better each spin. In jackets with art drawn and designed by the band, plus a pro-printed 11×11 insert. Edition of 600 (400 on opaque lavendar vinyl, 200 on black).” -nnf
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BURNING STAR CORE “The Very Heart of the World ” LP $13 BACK IN PRINT!!
“Personnel:
CS Yeh – Violin, Voice, Guitar, Organ, Drums, Electronics, Piano
Robert Beatty – Organ, Percussion, Electronics
Trevor Tremaine – Guitar, Trumpet, Percussion, Drums
Mike Connelly & Mike Shiflet – Presence
Jeremy Lesniak – Percussion
Jim Mcintyre – Guitar
Julie Roessler – Introduction on Side B
Sara O’Keefe – clarinet
Ellen Molle – viola” -thin wrist records
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Absinthe Minds “Rising Kulo Summit” b/w “Passage of the Wicked, River of Time” cassette $6
“Mangled tape. lo-fi, mucked up, too close to the band, deck onthe floor boards, picking up every vibration. every drop of the crowds sweat. this is an indie-reject hell. This is absinthe minds. Nice live recording from the new york tour jams. Looks like the boys took a little bit of the midwest along when they dropped this on NYC. Plains Indian Style. But Plains Indians ancestors back from the dead and pissed style. Upon arrival back in the home territories the Minds souls just kept heading west… God damn if the boys dont lay out a total fucking zombie SURF ROCK tune! Absinthe Minds stylee! For real so but dont be sceered! 45 copies on unholy white and bloody sunset red cassettes. ” -earjerk
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Earth Station – “Control Belief” cassette $6 <
“Earth Station is Mike Pollard (Abror Rec./Treetops etc.) and Peter Friel (Young tapes) new now age, space suit, field studies in the deep trenches of mars, power ambient band. Tidal waves of glacial synth murmur, the kind of intentionally epic stuff that you can’t help but like if you let yourself truly drift off. The end is coming and this what it might sound like. Space music for earthlings. Total harmony, total control. Artwork by SDReed.” -night people
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Treetops/Lithium Dreams – “split” cassette $6
“New Split from Negative Aggregator Tapes. Ambient, drifting, space music for android minds, and contemplation. Treetops is Mike Pollard (Arbor Rec. etc), Lithium Dreams is Jon Broges (Emaciator etc.)Jeff Witscher (Secret Abuse etc.) and Cole Miller (Human Hands etc.)” -negative aggregator
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EARN “PERSON” cassette $7
“THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT, … FORWARD” -young tapes
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ÄTTESTUPA LP $18 (more expensive restock/Swedish import/out of print) BACK IN STOCK/OUT OF PRINT!!
“There is a myth that elders in the old Sweden was thrown down from a big mountain or height when they no longer was for any use in the farms and households. This place was called Ättestupa. And that is the name of a new band from Gothenburg. Dealing with an old era of Sweden, this is music that reeks of plague, desolate countrysides, heathen rituals and long, harsh cold winters. The debut album is a journey back to a forgotten world, an anti-urban masterpiece. With members from Leafes and Sewer Election, it would be easy to call Ättestupa off as an mix of those two acts when it comes to the sound, but there is definitely way more to it than that. With traces of dark folkmusic, 70’s German prog and even some small black metal hints, this is mean-spirited stuff with an truly unique atmosphere. Slow and monotonous percussion, deeply buried vocals, crude electronics and droning guitars, tortured synths and flutes… Extremely lo-fi and extremely bleak. Two tracks (‘Tjälen’ and ‘Den Stora Sjukdomen’) and a playtime of 40 minutes.” -release the bats
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NTHnthsthSTH – A UTON & ANTONY MILTON COLLABORATION LP $17 (more expensive restock/Swedish import/out of print) BACK IN STOCK/OUT OF PRINT!!
“Finland and New Zealand meets again on this second collaborative album from Uton and Antony Milton (first one released as a limited CDR on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon back in 2004). A perfect clash of two beautiful worlds over 2 sidelong journeys divided into 5 shorter segments intersecting with each other. Field recordings, layers of majestic droning sounds, buried voices, percussion… Recorded in Linnavuori and Wellington from 2005 to 2007. Full colour artwork by both Jani Hirvonen and Antony Milton and liner notes by Jon Dale.” -release the bats
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EASY RIDER – ‘THE GOLDEN FAIREST’ part 1 cassette $6
“New development from Vienna’s Stefan Kushima. Airy two part pilgrimage through lulling soils. Cover artwork by Stefan.” -rotifer tapes
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EASY RIDER – ‘THE GOLDEN FAIREST’ part 2 cassette $6
“New development from Vienna’s Stefan Kushima. Airy two part pilgrimage through lulling soils. Cover artwork by Stefan.” -rotifer tapes
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The North Sea “Electioneering” cassette $6
“Vibes from Brad Rose, also known as the North Sea. Righteous electronic swelling, ebb and flow. Buzzing gigantic sound. Recent jams on Stunned, Root Strata, Peasant Magik, and his own Digitalis. Edition of 70 with full-color, fold out art. C23.” -exbx tapes
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Smycken – “Video Haze” cassette $6
“Smycken are from Goteborg Sweden, they inhabit the same type of unpredictable sonic and musical realms that alot of there more Northern neighbors from the Fonal Finnish family of bands seem to inhabit. A sort of collage aesthetic binds together the unhinged synth pop sensibilities of Smycken with forays into field recordings, vocal freakouts, psychedelic electronics, and woodsy folk eruptions. Something shinny, cosmic, and glacial is always ridding over the sounds, mutating them together through weaving synth oscillations and vocal mantras, that seem to highlight the pop sensibilities of this recording as much as they blur them.” -night people
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v/a “AFRICAN SCREAM CONTEST” 2XLP $22 (german import) BACK IN STOCK!!
“Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo ’70s. This compilation highlights forgotten raw & psychedelic sounds. Featuring PICOBY BAND D’ABOMEY, ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO, NAPO DE MI AMOR & SES BLACK DEVIL’S, R. DAMAWUZAN, TIDJIANI KONE, DISCAFRIC BAND, LE SUPER BORGOU DE PARAKOU, LES VOLCANS DE LA CAPITAL and others.” -analog africa
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Circulation of Light cassette $6
“Magic material here. Gnostic Audio. A stillness pervades. Liquid piano. Transcendental Medication. Solo Project of Nathan Ritter of Kinither” -earjerk
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Ducktails “Landscapes” LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Stories are forever and i got to get back to PIPELINE, which is hitting the screen right now, and its definitely not about surfing and reminds charles of when Ebay and you stayed at the New York Dante’s microchip apartment and it was so hot and you guys passed out next to each other in your undies exclusively like siamese pipeline limbo style, if i had hoagie it would have been Chazzi to Chucky in like 4 doners and sixty seckies.” -oesb
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odd clouds “shamblers” cassette $6
odd clouds tape on fag tapes
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keith fullerton-whitman “taking away” cassette $7
“this doozy has been a fleeting idea in the cosmos for a while now, but finally has poked its head through the electric ether and made an appearance. “taking away” is massive. two side-long 32 minute pieces for modular synthesizer that harken back to ’70s minimalism and muted exorcism. each ride is like a golden river of dreams pouring through electronic excess. pointillist forays fall in-line perfectly with the hypnotic whirrs of subtle, synthetic manipulation. in all, whitman is at his best here. he finds the cracks between the crevices, lighting a new path along the way. edition of 200, pro-dubbed on high-bias cassettes.” -digitalis
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DEATH “…FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE” LP $13
“Every time a reissue of a remarkable, lost record comes out, it’s difficult to resist the temptation to compile an amazed laundry-list of bands it mysteriously prefigures. Death’s …For the Whole World to See provokes such a response. Some licks sound like Husker Du. Some quivery vocals evoke H.R. of Bad Brains. But better, perhaps, to view Death’s seven-song oeuvre as the logical bridging of a lacuna rather than a before-its-time aberration. Of course it makes sense that, in mid-’70s Detroit, three black brothers (Dannis, Bobby and David Hackney) might have gotten as into the Stooges and MC5 as into Funkadelic, that they might have synthesized the sounds of FM rock radio just as their white peers ransacked soul and funk. The Hackneys released a single, recorded and shelved an album, and then moved to Vermont with their family. They morphed into a reggae band. Time passed. The EP slowly acquired a cult record-collector following. Tapes were unearthed, and here we are. Death’s music falls somewhere between ’70s hard rock and the more stripped-down, straightforward garage rock one might deem proto-punk. Obviously influenced by Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, most of their songs span multiple parts and time signatures. “Let the World Turn” even features a drum solo. With the exception of that song, a reverby slow-jam, the album stays uptempo. It’s replete with wonderful, memorable moments, like “Freakin’ Out,” which mixes a classic-sounding garage riff with an unexpected chorus that sharply repeats the title phrase over a snare beat. “Rock-N-Roll Victim” avoids hard-rock cliché by augmenting the drums with handclaps. ” -dusted review, drag city records
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Best Coast “Make You Mine” 7″ $6
7″ by new project of bethany costentino (formerly in pocahaunted) playing poppy folky stuff link released on group tightener
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Ajilvsga “Red Crow” LP $13
“Red Crow was originally released as a cassette in a limited edition of 13 copies for sale at a show Ajilvsga performed in Oklahoma in November 2008 and has been reissued on vinyl in a limited edition of 100 copies. The duo comprised of Brad Rose (The North Sea / Foxy Digitalis ) and Nathan Young (Peyote Tapes) offer up some deep and heavy buzzing drones for your summertime consumption. Screen printed LPs covers by Morgan in Oklahoma.” -amethystsunset
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Mist “Mist” LP $13
“Vinyl debut from the Ohio duo of MIST (john elliot and sam goldberg). Following up their “certain expansion” and “stole colors” cassette releases on pizza wagon, MIST offer up two full sides of their best material yet. Electric Organs. Beautiful and dreamy preogressive synths, kosmik string synth zone. Mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. Limited to 500. Pro printed covers. front cover photo by Ashley Krantz. ” -amethystsunset
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Inca Ore “Silver Sea Surfer School” LP $13
“Eva Saelens’ life quest has taken her from Michigan to Oregon to Oakland back to Portland and back again, with several overseas explorations and inner journey road trips thrown in for good measure. Whatever path she’s on is long and winding and hidden in the shadow of overhanging cherimoya trees. Fortunately she maps her migrations with haunted, exotic breath-and-electricity sphinxes ranging from 2006’s Brute Nature Vs. Wild Magic to last year’s brainwashing Birthday Of Bless You LP. 2009 finds her offering up another psychic harvest unto the world, Silver Sea Surfer School, a new nine-song pipeline ride that floats through a whole new web of voice orbs and tape hiss and keyboard balladry. If anything, Silver Sea is Saelens’ weirdest hour, layered in abstract environments, whispers, distant poetry, free percussion loops, with sudden passages of heart-dissolving ghost-piano beauty (“Shine On From The Heaven Above,” “Adventure In Light”). Heavily impressive, and a brave pearl-dive into even more personal waters for the Inca Ore lifeforce. LPs come in jackets with art by Saelens, plus a full-color insert. Edition of 500 (40 on clear ocean-water vinyl, 180 on marbled blue/white, 280 on black).” -nnf
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Tricorn and Queue “Maize Among Whispers” cassette $6
“Such an organic feel is captured everytime Jeffry Astin gets his fingers in something. His project with Kane Pour, Tricorn and Queue is no exception. We get the earthy mic in the dirt, but also this time an floating airiness. A whistle of wind repeats and repeats and creates a stream of rippling sound you can really sink into. Recorded Oct ’08 at the southwestern corner of the narrowing synagogue of wavering light, vanishing hours on high.” -object
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Matrix Metals “Flamingo Breeze” cassette $6
“The Southern California mythology glints in the irises of certain dreamers more radiantly than it does in others, and few crews have begun capturing the imaginary high life of neon Corvette rides, Ray-Bans at night, and sea-breeze mind-surfing better than the Outer Limits Recordings collective. They operate under most radars but their output is a radical Rubik’s Cube of riddles, tape hiss, and tranced pop utopias. Matrix Metals is casually referred to as an “alien lounge music” project, but that’s not even the half of it. A hotwired collection of fringe-vision vignettes that roves from ghost club beats to astral 80s TV theme songs to loopy interdimensional dub-funk and beyond, Flamingo Breeze is a capitalized question mark in the NNF canon, and a recent obsession of ours. Anonymous pro-dubbed white tapes in cases with full-color “VHS box collage” J-cards designed by the artist, plus an insert and 2 tickets to a Matrix Metals performance at a fictional club in the future. Edition of 125.” -nnf
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Heavy Winged “Spreading Center” CD $8
“Two new long tracks from Heavy Winged, following up releases on Three Lobed, Archive, Not Not Fun etc. Massive and big-sounding stuff, but with more subtle and quiet openings and endings, and without ever loosing the abrasive feeling of being dragged in grit and dirt forever and ever. Driving and powerful proto-psych-metal that manages to sound very much improvised and extremely focused and precise at the same time. Both tracks recorded live, Loudun recorded in Davis, California on 6/30/08. Strigoi recorded in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York on 11/2/07. Limited one-time pressing of 500 copies. Dual Plover gatefold sleeve with black felt and artwork by Twin Vixen. Play it loud. ” -release the bats
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Heavy Winged “Blacc Lust” CD $12 *OUT OF PRINT!*
“this gang of power-driving rock really have their flavor of overdriven high rise-style proto-metal-psych noise down flat. blacc lust reissues two long out-of-print parts of the band’s discography that were originally released in tiny CD-R micro editions (a serpent’s lust from an edition of 100 on digitalis, and blacc stork from an edition of 50 on students of decay). a little over an hour of good, heavy times. from a one-time pressing of 500 hand-numbered copies housed within arigato! paks bearing original artwork by beverly shana palmer.” -three lobed recordings
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FAMILY UNDERGROUND: Salt of the Sun – CD $13
“New minimal full-length album from Family Underground that abandons the drug-hit-sally-inside feel of early Velvets jags for the sound of the last gasp of Lou Reed’s long-suffering amp in the final seconds of ‘Black Angel’s Death Song’ extended to oblivion. Comes in a fold-out four panel digipak.”
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vorg vessel | “the queen of fish mountain / illuminated by stripes” cd-r + 3″ cd-r $12 (netherlands import)
“Another stunning project courtesy of psychfiend Adam Kriney (La Otracina, Dragonfrynd). This man does not sleep, nor shouldn’t he. Just like on the Dragonfrynd album there’s no drums on this double album. No guitars either this time. Just miles and miles of tripped out organ jams. Straight lines get transformed into a sprawling, blurry ocean of dubby overtones. Space age slowjams….this must be what shroomheads in love dance to. Sweet. 50 copies in slimline dvd cases with six page booklet and art by Peter Friel. ” -cut hands
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matt endahl/christopher riggs “tangible but not communicated” split cassette $6
“electric guitar and piano are turned into instruments of shimmering drone and harsh noise until everything breaks down into a no-fi free jazz jam. c-30 cassette edition of 72” -holy cheever church
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mike khoury/christopher riggs “my words came out slow and odd” cassette $6
“violin and bowed guitar eat each other alive. c-30 cassette edition of 78” -holy cheever church
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christopher riggs “riggs home security” cassette $6
“solo electric guitar. side A is super slow, underwater strings. spent too much time listening to the Squid and playing with the reverb on a broken guitar amp. high-pitched guitar feedback dominates side B with a brief interruption from a choir of fuzzed out 12-string power chords. c-30 cassette edition of 43” -holy cheever church
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Christopher Riggs “Fat, Sassy, and Mean as Hell” cassette $6 “Live tape dedicated to Nate Wooley. April 2009 midwest tour opening for Wally Shoup and Ben Hall. Each night a different composition. Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis fit on the tape. Includes compositions from Unverified Records’ “Amazed Nova” and Pizza Night Tapes’ “Dead in Michigan” plus something unreleased. c-30 cassette edition of 48″ – holy cheever church
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LOOSERS “Aint No Party Like A Holy Ghost Party” cassette $8 (german import)
“psychedeliv drumm-n-chant carneval from our portugues friends.till now they’re radest recording. this 30 minutes are totally outa space. limited to 100 copies. silkscreened covers and package by thomas weirich.” -meudiamorte
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CONES “USE YOUR ILLUSION III” cassette $8 (german import)
“Cones features Marcel Turkowsky and Ulf Schutte both members of Datashock and involved in other projects/labels like Aosuke, Tapetektoniks, UUHUU, Shivers and more. Lo-Fi Cosmodelic tape manipulation.A frantic amalgam of beauty and audio psychosis. More Kegeln. Limited to 100 copies.” -meudiamorte
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PAX TITANIA “orphaned daughter of…” cassette $8 (german import)
“progressive synth music never sounded that weird. half man half oscillator aka christopher cprek (formerly of warmer milks) pulsates through four pieces like being wired to his equipment… total outsider sounds.” -tape tektoniks
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Shearing Pinx – “s/t” cassette $6
“Shearing Pinx are long running Vancouver staples and are one of the bands that seemed to really help solidify that cities underground weirdo music community to an audience outside of its own geography. This new tape in there very prolific discography is tension filled angular noisy post no wave dirge, waves of cascading guitar dread and percussion propulsion, gliding over a subtle underbelly of chimey strum and atmosphere. Technical, tectonic, chaos. Artwork by SDReed.” -night people
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Uneven Universe “Tarot” cassette $6
“”Uneven Universe floats up from the ratty basement in a cloud of looping sax blurts and claustrophobic horn noise, not unlike fellow Michigander brass-abusers Slither. But Uneven Universe’s creep-scapes are way less free jazzy and way more private tarpit meditations, bleeding into ragged sections and then diffusing back into separate saxo-tone groans. Long, hairy jams that don’t leave the house for weeks at a time and trace smoggy constellations on the asbestos ceiling rot. A new no man’s land for old ragers.” – cassette gods .Some really weird/gross Yeast Curd style no-fi sqeaks on the b-side. Assorted, pro-printed collage covers. ” -scumbag tapes
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Tricorn & Queue “Perennial Language” cassette $6
“Tricorn & Queue have always reminded me of the beginning, of first rays and mitosis. I could hear the notes move, crawl, and multiply, albums made through the process of cell division. This one is different, a lesson from the master in the moments just before creation. There’s focus and thought, maybe an attempt at rest, a last bit of respite before the work begins.” -offices of moore & moore
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Christian Science Minotaur “Map 3 (of 9)” cassette $6
“Driving songs, but not in an Crue way. More like you just drank too much soda and now the steering wheel is sticky. Been waiting to put this out for far too long, and totally worth the wait.”-peasant magik
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w ravenveer “ogenloos” 1-sided cassette (belgium import) $8
“coded person W.V. is a respected member of the Antwerp core of autodidact musicians. while others of that core try to get into the circle of wrong, W.V. keeps focussing on his own brains and hands. not interested in getting to play at local art exhibitions or braindead gatherings, W.V. gives room for his own moments of contemplating braindeadism. his main translation is the synthesizer. on this album, we are given a carefull peak in one of the two professions of W.V. profession one is spaced out code patterns wich we will look into soon on a split with our pals at Breaking World Records. profession two is the progressive synth emotional pondering in the old school style. and we look at it NOW. this cassette is the deep blues of ADELBERT VON DEYEN in the mix of a lonely soul and a misunderstood heart. intensely fantastic with a touch of pure. this is melancholic, deep down under communications in the esoteric energy structure.” -bread and animals
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andrew coltrane “DMT shadow” cassette $6
“coltrane weaves another mess on top of the rotting remains of last night’s leftovers. “DMT shadow” is a drill straight to your frontal lobe. entirely blown out with axxe, ring mod, & delay, AC is on digging tunnels to china and spewing up molten lava and space dust like it’s going out of style fast. a total headfuck. edition of 75 copies, pro-dubbed with dirt & spice.”- digitalis
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SUPER STREET 23 “dark halos” all live comp. cassette $6
“featuring: treetops, cotton museum, chain fight, infinity window, sick llama. amazing live, raw sounds! listen to the fun again or hear what you missed out on. edition 77.” -fag tapes
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body collector/mossy throats “modern punk teaches communism” split cassette $6
“tape edition of 30 split release with nurse tapes” -exbx tapes
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blue sabbath black fiji/ajilvsga split cassette $6
“it’s 4 am, it’s time to sober up and there’s no black coffee to be found. cold shower? not an option either. so what’s left? blue sabbath black fiji and their mind-warp shotgun electronics and percussive blasts. your girlfriend might be passed out on some other dude’s house, but don’t worry about it, this mix of raging electronics, sludge guitars and soft, sweet crooning will make it all okay. ajilvsga? we’ll keep drinking blackened mud until the cows come home. limited to 85 copies, handstamped zoo-in-suits theme.” -digitalis
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some of my best friends are… black guys cassette $6
“now faux liberals around the world can feel better about their white, upper class lifestyles with the help of one simple and inspired drone cassette. you’ll be all the rage at that next mixer or cocktail party when you can tell everyone about how some of your best friends are… black guys! little will they know that you’re talking about this new mexico duo of alan george ledergerber and raven chacon (kilt, cobra//group, etc). “some of my best friends are…” stretches time out ad infinitum with piles of crusty drones and scabbed-over electronics that can only dream of breaking the skin. you may not know black guys yet, but once you do, you’re definitely going to love them. limited to 50 copies. ” -digitalis
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Gorman / Do Tell split cassette $6
“Gorman emerges from a mound of earth, climbing further into blank woods, ghostly chants in tow. Do Tell is parting seas with tonal miracles, divining hazy, time-altering slow motion portals from the recesses of your sepia mind. edition of 60” -housecraft
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Sword Heaven/Tusco Terror split cassette $6
“Two of Ohio’s heaviest team up for this killer beast. Sword Heaven surprise with a sparse track of spacious scrapes, creaks and throbs. Heavy sub-terran primal mind scape shit. Tusco Terror deliver a collection of dense, damaged burnt-psyche bad assery. There’s a reason Hanson Records called them ‘the crudest project in the midwest.’” -teen action
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16 Bitch Pile Up / Twink Bully split cassette $6
“both sides recorded live in Columbus, June ’07. the infamous bitches were back home for a weekend during their summer tour and i caught some of the ecstatic joy on tape. the next night Twink Bully (members of Sword Heaven, SevenLiesAboutGirls, Anna Ranger) unleashed their gaytanic, animagical wads of sonic jizz on a dat tape during a jam at the Animal Hammock. got that too.” -teen action
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Hoor paar Kraat “Graduating from Clocks to Watches (Eureka Tapes Vol. II)” cassette $6
“The sound world that Anthony Mangicapra inhabits is totally unlike any other. Each listen reveals hidden elements and previously unheard sounds. Singular drones conceal a fragile universe of manipulated field recordings and mangled reverb. Meticulously constructed and skillfully executed, Hoor-paar-kraat displays a serious mastery of craft, frequently unheard of in an over saturated scene.” -peasant magik
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Cyquoia/The Qoast split cassette $6
“Cyquoia pensively gather glowing leaves fallen from a grove of yesterday’s trees, once overlooked, now startling. All systems invert and explode at the industrious hands of side Qoast. edition of 44” -housecraft
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Floris Vanhoof “A fudge too much” cassette $6
“a lung full of slugs, one dude from Brussels delivers up two sides of homemade/modified synths, tape delays, phasers and oscillators. mostly chunky-like and decayed there are upbeat beat moments. the whole tape is wrapped in analog warmth and perfect lemon freshness. full color artwork by george w. myers.” -breaking world records
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sachiko “with lament” cssette $9 (belgium import)
“New album by one of Japan’s key players in the psychedelic underground. Sachiko was also a member of legendary bands such as Overhang Party and Kousokuya among others. ‘With Lament’ finds itself in the lost worlds of eerie devotional chants drowned in eternal reflections of kaleidoscopic electronic powers. Paste-on cover, silkscreened insert and edition of 100 copies.” -sloow tapes
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aswara “s/t” cassette $9 (belgium import)
“Space hymns echoing in swirling psychedelic synth patterns, zoned guitartones and out-there primitive percussion. Featuring members of Death Chants and Muntjac. Devotional raga wrapped in appropriate silkscreened offering. 80 copies.” -sloow tapes
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kawaguchi masami’s new rock syndicate “live in japan 2007” cassette $9 (belgium import)
“Kawaguchi Masami (Miminokoto, LSD March, Broomdusters) returns with his New Rock Syndicate, recorded live in Tokyo. Monster guitarpsych feedback screech and heavy dosed garagerock insanity. 100 copies.” -sloow tapes
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Mike Tamburo and Matt McDowell “Are We Not Drawn Onward To New Era?” C50 cassette $9 (belgium import) BACK IN STOCK!!
“Vibratory energy forms dropping out with molecular and cellular guitar phrases in trance-like babble. Two pot-smoking guitarists harvesting their daily supply. Edition of 70 copies.” -sloow tapes
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andrew coltrane “the os innominatum” cassette $6
“Downer-style minimal basement drone environs from Andrew Coltrane, some of his most ‘vacated’ sounding electro-acoustic sorcery and the perfect marriage of the Hermitage and Fag Tapes aesthetics. What could be better? Hand-numbered edition of 77 copies.” -fag tapes
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TRAUMA “the calming effects at the ocean” vol.7 cassette $6
“Straight outa the Broken Research recording booth comes this on going series between centipede hands guitar and scorpion shell drums (Hell Hall of Graveyards). rattling discussions. hand-numbered edition 50.” -fag tapes
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Soft Peace “Soft Peace” cassette $7
“‘The dome is perfect. It is generally agreed upon what that we understand these “new curved shapes”. Remind yourself of its unprovoked depth, capacity for the wormiest and the warmiest and the purist visitants.’ -Valhalla. Letterpress fold-out poster covers, edition of 50 on green shells.” -goaty tapes
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Mossy Throats “Electric Marsh” cassette $6
“Electric Marsh is a hot slab of disgustingly likeable psychedelic mess. Clattery Squelches of electronics and sax. Dan D’s current jams (in acts like Uneven Universe, Body Morph, Cardboard Sax) are some of the sickest in the midwest. The rising sun of ferndale, some say. Anything that he touches turns to absolute gold, showing incredible control on the most bizzzzare zones. Couldn’t be more stoked to drop this one. ” -pizza night
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Masons / Molten Honey “In the Basement of the Temple / Molten Honey” split cassette $6
“During the winter of 2005, NY filmmaker Matthew Lessner (Darling Darling; By Modern Measure) and his then 14-year old sister Sophie fortuitously gained late-nite access to the basement of their hometown’s Masonic Temple. Creeping under dark cloaks and employing the sense of sibling telepathy, the two managed to set up their gear and capture the session of what is now their delirious 2008 debut tape side In the Basement of the Temple. We’ve enjoyed playing this demo the last few years for any Stunned houseguest wanting the ultimate nutso explosion of graveyard confetti punk. We also can’t think of a better bush-era sayonara statement, hence the three year wait on properly unleashing this fifteen-minute flash. Totally freaked out, all manner of esoteric energies pent up behind the boiler room doors of the lodge are channeled furiously thru the duo – Sophie’s lacerating clarinet feedback & guitar punctuations bleat in perfect pulse to Matthew’s neon war cries and punished drum kit. One would think flipping this tape over might provide some relief from the A-side’s secret society onslaught. But that’s exactly where John Frank’s Molten Honey awaits in a den of sound dementia, hammering his former psych’d folk styles into even more obtuse angles of guitar rattle, contact mic probe & synth key slap. This self titled B-side provides eight vastly different post-2012 snapshots that wiggle their mercurial imagery under our mesmerized gaze. Hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed c30 tapes in imprinted hot orange shells & fold-out color j-card.” -stunned
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soundpressings “s/t” cassette $6
“oklahoma turned out to be crimson red this year, but for those of us living here, we know that this place is a fucking hole of an enigma. case-in-point: soundpressings. this newly unearthed oklahoman gem came out of nowhere to blow our brains into piles of swiss cheese. the inimitable danny mitchell comes to us from out west in norman (via nathan young’s stomping grounds in tahlequah). soundpressings, though, is all over the map. hearing soundpressings is like wandering into a mountain of lost & found tapes from a million different sources, all playing at once. mitchell crafts these collages together in an original and addictive way, finding sweet, ghosted-out drones in the midst of a sheet of noise or a plodding, electronic rhythm. once you enter his domain, you never know where exactly you’ll end up. oklahoma’s not dead yet. limited to 80 copies, full color covers by mitchell.” -digitalis
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Birds of Delay / Nackt Insecten split cassette $8 (UK import)
“Birds of Delay, recorded in Cambridge earlier this year. “Turned Froo Silt” doses up shots of strangled moan with layers of something approaching melody struggling to break through the murk. Probably with great shoes on. Nackt Insecten side crams four jams into fifteen minutes without a hit single in sight. Varying levels of scuzz, consistent intensity, or whatever…” -sickhead
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ashtray navigations/nackt insecten – “mouth /astrid” split cassette $8 (UK import)
“”Mouth” gave me visions of Phil Todd circumnavigating the globe, skimming over the clouds in a silver glider before swooping down and busting t hrough the Earth’s crust to body-board recklessly on subterranean rivers of lava. I doubt that was what Ashtray Navigations had in mind but it’s a nice image. 20 minutes of dense warped outer-space sound and buried ecstatic guitar heroics. The B side by request features a couple of Smackt Injecten keyboard workouts. (The last guitar strings broke back in October). Watch out for super high flying ill-advised vocal drool.” -sickhead
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SHPILBERG/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
“Quebec City’s Shpilberg skronk it up and SHPX deliver the bomb to the drum. /// Ltd.50 copies” -INW
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WORMS IN DIRT/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
“Brooklyn’s Worms provide the serene glance into freeeeeform angles. Featuring members of Cutter, Fxxxing Lion and AST. …… SHPX let out a studio jammer and a live something something. //// Ltd. 50 copies.” -INW
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Nimby detrivore full length cassette $5
“pretty much out of ideas with this set up but before i felt like that here are 6 songs.” -detrivore
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Pedestrian Deposit “Recycled Music” cassette $4
RRR Records. the dude who does emaciator’s old project.
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WHITE PRISM “A SERIES OF SCREENS” cassette $7
“SWAYING BLADES, HIGH ASERIES.” -young tapes
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California Son – “California Sun” cassette $6
“California Son is mystery music played by Iowa native weirdo clown of reknown, Charles Free aka the Savage Young Taterbug. Pure California dreaming on this one, songs for shitty headphone jammin while working the nine to five at the upstate pot plantation. Sleep on your drug rug under the sun, and let the weird vibes creep in. Lost mind time for sure, the sound of the 60’s played warped speed slow for golblin ears and dogs. ” -night people
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Malibu Falcon “How Is Hell Fact Met? All Of Them Witches” cassette $6
“Hello, history lesson: those who forget the past are condemned to check it out via limited cassette reissues. Or something like that. Malibu Falcon was an early aughts act from Portland, Oregon that existed sporadically in impulsive electrical fires of shows and recording sessions and starred west coast lifers like Eva Inca Ore and Nick Bindeman (plus others) amongst its ranks. Shows were rare, releases even more so, and the combined forces of life and other band commitments soon dissolved the Falcon before a wider awareness could be achieved. Alas. So we are lucky to have on hand this salvaged anthology of 60 minutes of prime time heart-of-weirdness MF legacy. Low basement bass lines pulse under primitive sheets of guitar feedback while Eva alternately whispers, banshee screams, and rants fucked up poetry stories about LSD, boa constrictors, and stealing babies. Their general audio vibe is so heavily art-damaged it’s impossible to tether to any specific scene; too mind-fried and visceral for experimentalism but way too raw and psychotic for any kind of psych rock/pop association either. Total crevasse music, lost in limbo, PSF DIY dreams, dead end riffs, untapped, unconscious, confusion isn’t sex. For fans of freaks. Pro-dubbed tapes with collage art J-cards by Eva Saelens copied on metallic paper. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Pocahaunted “Live From The New Age” cassette $6
“Bands are people are jobs/schools are cities are lives are lifestyles. Paths veer, verge, converge, diverge. And so it comes to pass: Live From The New Age is the final Pocahaunted release with the original Amanda/Bethany arrangement, before the band evolved onwards to the new line-up. It is what it is. And Live From The New Age is a 40-minute cassette collecting 3 vintage live performances showcasing their classic shapeshift spellbind powers, backed by an array of beloved collaborators: Bobb Bruno, Jeremy Earl, Cameron Stallones, Jarvis Taveniere, Andy Spore, Ged Gengras, etc. The whole family tree is here, stretching against the sky, sunlight, storms, lightning, laughter. Soak it in or shut it out. Pro-dubbed and imprinted cassettes in cases with psychic healer J-card artwork designed by Amanda. Edition of 200.” -nnf
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Terror Bird – “Sociopaths are Glam” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Terror Bird is Nikki Never from Vancouver’s Modern Creatures solo outlet. One of the finest recordings released in any format on Night-People, Terror Bird is honest, heartfelt, nostalgic pop music, layered in touches of dark ambiance and glittery sheen. Centered around Nikki’s amazing voice and dirgey piano arrangements, Sociopaths are Glam references classic 80’s and 90’s dark pop without any historic worshiping or posturing. Couldn’t be more excited to just sit around and listen to this amazing album. Artwork by SDReed.” -night people
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Sun Araw (feat. Matthew Lessner) “In Orbit” cassette $6.50
“Sun Araw’s Cameron Stallones & filmmaker Matthew Lessner are longtime Stunned brothers that go back with us before the music, the tours, the films, the label, you name it. As tireless globetrotters, both have spent the last year beaming their respective good messages far and wide to the delight of audio aficionados & visual art subversives alike. Marking a Second phase in all our geosynchronous friendships, ‘In Orbit’ finds these dudes collaborating on ascendant planes of high mind where outer Los Angeles and Inner Space bisect. Deep dubby howlin, Farfisa organ hang-gliding, gooey tempos, and trademark shimmering ‘Araw-guitar licks are the hybridized fruits harvested here. Along with your candy, flip this tape as needed. Happy to say, there’s no limit to the number of orbits it can (and will) make through your stereo and ours. Special edition of 222 pro-dubbed & imprinted c30s with jcard design by Cameron.” -stunned
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The Twerps – “s/t” cassette $6
“The Twerps from Melbourne Australia are one of the best indie/guitar pop bands I have heard in a long time, and there is alot of good lo fi pop floating around right now. Its surprising more attention hasn’t been allotted them already. Comparisons to prior down under bands from Australia and New Zealand from the 80’s and 90’s come to mind, but the Twerps rock in there own contemporary way evoking a real tasteful and straightforward approach that just hits the nail on the head. The approach is totally dynamic uplifting, and well composed… low key rock music with hints at 60’s garage rock and pysch pop that doesn’t rely on blown out production to create atmosphere, its already there in the song writing, in the reverb soaked guitars, in the contemplative vocals. Killer stuff from this new band just getting going. ” -night people
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The Savage Young Taterbug “Boys of the Feather” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Couldn’t be more excited about this one, first offering from the smoked out styles of Iowa City’s very own Savage Young Taterbug. Teenage road warrior, dead head punk, perma triped wanderer, Taterbug lays down his tape collaged world of free flowing Americana psych bliss. Little bells, dustbowl ballad guitars, stand by me youth cult dreams, and Manson family mind fucks, its all here, even hope for a better tomorrow and a positive spirit for today which can say alot in these droned out wasted times. Let the light inside yr skull. Artwork by SDREED.” -night people
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Enfer Boreal “Devotion” cassette $6
“Lost melodies now remembered and given new life. “-peasant magik
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Kane Pour “Cat on a Paisley Shawl” cassette $6
new tape on housecraft
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Josh Burke “Imagination” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Aqueous bliss like clear skies filling a model moon with shadows of light and breeze. edition of 75” -housecraft
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Nonhorse “evileye broadcast” cassette $8 (german import)
“new tape manipulating by Lucas Crane from Vanishing Voice / Time Life. Comes in a little fold out cover by Jeremy Earl (Fuck It Tapes / Woods / Meneguar)” -tape tektoniks
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DAVENPORT FAMILY “At the Foot of Zodiac Mountain” cassette $8 (german import)
“one sided 35minutes long jam. their very last jam withmask of the davenport clan on their faces, free-form improvisational folk performed on walpurgis, clay rubys brithday by clay ruby, t endless, woodman, johnny d, billy lee, nico kain, aaron laurant, tyler olson.limited to 230 copies.” -meudiamorte
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time life “es tut mir leid” cassette $8 (german import)
“new tape by TIME LIFE aka lucas nonhorse crane and heidi diehl of the vanishing voice. lucas’ alien technology cassette tape wizardry and heidi’s somnambulistic guitar and hypno vocal skills building thick wave-like blankets that will guide you to a misty landscape hidden behind vapor hill.” -tape tektoniks
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Pulse Emitter “Grass” cassette $6
“Fellow NW-based Pulse Emitter, the solo project of modular synth mastermind Daryl Groetsch, has created a beautiful work, half of which is reminiscent of his self-released Meditative Music series, while the other half delves into the weirdo world of sub-earth root structures crawling with insects. Grass is one of my favorites from his recent discography and Gift Tapes is extremely honored to present one of his works.” -gift tapes
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Dolphins Into The Future “…On Sea-Faring Isolation” LP $14
“A casual interweb cruiser could be forgiven for confusing Dolphins Into The Future the “band” (aka the one-man tape-loop blue-age ambient project executed by Belgian Cetacean Nation ambassador Lieven Martens) with Dolphins Into The Future the book (written by dimensional traveler Joan Ocean concerning her 20-year-long real life spirit quest to commune with a school of 200 wild Hawaiian Spinner dolphins). And, to be fair, they’re a LOT alike. Both deal heavily in trippy, drifting logics, vibrational holograms, and an overdose of psychedelic pastel artwork. But Ms. Ocean’s books are out of print so instead we have …On Sea-Faring Isolation, Mr. Dolphin Martens’ vinyl debut under the DITF banner, after a 2-year string of increasingly blissed tapes and CDRs. Composed of three interwoven pieces per side, Isolation is one of those baffling magic eye LPs that seems to dissolve yr memory of it during the very act of listening. Turquoise webs of billowing synth smoke curl and dissipate into grey horizons of open sea field recordings. The wooden mast of a ship creaks quietly while astral bells toll away in morning fog. You are alone. This record could make a sailor homesick, and Joan Ocean weep. Beautifully composed and sequenced, with just the right amount of wobbly porpoise sonar prisms bubbling up from the deep, this LP exceeded all our expectations (and they were high). A fantastic voyage into the pan-dolphinic dawn. Black vinyl LPs in matte jackets with aquatic-loner artwork by Martens himself, plus a photocopied album review/interpretation by DJ Bongo Man. Edition of 375.” -nnf
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HANNA HIRSCH “TALA SVART” CD $8
“The very much anticipated debutalbum from Stockholm’s Hanna Hirsch. Following up several seveninches, Tala Svart takes the bands powerful pop sensibility to total perfection over 14 tracks. Self described as “awkward Buzzcocks”, Hanna Hirsch continues to dig deep into the underground popular culture of the last 30 years or so, here creating a minor masterpiece of beautiful powerpop. All 14 tracks are A-side single material. Life elevating and absolutely necessary music. Mastered by John Golden (Sonic Youth, Superchunk etc). Dual Plover styled glossy gatefold-sleeve with black felt with artwork by Siri. 20 page booklet. Split release with Diskret Förlag. Points of reference (mind you, more in feeling than actual sound): all early Rough Trade 7″s, France Gall, Modern Lovers, Greetings From Asbury Park-era Springsteen, Broder Daniels Forever, Germs, Tar… Feathers, The Starvations.” -release the bats
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THE SKULL DEFEKTS “THE DRONE DRUG” CD $8
“First there was Skkull then there was The Drone Drug… Continuing on the same path, the sound of The Drone Drug is of a similar relentless minimalistic nature as its predesessor. This could be seen as the electronic backbone to last years amazing Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing (Conspiracy Records), creating a heavy beast with the most basic and stripped-down use of variations in drones and frequencies instead of guitars and percussion. Monotonous motor humming via drugged-out machinery and assaults of feedback attacking with a strong feel of claustrophobia. Compared to Skkull, The Drone Drug evolves more around a grim and abrasive sound, constantly toying with lo-fi aesthetics and a rough industrial edge. The atmosphere created is thick and black, bringing up visions of a dystopian society trembling on the edge of the world. Spreading the disease in a world slowly dying, The Drone Drug is poison and affect you it will. On this recording, The Skull Defekts is Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander. 4 tracks cut by an unsharpened razor. Total playtime of 52 minutes. 4-panel digipack with artwork by Daniel Fagerström.” -release the bats
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Bobb Bruno “Dreamt On” CDep $8
“Limited edition – hand numbered – 100% Bruno. Only 108 will be made….It sounds like you graduated top of your class, trained hard, became an astronaut, flew to the moon, and then found out it was actually made of cheese. ” -vosotros
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Heavy Winged “Feel Inside” CD $10
“A brand new three-track release from Portland/ Brooklyn based unit, HEAVY WINGED, following a recent reissue CD, and the excellent Three Lobed release Blacc Lust. Feel Inside is a long playing journey into psych-noise dronedom, and has been hailed as being akin to the Bardo Pond brothers recording in the lo-fi/high-fuzz-induced kitchen of the Goslings. Packaged in double cover center opening sleeves with an outer vellum overlay shell designed and executed by CHASED MIDDAUGH. Single pressing of 600 copies.” – Archive
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PLANKTON WAT “Visions of Otherness” cdr $8 (UK import)
“Follow-up to last years CDR on Stunned and cassette on DNT from Dewey of Eternal Tapestry/Jackie-O Motherfucker/Bloodbiker… Opening with some very nice guitar layered with relaxed vocal bursts, the following tracks have a super nice guitar vibe to them. ‘In the Realm of Magic and Death’ has a more distorted dark aspect to it with an almost tribal ritual drum layering. The disc climaxes with an almighty piece entitled ‘Transfiguration of Infinite Nature’, wailing guitars, pounding drums, droning vocals… Expect more from the Wat on BR later in the year! Limited to 200.” -blackest rainbow
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Predator Vision “II” cassettecdr version $6
“Self-released earlier this year, this one finds PV at their most predatorial. They are ceaseless infinity jammers with a hunger for psychsploration and a tight yet loose style that can sometimes seem too good to be true. This being their second release, one can only wonder what’s in store for them. Featuring Mr. Ducktails himself: Matthew Mondanile, Real Estate’s Etienne Duguay, and Ben Daly of Wavehead. Keep an eye out for their split LP with Sun Araw to be released on Not Not Fun.” – abandon ship records
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The Parasails “Skyife” cdr $6
dreamy new age-ish snyth/guitar work. released on future sound recordings. some of the best music I’ve heard this year
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SASQROTCH “Slipping The Reaper Tongue” CDR $7
“This one has been on the cards for a long time, and after over a year of waiting the master dropped through my mail box. These dudes have had releases on BR label buddies Not Not Fun and DNT, and this is a steady paced doom tinged rock out beast, there’s no joy found here. Two tracks, one studio, and a nasty live piece recorded at LA’s Echo Curio, lined with sax blurts, guitar shreds, psychedelic swirls, and smouldering drums. Limited to 75 copies in bleak black envelopes with paste on japanese art paper and packaged with a skeletal leave and a hand numbered insert.” -blackest rainbow
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BLACK EAGLE CHILD “Kite Excursions” CDR $7
“Mike Jantz from Milwaukee has been laying down some seriously amazing far out folk inspired drone dreams recently with some damn fine tapes split with Sean McCann and Pistil Cosmos (formerly ‘V’), and here is a collection of drones weaved with field recordings and meandering guitar meditation. Super blissful! Limited to 75 copies packaged in a stamped purple envelope with paste on cut out art, and a hand numbered insert.” -blackest rainbow
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“V” “Standing Still In the Celestial Sphere” cdr $6
“Second solo statement from Monks of The Balhill member, Vincent Caylet. Found within are pink guitars, accordion dreams, smoke, and ash. Songs move in an almost airy, whimsical fashion, while occasionally hinting at the black within. 2007 might have been the banner year of the French Psychedelic Underground, but 2008 will be the year of the Monks. Black CDs housed in white cardboard sleeve with full color wrap around art and handmade marble paper. Hand stamped and numbered.” -peasant magik
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Century Plants “Bloodrise” 3″ cdr $5
“Howling monolithic massive live set from this explosive duo. Nightmarish fog cutter sonics ebb and throb with a dark sinister undertow… unlike anything else you’ve heard from them. This one documents them opening for Dead Machines in summer 07. Molten lava inspiration was flowing down into the basement that night, and the proof is right here. Total power focus. Echoes of Robedoor, Throbbing Gristle, Birchville Cat Motel, and countless other sonic terrorists can be heard, but Century Plants stir things up into their own unique brand of madness. The 3″ cdr is painted black and wrapped in a foldout sleeve held together by an obi strip, a hand numbered edition of 100 copies.” -peasant magik
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Uton “Mental Connections” cdr $6
“Metaprogramming transmissions of concealed order leave only clues of its ‘enhancing’ work. edition of 60” -housecraft
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Metal Rouge “Salt Stones” cdr $6
“It has been a longtime desire of ours to work with Andrew Scott & Helga Fassonaki of Metal Rouge, before Stunned was even a twinkle in our eye in fact. If there’s one thing we’re convinced of, it’s that these two are some of the most raw and intrepid aural magicians out there. And ‘Salt Stones’ is everything we could have hoped from them after years now of shaking in our shoes whenever they plug in around town for another anthem unto the heavier of heavenly bodies. Keeping in step with their no-bullshit, stripped-back live actions, here we encounter a merging of energies old and new as Andrew & Helga boost off from 90s NZ free noise styles, lending honorable nods to earth-quakers A Handful of Dust, Gate, and Dead C. But ample room is left for Metal Rouge’s own signature ear-splitting/life-affirming gamma rays. We’ve no choice but to rise higher than ever into the ultraviolet spectrum as Metal Rouge continue their liberated refinement, casting chunks of 6-string trance, extreme jazz vocals and black metal into the blistering, beautiful gas inferno of ‘Salt Stones’. Limited to 90 black cdrs in sari cloth lined vinyl case with transparent insert and flower.” -stunned records
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IXCHEL – “Dreams Of” cdr $7BACK IN STOCK FOR THE LAST TIME
“Ixchel is the duo of Timothy Hurley (Quetzolcoatl / Bonecloud) and Barry Semple. Nine out-worldly fantasy melancholic dreamer songs.” -leaf trail
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Enfer Boreal “Noiseless Moonbeam Thrill” cdr $6
“Elevated trance and gaze laid directly to thin air. Sources range from green brain magnetics to heightened bionic circulations. Energized hypnosis for micro satellite systems. This is what your white cells hum at cedar knees under wolf cry. Edition of 60” -housecraft
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Zomes “Zomes” CD $12
“A lot of people mention the “L” word when talking (or whispering) about Asa Osborne. It’s not Lungfish we’re talking about here (he was their guitar player), but rather “Levine,” as in Keith Levine. It seems Mr. Osborne witnessed a fight with Keith Levine as one of the combatants. Levine subsequently lost a tooth and–this is the strange part–Osborne grabbed it and has used the tooth as a guitar pick ever since. I know—weird. Zomes’ self-titled album is full of beautiful Seesselberg-sized chunks of loop-like melodies that effervesce while Osborne brings them to life. There is a cinematic quality to the material here that recalls “library music,” East German Indianerfilmen soundtracks, and even Blues Control at their most humid.” -holy mountain
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Mindflayer “It’s Always 1999” CD $12
“Robo generated psychic booty pulse coupled with metro scrambled drumstick action. Battle station personnel on this disc includes Brian Chippendale of LIGHTNING BOLT and MEERK PUFFY of FORCEFIELD. The duo have oscillators working overtime in the psychic war deck and gabba friendly drums. This CD is a re-release of a barely available record from the Ooo Mau Mau record label from 2001. The record was recorded in the halls of FORT THUNDER, a deserted cultural bunker/state of the art Dunkin Donuts in Providence, RI. The record has been re-mastered for loudness and delicacy, so pay heed. The sounds on this record are the hustle and bustle of bass-bin boom on the space throughways of the Milky Way circa 3167 A.D. Slowed beats with the force of tree roots hitting supertanker hulls. Vast radio dish networks with squelch and pulse tremors using solar systems as tweeters and white dwarfs as shredded woofers. Your head is caving in, your eyes are melting. Time is space and colors are sound. All is brown, hail the ramparts, to the battle stations! ” -load
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the julie mittens cdr $10 (netherlands import)
“Oh fuck yeah. Stoked beyond belief to finally drop this. Last September The Julie Mittens dragged their suitcases filled with (un)Holy Fire across the Atlantic to play a couple of hard earned gigs. Their first time ever in the States and they sure realized they couldn’t leave without leaving behind scorched earth. Cellars got torn down and basements wrecked, a band on fire from Syracuse to Virginia. This release is evidence that the tour was a massive succes, recorded live in Albany NY, the Dutch trio unleash two face melting jams much in the vein of Fushitsusha but with the spirit of the most out there freejazz units (think late period Coltrane, Raphe Malik, Evan Parker et al) branded in their way of playing. ” -cut hands
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uneven universe “worm hole” cdr $10 (netherlands import)
“It’s still a damn shame Haunted Castle is no more but sometimes something great has to make way for something awesome. And at this point, the unbridled rawness of Uneven Universe is a fair match for the brooding beauty of Haunted Castle. Comfortable in the grimiest parts of Michigan’s underground gutters, Dan (Haunted Castle, Cardboard Sax) and Holly (Cardboard Sax, with John Olson too) put a twisted dirge into the world of fucked up freejazz. Raw and uncompromised chunks of saxophone collide with a barrage of molten electronics. Often creating an Industrial vibe but transferred to the freejazz wastelands so many great bands of today roam in. Edition of 50 with art by Matthew Junkin. ” -cut hands
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jason rohm “suicide” artbook + compilation cdr $10 (netherlands import)
“Originally intended to celebrate the first anniversary of Cut Hands waaay back in Januscary but since it’s never too late to celebrate in the oh 8 here it is and goddamn if it wasn’t worth the goddamning wait. Jason Rohm paints a grim picture that’s both realistically nerving yet bizarrely funny. The tale of a desperate soul in a world that’s tied by rules and akward questions, almost comic like in subtle detail. Suicide has 32 pages of black and white drawings, with text in English and awkward Dutch. The compilation provides a harrowing soundtrack. Tunes by Andrew Coltrane, Sick Llama, Warmth, Droughter, Bottom Feeder, Raperies (Like Draperies), Ex-Cocaine, Robedoor and Josh Lay. 125 copies made, limited availibility, so act fassssssst. ” -cut hands
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6majik9 “the space between” cdr $10 (netherlands import)
“Sucking up fluids from middle earth and releasing them through weirded out psych jams, 6majik9 represent a blossoming Australian underground centred around the ever incredible Musicyourmindwillloveyou label, Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood, Terracid, etc. Enough loner vibes on this one to loose yourself in for a couple of days on end. Rural murmur, entrancing drones, minimalist percussion trails, baby’s crying, uknown magickal devices emitting electronic incense, the smell of wet leafs, the moon bigger and brighter than usual. 69 copies in square dvd cases with b/w artwerk and inlay. ” -cut hands
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starving weirdos “sudden fear” dvdr $10 (netherlands import)
“First dvd release by this bunch of freakzone jammers and it’s definately one that stands out from the pack of music dvd’s released nowadays. Sudden Fear comprises slowed down footage from the 1952 film noir by the same name, starring the mighty Joan Crawford and Jack Palance as they get stuck in a web of crazy paranoid romance. The Weirdos soundtrack the black and white scenes with one of their most elegant pieces to date. Entrancing, psychedelic swamp magick, you know how they do. All with amazing eye and ear for the visual aspect of this multimedia performance. Originally performed for the Experimental Film & Music Night in cooperation with the Humboldt International Film Fest. 150 handnumbered copies, in slimline dvd cases with drawn cover art by Jason Rohm, an insert and a medium sized poster. ” -cut hands
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Raccoo-oo-oon “s/t” CD $12
“Everything’s coming to a end with the swansong from Iowa City’s Raccoo-oo-oon. Following up last years critically acclaimed Behold Secret Kingdom (RTB/Not Not Fun), the final album takes everything up a notch and shows a band taking their last breath and laying down the last bricks in their fairly short history. The album blends together all different parts of Raccoo-oo-oons discography, taking cues from the utter freeform punk madness of The Cave Of Spirits Forever (Time Lag), building something completely new of the era that was Behold Secret Kingdom and yet delivering echoes of the eclectic Mythos Folkways recordings. The album reeks of desperation and a feeling of going down with nothing to loose at all. A fucked up future-prog mayhem that is all over the place and at no known place at all at the same time. Genuinely uncomfortable, desperate and just beautiful, this album will surely be remembered as the most important recording that Racco-oo-oon ever put to tape. Minds are melting, new grounds are covered and things will never be the same. A playtime of close to 75 minutes over 7 tracks. Mastered by Pete Swanson. Mini gatefoldsleeve with black felt. 2xLP version on Not Not Fun. The band members are now playing in acts such as Wet Hair, Trash Dog and Pukers. ” RTB
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seaworthy “codes adrift” cdr $6
“two tracks of fluttering, peripheral drone and fragmented guitar from sydney’s seaworthy. packaged in hand-made sleeves sealed with wax, into which we’ve shoved the disc (inside a typewriter-written inner sleeve) and a photo by our friend anwyn crawford. limited to 100 hand-numbered copies.” sound&fury
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scissor lock “thawing voices” cdr $6
“three-part song suite from teenage prodigy marcus whale, aka scissor lock. the thing about thawing voices is, it’s all made with marcus’s vocal cords: no instruments, just his voice, looped, layered and subtly manipulated. 75 hand-made copies in wax-sealed envelopes and screenprinted inner sleeves.” sound&fury
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mirrored silver sea “continual ascension” cdr $6
“debut album from tim condon’s mirrored silver sea. an eclectic mix of shoegaze guitars, tinkling pianos, mulched beats and swirling noise. i’ve always had trouble describing this disc, and usually fall back on comparisons to other artists: liars, my bloody valentine, library tapes, elegi, nine inch nails… it’s pretty spectacular in its scope.” sound&fury
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VISHNU WOODS “Riley Rile/Shaman Tapes etc” cdr $6
“Unearthed recordings reconstructed from a suitcase mysteriously marked “V.Woods”. Trip through RileyRile’s too long in the sun baked meditations and Shaman tapes etc collage of ritual based drones. Epic tracks of harmonium, accordian, baglama saz and singing bowls all fed through massive effects pedals, this Woods serves up expansive cosmic gateways in confined spaces. Persian surgeries, Alice’s organ, and deep space listening. Curry stained folkwaste covers, braille numbering, & luggage tag. limited to 44 copies.” -folkwaste
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HUNTON QUINTET – “Rugcode Reader” – CDr $6
“Finnish psychedelic masters Uton and Anti unleash a new beast as the Hunton Quintet. Heavy hazy woven jams as Zelig Concrete and Agent Stepanoff. Clay whistles, wooden electronics, animal hide drums. Serious carpet tripping deep in the dark woods. 6 tracks straight outa Porvoo, Finland – namecheck all things Finnish and hard to pronounce: http://www.myspace.com/huntonquintet Deluxe handcrafted gatefold sleeves. Limited edition of 99.” -folkwaste
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Fossils From the Sun “Somebody’s Gotta Lose” 3″ cdr $4
“The latest release from Ray Hare’s (Century Plants, Burnt Hills) Fossils From the Sun is a 19 minute sonic geography where fuzzed guitar propulsion buckles into static beats and shaken vox damage. Think Omit’s desolation, Spacemen 3’s nod and Alan Vega’s terrorism. Refract that through the brutality of Century Plants Bloodrise and Somebody’s Gotta Lose appears on the horizon – a dub of the sun.” -abandon ship records
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skullflower Obsidian Shaking Codex cdr $5
new cdr on rrr records
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Warmer Milks “Let Your Friends In” CD $10
“The current line up of Warmer Milks is probably not what it was yesterday or what it is today. Hell, there is talk of it changing up for next month. Blame this on schizophrenia or an urge to not run in circles but it’s how things have always been for the loose group. Founder Michael Turner started Warmer Milks in 2003 and has refused to go backwards regardless of outside (or in house) opinions since it’s inception. Warmer Milks have toured by themselves throughout the United States as well with the likes of Six Organs of Admittance, Bonnie Prince Billy, Arbouretum, Howlin’ Rain and others The band did an extensive tour throughout Europe winter of 2007 and will be back on said continent Summer 2008. Let Your Friends In is another chapter in the more brash, aggressive side of Warmer Milks catalog. Leaning more towards skate punk and black metal, the group touched on intensities left behind from nerd critically acclaimed Radish On Light (Troubleman Unlimited 2006) but with a more street rock cum vomitorium feel. The flipside to the first track is a spook gang romper, drumless yet still punching the walls with a force no other rock can manage. The “Let Your Friends In” sessions went down in Shelbyville, Kentuckee at Rove Studios home to engineer Paul Oldham (Speed To Roam, Bonnie Prince Billy Band, ex-Broadcast Choir and Royal Trux) where various members present during the “Soft Walks” sessions (coming March 2008, Animal Disguise) took time to record this scorcher. Featuring usual WM attendees Michael Turner and Greg Backus the two lengthy cuts on “Let Your Friends In” also boasts the addition of Shawn David McMillen (Austin, TX solo artist, Iron Kite member and former member of Ash Castles) on guitar and Paul O. on dead wah guitar. Where the group has flirted with heavy rock in the past, it is easy to say that group now owns heavy rock. ” -release the bats
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c spencer yeh/sick llama split 7″ $5.50
“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 400 7”s in proprinited fold over sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives.” -arbor
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Steve Gunn cdr $6 LAST COPY!!
“Steve Gunn from GHQ solo outing reissue from Onomato label, 2007. Not many people have had the chance to hear these recordings, based mostly around his acoustic guitar improvisations and inspirations from travels in Morocco. Vocal help on last track from Heidi Diehl (WWVV, Vanishing Voice, Time-Life).” -abandon ship records
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The Goslings “Occasion” CD $10
“Hollywood, Florida family/band Max and Leslie Soren have been unleashing their private bouts of punishing ceremonial sludge-gaze for the past half a decade now, and there’s been some total titanic highlights (Between the Dead, Grandeur of Hair, etc). But the grunge swamp graveyard they seem to unearth their moss metal from must be profoundly fertile ground, because each new song-cycle they lay to tape is somehow even more miraculously brutal and shimmering and visionary than the one before it. This phenom holds true for Occasion, The Goslings’ newest and maybe deepest doom/beauty inquest. Eight thundering masterpieces of molten slime riff majesty, nightstalker drums, and soaring-into-the-sun female vox that crush the earth, bleed, and breathe in humid darkness. Ranging from the Slowdive-meets-Skullflower transcendent descent of “Motorcade” through to the quaking basement funeral of “Little Horn,” Occasion is a glorious passage into The Goslings’ hidden holy land. Mastered for optimal audio gravity by James Plotkin, and housed in a swank six-panel wallet-style metallic-ink digipak with artwork by the band.” -nnf
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Pulse Emitter – Deadly Space Missions – CDR $5
“File under: cosmic fear noise. Daryl Groetsch blessed us with two slow jams for modular synthesizers. The first track is a mammoth, while the second one is a drony excursion into outer space. Packaged in 12″ X 5″ optical bag silkscreened by canedicoda. Edition of 200” -8mm
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Weirdo/Begeirdo “live in LA & Goleta” cdr $5*BACK IN STOCK!!*
featuring members of robedoor and pocahaunted. their sound”changes every release..now they’re broken up. they sound sorta no-wave on this one.
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RACK RASH – REMEMBERS THE ISLETS OF LANGERHANS 3″ CDR $4 LAST COPY!!
“Technically a reissue of a tape that was ‘released’ in an edition of, i think, 3. Tim Sheldon from fat worm of error commits to tape (now a 3″ cdr) processed guitar and gamelan to land your ears on a lush landscape, or a mini-scape, like a pulling a piece of food out of your teeth and a lilypad comes out with frogs jumping off. large statements in the subtlety. A great follow-up to the Oxbow Meads release on the great Yeay! label. Full color fold out packaging. ” -breaking world records
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Thousands “overflow’d & gush’d out” cd-r $5
“when the curtain opens on the lone figure at the head of the stage as he blows his harmonica, hoping to conjure spirits from the layers of dust on the floor. wailing vocals light the balconies and waft their way toward the smoky heavens of the lushly decorated ceiling. thousands is the sister of the mighty (VxPxC), but this extended family vision is a much larger beast. on “overflow’d & gush’d out,” thousands are six. disjointed melodies reclaim the horizon from fractured guitar lines and sporadic drum blasts. thousands move like a machine across the landscape, sucking up everything in their path, inviting it all in to join in their revolt. rebelling against what? that’s not all that important when it sounds so damn good. 100 copies” -foxglove/digitalis
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apple snails “only on a macadam road” cd-r $5
“following up releases on crocomodile and an exquisite split cassette w/ the mighty acts of god on DNT, jeffrey mitchell’s apple snails take a whole new approach on “only a macadam road,” and the results are stunning. it’s full of ambient drones that sound like they were born in the northern lights. the road is bathed in darkness, but tiny fragments of light seep through the murk every so often in the form of acoustic melodies and glockenspiel bursts. it’s music that transports you far, far away. we’ve been working on this one for what seems like forever… so long in the making that the inserts actually say foxglove132, but good things certainly come to those who have waited for this apple-eyed gem. 100 copies” -foxglove
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sindre bjerga “sinking slowly, dissolving quietly” cdr $5
” from the frozen city streets of stavanger, norway, sindre bjerga offers up six new sulphuric platters to keep you warm at night. “sinking slowly, dissolving quietly” does nothing of the sort. it is in your face, wrapped tightly around your skull like thick, well-oiled fog. these dense tracks are mind-numbingly dense. bjerga’s assault is full-on and never lets up. heavy, distorted guitars and monstrous organ drones pulsate like a dying star, quivering under it’s own weight with nothing left to hold it up. it’s bjerga’s organ playing that gives this a more organic feeling than much of his previous work. but don’t be fooled into thinking that this won’t destroy you. total aural alchemy. 100 copies” -foxglove
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ducktails / julian lynch split 7″ + dvdr $7
–Track List–
A1: Ducktails – Parasailing
B1: Julian Lynch – Topi
B2: Julian Lynch – Garden 2
Including DVD with music videos created and directed by Richard Law. -underwater people
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REAL ESTATE ‘FAKE BLUES’ / ‘GREEN RIVER’ 7″ $6
“Debut UK single by New Jersey’s Real Estate. Released on Monday 20th July 2009.
