5/5/2000 "Reflektionen Musique" CD
Lost, unreleased, and unkown soundscapes from San Diego's cult ambient electronic ensemble. This is Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapation) with Nathan Berlinguette (Creation Is Crucifixion). Expect post-apaclyptic dark ambient soundscapes.
(Post Relpica)
$8
16 Bitch Pile-Up "Bury Me Deep" CD
The California dreams that led to death... There's twists, bends, curves, scrapes, and bumps. The atmosphere was simply frustrating and depressing - good! The ending is a shocker of sorts, each track is an unpredictable event that makes your heart beat with more than just suspense, but pure emotion - yes, definitely emotion. I even cried. Twice.
16 Bitch Pile-Up are a fierce 3 piece squall of Heartland (now California) electronics, thick moans, and scraped effects. Having previously performed at such noteworthy festivals as All Tomorrow's Parties, No Fun and Wooden Octopus Skull, 16BPU here presents their first widely available cd. Full color (+ naughty) fold out cover artwork in jewelcase. Limited edition of 1,000.
(Troniks)
$8
2673+Unicorn split CD
Awesome full length split from Kevin Winter (2673, Thee Black One) and Bill Nelson (Unicorn, Bastard Noise). Packaged in thick vinyl sleeves with high quality Thumbprint press print job on chipboard!
(Kitty Play Records)
$8
2673/Jessica Rylan split CDr
Split between RRRon's new prodigy Jessica Rylan and MA fav 2673 (aka Kevin Winter). Jessica gives us 7 tracks and 2673 gives us 2 long tracks. Top quality for sure! Packaged in cool DVD cases.
(KPR)
$8
Aaron Dilloway "Bad Dreams" CD
Dilloway's got a grave problem! Tense ghost clatter and haunted Michigan sputter collapse helplessly into fever, exhaustion, depression. This is home-taping of unconscious dread and hopeless shudder. Originally released in a small edition on his own Hanson Records, Bad Dreams return for the Wolf Eyes / ex-Violent Ramp/Galen/Couch member. When Aaron wakes up, he'll wish he were dead...
(Troniks)
$8
Aaron Dilloway "Beggar Master" CD
CD issue of first full-length LP by ex- WOLF EYES member Aaron Dilloway. Recorded in Kirtipur, Nepal, March 2005. Originally released on LP limited to 300 copies.
Tape manipulations, feeback, crude field recordings, & Nepali dirt.
(Hanson)
$10
Aaron Dilloway "White Hair b/w Amputation" 7"
Here is another entry in the BloodLust! Detroit chapter, this time coming from Aaron Dilloway. For this single, Dilloway (Hanson Records, Wolf Eyes, The Beast People, Miscarriage, Violent Ramp, etc.) offers up two unique pieces of unsettlingly dark electronics. The creeping, slow-paced A-Side is highlighted by its underwater synth style and its insistent-yet-mysterious vocals. The B-Side starts off with a much harder, oscillating impact, and it evolves into something akin to what might be the final sounds heard before a psychedelic death. Fans of early 1980s synth, industrial, and power-electronics (e.g. Maurizio Bianchi, Lustmord, Esplendor Geometrico, Kraang) will surely bask in the decayed, anxiety-inducing sound of this record. Limited to 300, pressed on white vinyl.
(Bloodlust!)
$7
Aemae "The Helical Word" CD
Computer drone & noise written and recorded by Brandon Nickell over an
intensive two-year period between 2003 and 2005 in Oakland,CA. All
eight tracks synthesized and sequenced using vocal resonance and a
wide array of synthesis techniques. A deep exploration into far
corners of the frequency-domain.
(isounderscore)
$10
Aemae "Maw" CD
“The Helical Word” was my first introduction to AEMAE’s experimental mayhem and I instantly was addicted to its harrowing visionary application of noise. Brandon Nickell’s follow-up “Maw” presents even more depth at crafting noise into something musical and intriguing. Exploring raw sine waves and frequency patterns, “Maw” fits not into the noise or IDM category but into the out-of-this-world variety. For if aliens were revealed to have been living among us, it’s a safe bet that I’d assume that Nickell is their leader and he is taking over our minds with brainwave manipulation via sound. Textures of ambience float among the flickers of electronic feedback and synthetic intricacies that make “Maw” a commanding force in the electronic music field.
- J-Sin
(isounderscore)
$8
The Alienst "Drone Action Trio" CDr
Our material is quite different from the earlier, solo studio work. It is 100% live and improvised. There is my analog synth, Evan's contact mics, Tom's voice, and all of us using laptops. We are as one creating the drone, our sounds blend and build into a cumulus cloud of sound.