1 – Fake Blues
2 – Green River
“Real Estate are awesome” – Pinglewood” – half machine records
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JOHN WIESE “SPECTRAL HAND” 7″ $8 (german import)
“JOHN WIESE is one half of BASTARD NOISE, SISSY SPACEK and did collaboraties with people like SUNN 0))), WOLF EYES or THURSTON MOORE (SONIC YOUTH). He released a ton of records on labels like ELECTRIC HUMAN PROJECT ,AMERICAN TAPES or his own label HELICOPTER and maybe you know his remixes for CRIMSON CURSE, THE LOCUST, THIS MACHINE KILLS etc. ” -meudiamortey
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U.S. Girls “Me + Yoko” 7″ $6
“There’s no disputing the truth that certain formats befit certain artists. Think about it: where’s the logic in Tangerine Dream rocking a 3-way split 3” CDR? Those fools need room to roam. Conversely, why would Orthrelm drop a 4xLP? Who needs 160 minutes of 8-second spazz songs? The medium is a message, man. And for Megan Remy’s brief, brave re-imaginings of guitar/voice pop rapture done under the U.S. Girls flag, the 45 RPM 7 inch single is the absolute dream medium for transporting said sounds to the interested earhole. Short and sweet (and chemical) like a sugar rush, Me + Yoko is her latest reverb-gaze drug nugget in a string of strong singles (following releases on Hardscrabble Amateurs and Cherry Burger), and it’s another keeper. Whistling to life with a scrap of found sound/dialogue, the song then wings into a vague, hazed-out stone-toss between 2 tired notes (a dead ringer for that famous Les Rallizes Denudes bass riff), ebbing and flowing beneath smeary streaks of white-washed vocal blur. A Top 40 single for a universe of ghosts. The B, “Rise + Go,” might actually be the more aching of the two, a broke-down bedroom ballad, awash in sad seas of reverb, lapping at the shores of isolated islands, gently sailing into heartbreak. Sounds lo-fi but lush, like it was recorded high on a cloud on a cheap 80s boombox. Imagine that. Black vinyl 45 RPM singles, mastered by Pete Swanson, in photocopied sleeves with art by Remy. Edition of 380.” -nnf
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C. SPENCER YEH + LASSE MARHAUG “THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES” 7″ $5
“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. ” -arbor
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CARLOS GIFFONI- “THE ABSENCE OF ESSENCE” 2X7″ $11
“Carlos Giffoni’s heavy synthesizer work recalls the crushing, massiveness of early industrial music. Completely consuming the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. These four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and powerful but with entrancing subtleties and discreet builds. The nature of the 7” format does not harm Giffoni’s work which normally exists in extended lengths; instead very succinct and unwavering compositions result: creating four vignettes of grey industrial zones. As the person responsible for No Fun Productions and the No Fun Fest, this Brooklyn transplants presence in the current progression of the genre is undeniable. In an edition of 400 2×7”(one on white vinyl and one on black) sets in gatefold sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives.” – arbor
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Dunebuggy “First Ride” cassette $6
“Rock and roll at its essentials require very few things to excite the mind, which Iowa City’s Dunebuggy satisfy these very well. Taterbug croons on the microphone while holding down the base sound with the guitar while Ryan Garbes of (Wet Hair and Raccoo-oo-oon fame) keeps things steady with the rhythm kit. A pseudo -Les Rallizes Denudes (裸のラリーズ, Hadaka no Rallizes) cover appears on the first track as well!” -gel tapes
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51717 “Sch” cassette $6
“Fusions of sounds rarely occur with success without it turning into world-class garbage. Fortunately, “Sch” is a rare success indeed as 51717 brings out the best of the east and the west. The tracks appear like romantic synth reflections of anonymous Hong Kong cinema music, while taking advantage of the ambient possibilities of synthetic electronics. “Sch” is a beautiful and confounding amalgamation of digital and analog song.” -gel tapes
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Emeralds “s/t” LP $15
“Brand new full length from Cleveland’s Emeralds recorded Aug-Sept 2008. Proper follow up to their debut LP ‘Solar Bridge’, ‘EMERALDS’ takes the thick drone sound of that LP and transforms it into an even more abstract and strange place. Visual music that lifts the listener up and transports them through tubes of sound occasionally to be swept into the opposite direction by an unexpected entrance into another world entirely. An intense journey that drops you off in a place just beyond death. Edition of 1000 copies on randomly swirled colored vinyl with full color sleeves and insert featuring photography by the band. Recorded Aug – Sept 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio. Additional field recordings by Aaron Dilloway. Mastered by James Plotkin.” – Wagon
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Driphouse “Sewer Mist” cassette $6
“Inspired by winter walks over manholes, “Sewer Mist” paints a landscape of a dull-gray vision New York where foul mist and dirty snow, peppered with sand and concrete are realized on a Roland Alpha Juno-1. Micro-loops and plenty of digital clipping are to be heard from what could be a misinterpreted, post-industrial Kosmische sound.” -gel tapes
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Pukers “Born In The U.S.A.” cassette $6
“breaking up are still undetermined, but fortunately for those hungering for the ear-ache sounds of the duo, former Raccoo-oo-oon member Andy Spore pulled some new hits from the archives. Some songs vaguely sound like rehydrated covers of Led Zepplin “Stairway to Heaven” or the Beatles’ “Yesterday”, or even Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” but rest assured, these sounds are wholly unique Pukers experience.” -gel tapes
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Second Family Band “Our Way is the Right Way” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
“It’s a dirty new age and we are set in our ways. Ingest these two crunchy jams. edition of 75” -housecraft
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Tee Pee – “s/t” cassette $6
“Tee Pee, prolific one man recording project from Miami is at it again after a bunch of tapes and singles from labels like Florida is Dying, Hozac, and Jerkwave. This one is pretty different though, the eclectic aspects of Tee Pee seem to be kind of spread out on these songs, spaced out, given time to stand on there own, a more minimal, darker, more atmospheric vibe prevails here that hints a bit more towards loner psychedelic guitar and improv then any prior Tee Pee recordings have. Still present is the punchy, noisy psychedelic synth punk of Tee Pees beginnings here and there, but its fused with an almost worldy sound, something really eclectic and unknown. A progression for sure. ” -night people
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Tyvek “Live on Cass(ette)” cassette $6
“Blown to outer space recording of Tyvek’s 2nd gig ever! Amazing raw punk, some jams you know, and some rarely heard ones, like “Duck Blinds” and a Mekons cover. Recorded January ’05. Edition of 200, with full-color fold out art.” -exbx
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Bone Patrol U.S./Varlet Tarsod split cassette $6.50
“Luke (Dead Luke, Jerkwave, etc) and Aaron (Peaking Lights) chill on the dual guitar/just hang out Bone Patrol status. The flip side is Luke solo with his desert music proyecto. Edition of 100” -goaty tapes
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Cro Magnon/Circuit des Yeux/Bird split cassette $6
“Short tape by Katie and Haley. A-side is their collaborative project, Cro Magnon, conjuring apocalyptic no-core anxiety. B-side features each of their solo projects: Circuit des Yeux (Haley) slows it down with “Fire Signs” and then Bird (Katie) deconstructs/microtunes the acoustic rock song with free, downloadable software on “Swamp Cry Edition of 100” -goaty tapes
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HNY “Mute In The Dust” cassette $6
“Dudes can dispute it, but the feminine mystique is real – especially in the realms of haunted interior-psych voice musique. A lotta our favorite ladies (Inca Ore, Grouper, U.S. Girls, etc) have the “private dreamer” communion ritual down to a science, whether due to talent, vision, chromosomes or some combo of the 3. We wanna add another siren to the squad: HNY. When not buried in work as the sax/bass-playing half of Social Junk, she’s found time to drop a couple stellar solo joints over the past year-ish (scope her Here You Can Touch The Sky for proof), but they may have gotten more lost in the shuffle than seems fair, so we’re jazzed to present Heather’s newest full-length collection of woozy diary drift, Mute In The Dust. Nine song-stories of naked keyboards, 3 AM spirit loops, and creaky attic narratives that blur the line between bedroom voodoo ceremony and otherworldly suicide note. Recorded entirely outdoors on a tiny side porch in West Oakland, Mute tip-toes the HNY mythos out of the shadows and off the deep end. Dive in. Pro-dubbed tapes in white cases with hallucinatory guitar-girl cover art (3 different color paper possibilities), and housed in hand-painted canvas pouches. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Barn Owl “The Conjurer” LP $14
“excellent summoning of darkened light from this bay-area duo, hot on the heels of several well-received titles on root strata, blackest rainbow, not not fun, their own electric totem, and digitalis / foxglove … taking their cue(s, at least in part) from earth’s recent “doom americana” phase, there’s plenty in the way of slow, lumbering rhythms, played on heavily tremelo’ed guitar(s) and plodding drum-kit ; but for every measure of cinematic/pentatonic glory, there’s an equal dose of popol-vuh (hell, even organum, or artemiev at that) -esque flute & vocal droning that tempers the “power trio” cathars into something much more meditative …” -root strata
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Dirty Beaches – “s/t” cassette $6
“Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai who has been living in Montreal for the last few years but has spent time in California, Hawaii and China and has plans to move to Vancouver soon. The aspect of distance, moving, upheaval seems significant to Dirty Beaches sound and aesthetic, drifting, weaving, pulsing… somber droney garage pop tunes, that seem to float off in some distant geography. Sonically there in your head but out of touch. the sound has a disconnected but beautiful feeling, a series of mental refractions going on, like looking into the infinity mirror at a packed night club from some old technicolor movie while good looking people from some other uknown lands dance around you. Strange stuff that feels right in its strangeness. ” -night people
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Gnod “The Somnambulist’s Tale” 1-sided C100 cassette $9 (belgium import) BACK IN STOCK!!
“Kosmische Musik from Manchester speaking through hypnotic percussion grooves and splashes of synth delayed into eternity. Cover by Fliss Horrocks, 90 copies.” -sloow tapes
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BURNING STAR CORE “Brighter Summer Day” LP $13 BACK IN PRINT!!
“Burning Star Core’s first vinyl full-length and first widely available recording after numerous private releases that began surfacing in 1993. Massive layers of sustained SOUND driven thru violins and electronics direct to climax — backed by broken organs dropped into shifting darkness and cracked Computer hypnotics. Abstract/Concrete (sensual) Satisfaction. After years of obscured operations, another question answered, another step past the cognizant few.” -thin wrist records
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The Savage Young Taterbug – “River Mortis” cassette $6
“Well Taterbug is back with another release for Night-People. Even more dust and grime this time around, even more Americana smoke collecting in the recesses of your brain while you soak up these torched tunes. The dirtiest heartfelt heartland music you will ever hear… played by Taterbug… teenage wastoid mother fucker… Huckleberry Finn/ Peter Pan creep… lost in a cornfield for life searching for that mystic tee pee in the sky filled with pretty young boys and drugs.” -night people
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Ryan Garbes – “Born Under the Sun” cassette $6
“Ryan Garbes returns to his solo recordings after spending heavy time playing in Wet Hair and working on his Exterminator remix series. Some things have changed for sure, on this tape of Spectrum/Spacemen 3/ VU inspired tunes, Ryan drops head first into a sticky pool of reverb drenched burnt electric instrumentation. Its not as if the sensibilities of past solo recordings are gone, its as if the noisy rhythms have been refined and perfected, distilled into full on drone pop perfection. Ryan’s keyboard and synth playing really flow on this one, leaving his gooey melodic pop centric vocals to be the big surprise. Great stuff. Expect a 7″ from Arbor soon.” -night people
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v/a “the blend” cassette $9
“A 122 MINUTE COMPILATION OF VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILED THROUGHOUT 2008. DUBBED IN REAL TIME ON HIGH GRADE CASSETTES WITH DOUBLE SIDED ARTWORK, INSERT & LABELS BY JEFF ASTIN (HOUSECRAFT). IN AN EDITION OF 200 WITH UNRELEASED TRACKS BY:
DUCKTAILS, LILYPAD, MAGIC LANTERN, PEAKING LIGHTS,
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, TREETOPS, INFINITE BODY,
GOLIATH BIRD EATER, HAIRMAIDEN OF THE TOTEM ROBE,
THE NORTH SEA, DRUIDS OF HUGE, SOCIAL JUNK, GORMAN,
SHARED NEEDLES, CURSILLISTAS, SKY LIMOUSINE,
THE MOSSY THROATS, UTON, THOUSANDS, PINK DESERT,
CHILL REFLECTIONS, THOUGHTS ON AIR, SOUL MANURE,
SLASHER RISK, TERRORTANK, CITY CENTER, LANTERNS,
TEETH COLLECTION” -slime city
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Caethua/Ancestral Diet split cassette $6.50
“Clare Hubbard (Caethua) and Andy Neubauer (Uke of Spaces, Flak Mask, Impractical Cockpit) play the koner synth holy carols. Edition of 100 with white imprinting and letterpress inserts.” -goaty tapes
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Cosmic Charlie – “Melting in Someone else’s car” cassette $6
“Charles Free aka Taterbug’s smokin grass in space project, still home fried in Americana grease and the great outdoors via drainage ditch run off but Charlie adds just a touch of that space murk to this one.” -negative aggregator
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Sewn Leather – “s/t” cassette $6
“Sewn Leather is scum anthem, beat heavy, new wave trash. Dance party tunes for dead beat punks, dirty weirdos, and those who aspire to morbid underground lifestyles. Essentially the wrong kind of party jams for the wrong kind of party. Mixed by Ryan Garbes for maximum crusty fidelity, the closest recorded document thus far to hit as hard as the raw live shows. Always on tour or sleeping on your friends couch. Artwork by SDReed.” -night people
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Mudboy “Mudbeats 3 (metal usa)” cassette $6
“Strap yourself to a chair or the roof of a train and prepare for the third volume of mudboy’s beat tapes. Non stop, fearless, focused beats that only can roll and gurgle out of an old organ/synth. straight, heavy modified organ beats accompanied by minimal melody from the synth/organs, serious music, for dark late night walks, chase scenes, and serious head bobbing. silk screen covers by R. Lyon” -breaking world records
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Wagon Tongues “Shadowrock Destroyer” cassette $6
“You can live in LA/Southern Cali for 40 years and still not traverse all the fucked up fringe boroughs and forgotten neighborhoods sprawling outwards in every direction, no matter how hard you hit the highways. And as long as we’ve been rooted out here, we’ve only had reason to venture into the sun-dead desert no man’s land of Beaumont on one occasion, but the place speaks volumes about the weird water which hometown garbage-folk-chaos ensemble Wagon Tongues have clearly been drinkin’ their whole life. A creepy meeting ground of olde-tymey Wild West relics and trashy meth-dealing truckstop culture, it’s an ideal breeding ground for drifters, criminals, and creative youth with singular visions. Which is pretty much the name of the game on Shadowrock Destroyer, the Tongues’ most recent EP of deranged collective chemistry. The A, “Fire In The Hole,” is a raw free ritual of stomping drums, loops, teen screams, guitar noise, and pots and pans, conducted in a crappy basement with cavernous reverb and black mold on the walls. Confusion is king. The B rises up in a similar cloud of clatter but swings with a folkier gait, sunlight brain-fry chords, dusty horns, and possessed babble bubbling over into an ecstatic tumbleweed hayride into the sunset. Squint yr eyes, raise your hand, seek the shadows. Pro-dubbed yellow cassettes with hand-brushed tape labels in cases with hand-numbered full-color masked band photo cover artwork, and wrapped with a hand-cut patch of brown picnic cloth stickering. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Wire “Pink Flag” LP $14
“Originally released on Harvest in 1977, Pink Flag is perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk. Exhibiting severe art school damage, Wire careens at breakneck speed through 21 songs in 36 minutes to create an album that has influenced bands for nearly thirty years. Original artwork. 180 gram audiophile vinyl.” -4 Men With Beards
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White Rainbow “New Clouds” 2XLP $17
“A few things have changed for Adam Forkner since his last White Rainbow album from 2007, Prism of Eternal Now. A national tour with fellow kranky heads Valet and Atlas Sound, and countless hours jamming with Portland avant-music collective Rob Walmart inspired him to hunker down and dig deeper into his personal vision of what head music can be. The success of Prism… finally catapulted Forkner’s White Rainbow project from the deep semi-obscure trenches of the west coast psychedelic/noise underground into the fickle arms of a slightly wider audience. In a perhaps misguided reaction to the ever-widening trend of musicians trading in a pound of adventurousness for an ounce of “accessibility”, Forkner has turned White Rainbow into an even more spontaneous and open-ended musical project and has shaped this new double album into a dense, lengthy exploration of the relationship between hypnotic, circular, fourth-world drum rhythms, acid-boogie guitar, and drifting sheets of fuzzy psychedelic drone. The tracks on New Clouds are a tug-of-war between stasis and change, the desire to meld the meditative effects of a near static drone with the uplifting trip of free-flowing compositions. Slowly melting fluorescent sunsets morph into drapes of psychedelic fog, rumbling over cacophonous rhythms.” -kranky
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Eternal Tapestry “Mystic Induction” LP $15
“In today’s NEW new age one of the roughest audio landscapes to rehydrate and re-vivify seems to be ye olde ‘rock/roll.’ Too much schooled skill turns it to wanky puke, too much braindead string-mangling ends shit up in a puddle of noise drool. That hallowed middle ground is tough to hammer a stake into. But Portland posse Eternal Tapestry chase worms in that kinda moist soil all day and foggy night, and the two sides of glowing garden shroom-harvest they present on Mystic Induction makes a strong case for their status as psych-rock resurrectionists of the first degree. The LP opener, “Emerald Forest of Peace,” weaves a languid path through ET’s bright life as a short-lived five-piece (they’re down to a trio again now), with mossy bass and blissed drums kissing the slow-motion wah fireworks exploding above in the rain-drenched air. It’s a slow glide that continually threatens to ignite before eventually slipping into electric silence. And on the B jam (“Transcendence”), they make good on the threat of the A, riding a vertical riff into a howling storm of light and Jed Bindeman drum frenzy that leaves the rest of their recorded discography in the dust. Also marks the best use of wordless vocals ever captured on an ET track during the band’s brief window with diva Janina Angel Bath on the mic. Planet rock is no longer a cold dead place. Black vinyl LPs in fabric-collage jackets with artwork by guitarist Dewey Mahood. Edition of 450.” -nnf
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Burning Star Core “Challenger” LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Following on from last year’s superb double header of Blood Lightning 2007 and Operator Dead… Post Abandoned C. Spencer Yeh returns with yet more essential solo disclosures, and he’s sounding more approachable than ever. Challenger begins with a melancholy, slightly ambiguous sequence of tones, which eventually find themselves intruded upon by some abrupt field recorded sounds. As a second track, ‘Beauty Hunter’ makes a more fiery, more familiar clamour, distorting and morphing what you’d presume to be Yeh’s violin. It’s in the album’s quieter moments that things get really interesting: I genuinely have no idea what’s going on to make the odd, ambient clacking that is ‘No Memories, No Plans’, and the strange organs and mechanisms behind ‘Un Coeur En Hiver’ make for a strangely emotive, magical mixture of sonic upsets. Perhaps best of all, ‘Mezzo Forte’ is probably one of the weirder things you’ll get to hear this week. It starts off with some truly bizarre vocal layering and manipulation, before simple, quite stately piano chords set out an intro to something that never quite happens, and waves of kinetic, frenzied noise gets piled on… it’s all very odd, but utterly magnificent stuff.” -plastic records
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Heather Leigh Murray “Devil If You Can Hear Me” LP $12
“Heather Leigh’s set at last year’s Colour Out Of Space festival in Brighton was everything music should be: personal, deranged, profound, loud. Her song mode meshes astral-traveling electric pedal-steel guitar with a wasted sense of Western expanse and a lyrical, drugged vocal mood, and the results are weird and wonderful. Devil If You Can Hear Me, her debut vinyl full-length, spills across three varying arenas of psychedelic privacy, loaded with loaded statements, wild Charalambides-ish tunnel-digging, and an almost Jandek-ian jam-driven wanderlust. An intense, brave step forward/outside 2006’s phenomenal Jailhouse Rock CS on Fag Tapes and her string of solo CDRs on Volcanic Tongue. Black-vinyl LPs in matte jackets with a “Heather-in-sunlight” cover photo plus some of her abstract/confessional drawings on the back. Edition of 500.” -not not fun
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Emeralds/Quintana Roo “BUBBLE QUIET COMPLICATION / BEHEADED DYNASTY” split LP $25
“Blessed waves of beautiful sounds build and decay into perfect pieces of music. From opposing locations and opposing approaches to drone, Ohio’s Emeralds and LA’s Quintana Roo juxtapose themselves with skillful perfection. Emeralds’ epic synth composition “Bubble Quiet Complication” marks the acts first vinyl appearance, and possibly heaviest work to date. A tribute to the sine waves of 70s, this massive grower oscillates and progresses completely discretely; impossible to follow and completely transcendental. Bass heavy subsonic patterns work their way underneath the beauty, completely proving and reinforcing this bands recent acclaim. Quintana Roo (comprised of members of Robedoor, Pocahaunted, and Changeling et al.) take a more natural/native approach to their craft. A massive horn blasts marks a call to arms on “Beheaded Dynasty”. Twinkling chimes and electric textures help paint a natural base. Hand drums start the onward march to oblivion, met along the way by a blessed to infinity bass line building to an organic overload. In a numbered edition of 450 emerald green LPs with printed labels and proprinted cardboard jackets with an insert all from the psyched psyche of Devon Varmega.” -arbor
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Quetzolcoatl – “Living” cdr $7
“A personal, meditative, moving journey, through time, mind, worlds and dreams. Crafted from piano artifacts played over a time period stretching several years and in more recent months channelled through loud fractured and working speakers in empty rooms and a cabin, combined with my voice and detritus to create 10 blissful, hopeful yet melancholic pieces that all combine to create the world that is LIVING.” -leaf trail

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“I’m Melting” #1 artbook and cassette $8
“Brand new series of EXBX artbooks. 18 xeroxed pages of brand new EXBX visuals, plus a tape of sound meant to be played with the book. The full-on A/V EXBX experience!! Editon of 50, C47, EXBX-065.” -exbx tapes
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Chapels “Last Night of the Earth” cassette $6
“House of Alchemy label head Adam Richards continues his ‘09 resurgence with this solo project which latched to our ears a few months back and didn’t let go. Chapels is the name of Adam’s game, and if that sounds harmless enough, let’s just reserve our thoughts until his full tidal force of moan-riddled gearing and howling industrial waves crash over us. ‘Last Night of the Earth’ comes as a refreshing blast to the mind’s rafters, departing from so many other experimental acts in its choice use of otherworldly hiss & masterful analog groans. Each tape side features two central squalls separated by sprawling transitions of environment that evoke the alternating cycles of violence & stability in gaia’s seasons. Every pass over Adam’s flickering work reveals new jewels that appear icy hard on the surface, but cracked open they spill a multihued yolk over the final night’s canvas. Numbered edition of 100 painted & pro-dubbed c30 tapes in clear shells w/ red foil liner & double-sided color jcard; designed in energy of EARTH.” -stunned
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Corsican Paintbrush “Fascinators” cassette $6
“Eva and Brad Rose here working synth, voice, and various unknown acoustic sources into a throbbing, sliding mesh. Three tracks covering something like a perilous desert exodus to crystal cave sleep and eventually into a self-dissolving ecstatic encounter with Other where delayed bowed strings merge with concentric chants. edition of 72” -housecraft
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Sean McCann – “Coppicing” DVD-r $6
“The first video available from Sean. Twenty minutes of visual and auditory regeneration. Features some easter eggs, so look around. Comes with a download of the soundtrack. NTSC DVD-r, limited to 100 copies.” -roll over rover
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Emeralds “Fresh Air” 7″ $8 (high wholesale cost, limited) *LIMIT 1 PER CUSTOMER* BACK IN STOCK!!
“At long last, A Soundesign is pleased to present the first 7” record by Cleveland’s Emeralds. “Fresh Air” is a glimmering example of why Emeralds are one of the most loved progressive soundscape bands in the world. Side A is a cycling of sounds unlike anything you’ve heard from them before, truely beautiful and uplifting. Side B is a bit more subdued and hypnotic, a real space oddesy. Clear vinyl 7″ record with full color glued slip package. The cover image is a scan of a hand manipulated slide by David Russell.” -sound design
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Island’s Eyelids – “Eyelands I” cassette $6
“We are proud to present Rover’s first dip into the East coast, mailed in from an old high school friend. Island’s Eyelids, formerly known as Realax or J Wolf, somehow managed to capture the sounds of New York sewers and Central Park joggers and blast them both into the stars. First time I heard this tape I was walking, by the end of it I was running. As always, comes with a high quality download of the album. Produbbed ocean blue shells, color artwork, numbered insert, limited to 100 copies. ” -roll over rover
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Edgar Wappenhalter “Spuiglavementen” cassette $6.50
“Steve Marreyt of Sylvester Anfang and the KRAAK label has a handful of old tapes and just a twinkle of psych pop wunder. Edition of 60” -goaty tapes
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pink buffalo “viscid veils” cassette (belgium import) $8 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Eric Fry delivers a novel of warm loops, draft experiments and strange sound collages. this album has a genuine 80’s, early 90’s hometapers feel. the feeling of a minautaur soundsculpture in the mix of a bowl of baby woodrose, interfered by the touch of insight similar to the classic Super Nintendo gameportal. this is pretty grown up visions about Honey I Shrunk The Kids. it is an explainable “unexplainable”. inflatable knowledge from a world that was presumed far beyond our 3-D structure. a page of mystery….” -bread and animals
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Xiphiidae “Equal Phesance” cdr $6
‘Seemingly hidden in a sedimentary layer of the collective subconscious, is the ever-more-detectable hum of an arriving world, calling for receptive ears and accesible memory banks upon which to unfurl its banner. edition of 60″ -housecraft
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The Rebel “Aiming Low” 7″ $6 (italian import)
“The Country Teasers frontman Ben Wallers (Scotland) is back! Four songs, 2 twisted pop gems, a very nice cover designed by The Artist, surprising sleeve notes partly en français s’il vous plait. Aiming Low 7” promotes an album to come at the end of this year on Junior Aspirin.” -lexidisques
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black joker “watch out!” LP $15
“Fully re-mastered vinyl edition of what was originally a Europe-only cassette released in an edition of 80 copies from the solo project of Spencer Clark of The Skaters/Vodka Soap/Monopoly Child et al. Spencer describes Black Joker as being more drone-focused and with faster percussion than the recent Monopoly Child sets. Indeed, the percussion is thrifty and up-front, with arcs of criss-crossing time signatures generating maximum space/time confusion. The combination of trance-informed momentum and bubbling electronic sci-fi tones sounds closest to one of the Sun Ra Arkestra’s most future-visioned takes on “Ancient Aethiopia” while expanding on the classic post-Angus MacLise feel of all of the best Skaters material. Comes with pro-printed 80s style 12” maxi-sleeves with liner notes by Fortean authority, itinerant visionary and Skaters road mangler in-absentia Charles Berlitz. ”…the drifting of desert sand sculptures appearing within crystaline miraged mountains during a cycle in which the gleaming of sand star sparkled night is blown, floating towards dawn, as the racing of the camels amongst the sunbound mirages expend dimensions of presentation for these sculptures, which, as wind diminishes and returns, a sand is cast to represent the variety of dimensions interacted : as symbold vision, where the atmosphered wind senses the stars amongst the sand, the camel within the mirage, and the mediation of an experiences whole motion of interaction…” – David Keenanolde” english spelling bee
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vega stereo “festival 3000” cassette $6
“vega stereo is another side to the story that is alexey AKA analog concept. once again, this comes straight from russia with a bullet. vega stereo is a duo with his wife, nastya. this one is just as synthed-out as the analog concept double, but you’re in for a whole different ride. laced with minimalist beats and vague, nu-age stylings like a bed of golden feathers, vega stereo is going to whisk you away. it’s obvious these cats grew up on detroit techno and hypnotic ambient waves. beautiful stuff from the rough & tumble. edition of 70 pro-dubbed pirate style.”- digitalis
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Rangers “Low Cut Fades” cassette $6
“This west coaster coasted into our worldview semi-recently with a long, loopy tape of tape hissy guitar anthems (that should see the light of vinyl on Future Sound Recordings later this summer) and we were immediately on board the Rangers zamboni. Low Cut Fades is an even fresher work, loaded to the tip-top with bedroom fantasy riffing, home-tracked keyboard trips, and teenage pop haze. It’s got a lot of that post-Ariel Pink ghost radiowaves mood, and here he chooses to ditch the vocals (there’s a decent bit of singing on his earlier album) in favor of getting down and loose and lost, and the glove fits, man. Expect more from this Bay Area time-traveler. Pro-dubbed tapes with full-color labels in J-cards with art designed by Mr. Rangers himself. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Black Eagle Child “Black Lodge White Lodge” cassette $6
“Although entropy is my favorite physical concept, propulsion is a close second. It’s not so much the lack of gravity that attracts me to space–it’s the lack of friction. The closest approximation would be in the doldrums, the land underneath where all the air currents meet. There it’s completely calm on the ground while above you is the collision of every breeze, gust, and torrent in the world.” -offices of moore & moore
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Sean McCann – “Jasmine” cassette $6
“98 clear tapes with white imprinting. In 4×6 re-sealable baggies, with oversized full color covers. Most feature full-color printed inside spread, about 20 feature hand cut and glued orange vellum “sunspots” designs. Composite of photos from summer roadtrips through the SouthWest by Nicholas Longworth and Tevia Romaine.” -OMM
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Pukers/Lifers split cassette $6
“Pukers is Andy Spore and Olga Balema from Iowa and now L.A. …thrash scum gods who get down and even play some smooth piano on here! On the flip is Andrew Lifers from 420 High street in New Brunswick…(now Baltimore??) and the dudes got a nack for making scummy basement noise with enough uncomfortable pauses and fuck off harsh blasts to please any true disciple of scum enlightenment. ” -scumbag tapes
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gown “for the maples” LP $18
“gown (aka andrew macgregor and otherwise known as one-half of the bark haze with thurston moore) moved from western wassachusetts to nova scotia in mid-2007. before he moved, he wanted to have one big audio blow-out to remember the grand old mass times. with that goal in mind, gown went into the studio with the sunburned hand of the man gang (represented this time out by john moloney, sarah o’shea, ron schneiderman and taylor richardson) to melt some audio consoles. for the maples represents a portion of that recorded output and believe us, it’s some massive stuff. sunburned’s thick funk presents the perfect background for gown’s shredding guitar-play. extremely hot stuff, especially the massive side-long “bending close.”” -three lobed
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Parasails “Skylife” cassette $6
“Come Join us 500 feet above the Atlantic Ocean for the 1982 Summer Season. Enjoy the views of your favorite Beaches and wave to your friends below as you check out schools of Sealife. Parasails is a new projectfrom purveyor of feel-good tunes, Matt Mondanile (Ducktails, Real Estate). More of the lo-fi, tropical nostalgia his fans have come to expect, but this time instead of sitting on the beach, this tape takes you for a dream-like flight above the coastline. Limited to 100 copies!” -el tule tapes
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Pulse Emitter “unearthly” cassette $8 (german import)
“Two loooooooong tracks of super heavy modular synth research from worlds favorite chief engineer daryl groetsh. these recordings defy the laws of nature and leave you lost somewhere at the rear end of a vast universe. side a sounds like Galactus playing pinball with planets in slow-motion. the flipside is a crawling ether mattress drone in classical void style. Ltd. to 100 copies.” -tape tektoniks
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Color Dream “Reminisce” double cassette $12
“UNEARTHED.” -young tapes
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Bee Mask/Astronaut “The World is Transformed and all the Heavens Sing for Joy!/Will they Remember F-Zero?” split cassette $6
“A fat streak of grease on the wall while the room turns itself inside out. Post-kundalini awakening pissing words in the proverbial horse ear. Fucked Lee Perry-style deep tape scum/shimmer-oriented reworking of live sessions from WCSB. On the reverse, the late Massachusetts synth trio Astronaut, featuring Daniel “Oneohtrix Point Never” Lopatin, reach dizzying extremes of paranoia and lfo-heavy entheogenic ritual dread/churn in shadowy “final” sessions, coming on in a more blown out and breathless fashion than on any side to date. Full black light trails/campfire mode, complete with appropriately face-melting peaks.” -deception island
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AJILVSGA “White Crow” cassette $8 (UK import)
“The consistently mind numbing crushing noise project from Nathan Young and Brad Rose (The North Sea, Digitalis) tears apart this cassette release, a black swarm of god knows what tearing your mind apart. If you dug the North Sea cassette we released last year, you should def check this shit out. Limited to 100.” -blackest rainbow
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Meth Teeth – “s/t” cassette $6
“This is a re release of Meth Teeth’s Indian Spirits Demo from last summer’s nationwide tour. Long time Night-People pals, Meth Teeth reside in Portland OR. and in some ways embody the rainy day big country vibe of the city with its youth culture dreamers, old druggies, and rustic history. There is something that is really hard to pin down about Meth Teeth, the songs rely on simple ramshackle rhythms, upbeat shinny guitar interplay, and big fat chord churners, and alot of tambourine banging away on the snare drum. Ultra catchy summertime rockers keep you sad and lonely, and upbeat and hopeful all at once. LP on Woodsist soon. Artwork by SDReed. ” -night people
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Hanging Coffins – “s/t” cassette $6
“Hanging Coffins are a strange new pysch punk band from Eugene OR. Night-People got exposed to these dudes Chrome esque, creeped out, dark, druggy jams via there cassette on Madison’s Jerkwave Tapes, and this new cassette is just as good, and maybe even weirder. This is a stark album not in its lack of fullness of instrumentation or composition but in its isolated downer feelings and mood, there are times when something brighter and slightly uplifting shines through the fog of the menacing psychedelic guitar grit, but for the most part this is damaged primordial alien rock and it rips. Artwork by SDreed.” -night people
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Invasion Status / Pink Chunk Jass Band “The Listener” split cassette $6
“Me and Olson’s split with our favorite band from up north. Invasion Status once described their sound to me as, “like blood/circulation, never gets better or worse, just is.” Unbelievable tape and home-made reed sounds. Pink Chunk’s side is a total mess. Some of our best drum sounds, like millipedes rollin around on your dishes. Horns totally ignoring the drums. Full-color fold out art. Edition of 70″ -exbx tapes
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TRAUMA- “CALMING EFFECTS OF THE OCEAN VOL. 3” cassette $6
“The third chapter of Trauma’s six part series (other volumes on Fag Tapes, Excite Bike, Tapeworm Tapes, Holy Cheever Church, and American Tapes) finds the Detroit duo of percussionist Ben Hall and guitarist Chris Riggs adrift in texture. Neither’s role can be distinguished; a seriously strange and pure approach. Percussive guitar and melodic drums intertwine denying all points of departure. The piece constantly advances incessantly in a blur of energy; almost non-human: like a field recording of playerless instruments outside during a rainstorm. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color cardstock covers and printed labels.” -arbor infinity
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Wet Hair “Dream” LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!! *ALBUM OF THE YEAR*
“When Iowa City freak-out free-rockers Raccoo-oo-oon called it quits last year it left a bummer scar in the Midwest underground scene. But time is a great healer, and so are new bands. So out of the ashes of the RAC pack comes Wet Hair, a synth-punk-trance duo composed of keyboardist/vocalizer Shawn Reed and keyboardist/drummer Ryan Garbes, and Dream is the band’s debut vinyl full-length after a series of increasingly shredding limited-edition cassettes on their own Night People label. Piling together an unlikely trash heap of Suicide-style drum machine beat-bops, zone-droned krautrock keys, and fucked up outsider crooning, the LP’s four tracks careen across a spectrum of moods and mangled melodies. Recorded at Flat Black Studios by Luke Tweedy and mastered by Pete Swanson, Wet Hair’s cult electric annihilation has never gleamed with such razor-edged weirdness; this is their dream made real. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Reed and Garbes, plus a pro-printed full-color 11×11 insert.” -nnf
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Pet Coffins cassette $6
“Pet Coffins came to me out of nowhere, and I instantly fell in love. The kind of music I would imagine acid fried bubblegum would listen to. Number four in the leftover cassette series.” -peasant magik
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Super Minerals “the Vooh” cassette $6
“110 clear tapes with white imprinting. In 4×6 re-sealable baggies, with oversized full color covers, and inside spread has hand- stamped design in red ink. Art by Nicholas Longworth, the photo is in Big Sur.” -OMM
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Truth Syrum – “The Taker’s Mistake” cassette $6
“Truth Syrum is one of the newer solo projects in the Iowa City weirdo underground. Will Kapp (spent some time in Pukers) as Truth Syrum creates strange loner mutant junk folk with damaged electric guitar, weird distorted vocals, and subtle noise textures. A bit like something you might hear out of New Zealand ala the Expressway label in the early 90’s wtih a nod to contemporary junk art aesthetics and fried pysch guitar. Artwork by Will and RGarbes.” -night people
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Ryan Garbes “Exterminator Sunshine 2” cassette $6
“Ryan Garbes of Wet Hair and formerly of Raccoo-oo-on remixes favorite youth-oriented urban music featuring Iggy, Crass, the Impressions, and more. This is a print version of the previously online-only release. See exterminatorstarshine.blogspot.com for more releases and details.” -gel tapes
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Real Estate “Fake Blues” 7″ $5
new 7″ by band with the ducktails dude. it’s good, limited, and on woodsist
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Christopher Riggs “Burn Out to Renew” cassette $6
“Two compositions for electric guitar. Side A was later performed in Toledo and Side B in Columbus. Never to be played again. c-30 cassette edition of 32” -holy cheever church
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Inca Ore “Birthday of Bless You” LP $13
“This one has been a dream since the start. Literally, as Eva Saelens wrote us one day out of the clearest blue saying she had a dream one night that she sent us her brand new album and that we fell in love with it and released it. Well the dream’s become reality, as her latest spirit quest in pursuit of the inmost voice dazzled us instantly and lingered like déjà vu. An 11-song slideshow of psychedelic secrecy, rippling whispers, and private ghost ballads, Birthday of Bless You finds Inca Ore at her most lithe and longing, shifting focus from microscopic mood meditations to wide-lens surrealist romance fantasies in a heartbeat, then back again. A black-lit bedroom soon forgotten, a midnight garden of lucid sound, an LP to have and to hold. Mastered for wax by Pete Swanson. Black vinyl in jackets with collage-art by IO, plus a full-color 11×11 collage insert. Edition of 500.” -nnf
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Full Scales “Triple Trebles” one sided lp $15
new 1-sided lp by full scales, which is john olson (wolf eyes, dead machines, american tapes, etc.) on organ. released by american tapes
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Dream Safari “Buried Mics” cassette $6
“Transcendent sound from new heavyweight sound machine: Dream Safari aka Ian Najdzionek out of RIVERHEAD, NEW YORK. Blissed-out vague drips of crystalline tones, stretched in natural cave reverb. Beautiful negative space, no-fidelity JAMS. Wasteland new age in good form. Edition of 70 with full-color, fold-out art. C40.” -exbx tapes
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DuneBuggy – “s/t” cassette $6
“Dune Buggy is Ryan Garbes and Charles “Taterbug” Free, expanding on both members obsessions with classic garage, punk, and pysch rock tunes and images. Dune Buggy is the pop realization of these obsessions. 20 minutes of catchy organ, guitar, and drum driven punkers delivered in Iowa City basement scum style haze. Cleaner then you think it will sound but with enough grit to keep it grimey, who new these two could play it this cool? Teeny bop, youth cult Armageddon rockers. Expect more on NP and Gel by Dunebuggy in the future. Artwork by RGarbes. ” -night people
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Blank Realm “Mind Peril” cassette $6.50
” So many steaming heaps of uniquely fried brains litter the “down under” underground landscape (Australia, NZ) you begin to worry for their greater wellbeing, health, sanity. But, at the same time, it’s hard to complain ‘cause those same forces have done wonders for the world’s weirdo CDR collections. Paeces, Lakes, all the Bros ‘o’ The Occult Sisterhood shit, Castings, Terracid, xNoBBQx (most of those Breakdance The Dawn bands, actually), Naked On The Vague, etc. – there’s a damn ARMY of Australasian gangs throwing up freaky signs and bizarre strains of audio consciousness, and we are all the richer for it. But our favorite such clan for the past year plus is Blank Realm, outta Brisbane. They’ve been emitting a steady smokestack of work-in-progress documents showcasing their pan-genre collective symbiosis the last couple years and each new cloud they puff out is a headier, heavier beast than the one before it – and Mind Peril shows they’ve yet to even fucking plateau. Self-released by the band early in ’08 in a micro-edition of a few dozen, we were fairly floored by it, and offered to spread the gospel a bit more. Listen up. Crouched hermetic energies arc upwards into unified spirals of electric heavens, animal clatter, basement trance, and zoner drums. 8-limbed songs grapple up from 4-track floors. Rituals retch into wrecked rock songs. Vertical motion for formless heights. This is Blank Realm at their blankest and best. NNF edition has a new track sequence, and is pro-dubbed on high-quality chrome cassettes, as befits this sprawling C54 classic. In oversized, hand-stamped, spray-painted cardstock sleeves with hand-ripped rainbow-tissue collage artwork. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Tête de Bébé comp. LP $9
“Ten releases ago we gave the world Babyhead, our look at the state of punk rock. The record got great reviews and was touted as what a compilation should be. To celebrate our twenthieth release, SS, Sr. put together Tête de Bébé with some help from French rock & roll luminaries Jack Volt and Seb Normal. This time S-S Records focuses on 12 bands from France and Belgium, all doing very different things to this thing we like to think of as punk rock. Of course that means nothing straight forward here. Instead this noise gets a unique Francophone twist. Bands/artists here are Volt, Crash Normal, Kania Tieffer, Le Club des Chats, Cheb Samir & the Black Souls of Leviathan, Cheveu, Crack und Ultra Eczuma, Lawrence Wasser, Lili Z., The Electric Guitars, Dragibus, & The Normals. For all of you who know that France has been turning out some of the best rock and roll as of late, this will be a much expected treat. For those of you who still cling to the tired cliche that the French can’t rock, be prepared to have your world shattered. On white vinyl. 1000 pressed.” S-S Records
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“Babyhead” comp LP $9
“A seamless “state of punk” compilation that spans from free jazz to drunken swagger. Thirteen cuts exclusive to this record, by A Frames, Antennas Erupt, The Blowtops, Blutt, Country Teasers, Crash Normal, Duchess of Saigon, Guinea Worms, the Intelligence, Klondike & York, The Piranhas, Sexy Prison, & Unnatural Helpers. Those names alone should sell you on this fucker, but let me tell you this: No one has given this damn thing anything but praise. Blastitude writes “The thing I like about this record is that it’s not a punk comp, it’s not a garage comp, it’s not a trash or thrash comp, it’s not a noise-rock or no-wave comp, but is indeed a punk trash garage noise thrash gnash rock wave comp (add your own hyphens), with just a toe or two dipped in the neighboring ponds of poppiness and straight experimental. In other words, it’s all just happening, baby, and no one here pre-registered for a style before they had their first practice.” People tell us, “Damn, I never buy comps. Comps suck, but this thing is freaking fantastic!” and then they kiss us and cook us dinner. No cd issue, vinyl only. On white vinyl.” S-S Records
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Pan To Scratch “What is Kept and What is Thrown Away ” cassette $6
“This just plopped in my mailbox one day–mysterious, addictive tape from Tony/Endless of Drunjus quilting endlessly taped found sound and vacant drones. LP due out soon on Earjerk. edition of 48” -housecraft
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Drunjus “Enceladus” cdr $6
“The sound of mud, trees, crickets, and mosquitoes in sloooow motion. Hazed out Dream Porch sessions, field recordings from Cherokee Marsh, and full on drone assaults from Woodman, Endless, and, local analog synth compatriot, Crystal Dragon. Black CDs housed in black cardboard sleeve with full color wrap around art, printed transparencies, and handmade paper. Hand stamped and numbered” -peasant magik
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andrew coltrane “symphony of black holes” 3″ cd-r $10 (netherlands import/out of print)
“New entry into the vastly expanding discography of this Michigan basement wrecker. Check out his brutal burners on American Tapes, RRR and Middle James Co., come right back if you’re man enough and try this one right here. Symphony of Black Holes delivers crude streams of skullcracking sewer noise. Not a ray of light to be found in this putrid dirthole, all black, no joy. 50 copies in mini dvd cases. Artwerk by fartjerk. ” -cut hands
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eyeballs / gareth hardwick split cassette $8 (UK import)
“Gareth Hardwick’s steady stream of quality releases is gathering to be one of the UK’s best current minimal drone catalogues around… here he gives us a 3 part trip of pure slow motions… Flip the tape and you have Richard Dawson’s Eyeballs project, whose debut on Blackest Rainbow caused a stir with the few people who managed to lay their hands on it. Here Dawson’s side is bleaker and darker than expected, gives me the full on feel of the Twin Peaks woods… feels like the vast emptiness of that claustrophobic wooded area. Low and lulling. Pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 150 copies.” -blackest rainbow
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Gang Wizard “Live in Paris” 3″ cdr $4
“We claimed to be touring Europe with just the bare necessities. We claimed that any amp and drum situation would work for us. Paris put this claim to the test. The drum kit was a snare, a kick, and a street sign. The amplification was a single blown out PA. So we ran two guitars, three full electronics set ups and the vocals through the PA, and just went for it. The massive amounts of signal cancellation transformed five musicians into one single Frankenstein. The street sign didn’t work as a cymbal, so dump a dump had to do. But somehow this became the most powerful set of the entire tour. Insistent throbbing distortion that somehow is a rock band, except when the PA would overheat and only vocals/drums remained. Rowdy French speaking audience imitating whatever they thought our gibberish lyrics were. Most told us the set was too short, but twenty minutes spent hanging off the edge of chaos felt like ages to us. We’re very proud of this performance. This is what music sounds like when you work for it. Too many universal rock bands are just doing it to bring themselves pleasure. Doing it for the pleasure of the audience sometimes means that the performer doesn’t have fun at all. Which is 100% ok, since the only thing that matters is how the audience feels.” – abandon ship records
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Ducktails “Ducktails II” cassette cdr version $6
“COMPILATION OF CHILL JAM/ROCKERS” -self released
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Real Estate “Suburban Beverage” 7″ $6 (comes with cdr)
“a fuzzy, sweetly simple sea chantey (or in this case, I guess a “lake chantey”) that reminds you of how awesome that last bonfire of the summer was, until the cops showed up and you had to run for your life. The song wafts in on a slinky bassline playing all by its lonesome, and then a sleepwalking slide guitar (ready for a couples-only dance on prom night), tapping cymbals, and Courtney’s reverbed voice complete the picture, leaving plenty of open space to stick your head inside of. “Black Lake” is a jangly, hazy slice of nostalgia for those of us who still have love for America’s forgotten playground.” (pitchfork review) underwater people records
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High Wolf “Animal Totem” cassette $6
“For some reason unexpected pleasures are superior to the expected variety, at least 9 times outta 10. And so it was when we happened upon the dizzy/fizzy music of French loop enthusiast High Wolf for the first time, regarding whom we had zero preconceived notions. Cheers to open minds/ears then, cause the High Wolf audio worldview is weird and wobbly and one that should appeal to all lovers of tripped out, swelter-zone equatorial electronics. Animal Totem is High Wolf’s debut release, and it piles wavy, tranced keyboard melodies one on top of the other into a pulsing ritual heap of colored smoke. Elsewhere he slips in sunset fuzz-guitar lines and temple meditation tones and even dangles down some flanger-flecked synthetic percussion like a bunch of mellow yellow bananas. Take a look up/down/all-around. Overall it’s a rich, ripe rumble in the escapist-psych jungle. Future trips are booked on Long Beach drone/craft emporium Stunned Records, keep an eye open. Pro-dubbed cassettes in cases with full-color animal-collage artwork by Amanda. Hand-numbered edition of 100. ” -nnf
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Warm Climate “Edible Homes” cassette $6
“With an unmatchable tenacity that depends on little much else than a power source, guitar and clarinet, Seth Kasselman has spent over a decade making some of the more truly idiosyncratic music we’ve had the pleasure of being hit with. The mere range of styles his Warm Climate project has taken on would be enough to daunt any four-piece band of fulltime songwriters. But ‘Edible Homes’ is proof that it only takes one Seth to take the piss out of a dozen genres at a swipe on these two 20-minute rollercoaster tape sides. It’s nearly impossible to describe just where exactly this ride takes the listener except that it’s a rich amalgamation of rock, classic pop, free jazz, dance, drone, tribal noise, broken toys, and psych riffing that testifies to Warm Climate’s versed knowledge of sound in its myriad of cultural forms. Like twisting the dial through the whole range of A.M./F.M. channels, not because any are tiresome, but because each one is enrapturing. All we can do is let the accumulation scoop us toward a nexus that wipes the cultural palate clean, and indispensably so. Hand numbered edition of 120 pro-dubbed & imprinted c42 tapes in lime shells w/ extended length double-sided color jcard; designed in energy of FIRE.” -stunned
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beach fuzz “hole of hellos” 1-sided cassette $8 (uk import)
“Manchester has some crazy scene going on, so many bands/artists keep coming out of there its insane… so here’s a nearly 20 minute document from one of these bands, Beach Fuzz. This trio features members of Stuckometer, Axis Mundi, EYEHAI, and Manccc’s Golden Lab Records head honcho himself, Nick Mitchell. Wild shit goes on here, kinda space drone rock or something. Double sided artwork, for a one sided tape… first time we jammed that, looks real sweet though. Limited to 64 copies.” -blackest rainbow
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Sam Goldberg “Winter Hallucinations: III” cassette $6
“The third of four tapes in the series. Cold psychedelic reverberating guitar. Limited to 50” -pizza night
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Peaking Lights “Imaginary Falcons” cassette $6.50
“Since you asked, here’s a new truism we vibed out of the cosmos: Isolation (not Necessity) is the Mother of Invention. ‘Cause distance makes the heart grow radder, remember? And drift-pop duo Peaking Lights (aka epic newlyweds Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis) have proven this in spades, by beating a sweet retreat from the big city to a cool commune deep in the rolling, wooded hills on the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin, where they’re free to bond with the land, breathe easy, and levitate lofty organic magic from their unique analog electronics mainframe. It’s like they say: location, location, location. Apparently the big sky country is hittin’ their bloodstream like an exotic opiate, because their latest full-length, Imaginary Falcons, digs deeper and flies higher than anything else they’ve ever laid to tape by miles (which isn’t to say their early shit isn’t sick too; it is). Seven strung-out sing-song serenades of Suicide-style drum machinery, groovy lost ghost candle crooning, dubby keyboard echoes, gentle guitar gestures, and narcotic harmonia, woven into an expertly sequenced lucid dream you never wanna wake up from. This is the sound of Peaking Lights peaking; hold it yr ear as long as you can. Already dangerously high on our “One To Beat For ‘09” file. Pro-dubbed cassettes in cases with pro-printed full-color J-cards designed by Amanda. Edition of 150.” -nnf
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keijo “just enough” cassette $6
“a new greeting from an old friend. we’re pretty damn excited to have keijo back on the books charting new courses through the stars. more finnish blues from the wise master himself. shambolic to the core, each note bellowing sweet nothings into hearts & minds, looking for a warm, cozy corner to ball up in and sleep the frosty, frigid night way. this is exorcism, baby, all the way home. limited to 50 copies.” -digitalis
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sloowroad “s/t” cassette $9 (belgium import)
“Space hymns from deep woods within by Sloow Tapes Bart De Paepe and Golden Roadie Matt Valentine, crawling beyond shredding wah-wah guitars and intoxicating synth, culminating in twisted chouffe raga and porkslap pulse. Reissue of obscure Heroine cd-r, 100 copies.” -sloow tapes
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BIRD COSTUMES “NATIONAL GLASS” cassette $6
“Serious journey into the trancer meltdown! Sweatlodge soundtrack and pleasantry come forth to be the ONE to love. Sweet sweet guitar tonal ecstacy from former member of such amazing bands like HUSTLER WHITE and ME CON: Daniel Osbourne….Also playing now-a-days with SUBARACHNOID SPACE! … taking Portland, OR. by storm! Vancouver loves Bird Costumes! Comes packaged in a beautiful self standing bird ladies! Big thanx to Aja Rose Bond for help in creation/assembling. //// Ltd. 60 copies.” -INW
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KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN- “DREAM HOUSE VARIATIONS” 4XCS $25
“Keith Fullerton Whitman’s first release in over two years manifests itself in an inspired take on aural perception. “Dream House Variations” is a meditative experience, comprised of four cassettes intended for simultaneous listening. The variations themselves are reworkings of two endless loop cassettes through Doepfer Analog Modular Systems; KFW exacts his technical mastery through dense filtering, panning, and modulation of the source. The octophonic nature of the set creates an infinite amount of listening experiences, not only due to the syncing of the tapes, but also placement within a room and the equipment used for playback. The music becomes a part of the room much like the quadraphonic intentions outlined in Eno’s “Ambient” series. Each experience creates new instances of counterpoint, melding tonality, and individual senses of perception eliciting the source of the variation: mind or machine? In an edition of 150 four tape sets in oversized vinyl cases with full color cardstock covers, silver cardstock inserts, and printed labels.” -arbor infinity
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sunn 0))) “Dømkirke” 2XLP $18
“Last year sunn 0))) was invivted to perform at a ancient cathedral in Bergen Norway . The performance was captured via 24 track mobile recording and the resuluts were pressed onto double 180 gram vinyl. This recording will be available exclusively on vinyl only. There will not be a digital release (cd or downloads). Pure analog! The 0))) lineup for this performance includes Attila Csihar (Mayhem) on vocals, Steve Moore (Earth, Ascend) on the churchs’ legendary pipe organ and Norwegian native Lasse Marhaug on electronics. The packaging for “Dømkirke” was designed with the utmost attention to detail and quality that perfectly compliments the audio content. Each 180 gram vinyl comes in a heavy stock, full color inner sleeve that features stunning photographs from the performance. The cover of the gatefold jackets feature exclusive art by Tanya Stene (Burzum, Ulver, Darkthrone). The jackets themselves are ultra-durable extra thick cardboard stock with thick, luxurious lamination. These were modeled after the Impulse! labels’ LP jackets from the ’60s. This package is durable, built to last and serves as the perfect shelter for this archival release.Behold the glory!” -southern lord
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Emeralds “Solar Bridge” LP $15
“Starting out in 2005 performing live sets using only televisions as sound sources, EMERALDS has grown in recent years into a monster of HEAVY improvised drone using analog synths and masterfully effected guitar. Born out of the midwest scum-noise scene, these guys have taken the INTENSE HEAVINESS of their midwest brethren to a place that is entirely their own. They have replaced the creepy atmosphere and abrasive harsh noise of their peers w/ a VERY DIFFERENT though EQUALLY INTENSE assault of COSMIC DRONE POWER! HANSON RECORDS is proud to announce EMERALDS – SOLAR BRIDGE, the trio’s first full-length album after numerous cassette and cd-r releases on such labels as American Tapes, Chondritic Sound, and the bands own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. The album opens with the side long ‘MAGIC’ where the band builds a quiet drone into an extreme thick sawblade of swirling noise as beautiful as it is menacing. The flip is yet another sidelong journey titled ‘THE QUAKING MESS’, a track that stabs your brain with fluttering sparks of synthesized needles before relaxing you into a Göttschingesque dream state while slowly bringing you back to earth with an electronic wave of molten rumble. Fans of the smooth tones of ‘New Age Of Earth’ era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing thick drones of Throbbing Gristle’s ‘Heathen Earth’ should take note, as EMERALDS may be their new source for electronic drugs. Limited to 668 copies on blue vinyl, housed in a 2 color silkscreened sleeve w/ the usual ‘HANSON DROLL’ flaps. ” -hanson
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Magic Lantern/Hop Frog Kollectiv split LP $13
what ML said about it: “Hey Everyone, we’re very pleased to announce the release of our first new music since HIGH BEAMS! We’re moving on up, beaming some tracks for a new full-length, so this flowering acoustic session should provide some bubbling, skeletal excursions to the edge of the leaves and back. A love song to Florian Fricke. Deep thanks to HOP-FROG and URCK RECORDS for the high-minded tunes and the loving care for the object.”
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Cloudland Canyon/Mythical Beast split 12″ $12
“This fair pairing has been in the wings for a few years now by our count, but tripped things come to those who wait, so better late-as-shit than never. Cloudland Canyon have been spanning geographies (Brooklyn, Germany, Memphis) and genres (krautrock, drone, psych-pop) since at least 2002, but only recently has their technological studio-sorcery began to gather steam and affect the more far-flung populations (powered in no small part by their partnership with Kranky Records). Anyone who’s gotten lost in CC’s latest, Lie In Light, knows this duo is currently at the pinnacle of their potency, and their offering here (“Harvest Hunt”) is a fantastic mechanical motorik ascent into symphonic hypnosis. Comparisons to classic Teutonic psych outfits of yesteryear are warranted but inadequate: this is music of today, for tomorrow. On the flip, beloved Not Not Fun in-laws Mythical Beast return to the vinyl spotlight with two luminous soul meditations conjured during the past winter’s grey maze of days. Both ballads burn with Corinne’s voice-for-the-voiceless defiance, wind-draped and incensed by Jeremiah and Aaron’s subtle electric string energies. Naked music for open spaces, empty skies, endless nights. High-audio 45 RPM LPs (NNF’s first!) in matte-jackets with cloud-skull artwork by Blackblack beauty Diva Dompe. Edition of 415.” -nnf
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Charalambides “Joy Shapes” 2XLP $16
“To say that the words “unique” and “singular” are over-used in describing music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the sounds created by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas group Charalambides over the last decade plus would be understatement. To be sure there are numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this of any artist’s work would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But they have surely broken new ground in the primitive/folk/mystic/improv/psych valley in which they toil. This new album is certainly not for the faint of heart. Five songs stretch and crawl over 75 minutes, with Christine Carter finding a new fearlessness in her voice that will draw comparisons to Patty Waters or the early work of Meredith Monk. Joy Shapes is the first studio album recorded by Charalambides in a long time. The main tracks were recorded in June 2003, with subsequent overdubs, mixing and mastering done throughout the summer and early fall of 2003 including one night of vocals recording done in what Tom Carter calls a “lost evening.”

Christina Carter: electric guitar, voice, bells
Tom Carter: electric guitar, lap steel guitar, acoustic guitar, chimes, wind wand
Heather Leigh Murray: pedal steel guitar, psaltery, voice” -kranky
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Sun Stabbed “The World Upside-Down” cassette $6
“Following up a killer cdr on Pseudo Arcana, the French duo of Pierre Faure and Thierry Monnier return with over 40 minutes of expertly crafted, drifting guitar feedback. Ranging from Sunroof!-esque shimmering skree to glacial amplifier buzz.” -peasant magik
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Mike Shiflet/Ryan Jewell split cassette $6
“Deep minimalist head shit from these Kill-Bus wizards. Both sides possess a stark, solitary quality. While Shiflet bathes in shimmering sheets of digi-bliss Jewell drills deep into the subconcious. A personal favorite for late nights and still mornings.” -teen action
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God Willing “On Dishless Days” cassette $6
“Two absolutely stunning sides by Ren (formerly of dynasty and gang wizard.) Guitar and Tone generator rumbling in and out of dischord, maximum tension and presence in a simple drone. rarely do i think of something as a dissonant drone AND beautiful. b/w artwork by lauren pakradooni. c18.” -breaking world records
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MIKE SHIFLET “OPENING ACT” cassette $6
“two more doses of shiflet drone, blazing here in the live variety, recorded earlier this year in st louis and cleveland. for those not in attendance, you can acquire mike’s sleeperhold synth styleings here and get a second chance to wipe your brain off of your shoulders.” -905 tapes
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Lateral Hyetography “Some Girlzzz” cassingle $3
“Single Only tape release from LA’s Really Coastal label. Recorded near the California blue line stop in Chicago (electric version, side A, rocking out) and then California proper (acoustic version, side B, blissed out with gospel layers). Acoustic and electric versions share the same skeleton but have different outgrowths and inward motion/measures of internal control and assembly. A very rare synthesizer from the late 70s appears for one of the first times on record on side B, before getting swept away in the fury and undeniable wetness of a gospel water celebration that quickly makes it into an awkward paper weight. First edition of 95 handnumbered copies pro-dubbed to chrome tape and printed with glossy paper to bring out the cover and inner sleeve models. People first.” -really coastal
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Hunters and Gatherers Zine, Issue 1 + Vibes 3″ cdr $12 (limited to 75)
“Featured in this issue:
Interview with Ged Gengras
Poems by Andrew Scott
Recipes by The Parasitic Fantasy Band
Drawings by The Lucky Dragons
Reviews by Sam Hamilton & Andrew Scott
Words & Drawings by Helga Fassonaki
Live 3″ CDR by Vibes
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Xiphiidae “Crystal Marvelous Fruit” double cassette $11
“Whoa. Here we have an absolutely essential double cassette by the wasteland new age BOSS, Jeffry Astin. Everybody knows his amazing Housecraft label, relinquishing the most hazy and exciting home-made sounds to your stereo brain world. This doubler contains tracks recorded over a few years, many MANY different zones. Total new age to crude tape workouts to beautiful foggy drone to ???. All unreleased and ready to finally be heard by human minds. Edition of 100. Double c-60, with full color fold-around art.” -exbx tapes
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Chris Riggs cassette $6
“You might know Chris from his guitar swallowing in Trauma or his amazing cult solo cassettes on his Holy Cheever Church label. Here Riggs turns his mutations on reeds instead of strings. Sax and electronics machinations reach trance-inducing heights of warped depth. Completely weird new instant-classic! Full-color fold out art. Edition of 70” -exbx tapes
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floris vanhoof “de onzichtbare hand van voltage control” cassette (belgium import) $8
“abstract synthesizer works from this Professor In Usable Knowledge and full-time McD’s clientele, Floris Vanhoof. while being a core member of R.O.T. and an independent movie maker, recently he started to consentrate more on his love for technique and synthesizers. this album is a repress of his first self-released tape, released a while ago, but only gotten into the hands of museum programmers and synth music forum nutters. strange, abstract and minimal sounds, codes and unusuables, made with the ems vcs3 synth. a deep view behind the arches… vanhoofke recently released a cassette album on breaking world recs, and is working at a vinyl record for ultra eczema. ” -bread and animals
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Super Minerals “The Gooh” cassette $6
“Recorded at an altitude of infinity, these two west-coast giants have touched the dazzling pinnacle and continue to send back bombs of transformative ether for fertile minds. There’s a perpetual unfolding motion with this project that sucked me in from the first time I’d heard ‘The Thaw’ (released twice now by NNF). Here, that dynamic is ever-more-refined and, again, totally magical. However if your eyes begin to foam violet, you may have had too much of the Gooh. ” -housecraft
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the north sea “TOTAL FOOTBALL” 2X-cassette $9
“my love for football (soccer, for us yanks) is probably fairly apparent to most, and that love is borne out of watching the genius that was the greatest generation of dutch footballers in their sparkling orange. i knew i eventually wanted to do something in tribute, and what the hell – two tapes of synthed-out goodness for van basten, gullit, rijkaard, and koeman (and also cruyff, who can never be ignored). so here it is, total football once more. limited to 80 copies.” -digitalis
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Ondo “654 65 – 694 33” cassette $6
“Obsessively composed guitarscapes. Industry stretched to the point of total collapse. Bleak and without redemption. ” -peasant magik
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Sean McCann “The Truth Is Marching In” cassette $6
“Blistering circus whirl and warble. Reminiscent of wandering around a casino in the early morning. Slot machine melodies pan in and out of focus, all memories of the outside world fade, and everything around you is covered in a smokey haze.” -peasant magik
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diamond lemonade “ghost light blankets” cassette (belgium import) $8
“solo outing by the head behind the Tape Tektoniks imprint. DL offers strange readings straight from across the German borders. this cassette contains rebirthed tapeloops and other analog environments of the past (and probably future, but this i cannot decipher), resonating between 420 to 450 MHz. Ghost Light Blankets is a certified valid ticket that will give you access to enter the porthole that man calls “the hangover”. by the way, i think this guy might have been secretly reading EXCALIBUR, the deadly and locked away L R Hubbard book about the facts, secrets & reason of life. so think twice before you listen….” -bread and animals
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nonhorse “the rare tape zero” cassette (belgium import) $8
“g lucas crane. the breakdancer. g lucas crane. the tapemanipulator. g lucas crane. the new york city guide. g lucas crane brings us a 60 minutes roundtrip of weird fidelities and strange sounds. i enclose what the mind of lucas communicated me through resonating electric wires. i wrote down this given information using the technique of automatic writing: “its tape one in the goblin universe series. the rare zero tape is the only tape to survive the arson of rozwell labs 2029. it was one of 6, the rare one through rare 6 were all holding sound patterns corresponding to analysis levels, the audio detritus left over from mental examinations. the exposure to these tapes responds to latent interdimentional experiances, womb style, aeomeba style. the silver disk is the symbol of the gobiln universe and altered opened mind in general. its yer “classic” unidentified flying object. a smooth, silver disk that turns pink red orange hues when its about to punch through off into the multiverse. apparently, it also turns blueish purpleish when landing. awesome mode! anyway. the rare zero tape survived and was taken to the quarentine site in los alamos NV, approching the rare zero tape causes an audiable “swarm of bees” sound to increase in anger and intensity the closer one gets. touching the rare zero tape with skin causes negative aura proxisms and results in instant death. listening to the rare zero tape does not kill, just touching the original. a military robot was charged with dubing the master and sending it to you. it is the sound of perliminary examination. the further 6 levels have been lost. good god.” -bread and animals
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A. Jarvis “She Is Also Phasing” cassette $6
“Three tracks of total John Carpenter worship. Sweeping synths, pulsing bass lines, and Kurt Russell. Jarvis takes hints from Carpenter’s classic sound and manages to incorporate elements from all of his previous work: swells of feedback, analog shimmer, and subtle, but damaged, percussion. Like all of his previous work, this is absolutely perfect. High bias chrome tapes, pro-printed covers.” -peasant magik
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Xiphiidae “Wake Of The Hoods” cassette $6
“Xiphiidae is the solo project of Housecraft’s main man, Jeffry Astin. Side A is full of air-conditioned drones, nature sounds, and delayed guitars. Very sleepy, indeed. Side B could possibly be a recording of someone eating dinner while thousands of insects run wild over various stringed instruments.” -peasant magik
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Pink Buffalo ‘Bearded Tooth” double cassette $9
“Squids and skins shine in battery powered sub-atomic fusion, stewed electric under a darkened sun. edition of 50” -housecraft
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Sparkling Wide Pressure “Seven Inside and Out” cassette $6
“Frank Baugh has a real ability to conjure super lucid memories from the furthest crags of our cranium whenever his Sparkling Wide Pressure begins emitting its visionary environs. Of the many corners he turns in his half hour visitation between chilly realities & possible alternate dream spaces, we’re guaranteed to always be adrift in the soothing detritus of a quickly fading analog past. With ‘Seven Inside and Out’ Frank asks, are these warm dream worlds we imagine sad hoaxes or attainable endeavors for the future? Half-soldered circuitry tends to be the slit in the fence Frank takes advantage of here by deftly slipping through nostalgic loops & blurred drones. Given its relatively brief runtime, this cassette displays a vast scale of vision skilled in its admixture of loner synth dirges, hope-thirsty distant wails, and anti-gravitational guitar cycles. The combinations here pair perfectly with the thoughts of dawn & vibrations of dusk. Hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes in mustard shells and double-sided color jcard.” -stunned records
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Om “Variations on a Theme” LP $13
“OM reunites one of the most powerful rhythm sections in rock music; Al Cisneros [bass, vocals] and Chris Hakius [drums] both ex-members of the legendary Sleep. “Variations on a Theme” is comprised of three long songs employing a series of rhythmic chants whose cadence-like textural drive conveys flight. The album’s numerous lyrics serve as symbolist vehicles to a state outside the field of time and space. “Variations on a Theme” is a series of vibrations and flow. The opening track, “On The Mountain at Dawn” is the thematic blueprint of the entire album; a transportive series of differentiated verse with sets of solid groove. “Kapila’s Theme” furthers the motif while the closer “Annapurna” breaks the spell, where the final wash of sound reflects the infinite.” -holy mountain
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Rambutan “Fallen Smoke” 3″ cdr $4
“Fallen Smoke captures the live debut, from April 2008, of Rambutan, the solo project of Eric Hardiman from Century Plants and Burnt Hills. Vastly different than either of those units, Rambutan finds Hardiman in a completely new mode, with no guitars in sight. The results are hauntingly beautiful, intensely personal, and utterly compelling, with a warm, organic feel throughout. The music builds in intensity ultimately hypnotizing the listener in its gathering tractor beam of psychedelic gauzy haze. Jump right in.” -abandon ship records
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Monks of The Balhill “Ten Ways To Get Out Of The Water” cassette $6
“Vocal mantras, decaying guitars, and found sounds combined in totally refreshing way. Both sides constructed from similar pieces, but distinctive enough to show the endless stream of ideas pouring from these two Vincents. Made with love, guitars, wind instruments, field recordings, and tigers. Art by Adriane Dalton.” -peasant magik
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Talugung “Distant Flying-apart” C35 cassette $9 (belgium import)
“Mystical trip from Canada, heading for deep exotic zone and ethnic space. Acoustic improvisations and clouded forest rhytms on various instruments, including homemade ones. Ideal companion to your morning meditation. 70 copies.” -sloow tapes
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astronaut/family battle snake split cassette $6
“new york city and london are both total fucking meccas. in those meccas lurk the glorious electronic madness that are astronaut and family battle snake, and honestly i don’t know if i can think of a better pairing for this split. astronaut is the duo of daniel lopatin (oneohtrix point never) and andy plovnick (healing feeling) who conjure a whole host of mystic spirits on their side, “empty pyramids.” this sprawling piece of synth maximalism finds it’s diamond through the sonic looking glass underneath a river of sea ice. this is hypnotic music that whisks you away on a cumulus cloud. family battle snake is the greek god himself, bill kouligas. fbs arches over the analog plane on “parallel prime/eye river.” synth squalls bathe in liquid reverb, eventually falling through an emerald hourglass until you realize you’re floating on a rocket to the moon. kouligas is on some kind of heavily tripped journey these days, and i’m glad on this fucken ride. limited to 86 copies with geometic-inspired art & labels.” -digitalis
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Eternal Tapestry “spring 2009 tour” cassette $6
self released tour tape, with unique watercolor covers, only available from DNT (and from them of course, catch them on tour if you can!) *the cdr and tape have DIFFERENT music/recordings*
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Eternal Tapestry – “The Declining Star” cassette $6
“A real beast of a psych rock band, Eternal Tapestry (members of Heavy Winged, JOMF, Tunnels etc) kick it in the red with their melodic instrumental blasts of post PSF atmospheric epics and power trio freak outs. Ultra tight driving propulsive rhythm section work out provide the backdrop for layers of intricate guitar fuzz. Just the right amount of letting it rip and holding it back. Art by SDReed.” -night people
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Infinite Body “A SERIES OF FALSE AWAKENINGS” 1 SIDED LP $11
“Kyle Parker is Infinite Body. Like most of Southern California’s harsh noise youth crew (Impregnable, Privy Seals, Pedestrian Deposit), IB is the polar opposite of Kyle’s former project, Gator Surprise. There is something about the shift from creating unrelenting, harsh noise to ambient dreamlike drones that works perfectly; flowing with dedication and intensity from similar veins. Infinite Body’s debut cd “White Hymn” was a masterpiece of blurred lights, colorful, but heavy synthesizer and vocoder pieces. “A Series of False Awakenings”, his follow up to that CD from the winter, shows a seasonal change, with a heavy presence on field recordings: children in parks, chimes, and the spring ambience of light winds and birds’ songs. An elevated sense of reality: entirely surreal. Kyle’s thoughtful and sincere work is certainly some of the most well executed around and the upcoming Infinite Body/Emaciator split LP on Monorail Trespassing will only further solidify this. In an edition of 300 LPs with proprinted foldover sleeves featuring art by Kyle.”-arbor
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NASA “Diamonds & Wood” cassette $6
“These post-everything (noise-rock, kraut-punk, thrash-psych), post-Floridian (they live all over the place now…Canada, East Coast, etc) post-teens (somebody’s 20) have a savvy knack for mainlining that exact slow-burn basement car crash guitar/drums symbiosis that makes us wanna simultaneously mosh, steal a skateboard, and put out a tape. The previous NASA cassette on NNF (Bummer Daze) rolled in more of a groove-damaged Blues Control-on-glue mode, and the production was kinda clean and line-in sounding in places. But Diamonds & Wood (in addition to being the name of a bangin’ Underground Kingz song) is in fact an earlier NASA album, recorded back in 2006 and originally released in an edition of 24 on their own H Tapes imprint. We’ve always wanted to reissue it for more ears, and happily that day has come. A staggering hour-long descent into frenzied depths of overdriven riffing, drum abuse, and distortion psychosis that seems to get inexplicably more and more lo-fi as it grinds on, this is what the teenage garage bands of America in our dreams sound like (not far off from a wasted, rawer Heavy Winged). Sloppy, shredding, surreal, sick, and stupid in equal parts, NASA at the height of their Epcot Center-based powers are nothing if not a shining example of low/high/no-art primitivism in its most gutter and uncut form. Take it or leave it. Pro-dubbed and imprinted tapes in silver-misted cases with full-color wood grain/bejeweled artwork designed by Amanda. Hand-numbered edition of 100. ” -nnf
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Sean McCann “Frame of Mind” cassette $6
“Sean McCann hardly needs introduction around here after having delivered his breathtaking album ‘Sway’ on Stunned in summer ‘08. One might initially assume ‘Frame of Mind’ to be a simple continuation of last year’s highwater mark. But mere seconds into this c38, we’re affirmed that these freshest of Sean’s crops are in the grip of a holy orbit unconcerned with what has come before. This is his transition from occupying a seat in the symphony to tapping the conductor’s wand at the podium. Opening night’s hush and poise is palpable as the framework’s magnitude is unfurled against a hazed rainbow canopy. Then, the presentation of some massive whirling chrysanthemum emitting gold-flecked clouds of brass vibrato, chamber orchestra drone, bowed strings, and vast fields of guitar & synth sun worship. Every time Sean dips his ladle into the pool of higher soundstates we pay attention. On ‘Frame of Mind’ he seems to have dropped in the deepest bucket he could find. Let’s drink up. Hand numbered edition of 120 pro-dubbed & imprinted c38 tapes in melon shells with double-sided color jcard.” -stunned
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Albero Rovesciato “Ancient Shining Drums of the Covered City” cassette $6
“Albero Rovesciato’s members Francesco Cavaliere & Marco Lampis are native to the mystic isles off Italy but now they roam Berlin, presumably because they have smashed all the percussion instruments in their homeland. All we know is we’re glad we located them with some remaining objects and intact drums, because few troupes can make us simultaneously smile with delight and scamper for cover when they rev up like this. Cavaliere & Lampis emerge from the badass Italian sound collective Phonorama, so we know they mean business once they open their trick bags and begin spilling out wares of leftfield musique concrete & cybertimes junkyard gamelan. Before-and-after shots of their performance spaces provide evidence that a typical Albero live action reduces much of their tools to splinters & powder. This isn’t to imply that things are sloppy, however. Not for a second. Crystal recording fidelity on ‘Ancient Shining Drums’ benefits the wheezing-blurting-whacking fits of OCD voodoo, ensuring that we have never heard chaos sound so lean & tangible before. Marco puts it best when mentioning he & Francesco’s desire “to escape from pedals and digital effects, to approach and find material contact with the instruments, to arrive at PYRAMID LEVEL.” Hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes in blood red shells, insert card, and double-sided color jcard. ” -stunned records
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social junk/kraken fury split cassette $6
split cassette on husk records. sold out from source
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Driphouse “Axe” cassette $6
“The “Axe” release strays from the formula of the Night-People blue-shade trilogy. More digital sequencer featuring analog electric guitar from the Raccoo-oo-oon alumni. Arpeggiator meditation.” -gel tapes
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treetops “deep purple infinity” cassette (belgium import) $8
“the 80’s healing scene has found ressurection in the body of ARBOR head MIKE POLLARD aka TREETOPS. soothing tunes for a new step into the self. i don’t know if anyone remembers AEOLIAH, but this album made me think about his psychological new age meditation pieces a lot. this IASOS affilate made music for a healthy living ™. TREETOPS steps on this path as well, but travels more out there, more vague. synthesized sounds of a new beginning surrounded by the crunch of the media. deep inside this tape, the message of healing is encoded. if psychotronics is a new genre of music, this guy is one of the portholes to the genre’s heart.” -bread and animals
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Valet “Naked Acid” LP $12
“Naked Acid is the second solo release from Portland artist Valet, aka Honey Owens. She states: “These songs were Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, semi-conscious dream states and the idea of one’s dna code being accessed as eternal memory. I started off with the idea to make a ‘songs’ record but it really didn’t turn out that way. Instead the record became it’s own story. Track one is a static beach journey duet with Adrian Orange, and tracks 3, 4 and 5 are collaborations with Mark Evan Burden (Silentist) on drums.” From the gentle narcotic haze of the album opener “We Went There,” which is dissected by Honey’s trademark incendiary guitar work, to the lazy alien country blues of “Fuck It,” and through the hyperventilating rhythmic distortion of the closer “Streets,” Naked Acid is a fever dream of ghostly incantation and smudged psychedelia.” – marriage records
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Magic Lantern “High Beams” LP $14
“After far, far too long lost in the merch-less dark, the LBC’s most married band, Magic Lantern, finally beam down the blinding full-length psych-statement we always knew they had hidden inside. It only took the Southern California sector a single 5-song demo plus a handful of incense-dense komische live flights to fully fall under the spell of ML’s oncoming headlights, but now the rest of the globe can hop on the band’s wild wagon. Hold on. High Beams throws out the total 20-sided die of the their illuminative powers, from stomping, storming show staples like “Deathshead Hawkmoth” and “Vampires In Heat” through to Sun Araw-vibed chime trancers (“Feasting On Energy”) and even a good time acid-addled feedback boogie (“Cactus Raga”). These are all of the Lanterns’ classic long-form anthems, captured in glorious high-def thanks to Bobb Bruno’s attuned production/recording capabilities and a radiant mastering job courtesy of James Plotkin. The riffs rip, the drums destroy, and the organ burns a hole in the sun. Walk into the light. Black vinyl LPs (with full color center labels) in glossy jackets with flag photography by Cameron & Erica Stallones, plus a fried-eyed, full-color 11×17 poster. Edition of 500.” -nnf
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quetzolcoatl – “up and down dream valley thruway” cassette $7
“Cassette reissue of a cdr that come out a while back on American Grizzly, slightly re-edited for this tape version… Quetzolcoatl is the solo project of Timothy Hurley who runs the awesome Leaf Trail label, and also plays in another two great bands Bonecloud and Ixchel… Previous Quetzolcoatl releases have been on Ikuisuus and (VxPxC)’s Phanto Limb Recordings. Awesome almost tribal drone blurring almost in a kinda folk vibe… very psychedelic… and damn good! Limited to 50 copies, Lilac tapes, and beautiful full colour sleeves designed by Tim.” -blackest rainbow
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Trauma “The Calming Effects of the Ocean vol. 2” cassette $6
“Part 2 of the 6-part series on Fag Tapes, Arbor, Holy Cheever, Tapeworm, and Am Tapes. Strange sea of furious percussive guitar and thundering drums. Eventually becomes a single, soothing wave of energy. Riggs/Hall continue to deliver basement insanity. Full-color fold out art. Edition of 70” -exbx tapes
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hellvete “een duvelse zak is nooit gevuld” cassette $9 (belgium import)
“Evil Silvester Anfang boggart passing the gate to the Other World, sucking Lilith’s breasts on stones of fire while conjuring peacocks of pure form. Flowerpower romance of 80 copies.” -sloow tapes
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The North Sea “Elixir” cassette $6
“Brand new solo offering from Brad Rose finds him at his absolute heaviest, drawing inspiration from recent studies of African history: “The House of Kinlaza was formed from the dynasty started by King Alvaro VI. The Kinlaza came to power by overthrowing the House of Kimpanzu, which had occupied the throne from Garcia I’s overthrow until Alvaro’s ascension. The Kinlaza continued to rule Kongo until its civil war, when Kimpanzu and Kinlaza kings occupied or claimed the throne.” This compliments the new Ajilvsga tape very nicely.” -abandon ship
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peter broderick “ten duets”cassette $6
“there’s not a lot left to say about peter broderick. after a number of incredible albums on type, tours across the globe solo and with efterklang – the dude has already gone places at an early age most of us only dream. score one for the good guys, then. “ten duets” is exactly what it sounds like. each track is a duet between two different instruments – sometimes improvised, sometimes composed, but always absolutely stunning. instrumentation includes violin, banjo, mandolin, guitar, piano, voice, field recordings, & more. it’s a beautiful document showing another side of broderick’s immense talent. edition of 300 pro-dubbed tapes.”- digitalis
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Eternal Tapestry “Altar of Grass” cdr $6
“Eternal Tapestry is a psych super-group. It features Nick Bindeman (Jackie-O Motherfucker, Tunnels) on guitar/vocals, Jed Bindeman (Heavy Winged, Bloodbiker) on drums, Dewey Mahood (Jackie-O Motherfucker, Plankton Wat, Bloodbiker) on guitar as well as Bob Jones (Evolutionary Jass Band, Oregon Artifical Limb Co., Fruitface) on bass. This planet rock element released last year by Solar Commune and Hyperblasted Recordings proudly presents its reissue. Keeping the original artwork and making a new style layout (by KENO), presenting a new visual of their music. Planets and rock. Space and music. Psychedelic. Words. Words. Words. Trying to describe the vibes of Eternal Tapestry. Difficult. Let their music speak. It’s easier.” -hyperblasted
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(VxPxC) “Stoned To Death” cdr $7
“(VxPxC) are an LA trio that skillfully and seamlessly blend multiple styles from psych, drone, pop, shoegaze, dislocated rock and the undescribable to create an evolved entity, a beautiful “otherworldly being” presented in the form of a hand crafted cd.They create music projected straight from the heart with the purest of intentions and the simple joy of playing and releasing music they are passionate about. “Stoned To Death” is a new life (in all regards) among the forest of cassettes, CD-rs and countless future LPs and CDs to be released by this trio. Here they are creating worlds within worlds within worlds within worlds……The sounds are from a distant universe, never our own. They are neither reality nor dream but of some deeper primitive expression that flows from the core of your spirit and rattles it about with pinches of hope, melancholy and out of body explorations.” -leaf trail
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Residual Echoes “Phoenician Flu And Ancient Ocean” LP $12
“Phoenecian Flu And Ancient Ocean is another seething mish-mash of psychedelia, krautrock and free-noise– the perfect follow-up to last year’s highly regarded self-titled debut LP. Partially self-recorded and partially recorded in the studio, Phoenecian Flu and Anciet Ocean is full of absolutely staggering material. The endless riff-santiy of “Death Comes for the Archbishop” is followed by billowing smoke, then a fuzzy-wuzzy pop number that finally shoots itself when the smell of smoke turns out to be an amp that was on far too loud for far too long. That piece of reverbed noise insanity might’ve been all were it not for the depraved psychedelic dub and Monoshock tribute that follows. Odes to the acoustic guitar and former gods of the six-string close the album. What does it sound like? Everything and nothing, baby.” -holy mountain
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U.S. Girls “Introducing…” LP $12
“If the alluring moniker used by Megan Remy conjures images of volleyball teams or cheerleading squads, forget it. Not that there’s any doubt that Remy–sorry, U.S. Girls–couldn’t rise and conquer either challenge. Like fellow DIY ingenues Sally Strobelight and Inca Ore, U.S. Girls’ approach is deceptively ethereal and delightfully haunting; lithe, lysergic gamma rays of keyboard murk beamed over percussive bonk sort of resemble Diamanda Galas reinterpreting Suicide’s Red Star. And dig that cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Prove It All Night,” done in such an effortless, barbital lush you’d swear the air was filled with mescaline. Guess what? It’s not.” -siltbreeze
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La Otracina “Blood Moon Riders” LP $12
“Don’t be fooled by the King Diamond-style logo. This liberation of inverted progressive surf rock from psychedelic epithets plays like a fan-fiction account of Dick Dale’s meeting with Sonny Sharrock at Amon Dueuel II’s rehearsal space to discuss the “post-rock” epidemic. Unlike so many other instrumental soundtrack bands who employ ho-hum, choose-your-own-adventure tactics, La Otracina sticks to the rails of their own twisting corkscrews and spine-snapping dives. This work does not lend itself to the standard-fare apathy of background music. Blood Moon Raiders is its own ride, with its own ticket, and the doors are locked after take-off. Pinch some headphones to your dome and situate the rest of your form into a beanbag as you navigate the fibrous landscape of a black-light poster. The tracks flow from a subtle new-age contingency to violent bouts with Laotian street gangs. Remember to pack a sack lunch and strap on a machete before mounting this electric buck-bot. Don’t fret–the intention has always been to crack open your skull or drown you.” -holy mountain
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Bee Mask/Skin Graft split cassette $6
“one side each from this pair of young Cleveland noise masters. the Bee Mask side features sporadic appearances by Nate Scheible on drums, taking Bee Mask’s usual shimmering sheets of sound to exciting new worlds. Skin Graft’s side delivers, with all the crackling pulsations, burnt drifts, and shattered voices this dude evokes so well.” -teen action
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RAGLANI- “CLASSICALLY SPRAINED” cassette $6
“Joe Raglani has been creating music in St. Louis for years, with one of the keenest ears for space and form as well as a deep dedication to detail. His organic arrangements evoke the sort of feeling that any great work does, allowing a glimpse into the artist’s inspiration at the time of creation. “Classically Sprained” is no exception; worked and reworked from an innumerable amount of sources (modular synth, banjo, horn, voice, piano, and more), every placement is deliberate, nothing feels out of place or excessive. One of Raglani’s most uplifting releases to date; some songs exist on borderline pop territories, while still ripe with a modern take on a Berlin School sense of composition and Eluvium-esque emotive sensibilities. An ineffably great album; together with his recent Kranky record certifying a singular take on music-making; contemporary bedroom composition of the finest quality. In an edition of 150 tapes with full color cardstock covers and printed labels.” -arbor infinity
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EXERCISE- “FIELD OF DREAMS” cassette $6
“Chicago duo Exercise, comprised of Brett Naucke (Faceworker/Catholic Tapes) and Mike Pollard (Treetops/Arbor) find themselves at their most focused yet. Dual analog synthesizers in perfect harmony evoke a filmic sense of stasis; light and airy textures existing with an acute sense of high-mid range concentration. Soft pleasure and light contemplation; recorded in the middle of Chicago winter where the grey skies are as bright and glaring as the sun on a clear day. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color cardstock covers and printed labels.” -arbor infinity
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Bee Mask “Hyperborean Trenchtown” LP $13
“I think Chris Madak was born after impact in a car crash, and his Hyperborean Trenchtown will enter the world in a similar fashion. The album resonates a future sound vision that can only come from an old soul destined to further pave the paths laid by electronic and minimalist pioneers. Thorough audio examinations covering every facet of sound/tone property as a whole will reveal astonishing new layers listen after listen. Undeniably pure processes of creating and sustaining sound visually, sonically and otherwise brings a mathematical and scientific accuracy that hasnt been seen since the days of Lovely Music Ltd. or GRM. The album’s two side-long cuts are divided into two displays of versatility with varied sound sources including amplified acoustic instruments, hand-made electronics, phonography, and more. Brilliant textures and audio hallucinogenic time/space wormholes create infinite listening possibilities for this album. Few albums can create such a disorienting tunnel that it sounds as if the record has multiple albums locked within itself — you can hear these sounds and interpret them in so many ways that only time can unlock its many possibilities. Great albums only gain significance and this is surely no exception. Listen to this record on your turntable and stop time completely or melt into the past or the future with it — your choice. — John Elliott” -weird forest
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fletcher pratt “mind gunk vol. 14” c60 cassette $6
“when you’ve got 13 previous installments of a series under your belt, you obviously know what you’re doing. fletcher pratt’s “mind gunk” series is definitely no exception. as with previous beasts, vol. 14 is an epic maze of tape collage, synth sprigs, acoustic skronk and general analog chaos. it’s all over the map and you’re likely to lose your head along the way, but isn’t a little fun always worth the risk? limited to 40 copies with random covers.” -digitalis
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Drunjus/Xiphiidae split cassette $6
“Guided smoke in 7 chapters. A word could be said about Atlantis, or self-discovery giving way to cosmic redemption and earthly mystery. Edition of 88” -housecraft
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Cyquoia/The Qoast split cassette $6
“Cyquoia pensively gather glowing leaves fallen from a grove of yesterday’s trees, once overlooked, now startling. All systems invert and explode at the industrious hands of side Qoast. edition of 44” -housecraft
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P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.- “NARC GRIND / I CAME HERE TO DIE” CASSINGLE $4.50
“Recently formed LA skate punk crew, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. consisting of Britt from Robedoor/Not Not Fun and 2/3rd’s of Black Black bring two quick tracks utilizing SoCal sunshine vibes, skateboards, and a “fuck authority” attitude. Dr. Pepper and scab fueled thrash: grind the pigs; skate or die. Jam this tape on repeat at yr favorite skate spot; positive negativity. In an edition of 75 tapes in cassingle style O card sleeves with black and white art/tape labels by the band.” – arbor
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TREETOPS / WALTER CARSON- split cassette $6.50
“Recent Treetops zones since relocation to NY have seen deeper focus into keyboard exploration. Presenting here two heavy, focused slabs separated by a brief meditation. Always in a process of self contemplative progress: the product of living ten stores above the never quiet street. Darryl Cook’s Walter Carson project has been spot on for years., creating a confusing haze of synthesized ambience and heavy acoustic clatter through bows and junk abuse; slowly melting into blessed,zoned deep repetition. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color art and tape labels.” – arbor
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Mudboy “Eno Trouble/Midiwards/Happy Birthday Song” cassette $6.50
“‘Blocky critters jam up in the webs in my ma’s bakelite every once in a while. She tell me I ought to investigate so I brung my earphones and muffled the two-step gothgroove. Check it out!’ -Valhalla. Edition of 100 on purple shells with full-color artwork.” -goaty tapes
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SKY LIMOUSINE “backs to the future” cassette $6
new tape on fag tapes
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DREAMERS CLOTH “MARBLE HALLS/ ENDLOS REICHENBERGER SCHORLE POOL” cassette $6
released on future sound recordings
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DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE “voyage shopibo coast” cassette $8 (belgium import)
released on pacific city
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TEN THOUSAND THINGS- “CROOKED ON CHROME” cassette $6
“Heavy mechanized factory zones, synthetic industrial murk: this collaborative project between East Coast mainstays Geoffrey Mullen (of the Rare Youth label) and Scott Reber (aka Work/Death) reveals a polyphonic wasteland. Covered under layers of tape sludge and deep bass exists a synthesized ambiance, eerie like dark nights in the warehouse district. In an edition of 100 tapes printed on silver cardstock with tape labels. ” -arbor
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andrew coltrane “DMT shadow” cassette $6
“coltrane weaves another mess on top of the rotting remains of last night’s leftovers. “DMT shadow” is a drill straight to your frontal lobe. entirely blown out with axxe, ring mod, & delay, AC is on digging tunnels to china and spewing up molten lava and space dust like it’s going out of style fast. a total headfuck. edition of 75 copies, pro-dubbed with dirt & spice.”- digitalis
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AC/The Mossy Throats “Feral Twins” cassette $6
“Me n’ AC’s split tape of ??? sound. AC side are two heavy stalag slabs of archival analog synth. Gnarly and heavy and just not moving. Mossy side is extra slow room tape loops and home-made electronics sit in the window and just hang like some plants. A total nowhere zone! Edition of 50, w/full-color fold out art.” -exbx tapes
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andrew coltrane “the os innominatum” cassette $6
“Downer-style minimal basement drone environs from Andrew Coltrane, some of his most ‘vacated’ sounding electro-acoustic sorcery and the perfect marriage of the Hermitage and Fag Tapes aesthetics. What could be better? Hand-numbered edition of 77 copies.” -fag tapes
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Disappears “Live Over the Rainbo” cassette $6
“If you missed picking up the limited tour CD-R from Chicago’s next-big-thing in underground rock, Plustapes has got your back! Re-pressed on your favorite Ludditian medium – the irreplaceable cassette tape – Live Over the Rainbo captures Disappears’ stellar live show from 10/26/08. Encapsulating that moment when post-punk first took notice of the power soaring electric guitars can have and slowly morphed its sound into what we now lovingly called shoegaze, it’s tough not to get caught up in Disappears’ subterranean grooves! Prepare yourself now, because we have a feeling 2009 is going to be a big year for these Chicagoans.” -plus tapes
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BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI “Stamini Stamina” cassette $8 (UK import)
“French duo of Charles and Janin, totally wild I don’t really know what to say about it… crazy jams and total insanity, i’m not sure these guys sound like anyone else right now… like some kinda kraut noise destruction… Limited to 100.” -blackest rainbow
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Ryan Garbes – “Shit Education” cassette $6.00
“Garbes is back at it, blown over saturated tape punk psychosis, harsh head psych fusion rippers, another slab of destroyed rock greatness. This one even more catchy then the last. Like listening to your guts fall out on the floor while some rockers annihilate a house party in the background. Totally a sound of its own, influenced by all the greats with deluxe double sided silkscreened fold out covers by the man himself.” -night people
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Neon Tempal – “Midnight Moods ” cassette $6
“Neon Tempal is Pascal Nicholas solo project, currently centered in Lyon France, this central England transplant spent times in groups like Stuckometer, Cars etc. Midnight Moods is centered around Pascal’s intimate, intense, and immediate drumming, and improvised percussion generated soundscapes. Occasional vocals and an assortment of other instruments come into the mix, but the feeling of live immediate playing is always at the forefront. Fans of the Actual Series of BYG LP’s take note.” -night people
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XRay Eyeballs “s/t” cassette $6
“XRay Eyeballs is OJ and Carly (from NYC rockers Golden Triangle) new drum machine driven dark punk project. Bathed in reverb, low fi sheen, and weirdo grit, XRay Eyeballs sounds like two drifter kids covered in makeup and glitter trying to escape a dead city skyline proclaiming there love for each other as the world just passes them by. Creeped out and charming all at once. If the world died but the songs kept playing. Artwork by SDREED.” -night people
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TREETOPS- “PERMISSION / WHEN I WAS YOUNGER” LP $12
“Spirited youth and the intense magnification of focused energies chart the recent zones for Treetops. Utilizing tapes, casio keyboards, vocals and a variety of other sources, the path to earth bound nature drone is firmly rooted in electricity. Like the combination of the glacial drifts of massive rocks and the movements of air, the sources meld into blissed out meditative drones: ceremonial music rising into the future to get out of the past. Infinite ancients; constantly progressing, constantly evolving. Mastered by Pete Swanson (D. Yellow Swans); in an edition of 300 copies in proprinted foldover sleeves featuring photography by Kyle Parker (Infinite Body). The B-Side features a remastered and extended version of the “When I Was Younger” 2xc10 (arbor69) from last winter.” -arbor
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Eternal Tapestry “spring 2009 tour” cdr $6
self released tour cdr, only available from DNT (and from them of course, catch them on tour if you can!) *the cdr and tape have DIFFERENT music/recordings*
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Eternal Tapestry “Mystic Induction” cdr $6
solar commune cdr reissue of out of print LP. limited
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Eternal Tapestry “Vibrations New Dawn” cdr $6
solar commune cdr reissue of out of print notnotfun cassette. limited
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sagas/plankton wat split cdr $6
solar commune cdr. limited
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evan miller/taiga remains split cassette $6
“recently, two of the most meticulous and well crafted ambient/drone workers paired up here for a perfectly balanced split. evan’s side is flawless lap-steel/micro cassette piece. as is becoming his trade swelling and peaceful waves underneath with fluttering and sparse movement on top. alex’s side is a bit darker. a slower pace, more obscured and abstract, haunting or foreboding. ideal for your changing mood.” -callow god
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Area C “Darkens The Mind” C50 cassette $9 (belgium import)
“A fountain of sounds opening a gateway beyond the mist of time and most likely not going to bring you back home before dark. 100 copies.” -sloow tapes
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Sean McCann/Ajilsvga split cassette $6
part of the skull bundle series on digitalis. not available anywhere else!
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Sean McCann “Midnight Orchard” cassette $6
“Side A holds a chorus of bowed strings played at half speed. One 40 minute tune followed by a five minute wake up call. Side B holds sixteen sideways country iterations and looped mellow underground tones.” -roll over rover
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16 BITCH PILE-UP/MIKE SHIFLET “Make Like a Fetus and Abort/Extract, Behold” split LP $12
Edition of 500. “Ohio has been rampant on the Ecstatic Peace play lists lately with the release of a long player earlier this year by Leslie Keffer and a forthcoming split LP by Emeralds and Tusco Terror. Like Keffer, who’s moved to Nashville (to be closer to Be Your Own Pet), 16 Bitch Pile-Up and Mike Shiflet are both ex-pats of Ohio. 16 Bitch to California and Shiflet to some weird small town in Japan. Mike Shiflet we’ve known for years as he has produced some of the more interesting tapes and whatnot of Midwestern out-ness from his Gameboy label and from his legendary duo tour with Burning Star Core/C. Spencer Yeh of a few years back. Like the amazing beard he has sported since childhood, his music is a free-fall of acoustic wonder. He is also the cat responsible for turning on most of the world to the radical charms of three girls from Ohio wickedly named 16 Bitch Pile-Up. With a name like that you may have expected something just kinda funny but what made itself imminently obvious was that 16 Bitch was really and extremely into producing a wholly personal thrombosis of noise improvisation. Crystallized to the trio of Sarah Bernat, Sarah Cathers and Shannon Walter, this trio has become one of the most consistently exciting live experiences of the last five years. These recordings by both artists were done when both were still residents of Ohio and reflect that time and space right before each other’s exodus. They are raw and righteous and ready for you to take a bite.” -ecstatic peace
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Antique Brothers “Season’s Feast” cassette $6.50
“You don’t need a cassette description to school you on the knowledge that blood is thicker than water, but if that’s what it takes to make the lesson stick, so be it. Or, if you want a shortcut, just peruse the discography of Connecticut-bred brothers Cy and Ged Gengras. They’ve been harvesting jams together under the Antique Bros banner for, shit, almost four years now, and in that span have trawled through a thousand different hybrid strains (creep-folk, math-psych, chaos improv, etc). But the inter-family familiarity hasn’t bred contempt (take THAT, old proverb); on the contrary it’s spawned a secret psychic/musical language the rest of us ain’t privy to. And, despite a hefty local bias (Ged’s an LA/NNF hero, drums for Pocahaunted, Robedoor, AND Vibes), we can still say with honesty and confidence that Season’s Feast is easily our fave Antique B full-length to date. The ragers are dense and bearded, the acoustic passages evocative and hazy, the ambient lulls sticky as fresh resin. There’s a flow and a focus here that’s rare within the AB discog, and it makes for more meat on the bones, more flames in the fire. If yr already a fan, you’re in luck; and if you’re new to the Antique canon, THIS is the place to start. Pro-dubbed tapes with hand-typed/stamped labels in bags with full-color art by Amanda. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Naked on the Vague “Blood Pressure Sessions” LP $12
“Lucy Phelan and M.P. Hopkins hail from Sydney, Australia. Behind a basic framework of keyboard, bass, and vocals (and all manner of tinkered-with percussion) Naked on the Vague’s distinct aggregate of sound calls to mind everything from SPK to Mars and beyond. Or, as they’re fond of calling them in Philly, “the Death Star version of Times New Viking.” Originally released in 2007 on CD by the fearless Australian Dual Plover label, The Blood Pressure Sessions ventures into a darker realm than their debut 7-inch (also on Dual Plover) had erroneously suggested. Propelled by the sharp, rhythmic snare drum beat and anchored by thunderous, fuzzed bass-lines and stinging, swinging organ and synth fills, Phelan and Hopkins take turns rounding out the vocal duties, giving the whole of their sound a sonorous curtain of ecstatic foreboding. Betraying a gallows wit, the band refers to their music as “apocalyptic pop,” which could be construed as both drowning and waving. Coming from the label that brought the world both The Dead C and Shadow Ring, Naked On The Vague is a perfect fit in the Siltbreeze discography.” -siltbreeze
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henry kuntz – speed of culture light” 4Xcassette boxset (belgium import/extremely rare) $30
“an insight in the light of a free spirit. in the 70’s, Henry was the editor and publisher of the internationally acclaimed newletter BELLS. his first musical output dates from 1977, when he played tenor saxophone on HENRY KAISER’s album Ice Death. since the early 80’s, Henry started to focus on solo music, using instruments like saxophone, flutes, musette, violins, gamelan, rhaita, etc. in 1986, he formed the free jazz troupe OPEYE. Henry ran the beautiful HUMMING BIRDS recordlabel, on which he produced several lp’s, cassettes and cd releases of solo and group improvisations. Speed Of Culture Light is a retrospective boxset (with material ranging from 1980 until present day) and shows a wide and varied collection of free jazz jams, solo improvisations and beautiful 6-track meditations. in 2008, we will release a compilation album of the HUMMING BIRD EARTH SERIES cassettes, wich was a series of 5 ethnographic tapes recorded by Henry in Bali, Mexico, Bolivia, and Guatemala between 1985 and 1991. — factory dubbed tapes. comes in full color covers and in a plastic box. also included are extensive liner notes by mr Kuntz himself.” -bread and animals
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White Rainbow “Prism of Eternal Now” 2XLP $18
“With the release of …Eternal Now, White Rainbow has surpassed typical solo project territory and is now a virtual elemental force. At a somewhat brief 71 minutes, his kranky debut pulses and flows with mantric chants, clattering percussions, sighing sustains and guitar leads unashamed of their scorching transcendence. He breathes new life into archaic sub-genres such as progrock, new age, and hippie folk incantations, while never stooping to the negative aspects of any of them, and at the same time remaining a step ahead of the technologically crippled and virtuosuo-less looper pedal scene. Prism of Eternal Now leaves behind the bounds of gravity for a free floating meditational headtrip of inner space exploration.” – marriage records
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la otracina “gardens of blackness” cassette $6
“pretty stoked to finally be dropping a bomb from la otracina, one of my absolute faves from the past few years. these brooklynites know how to bring in it in all forms from all directions. “gardens of blackness” is everything you’d hope it was: heady dark drones that flirt with the world of metal more than ever. drummer/vocalist adam kriney let’s go on the a-side, hollering and wailing like tomorrow’s nothing but a distant dream. other times you end up dredging up some serious murk from the bottom of the pool. hints of tape collage come out of nowhere and eventually it mellows out for a pretty even high. it’s cohesive and all over the map all at the same time, definitely showcasing their new direction since their last record on holy mountain.” – digitalis
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Expo ’70 “White Ohms” cassette $6
“Space effortlessly drifts and FX-riddled loner folk jams glisten in its wake. “-peasant magik
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Sun Araw “Beach Head” LP $14 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Sun, surf, and self-hypnosis: all the core particles for a perfect Pacific zone dream-day/daydream. And Beach Head is the soundtrack, in case you were wondering. Hot on the heels of May’s masterful coconut-dub Boat Trip EP comes Magic Lantern-bearer Cameron Stallones’ latest loner luau under the Sun Araw umbrella, and it’s an equatorial escape of the highest order. Unlike his NNF debut, The Phynx, Beach Head drops the drones and cosmic distortion (for the most part) in favor of slippery banana peel smoke stacks, undulating tropical hallucinations, and crystal/coastal moods. Waves, rare birds, and swaying palms cameo in the background. Across the LP’s four snaky rhythm reveries Stallones maps a loose, blissed void of voice, island bass-lines, and shimmering sunset electricity, inviting all to drift in and float on. It’s a total hit parade, top to bottom, might as well glue it to the turntable and weld the whole rig into yr yellow convertible and park that shit in the sand. Fans of Ducktails, imaginary Jimmy Buffet demos, and long walks on the beach will sleep easy on this grass mat. Black vinyl LPs in matte jackets, plus a pro-printed 11×11 insert, with artwork by head beacher C. Stallones. Edition of 420.” -nnf
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Mythical Beast “Scales” LP $13
“One of our favorite covens comes home to roost; break out the champagne/goat’s blood. We’ve long been fans-turned-fanatics of nomadic power trio Mythical Beast’s burned-out blackened sabbath songs, but even our mountainous expectations for their long-awaited debut were toppled by the reality of Scales’ reptile alchemy. Financed by Greg Weeks of Espers and tracked in a legit East Coast studio on generous banks of sick vintage gear, this 8-song LP is the aesthetic culmination of nearly four years of tours, trials, and twilit travels to the heart of the heart of the country. The results rip. Drone-ballad classics from their haunting 2006 demo like “Cycle/Circle” and “Chaos Spinner” reappear here in freshly realized forms, alongside a hefty handful of brand new tunes, ranging from quaking soul vox torch trancers to ritual string psych-rock skeletons. All pressure points are hit. The M Beast white magic wonder wheel is alive and hell-bound. Easily the high point in a discography already full of highs. Transparent yellow (streaked with black) vinyl LPs housed in glossy jackets with a pro-printed 11×11 insert. Edition of 500. ” -nnf
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Cloudland Canyon / Lichens “Exterminating Angel” collab. LP $13
“This collaboration between the mellow, Memphis-meets-Germany duo of Kip Uhlhorn and Simon Wojan (a.k.a. Cloudland Canyon) and Chicago’s great rock ‘n’ roll concierge and knower-of-mystics Mr. Robert Lowe (a.k.a. Lichens) was born on a trip to the West Coast of the United States a few years ago. Exterminating Angel’s single 30-minute track uses voice, guitar, samplers, and ARP synthesizer. You’ve heard of the unmade science fiction epic whose would-be director proposed using different big-name progressive bands to perform a soundtrack for specific planets used in the script; here then are the sounds accompanying a spacecraft that’s a combination Death Star and Taco Bell from the 1970s filled with cement Mayan temples and pyramids populated by large, snappily dressed reptilian beings. Every so often a bell goes off to break the spell and presents convincing evidence of this record’s special journey.” -holy mountain Exterminating Angel mp3
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Six Organs of Admittance “RTZ” 3XLP $21
“An immense 3LP retrospective from Ben Chasny’s Six Organs Of Admittance, making his hard-to-find turn of the century recordings available once more. All the music compiled here is derived from non-album sources, collated from releases like 2000’s Time Lag split with Charalambides (‘Resurrection’), the 2003 Vibracathedral Orchestra joint release on Mental Telemetry (‘Warm Earth, Which I’ve Been Told’) and 2002’s ‘You Can Always See The Sun’ from the Three Lobed subscription series. The music from this period segues between cosmic drone, ephemeral clatter and downright alien exoticism in which Chasny riffs on Eastern harmonics and instrumentation with an effortless fluency. As ever, his immense guitar chops line every recording, well and truly setting Chasny apart from his peers. The final selection on the first disc, compiled under the banner Punish The Chasms With Wings, draws on material recorded between 1998 and 2001, unearthing Six Organs output that’s hitherto never been released in any shape or form. The final phase proves to be especially of note, revealing Chasny’s supernaturally florid fingerpicking style, taking a highly original, more left-hand intensive slant on the Takoma sound that was to undergo a resurgence in popularity not long after these recordings were made. The second disc is taken up by the supremely rare Nightly Trembling album, initially released as a lathe cut in an edition of just 33 copies in 1999. Time Lag reissued the album in 2004, but it’s only now, thanks to this Drag City release that this music is likely to remain widely available in the public domain. The thirty-seven-minute long-player opens triumphantly with a sublime nineteen-minute voyage (whose title reflects that duration: ‘Redefinition Of Being Featuring Creation Aspects Earth, Air, Water’) into bluegrass otherness, fusing American and Brit folk influences into a single majestic tract. When compiled as a single, expansive volume, this epic of Tascam fourtrack ingenuity becomes a remarkably cogent statement – a blueprint for the deluge of bedroom psychedelia and homespun avant-folk that’s since come to permeate the sounds of contemporary Americana. Excellent.” -drag city
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Sleep “Sleep’s Holy Mountain” LP $15
“Setting heavy metal’s evolutionary clock back to the stone-age days of Saint Vitus with their debut Volume One was seemingly not enough for San Jose’s Sleep, who decided to time travel all the way back to the pre-historic days of earliest Black Sabbath with their second album, 1993’s Sleep’s Holy Mountain. Indeed, while Kyuss’ Blues for the Red Sun and Monster Magnet’s Spine of God are more frequently cited as the most influential and important albums in launching the American stoner/doom metal scene, not even these landmark releases compare to Holy Mountain for sheer devotion to unadulterated doom and copious weed consumption. In fact, as monolithic opener “Dragonaut” descends into a bass solo at its conclusion, one would be forgiven for expecting the band to segue straight into “N.I.B.” — such is their similarity to classic Sabbath. Instead, they grind into “The Druid,” which despite a quick nod to the Sabs’ “Electric Funeral,” actually begins to establish Sleep’s personality, as riff upon massive riff in the form of songs like “Evil Gypsy/Solomon’s Theme” and the groove-heavy “Aquarian” flow from the speakers like molten lava. In an age of machine-gun double-bass drums, Sleep’s most startling quality had to be their seemingly endless patience. As they slowly embark upon the mammoth power chords of the title track and “From Beyond,” they also prolong the buildup of tension before delivering a final release of cathartic proportions.” -allmusic review
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Bongo “Live at Sleazy’s” cdr $6
Bongo has members of Ducktails and Predator Vision. released on future sound recordings. some of the best music I’ve heard this year
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The Futurians – Untitled Space Junk – Cassette $5
“Punk rock from the year 3000. For who’s already familiar with the band from Dunedin, NZ, you know what to expect: primitive drums, walls of guitar feedbacks, synth-weirdness and vocals dialled directly from Saturn. Amazing. 100 copies, silkscreened.” -8mm
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andrew coltrane “synth tapes vol. 5” cassette $6
“I wish i could remember the first stack of bones from michigan superscuz andrew coltrane, but in the past year or so i’ve been buried under such an epic pile of a.c. fuzz that it’d be near-impossible to figure out where it all began. point is, he is a machine who never sleeps, never eats, i dunno… he just keeps going like his life depends on it. from junkyard electronics to heaps of rotten metal and there and back again, coltrane’s always got new tricks up his sleeve. ‘synth tapes vol. 5’ is exactly what it says it is – the fifth volume in an ongoing exploration of analog sound constructed with only, you guessed it: synths and tapes. the sounds on here are looped and stretched and dragged into pits of black mud. underneath the drowning, though, lives the vaguest and most unexpected hints of melodies and hooks, just enough to fool you and suck you in. next thing you know, you’re tarred and feathered and dreaming of your next root canal. fucken genius. limited to 91 copies, cassette inspired art by stone baby’s cory card.” -digitalis
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pete fosco “autumn fire blues” cassette $6
“our man in ohio knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em cuz on “autumn fire blues,” he’s burning the whole thing into a pile of silken ash. fosco just plain rules. his skill in crafting soaring guitar drones is up there with the best of ’em. “autumn fire blues” takes what he started on last year’s “dust, american dust” and pushes it over the edge and into the abyss. anchors of bleed drip from the ceiling coating everything in a thick layer or crimson bliss. this is music for the last season. music for the last days, to see us off into the heavens as they crumble. pure magic. pete fosco. for life. look for a digi lp later this year. edition of 85 copies, pro-dubbed like solid fucken gold.”- digitalis
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oneohtrix point never “transmat memories” cassette (belgium import) $8
“this audio tape is a leaked document of the MONTAUK research group. DANIEL LOPATIN has been sent over to 6037 A.D. and these are his interpretations of the inscriptions of the pedestal on wich he saw the golden horse. in another time-track, Daniel is also known as Duncan. these are smooth 80’s conspiracy tech vibes. space bleeps. sequencer waves wich would give PETER BAUMANN the goosebumps. and polysynths and electronic thunder storm that will keep the thought of BERNARD SZAJNER alive. this is awesome! O.P.N. also plays in INFINITY WINDOW, together with BLACK EGG Taylor, and is a member of the space research pod ASTRONAUT.” -bread and animals
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Trash Dog “Namaste” cassette $6
“Another blast of scummy low fi thrash/hardcore sludge from Iowa City’s Trash Dog, definitely there best release to date. The quality on this one is an all around step up, short and brutal, with some drifting riff driven annihilation feedback purge finding its way onto the B side. Rolling with a deep lineup of Gretchen, Witscher, Garbes, and Miller, this ultra limited release from fall of 08 needed to find its way around again. Lost mind, fucked life, void gang, shit and failure anthems. Artwork by RGarbes. ” -night people
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Blessure Grave “Unknown Blessure” cassette $6
“Blessure Grave is new blood San Diego folk, goth, post punk, drawing resonance to alot that has come before but they keep it fresh and interesting. A lot of good repetitive hooks on this one with some bleak winter hell, frozen world, dead heart vibes makes for a dark listen. Blessure Grave must have spent some time in the colder northern wastes of the American vastness before ending up in Southern Cal. Tons of output from this prolific group on the horizon, keep yr ears open. Artwork by SDREED. ” -night people
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Tricorn and Queue “Ragged Bright Degrees” cassette $6
“Twilight out-of-body adjustments, stillness in the nervous system. edition of 75” -housecraft
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Blueshift “Ghost Singers 3” cassette $6
“if you haven’t heard any blueshift releases yet, hurry up and pick up the russian tsarlag/ Blueshift split LP! this tape continues her treks into abandoned buildings, opening the suitcases of dust, must and rust, air whipping through violin strings, the sounds of breathing, a real treat. full color art by george w. myers.” -breaking world records
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BIRTH REFUSAL “phantom of the sewer” cassette $6
“Schooner Cove H X C . Jeff Olson and Mike Corvette of Wolf Eyes / Hair Police ect… the music of thrown away souls forced to die in slow motion painfully. hardcore fucking waste zone of rotting death. spectacular sounds! edtion 77.” -fag tapes
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the north sea “almost perfect illusion” cassette $8 (UK import)
“Brad Rose of Digitalis has been busting the North Sea jams for quite sometime, and in the last year or so its developed from being a luscious garden, to a complete metallic desert of industrial waste land, Christian Bale and his co-stars would probably feel at home with this being the soundtrack to the next Terminator flick, and who knows, maybe it will be? The A side, Cyclones, is a pure doom soaked 11 minute beast. Side B’s Milk Money is a fuzz layered nightmare of scolding blowtorches burning at your face and mind… Intense and bleak. Bleak forestry cover art, pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 100 copies” -blackest rainbow
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Ajilvsga “Buffalo Altar” cassette $6
“By now, underground lurkers and cassette junkies should be well familiar with the dark path Oklahoma’s Ajilvsga has trod throughout the past year. On Buffalo Altar, Brad Rose (The North Sea, Digitalis, etc.) and Nathan Young show no sign of letting up as they unleash two intense barrages of overdriven analog synth. Resting comfortably in the red, this is an unsentimental expression of the natural world in all of its primitive, ravaging glory. Full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub.” -anathema sounds
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Sun Araw “The Phynx” LP $15
“All wild, natural organisms have roots, and some even say they’re a good thing to return to from time to time. For instance, right now. In the wake of the jazzed reactions garnered by his Beach Head album and split LP with Predator Vision, today seems as ripe a time as any to re-introduce yrself to chapter one of Cameron Stallones’ Sun Araw saga: The Phynx. Originally released on NNF as a micro-edition CDR in early ’08, this four-song scorcher blinded us the first time ‘round, but now, fully re-mastered by James Plotkin and spread across 12 inches of black vinyl, these raw electric stomping grounds sound positively holy. Our first-time descrip read: “Spanning Spacemen 3 garage cosmos, Starving Weirdos coastal séance, and a healthy stratosphere of pan-dimensional astral feedbackers, The Phynx is a fantastic four-track suite that floats freely from form to formlessness in the blink of a third eye. A great journey into white light dirge and dead distortion blues, and as killer a debut full-length as a label/listener/fan/head could hope for.” All of this rambling was, and remains, true blue. Edition of 500, housed in matte jackets with new back artwork.” -not not fun
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Ashtray Navigations “Use Copenhagen 69 Guitars & Park Drive Effects pedals Exclusively” LP $12
“Ashtray Navigations conjour up a debut LP of atypical extendo psyche smeared skronk.” (1997) -siltrbreeze
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SHEARING PINX/STAMINA MANTIS-Split-7″ $5.25
new 7″ by shearing pinx and stamina mantis. released by reluctant recordings
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STEVE HAUSCHILDT “resplendent” cassette $8 (belgium import)
one of the new lights in synthesizer music which i’m very excited about. giving romance / beauty a place in music again, Steve brings a short contemplation of prose poems. a collection of beautiful incantations and scetches that could be directly channeled from a digitalised, fully updated mind of the Sona Gaia emporium of pretty meditations. Steve also plays in Emeralds.
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DUNCAN CAMERON “s/t” cassette $8 (belgium import)
dolphins into the future side-project. duncan cameron was involved in the Montauk project. he was the medium they used to transmit the brain frequencies. but more important, duncan cameron lived on different timetracks. more than dolphins into the future, this tape focusses on pure / clear synthesizer music and ambient sci fi spheres. but on side b, the timetracks are switched, and one suddenly hears a collage of taped percussion sounds. it’s maybe a sort of organum pondering on persona isolation. only in this case, not the kind of self-implemented isolation to reach for better knowledge of oneself / the others / the mind / mind programs / chrestos / life….
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orphan fairytale “satellites that serve us” 1-sided cassette $9 (uk import/limited)
“After a long wait… the tale finally arrives, one insane trip of moon safari keyz from Belgian Frozen Corpser Eva. One side of pink cassette acid fuelled child like far outness that only the OF can jam so well. One of the most psychedelic-ly far out surreal trips to come out on the label so far, each one comes in individual space covers with a hand numbered black and white insert of crackle screen space weirdness. Limited to 100.” -blackest rainbow
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Ben Nash “Magnetophone 8” 1-sided C60 cassette $9 (belgium import)
“Subterranean substances flipping over into parallel visions of increased awareness. Bringing the aura of inspired nakedness to fruition. Exposing percussion by Brett Womersley. 70 copies.” -sloow tapes
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Ajilvsga/Capricorn Wings- “Rites of the Solemn Ceremonies” cassette $6
“There’s nothin more potent than the movements of our earth. It aint just rumble and rip, it’s a soundin of shift. Some sorter fundamental restructuring of the plates on which we reside. Gives a source of connection. All this time spent treatin the earth like the pit for those of fallen-flesh, we done forget this significance of even havin a motherland. No two bands unearth (haha) this tectonic thunderin more adroitly than Ajilvsga and Capricorn Wings, capturing the hum and thud, the true resonance. No way to explain how, cept maybe they got huge ears as to hear lowness something terrible.” -goaty tapes
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POD BLOTZ “goat rock” cassette $8 (belgium import)
Golden State member and dream encyclopedia Suzy Poling writes a novella of marble textures. at the center of a mystical place called Goat Rock, Suzy creates radiant tunes with a team of reel to reel tapes, voice and electronics. manifestating a full album with both lush vortex dreams, concrete sounds and more crude abstract patterns. Goat Rock is a complete, sparkling liquid mercury bath into a higher level of clean.
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color dream “skywalker” cassette $8 (UK import)BACK IN STOCK!!
“New project from Arbor ruler (aka Treetops) Mike Pollard with former JK Taper, now Mr Young Tapes, Peter Friel… four space related close encounters of the drone kind… sweet and simple, guaranteed to leave you floating somewhere totally cosmic in the outer reaches of mind and space!!! Black and white sleeve and insert designed by the Color Dream boys. Pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 100 copies. ” -blackest rainbow
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lithium dreams “omega prism” cassette $6
“subconscious, deep sleep synth journeys and duck calls channeled through the high priest, omega egg — completely improvised, yet totally fluid; such is the power of the egg. for time travel, magic spells, and webspinning. from the deserts and beaches of space to you. soon, all will bow before the egg. edition of 90, full color covers and glossy labels.” -monorail trespassing
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Mist “Certain Expansion” cassette $7
John Elliot of Emeralds and Sam Goldberg. Released on Pizza Wagon
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UTON – “Attack of the Aether Sun” cassette $6
“Solar mutations heat the core to smoldering white eternal. Doves disintigrate in slow-motion gradiants across a flowering panorama.” -housecraft
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Mossy Throats “Pattern for No-One” cassette $6
“Mossy Throats on TRANCH! About a c70 of metal mediation and brainscan electronics” (member of uneven universe) -trench tpes
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Nautilus “Big Shadow” cassette $6
“Nautilus is NYC based muscian and artist Heidi Diehl’s (Time-Life, WWVV etc) solo musical outlet. Airy landscapes of droning, vibranting, glacial subtlety, and atmopsheric instuermantls blend with decaying walls of sounds, none harsh or overpowering, all flowing in and out of each other in harmony. Voiced over the land, a symetry and wide vision of an endless horizon, drifting, falling and climbing, finding the way and loosing it again. Art by SDReed. ” -night people
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Sky Limousine “Midnight Heat” cassette $6
“New tape from a previous era in J. Burke’s Sky Limo project. Vague white static globs over beautiful tones. Vocal tapes babbling ancient midnight rites. Sky Limousine takes no-fidelity to a strange new place! Full-color fold out art. Edition of 70” -exbx tapes
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emeralds “grass ceiling” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Beginning with a gentle tangle of guitars, Grass Ceiling oozes into a sweet syrup of room tone, dilated chords, and faded, tape-worn ambience. Reminiscent of a murkier Growing or a Nine-Beet Stretch-ified Sonic Youth intro, Emeralds display extreme reverence for their sound sources, giving simple held sounds a gripping presence. The sheer beauty of the first track (all are untitled, if silences signal different tracks) ebbs into the in-the-red rawness of the second, which tops a gritty throb with medievalized chorals straight outta the catacombs of Columbus, only to be defaced by a searing blast of noisy electric heat. The B-side opens with distant helicopter chug and the windy breath of the sacred, its cycles a somber greeting to an ink-black night inhabited by huge, heaving beasts lumbering in the bass frequencies. The breath gathers into near vocals, oddly similar to the scabbiest of black metal hissers, while the motorized pulse devolves into bat-cave sonar blips. The B is full of odd sounds that forgo the monolithic density on A for a more cluttered, frightening sound world, in which the almighty drone is no longer an ecstatic presence—an annihilation of consciousness and invitation to unity—but an indicator of things unknown, worthy of fear and paranoia. ” -stylus magazine review
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Absinthe Minds “The Song Of Returning Light cassette” $6.50
“Every other blue moon or so someone will inquire if we think there’s a unifying trait shared amongst the bands on NNF. The answer given is usually “maybe,” but when it’s “yes” it’s qualified by the opinion that we like hybrid forms of creativity (purity is wack), juxtaposed shit, intermarriages, collage art, etc. Enter Wisconsin’s Absinthe Minds, a great cryptic trio that drive our point home by dripping a uniquely cross-purposes sonic slime from their ragged amps that we’re tempted to term “industrial raga.” Their mode meshes the mechanistic with the mystical, to awesome effect. Negative machines grind beside bubbling cauldrons of steam-psych synth, crystal prism vocals reverberate in cold concrete chambers, naked primitives with closed eyes chant and dance on broken generators in an empty parking garage. Contrast is king and The Song Of Returning Light soundtracks the coronation. Ab Minds’ past tapes found them sprawling with more of an overtly bleak agenda, but here Dead Luke & Co (plus guest GF Zola Jesus on one track) have balanced the darkness with the light (albeit dead grey light) for a sick 6-song C56 of interzone angst and grim zen moods. Like metal dragged across a prayer mat. Namaste, wasteland. Pro-dubbed tapes with hand-painted labels in cases with full-color J-cards designed by Amanda. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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FM3 Buddah Machine II $22
“A unique ‘soundbox’ from China, which is causing senstation worldwide. A totally dazzling item which causes jaw-dropping delight everywhere – Alan Bishop bought twenty-four of these on sight, Brian Eno bought eight (how’s that for apocalyptical math?). FM3 are a duo of Christiaan Virant and Chinese keyboardist and computer musician Zhang Jian – based in Beijing. The Buddha Machine is a hardware loop player, built kind of like a little AM radio (available in 6 different colors, shipped randomly), but without all the nonsense – total genius from out of nowhere. “The Buddha Machine is a small soundbox made in China which comes with an integrated speaker, a volume control, mini jack-out and a switch to choose between nine different loops which are stored on a small chip and can be directly played by this mini soundsystem.”