Unlike some other noise artists, we're not trying to hurt your ears. Lay back, turn this up, and enter the black hole. (from label)
(Opposite Records)
$6
Alio Die "Aurea Hora" 10"
This EP features two exclusive tracks of evocative magmatic soundscapes. The completely new recordings (with drones, loops, zither and integrated radio noises from an old Valvular model) are similar to early Alio Die experiments or to ‘Sol Niger’. Entrancing atmospheres will bring you into Stefano’s magical world, which is an oneiric, dreaming journey to the inner self. Limited to 400 hand-numbered copies with textured card artwork.
(Small Voices)
$12
Alio Die "Under an Holy Ritual" LP
Re-release of the classic Alio Die masterpiece. "Under an Holy Ritual" is a ritual ambient milestone and probably the most highly regarded release from this Italian ambient composer. Remastered for vinyl in 2005.
"Multi-layered sonic densities that can evoke the air of ancient storms one minute, then ebb like an immense black ocean the next. This knows how to alter moods with both thick electronic pulses and prehistoric scrapes of mysterious percussions. Cerebral, spooky, and thought provoking meditative/ambient music that harkens from a ritualistic viewpoint." (I/E Magazine)
(Small Voices)
$15
Altar of Flies / Sewer Election split LP
Two of the best acts currently dwelling in the depths of the Swedish underground scene. Sewer Election should be well-known by now, previous releases includes a split 12" with Incapacitants, cds on Troniks and Chondritic Sound and the amazing Killing-tapes. Altar Of Flies has created quite a buzz over the last year with a huge amount of very limited tape/cd-r releases. On this split LP, Sewer Election contributes with the nasty Rotten Corpse. A crude and disgusting piece. Monotonous, freezing coldness. Altar Of Flies continues with his dark and eerie forest rumblings. Buried claustrophobic lo-fi insanity straight from hell. Heavy outbursts of feedback. Could've been outtakes from an old Dario Argento soundtrack. Mean-spirited ugliness from both bands. Limited edition of 325.
(Release the Bats)
$18
Anakrid "Fever Dream Fever" LP
Critically acclaimed sound artists Anakrid present another in a series of limited
run explorations into alien occultic territory. Hailing from the same school of
abstract surrealism that brought the world Nurse With Wound, Hafler Trio, SPK,
and Coil, Anakrid presents a unique take on the “difficult listening” genre
with a passionately constructed and focused dynamic racket. Veering from
the contemporary groupthink of noise for the sake of noise, Anakrid takes the
listener on journies through bizarre soundscapes without being overly long-winded
in the approach. A refreshing get-in and get-out policy creates an LP that is
essentially 12 mini Robotrips on wax. Each piece is a ritual excursion unto itself,
yet the etirety of the album works brilliantly as a whole (or as a hole).
(self released)
$11
Andy Ortmann & John Wiese "Recorder Out of Tune" CD
The latest in a line of collaborations between ANDY ORTMANN (PANICSVILLE) and JOHN WIESE (SISSY SPACEK, BASTARD NOISE, etc.). A trip to the mouth of the grotto of infinite terror from two giants of electronic noise. (Highly Recommended)
(Nihilist)
$8
Arastoo "Three" LP
Black minimalist drone, abstract strings and organic synthetic
textures. Three tracks creating three distinct spaces recorded in 2005
by Arastoo Darakhshan. Limited to 333 copies, housed in a gorgeous
black on black matte jacket.
(isounderscore)
$10
Aron "Immersion/Inner Limits" CDr
Yet, another installment to the House of Lies Recordings roster, Aron. As always, high quality dark and abstract output from this label. And painfully limited to only 25 copies as usual!
(House of Lies Recordings)
$4
Asmus Tietchens and Jon Mueller "Acht Stucke" CD
Second collaborative effort between german sound manipulation pioneer Asmus Tietchens and american improv-drummer Jon Mueller. The CD features 8 tracks that run up to 53 minutes. Jon Mueller on the second collaboration: "The previous collaboration between Asmus and I involved me using only sounds derived from drum heads. For Acht Stuecke, I've used only Chinese gongs and cymbals, so a completely different range of sound occurs. The performance of the percussion material was from various non-mechanical techniques (striking, swinging gongs, extended techniques, etc.) to create a palette of mostly textural sound with a large frequency range that Asmus could work with." And indeed, work he did! The completeness that is Acht Stuecke is of breathtaking beauty and simplicity and complexity at the same time. The album is definately more homogenous and 'together' than the first meeting of the two musicians. It emanates a warm and deep sound evolving out of total soundless blankness as it seems.
Jon Mueller has been active for several years in the us improv scene playing in various ensembles and doing solo work. Asmus Tietchens has been producing electronic music since the 1960ies and is one of the most renowned sound artists today in Germany. In the last five years he was awarded twice the SWR state radio prize "Karl Sczuka Preis" for radio art. He has released more than 80 records and CDs on labels all around the world. Limited edition of 500.