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THURSTON MOORE/KOMMISSAR HJULER und MAMA BAER split cassette $7
“The bearder flippin his hammer at Pieta or that lady who crinkles up the rosies for a Cy scribble. Institutionalized or I reckon almost slaughtered, I coulda put money on your anxious wish for destruction. But first let’s deconstruct the “song” as this here taper follows a linear narrative from structure to not-structure. – Valhalla.” Edition of 150 on imprinted shells with full color artwork.” -goaty tapes
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IGNATZ “A CANINE AND A KITTEN IN THE CAR” cassette $7
“Despite an insistence on boo damage southernizing I declare and for certain an entanglement of multifocused labors. Ignatz isn’t no blackface minstrel show, there ain’t any reappropriation in the downspook twang. What you’re hearin hollering is the residual concoction of imperial conquest; tropical annexation. It’s an Herbal, by god, with impressionist charm. No yarns on the cracked nut. Find a glow or otherwise “grasp the stalk”. – Valhalla.” Edition of 100 with full color artwork.” -goaty tapes
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Pocahaunted “Gold Miner’s Daughters” cassette $6
“Man, what can I say about our #1 west-coast/east-coast dreamer homegirls that hasn’t already been said by the cavalcade of killer wax and hazy live sets? Pocahaunted have blown up the zone in a big way over their just 2 year recording career, starting back in the day with the Moccasinging tape on NNF. This totally killer cult cassette only hinted at the unimagined sonic rainbow that the girls were gonna release into the atmosphere. Gold Miner’s Daughters offers 3 new tracks ranging from a beautiful dreamy live deluge to totally strange femmaddness. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have this in our catalog!! Edition on 200, with full-color fold-out art and xeroxed inserts.” -exbx tapes
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FLOWER MAN “PEPPERMINT STEAMROOM” cassette $6
“ALIEN INSPIRATION, TECHNICAL INCANTATION.” -young tapes
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ANDREW COLTRANE “PLAGUED ORPHANS” cassette $6
“ORGANIC CYCLES OF MANIPULATED EARTH-BOUND MATERIALS.” -young tapes
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Caboladies “Constellation Deformity” cassette $6
“Recorded underneath of a Roman bathhouse in the middle of a Moroccan cometary, forgotten about and then remembered last Tuesday during a BBQ sesh on top of a skyscraper in the middle of the moon… but not THE moon… one of the other ones.” -smooth tapes
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Flower Man “Viewers Like You” cassette $6
“Viewers like you was made possible by the The Hope for Human Trust Foundation, Gloves Without Homes, Sanitary Solutions for Solitary Confinement, The Absentee Foundation, and Flower Man.” -smooth tapes
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Wet Hair “The Beach” cassette $6
“Tape from most recent west coast tour, features different versions of songs that will be released on a forthcoming lp and cd, plus some songs that will not.” -night people *DNT’S FAVORITE BAND OF 2008!*
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celer “cassette compositions” cassette $6
“huntington beach’s husband/wife duo celer lull you into an enchanting, yet slightly uncomfortable stasis with over an hour full of solemn piano-based drones. “compositions for cassette” is distilled in glass and sent down a river of molasses. what danielle baquet-long and will long do is set this decaying, enchanting journey on it’s course. they built the multiple cassette loops used to create this minimal symphony, this ode to american pianists of the 1920s. “compositions for cassette” is a funeral march of ghosts through alien fog, lost in a world that no longer exists for their original beings. in the end, it’s only the whispers in the air that remain, a near silent elegy for notes and nooses left behind. stunning.” -digitalis
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Sepviva Bells “Halloween In The Sea” C63 cassette $9 (belgium import) BACK IN STOCK!!
“Duo recordings by Tara Burke (Fursaxa, Anahita, Tau Emerald) and Grant Acker (Slurp Dogs), smoking one late-period Un/early Fursaxa style. A scorching blend of distorted psychedelia, hypnotic riffing and mellow vocals trapped inside a very trippy atmosphere. Edition of 170 copies with silkscreened fold-out booklet.” -sloow tapes
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Peonies “Infinity Has No Exits” C40 cassette $9 (belgium import) BACK IN STOCK!!
“Continuous fascinating and mysterious vocal harmonies unfolding into raw infinity. This acid-soaked haunting psychedelia truly has no exits. 100 copies.” -sloow tapes
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darwinsbitch “steel hum” cassette $6
“finally, the bitch is here. marielle v. jakobsons is the brilliant mind behind the elusive darwinsbitch. her music is rich in texture and portrays an aural depth that you can’t quite pierce. “steel hum” is an introduction, an effort to bring you into the fold in anticipation of her spellbinding debut full-length, “ore.” but what “steel hum” has is an organic sense of place and a path forward.jakobsons employs numerous methods with a focus on synths, tapes, and violin. what she creates is a slightly-uneasy soundworld, constantly teetering on the edge of collapse. these sides are like a rocking ship drifting back & forth in deep grey seas. you’re not sure if you should just enjoy the view or vomit your dinner over the side. “steel hum” is caught in the space between. limited to 99 copies w/ custom stamped art.” – digitalis
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Antique Brothers “Hot Shit” cassette $6
“About to drop some other serious albums on NNF and Stunned, this tapefeatures side-long blissworks that will gravitationally-bind you toanything with a clear boarder. Features the new drummer for Pocahauntedand Robedoor playing with his brother and others. Thick and enjoyable.” -really coastal
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Dukkha “Hail and Farewell” cassette $6
“Endless repetition. Keys spin over down tuned sludge, FX ridden guitars suffocate themselves, and utterly massive swells consume all laid before. TRUE SHEFFIELD BLACK PSYCHEDELIA.” -peasant magik
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Travellers “The Sound of Travellers” cassette $6
“Picture this: You’re dressed suit-and-tie, briefcase in hand, accelerating from a trot to a sprint in an attempt to catch the closing doors of the elevator ahead. At the last possible second, the doors react to your frantic tug. Success! Breathing heavily, your eyes slowly take in the Port of Singapore expanding in size through the window of the ascending glass elevator. Rising through one of Singapore’s many modern skyscrapers in the heart of the Downtown Core, your ears perk to the groovy sound leaking from the elevator’s speakers. It’s a lilting groove, not quite out of the garage but certainly with a bubblegum sheen. Or is that a hint of surf-pop that you hear? The slight echo of Eastern modes makes the case for it to be a local product; or is that more tropical, a sound that stems from further East in the Pacific? Just then, you notice you’re not alone in the elevator. A local businessman – smaller in stature than yourself and wearing a pristinely wrinkle-free black suit with a dusty yellow cowboy hat – stares out the glass elevator. He appears harmless, but there is something mischievous about him. It’s that cowboy hat; it’s just so damn authentic but so culturally displaced. Then the music kicks in again, such an appropriate accentuation to the moment. The guitar begins to twang against a galloping groove… wait… Is this the soundtrack to a Far East Western? Or is it Chinese Go-Go? Some sort of offbeat Cha Cha? However you want to describe it, it’s The Sound of Travellers!” -plustapes
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The Pistil Cosmos “Smoking Clouds In the Land of Fire” cdr $6
“The French psychedelic underground’s recent sweep of cdr & tape gems owes much to Monks of the Balhill member and “V” galactic guide Vincent Caylet. Lately, his parallel solo project The Pistil Cosmos has been fleshing out a rather grittier and at times noisier underbelly to his other works’ more peaceful star-eyed realms. ‘Smoking Clouds In the Land of Fire’ steps into 2009 as the salvo that says the scene in France is maintaining some serious chops. Album opener “The Dreamt Language” taps into echoing caverns of shrouded gallic ancestors, their chants hushed under a menacing moon. Twin opus “There’s No Ghost Here” features over twenty minutes of cascading overtones & startling infrasound resonating like a pulsar, dissolving the parameters of modern drone in a rainbow blur. Deep in scope, wide as our minds can go, be sure to tune in to this particular cosmos. Hand numbered edition of 90 white cdrs in vinyl case with insert card and full color art. The French psychedelic underground’s recent sweep of cdr & tape gems owes much to Monks of the Balhill member and “V” galactic guide Vincent Caylet. Lately, his parallel solo project The Pistil Cosmos has been fleshing out a rather grittier and at times noisier underbelly to his other works’ more peaceful star-eyed realms. ‘Smoking Clouds In the Land of Fire’ steps into 2009 as the salvo that says the scene in France is maintaining some serious chops. Album opener “The Dreamt Language” taps into echoing caverns of shrouded gallic ancestors, their chants hushed under a menacing moon. Twin opus “There’s No Ghost Here” features over twenty minutes of cascading overtones & startling infrasound resonating like a pulsar, dissolving the parameters of modern drone in a rainbow blur. Deep in scope, wide as our minds can go, be sure to tune in to this particular cosmos. Hand numbered edition of 90 white cdrs in vinyl case with insert card and full color art. ” -stunned records
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Ghost Brames of the Cerf “Static Aero” cdr $7
“Forest-temple worship and destruction from Angers, France. Conjures a hand drawn world in my head. Features Florian Tositti (The Reggaee, Capricorn Wings, Xochipilli, The Cosmic Mandoliners) and Jacob Garet. 4 songs of gradually changing storms of fantasy hypnotism, beamed from the earth beneath branch shadow.” -leaf trail
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Bonecloud – “Teenage Lycanthropy” cdr $7 BACK IN STOCK FOR THE LAST TIME
“Over 70 minutes of beautiful white light healing vibes spread out over 5 songs. All music recorded in the summer of two thousand and six in the “frozen earth cabin” in Dublin, except “sea cave” which was recorded live to cassette at Lazybird.” -leaf trail
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Treetops “Shine With Youth” cassette $6
“Pollard is the crowned prince of fuzzed ambients. Recorded before departure to his now chillstead NYC, Shine With Youth is a mellow fragile experience that offers a heavy relentless psychedelic headtrip at the same time. Like following the north star via walking on eggshells. Safe and scared, shaky and certain. This tape represents just one of the many sick drops from Mike P in 08. Laying it down, like he does best, durastic use of reverb, absolute tunnel zone. Reverb shifts time to a slow lul and catches what fingerwork he does into an intricate weaving of riffage and steady drawn out bliss absolutely soaked.” -pizza night
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kraus “the facts” cassette (belgium import) $8
“RESTOCK!! a 30 minutes book on tape. Kraus, drumpad for acts like THE AESTHETICS and THE FUTURIANS, gives the humble an insight to his path of life. from deep listening spacesounds towards bubbly synth excursions: this is a unique vision. Pat Kraus manages to sound like the BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP run through the minds of alien creatures. this is truly my imaginary BAD CHANNELS OST. currently, Pat is working at an lp for ULTRA ECZEMA, because society wants more….” -bread and animals
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Brave Priest “Precious Summers” cassette $6
“These Portland bud-n-beard powered bros absolutely shred their way through the most killer motor-psych sessions of the year! The night we first heard Brave Priest’s “No Blood” single which kicks off this tape was admittedly some sort of epiphany, and got our total attention for sure. Dudes-in-mention Matt McDowell, Dan Barone, and Brain Thackeray (all formerly of the excellent Dark Yoga) perfectly nail us with serotonin rushed northwest grunge-fried vibes that remind everyone to just relax & ROCK. The troupe rips through a trio of gnarly jams on Side A, ranging from drowsy garage-prog slowburnin’ to quaking metal spinouts. Side B is a single 12-minute epic that twists and arcs toward a pinnacle of hot psych purity. Hit play and pump yer fists to the dawn of a new day. Hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed c30 tapes in logo-imprinted yellow shells with 3rd eye cover art by Cameron Stallones.” -stunned
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MUDBOY “IS:IS” cassette $6.50
“Possibly the most unique release in the GOT catalog..and i fucking love it. Let the total psycho-delic organ and electronics float in your brain until it’s disturbed by an alien reciting text, presumably from its homeland. The vocals become another instrument and lull you into a true Martian Timeslip. Also present on this tape is 2 more aliens, known by most as Rodger Stella and Steve Kenney. Part of Mudboy’s Impossible Duets series. Get abducted. Edition of 50.” -gods of tundra
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Hairmaiden of the Totem Robe “Lured to the Ground” cassette $6
“Total losers fall on guitars and eventually uncover mom’s new age books in the attic. edition of 40.” -housecraft
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ANDREW COLTRANE “Chromosphere 1+2” cdr $7
“Interstellar work from the legendary basement of Andrew Coltrane. Abyss level drones that are soul crushing and pure ecstatic joy. 40 minutes of force feeding black holes, burning treetops, melting psyches through glowing heavy beauty. AC weilds sax with charred electronics to masterfully merge the electro and acoustic planes, the results are cosmic meditations beyond mere noise. Essential listening for anyone who thinks they ever knew anything. Handstamped chrome covers, ink blot inner sleeve, each one unique. Edition of 59 copies” -folkwaste
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BROTHERS of the OCCULT SISTERHOOD “EJe” cdr $7
“This is it. Smoke inhaled and blown out into the wide oceania sky. The moon just became brighter. Pathways revealed by songlines through high planes, drifting inward through oblivion. Ancestral footsteps, creaking cellos, smeared brown analogue electronics, alchemy rising, drums expanding, tied together by a delicate web of guitars… mere words fail the dark beauty of the Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. In its invocation “Eye Joy Event” blinds the nonbeliever… converts the reverted. 7 tracks ensure you’ll never be the same again. Musicyourmindwillloveyou forever. Mystic woodcut prints on ouija board sleeves. Edition of 66.” -folkwaste
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Metal Rouge ‘Ephemeroptera Vol. 3’ cdr $7 (self released)
self released cdr in an edition of 50. I only have a few copies of this
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LOOSERS/OWL XOUNDS 7″ split 7″ $5
“Loosers from Portugal continues with their psychedelic free noise jams after releases on labels such as Qbico, Ruby Red, Meudiademorte and Woodsist. A quiet and subtle guitar-driven piece, feels like a slooow and hot Sunday afternoon. The flipside has more crude and dirty out there jazz madness from Brooklyn’s Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy, featuring Adam from Holy Mountains La Otracina.” -release the bats
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Law of the Rope “Beasts Will Have You” cassette $6.50
“Old folks often spout off to kids about not gettin’ in the car with strangers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t release cassettes by them. Good thing, too, cause bands creep outta the woodwork all the time with hoods on their heads and a fine master in their hand, and who’re we to give ‘em some inquisition shit? Law Of The Rope is an alleged trio (Nadine, Legin, and Beatrix Oppression, in case yr wondering) from the “United States Minor Outlying Islands” (yeah right) who mine a very idiosyncratic vein of isolated bedroom black metal somewhere between the more downtempo miserablist symphonies of Xasthur, the deranged 8-track stream-of-consciousness grooves of Lurker of Chalice, and the harsh arctic blasts of Wold. We’re no experts on the subject, but Beasts Will Have You holds its own against all those touchstones, and even adds a nice non-metal dimension to a lotta the songs that free ‘em up from the genre’s restrictions/expectations. The tape’s 2 16-minute-ish sides stalk through the spectrum of foul moods, at turns caged and violent, other times awash in arch-gothic negative grandeur, fleshed out with somber strings and icy life-in-prison-style keyboards. Bleak is back. Pro-dubbed & imprinted cassettes in black-on-black devourer art cases with black-and-blood paper fangs glued to the plastic. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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STRANGE WATER- “ENVIORNMENTS” cassette $6
“The first Strange Water release was a daunting, drenched c60 of confusing murk; now: clarity. Dan Dlugosielski (Uneven Universe, Body Morph) and Mike Pollard (Treetops) create a focused and directed new age piece, consisting of keyboards, electronics, and sax stuck in a Rileyian trance. Two minds melted into one. Smooth moving, everything shines; the clearing of the sky after a storm. A lone track stretched across both sides of the tape. Infinity is now, loop forever. In an edition of 75 tapes with full color art and labels.” -arbor
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Z-Gun Issue #2 zine $4
“It is 56 pages and has stuff on Sightings, Drunks with Guns, the Fabulous Diamonds, AmRep Records, Enfant Terrible Records, film scores, and tons of reviews.”
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ELEKTRONAVN “Cosmic Continuum” cdr $6
“Elektronavn AKA Magnus Olsen Majmon is a Danish sound sculptor that shapes a claustrophobic, almost physical experience with haunting drones constructed from an arsenal of instruments such as clarinet, distorted voice, guitar, organ, flute, gong, harp, field recordings and percussion. The music is pretty much impossible to lump into any particular genre but there is a significant folk vibe that runs through a lot of the music, even the more experimental and psychedelic parts. This might have something to do with the ample use of exotic instrumentation, but the end result goes far beyond folk music, providing an abstract gateway of overtones that are bent beyond the world of imagination to a spiritual figure, greater than you and me.” -ikuisuus
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MANIACS DREAM- “ZANZIBAR” LP $13
“Finland is the epicenter of collective music making. Under the name Maniacs Dream, members of Finnish bands such as Avarus, Fricara Pacchu, Kemialliset Ystävät, and more come together to create blown out free rock. Their unique/bizarre approach to music making, constantly questioning the construction/deconstruction of sound creates songs at times recalling the electro acoustic clatter drone of Avarus crossed with tribal rhythms and intergalactic kraut rock guitar zones. Total sonic freedom with a punk ethos directly influenced by a trip to Zanzibar prior to recording this record (which is a reissue of the long sold out tape originally released on Lal Lal Lal in 2006). In an edition of 450 records on light blue vinyl with printed labels and full color proprinted foldover sleeves with art by Benjamin Bergman and an insert.” -arbor
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GHQ “COSMOLOGY OF EYE” LP $16 (out of print/high wholesale cost)
“first proper release from this headspinning acid/drone/raga crew thats been quietly haunting the northeast for a couple years now… for this album the band was marcia bassett (double leopards, hototogisu, zaimph, un, etc.) steve gunn, and pete nolan (magik markers, vanishing voice, etc.)… heavily dosed trips into eastcoast trance primitivism, gushing with mantric meshes of strings and voice. centered around bassett & gunn’s acoustic guitar freeflow, and wrapped up in layers of hovering vocal mist, buzzing drones, percussive clatter, and nolan’s subtle but massively psychedelic electric guitar moves. over five extended tracks things slide along from bone rattling minimal vibrations, dip into opiated folk beauty, and then blow things wide open with a full side of fevered, acid soaked raga lift-off… keep that third eye open folks… pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl and packaged in a sweet two color letterpress printed heavy black artboard cover, with a nice 8×10 photo insert shot by tom carter. hand numbered edition of 850 copies.” -time-lag
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INFINITY WINDOW- “ARTIFICIAL MIDNIGHT” LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
“New York synth duo Infinity Window have been crafting their game for well over a year without much documentation. Comprised of Dan Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) and Taylor Richardson (Prehistoric Blackout), this LP shows them at the pinnacle of self-realization. Equally influenced by John Carpenter and the Taj Mahal Travelers, they create traveling music; music that has the power to transport and overwhelm the listener with vibes outside of those presently available to them. The A Side consists of two tracks, both clouded in a heavy haze of fog, dark and heavy though their clarity exists underneath the shroud. The B Side’s lone track “Skull Theft” is the full circle realization of the first two tracks: a light is illuminated and the fog begins to clear. Mastered by Keith Fullerton Whitman. In an edition of 500 LPs with full color pro-printed cardboard sleeves and printed labels with art by Robert Beatty (Hair Police / Burning Star Core).” -arbor
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joe montana “shifting spaces” cassette $6
“peter friel changes things up again and again, keeping us all on our toes while he looks for the flea flicker from the heavens. miles of green grass stretches toward the synthetic horizon. everything is fuzzy like a dream and all you can do is ride these pads to through the golden skies. limited to 75 copies.” -digitalis
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Peaking Lights “Imaginary Falcons” LP $13
“This is the debut full length LP by Madison Wisconsin’s Peaking Lights. Members Indra Dunis (Numbers/Rah Dunes) and Aaron Coyes (Rah Dunes) created a stunner that’s full of hypnotic analog electronics, pulsing drum sounds, perfectly somber pop layered keys, blown psych guitar, and Indra’s warm drifting vocals. This record is all its own, everything it needs to be, and it won’t disappoint any expectations of its harmony and beauty. Groovy, spacey, heartfelt music for a new age. Art work and silkscreen by Shawn Reed. ” -night people
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Peaking Lights “Two for Ceremony” cassette $6
“Another killer release by Night-People’s favorite group, Madison WI’s Peaking Lights. Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis cut this session for a late 08 west coast tour with Wet Hair, and it rips on in that beautifully dreamy, sparkling synth layered style of haunted electronics, dubed out organ beats, and cascading washes of psych blown guitar fuzz that is only Peaking Lights. Art by SDReed.” -night people
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Jeans Wilder “Antiques” cassette $6
“Jeans Wilder is new loner fuzz under the rug bedroom pop from San Diego that sits both on the sunny side and under the night time. Nostalgic, hazy, real pretty and low key, this one shines when it needs to for sure. Hushed melodies abound and peak through the weird fog for a little bit of glory in the sun when the feeling is suited. Play at night on your headphones, thinking about lost love, abandoned dreams, and what’s next. Artwork by SDREED. ” -night people
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Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Betrayed in the Octagon’ LP $13
“Oneohtrix Point Never is Daniel Lopatin’s project of polysynth epic electronic sound. Cascading melodies, holistic drones, and folding tones combine to create a dichotomy of sound that reflects on the organic discovery of our nature and the infinite possibilities within our enclosed human systems. Betrayed in the Octagon is a frozen fantasy, a liminal record that brings to mind caves and other hidden places where life started billions of years ago. OPN is a lost soul from the polysynth epoch giving a nod to the old masters while moving trough the systems of 21st century life and reflecting them in the pure beauty of total electronic moving sound. Originally released as a cassette on Deception Island in 2007, Octagon was the first OPN release. NFP is proud to bring it back re-sequenced and re-mastered for vinyl as the first OPN LP. Artwork by Chris Madak. limited to 300 copies.” -no fun
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Dead Black Arms “Lake Reflection Catalyst” cassette $6
“The last time Copenhagen’s Claus Haxholm dropped a Stunned release under his Doom Riot moniker, it caught the ear of many seeking drones of timeless celestial import. Including Julian Cope, who recently called it “guaranteed guestlist entry into the Underworld… a righteous and coherent statement of intent that should have y’all returning again and again.” So we asked Claus back, and this time he returns in Dead Black Arms garb to resume the Danish bleak-streak. ‘Lake Reflection Catalyst’ lasts half as long as the last go-around so it makes sure to burn twice as hot over dual/dueling 20+ minute sides. Listening closely, one becomes privy to a dawning horror wrought high above mirrored waters — a startling, unprepared realization and the ensuing paradox. The scene holds especial tension given Dead Black Arms’ relentlessly minimal approach to guitar and percussion drone. Often stripping back all semblance of tone in order to chase down forces of sheer electricity, Haxholm’s obsessive pursuit bares his instrument’s power to sculpt stark new forms. Yet somehow an array of subtlety is preserved in the crush of naked timbre, affirming that details are never overlooked by Denmark’s dark son. Hand numbered edition of 100 painted & pro-dubbed c46 tapes in clear shells w/ blue foil liner & double-sided color jcard; designed in energy of WATER.” -stunned
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Raccoo-oo-oon – Mythos Folkways 5 “Future Fusion” cassette $6
“Final installment in the Mythos Fokways series, recorded late summer 07 by Mike Dixon in Chicago, mastered by Pete Swanson, the companion piece to the epic final double LP on NNF/RTB. Dark drifting psych rock, circular and uplifting, guitars weave around atmospheric electronics andm R. Garbes signature propulsive drumming. Late dead encrusted shrine rock for the end times. Art by Garbes/Reed.” -night people
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Predator Vision “s/t” cassette cdr reissue $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Influenced by watching the movie Predator while listening to soft rock records of Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, and Todd Rundgren. This documents an acid- drenched jam recorded in the basement of Skylight Horizon Studio in Northampton, MA. Featuring Matt Mondanile and Ben Daly on guitars and Etienne Duguay on drums. Mixture of Neil Young amped guitar lines with krauty Guru Guru progressive feel. Definite on the beach zoner Yahowa 13 style. 60 minute dual guitar and drum slayer. Full color covers with color sticker on tape.” -future sounds
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Caboladies “Psychic Birthmark” CDR $6
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Monks of the Balhill “Lost and Hide Side” cdr $6
“Wind and water joined in blurred air find two Vincents stretching guitar vapors like bright shadows over root bark. edition of 50” -housecraft
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A.M. Shiner “The Sunny Hour” cassette $6
“Through a narrow slant in a cobwebbed shanty, A.M. stares hypnotically at a rising sun whilst sanding electronics in a neo-ritualistic haze of sawdust and smoldering vegetation. edition of 50” -housecraft
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blank realm “street bananas” cassette $6
“blank realm has evolved over the past few years from some of the best droners in the land of oz to doing something far more disjointed, original, catch, and honestly, fucking genius. they exist in the same zone as their breakdance the dawn brethren, but have easily etched their own fractals in the sand. everything is played and sung like it’s being drawn out of a thick haze. you can never quite see it, but bits and pieces slowly reveal themselves so you can connect the sparkling dots. “street bananas” finds its groove right away, and at times will have you wanting to shake your ass out on that stretch of empty highway that leads straight to the fucken moon. hell, blank realm even through a few pop missives out of nowhere that you’ll hum until the day you implode. i think i’m ready to move down under where everything… everything is baked and/or fried. limited to 77 copies that give homage to 1983.” -digitalis
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MV & EE with the Golden Road “Gettin’ Gone” 2XLP $18
“Last year, MV & EE delivered two of the definitive entries into the contemporary psych-folk canon: the sprawling masterpiece ‘Mother Of Thousands’ and its more concise, upscale sibling ‘Green Blues’. Getting’ Gone marks something of a departure from the beautiful mess-making of those albums, instead opting for a more focussed approach to classic rock templates, albeit with the distinctively obscure lyrical approach that’s so much a part of the Matt Valentine mythology. Inevitably this album has drawn comparisons to Neil Young, and the duo certainly aren’t shy of acknowledging Shakey’s influence: they’ve been known to turn out an astonishing cover of ‘Powerderfinger’ from time to time – and heck, they even went and called their dog Zuma, but this isn’t quite the Crazy Horse-inspired opus they’ve always threatened to make. If anything, the album’s far more reined-in than you might expect, focussing on solid riffing and structurally sound songwriting. That’s certainly not to say there’s anything conservative about Gettin’ Gone, it’s just a little more ordered than the far-out transmissions we’re used to from MV & EE. After the opening, electrified tones of ‘Susquehanna (Sole Art Trample)’ the album proceeds through a sequence of bluesy numbers, surely ranking as the straightest songs these guys have ever committed to tape. On ‘The Burden’ Valentine’s guitar is as beautifully played as ever, and the double-team vocal locks into that familiar, wasted country vibe whilst Doc Dunn’s soaring pedal steel casts a majestic authority over everything. Just when you’re thinking how sanitised it’s all starting to sound a towering fuzz guitar solo lumbers into the frame and lacerates the mix nicely. Similarly gorgeous is ‘I Got Caves In There’, whose reverberating psych tones benefit from aloof Erika Elder vocals and florid acoustic digressions. ‘Mama My’ is a different beast altogether, an all-out rocker with Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis setting his purple Jazzmaster to one side, instead manning the drums with a thumping authority while MV lets rip with a wah-wah dirge. ‘Speed Queen’ is probably the closest the album comes to Crazy Horse, even approximating Young’s frazzled, crunched-up ’70s amp sound. Similarly, ‘Country Fried’ taps into an elongated, altered-state country rock twilight zone that ticks all the right boxes, balancing great songwriting with magnificent, untethered guitar passages. On Gettin’ Gone, MV & EE consolidate their position as two of the standout figures in the American underground, pinning down with absolute authenticity – and no small measure of instrumental prowess – a sound that has nothing to do with fads or labels like psych-folk. This is just rock music of the very purest, very finest kind. ” -ecstatic peace
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Marble Sky “Sway” cassette $6
“winter seclusion from frozen fields. absolutely flawless and well-paced synth / guitar work — bursting through thick clouds and shining bright, but always near the darkness. somewhere, something is wrong; somewhere else, Dreams are Coming True. edition of 125, full color covers and glossy labels.” -monorail trespassing
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earn “down the well” cassette $6
“an epic achievement — moving from layered cello (courtesy scott ‘work / death’ reber), to blissed-out post-shoegaze guitar (what MBV should’ve become; check the ‘barrier’ sample), to gritty, dark subtlety; ending with an unsettling document of audio voyeurism. narrative and honest, true stories. edition of 125, full color covers and glossy labels.” -monorail trespassing
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Vortex Trio “Live Dead” cassette $6
“A group of cool kids out in AK. Sent me their tape on TRANCH and was hooked!! Sounds are vast arches of vague waves and endless loops that die in the static. Can’t believe this is a trio! Not LIVE like a gig, LIVE like your life….. DEAD!! Edition of 60, w/full-color fold out art.” -exbx tapes
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ELM ‘Woven Into Light’ cdr $8 (UK import)
“Solo project of one half of Barn Owl, Jon Porras… and its an absolute mind blower. Following his previous release on Digitalis (that vanished in the flash of an eye), here’s a new 7 track album of meandering drone laced with guitars, vocals, harmonium and harmonica… Opener ‘Rising Smoke Woods’ sounds as though its been recorded at the top of a hill at the close of day, slow, bleak, guitar with distant waves of vocal telepathy, far out chimes, and a mellow building drone that turns into an almost doom riff from the looming darkness. ‘Solemn Night Prayer’ has an almost nomadic wanderer feel to it, with its whispering flutes, fuzzed riff and repetitive guitars foot stepping around and around. Album finale is with ‘Waves Break Into Beams of Light’, which is a hazy mist of shaky drones layered over one another. Limited to 250 hand numbered copies, pro manufactured CDRs with simple stark on disc print.” -blackest rainbow
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math balances volumes “s/t” cassette (belgium import) $8
“okay, i saw these guys live on the nice Color Out Of Space festival last year, and what they presented was one of the best shows i saw in 2007. a truly weird blend of smoked out psychedelic rumble played by a guitar player and a tapeplayer. people were crying for help during their set due to the high level of insight and knowledge that was being transmitted. because after all, i guess one cannot understand everything and it hurts to be “in the unknown”. but anyways, my mind tripped out so heavily on their live / life information that i couldn’t resist to hassle them into a tape release asap. and this is it. this is misissipi blues played in the local arcade. this is a collage of synchronicity. these are the workings of Babalon… and when i was playing the mastertape for J C Scanner, his individual scannercells collectively popped out as well, so this album is co-released with the Zeikzak (http://www.jellecrama.com). all the tapecases come with individually unique painted / colored / stickered / ??? artwork by our little brothers. information is pain. ” -bread and animals
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Dead C “Secret Earth” CD $10
“The elegance of howling guitar noise was fully realized when The Dead C appeared. For over twenty years now, the trio has continually redefined what rock music is and can sound like, and have inspired Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes, and Comets On Fire, not to mention the current fertile underground noise scene. The Dead C is the ultimate blues band. But rather than departing from the heartfelt singing of the African-American South, they express the tenets of alienation in society with unrelenting force– a focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. Michael Morley’s monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world–nothing is more earnest, nothing sounds so lost. In its career, The Dead C has oscillated between two poles. Recent albums explore drones, electronic loops, and musique concrete. However, their new album, Secret Earth, proselytizes oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming, and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material. Along the axis of The Dead C’s recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh ’70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius. To coincide with this release, the band will be playing rare, select shows around the US in mid-October. They have not been to the east coast in over a decade, and will be visiting some places they’ve never been (cheers, Seattle). In addition, Ba Da Bing is teaming up this fall with Jagjaguwar to reissue their two essential Flying Nun albums from the eighties– DR503 and Eusa Kills. If there was ever a time to explore the earthen extremes this magnificent band surveys, it is now. ” -ba da bing
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OUTER SPACE- “PERFECT VACUUM” cassette $6.50 *OUT OF PRINT FROM LABEL*
“John Elliott (of Emeralds, Lilypad, Daylight Savings Time) has spent many years mastering his MS-10. This tape from his young Outer Space project is an exploratory trip into the deep caves; synthesized water drips into stalactite formation. Heavy “what’s it” zones, broadening the boundaries: refusing the molds of synth drone by creating something entirely singular: uncharted. In an edition of 150 tapes with full color art and labels. ” -arbor
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Sean McCann “Phase Pools” cdr $7
“Where to start. Sean had this ready for me at the end of the summer and when I exposed it to my ears I was blown to pieces. This is a conceptual album where every single track ties into the next, a constant glorious flow of goodness which explores many different facets, from gorgeous violins to mind numbing synthesis-almost bordering the lines of electro pop at times even, I’m amazed. 10 tracks in total, loud lush and brilliant. Edition of 58 copies.” -cloud valley
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Telecult Powers “Amazing Laws of” cdr $6
“So wipe the dust off of your ouija board, reshuffle your deck of tarot cards, and hem the stitches on your voodoo doll. Some real-deal mystical shit is about to go down. Keep a tight grip on your salvia pipe, for it may be your only companion on this dark voyage. Some local myths turned heroes in this mind-expanding duo. Trade in your distortion and delay for magickal boxes of pure analog spirit. Nobody has kept it realer than these guys.” – abandon ship records
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Tricorn & Queue “Continual Passage” cassette $6
“Tricorn & Queue have captured the hearts & minds of many of us this year with their previous two ultra hypnotic tapes on Digitalis and Housecraft. Well, the headbands are wrapped, the hidden entrance has been found, and now Housecraft’s own Jeff Astin steps again into the thick of a cosmic ritual passageway on his latest quest for the ultimate philosopher’s tone. Launching out from the remnants of magnetic decay that closed the last release, here T&Q cast similar cycles of satellite purr and crackling naturescapes that unfold like nocturnal blooms. The humid loops gradually increase in secretive tensions that linger long after the final decibels fold back around to the first step of the journey. Stay on the good path with one of our favorite sound & craft outfits around. Hand numbered edition of 120 pro-dubbed c40 tapes in blue shells with gold ink imprinting and color j-card.” -stunned
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Wavering “Soaking Systems Vol. 2” double cassette $10
“Long at work mail collaboration between Blake Westerby and Jeffry Astin. It’s a Soaking Systems so the tapes can be played together, but in this case it’s just as effective played one side at a time. Slow-swirling sandwiched field recordings, crackling mantras, distant vocal nebulas, and fleeting icy drones fill every corner of an other-worldy stereo spectrum. Get lost in whatever quadraphonic combination you please. edition of 75” -housecraft
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the polyps “isla & emma” cassette $6
“when i first heard the polyps i was immediately drawn in. this solo/sideproject from raf spielman of the golden hours is perfect, disjointed bedroom pop. over the course of more than a dozen songs spielman weaves a basket of hooks that you will find yourself humming until dawn. mostly written on guitar, the accompaniment of melodica, ramshackle percussion, and of course spielman’s distinct voice bring these songs to life. “isla & emma” is a short and deliciously sweet journey. while many of us anxiously await the next installment of the golden hours, this is just the sugarfix needed to get you through. so simple, so good. limited to 95 copies in handpainted sleeves and handpainted wraparound covers, each one different.” -digitalis
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Treetops “Giant Earth” cassette $8 (UK import)
“Arbor Mike births tone float and directs natural drone with purest human edge perceptible.” -sickhead
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THE NETHER DAWN /1/3 octave band split cdr $6
“Hand-numbered edition of 100 split release featuring two time-gouging trance performances, the first from a duo Nether Dawn consisting of Antony Milton & Jon Dale who generate almost Fushitsusha-levels of disrupto drone before settling into a nicely zoned Gown-style guitar/vocal hypnotic. 1/3 Octave band make it with bows of arcing steel & the sound of the horizon slowly breaking from the earth. Comes in the usual swank wax-sealed envelopes with an original Kodak print.” -sound&fury
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Astronaut “Sans Noise Suitcase” cdr $6
“recorded live at PA’s Lounge, Somerville, MA – March 23rd, 2007. first ever Astronaut show, reportedly inspired by visions of an imaginary species of drone babes. edition of 50 ” -housecraft
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SHEARING PINX “INFINITE SIBLINGS” 2xCDR $12
“A collection of SHPX tracks from the 9 of the first split cassettes + 2 new unreleased radio tracks. /// Ltd. 50 copies ” -INW
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BOT/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
“BOT are a new young band from Sudbury, ON…and they are fire breathing little maniacs! Such a nice breath of gasoline. /// Shpx are giving birth a lot these days.//// Ltd.50 copies. ” -INW
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N.213/JAMES FELLA split cassette $6
“N.XXX brings tears of sexual extraction! //// JF is at the helm of Gilgongo and destroyer in Soft Shoulder and Tent/City awsomeness! /// Ltd. 49 copies. ” -INW
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ACRE/MONGST/DEFAULT JAMERSON Triple 3″CDR Set $15
“The conjoined forces of some epic noise drone psycke-OUT shit! From USA/CANADA/AUSTRALIA comes the complete takedown. CDRs come in 7inch sleeve with printed art by d.g.l.r., and are attached to a random 45 with silk-screened B-side! Totally amazing!!!!! /// Ltd. 100 copies.” -INW
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quetzolcoatl “forever bleeding canyon cloud” cdr $7
“ireland’s timothy hurley has carved out his own ocean in the back alleys of dublin as quetzolcoatl and as 1/2 of bonecloud. “forever bleeding canyon cloud” is a fuzzed-out parlay of ghost drones and atmospheric wreckage. hurley bends and twists minimal instrumentation and chants into a massive, bubbling concoction of stuck souls wailing for freedom. it’s a murky proposition, but in the end the bliss will come. looped walls of feedback scorch the walls surrounding the kingdom, and by the time the last track fades away, the organic ruins left behind are nothing short of beautiful. ” -foxglove
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andrew coltrane recycled cassette $5
new tape on rrr records
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pulse emitter recycled casette $4
new tape on rrr records
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dubdrip / nimby – “smoke tinged perception / flotation device” cassingle $4
“A smoke-tinged song by raccoo oo oon’s main psycher, Driphouse [Daren Ho]. tribute to sleng teng which is less a genre than a reggae casio setting. nimby side slices a three minute flight over clouds.” -detrivore
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RYAN GARBES/SKYE CIELITO split cassingle $4
“Garbes (‘oo oon, wet hair) gives us two (?) pieces to flick the puss out of our eyes and realise our freedom. Skye does cello loops and siren hypnotic vocals on this live track.” -detrivore
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TATERBUG/PRUDES split cassingle $4
“T’bug is a recent Iowa City transplant transient, this track is beautiful and pretty close to how he describes: “12 year olds tripping out in the desert singing.” Prudes is Gretch (trashdog) and Candita while they briefly hungout for a weekend and flipped out with pedals, cellos, and throats.” -detrivore
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Emeralds “Emeralds” cassette $6.50
“These midwest druggies really know what they are doing… Guitar synths, and tapes hallucinations that sound like they could maybe be an unedited ULTRA recording. Fans of the surreal sound of NWW and company should check these boys out…” -hanson
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Earth Crown – “Say Fuck You to the Beast” cassette $6
“Earth Crown is Door, and Door is Earth Crown, Door moved down to Baltimore’s annihilated warehouse district a few months ago from his legendary former address Castle Puppy in New Brunswick NJ and the change seems to make sense, the sound collected on this tape relates to the deserted post apocalyptic feel of the cities most lost inhabitants and streets. Sci Fi sythy feedback fuckers, crust nihilism, industrial pulse wars, termination soundtracks, ultra control feeding into chaotic electronic spew, dystopian rules. Door is dialed into a dark cold future. Ragging and minimal, music for replicant dreams. Art by Door.” -night people
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UNEVEN UNIVERSE “SOLAR GRAPES” cassette $6
“the dan and holly duo always bring the party when it’s time to roll through michigan. either they are exercising crack head ghosts out of the half crypt attic or talking down cops while a solid jason goes to hell / smoke session occurs on a ferndale couch, it’s constantly a good time. but the real time to shine comes when they spill battered sax vibes down the walls. i got to see uneven universe batter horns into deep creep mode in a lansing spider hole and was hooked. think tarpit jazz, heavy on tar, light on jazz.” -905 tapes
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Plankton Wat — “Crystal Wizard” cdr $6
“Having been dazzled by his Alchemy of Darkness cassette out earlier this year on DNT, then watching him fry it sky-hi in Eternal Tapestry & Bloodbiker, we at Stunned had no choice but to get ahold of Dewey Mahood and see if there was any more psych wizardry to share with us. Turns out there was, and in Portland’s Owl House studio Crystal Wizard was born. Here, syrup dipped 4-track guitar delights are fingerpicked into existence simple-like. No need to rush in something so damn noble and zen-field spare. Gradually, drums and bells adorn the pieces which funnel to greater layers of complexity, until all becomes a swirl of beckoning light and void. Limited edition of 100 hand numbered cdrs in plastic case with tripped out color art and insert card by Dewey.” -stunned records
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My Cat Is An Alien / Valerio Cosi “Stories From The Vacuum” split 7″ $5
“A truly ethereal pairing from Italy. While MCIAA has already established a massive offering in all formats, this 7″is Valerio’s first vinyl appearance proper. His side is dominated by free jazz sax loops and trance vocals, with moments of twinkling percussion and electronic euphoria. An amalgamation of improv styles pulled off in a way only Valerio can. On the flip is a beautiful example of the lush guitar ambiance, wordless vocals, and alien space toy sound effects that the Opalio brothers are known for. Gold ink offset printing on metallic vellum, clear vinyl with gold ink on white pro-printed labels. Edition of 500.” -black horizons
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pocahaunted / robedoor “hunted gathering” 2xCD $18 LAST COPY!!
“There’s a savage battle raging in the hallowed streets of Los Angeles, being fought by prehistoric megaliths spewing lava from their mouths. These acid-tongued shamans are interested in one thing and one thing only, and that’s to raze this city to the ground. Okay, perhaps it’s not so apocalyptic, but hot off the heels of opening for Sonic Youth, dirt worshipers Robedoor and their native sisters Pocahaunted have unleashed an army for the ages with “Hunted Gathering.” Drones painted with black holes collapse under their own weight while the archangelic voices of Pocahaunted birth a brand new world of spirit decay. “Hunted Gathering” is both a split release and a collaboration. Each band offers up their own malfeasance while collaborating on the epic final eponymous track. The union of these two groups is a natural combination. Two members are married and run the Not Not Fun label together and they share amps and practice space, for example. But there’s also something about both that is visceral and raw. Robedoor’s subsonic doom is washed down with a smooth chaser of Pocahaunted’s reverberating soul sounds. Recorded by the inimitable Bobb Bruno at the NNF/Bored Fortress studio space across many moons in 2007 and mastered by Yellow Swans’ Pete Swanson, “Hunted Gathering” is an essential feast for fans of doom-infused drones and Stevie Nicks. These hunting & gathering songs from the Eagle Rock air also feature appearances by the aforementioned Bruno as well as Changeling mastermind, Roy Tatum. Climb the totem pole and let these mutant beasts put you under their psychosis spell. “Hunted Gathering” is full of antiquated sounds soaked in electric mud. Robedoor and Pocahaunted are your brothers and sisters in conjuring and the gatekeepers to a lost universe of sonic enchantment.” -digitalis
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smgsap “Chrysalis Cycles” cdr $6
“shea M. gauer and scott A. peterson are smgsap, and Chrysalis Cycles is their third full length release in nine years as a group. The layered soundscapes here testify to a pair of improvisational artists with ears for excruciating detail – meticulous gatekeepers on the threshold of analog/digital transfer banks. Moans of plate tectonic energies lay a groundwork for the duo to unleash a wide variety of insectile oscillations and zaps of errant particle collisions. By the conclusion of the four cryptic cycles, it’s hard not to be convinced that somewhere, maybe right under your nose, a creature has undergone a magical, chemical reconfiguration. Ltd. 69 handnumbered cdrs in heavy cottonpaper pouches with fold-out color insert.” -stunned records
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ZAIMPH 7″ $5.50
“In the past Marcia Bassett(of Double Leopards, GHQ) has proved her versaitility under the Zaimph name; from the depraved feedback and tone fury of her “Sexual Infinity” CD on Hospital Productions to her delicate electric guitar and vocals waves on the “Mirage of The Other” LP on Gypsy Sphinx. This untitled 7” release further proves this fact by recalling her earliest roots in the Siltbreeze band UN: vocal mantras and delicate strumming are placed over a hypnotically evolving base of looped piano, feedback, and strings. The end result is something beautiful that twists the lines of classification, picking up little points of reference from her past bands and laying out a path towards the future. In an edition of 500 7”s in proprinted full color foldover sleeves with art by Marcia. Mastered by Josh Stevenson.” -arbor
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XYX Sistema de Terminacion Sexual 7″ $4
“Stumbling on Los Llamarada was great (as well as pure luck) and led me scouring the web for other bands from Monterrey…and there were more and some good ones too, but nothing that really knocked me out. Then a few months ago, Mou from XYX emails me and says, “We are friends with Llamarada and in some other bands that play with them. Here’s something that you might like. Check it out.” And me being a nice guy took a trip to XYX’s myspace page. I listened and liked. Liked a lot. A whole lot. I asked for more songs and said, Let’s do a record. “When?” Now! ….and here it is! Four great songs with overblown bass and drums and really cool fucked vocals. XYX has a looping sound that reminds me a bit of Hubble Bubble, but in a post punk context. The songs (even when they are longish) are compact, but still full. XYX is a great band and this is a very cool record…and it is selling very fast.” -s-s records
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Treetops “Brighter Light” cdr $7 *BACK IN STOCK!!*
“Mike Pollard is basically the man right now, not only does he do this awesome project called Treetops thats had some killer stuff on Ecstatic Peace, Not Not Fun, DNT and Gilgongo, but he runs one of my favourite labels Arbor. So i’m psyched to be releasing this disc from him. Sounding like some kind of 70s cavern ritual nightmare throughout, tapping, churning weirdness with occasional patterred drums, shattering cymbals, and more full on room engulfing density-intensity. Comes in full colour collage sleeves designed by Bethany of Pocahaunted. Handnumbered edition of 100 on black bottomed cdrs.”. -Blackest Rainbow
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Expo 70 “Animism” CD $8
“Expo 70’s first official CD release. These are some of the heaviest and darkest drones ever created by him and has one critical acclaim from everyone. Amazing artowrk in a perfect digipak desinged by Expo himself. This is a must have.” -kill shaman
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Yikes! “Whoa Comas/Blood Bomb” CD $7
“Mr. John “Coachwhips” Dwyer leads a ragtag group of miscreants from such other bands as Fuck Wolf, Sic Alps, and Techno Werewolves into a heaving battle of guitar distortion and walls of mania. Somewhere between Coachwhips and Pink and Brown. In other words, really fucking good.” -kill shaman
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The Pope “Society of Friends” CD $4 *BACK IN STOCK!!*
“Ex-members of the Rattlesnakes and the Manifolds, they are religious, republican, and utterly revolting. They hate you and your condom-using, liquer-drinking, pot-smoking, sodomizing, sweaty ass. Bass and drums to the extreme. Enough effects and thwap to make your eyeballs leak blood. Though completely sarcastic, the first release for this super-duo, entitled Society of Friends, is a highly anticipated 20-minute full-length. Think chaos a la Lightning Bolt.” -Satellite City
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VxPxC “Struggling with Heavy Clouds” cdr $4
“Brand new CDR from the trio of Grant Capes, Justin McInteer and Tim Goodwillie recorded in LA. Wavering multi instrumental folk-psyche-drone-blues lulling jams/songs across 4 tracks, total bliss-heaven-hell-blurgh. Comes in the same lightweight paper as the WWVV with fold out all over artwork by Darryl Norsen. Limited to 110 handnumbered copies.” -blackest rainbow
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Warmth “leave your wet brain in the hot sun” CD $7
“‘Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun’ is a thick blanket of unsettling doom. The smell of death is in the air, floating in-and-out of range like a black cloud. Warmth’s mixture of distorted, haunted synth loops, hijacked guitar frequenices, and various injections of dirt-soaked piano fuzz. Thompson’s drones are reminiscent of Andrew Chalk and Mirror in the way they lure the listener in during the early stages with his quiet and methodic approach. They’re soothing and soft, but totally misleading. Once the eyelids start to get heavy, Thompson runs you down with discordant, often abrasive, missives. He plays this dichotomy up to perfection, and shows an amazing understanding of composition and layering. As each electronic swirl draws you in closer, like a moth to a buzzing streetlight, you get lost in this aural concrete labryinth. “Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun” will bury your mind under piles of dust. Warmth is painting the town with a gang of spectres on his back, sandblasting diseased tones through everyone’s eardrums. For fans of Double Leopards, Hive Mind, and that ilk, it is only once you’re destroyed that you’ll be totally satisfied.” – digitalisindustries
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Bri White/James Fella split 7″ $4 *LAST COPY!!*
“Split 7″ from two busy-bodies from Arizona. BRI WHITE (Flux Conquistador, Foot Ox), who usually creates pretty piano based singer-songwriter music, offers a six minute piece which is both beautiful and haunting (primarily using a weird piano / violin hybrid instrument called a pianolin, which is obscure enough to not even have an article on wikidpedia about it), and falls somewhere between the blurry lines of Spires That in the Sunset Rise and White Magic. (She is currently up in Portland)! JAMES FELLA (Soft Shoulder, Tent/City) offers layers of clarinet, guitar, vocal-based sound and noise in a piece that is much more calm and quiet than the majoirty of his usual sound / noise / splice work. Full color covers enveloping thick blue (w/ splashes of white) vinyl.” – gilgongo records
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ACRE- “MONOLITH” LP $13
“Portland’s tone wrangler Aaron Davis (aka Acre) has been blasting the world with his massive-but-barely-there feedback swells for quite some time with releases on Black Horizons, JK, and more. His first LP offering brings about the Acre essence quite well. Massive walls of shoe-gazed feedback are some how tamed into smooth, quintessential drones. This is not the sound of synthesizers or keyboards, but a single tone being modified and replicated into a monolithic piece. Stasis so strong it is hard to realize the power of these two side long tracks until they end, forcing silence back upon the listener: direct hypnosis and transcendental zoning. In an edition of 200 records in pro-printed fold over sleeves.” -arbor
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Woods “How To Survive In + In The Woods” LP $12
“Originally released on cassette (don’t even get me started) at the tail end of last year, Release the Bats have done a ‘proper’ cd now, but luckily it still sounds as if it was dubbed to cassette on faulty equipment. Lo-Fi indie folk at it’s best should really sound like this though, as if the band have no idea how to program their video recorder or send an email let alone successfully mix an album on their own. All the hiss, noise and crumbling decay gives this record a quality which could maybe be compared to an album such as My Bloody Valentine’s ‘Loveless’ – not that they sound the same, but that the noise and imperfection is the key to the success of the music. If you’re looking for an engaging rock record with the same wanton abandon witnessed in the best of ‘New Weird America’ look no further, Woods are choppin’ great.” -shrimper
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MV + EE with The Golden Road “Drone Trailer” LP $12
“Orbiting the earth in Vermont is Matt “MV” Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower Recordings, and Erika “EE” Elder, CEO of Heroine Celestial Agriculture and The MV & EE Medicine Show. Together with their dog Zuma, they run the Child of Microtones library of exploratory music–sometimes their own lunar blues, sometimes finger-picking-style noise/space, sometimes lonesome frontier folk. Drone Trailer is a consolidation of the previous musical high-life of the duo’s space shanties for the 21st century. In other words, MV & EE explore their unique mix of lunar raga and astral string band music, with a couple deep-space burners/covert jams such as opening blast “Anyway” thrown in to bust it all open. Nobody is gonna mind if they hear a little Crazy Horse and prime-era Dead here as well!” dichristina
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The Skull Defekts “The Drone Drug” LP $13
“In their own words, Sweden’s Skull Defekts are “all about rhythm, repetition, and all energies in sound.” The concept manifests itself in two distinctly different forms. On 2007’s Blood Spirits and Drums Are Singing, the band showcased their more “rock”-based sound described by Julian Cope as an amalgamation of Chairs Missing-period Wire, Audionom, and ’70s German proto-metallers Tiger B. Smith. However, the DFX, as they’re sometimes known, also have an alter-ego under which their sound becomes a harsh wall of droning noise and psychedelic industrial bowel churn. It is that persona that is embodied on The Drone Drug. Drone is often associated with music that is essentially ambient in nature. While The Skull Defekts do create an ambient aura, The Drone Drug has more in common with the terrifying atmospheres created by noisier cohorts like Prurient then the minimalism of Tomas Koner. The sound is grim, black, and abrasive; mechanical, filthy, and unnerving. This limited-edition LP (500 copies) is the first of two by the DFX to be released by Actual Noise, with the second, Skkull, coming in the near future.” -actual noise
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V/A “California” 10XLP Box Set $70 (that’s only $7 an LP!!)
absolutely essential if you’re into noise. 10XLP box set featuring a full side each by:
AMPS FOR CHRIST
THE CHERRY POINT
JOE COLLEY
CONTROL
GERRITT
GX JUPITTER-LARSEN
MOTH DRAKULA
OSCILLATING INNARDS
OPEN CITY
DAMION ROMERO
RUBBER O CEMENT
SIXES
THE SKATERS
SOLID EYE
SPASTIC COLON
TRALPHAZ
JOHN WIESE
XOME
RHY YAU
YELLOW SWANS
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Dead Machines “London Dungeon” one sided lp $15 BACK IN STOCK!
“Waaaayyyy black in 2002 the Olson-ORourke duo jetted over the pond to meet Dylan and Karen in Brighton, hang for big Ds birthday, soak in the craggy UK atmosphere. Crazed Dylan held a weird show somewhere in London, at the KFDMs dude club, with strange painted walls and a movable stage. Young traveler Big Js eq blew up right before the gig, so DM had to share one electronic set-up and reeds, etc. Was a truly strange night, some punter kept yelling something at us, you can hear it on the record, but cant tell what hes yellin – but it doesnt sound like a wish of good luck. Milch Grande and Dylan also played and I think that [sic] Goldie jammed as well.Heres the DM set, an odd one for sure. Playable at any speed, color vinyl, edition of 200 with a live photo from the gig.” -American Tapes
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Ducktails “1992 Demo” cassette $6
” First release by Ducktails. Recorded in a backyard toolshed in the summer in Western Mass. This tape features faded oldies rock songs with a tropical flavor. Soaring beach boys guitar lines meets ariel pink underwater backing band. Meant for listening in a car with the windows down, you’ll keep playin these jams over and over again. A must listen. Includes the single “Pizza Time” Full color covers with color sticker on tape.” -future sounds
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Predator Vision/Sun Araw split LP $14.25
“Two loose electric crews grind the great ghost-pipe in the sky on this sweaty slab of black wax. East Coast triad Predator Vision hit all our pressure points last year with a pair of rank/dank self-titled tapes, both of which trailblazed a shaggy path through curtains of cavernous moss via slow-burn low-end/drums rumbling (Ben Daly and Etienne Duguay, respectively) and fucked up outer space shredding by big dog Matt Mondanile (aka Ducktails). Near-perfect new age psych rock but without the trappings of either genre-hole. This is PV’s vinyl debut, and their A side monster, “Real Aliens,” alternately levitates/bulldozes through four main movements: tripped, trashed, free, and feel-good. All zones worth wandering through! Share the Vision. On the flip is hometown hero Sun Araw/Cameron Stallones, whose fertile crescent of Long Beach drugged out mantric world soul psych shows no signs of drying up. If anything, “Hey Mandala!” might be the most far out, deep down, revved up magic 8-ball he’s yet to throw into the public’s eye/ear. Buoyed up by hairy low-lidded free trumpet courtesy of Phil French (of Magic Lantern/Super Minerals), the track explodes in a narcotic cyclone of digital drums, voices, and waves of wah, before slowly phoenix-ebbing into a sick floor-shaking rhythm machine. Shit is funked up. Like nothing he’s done before, and all the better for it. Black vinyl LPs, mastered by Casio Mon, in glossy pro-printed jackets with island/jungle art designed by Stallones. Edition of 475.” -nnf
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Skullflower “Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver” LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!!