(Aufabwegan)
$15
Astromero 2xCD
A collaborative project (live, studio, and postal) between Damion Romero and Hiroshi Hasegawa (astro, cccc, mortal vision, etc...) material from 1995-2005. Packaged in killer metal case! Limited edition of 500.
(P-tapes/Troniks)
$13
Astromero "2" 3xCD
Killer 3 CD document of the Astromero US tour. Astromero is Damion Romero and Hiroshi Hasegawa.
(Troniks)
$15
Astro, Jazkamer, Hair Stylistics "Motorcycle Fuck with the Ghost Rider" CD
A completely violent little disc documenting this live 2007 Tokyo performance pitting some really heavyweights in the underground world of “noise” on stage together. (Lasse Marhaug, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Masaya Nakahara, and John Hegre). Housed in center opening heavy stock sleeve with circular diecut adorning with graphic work from Mr. Lasse himself. Pressing of 600 copies.
(Archive)
$10
Atrax Morgue "I'm Infected" 7"
Two 5 minute sides of pathological synthesizer, recorded January 07.
(Spaceless Jam)
$5
Aube "Blau+Rot" 7"
On these two tracks, released for the first european tour by AUBE in eight years, Akifumi Nakajima worked with an old Roland SH-12 percussive synth. The result are two long tracks (each over 6 minutes) with a nice floating mood that sometimes changes into aggressiveness without losing its warmth. A great little record by one of the most important experimental musicians from Japan. Limited edition of 500.
(Aufabwegan)
$10
Aube "Millennium - Februarius" CD
This CD is the Febuary installment of the millennium series.
(Armonika)
$10
Aube "Millennium - Maritius" CD
This CD is the March installment of the millennium series.
(Armonika)
$10
Aube "Millennium - Aprilis" CD
This CD is the April installment of the millennium series.
(Armonika)
$10
Axolotl / D Yellow Swans / Gerritt LP
Originally released in 2005 as a limited edition CD-R on Yellow Swans' JYRK label, this three-way collab now gets a proper run on wax. Recorded in Oakland at the Huffin House before the Swans made the retreat back to Portland. Despite the weight of these players when they rock alone, this jam really never gets into full on white out territory. Instead, it's loaded to the brim with wavy neon distortion and soothing low end that occasional drops out into hugh washes of emptiness. The opening passage of GMS guitar flecks sympathizing with Karl's string wash is alone worth the price of admission. Red vinyl with lime green splatter.
(Root Strata)
$12
Bastard Noise/Christian Renou "Brainstorming" CD
Released by desolation house and in a limited edition of 1000. This is one hell of an incredible noise album! Extremely dark and oppressive! Review: Two of the most prolific and inventive noise musicians from the past decade have merged and delivered "Brainstorming". Both abstract and impressionistic, each piece inspires a concrete vision by association.<- Comes packaged in a killer digipak with spot U.V. coat!
(Desolation House)
$10
V/A "Bears are not real" CD
"BEARS" is THE underground live house in Osaka, Japan, where most interesting underground musicians gather. Bands such as Shonen Knife and Boredoms etc. all started from here. Seiichi Yamamoto (of Omoide Hatoba, Boredoms, Rovo, etc) , the manager of this live house, made the selection of bands for this compilation album. Tracks from:1 HELICOID 0220MB,
2 MASONNA,
3 FORKROSS,
4 CHICOPIDO,
5 O.A.D. with EME,
6 DEATH SURF 2000,
7 EAD,
8 SHINCHO 2m,
9 YARAZU BUTTAKURI,
10 LABCRY,
11 OMOIDE HATOBA,
12 COA,
13 GOLDEN SYRUP LOVERS.
It's an amazing compilation of the bands who always play at BEARS, the most mysteriously weired live house in Asia!! SEIICHI YAMAMOTO.
(Japan-Overseas)
$15
Bhob Rainey "Two Bites of a Bitter Sweet" 7"
Bhob Rainey is an established bigwig of the global improv/noise/experimental underground as a result of his work alongside trumpeter Greg Kelley in the influential duo, nmperign, his direction of the improvising juggernaut, The BSC, and his numerous solo works and collaborations with the likes of Jason Lescalleet, Gunter Muller, Ralf Wehowsky, Le Quan Ninh, Alessandro Bosetti, and Michel Doneda, among others.
Two Bites of a Bitter Sweet is his first release of purely electronic music, and Evolving Ear is tickled to be the messenger on this one. The material on the two side-long, 33rpm pieces ranges from homemade synth textures to field recordings from Lisbon, Venice, Huelva, and other, unremembered locations. There's some singing by Naomi Yang (Damon and Naomi) and Bhob himself, and some words of wisdom from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Overall, a woozy alternate reality is offered for repeated dream pool swims.
(Evolving Ear)
$5
Birchville Cat Motel "Gunpowder Temple of Heaven" CD
Birchville Cat Motel is the project of New Zealander Campbell Kneale, who has from his base in Lower Hutt since the mid 90-ies established himself as the leading voice of this generation of NZ sound artists. Gunpowder Temple of Heaven is a new highlight in his extensive discography. A single 40 minute long-form piece that keeps building and unfolding; heaven for drone-noise enthustiasts.
The CD comes with a booklet with a complete Birchville discography as well as liner-notes by Bruce Russell.
From the liner notes of Bruce Russell (The Dead C): "I've been listening to the music of Campbell Kneale for more than a decade now. Recently I've been listening with a sense of increasing admiration as he stacks up monumental sound slabs in an architecture of audition - building a lofty tower of sound. Always a dedicated worker at whatever he does, Campbell had mastered the detailed work required to place many sounds accurately across each another. Often this kind of 'more is more' strategy backfires into murky sludge, where the increasing layers merely obscure each other. On the contrary, the more BCM puts into a piece, the more you hear coming out."
(Pica Disk)
$15
Bloodyminded "Phases: Two" CDr
Following the style of the "Phases : One" August 2006 tour cassette, "Phases : Two" continues the SCTL (Source Control) processing methodology - brought back from the Intrinsic Action era - this time applying it to live versions of "Magnetism" songs that were recorded on the August tour. The resulting 60-minute recording is characterized by a mixture of spoken voices, heavy screaming, audience member participation, out of control synthesizers, feedback, rumbling, sudden "rushing" sounds, screeching, etc., all vying for the listener's attention. Limited edition of 200.
(Bloodlust!)
$8
Brendan Murray / Mike Shiflet "Sentimental Gentlemen" CDr
Originally released in a handmade quantity of 50 on CDr during Murray & Mike’s tour late last year, this has now gotten a proper reissue of 150 copies. Two lengthy tracks with Murray and Shiftlet merging sounds to create something wholly unique.
(Sentient Recognition Archive)
$10
Brighter Death Now "Innerwar" CD
Total electronic abuse for fans of the darkest and most morose music within the industrial underground.
(Release)
$10
Bruce Russell / John Wiese "Fronts" 7"
Collaboration 7" of John Wiese and Bruce Russell. Limited to 300.
(Helicopter)
$5
Brume "Drafts of Collisions" CD
French musician Christian Renou composed these experimental electronic soundbursts.
(Crowd Control Activities)
$10
Burning Star Core "Challenger" CD
"Challenger is a composed work rather than his more improvised work, each piece revolving around a central melodic theme with field recordings, an audio diary bridging the gaps. It's emotions of a period of time set to tape. The sounds range from pure tonal mood to huge electronic crescendos. But what's most remarkable is the use of space, where parts come in and drop to build or recede .When the piano crashes in "Mysteries of the Organ" its almost a frustration of paradise, a rejection of perfection or maybe a jolt of inexplicable life, unable to be translated into proper 'communication. Juxtaposed with the quiet haunting of "Hopelessly Devoted" which sounds like a love letter written to outer space, it makes for an album that is both dynamic yet consistent as a full statement. licensed from plastic records."-Hospital Productions
(Hospital Productions)
$12
Burning Star Core "Blood Lightning 2007" CD
Creeping drones, strange mutilated vocal incursions, and compositions full of unidentifiable sounds both acoustic and electronic. Another classic in sound exploration from the mind of Mr. C. Spencer Yeh. This is the sound of humanity looking into the depth of their soul searching for a reason to continue fighting the daily maze of homo sapien life. The three sisters on the front cover of this album all have the "mark of the devil. Like all No Fun Productions cd's comes in the deluxe classic mini-gatefold style no fun CD case.
(No Fun)
$12
Burning Star Core "Lets Play Wild Like Wildcats Do" CD
Lush, driving, desperate drone engulfed in suspended introspection.
(hospital productions)
$8
Burning Star Core "Three Sisters Who Share An Eye" LP
Compositions for 9 midgets with mohawks screaming about life and harsh electronics. nastiest burnign star core release to date. Spencer continues his search for the lost kingdom,with an army of his own he screams to them to get them psyched: "HARSH IS NICE!!!!!" limited to 300.
(No Fun)
$15
C.C.C.C. 'Early Works' 4xCD box
Box set from Japanese psychedelic noise legends C.C.C.C. collecting unreleased live material,including very early recordings from some of their first shows in 1990 and their 1992 us tour, along some long unvailible studio classics like the Phantasmagoria tape. Extensive liner notes by original member Fumio Kosakai ( now in Incapacitants,and many others) about the band beginings and his take on the C.C.C.C. vision. An essential document in the unique C.C.C.C. sound which Kosakai describes best as "psychedelic, cosmic and erotic". produced by C.C.C.C. founder Hiroshi Hasegawa. Extensive audio restoration and mastering by James Plotkin. Comes in delux slipcase box and digipack packaging. Limited to 1000 copies.