“We’ve only had the good/loud fortune to witness Matthew Bower perform live on ONE solitary occasion, but the infinite incineration he managed to detonate out of a single electric guitar and knee-high practice amp was convincing enough to last several lives. In the meantime, there’s the gallons of celestial skree he bombards the listening universe with via his cavalry of audio aliases (Skullflower, Total, Hototogisu, Sunroof!, Mirag), all of which radiate with Bower’s iconic, influential, two-decades-deep quest to fuse the bruised with the blissed in a single white-light fist held up high. And although his specific mission for each project seems to have crossfaded a bit in recent years, it’s still huge news to us to be able offer up Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver, the first full-length Skullflower album to be pressed on vinyl since forever (at least the early 90s). Taste The Blood… finds Bower in the more blackened, doom-damaged terrains like those stripmined on the recent Desire For A Holy War or Pure Imperial Reform: abrupt vertical baths of blinding distortion and harmonic override spiked with cavernous cultish riffs and deeply bleak ritual moods. The blood is fresh, but the body’s unrecognizable. Charred and forgotten, this is another stepping stone on the path to the upturned altar. Black vinyl LPs in fucked-up-and-photocopied matte jackets. Edition of 500.” -nnf
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My Bloody Valentine “Loveless” LP $14
“Isn’t Anything was good enough to inspire an entire scene of My Bloody Valentine soundalikes, but Loveless’ greatness proved that the band was inimitable. After two painstaking years in the studio and nearly bankrupting their label Creation in the process, the group emerged with their masterpiece, which fulfilled all of the promise of their previous albums. If Isn’t Anything was the Valentines’ sonic blueprint, then Loveless saw those plans fleshed out, in the most literal sense: “Loomer,” “What You Want,” and “To Here Knows When”‘s arrangements are so lush, they’re practically tangible. With its voluptuous yet ethereal melodies and arrangements, Loveless intimates sensuality and sexuality instead of stating them explicitly; Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher’s vocals meld perfectly with the trippy sonics around them, suggesting druggy sex or sexy drugs. From the commanding “Only Shallow” and “Come in Alone” to breathy reflections like “Sometimes” and “Blown a Wish,” the album balances complexity and immediately memorable pop melodies with remarkable self-assurance, given its difficult creation. But Loveless doesn’t just perfect the group’s approach, it also hints at their continuing growth: “Soon” fuses the Valentines’ roaring guitars with a dance-inspired beat, while the symphonic interlude “Touched” suggests an updated take on Fripp and Eno’s pioneering guitar/electronics experiments. These glimpses into the band’s evolution make Shields’ difficulty in delivering a follow-up to Loveless even more frustrating, but completely understandable — the album’s perfection sounded shoegazing’s death-knell and raised expectations for the next My Bloody Valentine album to unreasonably high levels. Though Shields’ collaborations with Yo La Tengo, Primal Scream, J Mascis, and others were often rewarding, they were no match for Loveless. However, as My Bloody Valentine fans — and, apparently, Shields himself — will attest, nothing is.” -allmusic review
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The Hospitals “Hairdryer Peace” LP $12
“The Hospitals “Hairdryer Peace” As far as the future goes, or out of nowhere shit or whatever, this was the only completely forward thinking album of 2008 to knock my head off. The old Hospitals is still buried in there, but this new version is incredible and operating on a whole new plane of psychedelic insanity that completely blows the old stuff away. They key to its greatness is in main Hospital Adam Stonehouse’s mix, but the contributions of Rob Enbom and Rod Meyer from Eat Skull and Chris Gunn from the Hunches obviously heighten things. Described by Adam as the soundtrack to a psychotic breakdown, it is definitely a disorienting listen. It cops various moves that are normally strictly the domain of the more experimental underground but it’s all used to serve the song and or vibe of the album. What separates Hairdryer Peace from that kind of stuff is the fact that this is an album of songs. And as far out as it can get, there is an actual emotional intensity to the album that you just don’t find on most underground records. And like a good Led Zeppelin album or whatever, a lot of different moods are conjured over the course of it: heavy tranced out riffs, weird pop, cracked folk, disorienting noise, paranoid vibes and it also this beach vibe that runs throughout which connects it with the cover art. Highly recommended. Not a party record and definitely not background music. This is best listened to loud, alone and with herbal assistance. (Scott Simmons)”
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barn owl/tom carter split LP $16 (UK import)
“Newest Blackest Rainbow hot on the heels of some truly killer releases from the artists involved, both who seem to have really pushed there sounds and vibes to new levels this year… Barn Owl’s side has been mastered by local jammer Ben Nash, and its three tracks of sparse drone layered with bleak guitar epic-ness, tingling chimes and dark mountainous whispers. The guitars here sound delicate and beautiful, but it remains bleak and empty, if you enjoyed their LP on Not Not Fun then this is a real treat. Tom Carter’s 16 minute ‘Train Kept’ follows pretty damn nicely from his recent ‘Shots At Infinity’ releases on Important, a far cry from his more psychedelic folk experimentations, here he slashes and riffs like many a legend, and maybe, just maybe, it’s a slight tribute to a certain band too? This is a fully wild piece of work. Black sleeves, pasted stark landscape cover, with a insert of liner notes. Limited to 380 copies.” -blackest rainbow
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Om “Live at Jerusalem” LP $17
“In December of 2007 the mighty duo that is OM made a pilgrimage to Israel to play for its people. Their pinnacle performance unfolded at 4 Aristobolus Street in Jerusalem the site of Uganda Records. The band played for over 4 hours on this evening! The tracks: “Flight of the Eagle” and “Bhimas’ Theme” were captured and the transmission of these recordings were flown back to the United States where the vinyl lacquers were made by Bob Weston . Southern Lord in cooperation with OM present you the listener with this 180 gram black vinyl transcendental offering: OM-“Live at Jerusalem”. Limited to 3,100 machine numbered copies. ” -southern lord
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Black Monk “Flowstone” LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Flowstoned and dethroned, finally. Last year’s bored/burning summer spell of Eagle Rock entropy birthed a numb drum ‘n drones duo dubbed Black Monk. The aesthetic of inept, free-punk drumming and red-eyed, void-surfing low-end infinity found output on two micro-limited cassette releases (one on Buried Valley, one on Zac/Lambsbread’s Maim & Disfigure) and one weedian live show (in Tempe, AZ) and then the scholars split to separate coasts. Fortunately for us/you, Flowstone comes crawling outta the caverns of a babeless summer on a slab of black wax, collecting their out-of-print Murmur CS and half the V CS, plus an unreleased side-long wastoid-land of subterranean percussion and roaring magma. Just in time for 2012. Black vinyl LPs in stark pro-printed fold-over covers plus a poster of arcane team scribble by BM. Limited to 270. Co-released with Arbor.” -notnotfun/arbor
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Christina Carter “Electrice” LP $13 *OUT OF PRINT*
“Long anticipated licensed vinyl reissue of Christina Carter’s most recent kranky CD release, with beautifully hand-painted, signed, and numbered covers. An experiment in palette limitation, using only the barest match-sticks of form and lyrics, Christina constructs a shimmering puzzle of austere beauty. Edition of 500, almost gone already. “Subterranean song writing … eliminating excess elements … more cinematic or sculptural, feeling of being a human body… piano-like guitar… two personal songs, two universal songs … idealization and memory… songs created instantly, not knowing what i was going to sing about until i sang… inspired by 60’s album art and band photos of floating heads, slight physical ‘defects’ and skeletal uncoordination, anachronistic futurisms, the idea of ‘drone’ (4 different songs from the same basic musical elements), dance choreography, and living with chronic pain…” -wholly other
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ROBEDOOR- “Endlessly Blazing” LP $13 *BACK IN STOCK!!!*
“Eagle Rock, CA’s Robedoor are back with another doomed out K-hole. Slow creeping drones building to some nice loner caveman pound/ real song territory. Three tracks in just under 40 minutes. edition of 500 with full color jacket. Artwork by Jeremy Earl. “Another bowl of black wax lit up and littered into the smogset. Another half hour in the haze, burned and overturned. “Endlessly Blazing” loads together a trio of semi-recent resin sessions: the A is a sidelong sinkhole into lava and quaaludes, the B starts with a sprawling spiral sweetleaf ballad before convulsing into a pissed withdrawal of dread drums, electronic fumes, and damaged howling. Hold it in as long as you can” -?”-woodsist
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Wavves “s/t” LP $13
“lo-fi beach punk anthems by San Diego’s Nathan Williams. beautiful timeless melodies on top trash can guitars and blown out drums.14 tracks in 35 minutes. follow up full length to be released by De Stijl.” -woodsist
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Magic Lantern “s/t” LP $14 (already out of print from source)
“MagicLantern came into being at the mid-point of the decade, sparked into existence by a simultaneous period of musical discovery for Philip French, William Giacchi, and Cameron Stallones. Inspired by the psychedelic approach to musical tone and structure in various eras and genres of rock (not at all excluding Germany and Japan in the ’70s), the three realized they ought to make use of the new creative tools they’d stumbled upon, and began jamming the summer away in twin poles of Long Beach and Whittier, CA. Over the course of a year they recorded every jam and compiled a full-length’s worth of home-studio demos which later became their self-released CD-R. At the same time, each member was developing solo and side projects to channel parallel universes of sound. A year after their first jam together, MagicLantern decided to make the leap to playing live and recruited good friends and like-minded musicians Chip Knechtel and Gavin Fort to be their marathon rhythm section. The jams from their CD-R were used as the blueprints for the band to develop a raw, stripped-down sound that emphasized hypnotic rhythms and improvised guitar duels. After being invited to play at the Tee Pee Records showcase “Manifest Destiny” in August of ’07, th’ Lantern kept up a steady diet of shows in LA and Long Beach for the next year, earning a local following and two highly limited tapes on Not Not Fun Records. Through the spring of ’08 they began writing new material as a band and developing the new songs live. In the summer they recorded these jams with sound wizard Bobb Bruno, which led to the Not Not Fun LP High Beams that September. At this point the band had fully emerged from transition into a shared creative vision of five musicians, each possessing a singular voice, all united in the common goal to engage both mind and body through good vibrations.” -woodsist
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Secret Abuse “Violent Narcissus” LP $13
“Secret Abuser Jeff Witscher is an enigma wrapped in a riddle rolled in cassette tape and plugged into a battered pair of towering PA speakers. He’s lived everywhere, met everyone, and inspired legions through his loner lifestyle, utopian fashions (“refugee chic”), and spellbindingly intense music. Up from Rainbow Blanket, through to Impregnable, and across the arid plains of Roman Torment and Deep Jew, Witscher’s maintained a singularity of vision and total commitment to execution that has wrecked us, personally, to the point of speechlessness at least a dozen times. But, despite his restlessly shapeshifting spirit, the past year plus has seen him settling ever deeper into his Secret Abuse sinkhole mode, and here’s hoping he lingers a while longer, cause it’s a fucking winner. Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones crossfade into tortured minor key guitar laments before being slowly subsumed in a droning ocean of choked vocals and sulking, selfish electronics. Repressed, burning, and emotional as only a young man pushing away everything can be, Violent Narcissus is as definitive a document as has thus far yet emerged from the SA canon (and lord knows there’s been a grip of gems). Look long and hard; the mirror is a bitter mistress. Black LPs, mastered by Bill Hutson, housed in jackets designed by Witscher. Edition of 445.” -nnf
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Christina Carter/Pocahaunted split LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Been beautifully blissed on this pairing for months now and we’re amped it’s finally public unveiling time. Christina Carter has trekked around this country (and planet) countless times in the past decade plus, both by herself and with Tom Carter in Charalambides, and the constant gypsy-drifting has weathered her song-stories down into spare, spiral reflections on life, death, and afterlife. Here she lays down four perfect vignettes of acoustic guitar pattern, softly sung desperation, and dangerous intimacy. A beatific bring-down. Sisters-with-voices Pocahaunted handle the B side wax, and their two tracks span the psych-ward spectrum from doomy warpath exile (“Sweat Lodge”) to octave-climbing estrogen ecstasy cloud-tripping (“Silk Fog Traveler”). Both were recorded by Bobb Bruno at Eagle Rock HQ across summer ’07 and cling like cotton to the memory banks. Marbled-peach vinyl LPs in matte jackets with hooded/devoted artwork by Carrie Dietz. Edition of 500.” -nnf
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Foot Village “Friendship Nation” LP $10 *LAST COPY!!*
NEW FULL LENGTH LP from Los Angeles “post apocalyptic / electricity free hardcore” band, consisting of four drummers /vocalists unleashing primal and brutally catchy scream-alongs. Members of destruction jam/van band FRIENDS FOREVER (Load), free noise unit GANG WIZARD (Load/Ecstatic Peace/Gilgongo) and DEATHBOMB ARC mastermind Brian Miller. CD version released in Europe on TOME. Alternate decription: “Foot Village is the first nation built after the apocalypse. Foot Village have a duty to rebuild the world, a new nation out of the ruins of civilization atop the ruins of Hell, after the oceans have all evaporated. All we know so far is revealed on their first album World Fantasy, a collection of songs about other countries. Now Foot Village have created their own country and the songs on Friendship Nation, recorded by Jonathan Snipes of Captain Ahab”. -gilgongo records
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Ducktails “Acres of Shade” cassette $6.50
““Acres Of Shade” is a departure from past Ducktails zones. Mondanile turns away from his lofi bedroom pop vibes, moving towards synthesizer cycles. He does not sacrifice his youthful style and tropical nostalgia; just rethinks the way it is expressed. Drifting drones lift in the air. Features all new material: “White House With Green Shutters / Surfs Up”. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color covers and printed labels.” -arbor
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Outer Space/Oneohtrix Point Never split cassette $6.50
“Outer Space’s John Elliott and OPN’s Dan Lopatin are arguably the two leaders in the analog synthesizer revival. Both constantly raise the bar with their bands(Emeralds and Infinity Window, respectively), though their solo work is a great gauge of personal innovation. Here, Outer Space (as a solo project) goes into truly unchartered territory, using synths as well as sound collage, the meticulously recorded “Evaporating Door” took months to be fully conceived. Combining Kraut influences such as Tangerine Dream with musique concret and John Cage, Elliott creates what truly is his bravest work yet. On the flipside, Lopatin digs deep into the OPN archives, presenting his first composition with a sequencer from 2004. It is interesting to see its use that early in his work because it is as relevant and integral to the current OPN zone as ever. The following track recalls the deep space drone vibes found on the “Betrayed In The Octagon” cassette. Atmospheric movements with uplifting and personal flickers of light. In an edition of 200 tapes with full color art and printed labels.” -arbor
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Treetops “Melancholy” cassette $6.50
“Created for the Winter 2009 Midwest/Northeast tour with Infinity Window and Sick Llama, this progression represents a slight divergence from recent Treetops movements. Guitar and casio recordings pushing aside personal boundaries and mental blocks. The final recordings before rethinking the equation. In an edition of 50 tapes with full color art and printed labels.” -arbor
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Topaz Rags “Tarot Harem” 7″ $6
*members of pocahaunted/robedoor* “Eagle Rock’s most reclusive comedown crew creep back into the blacklight for their vinyl debut with a pair of loosely more focused excursions into cold soul music and post-beatnik jazz shadowplay. Dress accordingly. Recorded in the weeks preceding the ritual void sessions that birthed the California Ash cassette, both tracks here tread the grey but groovy haunted interzone between bummed DIY ghost bop and outright goth lament. It’s a fine line, watch it closely. “Tarot Harem” is the A side, and it feigns a pure funeral mood before slowly stirring to life with erotic spectral voices, distant trumpet, and a swingingly narcoleptic rhythm section. The B is “Black Honey,” which tip-toes a similar path through 3 AM city streets while forlorn piano notes fall like light rain, the drums gently rev up, and vocals scat about “black tar black tar” and how “the beat goes on.” It does. This is the wrong side of town. Hang around if that’s yr thing. Black vinyl singles in hand-silkscreened, photocopied, and die-cut sleeves with topless nature nymph/burnout artwork. Edition of 250.” -not not fun
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analog concept “magic generators or types of a.s. pushkin/general plan of a town block” 2Xcassette $10
“analog concept is one of those demos that comes along all too rarely, but that you have to pinch yourself over and over again to be sure that its real. this project is the brainchild of a mysterious russian named alexey. in my mind, he’s a bit of a legend. here’s what he says about himself: “a man of middle age, having philological education and musical school for boys in the past. alexei took part in many musical projects. grown up on detroit techno and having memories of ‘acid rains and raves’ of past century.” and to that i say fuck yeah. so what is analog concept? it is simple and magnificent. alexey collected loads of different soviet-era analog synths and recorded mountains of hypnotic, swirling synth jams. they’re zoners to the nth degree. you sink into the buzzing circuits, lost like an epic russian novel. this is the real fucken deal. over two hours of analog delight that will make you long for the days of cold war technology over and over and over. mother russia, bringing it home. limited to 70 copies.” -digitalis
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Treetops “Eternal Sky” cassette $6
“big mike makes an important step forward; his deepest, most focused and personally regarded effort yet, first of many. slowly building tracks, with clear keyboard tones resting beneath distant background chords and textures. submerging. edition of 125, full color covers and glossy labels.” -monorail trespassing
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Oneohtrix Point Never “A Pact Between Strangers” cdr $7.00
“Newest release from OPN aka Dan Lopatin, certified ‘King of the Arpeggiator.’ Sounds like it Could have been recorded ankle in a puddle deep in Amplified Galapagos. Though Dan has already carved out his own sound-niche I must again stress that this is one of his finest, most focused works to date. First track ‘the Pretender’ has a kind of Anthony Phillips circa ’87 vibe, ie. frito layers of sawtooth dentistry while the second track recalls mid/late-period Eno along the lines of ‘Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Quest.’ Since I as of yet have not mused to the public on the ridiculous, current proscription of the term ‘new age’ I am forced to explore new ways of expression. There is an incorrect stigma attached to the term at present because in 2008 people still associate it with the survivors of the downfall, propagators of cheesy presets and Yanni qualities INSTEAD of actual COOL shit that Sounds Good. Basically, listen to a Suzanne Doucet tape on Isis from ’84 which sounds good and like this CD and not regurgitative Windham Hill releases and media perception of the term. But I digress..John says Dan has a knack for snax, starburry chola yummys. Last track is totally Prisms-era Michael Garrison possibly in the style of Jarre, finger calisthenics. Handpainted CDRs with this strange interference paint which actually allows you to see into other dimensions when you look at it. Every CD has a unique design unto itself. Interference paint is a polymer emulsion(paint) containing titanium-coated mica flakes. Painted over a dark color you see the labeled interference color. Painted over a light color you see the complimentary color. The color changes depending upon the angle you’re viewing the paint at. It’s impossible to represent the effect in a picture as it is a phenomenon which exists through motion, movement.. I find the tracks on this release are successful in that they too operate on a similar level. Have you ever read Binkley’s ‘Piece: Contra Aesthetics?’ Now that our nation can collectively take a deep breath for the next four years, it is time to straight chill and listen to the music at hand!! ” -gneiss things
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sky limosuine “telepresence” cassette $6
“i love me some sky limousine. rarely does a project’s moniker so perfectly encapsulate its sound, but in the case of sky limo it couldn’t be more true. “telepresence” alternates between gooey synthed-out goodness and schizoid tape collage efforts. it all flows like a crystal river deep into the trenches of your frontal lobe.the journey that is “telepresence” will take you all over the globe. blips of eastern-tinged cacaphony fit snugly against hiss-drenched jamborees, all leading into uplifting synth passages and quiet solemnity. like i said, i love me some sky limousine. limited to 50 copies, japanese paper cover stylings.” – digitalis
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Topaz Rags “California Ash” cassette $6
“People in the West blame weird moods on a string of things: the wind (those Santa Anas), the end (of the country), the moon (crescent is cursed), even the movies. But it doesn’t matter which is right/real, because the effect is the same, freaked souls in a trapped environment, lotuses floating on a lake littered with bodies. Topaz Rags is a new late night downer trio devoted to mapping these sour times and long goodbyes, and California Ash is their 2-sided elegy for the Golden State’s darkest ghosts, the rich hills full of fire, the day after the kool-aid. Back-alley bass lines plod under smoky piano shadows, drums stalk a straight line in a house with the power out, a trumpet mourns from a warped 78 spinning in the basement. Wasted, grey, DIY drug jazz lost somewhere between Bohren & Der Club Of Gore and some half-destroyed pre-digital Portishead demo. Gold-on-white pro-dubbed cassettes in spraypainted cases with doomed hippie chick portrait cover photo and bedecked with a hand-cut shred of neon palm tree fabric. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Super Minerals “The Thaw” cassette $6.50 (second edition)
“We spent weeks farming through three and a half years worth of Super Minerals’ greatests recordings to birth The Thaw, the massive C120 collection we released in early ’08. But as edition-of-100s are wont to do, the CS sold out fast and vanished into the yawning past. Which is cool, but we felt this classic deserved a 2nd go-round for the united global earhole, so we fashioned a new edition, and here it is. Exact same music (“murky sunlight string-jangle, jungle Om heatwaves, distant insect whirr, phantom flute whispers, deep drugged rainforests of vibrant harmonic hallucination”), on the exact same high quality pro-imprinted chrome cassettes, but this time each tape is housed in a unique hand-cut full-color wraparound piece of brain-hazed new age art, and tied with a piece of sea glass scavenged in Fort Bragg, CA. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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“V” “We Are Crossing Fences Through Rocky Fields ” cdr $7
“Formerly released as a c47. High altitude glass ceiling echoes over low canopy woodland daze via wind, string, and buried vox. Perfect for misty morning tent warp and disappearing acts. And there’s a bonus track this time around. reissued edition of 30” -housecraft
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Herons “Walk Upright” cassette $6
“Atonal drifts converge like opaque clouds, cracked with piercingf light. Warm strings both meanderingly plucked and stroked, organ drifts, tapes, effects, feedback, and high ceilings comprise/compromise a subtle, but not bashful, transporting, slow moving passage over frozen terrain. edition of 52” -housecraft
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axolotl / infinity window split cassette $8 (UK import)
“This took me to a higher plane and left me there. Pro Dubbed fancy pants.” -sickhead
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Raccoo-oo-oon “Behold Secret Kingdom” LP $13
“You know what they say: beautiful tribal spirit psych lies in the eyes of the beholder. So enter the kingdom and hold the secret in your hands. Iowa City’s prodigal sun-starers offer up the fruits of their deepest inquest yet into the heart of the heart of the country. Eight wilderness rituals of swirling percussion, mossy guitar noise, forest howls, and animal instincts that unfold and erupt with more focus, intensity, and complexity than anything else in Raccoo-oo-oon’s discography thus far. The songs were tracked in the studio with warmth and power by Mike Dixon and then given a heavy mastering job by Pete Swanson, so sonically the vinyl shines and burns and explodes in all the right places. A crushing statement of electric alchemy by one of our favorite bands in the world. Black vinyl LPs in awesome pro-printed jackets, plus an insert, with Midwestern magick color visions/nature photography art by the band. Co-released with Night People.” -nnf
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Gown – “truemanville” – CDr $7
“Andrew McGregor is onto something really good. Time well spent with Thurston and Sunburned combines with an exile in Nova Scotia to yield this deeply fryed trilogy. Epic burnt instrumentals recall the entire Harmony of the Spheres, but these are no mere guitarscapes, truemanville’s triptych is all at once fragile and crushing, both melodic and bleeding. This is the Gown we’ve been waiting for, a fucking maturity and complexity we always knew was in there. Spark, burn, blacken. Woodblock printed sleeves with fabric spines, smoldering images, limited to 77 copies.” -folkwaste
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Sean Mccann “Sway” cdr $6
“Sean McCann doesn’t seem content standing still in the same place for too long. His thankfully consistent tape & cdr reports beam in evidence that for this recent San Francisco transplant, a solo jam is the romper room in which to include all sounds and exclude all rules. Sway presents a distinct turn in Sean’s focuses and obsessions of the moment. Tender guitar & synth interplay gives way to epic washes of white and bliss, then rounds the bend to bonked floor-stomp raga, inevitably to run the cycle again in lost languages of electricity. Totally essential McCann. Ltd. 80 handnumbered cdrs in polyvinyl sleeve with some of our favorite Ted Trager art design yet.” -stunned records
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NIGHT WOUNDS / MUTATORS Split 7″ $5.50
Hand Screened covers by Seripop. Includes free mp3 codes “Night Wounds lead a lurching charge like a compulsively calculating murder cult on the intriguingly textured, ominously creeping “Animal”. Sounding just as murderous, Vancouver, BC’s Mutators are a more unrestrained kinda killer. Supremely incendiary female vocals enmesh with raw Ginn-like guitar without a cushion over the top of militant drums. Side A sucks your blood; side B splatters it on every wall.” -badmaster records
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DARA PUSPITA “A Go Go” cassette $6
“From the newly launched Plustapes cassette label comes [a tape] from this Indonesian sixties all girl garage group. Do you really need to know any thing more? Indonesian. Sixties. All girl. Garage? We didn’t think so, but just for the heck of it… We were gonna write separate reviews for each of these, but they’re so cheap, and so good, and odds are if you want one, you’re going to want them all. So far pretty much everyone who has heard these has gone totally nuts for these kick ass garage rock girls. Dara Puspita (Flower Girls in English) were Indonesia’s most successful girl group in the sixties, and one of the few -actual- bands, who played their own instruments as opposed to just singing with all male backing bands. Even though rock and roll was banned at the time, with some bands being jailed for performing rock music live, Dara Puspita took their influence from that banned rock music, borrowing liberally from the Rolling Stones, The Beatles (whose songs they were warned by the authority to not perform) and the like, but giving it their own twist. Performing a mix of covers and originals, these ladies were legendary for their wild live shows, but they really shone on record, with a totally distinctive and keen pop sensibility, gorgeous lilting vocals, an awesome rhythm section and some really excellent guitar playing. Dara Puspita weren’t avant garde or super far out, not really heavy or psychedelic, instead they were just a kick ass pop group, an awesome garagey rock and roll band, catchy and fun, super energetic and with a distinctly unique vibe that makes this sound so special. Not to mention all the fuzzy record crackle, which only adds to the appeal! For us at least… Each tape is strictly LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, each one hand numbered, the tapes are the same color as the covers, each of which sports original artwork from Plastic Crimewave!! ONE PER CUSTOMER!!! ” -plus tapes
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sam goldberg “winter hallucinations I” cassette $6
“This is the first of a series of gloomy guitar improvisations recorded during and about the winter time in Cleveland. Gray and dismal. Hand drawn art by Leigh S.” -pizza night
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sam goldberg/color dream “cultivating sound garden” split cassette $6
“Color Dream creates a lush blanket of gentle and peristent quivering radiance which represents to me some of the best sounds coming out of these kewl comrads. The collaboration vibes from Mike P. and Peter F. seem to have no trouble channeling heavy zones for what is only there fourth release. They use the constraints of a 7 minute side to there absolute fullest potential. a perfect balance of fuzzy ambients and weirdo key collage. The b-side is new jams from Sam G. Heavily influenced by Cybertracker and the films of Paul Wynne, his side offers more short “cycles” -esque synth pieces. This time introducing sequencing and vocals to the mix. Extended full color inserts and hand painted cassettes.” -pizza night
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sam goldberg “outer body experiences” cassette $6
2nd edition of this tape. pizza night
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Exhumed Corpse/Dour “Blood Filter” cassette $6
“slow motion hell. recorded in the basement of a basement. edition 50.” -fag tapes
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HIVE MIND “beneath triangle and crescent” cassette $6
” first official release for Fag Tapes! the last few Hive Mind gigs i’ve seen have been real sick and it’s too bad the Super Street tape recorder missed out on all of them. studio recordings. edition 50.” -fag tapes
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SICK LLAMA / TREETOPS “light infection” collab. cassette $6
“wax organ and keys. mixed down in Ham Studios. adrift in the night. edition 50.” -fag tapes
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slither “from a fading age” cassette $6
new tape on fag tapes
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EARTH STATION “58” cassette $6
“TAPE ASSEMBLAGES OF THE AMERICAN COLOR DREAM.” -young tapes. treetops+ peter friel
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MOSSY THROATS “LEAVES OF THE MIND” cassette $6
“INTANGIBLE GROWTH, RELAX WEIRD; NEW YOUNG ZONES FLOW IN WITH TOTAL FLUIDITY. ” -young tapes
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muntjac “warp” cassette (belgium import) $8
“Paul Grimes, member of the now defunct DEATH CHANTS walks a surprisingly personal path on this album. very outside the common psychedelic genre he draws a path of his own. on WARP, Grimes scrapes together a faboulous blend of easy listening, light marbles and more retro space tunes. a hot mix of elements of KITARO, JOE MEEK, and even some hits of an introspective DENNIS WIZE. fantastic stuff for the upcoming summer hangovers. ” -bread and animals
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duncan cameron “s/t” cassette (belgium import) $8
“dolphins into the future side-project. duncan cameron was involved in the Montauk project. he was the medium they used to transmit the brain frequencies. but more important, duncan cameron lived on different timetracks. more than dolphins into the future, this tape focusses on pure / clear synthesizer music and ambient sci fi spheres. but on side b, the timetracks are switched, and one suddenly hears a collage of taped percussion sounds. it’s maybe a sort of organum pondering on persona isolation. only in this case, defenitly not the kind of self-implemented isolation to reach for better knowledge of oneself / the mind / mind programs / the others / chrestos / life….” -bread and animals
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james ferraro “last american hero / adrenaline’s end” cassette (belgium import) $8
“amnesia smoke out & prototype James Ferraro makes his big goodbye america statement. side a is an “in memoriam” for the last american hero. a lost full moon features on the rise and decay of a man of honor and honesty. “twisted” ecstacy for the double thinkers out there. mic fleetwoods mindframe after the decay and abandonment of the survivors of the coked out mac. side b is the sound of clear, of adrenaline’s end. a tackle for all your engrams. a broad view on how it feels to be uplifted into infinity. uplifted into a vast clear sky of self fullfillment and a deep metaprogrammed brain activity radius.” -bread and animals
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Ettrick “Feeders of Ravens” LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
“Prepare for sudden death. San Francisco brutalizers Ettrick finally deliver the full-length destruction they’ve been threatening for so long now. Feeders of Ravens is definitely the most potent collection of harsh jazz violence the duo’s ever laid to tape, showcasing all their classic kill-moves: slaughtering saxophone dialogues, jittery percussive fits, raging horn/drum self-annihilation, etc. What escalates their improv attacks above just blind frenzy is the warped telepathy Jacob Heule and Jay Korber exhibit in their playing, wordlessly intuiting one another’s energy upswings and downturns. And nowhere is this psychic connection more apparent (and demonic) than on “Raven Harvest,” the LP’s final onslaught. Searing sax blasts burn through the ear drum, giving way to splatter paint percussion flailings and scraping metal, which then slowly take shape, coagulating into a dense, aggressive avalanche of pummeling, white-hot drum rapture. Life into death into life. Black LPs in pro-printed jackets with majestically sinuous, Haida-style cover art (and memento mori raven back art). Limited to 350.” -nnf
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Magik Markers “Feel the Crayon” LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!!
“This is a moment of heavy honor dudes. Magick Markers scrawled a permanent place in NNF’s heart the first time we jammed their deranged-shaman society-ripper “White Bikini” at max volume. Instantly became a total dream to carve that magik on sike-adelic vinyl. This IS that dream. Originally released as a limited-run 7-song CDR by the awesome east coasters, Apostasy Recordings, the wax edition of Feel the Crayon shaves 2 of the emptier tracks (for length/sound quality purposes), creating a harsher, denser document of their ecstatic feedback questing. Pressed on purple-haze vinyl, in color-washed hand-screened jackets with lunatic utopia artwork by George W. Myers of Grey Skull. Also comes with a hand-numbered 16-panel art-zine of additional GWM creature visions/drawings.” -NNF
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Magik Markers “Boss” LP $15 (long out of print)
“2008 repress! Limited vinyl version of the most accessible Magik Markers album (CD is on Ecstatic Peace), on their very own label Arbitrary Signs. “Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously-unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. In a 2005 interview in The Wire, Elisa Ambrogio said, ‘I want [The Magik Markers] to concentrate on music and focus inward, to concentrate on our own language of sound.’ BOSS stands as the Markers’ first stab at getting to the meat of this ambition. With a mix of blues simplicity, an almost Sonny Sharrock wailing and a janky Americana punk reminiscent of Pat Place and Roky Erickson, Ambrogio avoids preciousness like a rash. On BOSS, a tent rises right out of the empty plain and we are thrust into a full-blown revival show with no audience and no lights; it is just Elisa preaching, Pete blowing Gabriel’s horn, and the mad wind of the prairie blowing all around. They are each hand-screened individual works of art & very very limited.” -arbitrary signs
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Mindflayer “Take Your Skin Off” LP $14 *THIS BEAST HAS BEEN OOP FOREVER!*
“mind flayer is the synthesis of b. chippendale (lightning bolt) and mr. brinkmann (meerk puffy, force field, mc brinkmandibles, danse asshole, krap). like having your brain sucked out at the bottom of a dungeon, mind flayer rip and tear at your psyche with psionic skill and power. take your skin off captures the band like no other release they have done before, a complete record with connections to the astral plane. get out you players handbook and study up on your illithid interpretation techniques.” -bulb
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Kabyzdoh Obtruhamchi “Kabyzdoh Obtruhamchi” cassette $6
“Yes we’re going to have to learn how to pronounce yet another tricky project name, but in this case it’ll be highly worthwhile, as soon many will be talking about Kabyzdoh Obtruhamchi. Sergey Kozlov is Russia’s newest exporter of excellent jams, and his solo c50 arrives as a thankful surprise with its sky-rending hybridization of eastern european guitar spree & 70s snowdazed modal folkrock. Resonant drums burst through the giant aluminum churn of guitar, voice, and percussion arcing overhead. Dancing between poles of hot motion & cool mass, Sergey’s impressively energetic numbers establish themselves long enough to each become deeply meaningful, essential scenes in his pan shamanic expression. Big countries produce big stories, and we’re glad to roll out the first of more hours to follow from Bryansk’s psych music representative. Hand numbered edition of 100 pro-dubbed & imprinted c50 tapes in clear shells w/ gold foil liner & double sided color jcard. ” – stunned
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Cursillistas “Expanses Growing” C35 cassette $9 (belgium import)
“Murky beauty channeling its way from underneath layers of 4-track tape hiss. Acoustic guitars, percussion, voice and undefined analogue ambience. Homegrown is the way it should be. Edition of 70.” -sloow tapes
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Hisato Higuchi “Wind Chimes In The Head” C45 cassette $9 (belgium import)
“Guitar-moanings from the Otherworld drifting away through the clouds of a black Japanese night, dissolving into silence. Cover art by Ritsuko Ozeki – ‘Netting F’. 100 copies.” -sloow tapes
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Dreamer’s Cloth “Total Descent To Mind Beach” C20 cassette $9 (belgium import)
“New Age meditation dance party on tropical beach, getting one with nature under a relaxing shower of multi-colored fractals and shining keys. It’s only the dreamer who moves mountains. 70 copies.” -sloow tapes
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Dlx Othr “Nineties Youth Experience” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!
“Controls more or less permanently set for cat shit and a hammer. Gutter-sourced and wooden-fingered collage of twin guitar assault from the latest iteration of the ongoing Bee Mask/Skin Graft collab. Disgusting patinas on elaborate bronze machines. Hot coals/black holes uneasy contemplation energy, with an unexpectedly quiet/majestic finish. Mark McGuire (Emeralds) and Nate Scheible make cameo appearances, amid fragments culled from wasted home jams and performances at the Tower2012 in Cleveland.-deception island
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The Reel Deel “Marked for Death” cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!
“Here’s one for those of you who particularly cherished Hot Air Balloon Ride’s “Oktoberfest” c30 this past winter, a release that garnered such critical accolades as “shows no signs of being anything other than dicking around for just long enough to be worrying.” The Reel Deel, captured in action at Cleveland’s Doubting Thomas Gallery, is the trio of John Elliott (Emeralds, Outer Space, Hot Air Balloon Ride), Ryan Kuehn (Thursday Club, Dr. Quinn Medecine Woman, Hot Air Balloon Ride), and myself, in tapes-only mode. This was a ridiculously killer/annihilated February night, of which I remember mostly all of us standing around a table laughing hysterically and the room glowing yellow while I tried to make my eyes focus on a massive fucking heap of tape. Giant flapping jaws of the cosmos tunnel jams, decked out in stoned giggling and paranoid whispers. Seriously counterintuitive water features. Comments from those in attendance included, “I knew that Jerry was here.” No shit.” -deception island
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Bee Mask/Astronaut “The World is Transformed and all the Heavens Sing for Joy!/Will they Remember F-Zero?” split cassette $6
“A fat streak of grease on the wall while the room turns itself inside out. Post-kundalini awakening pissing words in the proverbial horse ear. Fucked Lee Perry-style deep tape scum/shimmer-oriented reworking of live sessions from WCSB. On the reverse, the late Massachusetts synth trio Astronaut, featuring Daniel “Oneohtrix Point Never” Lopatin, reach dizzying extremes of paranoia and lfo-heavy entheogenic ritual dread/churn in shadowy “final” sessions, coming on in a more blown out and breathless fashion than on any side to date. Full black light trails/campfire mode, complete with appropriately face-melting peaks.” -deception island
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UNEVEN UNIVERSE – EXIT HUMAN one-sided LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!
brand new one-sided lp by uneven universe on american tapes. members of haunted castle
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ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER “RUINED LIVES” cassette $6
“SYNTHESIZED BEAUTY IN ITS ENTIRETY, INSPECTION OF THE GALAXIES WITHIN US ALL.” -young tapes
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Raccoo-oo-oon – Mythos Folkways 5 “Future Fusion” cassette $6
“Final installment in the Mythos Fokways series, recorded late summer 07 by Mike Dixon in Chicago, mastered by Pete Swanson, the companion piece to the epic final double LP on NNF/RTB. Dark drifting psych rock, circular and uplifting, guitars weave around atmospheric electronics and R. Garbes signature propulsive drumming. Late dead encrusted shrine rock for the end times. Art by Garbes/Reed.” -night people
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BEE MASK- “HOW SOFTLY SINGS THE KETTLE, HOW SWEETLY CHIMES THE CLOCK” $6.50
“Recent East Coast transplant, Chris Madak has been ripping the air with his Bee Mask drones for some time. Here he juxtaposes Harsh, heavy tendencies with intricate synth work, creating dynamic pieces operating on multiple levels with a deep sense of high, mid, and low ranges. Interspersed throughout with effected field recordings to create an impossible zone existing somewhere between the synthetic and the natural. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color art and labels.” – arbor
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Wereju “The Light of Life Undone” cassette $6
“Ireland’s Cathal Rodgers takes a plunge into the murky pool of life/death and emerges with an epic work of mysterious beauty. Several shades darker than recent Wereju offerings, The Light of Life Undone mixes droning, low-end frequencies with fragile, heartbreaking melodies to conjure a thick fog of melancholy (with a fleeting glimmer of hope). Full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub.” -anathema sounds
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Husere Grav “All of Them Witches” cassette $6
“After a split cassette with Robedoor on Not Not Fun and several self-released CDRs, the elusive Husere Grav emerges once again from the southwestern shadows. All of Them Witches is an uneasy stroll through the cemetery with M.B. and Count Grishnakh—shifting from gloomy industrial soundscapes to lugubrious black metal and revealing that the two aesthetics blend together better than you’d ever imagined. For dark nights in solitude. Full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub.” -anathema sounds
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Ducktails 7″ $5
“should come with a free pair of flip flops, beautiful self described ‘tropical’ jams/gems, clean circular guitar over fuzzy, hazy drum loops and percussion coconuts washing ashore.æ influences from all over the ‘world’ without surrendering to mimcry, lots of suggestive bits but still a unique piece of pie, let your hair down type of party music.æ full color cover by george w. myers.” -breaking world records
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN “OPEN” cassette $6
“YOUNG AGE, OLD WEST. ” -young tapes
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N.213/MONGST split cassette $7 (limited to 10)
“Two of the PINX boys behold scum worship! /// Ltd. 10 copies! ” -INW
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LES BEYOND/SUBH split cassette $6
“Another great layered guitar drone , this time paired up with Argentina’s SUBH who lets loose and cinematic trance. /// Ltd. 50 copies” -INW
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STARVING WEIRDOS/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
“First ever Weirdos cassette!! SHPX births another mutant! /// Ltd. 100 copies” -INW
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SHEARING PINX “TONAL RETCH” double cassette $12
almost two hours of new music from SP. released on INW
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evan miller “three improvisations” cassette $6
“evan miller has been a staple around digitalis hq for the past few years since he busted onto the scene via too many killer night people tapes. over the course of many, many releases, miller has traversed all manner of different landscapes. perhaps he’s best known for his post-takoma acoustic jaunts, but there’s always been elements and vague hints of drones that circle underneath his picking like tonal sharks, looking for any sort of bait to jump out at. well, “three improvisations” puts it all together one in fine package. side a features two short songs for six-string guitar. to the point, they pull in melodies and keep them caged up until the exact, perfect moment when they are set free. it’s deceptive in its simplicity. side b adds electric elements (c/o phil ochs) and field recordings to jumble millers various sides into a cohesive whole. 95 copies with coffee-dyed tape labels.” – digitalis
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color dream “cloud factory” double cassette $12
“this double meditative burst from these teen captains of industry, mike pollard (treetops and arbor records) and peter friel (jk/young tapes and steve young, et al) delivers short and sweet bursts of hypnotic dronedreams straight to your cerebrum. it’s minimal and to the point, soothing like an opiate for the masses. “cloud factory” is soft around the edges and flows like a sweet earcandy stream, drowning you in the carefully crafted folds that wither under intense heat. friel & pollard are soaring, clearly dreaming of life in the sky. grab it. this is your life too. limited to 50 copies.” – digitalis
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atter cups untitled cassette $9 (uk import/limited)
“Cassette version of the above LP! This Maine based crew features a host of psychedelic jam talent… Nemo of Drona Parva and head honcho of Time-Lag Records, Sparrow WIldchild of The Bummer Road, and the three members of Visitations, whose record on Time-Lag last year was one of 2007’s best! So this is the second recording from this crew, the first being last years Sloow Tape. This beast is different to the Sloow vibe, still with a super nice jam band sound, but projecting to a maybe more ‘song’ (in the loosest possible way) based plane, a little like Visitations. Limited to 60 copies with colour transparency sleeves and no info.” -blackest rainbow
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blue shift untitled cassette $9 (uk import/limited)
“New tape from my buddy Cybele who’s based in Providence… total free violin slashes and carves busted out, then dropping right off to some super quiet and minimal experimentations… one to shred your speakers! Awesome stuff, previously had tape on Raccoo-oo-oon’s Night People label. Limited to 60 hand numbered copies with stamped labels and colour covers!” -blackest rainbow
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CABOLADIES- “WATERSLIDE MINES” cassette $6 *BACK IN STOCK*
“Kentucky’s Caboladies recreate the cosmic birth of droning stars. Dense, psychedelic synth compositions, building to the point of electro-ecstatic infinity. Sliding through the crystallized air, shining with beauty. Uplifting, transcendental spells stuck in the newness and awe of the atmosphere. The young trio have released stellar cdrs on Students Of Decay and Mountain. Limited to 100 tapes with full color art and labels” -arbor
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Sean Mccann “OCEAN FOOTAGE” dvdr $7
“65 Minute Video with audio (new stuff). An ambient Experience, equally good for focusing or ignoring. Pixelated, blurry visuals; mellow, pulsating sound. 24 Copies. some bonus videos too.” -self released
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TREETOPS “LIKE SHADOW / LIKE A MIRROR” cassette $6
“A TRANSITION. ” -young tapes
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fossils “gone with the sun” cassette $6 LAST COPY!!
“the spit and shine of the great white north are being thrown into the woodchipper and spewed out as a steaming, glorious mess by hamilton’s own mad scientist, david payne aka fossils. these bones are damaged. “gone with the sun” is another chapter in a neverending string of limited tapes, cdrs, and lps that seem to be building toward world domination. with hints of guitar skronk and teases of sax bombs creeping up behind the demolished drones, “gone with the sun” is as much gone as it was never there in the first place. payne scrapes below the bottom of the barrell to find the best sludge for your ears. dig it out, box it up, and splurge until you’re gorged. fossils is forever. limited to 44 copies.” -digitalis
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Black Eagle Child/Sean McCann – ‘Cambrian Members’ split cassette $6 *LAST COPY!!*
“I fell asleep late last night right after I jammed this latest burner from Sean McCann and Black Eagle Child. That was lucky, let me tell ya… this split is a total tropical dreamscreamer. Each one of them gets a side, but it doesn’t matter – the message is the same: it’s time to zone the fuck out. Crisp capricorn tones drizzle down like pink sunkissed mists from the heavens, totally enveloping your aural sensibilities. Guitar zoners and gooey, synthed up flow-ers take you through the perfect lazy river, floating on scarlet sonic waves to the stars. This is the new space race. If all drones were drenched in this much bliss, we’d all be rotten to the core.” ltd 77.” -self released
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Acre “Bleeding” cassette $6
“Pure solid tones on a slow drift. Thick and spongy sound. Space encompassing and crevasse filling drone. Yellow and brown silkscreens on white paper.” -ijustlivehere
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Pocahaunted “Island Diamonds” CD $12 *LAST COPY!*
“There’s a working theory out there about Pocahaunted: either EVERY record they’ve released is a concept album, or NONE of them are. There’s good proof to support both camps. But truth, of course, probably lies somewhere between the two (if that’s possible – which it isn’t), but Island Diamonds makes a stronger case for the former. The ladies’ longstanding studio union with Eagle Rock guru Bobb Bruno has explored an array of terrains in the past, but their partnership on Diamonds transforms Pocahaunted into a way weirder, doper, and dancier creature than ever before, inspired in equal parts by Manda’s obsession with Max Romeo tropical soul and bad acid jazz and Bethany’s abiding love of mainstream rap and the Cocteau Twins (that sounds like it’d be a nightmare, right?). Naturally, the results don’t really resemble any of the influences they may have attempted to channel during these sessions, but so what? Low-lidded drum machine beats, sparse guitar chimes, and the occasional air raid siren cycle beneath a night sky of cooing, crying, and caterwauling in the classic PHAUNT mode/model. This CD digipak edition is a repress of the sold out LP on Arbor, with all new collage-portrait artwork by the band, plus two bonus tracks added on (one an outtake from the Diamonds sessions, one the unedited mix of their Bored Fortress 7” single) and a freaky digital music video for “Ashes Is White” created by part-time Pocahaunted bassist/best friend Luis Naranjo. Edition of 500.” -nnf
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Robedoor/Husere Grav split cassette $6
“Two bleak teams pass the death pipe across this black lake of a tape, and the mood – at best – runs from dread to dead (or undead, same vibe). Robedoor’s “Terminal Abomination” finds them grappling their recent song-form style with bass, drums, and slime, a heavy metal swamp-thing crawl that drips and riffs from the depths to deeper depths. A strident stalk across new weird wetlands. The B side is a suite of songs from southern lord Husere Grav, who operates from more of a bedroom black metal/death drone perspective, utilizing buzzing guitar, tomb tones, and the occasional drum machine plod to convey his message of relentless misery with strange elegance. Past self-released CDRs like The Great Empty and Stay Asleep have mapped similarly cursed terrains, but his five queasy pieces here are easily among his most cold and cutting ever laid to tape. On pro-dubbed cassettes. Edition of 150.” -nnf
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treetops “cool runnings” cd-r $7
“brand new offering from arbor headcheese, mike pollard, and his solo brand of treachery, treetops. “cool runnings” is a journey through the caves of winter. three tracks of squalid drones backed with a cacaphony of tribal-infused drum blasts. treetops winds its way through these distorted masses, offering up glimpses of the light at the end of the ice tunnel with spectral piano notes, floating like frozen flakes in the white ether. this short but sweet nugget is like a black cancer mass, looking for victims and holding nothing back. THIS is the sound of young america. limited to 84 handnumbered copies, packaged in handpainted sleeves on dark brown recycled paper. ” -digitalis
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Uke of Spaces Corners- “Albumen/Ovum” cassette $6
” Never did know how the Uke of Spaces Corners wove them mounds of spook through such innocent jam dillies. I reckon it is what must be the outlandish croon, or perchance that lonely electric guitar. Ever it functions, sure leaves a rippling, swelling watermark of the solitary songmanship. Jangling in mulchy fullness, but reflecting a singular dream, apparition.” -goaty tapes
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Panopticon Eyelids “Glitter Vomit” cassette $6 *LAST COPY!!*
“Glitter Vomit was recorded on Mini-Disc at The Pines during the phantom power sabotage incident, winter 2007. The Alien Altars (rival gang) hijacked the sessions, stole our booze and beanies, drugged us and forced us at gunpoint to sonically wear boogie boots and glitter pants. Unphased and deep-zoned, we ripped through their inspirational cue cards like “Thin Testicles”, “Free Boogie, White Boy” and “Fuck You! No! Not You! You! – Fela Kuti”… They kidnapped our bassist that night, too!” -abandon ship records
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Heatsick “Perpendicular Rain” cassette $6 *LAST COPY!!*
“Berlin-based Bird of Delay Steven Warwick has been winging away from the BoD nest under his Heatsick moniker with increasing frequency the past couple years, and each new flight seems to soar into ever more varied airstreams of cyclonic electronics and emotional wind-riding. Perpendicular Rain is his most recent convection cell, and it pits two pendulum-tilting pieces against one another for a beatific blowout of barometric disorientation. “Suspended Horse, Carousel” rides an orchestral morning glory hallucination forklift into total mind white out, layers of radial confusion overlapping in a circus wheel of entrancing electricity. One of Warwick’s audio-life highlights to date. The B, “Perpendicular Rain,” opts to flatline into more of a classic Heatsick stasis vortex (a lot like his semi-recent Reverse Gardens CS), wiring every circuit into itself till the mainframe collapses under its own wall/cloud weight. Let it come down. Hand-cut tape-labeled pro-dubbed red tapes in full-color double-sided fold-out J-cards with art by Warwick, plus a slight metallic stencil. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Blank Realm “The Returner” cassette $6
“It gets said a lot (and for good reason) but shit is the internet ever weird. We’ve had the good fortune to get outta the city/state/USA plenty of times but life’s short and the dollar’s weak so we haven’t trekked to most of the globe’s zones for firsthand audio-anthropology, and yet thanks to Firefox/Safari/whatever we are fairly well informed about the crucial psych emissions of Brisbane hypno-squad Blank Realm (thanks, online experience). So here we are. The Returner is BR’s most recent rusted grain silo mood piece cluster and though it might be their cleanest (fidelity-wise) crop of tracks to date, it also might be their trickiest one to pin down. Range-roving from overloaded bliss-noise collectivism to haunted barn bleak-folk death rattles, this C51 stakes out an endless outback of next-generation Musics Your Mind Will Love head-melt alternatives. Tape-labelled tapes in cases with full-color collage J-cards by Manda plus tied with black tassels. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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THE MIGHTY ACTS OF GODS – ‘Joy of the Mountain’ cdr $5 LAST COPY!!