(No Fun Productions)
$35
C. Spencer Yeh "Solo Violin 1-10" LP
Made up of 10 unprocessed live to tape violin experiments edited from the original tapes issued on Spencer's Drone Disco imprint. Edition of 400 copies with 2 color screen print on front, one color on back.
(Tone Filth)
$15
Carlos Giffoni "Arrogance" CD
Five chapters of sound inspired by one of the most powerful and complex emotions of humankind. Arrogance is a departure from the digital machine insanity of his previous full length release, Welcome Home (Important Records), for a world of total analog electronics, primal energy, walls of monumental sound and precise attention to layers - creating massive slowly evolving structures that are both beautiful and terrifying. Arrogance is the first CD release on the No Fun Productions label. Recorded live with no overdubs in Brooklyn during a 12 month period by Carlos Giffoni and mastered by James Plotkin. Cover artwork by award winning artist/designer Megan Ellis.
(No Fun)
$11
Carlos Giffoni / Prurient "Heavy Rain Returns" CD
"Heavy Rain Returns" is a truly monumental album. Recorded in Bushwick, New York City - it's an intense trip into harsh noise and electronic sickness. Carlos Giffoni is maybe best known for his great "Welcome Home" record and his curator skills are infamous through his No Fun Fest in Brooklyn which is the world's most
extreme music festival. Prurient is Dominick Fernow who is operating the Hospital Productions label and shop out of a basement in New York.
(ideal)
$12
Carlos Giffoni/Smegma/Metalux LP
Studio Collaboration Recorded and mixed by DR. ID. himself at Smegma's Portland studio during Metalux/Giffoni summer tour. Total weirdness full on psychedelic improvisation in the classic Smegma style, amplified by Giffoni's arsenal of unmatched apocalyptic precission machinery and Metalux's own arsenal of strangeness electronic sound and vocals from the next dimension. Already a total American classic before it even existed. Enjoy the Present. The Eternal Sound is now and forever.Coreleased between the Legendary LAFMS(Los Angeles Free Music Society) label, and No Fun Productions. Limited to 500.
(No Fun)
$15
Cervid "Enter:Say:Exit" CDr
Fried, Cut-up audio meets unusully dark and sinister atmoshere! Highly Recommended. Limited edition of 25!
(House of Lies Recordings)
$4
Chaotic Order - spring 2001
Printed zine from England. Topics include noise/music, film, fetish, art, poetry, and reviews. This issue features an interview with Residual Orchestra, a graphic review of Whitehouse liveaction 86, plus much, much more!
(magazine)
$4
Charlie Draheim "Choose to Lose" 7"
Killer new Charlie Draheim vinyl! Limited edition of 300 copies on white vinyl from the Bloodlust! label outta Chicago!
(Bloodlust!)
$7
Christain Renou/Anemone Tube "Transference" CD
Released by AUF ABWEGEN, February 2003.
Limited edition of 500 copies!
transference [60:00]
Sound manipulation and concrete tape arrangements. C. Renou aka Brume reworks material by Anemone Tube.< br>
(Auf Abwegen)
$12
Christian Renou "Fragments and Articulations" CD
Christian Renou has been making electro-acoustic music for 17 years. His first cassette release was back in 1985. From 1985 to 2001 he recorded under the name Brume. He then started using his own name with the release of Zona Ventille in 2001 by Elsie and Jack Recordings. While the name changed, the style of music did not. Christian Renou is still putting out very high quality music in the new French tradition. "Fragments and Articulations" is no exception.
(Ground Fault)
$8
Climax Denial "Ritual Smothering" 7"
It began in the basement. Ammonia
burn. Moonwalker legions. A 90-minute drive. Frequency.
Inevitability. Finality. Steeped in cult teen and fetish
sites. Soaked in true industrial history - local, regional,
and international. Claiming his low-fidelity birthright,
which is both passive and aggressive. Two tracks of dark
and ugly electronics, heightened by the opportunity for
emotional intimacy, as promised by the sexual come-ons
derived from desolate telephone answering services. Pressed in an edition of 300 copies on white vinyl.
(Bloodlust!)
$7
Cloama "In the State of Unbelief" 7"
New 7” which finds Cloama at its most vehement, a savage exposition of raw power electronics which has never been quite so overt in Cloama’s sound until this project. Notwithstanding the clear ‘80s PE influences the production and composition are distinct, discreet layers and the usual attention to detail giving this work flair.
(Cipher Productions)
$8
Cock E.S.P. "Cockworld" CD
Full-length release from these well known noise pranksters. Fetauring special cameos by alot of artists including: Lasse Marhaug, Kazumoto Endo, Smell & Quim, and about 15 more!
(Little Mafia)
$8
Cock E.S.P. "Greatest Dicks 2:The Best and worst of Cock E.S.P. 1997-2000" CD
Greatest Dicks, originally released and still available as a collection of Cock E.S.P. works as part of the Pure series on RRRecords. Greatest Dicks II, the second collection now from Minneapolis noise wizards showing just how much this band has maintained, evolved, withstood the test of time. Includes many tracks of electronic
fuckery, harsh noise, random ambient pieces, as well as the usual displays of hostility and rudeness from non-noise fans. Limited edition of 500.
(Little Mafia)
$10
Cock E.S.P./Panicsville "Last Train to Cocksville" CD
A tag team of noise as Cock E.S.P. and Panicsville take on The Monkees. The Beach Boys had Pet Sounds. The Beatles had The White Ablum. Where was The Monkees artistic epiphany? The Upper Midwest's two most serious and dedicated experimental music ensembles join forces in a tribute to the grand-daddys of all outsider music: The Monkees. The stunning audio content of this release is surpassed only by the cover and insert photos, which feature an uncomfortable glimpse into the dark world of homoerotic railroad engineer fetish.
- SunShip Records Catalog
(Little Mafia)
$10
Contagious Orgasm + Government Alpha "Heartstrings" CD
2 japanese act created this twisted industry world.
this extraordinary collaboration release from the two artists with the oddest japnoise
ever presenting you very different 12tracks in an amazing new sound of unusual creative music.
to the end of this world transborder is invited marginal electronics!!
cardboard sleeve, limited to 500 copies.Imported from Japan.
(SSSM)
$12
Contagious Orgasm "The Flow of Sound Without Parameter" CD
The sounds on this CD flow without parameter as the title suggests. Recordings of the sound of a town in Germany. The sound of a park being cleaned. Recordings at a zoo. A conversation in the kitchen. The scenic sounds on a balcony. These sounds were processed, and other sounds were added with ambient beats mixed in. This gives you "The Flow of Sound Without Parameter".
(Ground Fault)
$8
Contagious Orgasm "Illegal Occupation of Ears" CD
More quality sounds from Hiroshi Hashimoto, the man behind Contagious Orgasm and SSSM records. This one is a limited edition of 470 copies, released in Italy.
(Old Europa Cafe)
$10
Contagious Orgasm + Telepherique "Crosses Deeply" CD
This is a really good release from both projects, and contains some of the best seeking music material! Packaged in printed cardboard jacket.
(SSSM)
$10
Contagious Orgasm + Zyrtax "DNA Loops" CD
Experimental industrial,soundworks. Packaged in printed cardboard jacket.
(SSSM)
$10
v/a "Contemporary Denshi-Zatsuon Vol. 2" CD
Kick ass compilation with tracks from Solid Eye, Speculum Fight, inBoil, MSBR, and Incapacitants. Eight tracks in all, imported from Japan.
(Denshi-Zatsuon)
$10
Core of the Coalman "Canarsie" tape
(Custodian, Color Zoo Containers)
$8
Courtis "Live in Fukuoka" CDr
Live in Fukuoka is a unique document of Courtis Japan Tour 2005. Fukuoka is the last stop of Shinkansen (the famous bullet train) and is one of the biggest cities in the south of Japan. Courtis is a founder members of argentinian group Reynols and for this historic solo gig he offered a singular combination of tapes, electric guitar and several no-instruments amplified with contact microphones. 100% Argenitinan Noises Live in Japan!!! Emotion Guaranteed!!!
This is a limited edition in a special aluminium foil packaging with japanese collage artwork!
(Scrotum Records)
$8
Cousins of Reggae / Lubriphikatttor split LP
Fresh from the Paris record label - Galerie Pache comes another limited 12 inches of shininess, this time wrapped in a screen printed fold-over (liking that elk/mousse imagery very HNAS). A split release between two bands, one side is pure power-tool waywardness and the other a skuzzed up rock toad with some tempting glimpses of Krautdom.
(Galerie Pache)
$15
Cristopher Cichocki/Warm Climate/I Heart Lung 3"DVD
The second installment in the series of 3" DVD-r singles by Cristopher Cichocki. Volume 2 merges kaleidoscopic analog video psychedelia with the haunting aural abstractions of Seth Kasselman's Warm Climate before lulling into hypnotic glistening waters over a celestial composition from So. Cal. avant-jazz drone duo, I Heart Lung." The hand-constructed package, courtesy of graphic artist Alaska!, comes with the 3" DVD-r held on an aluminum sheet, wrapped in printed vellum and contained within a clear resealable polybag. Inside the DVD you'll find the chapters: "Synovial Moves" (cichocki + wc) and "Interoceans I" (cichocki + ihl). Edition of 150.
(The Table of Contents)
$9
Cristopher Cichocki "Elemental Shift" DVD
Cichocki’s work captures a sublime oneness with nature, but can hardly be called still and meditative. Sharing an affinity with noise artists, Elemental Shift is meticulously edited together, creating an incredibly intense visceral experience which, at points, should probably require a legal disclaimer for epileptics.