“Goddess of a lost art, Niwi’s painted 11 musical and organic stories. that joy links together the images of creation of a narrative path where fragility is the ground. Celebrate the divinity that descends from the mount, burn your offerings , praise the secret beauty,crown her….. An imperial work – psychedelic mauve tapestry & 6 miniature paintings of Niwi’s art inside.”- ruralfaune
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6majik9 “Sinister Kindness” cassette $4
“When playing becomes ritual, when derangement becomes religion, there is only majik. Behind us nothing, stretching out before us, nothing. In a single moment is all, seeing before seen, glorious lights upon upturned faces, tears streaming down as understanding floods our cells. Life is deadly, make it scream before we fade forever away.” – Abandon Ship
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Stoneburner “Abydos” cassette $4
“At times ferocious, at times lying half dead on the floor, the music of Stoneburner came from a day of visitation and invention. The members of Agilvsga in their native Tulsa play host to a traveling Los Angeles musician from (VxPxC). This is a partial document of their long journey into night and its pages are blowing in the wind. Expect more blasted broken-wire transmissions from their smoking wooden hearts soon. Abydos is a ramshackle concoction of near-beer, Thai food from Tulsa and jet lag. New friends and enemies join in song, cross-connecting guitars and moogs, sending cryptic smoke signals to the heavens.” – Abandon Ship
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Russian Tsarlag – Community Death Tube LP $13
“Night-People is excited to present the first full length LP by Russian Tsaralg, long running solo performance and recording outlet of Tampa born Providence based creep crooner Carlos Gonzalez. Russian Tsaralag infuses sci-fi and horror movie aesthetics with strange loner punk minimalism. Tsarlags sparse, savage, downer, aesthetics, and strange audio skits, are the perfect soundtrack to the declining age.” – night people
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Knitted Abyss – “Winter Barn” cassette $6
“Knitted Abyss is Lucy Phelan (1/2 of Naked on the Vague) and Anna John two Sydney AU. Residents and staple down under weirdo makers. Winter Barn is like a dark reverberation of down tuned psychedelic guitar murmur and gothy drum machine rhythm, backed by ghostly vocals and doomy echoes. This is a real hazy, foggy, nocturnal set of sounds for a new mutant world. Art by SDreed. ” -night people
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Eternal Tapestry – “The Declining Star” cassette $6
“A real beast of a psych rock band, Eternal Tapestry (members of Heavy Winged, JOMF, Tunnels etc) kick it in the red with their melodic instrumental blasts of post PSF atmospheric epics and power trio freak outs. Ultra tight driving propulsive rhythm section work out provide the backdrop for layers of intricate guitar fuzz. Just the right amount of letting it rip and holding it back. Art by SDReed.” -night people
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Caethua – “The Pleasures of Manhood” cassette $6
“Caethua is Clare Hubbard, traveling songstress, multi-instrumentalist, and general exceptional artist and person. On the Pleasures of Manhood Clare gives tribute to her stepfather poet Robley Conant Wilson on this elegant tape of reverb soaked folk gems. One of Night-Peoples highest fidelity and most considered releases yet, The Pleasures of Manhood, has an uplifting but somber side that allows the feeling of Clare’s excellent vocals and playing to shine through.” -night people
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Neon Tempal – “Midnight Moods ” cassette $6
“Neon Tempal is Pascal Nicholas solo project, currently centered in Lyon France, this central England transplant spent times in groups like Stuckometer, Cars etc. Midnight Moods is centered around Pascal’s intimate, intense, and immediate drumming, and improvised percussion generated soundscapes. Occasional vocals and an assortment of other instruments come into the mix, but the feeling of live immediate playing is always at the forefront. Fans of the Actual Series of BYG LP’s take note.” -night people
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MARK MCGUIRE- “THE GARDEN OF ETERNAL LIFE” $6.50
“Cleveland guitar zoner and Emeralds member Mark McGuire crafts his most beautiful work yet. Delicate strumming to infinity floats in the clouds; acting in an almost medicinal way to provoke good vibes. Dreamy, light elation and nostalgia make each listen feel highly personal. Deep focus wraps you in the warmth of your own memories: subtle and powerful, spiritual and healing. Free your mind from it’s own constraints. In an edition of 150 tapes with full color art and labels.” – arbor
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Tovahaunted 1-sided LP $15
“Whoa!! Midwest-coast throwdown. LA’s own basement spiritual weird-bees POCAHAUNTED are given the Lansing basement non-sound mildew audio slow infection treatments from the TOVINATOR. Totally strange eerie vocalism’s with sounds of Grand Avenue construction noises thrown into the bubbling pot of sound miasma. Playable on any speed, slow or fast, if you got time, bust it slow, if you das move, bust it fast, if it’s a commandment – break it in two. Totally killer, totally weird. Grey vinyl, edition of 200 numbered with hand potato stamped covers from the TOV herself in-between marathon sessions of the Mentalist, cat puzzles, and Sookie Stackhouse series books. A charmed life……” -tovinator records
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Bee Mask “Honey and Salt” cassette $6
“More homebrew synth damage from Bee Mask, this time featuring legendary Cleveland-area free drummer Nate Scheible. Side A’s culled from profoundly fried spring sessions at Scheible’s Zombie Proof studios, in which both parties exhale a massive, sustained sound like the interior of a giant bell and proceed to stagger about, running into walls and vomiting corrosive fluid and at least one pause-button suckerpunch. Side B returns to solo territory with a crucial collage of crusty/cranky improv blasts recorded live on WCSB. Lumbering, bleary, and pissed.” -deception island
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Bee Mask “Neurasthenia” cassette $6
“Gross cold war-era peeling lead paint/submarine death downer vibes warped/wrapped into lo-fi cassingle-sized epiphany. First up is a handmade electronics side, in which something is totally going to shit at the end of the hall, like taking a circular saw to a bank of test equpiment in reverse, perhaps. On the flip is the tabletop guitar blissout that’s going down as your lungs fill with water. Hand-numbered edition of 99. ” -deception island
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Black Eagle Child – s/t cassette $6
“Washed out strings, synth, and samples dreamily navigate the listener through a wide array of organic light and subtle darkness in a steady slow motion flow, invoking intoxicating blends of trance and nostalgia. Leadowmark (the final track) will dissolve you. I find myself flipping this tape continuously–it’s a place I could live. Each cover is slightly different–a varied crop/print of a single piece of painted fabric. Edition of 72” -housecraft
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Xiphiidae “Used Parts Galaxy” cassette $6
“two side-long organisms flower and wilt in transporting bioluminescence. edition of 64 ” -housecraft
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trash dog / zero agression – “fuck you / anti-life equation” cassingle $4 *ONE COPY FOUND*
“Iowa City super group TD features Daren ho, Jeff Witscher, Ryan Garbes, and sometimes Evan Miller. Some have described this song ‘shitgaze’ its a beautiful meditation on life’s decisions. ZA is Witscher and Cole of Deep Jew and Jack a Wales transplant to Iowa. Keyboard, Accents, Fruity Loops, and guitar. A really uplifting track engaging the listener into life affirming realizations. Remix included.” -detrivore
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Kites “Recycled Music” cassette $4
RRR Records. KITES (Chris Forgues) blends percussive chug and homemade sine wave generation into a dynamic somewhere in between early 80’s electro schoolyard loiterers THROBBING GRISTLE and Sheffield’s CABARET VOLTAIRE. (not the labels own description, nor mine)
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Nonhorse “Pink Light” c60 $6
“Ultra-paranoid concept tape focused around universal consciousness, alien abductions and traumatic encounters with ‘beams of pink light,’ such as that which led Philip K. Dick to write ‘Exegesis’ and his self-examination trilogy in the early 80’s. Fucking grimey and eerie as all hell. Analogous to extrasensory restraints rendering you incapacitated though fully cognizant while deep probing tape manipulations loom above. Pink spray-painted pink tapes housed in pink art, total saturation. Limited to 99. “It seized me entirely, lifting me from the limitations of the space-time matrix; it mastered me as, at the same time, I knew that the world around me was cardboard, a fake. Through its power of perception I saw what really existed, and through its power of no-thought decision, I acted to free myself.” -baked tapes
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christina carter “texas blues working” cassette $9 (uk import/limited)
“Second edition (of only 100 copies), this time with the intended title that got mixed up in the email landscape for the original edition… one of the most awesome releases I think we’ve put out, and received super, super well. If you don’t already own this, its highly recommended… Here’s what I said about it first time round: Christina Carter plays in the incredible Charalambides out of Texas, USA. Over the past couple of years Christina has be releasing of some of the best stuff I have heard, not only in Charalambides, but solo… Electrice, Lace Heart, The Light is Out all blew me away, so I am really pleased to be announcing this one! Two sides of ‘tracks recorded in the spring, but meant for summer’. 6 supremely beautiful and effortless elegant tracks across two sides of awesome vocal and guitar, landing in at about 50 minutes… there is a similar kind of vibe to that of Electrice or Lace Heart maybe. I cannot recommend this enough. Pro-printed red cassettes, colour sleeves with liner notes by Christina” -blackest rainbow
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Wet Hair – s/t 1 Sided 12″ (silkscreened picture disc.) $11
“This is the first solo work of Shawn Reed as Wet Hair, recorded during late fall of 07. On this LP we find Wet Hair discovering its attitude, its approach, its dark underworld aesthetic, of cult zone dub, blasted vocal purge, trance snyth uneasiness. More direct, focused, and eclectic then the Irifi cass. this one burns blown out and electric, amplified to the point of breaking and then subtle and brooding once more. Play it loud. Ultra deluxe silkscreened artwork by SDREED. As much of a visual artifact as a medium of sound. Click image to see full artwork.” -night people
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Weirding Module – “Underwater in Space” cassette $6.50 (netherlands import)
“meditative synth filters bring you into the zone, diving deeper and deeper into the black unknown that is your mind and welcoming the familiar good time feel of paradise. Silk screened covers” -silver ghosts
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Fantastic Magic “Witch Choir” cdr $6
“For anyone who missed out the first time around, or those looking for a higher fidelity version of this release… “Take a magical trip on a pegasus through a field of LSD. Flowers harmonize and dance among young wizards at the festival of the equinox.”, stated a mystical nypmh as he sat perched apon a toadstool, shanai in hand. These thoughts come to mind as a neo-psychedelic journey begins through a field of emerald green grass and a multicolored sky that is Fantastic Magic. Pull up a woven floor mat and enjoy the fruits of the earth as you delve into three young wizards journey through the island forest.” – Orion Ferguson” -abandon ship
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Treetops “Spirit Tent” cassette $6
“Big Baller Mike Pollard has done it again. When he’s not dropping killer LPs from every killer band on the planet, he hangs out in his basement and dwells in the Treetops haze. And this is a dark zone! Heavy tones, mystery instruments, and seriously haunting vocals. A nice companion piece to the universally loved LP!! Edition of 70, w/full-color fold out art. c30, exbx24” -excitebike tapes
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Uneven Universe “Live Puzzle” cassette $7 (limited to 30)
“A pair of recent live actions from the gruesome twosome. One at the Pleasure Dome, getting weird in Thom’s room, and another outside, in the sand at a sports bar in Toledo. Kinda weird tropical chiller vibes while watching CHUD. A strange tape! Edition of 30, w/full-color fold out art. c20, exbx42” -excitebike tapes
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sarah’s charity “fear of sound” cassette $6
“denmark’s sarah’s charity has been cranking out some serious walls of sound over the past few years. churning black guitars that get sucked into the bottomless depths of ice-cold oceans. each track builds on the previous, leaving your ears white hot and begging for more. there’s so much distortion that it feels like the tape can’t even hold it all in. the best way to experience “fear of sound” is head-on. crank the volume up as loud as you can, pour it in and make your ears bleed. eventually you’ll be absorbed and drift away on a cloud of burnt dust. good fucken times. limited to 87 copies with full-color sleeves designed by peter friel.” -digitalis
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Wet Hair “08 Tour Tape” cassette $6
“First document of Wet Hair as a 2 piece band, shows this quickly evolving project at its best thus far. Cult electric gospel burning, flowing over layers of analog synth atmosphere and industrial trance punk. More focused around distinctive vocal, organ and synth arrangements, with touches of live drumming giving way to drum machine pulse and electronic spew. Melodic, upbeat, focused, dark, warm, cold, catchy, and confusing, Wet Hair is just beginning to grow into its own possibilities. Art by SDREED.” -night people
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eternal tapestry “seas of silk” cassette $6
“the boys are back in town, oh yes. back down to a threesome on “seas of silk,” the bindeman bros. and dewey mahood have everything turned up to 11. thick slabs of dual psychedelic guitars crush the bones laid down by the bindeman #1, tearing off hunks of flesh at a time. heavy burners with a heavy dose of sprawl. just like jed bindeman’s alter-ego group, heavy winged, once these concussion bombs hit you, there’s only so much you can do to keep it all in check. but unlike the winged, instead of blowing your skull to bits, you’ll just want to shake that ass. limited to 100 copies.” -digitalis
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Barn Owl “From Our Mouths A Perpetual Light” LP $13
” Since first bearing witness to Barn Owl’s mythically desolate amplifier alchemy last year, we’ve been rabid fans/fanatics. But like lots of badass bands, BO are a rolling stone, heavy on the transformation tip, and the BO of today is an altered beast from the one that folkily fingerpicked Bridge To The Clouds and their self-titled disc way back when. And in case we’re not being clear: this is a beautiful thing. From Our Mouths A Perpetual Light burns with the sun-dead majesty of a Death Valley burial ground, all wasted waterless expanse and cracked earth smoke blowing in the dry wind. Heavy western drone revelations bleed into forlorn guitar drift, downcast percussion plods across the plain, a skull on its side lies in the sands. Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras have somehow flawlessly evolved Barn Owl into a blazing new universe, and From Our Mouths… is the first mission statement from their new spectral/aesthetic outpost, a stunning and timeless eight-song suite of grim cinematic electricity. Tune in, drop dead, rot on. In swank matte jackets with ‘four-armed demon warrior-yogi’ artwork by the band. Edition of 435 (275 on white wax, 160 on black).” -nnf
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Changeling “Into Great Peace” cassette $6
“Ex-Texan Roy Tatum has been holing up in un-air conditioned apartments mumbling out his bleak loner blues drift for the past couple years, but his most recent-ish outpourings have found him plumbing even foggier inner vistas (see Five Thousand Nights, On The Other Side Of You, etc), and Into Great Peace may be the ultimate Changeling surrendering to date. A pair of blurry, beautiful guitar meditations that tread water in the sky, rippling with murmurs and weird waves, cycling through a lost, narcoleptic wash of reverb atmospherics and mirage vibrations. A slow-motion migration from new age depths to ancient heights. Let go. Pro-manufactured aqua cassettes with seaweed-green shell art in a Tatum-designed J-card. Hand-numbered edition of 200.” -nnf
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Thin Ensemble “Free East Lansing Flashblacks” one sided 7″ $5
“Old East Lansing Free Crew featuring Randy Sutherland (in SF now) and John Coorz with various other jammerz circa 94-97. TE started as an Abbot Road house band of Sutherlands and after seeing em play an amazing set at the Otherwise gallery in April of 94, I asked to join em. After that, we played house parities where we got paid to stop, Highway overpasses, bridges, train tracks, streets, porches, music practice rooms on MSU campus, everywhere in the city. Randy played drums, alto sax and various percussion things and I jammed alto, handmade horns and electronics. We busted a few early AM tapes, had a killer collection of getting busted tracks (cops, music school students, other haterz) slanted for an early EF release, and that was about it. The Alt Country scene was big in EL there, so we opened for those bands a million times and bummed everyone out. Didnt have a single fan, tons of freedom to explore. The 7″ contains various live gigs and other oddities, some with trumpet and other jammerz but the sounds are pure primitive rambling barely organized free sounds. Good youth crew times indeed!!! Edition of 200, color vinyl, color art.” – American Tapes
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Steve Hauschildt “The Stairwell is Long Gone” cassette $6
“Relatively hot on the heels of the already classic “The Summit” cdr (Gneiss Things) and “Rapt for Liquid Minister” c20 (Arbor), “The Stairwell is Long Gone” is yet another watershed for Steve, another mindfuckingly excellent synth tape in a year that’s already seen phenomenal showings from fellow travelers such as Infinity Window and Telecult Powers, and the completion of a long-pending trilogy of solo releases on Deception Island by the members of Emeralds. “The Stairwell” finds Hauschildt eschewing the frigid, Michael Hoenig-esque endless marble maze vibes of “Rapt” in favor of gentle spring rain and a mildly dosed sunday drive across the local melancholy edifice, sky streaking with clouds of arpeggiated spun sugar during the room-levitating climax, backed with a chilled the fuck out post-“Zuckerzeit” ramble across a gigantic unfurled map. The sound of being the size of an ant on an enormous dining room table. Totally essential.” -deception island
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orphan fairytale “speaking spooky” cd-r $6
“the analog hums and blips of orphan fairytale are like a demented amusement park for kids, full of ghosts lurking around every corner. belgium’s eva van deuren (who is also 1/2 of frozen corpse w/ carlo from audiobot) has been cranking out these solo jams for years. there’s something that’s as demented as it is captivating. keyboards are bent and burned, sacrificed to the roaming packs of elves. eva’s voice, though, is the beacon amongst the melodic fog. it’s a guiding light that keeps the evil spirits somewhere close, but not too close. orphan fairytale will infect you, but it will be the best damn disease you’ve ever had. 100 copies” -foxglove
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burning star core recycled cassette $4
new tape on rrr records
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Tropa Macaca “Peça Má” cassette $6.50 (netherlands import)
“Portuguese mind benders strike again. hypnotic mini loop brain control with mutant out of this time frame guitar embrace the joy of singularity and ride that wave until nothing remains. Silk screened covers” -silver ghosts
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Caethua “Queenly Women Crowned and Uncrowned” cassette $6
“Cold marriages of growing up in the snow covered cornfields of upstate New York, moldy nylon-stringed guitars, a hissing blend of flea market electronics, rusted pots and pans, field recordings of a doomed boat trip down the St. Lawrence River, birds in the ice covered trees, the groan of an overheating diesel engine, shortwave radio in the middle of nowhere, busted cars sliding in the sleet of Indiana, the soft hum of a dusty living room, bugs and reptiles singing from Florida swamps, and a sorrowful voice leading us into the frozen ground. Recorded, written, produced and mixed by Clare Hubbard, featuring the accompanying sounds of Justin Clifford Rhody and friends. Queenly Women Crowned and Uncrowned is Caethua’s 3rd release. A split LP of Caethua and Shep and Me will be coming soon, as well as a cassette release on Nightpeople Records. Caethua is also the alto saxophonist of Indiana free noise junk jazz band DBH and solo lyricist of disgusting rap project SPORTS.” -abandon ship records
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Raccoo-oo-oon “Behold Secret Kingdom” CD $12
“Behold Secret Kingdom is the first proper fullength release from Iowa City’s Raccoo-oo-oon after several limited cd-r/tape/vinyl releases (including cd reissues on Time Lag and Release The Bats). The band spent the last year working with Behold Secret Kingdom, tremendous amounts of love and hard work has been put into this recording which now will be unleashed by Release The Bats! 8 new songs that takes the band’s psychedelic and dynamic free-form punk from previous releases to new heights, this is definitely their most focused and perfected recording so far. Darker, denser and almost brutal at times, Behold Secret Kingdom is also the heaviest recording they have done. It only takes a few seconds into ‘Black Branches’ and the mood is set for the rest of the album immediately. The stunning closer ‘Tail At Prospect Peak’ could easiest be described as campfire-doom with it’s slow riffing, heavy use of percussion and chanted vocals (everything suddenly bursting out in a chaotic crescendo…). The trademark tribal-like drums is still present, as is the vocal drones and the furious saxophone swirls. Behold Secret Kingdom is a epic masterpiece, there is really no other way to describe it. Chaotic and all over the place, yet so beautiful. Puts earlier comparisons to bands like Excepter and Animal Collective to a shame! Recorded by Mike Dixon in Bloomington, IN. Full colour digipack with the bands now well-known amazing artwork.” -Release the Bats
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LWA / secret abuse – “soften void / release you away, towards greater pig shit” casingle $4
“Lwa duo’s recent live set in the hall mall lays on the creep vibe heavy and starkly remindes you of the pendulum swinging toward your abdomen SA side is like being sucked out of an airplane in slowmotion and the consequential post mortem out of body experience.” -detrivore
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TREETOPS- “PATHS/INFINITE BLUE/TWO WINDS” C14+C17+C27 cassette $15
“Collected here are six sets from the Summer 2008 Midwest Tour with Uneven Universe. A particular aesthetic developed throughout the tour, focusing on the organic mixing of sources into a bleary, dreamlike kosmiche drone: blending the borders between new age keyboard and electronics and harsh, focused zones. All sets recorded straight to walkman, allowing each space (whether it be a gallery, basement, warehouse, etc) to reshape the sound, creating quiet, delicate textures. In an edition of 50 sets with individually packaged tapes in norelco cases with full color art and labels.” -arbor
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pete fosco “dust, american dust” cassette $6
“on the backs of giants comes the stunning debut from this ohio native who seems destined to join the ranks of the true masters. these solo guitar compositions stand mythically on their own while still peering down and giving nods to the likes of mazzacane and steven r. smith. the tools used on “dust, american dust” are simple, but the results are epic. fosco picks the flesh from the carcass and serenades us into believing there’s something beyond the blackest dawn. hints of smoky distortion heighten the casual embrace of fosco’s playing. his guitar gently nudges you into feeling what each spiralling note intends. these songs are weightless as the flit across the floor. “dust, american dust” is covered in just that. limited to 60 copies. ” -digitalis
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Pulse Emitter / Envenomist split cassette $6
“Two side-long tracks occupy this release. Both artists here move through dark immersing synthesized environments. Pulse Emitter provides a more barren yet varied track that has movement. Also of note to fans of Daryl’s “Meditative Music” release, this has similar yet more ominous tones that create a slowly moving melody. Envenomist’s side hits with his longest released track, an ebbing and flowing sea of organic synth waves. J-card is a 3-panel horizontal folding affair, offset printed silver on black linen paper, clear labels. Edition of 150 on hi-bias chrome tapes.” -black horizons
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Prurient “Recycled Music” cassette $4
RRR Records. Another one-man band out of Madison, WI, Dominick Fernow basically makes up Prurient with a theme of anti-technology and anti-electricity — with the exception of his microphones and four-track recorder. Backing Fernow’s stance up is his unconventional use of banging objects together to create music; playing with live wire, pennies, frying pans, toolboxes, scrap metal, and used shotgun shells are an example of some of his instruments. (not the labels own description, nor mine)
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Metal Rouge “Storm Veil/Desert Champion” cassette $6
” Ex-Auckland high artists Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott first began hammering their flux-core electronics into sustained tunnels of pale fire back in early 2006, when living down under in New Zealand’s thriving hive of free music freemasons. Their early documents were obscure, open-mouthed starclusters of harsh Hototogisu-heatspells, FX-heavy improv, and isolated tinkering. Since relocating to the Hollywood grid, however, the Metal Rouge matrix has transformed significantly. Recent volumes of their excellent Ephemeroptera series, as well the Eulogy For Keeler disc (on Phantom Limb), have showcased MR’s increasingly controlled avant noise architectures, but Storm Veil/Desert Champion strikes their best balance yet. Both sides unfold from keening, tense beams of drone light, layering levels of expressionist tones one after the other, slowly growing into futurist frenzy, a thousand interstitial atoms of tempest noise warring for amp space. A focused and furious 40 minutes at the forge/4-track. Pro-dubbed, shell-imprinted tapes in cardstock J-cards adorned with metallic fabric shreds plus gold flecks. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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dolphins into the future “plays themes from voyage” cassette $6.25
“Amazing scenes from the masters of the New Wave Of Flemish New Age music… fiery no-fi exotica and organic bio-music massage the garden society of the mind. Let go and join the oneness of pure magentic tape trance where we’ll revel in the power of cosmic potencias as one.” -skulls of heaven
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Glazed Glitter “Joy To Be Led” 3″ cdr $6
“We here at Stunned appreciate small doses which provide big effects. So when Texas drone dude Landon Odle sent us his Glazed Glitter debut 3”, we eagerly boarded this darkened dreamship. In short order, Landon explores a few ways to drop into a lush foetal tone float where pre-cognitive memories blend with more familiar sounds located on the other side of a shimmering aqueous barrier. Plenty of detail is heard, but little is identifiable other than what can be briefly impressed upon in the suspended fantasy goo of Joy To Be Led. Ltd. 50 handnumbered 3” cdrs in full-sized case with exquisite cover art by Maureen Gubia.” -stunned records
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SLEEPWALKERS LOCAL / JAMES FELLA – split CDr – $5
“Split between SLEEPWALKERS LOCAL (Grant from (VxPxC), Thousands, and one of the coordinators at the Echo Curio in LA) and JAMES FELLA (Soft Shoulder, Tent/City, Gilgongo Records and so on).” -gilgongo records
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Pocahaunted “Chains” LP $14
” Originally the vision for Chains was “fucked up Tom Tom Club palm tree pop” (or something) but, as often happens when Manda and Bethany get in the studio with too much smart water and too many wisecracks, shit changed as soon as the 8-track tape started to roll. Oh well. The results are still rad and weird, 4 diverse songs that dance between post-rocky grooves, shoegaze drama, drugged funk, and Fleetwood Mac. The LP also does a good job of capturing what the Pocahaunted live set was like for most of the spring of ’08: torrential, dramatic, rhythmic, estrogenic. Bobb Bruno kicked in some serious arrangement assistance, and pro-friend Josh Klinghoffer helped with some sick drum stumbles too. On champagne pale yellow vinyl, in jackets with art by the band. On Cali Dewitt’s labor-of-love Teardrops label.” -teardrops records
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Treetops “North” cassette $6
“Time spent alone during the summer; outside. Recorded shirtless in the sand, direct to walkman on the beach in northern Michigan. An organic ambience; orchestrating the sounds of the Earth. In an edition of 50 tapes with full color art, labels and an insert.” -arbor
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SECRET ABUSE/ EARTH CROWN- split cassette $6
“Jeff Witscher and Door are two the hardest ripping nomads; covering the scene in a grey blanket of dedication. Focused walls of droning harsh noise from Secret Abuse; “Hands of Clock | Move Slowly” is the product of solitude and bleak middle grounds. Underneath lies beauty: purity. Earth Crown’s “Napalm Fucker (Start War Small)” is an intense, short burst of synth and electronics: aggressive and raw, nihilistic depravity: fuck all. Created for their East Coast 2008 Tour; in an edition of 100 tapes with full color art and labels featuring photography by Kyle Parker (Infinite Body).” -arbor
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Steve Young “Wedge of Light” cassette $6
“MEDITATE.” -young tapes
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COLOR DREAM “LIVE IN THE SKY” cassette $6
“SKY AGE DREAMING.” -young tapes
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uneven universe “cave speech” cassette $6
“i friggin love this duo. horns and electronics spewing their finest concoctions into the michigan sky. what a world. “cave speech” is as primitive sounding as its title suggests. saxophone squelches are bent and burned into unrecognizable heaps of murk while hazy electronics wind their way through the sonic valley. these dense recordings are endless amalgamation of caustic layers and bent circuits that are burning down all the houses in ferndale. michigan, it’s in the fucken water. there’s nothing disjointed about “cave speech,” though. they push the limits, but all these battling tones and bones remain a beautifully cohesive mess. there really needs to be more horn/electronics duos in the world. nobody will do it this well, but hot damn am i addicted to this stuff. uneven universe for life. yessss. limited to 75 copies with 2-colored silkscreened labels.” digitalis
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Trash Dog – “Wasted Gift” cassette $6.50
“The name says it all, annihilated, fucked up, hardcore damage from Witcher, Drip, and Garbage, Iowa City underground punk filth. Manic deranged vocals over primitive punk trash. Includes special bonus addition of the ultra limited and out of print Garbage Eater cass. Killer Double sided fold out cover and mini zine artwork by Ryan Garbes.” -night people
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Wet Hair – “Irifi” cassette $6.50
“Wet Hair is the new solo outing of Raccoo-oo-oon member Shawn Reed. Cult vibe organ drone, slowed down tape hiss percussion warble, and chanted vocal bathed in echo, provide the basics for Irifi, a lone march across a desert, these are droney reverberations tinted with pop influence cloaked in the dark , music for vampires. Recorded by Ryan Garbes for maximal blow out. Expect more from this quickly evolving project soon. Artwork by SDReed.” -night people
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SAM GOLDBERG “CYCLES” cassette $6
“my girlfriend works with kids who have special needs, a job which provides her with a plethora of stories that are sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes inspiring. one day she comes home and is telling me about this little girl who (and i swear this is a quote) wont stop touching her brain. apparently the back of her skull never fully developed, or some wacky shit like that, and she tends to jab her digits into the skin like mash potatoes. pretty fucked up, but you gotta wonder what kind of trippy sounds spill out when she hits a sweet spot. i say that to say this… golderb’s work on cycles is a mega minimal, high definition brain toucher. heavy use of analog synth intravenous therapy and swelled organ drones that will get us full-skulled fools as close as we can to scratching up some temporal lobe. all the covers are unique, made out of stained glass style film.” -905 tapes
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Shepherds “Loco Hills” LP $12
“A lot of beloved-by-us artists and artisans icepick out shapely creations from the marble slab of life on a steady schedule, but even within this rarefied realm it’s a real cause for jubilee when an individual/band fucks precedent and totally redefines themselves through a real masterwork. And, in our book (check it out, it’s a good read), Loco Hills is one such touchstone. Distilling down every fried fuzz-groove, tape-loop ghost cloud, and mass-mind motorik psychosis Shepherds have ever let loose into four perfectly sculpted jam-journeys, the language of Loco is a rolling, roiling ride through twisted wordless tongues and hieroglyphic electricity, at once more focused and far-out than anything else in their canon. Mentioning that members moonlight in projects like Meneguar, Non-Horse, and Vanishing Voice is meaningless, this is the Rear House posse’s shining achievement to date and it stands alone. Black vinyl LPs in matte jackets with the same ‘gnashing viper’ artwork of the Release the Bats CD edition. Edition of 500.” -nnf
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STEVE HAUSCHILDT- “RAPT FOR LIQUID MINISTER” cassette $6.50 (high wholesale cost/OOP)
“Still-moving loops repeat and build themselves in deep washes of aural hallucination. Steve is known for his work in Ohio synth-drone unit Emeralds. Like the other output from the Emeralds crew, it is hard to believe that today’s best synth music is being made by twenty year old dudes from the Cleveland suburbs, but they seriously just have it figured out. Steve’s smooth and densely layered drones, heavy in Kraut influence, are as huge as any of his contemporaries and as rich as his predecessors. Vocal incantations reminiscent of “Way Their Crept” era Grouper place Steve’s compositions on another level. Deeply thoughtful and knowledgeable zones floating in and out of reality. In an edition of 150 labeled tapes with full color cardstock J-cards.” -arbor
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The Doom Riot — “Celestial Gates of Time” cdr $6
“Here we have abyssal eon-spanning drone from Denmark’s Claus Haxholm, who splits his soundsculpting time between The Doom Riot and Dead Black Arms, among many other smaller projects and live happenings. Celestial Gates of Time is four massive pieces recorded over 07–08 which plumb grim depths of solo circuit throttling & tranced heights of minimalist/”classic” drone weaving, cumulating with the epic 30-minute “Backup Angel Fire Sphere.” Dense swaths of crisp and crackle, endless in scope, pulling us white-knuckled and quaking through gates leading into the infinite black. For those who like their ecstatic stasis-states in the flavor of Goslings, Eureka, and RST. Limited edition of 60 hand numbered cdrs in plastic case with ancient haze art.” -stunned records
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Sun Araw “The Phynx” cdr $7
“Long Beach psychonauts Magic Lantern get ranted about a lot by us for their mystic ability to overwhelm and transport, and don’t expect that to stop soon. But in the meantime we’ve had the good fortune to learn about ML guitarist Cameron Stallones’ solo universe as Sun Araw and, no surprise, the silver apple don’t fall too far from the tree (so to speak). Spanning Spacemen 3 garage cosmos, Starving Weirdos coastal séance, and a healthy stratosphere of pan-dimensional astral feedbackers, The Phynx is a fantastic four-track suite that floats freely from form to formlessness in the blink of a third eye. A great journey into white light dirge and dead distortion blues, and as killer a debut full-length as a label/listener/fan/head could hope for. Fingers are crossed that more Sun Araw sunbeams shine down our ears again before ’08 is out. Stenciled CDRs in full-color mysterio-portrait foldover artwork by Stallones, and sanctified with a triad of kaleidoscope stickers. Edition of 155.” -nnf
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the north sea “mud dragons” cdr $7
“and so it ends where it began (well, almost). “mud dragons” is a vast departure from those backporch folk tunes of yore. rivers of sludge and silver clouds of analog electronics are the modus here. it’s deconstructionism at work, and still, i am the north sea. the end. 99 copies” -digitalis
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Pumice – Providence – 7″ $5
“New Zealand based Stefan Neville is Pumice. My first contact with his music was ‘Pumiceraft’ (Last Visible Dog, 2004), one of the best record of the last 10 years if you ask me. This new single ep, offers 4 songs recorded in US in 2006, during his residence at AS 220, Providence, RI. And it’s supposed to be the new Pumice classic! Tracks sound like a beautiful mix of psyche-pop songs and near-droning rock, all mixed in a lo-fi punk style! Have a listen to the most fragile approach to pop music ever! Comes in a classical snobbish cover printed by ilcanedicoda, with drawings by S.Neville himself. 250 copies.” -8mm
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Warmth “Paradise Found In Dirt” cassette $6
“These are the sounds of desolation. Imagery of a sweltering, barren desert comes to mind. Riding a dying camel, with an empty canteen dangling from your neck, the future seems bleak. You notice a glimmer on the horizon. Hope is momentarily restored. Warmth (aka Steev Thompson) evokes this type of scenario with his latest release. Before it’s over, he gives you one last taste of hope before laying you down for eternal rest. The ever elusive paradise we’ve all been looking for. Now gone, just as quick as it arrived. There is no hope. Only Warmth.” -abandon ship records
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Pocahaunted “Mirror Mics” LP $15
“The hardest working ladies in show business are back! Pocahaunted offer up two side long siren excursions into the otherworldy plains. On “One Another” our enchanted twosome ride a cindering tapestry of guitar string propelled by other-worldly beats of oblivion. And “Sister Calypso”.. a hauting ode to the lovestruck daughter of Atlas or uncanny caribbean sea breeze lullabye that transmogrifies into full blown tropical thunder? Who can say? This dynamic duo is on a roll! Likes: Billy Joel, cuss words, candy corn, diamonds and furs, psychic connections, african percussion, and kombucha. Dislikes: flat tires, the ocean, and silent movies. Extra skronk and skree provided by Andy Spore and Bobb Bruno. Label art by B&A. Beautiful full color covers with artwork by Olga Balema.” -weird forest
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Gay Beast/TWIN split 7″ $5
New 7″ on Antiform Records. Good stuff. cool silk screened covers.
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Social Junk – “Champs 08” cassette $6.50
“Met this group of West Virginians down in Miami at INC back in Feb. I was instantly siked on there sound and live show. Total wreckage, throwing drums around the room, yelling into broken mics, four track warble, guitar feedback, totally unhinged damage but focused and intense. Comparisons to Sword Heaven, Savage Republic, The Dead C, etc. might be accurate but overall Social Junk is really hard to pin down. Haunted electronics, floating on an endless barrage of pissed vocals and repetitive drum jams. Silkscreened Artwork by SDREED. Social Junk full length LP coming soon on Not Not Fun. ” -night people
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SHV – “s/t” cassette $6.50
“Ali formerly of the excellent Boston act Dreamhouse is SHV (Superior Human Vomit). I first got turned onto SHV via Ali playing in the basement here at Night People HQ. After that night Ali gave me a copy of her killer first SHV tape – Endless Love, on the Rare Youth label. SHV is never the same thing twice, always performative, always sitting on the edge of failure and greatness, always pushing the boundary. I’ve seen SHV jump through a ceiling to start a set, tie up a whole audience, stick a dude in an oven, and generally just rock the fuck out always. This tape doesn’t disappoint either, blown out synth and drum machine burners, catchy post punk hypnosis, cultist weirdo gestures , something new on every listen of this especially hard to pin down puke punk project. Art by SHV, Printing by SDREED, with fold out double sided covers.” -night people
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Mudboy collab with USA is a monster & kites cassette $6/cdr $7
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Mudboy “Half Ice Half Wasted” MUDBOY BEATS (SERIES II) cassette $6
“Someone had the retarded Idea of attaching the inputs and outputs of the nations finest DJ of Freakcore smashedup with the stylings of mudboy Beats. As DJ Jassy Jesssss turns the twist hop up up up mudboy hotwires his openfaced drum machine live. A finely compiled collection from many hours of recording. 100% HITS! We promise to meet you in the future with this one.”
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Ghost Brames/Przewalski’s Horse- “mædømptile malaxaste / “Ronny, This is for you”” cdr $5
“The most amazing part about releasing music is the chance to meet musicians and creators from around the world. Here we have a release of material by France’s Ghost Brames of the Cerf and Belgium’s Przewalski’s Horse. Two heavy sets, almost better suited for a vinyl release, but in this case, one doesn’t need to choose a side. Both of these woozy cataclysmic jams are SIDE A! These slabs of plastic are going to fly out quick, as we attempt to flood the EU with their insane sounds. Pro printed covers in a thick vinyl sleeve.” -Phantom Limb Recordings
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Christian Family Underground- “For the Depth of Your Union…” LP $12
“Summer 06 Family Underground (DK) recorded with Dave Nuss of NNCK at Black Dirt Studios in the woods of upstate NY. The yield was as characteristically unhinged as one might expect: sweeping electronic sounds backed with wood and bone percussion spirit-conjure. However also harvested was some new and especially tasty crop: sung and spoken song, electric guitar/conga “rock,” and an odd ghostly sheen coating the entire proceeding. Nuss comments on the session: “I remember when we were recording, momentarily leaving the studio and going out into the night and feeling it thicken like a partition separating us from this intense state of clear consciousness we had in the recording, which was like… humankind’s natural state. And then thinking about Jesper from FU, an adopted Vietnamese living in DK, and how much he resembles Michael Jackson, and realizing that across continents no man can be divided from himself. We had to make this music to provide for us some fantasy of fulfillment that would carry us through the weekend like rejuvenated suns born again climbing to heaven, after being washed in the deepest bluest sea….” Jacket by designer Susan Cianciolo and screened inserts by Stellar, NL.” -Woodsist
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Nonhorse “Xol Mic” split cassette $4
“Xol Mic is a double burning cry for help and cleansing. I was moving out of bad trauma and into good trauma after traveling the US and Canada and all was unmoored and wierd. I was scratching at something, and brooding over bad old tapes of long winded effected harp and reeds and good new tapes of pure house sounds at my new diggs, where the only thing i could focus on was wandering around vaguely with a tape recorder. The A side was recorded after a fateful exposure. My mother is a science teacher at PS39 in Brooklyn where i myself went and was young, and in the thrash of oving boxes full of utter trash i stopped home. Xol Mic dissapeared two days ago” she said gravely when i walked in. Xol was one of my favorite of her classroom stories, as him and his brother ‘Cruise Mic’ had a massive intimadating mother who wore cornrows and team jerzies that matched her Timbalands and boasted of her massive wealth and propensity for violence to the other mothers at every turn. Poor Xol always looked pained and embarrassed. “we called his mothers cell and she’s like, ‘oh sorry yeah, we all had to go to LA to return a fur coat…i gotta go…’ im worried about the kid.” ‘Torquque binder’ was recorded that night. The B side is for Tony Miller, who’s room i moved into. The bass claranet is played by my pal Foxy Pink gloves. During the recording, a smoking brazer cracked in half and the coals fell into my sock drawer, setting it ablaze. Foxy kept playing as i put it out with beer, and we continued for 20 more minutes in the smoke filled room. Thanks Tony…. ” – G. Lucas Crane (abandon ship records)
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mosaic antenna s/t cdr $5
“jyväskylä, finland is the town of virtanen. everyone knows of sonic wizard, keijo, by now, but he is not the only virtanen around. longtime keijo collaborator (he’s a member of the free players and often plays with kheta hotem) sami virtanen builds his own bridge to the cosmic frozen forests under the moniker, mosaic antenna. this self-titled album is a minor masterpiece filled with endless organic tape loops, guitar festering, casios, and a whole bevy of unrecognizable instrumentation. this melodic affair is the sound of trees in finland’s arctic circle, freezing half to death in winter, parched for sunlight and longing for a forest fire. mosaic antenna has unleashed the ghosts of lapland into the world and out into the ether. there is so much beauty and magic here, i can barely contain myself. 100 copies” -foxglove
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“wailing bones volume 3” comp. cdr $5
” this is the third installment of an ongoing series of cd-r releases, split between four artists, each contributing longform tracks. volume 3 features exclusive clatter from seht, the serial harvest (a new funeral folk group), apple snails, and brothers of the occult sisterhood. 150 copies” -foxglove
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TIC ROX Comp CD-R $4
“…… (sleetmute nightmute, ch. 3×4, automatic fancy, death sentence: panda!, bakelite, wet confetti, in flux, hustler white, joey casio, yellow swans, N.213, bakelite, demon babies, nun un, pompoir, live girls, mr. ugly, zeus, latex bride, blue science, fuck me u.s.a., your ghost) THIS COMP RULES!!! TOO MANY WIKKED TRAXX!” -inw
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The WHITE TIGER PREPADE / SHEARING PINX split c20 $5
“WTP hail from Norway and they strike hard edgez and pledge to spasmland. SHPX trax recorded by the Voluptious Remy @ Food Hole in PDX, O>R> Ltd 50 copies” -INW
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Shepherds/Ignatz split 7″ $5
“Brooklyn’s Rear House boys trace a woolly kraut-punk path over the (loco) hills and through the woods. Brussell’s resident psych-seclusionist Ignatz recounts ancient exotic sagas with wood, strings, voice, and hiss.” -nnf
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Jeremy Ear “SKULL” art book $15 (real binded book, not a stapled zine or anything)
“After some 27 LPs, 48 tapes, 25 seven inches, 33 CDs/CDRs, and 4 ten inches, the time has finally come for Not Not Fun’s first foray into the great wide world of book publishing. And there’s few better NNF BFFs we could hope to share the adventure with than Fuck It Tapes/Woodsist CEO (and Meneguar/Shepherds/Woods multi-instrumentalist) Jeremy Earl. Since early on in FIT’s adolescence, he began incorporating his own loosely composed symbolist/primitivist designs into the label’s aesthetic (highlights like The Brain Band and Blues Control’s “Riverboat Styx” J-card come to mind), but constant focused labor and the endless march of new projects forced his craft into a heightened state of evolution, birthing countless killer compositions along the way. SKULL is here to pick up some of the choicest pieces from bone-yard and bind them all together. The art inside spans several years worth of work, from 2006-era obsessively rendered ritual serpents and bleeding, 8-fingered hands up through Earl’s most recent experiments with collage and multi-media hieroglyphics. Over a dozen of his most striking and iconic cassette covers are included as well, in addition to scores of never-before-seen images. Dazed pterodactyls, radiant pyramids, possessed worms, faceless figures beneath winged specters: all lurk and loom from the eye of the SKULL. 40 full-color pages, professionally printed and bound, in a one-time edition of 500.” -nnf
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Rahmane – Black Cross, Red Crescent – 3″CDR $4
“New Zealand’s best known secret, Duncan Bruce recorded these 2 gems in 2006, and they’re finally released on 8mm. this is the music i love: weird, dreamy, exotic, loud and completely out-of-its-center = free. New Zealand and Afghanistan has never been so close. 111 copies.” -8mm
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Family Battle Snake- “Arabian Knights ” cassette $6
“Slitherin. Its both a bellied grind deep down into the dirt with each turn and a graceful floating just above it all at the same time. Same as these here burnings; both bellowin deep and resonatin in your underside and a delicate sparkle like harmonious poprocks or gemstones inside the skull. All curlin and coilin and rollin along sonorous melody furrows.” -goaty tapes
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Super Minerals “The Thaw” CS $8.50 (high wholesale cost, OOP, pro-dubbed)
” Tracing the veins of a band’s constituent parts can uncover strange and enlightening currents of influence, history, mystery, etc. And LBC riff kings Magic Lantern have as ripe and rich a creative periphery as any other crew in the NNF matrix: guitarist Cameron spellbinds as Sun Araw, other guitarist William does the luminous Eureka, drummer Chip stars in Christian musicals (!!), and together William and vocalist/keyboarder Phil soundtrack acid vistas as Super Minerals. What’s perhaps even more unknown to most is that SM actually predates Magic Lantern by a solid few years, and have been gently unfurling fried and frayed zoner atmospheres in micro-edition CDRs since at least 2005. Due to humility or mellow marketing, however, virtually zero of these have slipped into the greater global earhole. So when Phil one day graced us with the Minerals’ entire collected works, we realized the time was now to right this wrong, and began compiling The Thaw, a gargantuan C120 selection of their most truly tripped and narcotic audio mirages, and we couldn’t be more thrilled with it. Murky sunlight string-jangle, jungle Om heatwaves, distant insect whirr, phantom flute whispers, deep drugged rainforests of vibrant harmonic hallucination – this land is yr land. Immense and imaginary. Pro-manufactured high-bias chrome tapes (with shell-imprinting) in faintly silkscreened oversized cases with double-sided full-color ‘solar ooze devouring owl’ artwork by the band. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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The North Sea “Submarine Museum” cassette $6
“For lack of a better word: woah. Brad Rose is back at the helm of his ever-welcome, shapeshifting solo guise The North Sea. Submarine Museum is a continuous 33 minute cassette side depicting a sonic mandala riddled with points of desperate beauty and feedbacked death throe. The first two-thirds of the guitar based piece flows from humble pulses into a squall of the vertical blood-quickening sort. But that’s precisely where the atmosphere’s glowing membrane is pierced, letting through a sharp bodhi light of release and penultimate peace for the final third of the journey. Catch breath. Repeat. Limited to 80 pro-dubbed cassettes with color inserts housed in hand-crocheted cases by Myste French.” -stunned records
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tricorn & queue “hidden entrances” cassette $6
“tricorn & queue is one of the centerpieces of the mighty housecraft label. they make drones that are so dreamlike and zoned-out that it’s nearly impossible to get anything done. it feels like something from decades ago. “hidden entrances” leads to a world of ghostly remnants, washed in tape hiss and dressed-up in sunkissed colors. everytime i listen to this, i just drift away, making it impossible for me to focus long enough to write something intelligible. god i love this band. limited to 70 handnumbered copies. blue tapes, flourescent pink labels. ” -digitalis
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Little Women “Teeth” LP $10
“Official BIO”: Brooklyn quartet Little Women formed two years ago to create music that blurs the line between structure and spontaneity. The group’s sound distilled from a broad range of influences that stretch from classic Chicago free jazz thru pop music, punk rock, math metal, and harsh noise. Little Women never stop pushing into new sonic territory: splitting overtones to create ghost notes, violently disassembling their instruments onstage, and attacking written and improvised material with equal ferocity. During performances band members often experience side-effects more commonly associated with prescription drugs such as nausea, dizziness, and internal bleeding. Little Women stomp all over genres, creating some of the most adventurous, in-the-moment, wrenchingly honest music of their generation.”Teeth” is 20 minute piece, recorded in one long, single take, covering an impressive range of sound, and is an intense and dynamic presentation of what they are doing as a band. Art work by MICK BARR (Orthrelm, Crom-Tech, Ocrilim, etc).Also: Members of Little Women have recorded and/or performed with some of the top names in jazz/improvised music such as: Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Mark Dresser, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Chad Hugo (The Neptunes), Gerry Hemingway, Joe Morris, Matt Wilson, Michael Formanek, Mat Maneri, and Dave Koz. Members of Little Women also play in bands such as Zs, Extra Life, Cutter, Period, Archaeopteryx.. -gilgongo records
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Mi Ami ‘African Rhythms’ 12″ $10
“The new sound of San Francisco is upon us with Mi Ami’s debut 12″ release. What if Kid Creole replaced the Coconuts with the Raincoats? What if Arthur Russell headed West instead of East and ended up at the Masque in LA? What if trance music wasn’t afraid to give you a hug once in a while? Who cares, just throw this on and teach yourself how to play a new instrument or paint a beautiful landscape. There are 400 copies pressed, each on black vinyl with beige DJ jackets. There are 5 test pressings on black vinyl in white DJ jackets.” -white denim
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ROBEDOOR – RANCOR KEEPER CD $11
“Sunny California… yeah, right. After several limited cdr, vinyl and tape releases (we are talking about 30 releases since 2005, plus various compilation contributions!), the Los Angeles duo finally unleashes their most definite major opus to the masses. Rancor Keeper is a bleak and uncompromising trip into the nightmarish drone-rituals of Robedoor. A sinister haze of bleeding walls, humans hanging from trees and rotten corpses returning from the other side. Recorded spring 2007 at Bored Fortress Studios, Rancor Keeper consists of 4 songs with a total playtime of about 40 minutes. Comparsions has in the past been made to bands like The Skaters and Skullflower, but with their unique occult atmosphere, Robedoor will always stand on their own. No mosh, no core, no fun. ” -release the bats
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Ch.2&3 “Nrvs Aktn” $6 (featuring members of shearing pinx)
crazy, I found a copy!! features members of shearing pinx, channels 3×4, etc. get this piece of history
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NASA “Bummer Daze” cassette $6
“Florida jam gang NASA have been launching around the International Noise Conference scene/periphery (plus other places) for a little while now, and every so often a rare snapshot cassette of their warped riff firepower finds its way into our Cali-fried hands and we always cherish the moment. Prime drum/strings shred of the best and most unclassifiable sort. Groovy, deranged, burned-out moonrock shrapnel that glows as it hits the ozone layer. High on the highway. Bad trip color haze J-cards with dumb smiley stickers and full-color tape labels. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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TEEN COMMUNITY/CADENA MUERTO split cassette $4
“TC’s side consists of a rare live performance @ Fake Jazz. Cultivating the right to the beast within. Loud obnoxious carnival. Includes some re-mixes and a track from the s/t CDR.///////Cadena Muerto is R>Dickinson who resides in Brighton, UK. Totality. The mark of a dark scar of solitary confrontations. A fuzzed out weapon leaking out of the speaker to infiltrate.///2 different covers, limited to 50 copies.” -inw
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Traum Ecke- “Traum Ecke” cassette $6
“Members of Ducktails in an oceany billow of redwood girth. For the early mornin, when you feel all inside the breath of the sun. Throb to warm and broaden your chest, soften the tissue and clear the veins.” -goaty tapes
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QUETZOLCOATL – “Where Are We Going Sister” cdr $7
“Quetzolcoatl drift unmoored through a barren psychedelic landscape lit by a total eclipse, a strangely greyed sound world populated by vibrating strings, haunting disembodied reverberations, and all manner of psych rock shimmer, all tangled up into deep dreamy washes of warm chordal whir. Like spinning some unreleased My Bloody Valentine 45 with your finger as slow as possible, recording it on a microcassette recorder, dubbing it to an old VHS tape, playing that in some old broken VCR, recording that through a contact mic affixed to the speaker cone, dubbing it to a thrift store tape, and then playing it back on your shitty car stereo, so loud it makes you see stars and cloaks the world in a thick grey sonic mist. Nice!” – Aquarius
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Century Plants “Inversions” cdr $6
“Latest from Albany guitar duo whose six string damaging has often shred the guitar beyond recognition. For this outing, however, Century Plants plug in, and allow their guitars to be guitars. Psych raga, melting icebergs of roaring drone, metallic strum and clang, oceanic melody and even a helping of pastoral song melody separate this from previous smash ups. Hardiman and Hare create these hypnotic states from the ground up, building their sound out of pure improvisation. Oh yeah, the guitars don’t always sound like guitars!” -ikuisuus
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Pink Luminous Invocation “s/t” cd-r $6
“pink luminous invocation is a new quartet hailing from the nordic confines of denmark. this, their debut release, sees two guys and and one girl battling it out in a thicket of organic drones and ethereal harmonies. with hints of the irish deserted village collected, pink luminous invocation’s sound is shrouded in mist. using everything from bells and toy keyboards to clarinets and zurnas, it floats around the edges of the forests, unsure of whether or not its safe to enter the magick wood. it is improvisation on a massive scale. while bowed strings lift their arms skyward, the woodwinds flicker underneath a blanket of stars, and we all listen to these three voices sing us toward the dawn.” -foxglove
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WEIRDO / BEGEIRDO “ARCTIC CARCASS” CDR $6
“a collection of previously released tracks from one of my favorite bands in recent memory. britt once said something to the effect of “a bunch of stoned girls and me hitting a wood block” when we were talking about the band. you’ve seen monty python with the monks hitting themselves with the wood tablets, and you’ve heard the story of the buddhist climbing the moutain in search of enlightenment only to be hit on the head with a stick, you’ve seen backyard wrestling on youtube. you’re waiting for that moment where human ingenuity is faced with the utter simple truths of what in fact matters. it’s not nanobots, double quarter negative economic growth or lacanian definitions of happiness. it’s “a bunch of stoned girls and [britt] hitting a wood block.” because really, what more can be said? GET THIS! full color artwork by gwm in a jewel case.” -breaking world records
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WATERSPORTS – A VERY WEINACHTEN CDR $7
“aged to perfection, a whisperer of a release. this is more hush than harsh, more barely than gnarly. not exactly lush or textural, not eggzactly ambient or cascading, watersports take their time rising into view, surrounding the air, keeping the sound waves surfable. real nice. drug music if you like drugs. then again, what music isn’t drug music if you like drugs? full color in jewel case. ” -breaking world records
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FOLK SPECTRE- “The Blackest Medicine” LP $13
“Solo tunes by Pete Nolan of the magik markers, ghq,vanishing voice, virgin eye blood brothers,etc… This is music from the American Underground. The feeling is dark and fucked up and somehow sublime. A solid statement of loner home-made goodness. A pop statement from behind a veil of dirt. Blessed be, Pete Nolan.”-woodsist
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Nothing People Anonymous LP $10
“Over the last couple of years, the Nothing People have released three stellar seven inch records and during that time they have built a “fan club” that includes Anopheles Records’ Karl Ikola, the guys at Victim of Time, Siltbreeze’s Tom Lax, In the Red’s Larry Hardy, the folks down at Your Flesh, Ryan Wells of Z Gun, and many more. And over the last couple years this “fan club” has asked me “When’s the full length?” over and over again. Well, now they can shut the hell up because the Nothing People’s first album is here! And let me tell you this, while the Nothing Peeps have plenty of songs that yell out “put me on a 45”, they have just as many that demand to be heard in long form. Want an example, check out “Sickness”. It is the kind of song you want to hear on twelve inches, and there are 8, 9, 10 hell I lost count, but there are a bunch more. So, yeah, it is time for you to get a big dose of proto/glam/psych/punk/wave excellence. On clear vinyl. 600 pressed.” -s-s records
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child pornography / silver daggers split cassette $5
“so-cal no-wave gre-ats child pornography again bombards us with two BLOWN UP bubble-gum casio punk, but seriously, even the guitars sound like toys& punk classics that are sure to get you out of yr seat (where ever that seat may be). flip the tape over and you’ll hear the recently BLOWN UP silver daggers tunes with a twist, remixed by sd front man, wksm–the remix dynamic totally works for those dudes, again, you’ll be busting a move one minute into this side. really just the type of monster tape that is a taste of l-a (although the dudes in l-a totally think this is the type of shit that ruined it, no-one can deny it’s epic in proportion), but seriously this is way cooool + worth it + way limited (/66).” -jktapes
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Soft Shoulder/Shearing Pinx split cassette $5
“The best SS I’ve heard yet!! Pink hearts for the soft shouldies!! They hail from Tempe, AZ–James runs Gilgongo which rules!! (gilgongorecords.com/) SHPX side has a 4track demo + a wikked jam we did at KDVS last summer on tour. Ryan Carlile from NIGHT WOUNDS plays a killer saxophone! This tape is SAXHEAVY!! Get it get IT! Ltd. 100 copies” -INW
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HUSTLER WHITE / IN FLUX Split cassette (PUBLIC SECRET MEDIA)$6
“This tape is much fun! Warbly winter excursionz, alter ego instructions. Does anyone know what happened to this label????? IN FLUX = Members of Shearing Pinx & Underbelly. HUSTLER WHITE = Me con, Alarmist, Bird Costumes, Teenage Kamelot.” -inw
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Night Wounds “Allergic to Heat” CD version $9
“recorded in early 2006 in a downtown LA practice space by the band. 8 songs just shy of 30 minutes, mostly recorded live. Everything from angular post punk to primitive no wave and free experimentation, rarely covering the same ground twice.” CD version has an extra song!!
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Pocahaunted/Orphan Fairytale split 7″ $5
“One track each from Pocahaunted (California) and Orphan Fairytale (Belgium). Pocahaunted has been real busy the last year: opening for Sonic Youth, several collaborations with Robedoor, tape/cd-r releases on Not Not Fun, Arbor, Fuck It Tapes etc, split LPs with Christina Carter and Mythical Beast… and yeah, we could go on forever (and mention the 2 new vinyl albums on Arbor and Woodsist that are being released at the same time as this 7″…)! Here Amanda and Bethany gives us Warpaint, another dubbed-out and almost heavy lo-fi anthem with that always so special and unique Pocahaunted vibe. The discography of Orphan Fairytale, the solo moniker of Eva Van Deuren, mainly consists of very limited tape and cd-r releases so far, with the only previous vinyl output being an amazing collaboration LP with Mudboy. Live actions includes a performance at No Fun Fest 2007 and a set that took place inside of a container. Here she continues with her haunting and always captivating and melodic keyboard hymns. Made By Mermaids is a trip in the ocean gone bad. Limited to 500 copies. Full colour labels, yellow big-hole sleeves with design and screenprint (in glowing red) by RTB-sidekick HLG.” -release the bats
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Heavy Winged “We Grow” LP $15
“Today is the greatest. Cause time has come for total take off. Brooklyn/PDX instrumental interstellar overdrivers Heavy Winged deliver the most gravity-crushing pair of fight-flight journeys in their entire cumulative psych revolution thus far. And it is glorious. We Grow is the apex realization of every tectonic assault, wind tunnel vortex, and outer space meltdown HW have ever unleashed across the past 15 months worth of stunning CDRs, splits, and comp appearances. The A side, “A Stretch of Time,” slow-burns an ascent into explosive galactic violence, guitars, bass, and drums detonating into endless feedback fireworks. Then “Shifting Clouds” closes the album, marching a drifting riff of haze and mass into a majestic no man’s land of darkening space. A masterpiece record, and packaged accordingly. Blackened-blue vinyl LPs with collage center labels housed in full-color pro-printed jackets, in sleeves adorned with rad oval vinyl stickers, plus a hand-numbered insert. Limited t0 450.” -Not Not Fun
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Pocahaunted “Peyote Road” LP $15
“Evolving comes easier to some than others. A lot of the 21st century’s chief underground ringbearers are happy mining the same psych-ditch for the same warped ore, tape after tape and day after day. But Eagle Rock, CA’s Pocahaunted are too restless (and easily annoyed?) to sit still like that, and so spent all of ’07 throwing ever weirder new figures and moods into their amplifier family, and “Peyote Road” shows the motion of their transformation agenda. The A side ritual, “Divine Flesh,” stirs hand drums and chimes into a bellydancing blur of voice smoke and rhythm before breaking down into its base elements and slowly reforming. The flip side (“Heroic Doses”) documents Pocahaunted’s set opening for Thurston Moore on Halloween night in the wasted and highly un-mystical California desert town of Visalia. Bobb Bruno and Britt Brown backed up the ladies’ blown-out but melancholy wailing wall with electronic drums and drones, and the recording treads a dim, no-fi path into a bleak and holy void. With tribal-psychedelia collage jacket artwork by owleyes.”- Woodsist
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Peaking Lights – “Clearvoiant” cassette $6.50
“Peaking Lights is Aaron and Indra (also of Numbers) from Rah Dunes new duo project recently relocated to rural Wisconsin from the Bay Area. Floating electronic pulses, controlled feedback, tape loops, organ, snyth, guitar, and vocal harmonies layered into waves of four track noise pop goodness. The perfect soundtrack to walking in mysterious places, haunted neighborhoods, lost river banks, and bike rides at night. This release really glows and grows. Silkscreened artwork by SDREED.” -night people
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forest creature / ryan garbes and gerre hancock split cassette $6
“Forest Creature are an insane duo that emerged out of the brief Blackout Band sessions. Duo of Ben (former BR store employee) and Richard. Total nutso weirdo noise shit, dumb electronics and self taught drums clatters… thrown in some scrapes, fights and pure dense noise with the odd barely recognizable vocal and you got Forest Creature… one flowing blurted nightmare. Ryan Garbes is the drummer from Iowa’s Raccoo-oo-oon, and on this release he is joined by organist Gerre Hancock. Inititially the opening to this sounds like your in the big top surrouned by some chirpy clowns, elephants hand standing on balls, and dudes in big hats taming tigers… But then the psychedelia hits in, and man is it a trip! Far out smoky drones with elephants getting high – Dumbo style. Clowns becoming some kinda Nosferatu blood suckers – Tom Cruise Interview with a Vampire style. Grooving stoned lions dancing reeaaaallll slow, kicking the tamers asses whilst giggling away. one hell of a far out experience. Cassette = 70 copies.” -blackest rainbow
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Orphan Fairytale one-sided C60 $8 (beniffer editions)
new tape by belgium’s orphan fairytale. this one is fucking eerie as hell. leave a light on! silkscreened covers in oversized case. painted labels.
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Barn Owl “Bridge to the Clouds” cdr $7
“A couple months ago this subtle San Fran three-piece rolled into the local CURIO for a low-key night and fucked everybody up. No one saw it coming. Their Digitalis debut was great – a warm wooden walkabout of six-string finger-dancing and acoustic themes – but it seemed a bit squarely/safely in post-Chasny territory, so no one freaked. Well apparently they’ve since relocated to a darker oaken throne, cause the LA show was a Sabbathy campfire of pentagram bass grooves, eloquent electric desolation, and stripped war drums. Music for dying in the desert to. Bridge to the Clouds was the tour CDR they were slinging on the trek, and though it’s not as purely psychedelic and forsaken as their live incarnation, it does serve as a powerful pathway to the present…hovering above Barn Owl’s earlier earth-bound Evan Miller mode with foreshadowing flashes of future shamanic doom alchemy. An NNF full-length is in the works, and we can’t wait. Stamped CDRs in silkscreened, spray-painted, gold leaf stamped arigato paks wrapped with rainbow ribbon. Edition of 147.” -nnf
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Quem Quaeritis/Child Pornography LP ($11)
” LA is a sprawl, no doubt, but the deserts get dryest out in the sick sticks of Riverside. Ever since we first trekked out to the Pixel Palace (RIP) and had our skulls redefined, the 92501 crew have struck us as maybe the truest keepers of the So-Cal house party bombing freak-wave flame. The scene’s since changed of course, but these two bands were/are the kings of old-school Inland Empire radicalism. Quem Quaeritis are no more, sadly, but the trio’s jams here show beyond a shadow of a doubt why they fucking ruled. Jesus-bent weird-hop, Laker boat free-jazz, and post-political tent spiritualism mesh into a holy trinity of lunatic Americana. No genres, no rules, spring break freedom turned inside out. Child Pornography have been rocking/annoying west coasters since nearly 9/11, and their game still ain’t up. Nine spazzy rants of Suicide-on-pixie-sticks Casio-babble, dumb-wave guitar shred, and helium-keyed stream of consciousness word barf. Enough outsider vibes and confusing nonsense to irritate even the stone-chillest board-short bro. In fancy printed matte jackets with face-collage scribble Erin Allen artwork, on kryptonite green vinyl. “
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valerio cosi “& the spiritual committee” cd-r cdr $5
“italian galactico valerio cosi returns with his second album for foxglove, and raises the stakes considerably. he bends his saxophone into a glistening array of aural armaments, channeling the ghosts of giants, these spaced-out, eastern-infused missives. cosi is master and bending tones and meshing multiple instruments and styles into a cohesive unit. layers of guitars, horns, percussion, and more create everything from whimsical pop to sprawling, esoteric drone. “the spiritual committee” is the perfect homage to the roman gods of yore. 100 copies” -foxglove
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CJA/Smokehouse “Whisky & Freedom” split cassette $5
“Futurian Clayton Noone (CJA) and Kaaterama Morehucan (Smokehouse) unite for this recording and churn up some of the most lackadaisical and hazy sounds in recent history. At times Morehucan evokes the presence of Flying Canyon’s Cayce Lindner with his soulful voice and gentle nature. Yet he is subdued and even more laid back than the late, great Lindner. When Clayton presented me with this recording he said of Morehucan, “He can actually play and sing and some of it sounds rather smooth and in tune, until I come along and wreck things.” I think he summed it up perfectly with that statement.” -abandon ship records
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Thousands “Skinless/Boneless” cassette $5
With their releases finally catching up to their prolific back catalog of recordings, this Los Angeles collective crosses many lines in this, their first tape for Abandon Ship. “Skinless/Boneless” weaves together dreamy shoe-gazer lines with pummeling hardcore and an ominous sense of something gargantuan approaching. Creatively known as a supergroup, Thousands is more of an intersection of crystal spheres, harmonizing vibrations from six hearts and minds. More than a sum of its parts, the music of Thousands is a new birth, a raging infant older than its apparent age.- Abandon Ship
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Raccoo-oo-oon – “Mythos Folkways Vol. IV, Future Vision” cassette $6.50
“New live Raccoo-oo-oon document, recorded one early Jan. winter afternoon at the Cave of Spirits in Iowa City by Ryan Garbes to stereo cassette deck. A side is groovy future fusion scramble, melodic vocal chants rolling over tight percussion flows that ride like kenetic energy blasting into the atmosphere. B side is blown out guitar burners giving way to dark night ride vibes. In general think about starring out of your sunglasses at the end of the world and thinking this is alright. Artwork by SDReed and RGarbes.” -night people
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UNEVEN UNIVERSE- “CLUMP HUMANS” cassette $6
“From the iciest mounts of Michigan’ most frozen brains come massive sounds of sax/electronics duo Uneven Universe. Dan( from Haunted Castle) and Holly (who are both in Cardboard sax with John Olson) wreck havoc on the basement, turning it into an epic snow storm of tape loops and electronics. Through the totally solid murk saxophones, harp, and bells toll, slicing their way into your eardrums in the most hypnotic way. Prepare to get zoned and frozed. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes with full color collage art and printed labels. ” -arbor
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Acre “VOLCANIC LEGACY” cassette $5
“Two superb slabs of undulating harmonics; the ebb and flow of molten light, brought to you by the master of hard drone.” -bone tooth horn
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Evan Miller “s/t” cassette $6.50
“Miller is back at it with a new tape for Night-People. This one cuts real deep, Miller at his most epic. The A side starts things up with deep echo’s swimming around cut up tape manipulations, leading into chambers of drone with Miller’s characteristic tonal vocals transitioning into a kind of finger picked sentimental raga. The B side offers up a real burner, perhaps Millers best straight acoustic number, a real beautiful complex side that plays between minimalistic somber portions and upbeat workouts. Artwork by SDReed.” -night people
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Widening Horizon cassette $6
“Just when you thought all was about to fade to grey an epic expanse of orange, blue, and a phenomenon known as the “green glow” blinds you. The rolling hills seem endless, maybe they are(who really knows). At this moment of severe spatial reconsideration dual guitar drones, one electric, one acoustic, seem to rise up from the ground right under your feet. The contents of this tape are organic/communal compositions of guitar, sampler, synth, recorder, and percussion. The flow of consciousness is ever flowing/never slowing(at least for 17 minutes). The first in a series of coreleased tapes (w/ bro label jk tapes)featuring Treetops+Laissez-Faire. Horizontally oriented jams for an up and down kind of world. In a numbered edition of 40 tapes in full color double sided wraparound styled j-cards and sealed with a sticker.” -Arbor/JK Tapes
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Treetops/Cygnus split cassette $6
“At it’s purest recorded music is two things: basements and one track recorders. Treetops and Cygnus are a complimentary pair of basement sludge psychers armed with little more than a few effect pedals(no distortion?!). The Treetops track is a grower and coming in at just under 10 minutes one of the longer Treetops jams to date. Light guitar strumming, tape manipulations and the occasional incantation are the sole sources for “Wild Beauty”. Sky bound riffs float through the storm clouds. This track is a companion piece to the upcoming Ecstatic Peace tape, “In The Vanilla Grove/ Man and Horse”. Cygnus is the guitar/keyboard duo of Heath Moerland(Sick Llama/Fag Tapes) and his friend Glen. Heath and Glen use slow flanged strumming and haunted house keyboards all progressing at a slow-ed down pace. The second track starts out with some fuzzed heavy riffage and keyboard overload while progressively deconstructing itself to two guitars; a totally zoned out “I forgot we we’re recording” style gem. Much more chill then their previous blown out shred fests. In a numbered edition of 100 sprayed/stamped tapes in red youth stickered poly cases.”- arbor
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Pocahaunted “Island Diamonds” LP $15
“Teepees turned in for shanties. Moccasins turned in for high tops. Spirit fog turned in for purple haze. This is the sound of the world town. Amanda and Bethany have had S. LA metal head Bobb Bruno play electric drums on their tracks in the past, but the results of this album is something entirely different than anything they attempted before. It is less Bobb playing drums with Pocahaunted, than it is an entirely new entity operating in perfect unity. Dubbed out and drenched in the grime of the streets, Island Diamonds features the same vocal come downs and chord repetition/progression to infinity that P-haunt is know for, but with the addition of almost (dare I say) “danceable” beats. This is the record that Amanda and Bethany have always wanted to make, the crown jewel of an epic sistership. Rub soap in your eye make it red so you look raw. Recorded/mixed/mastered over a period of three months, and the effort/time shows; Pocahaunted’s most developed/realized work yet; features additional saxophone riffage by Andy Spore (of Raccoo-oo-oon, Youth of the Beast, Pukers) mastered by James Plotkin. In an edition of 500 Rasta colored LP’s on clear yellow vinyl with pro-printed jackets with art by Crystal Stokowski, labels by A+B, and an insert..” -arbor
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Los Llamarada The Very Next Moment 7″ (S-S) $4
“Little by little Los Llamarada is gonna take over the world. First they will shoot you with the neo-psychedelic stun gun of The Very Next Moment and then you’ll be shivved by their version of Brenda Lee’s I’m Sorry. There’s magic in this band of Mexican youngsters. In Rick Ele’s words, “a churning neg-viber…and… awonderfully weird (and) bittersweet.” Or from the band “A futurist (that is, costumbrist) narrative of high – tech / rural noise middle class splendor. And a sonambulist cover of a classic Brenda Lee song, guitars blinded by the hot Monterrey sun and Estrella’s cut-up vocals.” A very worthy follow up to their much raved about debut! 600 pressed. Hand stamped sleeve.” -S-S Records
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Blue Silk Sutures/Silver Daggers split 7″ $4
edition of 300, and out of print…no covers left unfortunetly..
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WIDENING HORIZON- “10000 FT ABOVE US, 100 YEARS BEHIND US” cassette $6
“This collaborative project of Treetops and Laissez Faire, expands itself beyond the constraints of a roster, opening the doors to all psyched youth(in particular, on this tape: Z.Z. and L.S.). The battling acoustic/electric vibes of the last tape are lost, traded in for an entirely communal psychic journey propelled by multiple guitars, horns, keyboards, drums, recorder, loops, and vocals. Spiritually united youth create a pure and uncompromising 20 minute soirée travelling in and out of styles like clouds through the sky. You are now free… In a numbered edition of 50 full sleeve wrap around double sided vellum prints, co-released with bro label JKTAPES.” -arbor
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Elektronavn “Black Zurnai” cassette $6
“In Pink Luminous Invocation, Magnus Olsen Majmon works the fog machine, emitting sensory deprivation clouds of holistic brain smoke. But in his solo universe as Elektronavn, his duties run darker and deeper. Black Zurnai showcases a recent pair of summer collage-composition offerings from his Danish pedal factory, and they both traverse strange terrains of chain-shaking hymnals, enchanted echo attic exploring, and timeless vocal phantasmagoria. Personal, parallel odysseys into devotion and repetition. A forthcoming Qbico LP will only heighten the post-hypnotic haze. In hand-sewn cloth cases entwined with purple mesh and gold beads. Limited to 99.” -nnf
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Pocahaunted – “Beast That You Are” cassette $6.50
“This Los Angeles based duo needs no introduction, emails have been flowing in about this tape before Night People even had them assembled. Psychedelic sisters of an ancient Californian apocalypse, Pocahuanted call out some hazy echoes over the valley on this tape of blown out guitar jamming, pre-american vocal serenity, and saxophone wash and skronk (provided by Andy Spore). Another killer outing from this prolific left coast institution. Artwork by SDReed.” -night people
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Pink Luminous Invocation “Sings the Blues” cassette $6
“PLI have been preaching the “Peace, Love, Invisibility” gospel for at least a few years at this point, radiating sub-radar FX resplendence across a grand handful of subtle CDRs and shows, but Sings The Blues stands strikingly apart from their crouch-core past and is all the better for it. Raw hybrid soul dirges of commune lament and hypnotic mourning resurrected from dirt drums, wicker guitar, and ancient electric melancholy. Intense ballads of transformation, chains giving way to God, hope turning to flight. Two women, two men, constant sorrow. This young Danish underground pedal family have never sounded so up on their feet, momentous, musical. Break on through. An impending LP should further plumb the dark Invocation behind the Pink Luminosity. Pro-dubbed grey tapes with metallic shell imprinting in freedom-fighter silkscreened cardstock sleeves tied with prayer bells. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Koi Pond – “Volcano” cassette $6.50
“Koi Pond is a three piece from NYC made up of some generally awesome dudes. Erik Roper plays bass and is a legendary artist/illustrator who does work for numerous bands, labels and publications such as Arthur, Southern Lord etc. while also playing in other bands such as Under Satans Sun and Mattalama. Pete Vogal plays synth while also jamming in Bow Ribbons, and designs arwork for clothes, David Aron plays drums, is the perpetrator for Little Cakes Gallery, used to skateboard alot, makes rad visual artwork, and jams in USUN with Mark Borthwick and Hisham Bharoocha. Despite these dudes epic resumes, Koi Pond is epic all on its own. Volcano is all about cosmic grooves, deep often minimal, endless repetitions that slowly evolve into more psyched out blissed out trances. Roper and Arons tight rhythmic foundations create the perfect backdrop for Vogal’s synth improvisations. This is a meditative listen that never gets old, it just keeps grooving on and on forever. Like Neu covering Dark Magus in a Tibetan Monastery. Artwork by Dave Aron, printing by SDReed.” -night people
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Empty Vessel “A World of Dew” cassette $6
“Ah man, you know that feeling when you wake up early in the morning and walk out hazy-eyed into the hazy world to pick up the newspaper? It’s a trip. Empty Vessel is Roy Tatum of Quintana Roo, Changeling, Black Monk, etc. Electronics sweating with overdrive. Transcending the aural spectrum with a dew inducing haze of harsh drones. The ebb and flow of a confined stream; tranquility turned up to 11. In an edition of 100 numbered copies.” -arbor
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Hell & Bunny w/ Mike Khoury – Restitution cassette $6
“The percussion and cello masters who make up 2/3 of Graveyards infamy collaborate with violinist Mike Khoury to bring about a sparse and intriguing listen. Droning strings offset by bursting rolls and plucks set the framework for two improvisations perfectly evoking a mood of sinister desolation. Each side rolls on with an uncomfortable unpredictability until climaxing in the death of the composition, leaving the listener unsettled yet oddly pleased.” -Night People
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frozen corpse – sailing into vomit cassette $5
“Brand new puke fest from carlo steegen (audiobot) and eva van deuren (orphan fairytale) this is early recorded material dated 06.06.06 for those true satanic sounds! Stoner noise for the burned out minds! Pro laser printed vellum and european sailing maps housed in a standard norelco case. Pro laser printed black and white cassette labels. Clear chrome high bias c10” -enmity
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Sun Araw “The Phynx” cdr $7
“Long Beach psychonauts Magic Lantern get ranted about a lot by us for their mystic ability to overwhelm and transport, and don’t expect that to stop soon. But in the meantime we’ve had the good fortune to learn about ML guitarist Cameron Stallones’ solo universe as Sun Araw and, no surprise, the silver apple don’t fall too far from the tree (so to speak). Spanning Spacemen 3 garage cosmos, Starving Weirdos coastal séance, and a healthy stratosphere of pan-dimensional astral feedbackers, The Phynx is a fantastic four-track suite that floats freely from form to formlessness in the blink of a third eye. A great journey into white light dirge and dead distortion blues, and as killer a debut full-length as a label/listener/fan/head could hope for. Fingers are crossed that more Sun Araw sunbeams shine down our ears again before ’08 is out. Stenciled CDRs in full-color mysterio-portrait foldover artwork by Stallones, and sanctified with a triad of kaleidoscope stickers. Edition of 155.” -nnf
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ben nash – “the seventh goodbye” LP $13
“Vinyl debut for long term Blackest Rainbow brother Ben… I’m extremly happy with this one. 8 tracks, 34 minutes. Opening with a reworking of ‘KUAD 9873’ from his Blackest Rainbow debut cassette… bleak drones smothered in vocal lulling, and finishing with a sweet guitar piece swirling in a lake of percussion, vocal and drone. ‘Nightcall’ shows a more middle eastern psychedelic droning, bowing, wailing, and satanic mutterings. Track 3 is the title track ‘The Seventh Goodbye’, and is the most ‘full band’ approach of Ben’s acoustic psychedelic folk jams, but this blurs into sax blurts, waves of melancholic vocal drone and writhing riffery. Perhaps similar to Voice of the Seven Woods or Six Organs of Admittance. Side B opener ‘Smoke and Flattery’ is the most experimental – multi percussion, echoes of whispers, finger grating guitars. ‘Magnetophon Pt IV’ is not Ben’s recent Sloow Tape of a similar name, but a bluesy haze LSD dream, building into a drenched ecstatic guitar drone. Following this is ‘What Will Always Be Pt.II’ which is reminiscent of Jack Rose, or James Blackshaw, the most beautiful composition on the LP. This bleeds into the final surrealness of ‘Angel No. 7’ field recordings, bleak, fearful and empty. I’m honoured to release this gem. Limited to 250 hand numbered copies on virgin vinyl, with black, white and red pasted on covers, plus a black and white insert. All artwork designed by Darryl Norsen who designed our (VxPxC) sleeve, and done a few beauties for Important records, as well as posters for Sunburned, Six Organs, Hush Arbors, Magik Markers and more.” -blackest rainbow
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MUDBOY (BEATS SERIES I) cassette $6
“45 minutes of the most mind numbing jaw dropping… I dont know. BEATS ONLY. No Organ No Singing nuthin. This is for driving in the car at night..Raymond scott meets 80’s belgian breakcore. Album art is fold out silkscreen collab with K. Hooyman. Sticker says 2006. its a lie..” SECOND EDITION
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Diamond Lemonade cassette $6
“Whether it be getting out tons of great jams vis-à-vis his Tape Tek imprint or creating tons of great jams vis-à-vis Shivers + Aosuke, Ulf Schütte has defined himself as a positive youth demigod across the way in Deutschland. With Diamond Lemonade, the bro seems to be exploring tape manipulated sonic diversity. Weaving in and out with pendulum preciseness, the jams are overwhelming; lower yr inhibitions, and you’ll be instantly chilled. Melodic mystery terrorizes the left-side of yr brain, the right-side of brain relaxes in euphoria. Gear-light jams never made more sense, in individually water-colored aesthetically inebriating, HEAVY line drawn j-cards. [75] ” -jk tapes
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Fantastic Magic “Witch Choir” cassette $6
“Take a magical trip on a pegasus through a field of LSD. Flowers harmonize and dance among young wizards at the festival of the equinox.”, stated a mystical nypmh as he sat perched apon a toadstool, shanai in hand. These thoughts come to mind as a neo-psychedelic journey begins through a field of emerald green grass and a multicolored sky that is Fantastic Magic. Pull up a woven floor mat and enjoy the fruits of the earth as you delve into three young wizards journey through the island forest” – Abandon Ship
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(VxPxC) “twelve divided by three” cassette $6
super limited (50 copies) tape on Buried Valley, already gone from the label. this band is from LA and features members of thousands (their recent tape on nnf was AWESOME) and some other bands I’m forgetting. it rules basically.
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Shepherds w/Shawn Reed “Eyes of the World” cassette $7 (“REAL” CS!)
“Named (maybe?) after some not-too-noteworthy Grateful Dead hoedown (off the Wake of the Flood LP, FYI), Eyes of the World here means the banner-in-the-sky under which Brooklyn’s tenders of the wandering psych flock, Shepherds, communed with Raccoo-oo-oon’s singer/shredder Shawn Reed for a C50-something of carefully cultivated rhythmic primitivism and early man ghost-chanting. Non-Horse-play tape loops spool in the shadows while J Earl percussion flashes light on cave art corridors of SK1 wave-walking and Christian’s stringed psycho-babble. Hold hands in the flames of the fire till your eyes are radiant with Right Now. Live and learn: regression is progression. Pro-manufactured-and-mastered orange tapes with full-color double-sided fold-out J-cards group-designed/drawn/written by Jeremy Earl, Shawn Reed, and Gabriel Lucas Crane. Edition of 200.” nnf
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Loosers “Logic On Its Head” 10″ $10
“Portugal’s greatest export (besides cork and textiles) continues its dusky, creeping bleed of six-limbed psychedelic windmilling. Loosers have always excelled at ripping strange spatial curvatures out of drums, electronics, and exotic moods, and Logic On Its Head serves up two more classic black platters of sidelight ritualism. The A drapes incense and chimes atop an old copper bowl of ringing tones and tentacle percussion fusion that slow-burns a sweet smoke you never wanna exhale. Don’t. The B, “Daeh Sti No Cigol,” is even more perverse, as backwards as its title and dusty as a mosque. Sudden gestures flutter in the dusk and the sky turns purple. Really commanding and liberated in a way few improv outfits achieve so easily. Impending double LPs on Eclipse and Qbico should only escalate their visionary aura. Two-color silkscreening on fabric-photocopied, hand-stamped sleeves. Black vinyl. Edition of 340. Co-released with the crew at Woodsist.” -nnf
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Pukers “Beach Cop” cassette $6
“”Where are you going, what are you doing, you’re doing a bad job, you’re doing a bad job.” Lyrics like these – and song titles like “Look at Me” and “Don’t Look at Me” – are what elevate Pukers’ meta-thrash into an even wilder arena of high art internal debate. Beach cops aren’t the only law enforcers brought to task on this savage C32; bike cops and park cops get equally brutalized. Since semi-temporarily relocating to Culver City/LA, Pukers have ditched the dead dog worship for a more conceptual crowd-surf across the polluted waters of stream-of-songciousness. The results are sick and blazing. Especially seeing as how the A-side finds Britt sitting in on electric axe for a session while the B stars Manda’s intuitive six-string synergies. This is some supergroup shit. Cardstock fold-out J-card in a case stuck with weirdo foam shapes. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Big Nurse 7″ $5
Picked this up when they passed through LA on tour last month. Forgot to add it until now. sorry no photos and not much info. but they rule. there were like 6 people playing and thrashin’! limited amount of copies. New music
“Universal Rock of the purist kind. Along the lines of Gang Wizard’s infinite guitar solos style. A complete passion for the energy and grit of true rock, without any posing, ego, or fashion. Not even the lame dirt-fashion stuff. Just kids being relentless. I love it. What type of monster wouldn’t?” – (brian miller description)
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Evan Miller/Gown split cassette $6
“The power is out. The power is back. This tape juxtaposes two expert guitarists against each other on the natural A/B boundaries of the cassette medium. Iowa’s own Evan Miller creates long drifting ragas (or as he like to call them, spells) of acoustic guitar work akin to contemporaries such as Fahey and Rose, but strays from their “minstrel in the country” vibe and going more towards “a fisherman on the wharf” style. Even though there are no words, the emotion and story of his songs are obvious. “Specter” was recorded during a storm adding an ominous atmospheric quality to the meandering spell. On the flip side, Gown creates sky high electric guitar drones similar to his work in Bark Haze, but his presence in the solo setting adds a particularly nice clarity to his work; much less of an overload leaving more time to really soak into the jam. “Pigeon Church” is one of his first recordings since leaving his internship at Ecstatic Peace and moving up to rural Maccan, Nova Scotia. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes in 3 color silkscreened sleeves with tape labels and an insert.”- arbor
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Ettrick “Feeders of Ravens” LP $11
“Prepare for sudden death. San Francisco brutalizers Ettrick finally deliver the full-length destruction they’ve been threatening for so long now. Feeders of Ravens is definitely the most potent collection of harsh jazz violence the duo’s ever laid to tape, showcasing all their classic kill-moves: slaughtering saxophone dialogues, jittery percussive fits, raging horn/drum self-annihilation, etc. What escalates their improv attacks above just blind frenzy is the warped telepathy Jacob Heule and Jay Korber exhibit in their playing, wordlessly intuiting one another’s energy upswings and downturns. And nowhere is this psychic connection more apparent (and demonic) than on “Raven Harvest,” the LP’s final onslaught. Searing sax blasts burn through the ear drum, giving way to splatter paint percussion flailings and scraping metal, which then slowly take shape, coagulating into a dense, aggressive avalanche of pummeling, white-hot drum rapture. Life into death into life. Black LPs in pro-printed jackets with majestically sinuous, Haida-style cover art (and memento mori raven back art). Limited to 350.” -nnf
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Belly Boat “Dear Robert Hanoy” CD $8
All aboard, gang. After 23 months of back-and-forth and waiting/wondering, Zoe and Silvie have finally docked the debut Belly Boat album in NNF harbor, and we are BEYOND happy about it. Dear Robert Hanoy is a scratchy, expansive masterpiece, 14 sung songs of outsider ragtime, rambling European café waltz, and charismatic lyrical chemistry. Influenced equally by Cocorosie, Celine Dion, and Chamillionaire (circa “Ridin’ Dirty”), BB weave piano, accordion, and dueling voices into a freaky, frayed woolen mitten of strange emotions. Put it on, feel weird, throw a snowball. This is a storybook soundtrack for barefoot exploration and natural wonder, culled from years of face-painting, taking pictures of horses, and making best friends laugh. CDs come with full-color 8-panel booklets of artwork by Belly Boat, in sleeves sewn with grunge flannel, strung with grey yarn/clear beads, and flecked with gold dust. Limited to 500.
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Barrabarracuda “Abasement Tapes” cdr $7
” Confusion is hex. Or worse. Digging around in the BBC vaults yields a lot of dubbed-over Aerosmith tapes and scrawled notes like “chaos jam – LOUD.” Factor in the steady membership flux and restless vibe/sound shifts and you’ve got an archivist’s nightmare on your hands. But here it is anyway. Abasement Tapes spans the band’s last 15 foggy months, culling fucked cuts from early Grace-phase, dual-drummer, post-political, microphone assault all the way to relatively recent Roy-era, stoned-free, art-rant amp-songs. Five tracks, fifty minutes, a thousand years of historical/celebrity shit-talking. Neon stenciled CDRs in black plastic cases with full-color wrap-around collage covers (artwork by Manda), affixed with weird beaded safety pins, plus a stenciled, hand-numbered insert. Limited to 120.” – NNF
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Metal Rouge – “Eulogy for Keeler” cdr $6
“Sometimes the roses grow close to home, right outside your window. We in Los Angeles are proud to have this phenomenal duo making their triumphant and terrifying tones in our backyard. Andrew Scott and Helga Fassonaki are true creators of sonic thickness, merging razor strings with buzzing overdriven fuzz, but also laying back to a deep silence and imaginary pulses. ‘Eulogy for Keeler’ is a document of their trip to the American desert and the ghost towns within. It is a photograph taken with these phantoms, an interview with the forgotten and voiceless dead. Stamped image on a folded arrigato pack.” -Phantom Limb Recordings
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Quetzolcoatl – “Sleeping within the Sun” cd-r $6
“Easily one of the hardest working young artists in the free-form music world today, Tim Hurley, aka Quetzolcoatl, has been releasing his sonic bliss like a hundred flowers blooming. Luckily, he stopped by our garden and gave us this collection of works, a cosmic swirl of keyboard pulses and vocal loops. Guaranteed to make you nod out and then undergo some powerfully transformative dreaming.” -Phantom Limb Recordings
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HEALTH “s/t” LP $10 (vinyl version of the sold out tape I released)
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!!
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Changeling “Astral Arch” 1-sided 7″ $5 (OOP FROM LABEL)
“Attention sky-walkers: the eagle has landed. After an honest fistful of serenity-smoke cassette releases, Changeling finally alights his wings-of-gauze/claws-of-fog on this one-sided black vinyl seven inch. “Astral Arch” is a tranquil electric halo of hushed guitar sunrays flickering on lapping waves of cloud voice peace. A song for closed eyes, no memory, and impossible drift. Hand-numbered, hand-screened olive-branch cardstock jackets with unreal shape-shift cover art by Changeling himself. Plus the B-sides are stenciled with cryptic metallic runes. Limited to 176.” -NNF
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SHEARING PINX “DAMAGED DNA & SHEER OBLIVIOUSNESS” CDR $6
“5 Traxx of loosened skull fractures. A couple demos/songs a couple rockrrs. Extremely Ltd. 18-20 copies. Comes in a 7inch sized art & sleeve. Each one’s different.” -INW
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Changeling – “Five Hundred Nights” cd-r $6
“Recorded at the lavish Phantom Limb Recording studios, aka my house, this new cd-r from Los Angeles’ premier composer of blissed out loops sounds like it was transmitted directly through time and space from Kevin Shield’s brain while recording “Loveless”. Lush and yet desolate, this is the best work of Changeling so far, and it only promises to get better. Two massive guitar and keyboard compositions, flying high above the ground, casting shadows on our hearts.” -Phantom Limb Recordings
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Heavy Winged/Taiga Remains split LP $13
“Sky of blue and sea of green, in our yellow methedrine. Unnatural energies harnessed into a new universe of planetary tumult and astral injection courtesy of bi-coastal frequent flyers Heavy Winged and sultan of Cincinnati solitude, Taiga Remains. Pure planar schizophrenia carved into perfect circles of fool’s glass. The Winged’s war, “Witches Cradle,” immolates a levitating altar of prehistoric granite into an ashen mass that blocks out the light from a hundred suns. As raw and frenzied and hypnotically devastating as any single piece of hyperkinetic sludge the power trio has released to date. The flip is the same radiant annihilation only spread across 66 million millennia….all motion and violence stretched into historical cirrus clouds trembling with gravitational tension. Infinity’s burden burning off in wisps of audio mirage and glacial stasis. Go nowhere fast. Originally released as a micro-edition CDR on the Australian MYMWLY label, this LP re-issue was pressed from a fresh edit of the HW material and comes with an entirely unreleased bonus TR track as well. Coke-bottle clear 12 inches in art-cage silkscreened picture disc sleeves bedecked with painstaking full-color mystico-textile sticker compositions. Edition of 300.” -nnf
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Kenji Siratori “Harakiri” cassette $6
“Much has been made of Mr. Siratori’s unchecked outpouring of textured black silt, but the fact remains that quantity and quality don’t necessarily rage hand-in-hand. Whether an artist paints a painting a day or a decade matters nothing if the results RULE. And Harakiri is a formidable and dense subterranean canal/C50 of wrecked electric waste and toxic sludge flowing ceaselessly into a bottomless pit. A good hypnotic void to pour in yr ears for the better chunk of an hour, semi-reminiscent of Black Monk’s drumless jams. Word is Kenji labors a lot on his alternate career as a cyberpunk novelist, and that makes plenty of sense in light of this audio apocalypto. Black tapes in cases with tactile art paper J-cards and cases stuck with hand-cut black shape runes. Hand-numbered edition of 64.” -nnf
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“Siked Psych: NNF Gold” compilation CD $8
” Dig the past and look homeward, angels. This many-months-in-the-making comp collects 21 old-school obscurities and raw gems scattered across Not Not Fun’s first 50 sonic statements. Sadly, current compact disc technology maxes out at roughly 75 minutes of audio action (get on that, scientists!), so tons of equally beloved but lengthier genius jams and beautiful sprawlscapes could not be included (maybe subsequent volumes should be released on microchip instead of CD?!). Siked Psych’s visionary visuals are courtesy of NW color wheeler Devon Varmega aka Hair Party, and his lettering, lines, layout, etc are a dream. Discs come with a dizzying double-sided six-panel photo-collage tribal/trip-out poster, celebratory shredded neon foil, and are banded with 1 of 10 retardoid band comics by Britt. Hand-numbered, and limited to 500.
The SIKED are:
My Little Red Toe
The Wolf Tracks
Raccoo-oo-oon
Yuma Nora
Haunted Castle
Impregnable
D Yellow Swans
Bobby Birdman
Quem Quaeritis
Silver Daggers
Abe Vigoda
Herr K
Goliath Bird Eater
Foot Village
Mika Miko
Child Pornography
BARR
Hello Astronaut, Goodby Television
Foot Foot
The Golden Hours
Belly Boat”-NNF
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Thurston Moore/Men Who Can’t Love/Barrabarracuda/Kevin Shields “Thrash Sabbatical 12″ + 2x 7” $20
“An elaborate box-set of vinyl, pairing Thurston Moore 3 times with a selection of amazing Los Angeles acts. Box set will include equaly amazing art designed/curated by Britt & Amanda of Not Not Fun. Thurston Moore (you know the dude, he is in Sonic Youth) contributes music that ranges from beautiful acoustic guitar work to fierce noise and charging thud rhythms. Men Who Can’t Love is the gang of young LA noise dudes that do the tag team thing like it is the ultimate party. They share the 12″ w/ Moore, and hit you over and over with the tagteam efforts of Solitary Hunter, Impregnable, Moth Drakula, Haircut Mountain Transit, Toxic Loincloth, & Privy Seals. Barrabarracuda are the much more friendly sort, but welcome at the same party. Featuring Grace of Foot Village and Amanda of Pochahaunted on fireworks… erm drums and vocals, plus Britt of Robedoor on guitar and Nichole of Child Pornography on keyboard. Their split 7″ w/ Moore is definitly the most melodic of the bunch. Kevin Shields (here as Eva Aguila of Gang Wizard & Amy V of Yuma Nora) fuses searing walls of aluminum with angelic harmonies for a tension that evokes pure joy. Their split 7″ with Moore is matched with equal amounts joy and angelicism, but in soothing rather than tense manner.” -deathbomb arc
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Z Gun, No. 1 zine (Z Gun) $6
“Z Gun is a new print zine created by Scott Soriano (S-S Records/Terminal Boredom) and Ryan Wells (man about town) because they felt that there was a criminal lack of readable zines, especially one that covered the underground & experimental rock & roll.. They used several Search & Deastroy, Forced Exposure, etc. as templates and got contributions from Monty Buckles (The Lamps), Sean Wright, Min Yee (A Frames), Jacques Amsellem (Volt)., and others. The first issue includes intervies with and stuff on the Brainbombs, Pink Reason, Not Not Fun Records, SFTRI, SF Art Punk, Black Humor, and tons of record reviews. It is 40 pages tabloid size.” *IF YOU CAN READ, GET THIS!!!!*
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Yukon “Mortar” CD $8
“The album’s twining melodies and rhythms take risks in reinventing the ways a rock song can be strung together. Its refusal to become too familiar is what keeps listening to Mortar fun.” -Baltimore Citypaper (Terra Firma Records)
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GHQ “California Night Burning Dreams” LP + 3″ cdr $13
“These world wide web weavers work in waves, assembling for key shows and small tours, then dissipating into their respective networks of parallel projects/bands (Magik Markers, Moongang, Hototogisu, etc). Their time together, however, burns bright. Last summer the GHQ triumvirate of Nolan/Gunn/Bassett united for a leg of west coast wandering and all who bore witness left converted. Fortunately for those not there, the minidisc was ON at these gatherings and the California portion of the proceedings have been pored over and wreathed into this luminous masterpiece of Golden State mind-reading ragas. The sets showcased (Sacramento, Eureka) shine like electric dew on a dawn Sequoia and sprawl through sitar starscapes, acoustic fingerpicking, cosmic harmonica, and forest floor hand-drums. A raw document of real time dream machine vision-questing. Slate sky-blue vinyl LPs in full-color jackets (with California-collage art by Manda) adorned with a GHQ “winged skull” logo sticker, plus a bonus 3” CDR of their Seattle performance. Limited to 500.” -nnf
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Shearing Pinx/ Silver Daggers split 7″ $5
“Time to tell all the ’77 dudes to get hip to the ’07 sound. Vancouver’s Shearing Pinx and Los Angeles’ Silver Daggers are North America’s ambassadors for the new wave of skronk/thrash/post-whatever punk. The Pinx play angular, expertly timed, staccato waves of noise and punk. Two long songs sandwiching one short one in typical Pinx fashion. The Daggers (experts of interpreting animal sounds w/ regular rock instruments) create utterly epic art-punk jams complete with swirling synths and horns based around solid drumming and guitar/bass interplay. One track was recorded live at The Smell, coming complete with mosh philosophies, while the second track recalls David Byrne’s “boombox experiments” circa Stop Making Sense. Be sure to check out their new record on Load! In an edition of 400 numbered copies on concrete grey vinyl w/ hand stamped labels in 2 color silkscreen cardstock sleeves and a long insert.” -arbor records
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nu sensae/ N.213 split cassette $6
“rad kids packed in home made stuffed jellyfish blob things” -thankless records
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N.213/CONCRETE CUTTER split cassette $6
“N.213 material neu & improved sludge wave for skul. Distortion and solitude. N.213=NC HGHS from SHEARING PINX, IN FLUX, TEEN CMMNTY etc etc…CONCRETE CUTTER is a mysteron brought on by a solar flare/ Like choking down a bucket of metal shards. Sharp and penetrating. Members of MODERN CREATURES, A.R.C. & The WHIP of the U.F.O. /// Truely divine. Tapes are sprayed and housed w/ a micro fiche in a felt pouch w/ insert in tow. Special thanx to C.Pitout for help sewing!!! Orange,Yellow,Navy,Pink & Red pouches. Ltd. 50 copies.” -inw
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Baby Gecko/ Soft Shoulder split 7″ $5
No Wave! Art! Experimental Punk!
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NONHORSE – HARAAM, CIRCLE OF FLAME CD $10
“Nonhorse is the solo act of Gabriel Lucas Crane from Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice and this is his debut album. On Haraam, piles of mysterious old cassettes are used as source material to create magic in a stunning way over 42 moody minutes. Different audio fragments on top of each other, over and over again, hand-mixed and orchestrated at what feels like must have been ritualistic tape laborations taken place somewhere where the sun never shines. Various echoes from the past are buried under layers and layers of manipulated voices, train signals, animal sounds and god knows what. Abrupt endings which burns like fire in your head. Churches in flames, the soundtrack to The House With The Laughing Windows played backwards, alien autopsys, cemetery fog, total devestation… Haraam is a beautiful junkyard nightmare, a horrifying and atmospheric album. 13 songs. Mastered by Pete Swanson.” – Release the Bats
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Time Life “Geminis” cdr $7
members of shepherds, non-horse, wooden wand and the vanishing voice. reccomended -Blackest Rainbow
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Time Life “I Am Just to Myself” cassette $6
“By now this duo should be far from a mystery though their psychic audio mythos has been continually deepening, growing, and transcending. Comprised of Vanishing Voice members G. Lucas Crane(Non-Horse) and Heidi Diehl, these New Yorkers flee the trappings of the fashion capital of the world for the land of home grown psychedelia. Non-Horse plays a crate of cassette tapes and a chain of delay. Wrapping sounds from various sources into a concocted aural remedy from reality, a psychedelic blanket sheltering you from the outside world. Heidi lends her voice and dripping dream guitar work to the powers at hand, juxtaposing heavy bass with light whispers and shimmering strings with deep murmurs. On the B side fellow spirit forcer Steve Gunn of GHQ brings a new element to the group, percussion. A natural oneness is developed between all players, creating earth music with a deeply rooted sense of calmness and serenity. In an edition of 100 numbered tapes with printed labels.” -arbor
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Magic Lantern “At the Mountains of Madness” cassette $6
“Plenty of cacophony comes crawling outta the NNF mailbox/inbox on a daily basis, but it’s been a spell since an hourglass of holy din has caught us captive quite the way Magic Lantern’s tape has. This LBC guru posse formed last year but only began laying down live sets in the last four months, and the evolution is radical. The A side shockwave, “At the Mountains of Madness,” rides a roiling riff through forcefields of charged tones, percussion concussion, and collective overdrive before slowly ramping up and over drug-rock repetition into raw light cone rapture. A perfect cyclone of basement storm and interstellar Hawkwind, and a real contender for CS single of ’07 in our book. The live B piece shows a looser slice of psychic youth, all amplifier wash and blissed waves of Bardo comedown…like a teenage Taj Mahal Travellers bootleg. Illuminating. Keep yr eyes peeled for more ML signal flares on NNF in the future. Stenciled tape-labeled tapes with full-color fire-dancer J-cards in gold-flecked cases embellished with jewels. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Ajilvsga “Earth Lodge” 2X cassette $8
“Winter may be dead and gone (for now) but the haven of hibernation still calls out across the plains. And no landscape is more laid low by malevolent elements and psychic ice than the level-plane tundra of Oklahoma, which is where buffalo robed drone duo Ajilvsga (Brad Rose, Nathan Young) hole up/hibernate and eye the harvest moon. Earth Lodge is the soundtrack to a season spent in dirt shelters, hands in cold clay, amps bleeding out brown-green groans of bone OM and predatorial rapid eye movement. Riffs burrow through frozen soil, skull necklace percussion rattles under piles of pelts, inner spaces open up and unfold into invisible fields of blood and color and celestial imagining. Withdrawn and drawn out. Grey-sky tapes with printed labels in oversized cases with full-color double-sided antler mausoleum collage artwork by Manda. Edition of 100.” -nnf
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Jana Hunter- “Carrion”- one sided 12″ $10
“Half of the six songs on Jana Hunter’s Carrion are unreleased hangers-on from the writing sessions that produced her most recent full-length, There’s No Home, while the other half are alternate renditions of works that appeared on that release. But this is no mere grab bag of remnants; it’s a real tight product, all around. “Paint A Babe” is a throw-back to Hunter’s earlier material, written and recorded simultaneously on a borrowed four-track recorder. A real sad, longing song. “A Goblin, A Goblin” took a little more time to create: this strong, sturdy number, replete with violins and creepy harmony, tells the tale of an indignant outcast. “You Will Take It and Like It,” turns one central, pretty and proud guitar part over and over and over, with others mirroring it, leeching from it, grabbing on like little parasitic danglers. The original version of “There’s No Home” is here, the track that spawned an entire record title, followed by “Sleep” (titled, as it was originally, “Ooh Uuh”), from the recording that ended up on a lullaby compilation. Concluding Carrion is an acoustic re-presentation of the country-minded “Oracle,” stripped down to one guitar, one melody, and one harmony, as it was originally conceived in its creation as homage.” -Woodsist
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Woods “At Rear House” LP $10
two member folk band. members of shepherds, meneguar, etc.
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LOOSERS- “Sidelights” cassette $6.50
“Electric Free tribe from Portugal. next level mind melts/drum circle. limited…” -Fuckittapes
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Chris Cooper Bill Nace Duo – I’m Fucking in a Sitting Room (For Nmperign) C37 $6.50
“Bill Nace (Vampire Belt, X.O.4 etc.) and Chris Cooper (Fat Worm of Error etc.) kick it real dense and noisy on this cassette of Buddies guitar duo action. The Night-People crew got a chance to check these dudes out live in London back in March and where totally inspired and impressed by their feedback-drenched pedal fest, string shredding, approach to complex noise composition, and creation. All sorts of tools are used, all sorts of sounds are generated, but what really makes it stick is the variety and the rhythmic patterns that prevail from quiet to loud throughout. Dynamic, tense, and tenuous guitar slaying.” – night people
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Black Vatican – Zed Omega C38 $6.50
“Black Vatican is Andy Roche and Owen Gardner, two dudes who grew up in Iowa and live in Chicago and Baltimore respectively. Black Vatican jam out some killer tracks on Zed Omega traveling the distance between blown out psych pop, junk garage rock, spaced out synth, and weirdo falsetto harmonies. Zed Omega is a catchy, but destroyed album falling someplace between art pop appropriation and science fiction exploration feeling familiar and classic despite all its noise and weirdness.” – night people
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Evan Miller- three spells for six string guitar C23 $6.50
“Evan Miller is an Iowa City 6-string slinger who grew up in dusty Oklahoma. Over the last couple years he has devoted himself to the craft of his instrument, honing his songwriting and perfecting his playing. He’s studied the greats and shows it on this release, with a nod and an ode to the late great John Fahey. Evan toils in the dirt of rural Americana and blues, but keeps his sound fresh and original at the surface. This cassette is just a glimpse of what Evan has up his sleeve, and with his mesmerizing live show and flawless playing, he’s just getting started.” – night people
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DYNASTY GANG ZINE 2xcdr/art zine $8 (imported from greece)
FEATURING ART BYYY::::
PUFF & MAGIC, PASCAL HECTOR, MICHAEL HSIUNG, EMMANUELLE PIDOUX, MEGAN WHITMARSH, POM KIKI CREW, DAMIAN WEINKRANTZ, LE MERDE, ANDREAS BARSLETH, OLMO
MUSIC BYYYY:::::
DISC 1= JACOB SMIGEL, KIM TAK BUILDING, LAS VEGAS CLUB, NEIL ON IMPRESSION, SUZYWAN, LAURENT PLESSIET, UNA NINA MALVADA, HANDS ON HEADS, PRE, TRENCHER + VIDEO BY NIC FLUX
DISC 2= DEAD WOOD, CASY & BRIAN, TIGER PISS, ROBEDOOR, WOODY ALLEN AND THE OCEAN VIEW MARCHING PARADE, SHELFLIFE, SHEARING PINX, DEAR CHRIS, KEVIN WILK, FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE, AAMBULANCIAA, BBBLOOD, BE BAD, ASSDROIDS, JOSH LAY, METAL ISLANDS, ZIXOGLERHONDURIS, ESCAPIST, DATASHOCK
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TWIN / SHEARING PINX split c20 $6
“Obiviously, OK? 100 are made // ………..” -INW
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Birds of Delay/Dreamcatcher split 7″ $5
“UK wastoids Birds of Delay wing flighty electronics into a burbling ball of purple snarling sound. Montreal’s Dreamcatcher weave a chaos quilt out of turntables, voice, and collective unconsciousness.” -notnotfun
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Robedoor + Haunted Castle- “Nameless Race” collab. 1-sided LP $9
“Summertime is all about transcending space and going on tour with your buds. How could a tour alliance be more buddy buddy than that of LA’s Robedoor and Detroit’s Haunted Castle? Britt, Alex, Dan, and Suzzette traversed the west coast with the goal of pacification by sonic means. This collaboration was recorded in studio with a bunch of mics in Davis, CA. Robedoor blankets Haunted Castle’s abrasive drones with meditative tones. The recording is held together by the bass drum’s rhythmic p(e)ace. In a numbered edition of 300 copies with pro printed fold over poster art and printed labels by Jeremy Earl of Fuck It Tapes and an insert by Britt.” -arbor
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Dead White “Holy Deprivation” cdr $6
“Dead White is a one-man dream team comprised of drone maker/dreamscaper, Andy Brack. Whirling loops of sound bounce off of the walls this dude creates with his voice and guitar. Too many muted fire alarms must blare through Andy’s hallway while he is snoozing. Three tracks and just short of forty minutes, this recording splatters the sound canvas with aural landscapes; evoking images of really big bird cages and sacred Tibetan caves. Comes in six color silkscreened fold out posters by Belgian wizard Jelle Crama. Keep (dead) noise alive(in an edition of 130).” – arbor records
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JK1: 2xcassette comp $8
“a lot of (both figurative and literal) sweat and tears went into this, but i think it came out totally rad. two totally packed cassettes make for one totally packed experience. a ton of original tracks that are just fantastic and ultra-variant, nevertheless they all come together (somehow) in one cohesive entity. an aesthetic that is almost worth of this sonic transfusion of time and space– full color printers, lots of spray paint, lots of beads, lots of diy! i think i have carpal tunnel (or whatever.) i can’t even begin to tell you, how much i love each and every one of these bands, truly amazing, and i’m truly grateful.” -jk tapes
sideja:
shearing pinx ,child pornography,goliath bird eater,yuma nora,gowns panther,wolf tracks,gastric female reflex
sidejb:
silver daggers,rose for bohdan,the pope,scissor shock,whitman,the stomach aches,horse head,nicholas gitomer (of my little red toe),the end springs,new grenada
sideka:
french quarter,the golden hours,jacob smigel,the sharp ease,sink charmer,cole miller,ponies in the surf,maple arm,las vegas club,manipulator alligator,foot foot,the futurians,tent city
sidekb:
warmth,treetops,loopool,quilts,nada nuevo,haunted castle,kevin shields,dan winkler
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Shearing Pinx “Intimacy” cdr $5
“‘Consumed by a giant beast of a flame, we burst into a firey-blanket that covers the baron landscape. Trust is our only guide, we pumbled through rugged terrain to get this unique fossil.’ One long epic track from the SHPINX and her children. Ltd. 100 copies” -INW
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Pukers – Dead Dog C23 $6.50
“New Iowa City hardrock duo Pukers resurrect Yoko Ono and John Bonham only to literally kill them once more. Distorted drums and fucking distorted vocals battle to occupy the same oversaturated space on 1/4 inch tape. The result: catchy tunes, pumping beats, wounded crooning, and a little guest guitar and harmonica to boot. Produced by the golden child: Ryan Garbage. Real deal shit.” – night people
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Mythical Beast/Pocahaunted “Gone to Grey” b/w “Swayed Tongue” LP $13
“If the body is a temple, then the human voice is the endless Om pulsing within the architecture. And if the body is a corpse, then it’s the post-life ghost mist hissing in the wind. Either way, it’s a heavy force, and this split LP spotlights two of today’s greatest vocal ritualists at the peak of their process. Drone gypsies Mythical Beast have spent the last few years like nomads, drifting from N’awlins to Austin to Kansas City, and their piece here (“Gone to Grey”) throbs with a weary hypnosis, too many nights spent staring into foreign freeways…alien landscapes passing in the dark. These are blues for the rootless, homeless feedback curling up by the side of the road, by the side of a grave. Hitchhiking into the void. Pocahaunted, too, beckon the dead, turning in a crushing, low-lidded amplifier chant of clanging guitar and primitive distortion. “Swayed Tongue” treads even deeper into the forests of noise they explored on Native Seduction, bathing their tribe-song prayer shawls in rivers of electricity and twilight static. Totem soul totality. Opaque violet LPs in pro-printed jackets with unbelievable colored pencil tomb rumination artwork by NNF’s favorite color dreamer, Devon Varmega, plus an eagle feather. Limited to 380.” -nnf
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The Futurians “Zenit” 3″ cdr $4
“An unprecedented surprise from these New Zealanders. This one definitely stands out amongst the sludge-punk releases of old. Completely different approach here. The first main difference you’ll notice will be the absence of any vocals. The second will be the absence of any drummer. And the third will be the absence of any common Futurianistics you’ve grown to know and love. Fear not, for it’s just as punk-fucking-rawk as anything they’ve ever done…just in a different way. If you really do love them, then you will love this release. If you have yet to discover this unbelievable group, then this will definitely get you started on the wrong foot. Albeit, an unusually great one.” -abandon ship records
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Non-Horse/Horse Head split cassette $6
“Besides being like my favo[u]rite “bands,” and both having h-o-r-s-e in succession, in their “band” names, these dudes have pretty much nothing in common. This thematic unification, though, I promise, won’t dissappoint. G. Lucas Crane (moniker, here, Non-Horse) is a straight up musical magician, an avid sound collector that doesn’t just let his collection sit on a shelf and gather dust, but rather, puts in all together totally mysteriously and creates a sound that words honestly can’t really capture (total honesty, no cliches here, dudes); the twenty minute totally live and totally “worth the eight hour drive.” Flip this C40 over and your pretty much in a polar universe; these So-Cal teens Horse Head can pretty much put anyone in a good mood with their anomalous aria intertwined with those memorable down-tempo beats, yr sure to wish you were chilled out with these dudes bathing in the sun. LTD100″ -jk tapes
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Big Nurse LP $9 (‘the newest one’)
Picked this up when they passed through LA on tour last month. Forgot to add it until now. sorry no photos and not much info. but they rule. there were like 6 people playing and thrashin’! limited amount of copies. silk screened covers. New music
“Universal Rock of the purist kind. Along the lines of Gang Wizard’s infinite guitar solos style. A complete passion for the energy and grit of true rock, without any posing, ego, or fashion. Not even the lame dirt-fashion stuff. Just kids being relentless. I love it. What type of monster wouldn’t?” – (brian miller description)
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Big Nurse LP $9 (‘slightly older’)
Picked this up when they passed through LA on tour last month. Forgot to add it until now. sorry no photos and not much info. but they rule. there were like 6 people playing and thrashin’! limited amount of copies. silk screened covers. New music
“Universal Rock of the purist kind. Along the lines of Gang Wizard’s infinite guitar solos style. A complete passion for the energy and grit of true rock, without any posing, ego, or fashion. Not even the lame dirt-fashion stuff. Just kids being relentless. I love it. What type of monster wouldn’t?” – (brian miller description)
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GREY DATURAS / SHEARING PINX split c20 $6
“Thought to have been a distant fog turned out a deep wounded shipwrecked soul. GD hail from Melbourne, Australia. Grotesque symbiosis. 100 copies”-INW
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The Pope “Jazzman Cometh” CD $5
6 songs..on an actual cd..the pope likes to JAM!
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The Pope “Ascendo Tuum!” CD $5
6 songs…uh….read what I wrote above this.
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Evan Miller/Twelve Canons Split cassette $6
“On Evan Miller’s second release for Night People, he brings out some intimate low key stunners that don’t lack on the details and bring out just as much contemplation in the listener while feeling just a little sad in their tune. Iowa City’s long time dark folk ramblers Twelve Canons change things up a bit by moving into some lighter territory, referencing the same kind of slightly sad, ecstatic, but light and airy tunes Evan creats on this release. Perfect late night summer time jams.” -night people
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Villa Valley/Treetops- split cassette $6
“The suburbs can be kinda weird. Villa Valley and Treetops both come from the highly forested sub-urban areas of Detroit and Chicago, respectively. Villa Valley occupy the A side with teeth bared. Tape manipulations, contact mic-ery, and feedback create a cacophony at times boarding on full out free jazz (Midwestern style of course). This is what Wolf Eyes sounded like before they had double picture discs pressed in editions of 1000(not like that’s a bad thing, though). Treetops is Mike Pollard (of Arbor); Guitar incantations float around the highest peaks of forgotten mounts. Fuzzed out pyschedelia; primitive percussion and subtle vocal drones occasionally emanate through the haze. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes in sprayed purple cases with art by Ola Vasiljeva.” -arbor records
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ANIMALE / SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
“Animale is from Belgium, kinda trip glitch knormalities!??!?, SH.PX — another flatop boogie. Ltd 50 copies” -INW
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Insaniacs “Age of Quandary” cassette $6 (out of print from label)
members of robedoor and changeling… Personally Reccomended!
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“Heavy Sets” (w/Pocahaunted, Robedoor, Sasqrotch)cassette $6
“Huff on, heavyweights. The late summer smog seeps like slime into the sockets and circuits and strings and sweatsongs burning out from the east LA scorched earth, and Heavy Sets is a blurry Polaroid of the steam rising (and forming a skull). Documenting a pair of punishing mid-August live Echo Park meltdowns, the wrecked sets on this bible-black CS showcase the more nocturnal, wasted wing of the Rock/Eagle macrocosm, when the heat turns to fumes and the fumes turn to black light. Pass out but don’t pass away. Robedoor climb into a cauldron of seer’s soup and drums, the Pocahaunted fatales war-whoop with buried beats in the wind, and Sasqrotch wrestle a riff over a cliff of boiling mud. Street fights with sweet plights. 48 minutes of breathless brawl-space. Tape-labeled tapes in paint-streaked/glitter-encrusted cases, with a hand-cut piece of voodoo cloth. Edition of 100.” -notnotfun
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Warmth LP $12
“Even though Warmth main man Steev Thompson still appears to be incommunicado totally epic recordings continue to surface. Before Roxanne Jean Police was officially over and Steev still lived in Chicago, he joined up with another then Chicago resident Branden Diven of Quilts/American Grizzly Records. The jams that were created filled a couple of cdrs and the Warmth side of the split with Quintana Roo on Not Not Fun. This LP consists of a remixed and edited version of the original cdr running at just under 45 minutes. Forgotten smog floats through a Northside basement. Sounds emanate but their source is totally unrecognizable. Quiet growing tonal blobs erupt into washes of aural color. A complete union of samplers, synths, vocals, guitar, organs, percussion, and electronics merge to create the sounds contained within; a loss of individual existence. Completely serene. In an edition of 300 LPs on creamy yellow vinyl with hand stamped labels in pro-printed and screened fold over sleeves with art by Roy Tatum and an insert by Steev.” -arbor records
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Warmth/Robe split 7″ $7 (expensive wholesale cost, limited as fuck)
“Warmth offers a hollow, swaying and moody piece that is probably as heavy as he has ever gone, ending in subtle ringing. Guitar and trombone bleak ambiance from Robe., would work perfect in a horror film. Offset printed silver on black linen paper sleeves, hand-cut into a cross shape, folded and sealed with a wax stamp in an edition of 300 copies on black vinyl.” -Black Horizons
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Josh Taylor’s Friends Forever/ Barrabarracuda split CD $7
 “to witness the peroxide waves of bikini-punk fireworks-rock thatconstitutes   a Josh Taylors Friends Forever show is to havefreedom redefined forever.   Amy, Kenna, and Germaines track hereis a non-stop 18 minute junk-van   thrashsterpiece of rainbowdrums, headbang bass, and kool-aid keyboard plasma.   Messy LAbeach-cruisers Barrabarracuda exercise their own fair share of western  liberties across 3 outsider agitations, decrying (orglorifying?) urgent social   issues like Patty Hearst, Watergatemystique, and Bush-backed torture policies   via bleedinglyliberal guitar shred, pissed trumpet protests, and healthyfreedom-of-speech   abuse. In hand-stamped, die-cut sleeves.”
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Pocahaunted “Emerald Snake on Ruby Velvet” 3″ cdr $4.50 SOLD OUT
“Here’s the deal: despite all hoopla/wrath/rapture focusing on Pocahaunted’s feather headdress mythos, their true vocal and musical reality draws equally from such non-native locales as the Staples Center (hi-tops) and Nature Mart (gluten-free raw-volutions). And this is key/crucial to keep in mind when meditating on the street beats and dub futurism of Emerald Snake on Ruby Velvet, the Eagle Rockers most recent reverb guitar mantra. A late summer set staple and a water-testing foray into the echo chamber percussion of Pocahaunted’s impending world/trance/dub-inspired LP on Arbor, Emerald Snake… coils in concentric circles of voice-wave wash-out and upsetter drone stutter, buoyed by Bobb Bruno’s drum pad path-finding. A new step away from the Trail of Fears of reinvention. Mystic-eye-stamped discs in cases with hand-cut covers embroidered with swatches of dyed snakeskin, in a hand-numbered edition of 99.” -notnotfun
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Watersports with Aaron Rosenblum- “More” cassette $7 (expensive wholesale,limited)
“If a tape should ever be described using the word “submerged” it is this one. Watersports is the Brooklyn duo of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho, who in the same configuration also make up Blues Control. The A side begins with “submerged” bubble sounds mastered from the inside of an aquarium. The serene scene ebbs and flows until shimmering keyboards pierce the murk like sun into the blimey deep. On the B side the duo is joined by Aaron Rosenblum of Son Of Earth/Sapat. This track is keyboard heavy from the start with what seems like all three of the players weaving sounds through each others keyboarding. A glorious and shimmering overtone blurs reality. Howling flutes act as sea creatures in crisis. If you put the shell up to your ear and concentrate you can hear Rosenblum totally shredding. In an edition of 100 numbered tapes in oversized double sided collaged tape cases.” -arbor
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ROBEDOOR + POCAHAUNTED – ‘Mouth of Prayer/Bright Sea of Singing Bowls’ CDr $8 (import,limited)
“Reissue of collaboration disc that I released back in Feburary. Accompanying the original seance psyche folk drone piece is a brand new track. These dudes are getting mad press right now having just supported Sonic Youth and a full lengther on Digitalis soon and something on Ecstatic Peace. This comes in a new full colour sleeve designed by Bethany of Pocahaunted and is limited to only 150 copies.” -Blackest Rainbow
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Robedoor “Ritual Heirs” cdr $7
“Out of the past and into the white. A three song cellblock originally slated for JYRK but Detainment Yellow Swans’ endless global touring enterprises and various other peripheral obstacles/injuries stranded it in limbo until now. And the omnivorous Now is all that matters. Recorded at the close of the Shining Smoke sessions, and edited/tweaked slightly by Pete Swanson in PDX, Ritual Heirs drifts from centrifugal spiral light patterns into a rarefied air of slowly choking atmosphere, ascending gravitational violence, the world’s weight dissolving into the marrow like a brick of hash lodged in the throat. No drums, no mass cult life to shoulder blame or sorrow. Only unclean clocks ticking above bodies, goatskin strings bowed by blind men, corridors of cold distortion. Inherit the end times. Metallic-stamped CDRs in white-on-white silkscreened sleeves with triforce die-cut ghost-painted/silver sequined plastic cases. Limited 165.” -nnf
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Robedoor/Yellow Swans- split 7″ $5
“It’s about time that two of the West Coast’s best units share a slab of vinyl together. This is an epic coupling. LA’s Robedoor (an obvious Arbor favorite) present what might be their best work yet, “Tremor Deliverance”. Synths and subdued vocals weave together into an ornamental sound tapestry with heavy Middle Eastern influence. Total satyagraha. Portland’s Yellow Swans are constantly touring (just now embarking on a multi-month European jaunt) and spreading the word of sonic liberation. Their untitled piece is a wall of sound, totally alive and growing, infinitely large. In an edition of 500 copies with printed labels and silkscreened art by Shawn Reed of Raccoo-oo-oon.” -arbor records
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QUINTANA ROO – ‘temple of self decapitation’ cassette $6 (imported from belgium)
“trance rituals from this rainbowband including members and heads of POCAHAUNTED, ROBEDOOR, CHANGELING, NOT NOT FUN and BURIED VALLEY TAPES. a beautiful mystic insight of pacific dreams. pristine hangovermusic for the new earth that keeps the good in balance… full color artwork. painted tapecase.”- breadandanimals
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N.213/L.A. LUNGS split cassette $6
“A dirty new thing from N.213. Another collection of heavy delayed vocals atop distorted instrumentations.The LUNGS are from Tacoma WA and are like the soft touch of the wind blowing in yr ear. Such sweet people.Sounds of voices,guitars,bass,keyboards,melodicas and a sewing machine.///Ltd. to 50 copies” -inw
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MONGST “ONE TRK MND” CDR $6
“A long journey through a deep tunnel. Peaking, brooding, soothing axiom from Jeremy V W who plays with many Now Waves friends like SHEARING PINX, AEROSOL CONSTELLATIONS, TOTALLY RIPPED & OBJECTS etc etc brings the world his first of many more solo albums played and recorded himself. He’s gone all out and packaged them in a 7″ style sleeve w/ psykedelic art by d.g.l.r. ( http://www.myspace.com/dullmoofsdglr) and tops it off w/ a glorious double handprint in the inside!!! 50 copies made.” -inw

TOTALLY RIPPED CDR $6
“Insane cluster of meshup destruction. Falls on you like a hail storm of golf balls. These dudes rock out stoner noiz batallions!!! Members of SHEARING PINX, CERTAIN BREEDS & DULLMOOFS.CDR’s are sewn shut in oversized beautiful packages designed by the band. Limited to 45” -inw
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changeling “the truth of the blossom” cassette $6 (limited to 60!)
“a dream like haze. entrancing. reaching out into the darkness. most recent recordings to date.”- buried valley
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Bobb Bruno- “White Lovers Dream House” cassette $5
“I saw Bobb open for Wilco(yeah, that Wilco) last Thanksgiving in the biggest auditorium in Chicago; like orchestra/opera shit. He came out in a full body bunny costume, sat down at a drum pad and created some of the heaviest synthetic beats I’ve ever heard using samples, a drum pad, and some pedals for about 10 minutes. Needless to say it ruled. You probably know Bobb as that guy in Goliath Bird Eater, Polar Goldie Cats, Knit Witch et al. If not for that then you know him for his recording wizardry which he employs on rad S.LA acts such as Silver Daggers, Mika Miko, Robedoor, Abe Vigoda, Quintana Roo, Hello Astronaut Goodby Television and probably a billion more. Here he creates two side long ethereal skyscapes of Technicolor synth work. Somewhere between Boards of Canada and Kevin Shields’ (MBV) solo work from Lost in Translation. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes with printed/ stamped tape labels and full color double sided marker/photo collage sleeves.” -arbor records
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Warmth- “Death As A Young Child” cassette $5
“After months of attempting to acquire the final (now lost) tour recordings of Roxanne Jean Police (RIP), Steev Thompson presents his most recent incarnation, Warmth. Fresh out of a Brian Wilson-esque disappearance Steev brings deep visceral layers of synth and electronics that churn and grow. Clouds of fog envelope the tones emanating from Michigan’s forgotten forests. This tape acts as the precursor to the upcoming Warmth LP co-released by Arbor and Double Fantasy. In a numbered edition of 90 tapes in sprayed paste-on manilla envelopes.” -arbor records
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Blue Shift cassette $6
“Providence’s own Cybele Collins brings a maelstrom of solo improvisations shredding the strings of her violin furiously, building dense walls that crest only to reveal quiet beautiful melodies underneath. Filled out with loose poignant drumming, and housed in dense drawings by the artist, the tape is made up of many short songs, always changing, never dwelling too long on any given theme. The result: a catchy and complex release, that over time one comes to realize has been created with the utmost love and care.” -Night People
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Quilts ‘Acid Flower’ 3″ CDr $4
“4 petals fallen from a crimson acid sky. Coloured by the endless echo of the crawling roots, it is certainly one of the best new flowering sound from les Ameriques. Oscillating sounds, inexplicable melodies, these are the rhythms for the psychedelic trip that build the patchwork of a life.”- ruralfaune
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Pocahaunted “Rough Magic” cassette $7
rare and already out of print brand new pocahaunted cassette imported from UK. Pocahaunted recently opened for Sonic Youth in Berkeley, so like…they’re totally famous now. well, even more so than before I guess.
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Family Underground “Black Hole” 2XLP $18
Family Underground drenched the east coast of the USA in molten syrup last year and they toted along a tour CD-R entitled Black Hole released by the fine folk of Secret Eye. Mega bummed I didn’t get to feel their magic live but I ordered that tour disc post-haste. Man, when I got it I was slain. I thought it was their finest work to date so I had to invoke it on vinyl. I tapped into the band’s communication network and together we figured this would make a killer double LP, definitely one for the record books. So The Underground sent me a half hour of unreleased musics to fill the vinyl sides to fruition. Holy Hannah was I unprepared for A! How well the new jams mind-melded with the other tracks. And B — the superb variation of the entire work with paramount peaks and deep arcane valleys. Get it and trip! Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl with full color gatefold jackets. -Weird Forest
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Family Underground “Summer Tour 2007” cdr $8
limited tour cdr I picked up from them when they passed through LA. Definetly worth it. I love this band. not sure if this cdr is available anywhere else
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Thousands “Pig Cooks Pig” cassette $6
“This California beard-commune have been jamming at a furious pace since forming back in who knows when. Featuring a rotating cast of VxPxC-ers, Antique Brothers, and other East LA psychedelicates, Thousands are limitless in their instrumentation, enthusiasm, and willingness to trek into the deepest deserts (both literally AND metaphorically) to excavate/achieve the perfect chemistry of tattered clatter and tripped vibes. On Pig Cooks Pig they turn in two side-long monsters of conceptual cop contempt, loose Mansonian lore, and fried pork psychosis. Greasy slabs of wasted guitar and synth smoke twirl on sticks above a pit of simmering campfire flames, loping drums creepy-crawl over murmuring voices and pitch-black hippie grooves. Bold, boundless, and broasted. Purple tapes in silkscreened art-flaps with printed labels. Hand-numbered edition of 72.” -nnf
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Bark Haze- “Macannabis” cassette $7 (expensive wholesale cost/OOP)
“Somewhere the gods of psych are smiling. Gazing down on this Northeastern all-star unit, just feeling the music. Bark Haze is comprised of Andrew Macgregor (aka Gown), Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth), and on this recording Pete Nolan (of Magik Markers). Gown and Moore’s dual guitars and in constant conversation. There must be a psychic barrier between these dudes minds, nothing sounds forced, only ever flowing. Nolan keeps the time with militant precision acting as the foil for guitar development. A thirty-minute track recorded around the same time as All Tomorrow’s Parties last winter stretched across two sides of the tape. Infinite psyched out oblivion like a more sober Lambsbread. In a numbered edition of 200 copies with double sided red eyed tree art and tape labels by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives.” -arbor records
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(VxPxC) “the last days of…” cdr $7
“after their monster 3xCDR set from earlier this year, we just knew that one day the los angeles-based (VxPxC) would steal our little hearts. on this, their final session of 2005, these boy wonders extricate spacious, intricate compositions from the spiral galaxy drones of yesteryear. a vast array of instrumentation provide the perfect canvas for these majestic spells. this is music that grows from the roots, falling head-first into the icy tendrils of the new dawn. their voices pierce the organ murk and guitar expanses like lonesome souls begging to be freed. this is magical toward oblivion. 100 copies” -foxglove
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Twin Crystals tour cdr $6
vancouver trio..two keyboards and drums…very Screamers-esque…member of channels 3×4. “each cdr has different songs same artwork, super limited, pre-release for our 7″ on crimewave.” -self released
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Hot Girls Cool Guys tour cdr $5
15 song cdr of the now defunct HGCG. It has their song from the first DNT comp, their 7″, and some live recordings on KDVS. Only Available here (I think)
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IN FLUX “NON GUNS” cassette $6
“After an extended hybernation, the zounds of luxurious freedom rain upon the forest floors. A delightful trip!! IN FLUX = Aja Bond, Erin Ward & Nic Hughes…incase you didn’t know. Limited to 20 copies.” -inw
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Pink Luminous Invocation “Pink Fog” cdr $7
Psychic smog. Memory-loss drugs. Tapestries of delay pedals. All great avenues to feeling fucked up and blissed/lost. Here’s another. Danish combo Pink Luminous Invocation serve up a half-hour bowl of sonic syrup, laced with wind chimes, methedrone, and déjà vu. Buried voices bleed like clouds, bouts of phasing stasis lapse into electric déjà vu. Like a more burned-out Pelt, or a sleeping Ghosting. Meditative and sedated. Silkscreened CDRs in black plastic cases with silk-screened, hand-stamped wraparound covers studded with jewels, plus a full-color insert. Hand-numbered edition of 71.
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Quetzolcoatl “Vast Eternity Bridges” cassette $5
“3 long pieces, 2 meditations. Recorded in Dublin 2006 – 2007.” – abandon ship records
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Mef Teef – “Implied Brain-Flex” cassette $6 (OUT OF PRINT FROM LABEL!)
“Debut transmission from this Iowa City based Free Music group. Rolling piano lines and crisp rhythmic drumming hold the backdrop for trumpet and saxophone spazz and howl. Before you know it everything breaks down into mush before instantly reforming into perfect hard-bop catchiness, swing cheesiness, or carnivalesque creepiness… but only for a measure… and then who knows what comes next.” -Night People
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Sasqrotch “Myth of the Hirsute” cassette $6
“First time we saw Sasqrotch play was at a bowling alley bar after a Robedoor set, and it was PERFECT. A guitarist decked out in a baffling bearded-elf costume from the neck up (complete with rubbery oversized ears) stared at his guitar, holding an amp-eating drone tone with some wah-pedal oscillation while bassist and another dude crouched in front of speaker cabinets, drinking in the low-end, the whole place just fucking QUAKING with sound. Then third man moved over to the drums, counted some shit off, and let loose. We were floored. Lumbering untamed electric wilderness howling through lucid streets of puke and ice. Basement Sabbath breakdowns. Wasted, sub-human distortion. Basically: savage awesomeness. So here is “Myth of the Hirsute,” Sasqrotch’s debut release, a brutal, blown-out snapshot/C38 of the North Hollywood power trio’s hairy grandeur in action. Black tapes in hand-stamped origami-folded metallic paper sleeves adorned with fang/sequin braids, and limited to 100.” -NNF
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Birds Of Delay- “Live From Mind Avalanche” cassette $6
“Beneath the mounds of tape loops, keyboard mysticism, and vocal séance rests the human forms of Luke Younger and Steven Warwick aka Birds Of Delay. “Live From Mind Avalanche” is a particularly deep work. It sounds as though it was recorded live on the wing of a flying plane or at the top of some epicly huge mountain in India. Frozen delays and deprived electronics ache for freedom from desolate captivity. Drowned static screeching into an abyss of grey tumbles down the side of a snow slicked slope. Icy smoke envelops whatever remains. In a numbered edition of 90 sprayed/stamped tapes with art by the band.” -arbor records
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Mef Teef/ Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy- Split cassette $6
“Pure energy and total expression are the only boundaries around the free-jazz/music movement. Primitivism and psychedelic confusion act as the main themes. Mef Teef of Iowa City, a relatively new collective, have one past release on Raccoo-oo-oon’s Night People Label (of which MT percussionist Andy Spore is a member). Spastic drumming acts as the basis for which brass, piano, and silence interweave. Culled from a hometown live session, “Dark Star Voyage Pt. 1” features unique instrumental interplay causing the piece to progress almost theatrically with definitive mood changes. Brooklyn’s Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy is a heavy hitter in the free jazz underground. Comparisons to avant-garde greats are not unjustified. With a recent LP out on Wooden Wand’s Mad Monk label and a plethora of sold out self released jams, this is the collectives first tape. Focused on the youthful energy of punk music and centered around the drumming of Adam Kriney (La Otracina, Castanets), in “Transmission To The Pineapple Universe”, Owl Xounds produce pure blown out oblivion never faltering in its onward progression. Recorded live at the Cakeshop featuring Gene Janas on upright bass, Darius Jones on alto sax, and Greg Vegas on electric guitar the jam is a total freak-out, seething equally with nods to Sonny Simmons as it is to Sonic Youth. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes with printed labels, art and an insert by Andy Spore..” -arbor records
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AEROSOL CONSTELLATIONS “THE GREAT GREAT SEAGULL FLATS” $6
“Extended demention research. Exit dementia rebirth./// Insane packaging!!! In 7″sleeve, with crazy cut-up crap of all kinds glued, pieced & sewn together. Everyone is different. Scrap Salvation!!! Ltd to 100 copies”
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HEPATIDLEWAVE “SHIATSUNAMI” CDR $6
“Dark invocations/Ruptured drums of confusion/Wall of purity and tough love. These men play w/ Go Home, Shearing Pinx and The Doers.” -inw
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SOLAR LANGUAGE CDR $6
“There was night at Fake Jazz when Aerosol Constellations played w/ Solars and this is that document_ A space feels like forever. tTrip OWT. Packaged in sprayed digi-pax, fully dowsed w/ celestial prints. Ltd. 50 copies.” -inw
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TEEN COMMUNITY CD-R $6
“Twisted carryings across the beach of glass and puss. Movements and voice will crack again……………….members of Sh.Px, Ch.2+3, Sex Negatives…” -inw
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HOT GIRLS COOL GUYS “Paradise” cdr $8 (imported from greece, lp sized jacket)
“This is the last release of the California based young-bloods Hot Girls Cool Guys. Howling vocals backed up by two screeching guitars, booming bass, and delophonic drums. Reminiscent of early Arab on Radar, and Aids Wolf. Silk screened flap-out covers by Seripop and limited to 150 copies.” – kaleidoscope gang
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robedoor – siren pentagram cassette $6
“Get lost in the darkest abyss thought up by man. Siren Pentagram inflicts bad kharma,demons, ritualistic moans,wailing,bitterness,and bad blood! This is the tape that would be in Alister Crowleys walkman! The best project in the genre 100% clear audio cassette capsule with a clear full overlay showcasing a 9 1/4″ x 6 1/2″ pro laser printed inserts and cassette labels.”-enmity
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Mindflayer/Deep Jew split 7″ $5
“Fort thunderers Mindflayer lay waste to the brains of the past. Five dimensional assault. LA scum crew Deep Jew give themselves shitty bic pen tattoos and puke into a wall of amps.” -notnotfun
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Heavy Winged/Blues Control split 7″ $5
“Brooklyn/PDX wrecking crew Heavy Winged lurch out a riff monster of concrete crush, while NY groove-riders Blues Control trip the cosmos with space-drug arkestral maneuvers. ” -notnotfun
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Hototogisu/Hive Mind split 7″ $5
“Brainbombing guitar tectonics from the legendary Bower/Bassett duo. Ann Arbor weedian Hive Mind negative creeps a low-end lurk zone.” -notnotfun
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Evan Miller- three spells for six string guitar cassette $6
“Evan Miller is an Iowa City 6-string slinger who grew up in dusty Oklahoma. Over the last couple years he has devoted himself to the craft of his instrument, honing his songwriting and perfecting his playing. He’s studied the greats and shows it on this release, with a nod and an ode to the late great John Fahey. Evan toils in the dirt of rural Americana and blues, but keeps his sound fresh and original at the surface. This cassette is just a glimpse of what Evan has up his sleeve, and with his mesmerizing live show and flawless playing, he’s just getting started.” -night people
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ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS/COLD SOLEMN RITES IN THE SUN/HEAVY WINGED split cdr $7
“(F)ree-way split by a new Trinity of gods, the polarized drones of the stochastic Ashtray Navigations will drive you to the wild and stunning jazz of CSRITS (Valerio Cosi + Fathmount) under the ark of a total liberty. Heavy Winged closes the chapter with a pachydermic vortex , destructing all the colours in a dark and complex maelmstrom. The truth is in the solidity. Velvet black-flowered cover”- ruralfaune
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Changeling/ Quetzolcoatl split cassette $6 (OOP from label)
“Scientists say that sound travels better through water and rocks than it does through air. LA’s Changeling and Dublin, Ireland’s Quetzocaotl challenge these scientists. In a split tape of international proportions, airy loftiness and spiritual mist-icism play the key roles. Changeling’s guitar-centric drones become one with the ambience of the mist surrounding them. Quetzocoatl uses a multitude of instruments and delay to build a drone which floats across the sky next to the birds. Each piece ends too soon, almost evaporating into the clouds from which they were born on a constant migratory path to rad. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes in sprayed/screened/stamped linen bags with art/insert by Roy Tatum(aka Changeling).” -arbor
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Ryan Garbes – Endless Bummer cassette $6
“New garbage from the young musical genious Ryan Garbes (perhaps best known for his drum and percussion contributions to Raccoo-oo-oon). Side A revels in redlined blown out drumming, finding eventual accompaniment from a drunken slide guitar fury, resulting in what can be properly described as the fucked blues. Side B brings together the holy trinity of drums, guitar and more guitar into a kind of distorted raga with each element taking turns, trading fours, evoking an eternity of summer fun in the mouth of inevitable oblivion. Sleeve and label screenprinted by Ryan.” -Night People
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Family Underground/Quintana Roo “Vengeance Valley” b/w “Horses Neck” 7″ ($5)
“A pair of implosion constructs from Denmark’s finest and Eagle Rock’s vaguest. Originally conceived for the Quintana/Underground doomed west coast tour dates, but car rental hostilities and passport chaos shot the drone team scheme dead. Alas. At any rate: the single still stands. “Vengeance Valley” finds FU at their most steeped-in-dread, channeling Spahn Ranch brainwash kill vibes into rumbling black hills of bad acid alchemy. Pure murder magick. Q Roo’s “Horses Neck” wanders its own Death Valley nothingness, loses contact/control, and carves slow sigils in the sand. A hovering aura of desert oblivion. Black vinyl 7 inches in hand-numbered, hand-screened grey cardstock jackets with skull-rider/ancient ruins cover art. Limited to 300.” -NNF
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Goliath Bird Eater “Blood Venus” CD ($8)
” Few dudes understand the Eastern zen of heavy riffing more than Bobb Bruno. The man lives in a literal lair of black amps, black hair, and black metal, and only emerges to eat fried chicken or get wasted at Mika Miko shows. Blood Venus rages this yin/yang vibe to the speaker-shredding breaking point, alternating feedbacker obliteration with passages of complete tunnel vision drone stasis. The rampant guitar slaughter is epicly complemented by Jeremy Villalobos’ iron hammer drum moves, which kick from stoner lopes to total crash attack, sometimes dropping out to peripheral cymbal shimmer, all in a sick split second. And you can truly hear it all, too, as the songs were tracked in the studio on serious two inch tape. Nine deafening epiphanies of black leather headbang war, somewhere between Sabbath, Sleep, and…qualuudes. Oh, and no vocals, cause they’re too metal for that shit. In jewel cases, with weird blood-tentacle squid-witch cover art.”