Packaged in a circular metal tin with crushed fish bones from the Salton Sea adhered to the inside lid. Limited to 250.
(The Table of Contents)
$12
Damion Romero "Negative" CD
Killer new full length from Damion Romero! Definatly one of the best releases he has done. Total conceptual thriller, the aftermath of twisted flesh and metal! Higly Recommended!
(PacRec)
$8
Daniel Menche "Flaming Tongues" CD
Beautiful densely layered frantic percussions & rhythmic soundscapes, pushing Menche's work even further into new territories of sound and performance.
(Blossoming Noise)
$8
Daniel Menche "The Face of Vehemence" CD
My influence and inspiration for "The Face of Vehemence" is the book "Sun and Steel" by Yukio Mishma. The CD title "Face of Vehemence" is basically what I see in Yukio Mishimas face; especially on the book cover. Almost all of his photos he has that "face of vehemence". When I finally read his book "Sun and Steel" it was like a "take the words out outa my mouth" experience but articulated absolutly perfectly in a manner I could never do with words. How he percieved "words" in relating to the flesh is how I percieve "sound" in relating to the flesh. Yukio Mishmas attitude towards art/flesh/death/spirit is highly inspiring towards my music." -Daniel Menche
(Ground Fault)
$8
Daniel Menche/Kiyoshi Mizutani "Garden" CD
Misconceptions between reality and fiction, "Garden" is the first collaborative effort between these two monsters of noise. One long epic landscape with all 'high sounds' treated by Mizutani and all 'low sounds' treated by Menche. "Garden" exhibits both artists’ play with reality and fiction – a play with perception, existence and experience. Beautiful artwork complemented by slipcase.
(Auscultare)
$10
Dave Phillips "Schimpfluch-Commune Chiang Mai" CDr
Follow-up to the Schimpfluch-Commune Berlin CD this is a mix of recordings made of the Dogs of the Chiang May Commune in Thailand, with additional recordings by Andrew Phillips, Rudolf Eb.er, and Claude Matthews. Recorded and mixed 2004/2006. Edition of 150 copies in brown Digipak with stamps and fullcolour art.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$16
Dave Phillips "A Collection of Curses" CD
Dave Phillips (SCHIMPFLUCH, OHNE, FEAROFGOD) reaches back across 10 years to compile ‘Curses’ a physiological audible excursion featuring some of Dave's most divergent & transgressive oddities, rarities and unreleased psycho sensory soundbites.
(Blossoming Noise)
$10
Dave Phillips & John Wiese "At a Loss for Words" 7"
Collaborative 7” from Swiss psycho actionist and sound provocateur Dave Phillips of OHNE & grind legends FEAROFGOD + west coast frequency crusher John Wiese of Sunn O))) and LHD. Limited edition of 500 copies housed in deluxe letterpress custom folders & pressed on white vinyl.
(Blossoming Noise)
$8
David Kendall "Triumph of Individuality" CDr
The title for this one is most appropriate as Mr. Kendall's work and vision rest in a realm all his own. Working with digital noise in a time when the genre titans are dusting off their analog gear again, Kendall's intense programming stands out, but it stands tall.
Combining elements of improvisation, composition, field recordings and pure noise, Kendall's work is both sharp and vivid. This one is crisp. Analog purists beware.
CDR edition of 100.
(Gameboy)
$10
Dead Bird/Newton split 7"
Killer split 7 inch record from Dead Bird and Newton! Incredible screenprinted artwork!
(breathmint)
$5
Dead Machines "Futures" 10"
Dead Machines is John Olsen from Wolf Eyes and his wife Tova O'Rourke from Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice. Dead machines are known for their handmade electronics and tape manipulation played at blistering volumes, and as one of the first "couples" noise projects. This release features two squirming heaps of drone and moan that capture sounds from the ocean floor to the molten core of the earth to the unexplored corners of the galaxy.
(Troubleman)
$12
Dead Machines "The Night Callers" LP
Brand new LP from husband-and-wife duo John (Wolf Eyes) & Tovah Olson (Wooden Wand...) left field horror drone, flutes and garbage electronics. Cover art by John Olson. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies on 140gram pink marbled vinyl.
(blossoming noise)
$16
Deadwood "8 19" CD
Outstanding Power Electronics from Sweden. This is DEADWOOD's debut album and is a solid, pounding force of electronics, Death Ambient atmospheres and brutal vocals. Featuring a member of Satanic Black Metal act Blodulv. File alongside such luminaries as The Grey Wolves and Mz.412. DEADWOOD is a relentless assault on the senses! Approach with due caution!
(Cold Spring)
$10
Deathpile G. R. CD
Sick power-electronics dedicated to the green river killer.