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Cole Milner “No Strangers” cdr $5
“A slight detour from the recent noisy releases on arbor brings us to Cole Milner’s newest pop gem. Cole Milner a man of many names such as Cole Miller, Cole Miller Island, Sneakypines, I Love You, and many other names following the “C.M. (insert place here)” formula. Cole writes pop songs in Menlo Park, CA similar to those of the Pacific Northwest dudes. He’s toured with everybody from Seattle and Portland and is a really cool guy, and also totally nice. Sometimes he has a moustache. Sometimes he uses a drum machine. This album features some instrumental help from the brother, but other then that it’s all Cole. Campfire songs, bossanova songs, and dance songs. All about love and fear and stuff like that. Packaged in a paper bag with paste on and an insert by Cole. In a numbered edition of 100.” – arbor records MP3
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Ghosting/Robedoor split 7″ $5
“Here it is. Crouched cloud-summoning from two of the west coast’s most coma-coaxing cloak teams. Both have been questing/crawling after the holy drug-drone grail for years now, but this vinyl union is an even deeper step into their respective fog/smog voids. Ghosting’s A-side, “Rivermouth,” might be the most awesomely charged piece of weather-stricken wire-séance the Portland duo’s ever recorded. Roiling banks of suspended densities and white-hot metals are shot through with flickering loops of lightning, lances of light beams. Stunning spiral sky-welding. The B-side (“Roving Shaman”) is more of a white-eyed trance, with Robedoor throwing bones under a thatched roof, eyes sewn shut. Smoke-tones spin and wobble while sixth sense frequencies chime in the distance. A no-mind ritual of atmospheric fear. White vinyl 7 inches with hand-stamped labels in 2-color silkscreened fold-over cardstock sleeves. Limited to 325.” -Not Not Fun
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Slow Listener cdr $6
“Intimate slow-drones and blank sounds by the man with antlers. The lonely and unclassifiable melodies of SL transport us to a land where even the silence sounds incandescent. A wintersun-bathed record for all the virgin dreamers. Cold as the sun – Hypnotizing. Crumpled brown paper cover.”- ruralfaune
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Family Battle Snake- “Brain Fried Eternally” cdr $7
“Family Battle Snake is totally cerebral. Dense drones creep and evolve slowly but surely with every pace. The mechanical hums and vocal hymns are interwoven with enough horns and mic’d clatter to fill every nook of your room leaving nothing untouched. Once again, a loud release, but still very soothing. Completely submerged. In a numbered edition of 90 Cdrs in stamped/sprayed custom digipacks.” -arbor records
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Night Wounds “Rat Magic” 7″ $4
“Night Wounds play “no wave” that stretches from the likes of DNA to Throbbing Gristle to Die Monitr Batss and beyond. They have some other recent records, a couple of split 7″s (one with Coughs, one with Black Castle) and several more planned (an LP, a split 10″ with The Fugue and more). This record has three songs, one of which you can hear, here: mp3“
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The Pope “Live Aids” 7″ $5
“Here The Pope offers up three loud, chaotic tracks without losing a total sense of melody. First they hit you with two short burst of pure liquid adrenalin, then they crush you with their five-minute opus “Aztec Pride”.”
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shepherds – “we are everywhere” cassette $5
“Long brain massaging free jam trips curtousy of a Fuck It Tapes Snake Earl and Christian from the Woods & friends.” – american grizzly
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MUDBOY / MUDBOY & ORPHAN FAIRYTALE “Let It Be A Nightingale Then”/”Whose Words Are My Words” LP $15 (imported from Belgium)
“side A is MUDBOY solo atmosphere meditation. (with a little help from PUMICE on the first track). blurry HANS GRUSEL vibes mixed with early 80’s sci-fi moods… it’s like watching VIDEODROME and feeling the gun (gung) crawling a way into your own hand… side B is MUDBOY together with Belgian 6 year old synthwizard ORPHAN FAIRYTALE. very deep meditation …. birds, wolves howl, beauty vocals and synthlayers, walking arm in arm into the dream of you. BO HANSSON checking things from the side… correct. heavy silkscreened collab cover! too many colors to mention. scratch and sniff paint!” -bread and animals
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Night Wounds “Allergic to Heat” LP $10
“recorded in early 2006 in a downtown LA practice space by the band. 8 songs just shy of 30 minutes, mostly recorded live. Everything from angular post punk to primitive no wave and free experimentation, rarely covering the same ground twice. limited to 500 on black vinyl with silk screened covers. ” – woodsist/fuckittapes
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Tent City – “Cascade Trinkets” CDR $6
“Tent City are a band of Arizona desert punks, who create organic improvised sets and compositions. Cascade trinkets breaths out some Don Cherry like world jazz fusion, while remaining folky, focused and tight. These 3 tracks move along smooth with a meaty percussive underbelly, and melodic sax lines that bring everything present into focus, reflecting the kind of beautifully dry and sandy cactus country you would envision Tent City living in.”- Night People http://www.gilgongorecords.com/tentcity
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Raccoo-oo-oon “Is Night People” CD $10
“Swirling sax-and-effects-heavy free-form punk from Iowa Citys Raccoo-oo-oon. Is Night People is their first magical recording, 7 organic rituals creating a majestic outlet of neverending energy. Beautiful cascades of manipulated vocals and layers of feedback melting together over sunny explosions of insane drumming. In the vein of Sun City Girls, Here Comes The Indian-era Animal Collective, Excepter etc. The cd comes in a letterpressed black Arigato Pak with gold ink made by Stumptown Printers and stunning art by Shawn Reed in the band.”- Release the Bats
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French Quarter – “Live in the Alley Behind the Elna Rae House” cdr $5
French Quarter are from Arizona and play really nice folk music. MP3
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Wooden Wand – More From The Mountain 7″ $5
“More From The Mountain features one of James Jackson Toth’s final transmissions under the Wooden Wand moniker. Side A has been a live favorite for some time, while Side B’s “Guru Femmes” is a home recording of a long-retired tune entirely exclusive to this release. Limited, hurry, etc” -Woodsist
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Racoo-oo-oon – Mythos Folkways Vol. 3 “Divination Night” LP -$11
“Divination Night is Raccoo-oo-oon’s third volume in their Mythos Folkways improvisational series. Drifting out of a hazy backdrop of piano, woodwinds and percussion, movements are formed around bluesy vocal sludge, building walls of riff heavy wailing, percussion fury, and spaced out synth destruction. A loose presence focused into a single collective vision. Multi color silk-screened artwork by Shawn Reed. limited” -woodsist *HIGHLY RECCOMENDED..AND WILL SELL OUT FAST*
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Blues Control- “Puff” LP $11
“Blues Control is Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse, a piano, guitar, and tapes duo from New York. Puff is their first full-length record, after two cassette-only releases. limited to 500 on black vinyl with silk screened covers. -woodsist “Puff is the work of two modern gris gris chefs, and the most righteously authentic stoner gumbo this side of Twin Infinitives or Jungle Rot. Glittery framed sunglasses and doper’s remorse. The finest racket of 2007 so far.” – james jackson toth” – Slitblog review here
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  Gang Wizard “Why is There a God?” LP – $9
 Thick, murky, magical, obnoxious and possibly hate-filled studio jamsfrom our   favorite gang of majikal beings. Gang Dwarve ain’t gotshit on these sludgy,   loose killers. Special Excitebike editionis heavy on the paint fumes to match   the jams inside. Seems likethe monkey got hurt…
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  Yuma Nora “Jewels in the Snakepit” CD $7
 This is like free jazz soulful sex scattered beat noise brass explosionmeets   the nicest, quirkiest minds from the dreary Portlandstreets.
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Ghosting “Fox Glove” cd-r $6
“the seismic ripplies that ghostings drones are sending through the rose city are taking flight and planting seeds all over the globe. this group of sonic harbingers haunt the cracks and crevices of a world that seemingly only exists deep under water where life is a barely-there flicker amongst the murk. but ghosting’s haunted aural landscapes are a beacon, like a lighthouse sunk below miles of the icy ocean, offering a glimmer of warmth in hostile waters. this trio continues its journey through the fuzz and static, and once again emerges with wings unscathed and silver skin.”- digitalisindustries
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Shepherds/Quintana Roo split cassette $5
“Growth is god dudes. Gotta change, morph, MOVE, ring in new harvests and let fresh blank tapes bloom black in the sun. This shadowy C60 is a cryptic/cloaked stare-off between two recently-birthed coastal crews. Shepherds traverse the Bushwick/Brooklyn axis, watching their flock from a high crooked branch off the Fuck It Tapes tree of life/death. Old world clatter meanders against dead-dub bass echoes while thin air prayers levitate from weary throats. A spiral-eyed masterpiece of tattered tunic improv. On the flip is west coast crawl unit, Quintana Roo, who burrow through sub-cellar levels of spirit dust and cursed dirt worship. “Mythological Animals” ponders bowed drones, autoharp rust, and disembodied drumming for a haunted half hour, before drifting back to tomb hum. Painted tapes in silver-mist latticework cases, with full-color covers. Co-released with Fuck It Tapes.” -NNF
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Heavy Winged “A Serpent’s Lust” cd-r $6
“heavy winged are like digitalis resident heavies, family lsd, after being injected with a massive dose of steroids. this brooklyn trio wants you on your knees, begging for fucking mercy. heavy-ass psych performed with only one motive in mind: destroy you, in every possible way, at every possible turn. their instruments are splendid sonic daggers, flung from every direction and impossible to avoid. every time the low-end sludge hits you and melts your skin, you are recast and reborn. heavy winged don’t know the meaning of limits. this shit goes to 11.”- digitalisindustries
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siren “living light” cassette $6 (limited to 50!)
“listening to this you get seriously lost in a fog of far away guitar strumming, heavy vocals, and celestial sounds. bethany of pocahaunted.” – buried valley
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N.213 “Neurology” $6 (nic from shearing pinx’s solo project)
it comes in a dvd case!
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Brian Miller Kevin Shields “We Had a Baby and It Will Die” DVD-r $8
“Compiled from footage taken on the tour w/ Emil Beaulieau and Can’t, this short film edited by Eva Aguila of Kevin Shields captures the sillyness and antics of this duo’s performances that an audio record just can’t. From the packaging tape bondage to the amp torture to just falling all over each other. Also includes some bonus videos as well!”
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Loosers “Bumba Meu Boi’ cassette $6 (REAL cassette)
” The great unraveling continues. We first heard Loosers’ fried/frayed spool of sound-sprawl last year, via the Ruby Red/Jelle Crama-splattered LP/CDR offering. Immediate Portuguese fever set in. They, however, are a busy crew, dropping albums for Qbico and Our Mouth, touring Europe with Mouthus, generally ruling, etc. So NNF release plans moved slow. Fast forward to today: the CS is HERE, the time is NOW. Named for a semi-metaphorical 18th century Brazilian tale/dance concerning the FUCKED hierarchical relations between slaves and lords at the time, Bumba Meu Boi boils/roils with post-rational uprise, alchemical percussion ritual, and pulse-of-the-people electronic sub-consciousness. Two beautiful sides of fluidly splayed labor-as-magick post-Sunburned collectivist psych action. REAL tapes (a first for NNF) in hand-color-dyed, hand-numbered cardstock J-cards with cult cave-art covers. Limited to 200.” -NNF
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Ettrick “Sudden Arrhythmic Death Volume 2″ 3” cdr $5
“Imagine an immediate/permanent global blackout. Tons would change about daily life (duh): no TV, computers, light bulbs, AMPS. Severed from the electric mainline, a lot of bands would break up – or suck. But not Ettrick. The San Franciscan saxophone/drums duo need nothing but their own breath/blood and your bored ears to wreak consummate audial carnage. This 3 inch is brutal proof. Documenting a desperate session of their free jazz war at the last stop on their October US tour, Sudden Arrhythmic Death Vol. 2 morphs from skittering, sticks-on-steel heartbeat clatter to harrowing/hemorrhaging sax chaos incantations before finally mounting to a black death apocalypse of possessed percussion immolation. Far, far, FAR beyond driven. Brace yrself for the forthcoming LP (out spring ’07 on NNF). Stenciled CDRs in Mayan-tile encrusted mini-jewel cases with color-printed wraparound covers (plus a quote from the Popul Vuh). Hand-numbered, and limited to 100.” – notnotfun
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A++/Soft Shoulder “Live” cassette $5
“The holidays are supposed to be AWESOME. You wear crazy scarves, hang out with weird cousins, and secretly spike the eggnog (with soy-nog)!! Another good thing to do is play shows with your friends and go crazy. That’s why this applause-heavy C30 is PERFECT. A++ are the trumpet/drums pop-monster duo starring Grace from Foot Village/Gang Wizard and their side documents an Il Corral show from 2006 summertime. They pass out trivia questions, yell about animals and sneak attacks, and even cover some 80s song. The sonic equivalent of rainbow confetti exploding in yr face. Tempe, Arizona’s hardest working posi-wave trio Soft Shoulder shred sax, riffs, and drums across the B side, which is culled/compiled from a trilogy of early December shows in Phoenix and Flagstaff. Their jump-cuts from angular feedback action to beatless skronk drift keeps you (and the crowd) guessing. Good luck! Printed-label tapes in stapled, spray-painted cardstock fold-over cases. Googly-eyed horn-blower blob beast art by Manda. Hand-numbered, and limited to 100.” -NNF
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Soft Shoulder “3 song demo” cassette $3
Originally slated to be released as a part of the ART GUNK VOL.1 comp from Gash Flow records which never happened (or atleast I never heard..), they decided to release a tape instead. Soft Shoulder are from Tempe, AZ, and are no-wave. (What is this? about third wave no-wave? more? less?) link
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Loopool “Courtesy Run Rampant” 1-sided LP w/CDR $9
” LA’s king discontent Loopool finally achieved such core-level burn-out at day-to-day California-cation that he uprooted his Sycophanticide mini-empire and bolted for greener/rainier pastures (the Pacific Northwest). That said, Courtesy Run Rampant is the perfect Not Not Fun-eral for our favorite post-noise avante cultural disintegrator. Three bizarrely orchestrated manifestoes ringing with bashed upright piano, harsh drum distortion, and elegiac clarinet lament, often complimented with Herr Loopool’s Leonard Cohen-like dead poeticizing. Recorded during a day-in-the-studio birthday present at The Distillery in Costa Mesa on thick reel-to-reel tape, and effused with focus/purpose. One-sided LPs – with an ornate conspiracy-theorizing art chart etched on the B side – housed in hand-stamped, stenciled, painted jackets, plus a full-page insert AND a bonus full-length CDR of additional music/musings. Limited to 200.” -NNF
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Night Wounds “tour” cassette $6 SOLD OUT
psh, I don’t have any information from you, except that it’s LIMITED TO 100 COPIES!!!!!
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Odd Clouds cassette $5 SOLD OUT
Released on Fag Tapes. Drone/noise. odd clouds also just released a split tape/3″ cdr with wigwam, which will be in my distro soon.
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Haunted Castle – “Dust Tombs” cassette $5
“Filthy feedback-drenched Michigan dust scrape.” -american grizzly
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Residual Echoes – “get yer wah – wah’s out” cassette $5
“Feel-good psychedelic grunge rock from the left coast.” – american grizzly
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Robedoor – “free buried” cassette $5
“Primitive drum thumping and howling vocal desperation soaked in ancient cave haze.” – american grizzly
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Odd Clouds/ Wigwam Split cassette+3″Cd-r $8 (OOP from label)
“Long before the Ford Motor Co. ruled over Michigan, Plains Indians would chill out and ride wooly mammoths everywhere. Then the mammoths hit the pits, and Henry Ford created the car, ever since then the state has been clogged with smog. Odd Clouds (Rep-ing MI labels Fag Tapes and Tasty Soil) create a cacophony of tribal electric jamming. Loud and mean; a group improv cave jam going back to the basics and just kicking it. Wigwam (of Kalamazoo’s Tapeworm Tapes) creates a maize field of drones only to light it on fire, and burn it to the ground so that it can be reused later. War horns streak through the desolation of bass drum onslaught. Comes with a 3″ of additional oil slick sludge rock from the Odd Clouds cave. In an edition of 100 copies in oversized tape case with double sided full color art(front by Heath Moerland of OC; inside by Miles Haney of WW), sprayed/stamped tapes, individually water colored 3” sleeves, the works..” -arbor
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Moongang “Fifth Sun Visions” cassette $6br> ‘Watching Steve Gunn’s fingers fly as he shred-drones an acoustic guitar is probably the chief joy of witnessing a GHQ set (at least, it was for us when they cruised through LA this past summer). But when he’s not on the road with Magik Markers or GHQ or Nolan-knows-who-else, he builds buzzing structures of six-string acid navigations under the guise of Moongang. Past dispatches (mainly self-released) have ranged from tranquilizer ragas to swarming arkestral maneuvers to blissed emptiness, but Fifth Sun Visions offers up yet another orbit in Gunn’s psych solar system. Urban field recordings slowly dissolve into stumbling folk trance while static clouds of menace hover in the sky…later thick riffs emerge, bathed in black light, shot through with gross growling and crawling undertones of templar apocalyptica. An awesome oracle of ruin from one of NNF’s favorite psych shapeshifters. Purple tapes with painted skull labels in bags with full-color shadow-shrine collage covers, plus a black spider. Hand-numbered and limited to 100.’- NNF
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SWORD HEAVEN- “Fan Death” 2003- 2005 cassette $6
repress with one extra track. sword heaven are awesome. the drummer plays without a shirt and has a huge beard. released on fuckittapes
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IKEBANA / SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
“The kids get dirty and play in the sandbox. Skronk by pinxforce, Ikebana is ultra-magnus second son!! from Portland, OR. I got these tapes dubbed and they sound fuzzed out!”- INW ************************************************************************************************************************

MODERN CREATURES / SHEARING PINX split c20 $6
“Our dearest friends the MOD. CREEPS are a true vision of memories to come. 2 fxxxing basses and straight up pressence are a perfekt match for the murky jam-owt coming from SH.PX and thier space travels underwater. Ltd 50 copies.” -INW
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Ghosting “Live/Oakland+” cassette $6
“This Portland drone duo manages to create lengthy tracks with a psychedelic precision that makes you forget what time is/was/will be. This tape contains a track from a live show in Oakland with bustling airy drones and the dinging of bells luring the ears to go to places they have not been before. The track progresses thoughtfully with exact subtleties building to a climax only to come tumbling down with that exact progression. The B-side is a deja-vu conjugated burner starting where the other side ended. In a numbered edition of 100 copies with individually inked and sprayed tape labels in a silver sprayed case and ink drawn cloudscapes.” – arbor records
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Horse Head “The Defeatist” cdr $6
“For a while it looked like OC loners Horse Head were gonna follow the path out to pasture and never look back. Their Birds and Bees tape (Arbor) was pure nature, a feathery field recording of grassy, buzzing bliss, and even the singer/songwriter folk diaries of Make It Something Else (also Arbor) were pretty unplugged and barefoot-vibed. However: NEVERMIND, cause The Defeatist fucks this theory/trajectory to hell. Gone is the wind-in-yr-hair acoustic delay, the whispery poet croons. In its place? Total teenage guitar trash, exploratory garage chaos, psychedelic puberty. Percussion like metal shelves full of wrenches being kicked on to concrete. Pissed kids scream-talking at dry walls. Uncomfortable and ugly. Maybe this is a concept album? Hand-stamped CDRs in blurry woven fiber paper, with one-of-a-kind collaged wooden horses, and a hand-numbered insert. Limited to 64.”-NNF
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Pocahaunted “Water-Born” 3″ cdr $4
“Lie down in darkness, awake in white water. Eagle Rock’s most amp-laden spirit-talkers block out the sky with this deep, inner piece of elemental communion. Lulling, long-hair guitar strums flow into sweeping sea-breeze feedback while tidal dream-noise ebbs/flows over your blistered feet. Slowly siren voices wing down from grey mists and call you to wade into the warm waves, let go, be washed away…gradually the chanting submerges, dissolves, surrendering to the blood’s undertow, the ocean’s blue womb. A spectral, moving rite of psych passage. Spray-misted, hand-numbered 3” CDRs in full-color wraparound portrait-collage covers in plastic bags adorned with heavy woven strips of native textiles. Limited to 100.” – NNF
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Pocahaunted- “Native Seduction” 3″ cdr $4
“Recording? Compact disc? Before the arrival of the white man to the new world, these two tribal sisters would chill out, harvest grains, and participate in drum circles while creating smoke signals. The white man introduced the electric guitar and microphone as well as recording technology. The girls turned in their primitive gear to go analog! Vocal chants for a good harvest. Guitar strums coupled with bass drum dreams to protect oneself from the evil spirits. Backed behind a teepee of protective electronic hum. All is good. In two color silk-screened sleeves with splattered disc dot/ enchanted feather print keeping the cd in its place, all tucked in a plastic sleeve. In a numbered edition of 100 copies.” – arbor records
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Bonecloud/Ghosting “Campfire” split cdr $7
“an amazing journey in ambient free folk, drone-raga, presence and beauty by two great bands whom create billowy cloud pillows and peaceful journeys. ghosting reside in portland, oregon and features zach reno, jean paul jenkins and janice mckearchen. their 21 min 35 sec track is a mesmerizing walk in and out of trees, streets, peaceful mood transitories and blade runner. bonecloud live in dublin ireland and comprise of a group of young and delicious, free psych players. their 28 min and 8 sec track is like riding through a tunnel in your mind’s dream and you can hear jane’s addiction swallowing oceans of salt water, being tuned invisibly on the outskirts of your aura.” -yarnlazer
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quetzolcoatl – “Triumphant rock shards rise from the sea, awaken my giddy child heart” cdr $7
“Welcome the dark side of Ireland with the arrival of this new talent. After cdr releases for his Haunted Trail label and Onomato , dive in this world of echoes, strangled voices and other hypnotizing noisy drones. A medidative journey through a new age noise… ” -ruralfaune
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James Fella/Shivers – split CD-r. $5
Shivers is Ulf from Tape Tektoniks of Germany and James Fella runs Gilgongo Records and is also in Tent City and Soft Shoulder.
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James Fella/Treetops – split CD-r. $5
Treetops is Mike Pollard of the awesome Arbor CDR label. James Fella’s track has really nice multi-tracked(?) guitars and other pleasant sounds. Treetop’s track is also nice, with keyboards and other sounds. Cool.
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Non-Horse “Rigor Lore” cassette $5
“Hope you like to read/research. Cause Gabriel Lucas Crane aka Non-Horse here unfurls an ancient 80 minute scroll of dense cryptic sound/texts, perfect for dream-diviners and out-of-work drone-archeologists. The Brooklyn tape-manipulator conspiracy theorist (and full-time Vanishing Voice chief) has crafted similarly mystic audio-calligraphies for other visionary label undergrounders like Release the Bats and Fuck It Tapes but “Rigor Lore” is his first real novel-length outpouring. The A side walks through wondrous home recorded catacombs of dead machine murk and hieroglyphic mystery, murmuring million-year-old Masonic secrets to pharaoh ghosts, while the B terrain documents a series of his live rituals, which are equally occult and symbol-ridden. Fire-red tapes with printed labels in cases with runic/riddle cover art by GLC himself, color-copied on heavy Byzantine-gold paper, plus a lengthy scripture insert.” -NNF
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Time Life – “Gripstone” cassette $6
“Lucas Non-Horse Crane and Heidi Diehl of the Vanishing Voice have been hashing out some new sounds as the duo Time Life. Heidi’s operatic vocals creep over her guiding repetitive guitar lines, as Lucas builds and pushes to the surface his tape manipulations and altered beats. Sonically realized infinite refracting light, a new set of sounds from two of NYC’s best.” – Night People
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Robedoor “Proceed The Weedian” cassette $5
now out of print..new tape by robedoor, the drone masters…
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Changeling “Deep Reflections” cassette $5
“Three tracks of densely layered meditative drone from the same sessions as the split with Robedoor, engrossing to the point of losing perception of time. 3-panel J-card on gray cardstock with smoky green interior marbling. Edition of 66 hand stamp #’ed copies on hi-bias chrome tapes.” – black horizons
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Pocahaunted “What The Spirit Tells Me” cassette $5
newest tape by pocahaunted, now sold out. members of quintana roo, knit witch, barrabarracuda
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WOODS – HOW TO SURVIVE IN/IN THE WOODS CD $10
“Experimental folk music anthems with Jeremy and Christian from Meneguar. How To Survive consists of everything from more traditional singer/songwriter songs to noisy yet beautiful outbursts of brilliant lo-fi madness. A truly amazing collection of songs. Originally released as a double cassette on Fuck It Tapes, now remastered and finally avaliable on cd. 13 songs, 42 minutes. Comes packaged in a Dual Plover sleeve (the same kind we used for the Dove Yellow Swans cd) with dark green felt and full colour artwork similar to the tape release. Woods began in the woods, at the foot of Bear Mountain. In the earliest days it was a collaborative improvisational group with two core members and several guests, known as woodsists. Shortly thereafter, Jeremy Earl and Christian DeRoeck emerged from the woods, dusted themselves off, and began to walk upright. The two woodsists immersed themselves in human culture, learned to craft a melody, to wield a tambourine, to construct a crude phonograph from spare bicycle parts. They learned the value of a cassette. Jeremy and Christian returned to the woods and shared their newfound knowledge with the other woodsists. The result was Woods, songs and improvisations by outsiders, inspired by the human experience. “- Release the Bats
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SHEPHERDS- “fuck it tape release” cassette $6
“brooklyn psych folk drone improv unit. limited to 100” -fit
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Wedding Metal (compilation) $6
“Hey beetles: love IS all you need. HOWEVER, loves radness magnifies intensely when you run it through a hot pink thrash master pedal and tons of insane delay and jack it all on a volume 10 sunn amp. Which is how we celebrated our punk noise nuptials. Twas the MOST epic/beautiful day, crowded with a million siked friends, bands, amplifiers, microphones, beers/wines, vegan buffets, high fives and headbangs. Fortunately for us/you, our dear dude Bobb Bruno paced his bourbon intake that night, allowing him to semi-soberly record the whole amorous/glamorous affair on his black metal 8-track. 60 minutes of ripping sets by loud loved ones like Mika Miko, Abe Vigoda, Rainbow Blanket/Cruel Face (i.e. Jeff & Greg Witscher), and Hello Astronaut, Goodby Television. Stamped CDR comes in a collage-photocopied party-splatter envelope stuffed with confetti barf and tied with rainbow ribbon and yarn. Limited, and made with only love.” -NNF
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  Foot Village 7″ $5
 amazing live, recorded live. this is already a rare undergroundclassic! buy   one before its too late. (they are almost gone, andhard to find    MP3
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Pocahaunted “Moccasinging” cassette $5
” Not Not Fun’s newest ancestral spirit team is Pocahaunted, and this sunset-kissed C38 is their first foray outside the inner psychic teepee/sanctum of private dreamsong. So dance round the fire, the war for the plains is ON (yr tape deck). A spectral feather headdress of bone cloud chanting, turquoise noise, ocarina whispers, and trail-of-tears tom-tom tribalism, Moccasinging weaves together a ragged patchwork equal parts mother/earth lamentation, battle prayer, and primitive creation myth. Four tomahawk hymns of buffalo skull sisterhood. Hand-painted tapes in tie-dyed canvas pouches adorned with golden beads and eagle feathers, plus an insert. Limited to 100. Member of Quintana Roo.” -NNF
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Robedoor “Unsummoning” cdr $7
“Too much voodoo, too little light, the cords coil into an elliptical infinity helix, the prayer rug bleeds. Darkening signs o’ the times. LA’s blindest seers peer once again into the voice/void for this pentagrammic document of dim delay worship and retching distortion ritual. Five fully forsaken tracks of synth séance, cello reckoning, and unholy howl. Anti-invocations for four-dimensional forces. Painted CDRs in witch-stitched, silk-screened cases with full-color wrap-around covers, plus a hand-numbered, silk-screened cardstock insert. Comes with a crust punk patch too. Limited to 100.” -NNF
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Shearing Pinx “Poison Hands” 2 x 3″ CDR ($8)
“Onedisc of harsh shrapnel free-punk distortion-wave action songs, and onedisc with just a single sprawling twenty minute clatter-creepshakedown. Perfect brainless/Brainiac feedback attacks for summertime.Painted-and-stamped discs in an oversized printed pamphlet with sickhands art and a photo-cornered insert. “- NNF
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Family Underground “Axial” cdr $6
“Great heavy jam from these Danish black-out artists. Lurching drone and electronic strangeness slowly worm their way into yr face hole and blow smoke rings. That sound? Thats an ancient axe cutting through cosmic fog, man. Come breath the thunder.”
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Foot Village “Fuck the Future” CD $9
“Pure hardcore. No electricity. Fuck the future. Foot Village needs nothing but their own fists to make music, to make you scream, to make you dance, to make you thrash. An imaginary step back to a time more futuristic than now, yet shrouded in magic. Kung Fu was invented by peasants as a method of fighting so confusing to their enemies that it appeared as magic. Foot Village has invented acoustic hardcore in the same regard. If you are confused, perhaps you are the enemy. Foot Village features members of Men Who Can’t Love, Rainbow Blanket, Gang Wizard, Rose For Bohdan, and tons more. CD compiling Foot Village’s early “country” releases. Country as in songs about the countries of this world. Done as research for their current work building their own nation, Foot Village. Originally released in extremely limited edition and now sold out, all tracks have been remastered by Pete Swanson. Contains all tracks from debut 3″ cdr, 7″, and World Fantasy 10″.”
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Shepherds “Acid Bath” cassette $5 (OOP from label)
“The acid drenched guitar hymns on this tape, seem to come from somewhere other then Brooklyn. It sounds like an escape from the city. The sounds contained within still feature the rhythm and busy-ness of the city, but sound as though they were recorded on an old tape deck in the woods, or the shed in the woods behind the cabin in the woods. It features the same “drop everything and make music” vibe that those other projects produce. Perfect hearthside tape to keep you warm as those metropolitan winters are approaching. Features super nice silkscreened art by Shawn Reed of Raccoo-oo-oon with copper rusted tapes. In a numbered edition of 100 copies.”-arbor
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Channels 3×4 “Christianity Girls” 12″ EP $8
featuring members of shearing pinx, in flux, n.213….no-wave influenced….punk…..synth…….mp3……
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“Free Beasts” compilation on notnotfun records- cassette- ($8/$7)
“Modern life is full of chains: of ice, iron, money, ideas. So nothing suits the dull scorch of endless summer better than violent prison break catharsis. This sunshine gold/yellow tape holds up to the sky eighty awesome minutes of liberated blood rumblings, meandering animal thrash, and shattered-shackle séances. No walls, no laws, no limit. Two editions of 100 (same music, different packaging). One comes housed in hand-sewn cloth creature-heads with basement button eyes and dripping gore fangs ($8, pictured above), the other in oversized flexi-plastic tape cases with color collage covers plus silkscreened meditative sasquatch-mystic cover art — courtesy of Shawn Reed of Raccoo-oo-oon — and illegibly psychedelic cloud-text band roster art on the back by Roy Tatum of Black Monk/Changeling ($7, pictured below).” -NNF
The uncaged include:
Goliath Bird Eater
Mammal
Non-Horse
Pterodactyl
Barrabarracuda
Raccoo-oo-oon
Bonzai Kitty
Horse Head
Alopex Lagopus
Manipulator Alligator
Grace’s Amazing Kitty Cat Band
Mythical Beast
Hive Mind
Apple Snails
Polar Goldie Cats
Worm Hands
Tusk Mammoth
Wether
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Robedoor “Devourer” cdr $5
“An exploration of evil. Does it exist? Does it mean to hurt us?”
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Shearing Pinx/KK Rampage split cassette $6 (from Canada)
Shearing Pinx have this huge split C20 series right now, and this is one of them. KK Rampage are similar no wave/noise-rock/experimental from Chicago. Best KK Rampage release in my opinion, no joke. I didn’t like them much before, but this release changed my mind. “Chicago’s Rampagors vs. Van City flail-bags! 10minute exclusive deals. Limited 50 copies”
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Black Monk “v” cassette $5
black monk is roy from quintana roo and buried valley records, and his friend josh. drone! they have a 4-way split cdr on notnotfun with tent city, quintana roo, and haunted castle. (available from me) so if you like any of those bands, you’ll like them.
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robedoor- “grey gates” 3″ cd-r $4
“the icy cold l.a. weather brings creepy crawly sounds that creep with trachea scarring drones and crawl with wind riddled blasts of noise. oh yeah, there is some drums in there too. this record has been too long in the making, but is worth the wait (unlike xmen3). this shit rules. it will have your body moving in some sort of awkward tribalism from the past. this is not very harsh, as in, i dont imagine britt needing lozenges after recording this, though i dont think a cup of tea would hurt. the brass acts like those vortex rooms at the local hanuted house that twist you around, but on for seconds until you can get a grasp on reality. man this band rules, this is total airplane music. windy, flight capable vocals and ambience, with turbulent, ready to rock thibal percussion. let this record take you somewhere this summer. sprayed covers crocheted to those plastic 3″ sleeves. everything is purple with a little bit of frost bite.”
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Quintana Roo/Warmth “Runes Translucent” cassette $6
“Looking down, looking in, under the sand, under the skin. A tape/trip for star/shoe/dirt-gazing, soundtracks for shapeshifting glow-zones deep in the distance. QR cast “Black Dreaming Place,” a 25-minute soul séance of sparse ghost dust and moonlit rattlesnakes. Recorded in the middle of the Anza Borrego desert with the rumbling help of Josh Taylor’s legendary generator. Warmth is Steev (aka the late Roxanne Jean Polise) and Branden (of Quilts, etc) and their tone blanket B side, “Sharing Antique Mothers,” crawls on slow and soft like a morphine drip. A drugged electronic massage from amplified hands with wire fingers. Painted-label tapes in white vinyl cases with dual-layer dream-vellum covers, plus an origami insert with a piece of found film salvaged from a trashed Brussels fleamarket. Artwork by Roy Tatum of Changeling/Quintana Roo. Limited to 100.” -NNF
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Robedoor- “Stoner Reaper” cassette $6 (OOP from label)
newest tape from robedoor, the drone godz of LA…featuring members of knit witch,quintana roo,weirdo/begeirdo..almost out of print already..
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Family Underground “Future Bread” cassette $6 (OOP from label)
awesome drone band from Denmark. They also have a split 7″ with quitana roo. foreign drone! buy it, yeh?
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Quintana Roo “White Earth” cassette (edition of 50) $5
” Bombed-out nothingness. Oblivions.” featuring members of barrabarracuda, knit witch, weirdo/begeirdo, and robedoor
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Quintana Roo “Wooden Idols” cassette (edition of 50) $5
” Hypnotic approach to low-lit channels.” featuring members of barrabarracuda, knit witch, weirdo/begeirdo, and robedoor
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Quintana Roo “Smoking Lords” cassette (edition of 50) $5
” Blankets of clawing wombs, vague hazes.” featuring members of barrabarracuda, knit witch, weirdo/begeirdo, and robedoor
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Robedoor “Great Heresy” cassette $5 (edition of 25)
“Four slash-and-churn live sets recorded summer ’06.” This is a self release, and there were only 25 made. DNT is the only distro that has this… GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!
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Robedoor “Christs Vipers” cdr $6
“Slow smoke jams from Californian sloth worshipers. Total monochrome lurches into the feedback hole. Like a mouthful of black strawberries. Great dementia. “Voices, confusion, poisons. An endless fade to grey.”- britt
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Horse Head “birds and bees” cassette $5
“if you were like millions of americans, you spent your weekday nights glued to the edge of your seat watching lost. a stockpile of these horse head tapes were found at in the bottom of “the hatch”. horse head sounds like early animal collective circa here comes the indian. in fact these are three teens from orange county california utilizing field recordings and pretty guitar strumming to take you into the forest. put this tape in your walkman, and close your eyes. you will be instantly “chilled out”. primal drumming keeps you steadily in place. before you know it, thirty six minutes have passed, you open your eyes and youre on the subway, and in fact, not sitting under an aurora borealis tree. if you cant go on a vacation this summer, at least buy this tape so you can pretend for over half an hour that you are in another place. in an edition of 100 with green tapes in brown paper sacks with an insert and a pine branch(makes the package smell great when you open it).”-arbor
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  Yuma Nora “Red Train Graphing the Sunset of All” CD $9
  Vulnerable and naked, Yuma Nora defies all the usual parameters forcontempary   rock-noise. Using only minimal amounts of space inorder to fill voids with   lush vocals and cascading drums, thisGang Wizard-related project sits firmly   in the school of musicknown as Neon Hunk, Fat Worm of Error, Metalux, etc,   etc withoutany of the abrasiveness associated with such bands. A truly beautiful  and romantic album, that reveals just how wide the possibilitiesare of noise   informed rock.
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Ch.3×4 “Intercourse” cassette $6
featuring members of shearing pinx, in flux, n.213…no wave….keyboards……canada……limited…..
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The End Springs/Wolf Tracks split cassette “Peace Paws” $5
“Both fingerpick into pensive drift zones and solitary mumblerumination, but   neither steps near the shit poet pulpit of fakepublic heartbreak. The End Springs   spins six-string patternslike spider webs, all quiet bossa-nova wanderings   and neo-Faheydusty landscapes, spruced with poignant sunrise/sunset delay and  subtle sampled naturalism. Total tranquility base. The Wolf Trackshunts a more   feral, wall-of-the-wild vein. Clawed guitar leadsand chord organ drones collide   with forest-wind flutes and hairywolfpack percussion clatter while vague voices   mutter in thedirt. Campfire songs for after the fire goes out. Hand-stenciled  and twine-tied with a talisman of palm tree-shrapnel.” -nnf
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Gang Wizard “Spring 2005 North Cali CDr” $5
“Magnificentand epic psychedelic effort from the Gang Wizard camp this time knownas Mike, Rob, Brian, Grace, Eva Inca Ore, and Vice Cooler. In sharpcontrast to the recent wall-of-noise recordings from Wif Dardard, thiscdr captures a focus and maturity in the band not seen sincetheir  Meet Me at Merkato days. Beautiful full-color packaging,blissful sounds, intense minimal yet brutal drumming, and expresivevocals that range from baffeling poetics to shrill and insane.”
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Wigwam/Tent City split  cassette $6
“You dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but fuck, it helps. Because global strife/stress/chaos is XTREME of late. Definitely time to retreat, circle the wagons, build shelters. And this is the tape to withdraw with. Kalamazoo, MI-based Wigwam tether together fraying clouds of electric dis-ease and rumbling spirits, sewing a storm-blanket of amp warmth, dreamcatcher distortion, andflutes? From the brains behind the Tapeworm Tapes label. Tent City are a tribe from the Arizona deserts/suburbs (Tempe), and their B side contribution, Comes Full Circle, is a patchwork quilt of recent live sessions and scattered backyard communions. Way more posi-vibed but similarly native in approach, TC clatter sticks and stones and broken drones for a giddy slumber party of free-whatever and vanishing voices. Housed in stenciled sandpaper covers with runic colored-sand emblazoned cases, and twine-banded with totem beads and feathers.” -NNF
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Knit Witch “fuck it tapes” cassette $5 SOLD OUT TEMP. SEND MESSAGE TO RESERVE COPY!
featuring members of robedoor,quintana roo, weirdo/begeirdo. hear them here
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lambsbread/quintana roo “live at the smell” split cassette $5
you must complete your quintana roo collection!!!
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Robedoor/Changeling “fog shrouded marsh” split cassette $5
robedoor features members of barrabarracuda, quintana roo and others. changeling also features members of quintana roo. get this…..drone……..
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Robedoor “grendel glare” cdr $5
featuring members of weirdo/begeirdo, quintana roo, barrabarracuda and knit witch. this band is two guys, and they play drone. it’s good. get this cdr now.
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Robedoor “Tomahawk Wraiths” cdr $6
Robedoor are the cdr-drone godz. enough said.
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16 Bitch Pile-Up “The Hairless Whisperer” one-sided LP $15 (limited to 200!)
“Limited one-sided art edition LP from this great, all-female electro-gunk bigband with paste-on B-side art from John Olson (Wolf Eyes et al), corrugated card sleeve and stamped insert/art cover. Woozy vocal schizophrenia. home-crunched electronics elicit squeals of pleasure and cells of circuit friction rumble the whole thing to a murky, oil-caked end. Not as full-on mud-wrestling as some of the Bitches past work and actually all the better for it. Weird as hell, this wouldn’t have sounded out of place on Very Good records, wrapped in a long blonde wig. But this swanky American Tapes edition will do fucking nicely.” -(volcanic tonge review)
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Ch.2&3 “Ne Plus Ultra” $5
features members of shearing pinx.
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Watersports/Changeling cassette $5
“Hello/goodbye. Entrance tones and farewell dissolves. Two of NNF’s pinnacle favorite cell-melting haze-raisers bow heads across a bliss-blind C50. Watersports are the heroically rad Russ and Lea, who head up NYC’s chief trickle-down esoterica fountain/label, White Tapes. The duo’s flow session here, “Mother’s Touch,” rides a smoke-wave of four-dimensional heartbeat pulses and spirit-organ drift-shift into pure hypno-unbecoming. Like being absorbed into a holy amoeba. Obviously: beautiful. Changeling’s B-side, “Great Tranquility,” buries yr ears in even more dream-fog, with voices flayed across infinite green/grey webs of lattice glowing clouds. New age prism-swimming through skies of delay. Color-misted tapes in hand-numbered olive vellum J-cards, with hand-colored off-set heaven-cell stickers on the cover. Artwork by Roy Tatum of Changeling.” -NNF *************************************************************************************************************************

Shearing Pinx/Pretty Thigh split cassette $6 (from canada)
“SP for PT!! Twisted fantasy! Limited to 50 copies” get it get it get it get it!
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  Abe Vigoda 7″ (cdr and sticker included) $5
 they play everywhere, they know everything. the perfect record to fitinto your   sonic teeth & stains mixtape. this would of beenon sst records if it were   the 80’s.
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Burmese/16 Bitch Pile Up split 7″ $5
“Bay Area face-off gets ugly. SF brawlers Burmese unleash a blinding grindcore assault of death metal hysterics and rhythm section vivisection. Meanwhile, Oakland’s loveliest ladies 16BPU keep the violence implied, with lurker loops and broken glass noise ebbing in a black warehouse trance. Psychotic/hypnotic.” -NNF
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Mika Miko “s/t” 7″ $5 TEMP SOLD OUT SEND MESSAGE TO RESERVE COPY
Here’s there first seven inch. four songs..almost out of print. git ’em while they’re hott
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Bad Dudes/The Pope split 7″ $4
2 songs each, edition of 300 on hot pink vinyl!
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Child Pornography tape reissue of “Leave a Message” tape bside w/ the infamous R’N’R D $3
“thefirst side has two songs and the 2nd side has one long worthy trackthat is sought after it gained infamy backstage at some modest mouseshow for some reason”
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  Friends Forever/Gang Wizard split CD $9 TEMP SOLD OUT, SEND MESSAGE TO RESERVE COPY
 Cd rerelease of this all-too-limited 9″ handcut lathe record. Bothbands add   20 min each in bonus tracks to the album. FriendsForever’s 6bonus tracks finishing   the space viking saga that the9″ began, including dance whoppers performed   on their recenttour with Foot Village. Also includes rare SINGING by Friends  Forever!!! Gang Wizard dive deeper into darkness with an homage to theRing   which is also the first time Amy (yuma nora) joined theband).
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  Monster Dudes “I Know That You’re Okay” 7″ $4 TEMP. SOLD OUT, SEND MESSAGE TO RESERVE COPY
 The once father/son noise duo, Monster Dudes, grows at the same rate asVenec   (the younger member) grows up. Now a 3 piece, MonsterDude’s have ventured into   some dance punk territory, with Venecleading the dance floor with party shout   vocals, at a mere age5, that give bands like Moving Units a run for their money.  Still loving the antics of noise, but now feeling a little more focused(with   noise skits abut bailing your son out of jail, etc),Monster Dudes will probably   be as different every year as anychild growing up is. And that’s their magic.   While mostparent/child bands are all about the obsessive control of the parent,  MD is all about helping your kid bring to life whatever they canimagine. A   true testament to family love. MP3
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Shearing Pinx “Distasteroids” Tape $6 LIMITED TO 17!!!!!! LAST COPY!
This tape is cool. Live, and it has poison hands/caves 7″ outtakes
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  Child Pornography “The Beatles” CD $9 TEMP. SOLD OUT, SEND MESSAGE TO RESERVE COPY
 “When asked at a recent show, “What is your band’s message? All myexperimental   bands have a message,” Child Pornography responded,”Our message is, Buy Our   Albums.” The Beatles, ChildPornography’s second album will inevitably make   people ask, “Whydoes their album art look just like the Beatles’ white album?”  and there is no answer. At least that we are giving. So, to thosestrong enough   to surmount these ancient riddles of cosmicmeaning, we present Child Pornography’s   2nd album – anotherbarage of blown out casio punk, whiny vocals, and dissonant  toy-like guitars. Opening for bands like the Moving Units with an “Iguess this   is a good match” attitude, meanwhile being considereda noise act by noise musicians   themselves, Child Pornographydon’t baffle the Rolling Stones who know that   CP are their longlost children. You know, the same – but different. Unlike   thoseJet Stroke bands which are The Same, yet The Same. For in your faceexcitement   on the dance floor, there is only one band aimed atboth your hips and your   face, the Beatles. “-Deathbomb Arc MP3
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Raccoo-o-oon/Woods “Pre-American Lands” split LP
” It feels like a trillion years ago that the musical universe collectively hyperventilated over the notion of “new weird America,” and thankfully so, as the catch-phrase was/is nakedly inaccurate. In contrast, Pre-American Lands tells it like it really is: insanely OLD. These are the sounds/songs of pre-concrete civilizations, resurrected by two of our country’s most mystic gangs of dream-beard antiquity-drifters. Iowa City’s Raccoo-oo-oon commune with dirt, drums, smoke, and tongues to ignite a sky-burning convocation of psychedelic exorcism and mumbled animal prayers. On the B side, Brooklyn’s Woods wander but are not lost, with stumbling strummed strings treading through a dense brush of forest jazz clatter and mossy electric hum. Pressed on blurry cream/sun vinyl with purple runic art labels and housed in awesome skull-magik screenprinted fold-over jackets (courtesy of Shawn Reed of R-coon), and adorned with a fortune-ensuring synthetic rabbit’s foot. “- NNF
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Blues Control “Riverboat Styx” cassette $6 SOLD OUT AND OOP
“psychedelic blues rock duo featuring Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse of Watersports”-fit
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Changeling “lightcones” double cassette $8 (edition of 40) SOLD OUT AND OOP
this is roy from buried valley records and quintana roo’s solo project. I’ve actually only heard one song by him, on the “so moated” nnf 3″ comp…but same style of music as robedoor,quintana roo,tent city,haunted castle… **********************************************************************************************

Dry Tribes: Live in Tempe, AZ CDR ($5) SOLD OUT AND OOP
“This country’s way too big (cant we sell off a few states already??) but every blue moon or so faraway friends fuck distances, drive a billion miles, and UNITE. June 28th, 2006 was one such mesh/bond party of peace-pipe passing, extended high fives, and amplifier team spirit between Tent City, Quintana Roo, Black Monk, and Haunted Castle. Heavy ruling ensued. John Ryan & Co.’s sprawling Arizona backyard – and mercifully dim living room – played host to the geographical delirium of Michigan feedback, California smoke spirits, and hometown desert circle circuitry. Things ended in a 100-plus degrees 5 AM haze, but fortunately the mic was ON. Hear it all. Hieroglyphic-stamped CDRs in full-color hand-numbered fold-out cardstock cases bedecked with sun-gold string.” -NNF
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Raccoo-oo-oon – “Mythos Folkways Vol.1” LP $13 BUMMER, OOP
“Vinyl re-issue of last year’s Fuck It Tape rounded out with an additional ten minutes of new music. Heavy driving drums guide constantly shape-shifting sounds through swirls of psychedlia, noise, drone, dub, free jazz, and back again in a release that traces the origins and evolution of a more improvisational Raccoo-oo-oon. Remastered by Pete Swanson. limited to 500 on black vinyl with silk screened covers.”


various artists- “arbor” CD-R w/art book $8 SOLD OUT TEMP. SEND EMAIL TO RESERVE COPY
TRACKLIST
01. ice age- the sneaky pines
02. maasedun- hannu karjalainen
03.NEON- the futurians
04. middle- bagelsandcreamchesse
05. waves- e*rock
06. laffy taffy- treetops
07. dust march- raccoo-oo-oon
08. suite for magna choda burrito and poon tycoon, magnum hign five- gastric female reflex
09. light feelings- horsehead
10. three stems- joe+n
11. sanibel- the goslings
12. the upstairs room(the cure)- ethelscull
13. vegan pagan regan- silver daggers
14. coma toes- robedoor
15. wire-tap-tapping- barrabarracuda
16. killer (rad) bees- haunted castle
17. river of muck- loopool *****************************************************************************************************


Loopool- “useless unless” cd-r $5 SOLD OUT AND OOP
“jean-paul garnier does it again. this ever changing artists comes at us with a lagrely vocal oriented album. free rock guitar jams and synth explorations. sewer pipe drones with beutifully placed vocals. this is another album that has been in the works for far too long, but it is finally here for you to hear. every song sounds differents as this urban chamelon of an artist approaches new terrain. some of these songs totally rock(in the rock and roll type of way), some of these songsrock(in the garage punk type of way), and some of these songs rock(in the noise drone type of way). these lyrics are there to make you think. think about your friends and think about the world. the lyrics are collected in a scrawled out sheet which folded up fits like a nice book in the purple clam shell case. the clam shell case is then put in a full color sike-out drawn custom envelope. in a numbered edition of 50 copies
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Robedoor “shining smoke” cdr $6 (imported from Italy)
featuring members of weirdo/begirdo, knit witch, barrabarracuda, and quintana roo….drone……..
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  Rose for Bohdan “Then Everybody Hugged, “Racism is God.” CD $9
 Beyond high energy anthems filled with blistering electronics,thunderous bass/drum   combo, and instantly catchy boy/girl vocalhooks. Inspired by living in Los   Angeles, from the ADHD pace tothe still unresolved undertones of racial tension   to the youththat lights this town up with hope. Features members of Gang Wizard,  Foot Village, & Barrabarracuda.
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Watching Him Die/Whitman “Near Purity” cassette ($5) SOLD OUT AND OOP
” Intensity is a varied creature. Theres no question ten billion decibel whiskey-chugging amp-destroyers earn the adjective (most of the time), but vaguer/quieter types burrow the psyche too, obviously. Near Purity pairs two of the So-Cal deserts truest intensity-bearers on one singular C16. Watching Him Die is an inner vision/testament of Jeff and Greg Witscher (of Rainbow Blanket/Men Who Cant Love), recorded deep in a familial dark night of the soul. Three anguished tracks of brotherly rage, intimate themes, and Long Beach longing. Harsh noise at its most naked. Whitmans side-long side, The Rise and Fall of Ken Miller, is a return to the Beaumont loners earliest unsane fucked-folk style. An apoplectic fit of pots, pans, loony bin voices and stringed garbage. Barn-thrash for the chicken coop crowd. Lace-stenciled tapes in color fold-out j-cards, banded with blur-paint denim strips, and sealed with pins of artwork by Greg Witscher. “
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various artists “The Fruit Will Rot 2″ 9 x 3” cdr $20
“Follow up to 2005’s Fruit Will Rot comp. This time, instead of focusing on new California bands, it will focus on new bands that I met while doing 6 month of intensive touring this past year. Still 9 3″ cdrs, but this time each band gets a full 3” cdr to play with (although Brian Miller vs. Nicholas Gitomer do theirs as a split with Na. So 10 bands in total:
Tralphaz (Harsh Sci-Fi sounds; San Francisco)
 Bulbs (Tribal music from alien planets; member of Axolotl from San Francisco)
Eco Morti (Pure Death; aka Amanda A. Hendricks from San Francisco)
Na (Silly anti-folk; from Seattle and New York via Japan)
Brian Miller vs Nicholas Gitomer (Emo-prov; member of My Little Red Toe)
Deathgleaner (Post Wolf Eyes industrial; from Kansas City, ex-Night Wounds)
Core of the Coalman (Violin rainbow psych; from Oakland)
Robedoor (Curses spoken in tongues; from Los Angeles, ex-Weirdo/Begeirdo)
Argumentix (What the Phantom of the Opera really sounded like; from Portland, ex-Alarmist)
Worm Hands (Completely buried; from St. Louis)
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Las   Vegas Club “Whisky Flats” CDR w/comic zine ($6)
  Half imaginary spaghetti-western score, half ragtime saloon brawl, andhalf   pirated cowboy movie samples (how many halves is that?),Whiskey Flats is like   a night out on the range, gathered ’rounda low fire with some chaw-gnawing   men who don’t talk much. Justthe sounds of the dark desert winds, somebody   peein’ over by thecattle, and some tired hands fiddlin’ with a banged-up acoustic  guitar. There’s good, there’s bad, and there’s ugly, all courtesy ofhard-drinkin’   (but harder-gamblin’) LVC chief, Joe Kendall. He’shelped out on most tunes   by the good Jacob Smigel, who pitchesin coffee-can percussion, homesick harmonica,   and lonesomesingin’ where need be. A 16-track masterpiece nearly two years  in the making, Whiskey Flats is the Dodge City of gun-slinging folkmusic. Covers   printed on 50-year-old aged onion paper found at atumbleweed-strewn yard sale,   and accompanied by a dusty pamphletof wild west funnies.
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Goliath Bird Eater/Robedoor “Inside Men” split cassette $5 SOLD OUT AND OOP
“For reasons related to movies and rollerblades, California is usually considered an outdoors-oriented landscape. Similarly, for reasons related to Xasthur shirts and Jagermeister-on-ice, Bobb Bruno is usually considered not intimately impacted by Denzel Washingtons on-screen presence. However, on both counts, this is WRONG. Inside Men is the weird truth, a black celebration of western interiors, dark electricity, and a driven cinematic enigma. Goliath Bird Eaters side stalks from false-calm Boris-drones to Sleep-style apocalypse crush, all snare/cymbal slaughter and Quaalude riff burial. Robedoors Draining Day trances in more of a bells-and-smoke scene, with zone-out loops and lightless tape shred transmitting the sentiment of superior interiority. Painted tapes in Denzel-emblazoned cases with a Hollywood insert, and DIY shrink-wrapped.” -NNF
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Abe Vigoda “Sky Route/Star Roof” LP $8 SOLD OUT TEMP., SEND MESSAGE TO RESERVE COPY
“Chino, CA is in many ways a thriving place. Theres vegan Chinese diners, plenty of adult video stores, and an active post-teen no-wave scene. Sort of. Mainly theres just Reggie, Mike, David, and Juan arguing about which colors suck (all of them) on a suburban porch. And thank god for that, cause these 909 loyalists are ubiquitous dudes, road-tripping to any two-bit post-punk community center that will let them plug in and play their claustrophobic angle jams. Repetitive beaten guitars, Animal (from Muppet Babies?) drumming, and burrowing, burying bass lineslike boating shoes and cut-off jean shorts, these are signature Abe Vigoda moves. Marbled grey vinyl in sprawling silk-screened jackets, with total stairways-to-heaven art by James Bradley.” -NNF
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Scissor Shock – Calcium is Dead e.p. 3″ cd-r  $3SOLD OUT AND OOP
“AdamCooley of the jazz/grind/noise/freakout band Scissor Shock came up withthis release for me when I told him he should make a children’s album.The result is five tracks  that sound as if they were made bychildren who took speed, rode the merry-go-round, and then threw up.The last track is a cover of Twinkle,Twinkle, Little Star. Handmadepackaging in mini-manila folders with artwork done by children. 22made! 10 with melted crayon and 12 with cute drawings. 4 are BIG KIDEDITION, burned on regular size cd-r”….I have the cute drawings ones
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The Pope – I Fucking Hate These Right Wing Mother Fuckers Live cd-r $5 SOLD OUT AND OOP
“Intenserock session by this brutal tag-team recorded live in a mosque forBlackk Wainbow! Artwork done by The Pope themselves, featuring thecoming of the anti-christ in child form. Limited to 17 copies!”
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Barrabarracuda “”Draft Dodging Sexual Vietnam/Wise Incisors” cassingle” $4
“2short ones by this agropop act featuring members of weirdo/begeirdo,robedoor, knitwitch, rose for bohdan, gang wizard, foot village, andgrace’s amazing kitty cat band. trashy double drums, screams, and popkeyboards.”
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Body Vehicle “A static rainbow beyond noise tape series” (White) $4
ThisRussian group produces sound whose origins are obscured and processedalmost beyond recognition, creating new timbral landscapes. At timesBody Vehicle sounds as though they use voice, saxophone, violin, guitarand drum machine, but their sounds are so far removed from theirsources that they sound like new instruments entirely. Their visceralintensity recalls John Zorn, their angular variations recall KarlheinzStockhausen, but really they sound like nothing else out there.bodyvehicle’s raw experimentation sounds like the chemical hybrid offree jazz and noise.
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Yuma Nora – CD Quilt Vol. 12 3″ CDR “Gifts & Collectibles”   $4 SOLD OUT
 “Amy calls this their best recording ever and it is some seriouslyawesome melodic   and rhythic insanity. There is the kind ofbreathiness and space in this recording   not found in other YumaNora pieces. A real treat.”

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  Hot Girls Cool Guys/Abe Vigoda cassingle w/pin ($5) HGCL   Link Abe Vigoda Link SOLD OUT AND OUT OF PRINT
 Totally radical art noise youth puke in the concise cassingle format.Hot Girls   Cool Guys are from Sacramento, and are contrary to thename   an all dudes squad. But the singer screams nervousbreakdown falsettos like   a hot girl anyway, while the rest ofthe under-20 bros shred 90s style feedbacky   multi-parts punk.Their cut is an anthem for neo moshers. And on the B zone,   Chinoworkhorses Abe Vigoda offer up a raw, fun-wound rager of claustrophobe  rhythm-grind and weirdo/aggro vibes. Painted tape plus insert ina hand-screened   canvas tote (with art-visions by Michael Vidalof AV and George W Myers of Grey   Skull) bedecked with a sweetduo-bands pin. Young guns, younger guitars.
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  Foot Village “World Fantasy” 10″ $8 SOLD OUT AND OOP
 It’s one white vinyl, and comes in two cardboard, silk screened 12″x12″  sheets. This band is four drummers, and they play drums andscream a lot. They   sing about different countries. Do it!    MP3
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  Robedoor / Haunted Castle split double c20 – $5 SOLD OUT AND OOP
 An epic split with a theme of epic religious failure. Hollow, spectralmoans   and thick, murky rubble adorn every inch of magnetic tape.The perfect soundtrack   for any man of the cloth that just can’tshake that feeling of impending doom.   Hand-stenciled blasphemy
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  Scissor Shock 3″ cdr – $4
 Imagine Yamatsuka Eye trapped in a broken NES tape, trapped in agarbage can,   rolling off a cliff onto a bunch of jagged rocks.That is Scissor Shock. Fast   and messy electronic garble. Handscreened covers.
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Silver Daggers 7″ $4
SOLD OUT AND OUT OF PRINT
 “Oh shit. This release is the riot Silver Daggers always promised us.Four saxy   tracks of downtown back alley thrash, anarchist jazz,and knife-storm hardcore,   all on a steel-blue seven inch.”-NNF
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  Reindeer Tiger Team – s/t 7″$4
 Two people, Eddy and Steven, playing beautiful indie songs with franticdrums   and strong, powerful, though also pretty, vocals. Thisrecord has four songs.
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