(Hospital Productions)
$8
Deathroes "Hate Fuck" CD
Deathroes is Gerritt and Sixes. Debut release from this Oakland Black Noise super group. Equal parts harsh and black, filled with spite.
(Pac Rec)
$8
The Death's Head Quartet s/t CD
Free jazz meets grindcore head-on within the ranks of this incredible improvisational band, which formed in 2001. Their music, reminiscent of Borbetomagus and Painkiller, has been seen on stage and public-access TV in the Boston area and heard on a WBRS-FM live broadcast. They had their NYC debut, appropriately, on Easter Sunday, 2002.
With Seth Putnam (AC) on bass and vocals, Robert Williams (Nightstick, Siege) on drums, Jim Hobbs (Fully Celebrated Orchestra) on alto sax and Chris Joyce (the Nothings) on guitar.
Death's Head Quartet's debut studio album is an uncompromised, uninhibited, harsh, challenging, and intensely satisfying dose of music.
(Opposite Records)
$10
Deep Jew "Ugliest Man / Dog Blood" LP
Full length trash. Members from black monk, impregnable, privy seals, roman torment etc. limited to 400 copies.
(Troniks)
$10
Deflag Haemorrhage / Haien Kontra "Luxury" CD
MATTIN (computer feedback, voice, guitar) and " " (sic) TIM GOLDIE (drums, voice, credit card, amplifier). All Tracks recorded by " " (sic) Tim Goldie except Number 12 ('Field recording at Huntigdon Life Sciences') by Zoe Broughton, and Number 16 recorded by Mattin. Mastered by Daniel Beattie. All Tracks edited from improvisations. Edition of 500 copies, with 2 double-sided A5 cards packaged in oversized luxurious metallic golden foil envelope with sticker attached.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$17
Deflag Haemorrhage / Haien Kontra "Humiliated" CD
MATTIN (computer feedback, voice, guitar) and " " (sic) TIM GOLDIE (drums, voice, credit card, amplifier). Recorded and Mastered by Rashad Becker October 2007 & July 2008, Edited and mixed by Mattin and " " (sic) Tim Goldie at Worm, Rotterdam, January 2008. Edition of 500 copies, with 2 double-sided A5 cards packaged in oversized luxurious metallic silver foil envelope with sticker attached.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$17
Destructo Swarmbots "The Mountain EP" CD
A 3" CD packaged in a standard jewel-case, "The Mountain EP" finds DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS exploring a more delicate and subtle space than previous releases. The 2 man guitar and bass team, known for it's abrasive sonic attacks, take their layers of manipulated dissonance and situate them in subtle ambient landscapes. The tracks range from "36 beautiful songs" which plays like an condensed and intensified version of Fripp and Eno's "An Index of Metals." to the somber "saving grace on an 8 hour connection" which finds the group delving into more traditional melodic structures.
(Public Gulit)
$6
Devilock "These Graves" CD
DEVILLOCK is Justin Chris Meyers on organ, tapes, and electronics. Justin also runs the record and tape label Tone Filth and has other additional musical projects including Panther Skull. Matthew St. Germain (Freedom From record label) plays bass on the first track of These Graves. Mastered by Pete Swanson (D Yellow Swans). Packaged in a two color cd wallet.
(Troniks)
$8
Dielectric Minimalist All-Stars 2xCD
It started with an improv session from Loren Chasse, Jason Levis, and Die Elektrischen. Disc one was composed by Die Elektrischen to be both minimalist and psychdelic. Disc two reinterprets minimalism in a number of ways by a number of diffrent artists. These range from veterans like Sote (sonic death monkies), Carson Day, Gerritt, and Chris Palmatier to exciting new talent like Arastoo and Aemae. Provides a fresh perspective on minimalism. And the art on this one is killer! One of the best translucent paper layouts Ive seen, with metallic ink to boot! Quality.
(Dielectric Records)
$12
Dieter Müh "Stockholm Monsters" LP
An album of prime-Müh headspin recorded live at the Fylkingen in Stockholm back in November 2001. Active in some form or other since 1979, this record captures the duo of Dave Uden & Steve Cammack in better form than their Tesco Org. releases. Great post-industrial experimentation! Includes insert with Swedish text.
(Harbinger Sound)
$15
Dove Yellow Swans "Live During War Crimes" CD
live during war crimes is a collection with the best parts from various older releases, all remastered and edited to work as a new fullenght album. the result is a epic mayhem. 6 songs in about 47 minutes. a industrial wasteland of futuristic electronics, hypnotic feedback assaults and atmospheric drones - a beautiful, yet grim, sonic bliss. the material is taken from the dusk tape (released on jyrk, the bands own imprint), the demonic cdr (hung like a horse) and the drill cdr (snse). everything was recorded live between may and june 2004. Comes packaged in a special dual plover styled fullcolor digipack. cover drawings by devendra banhart.
(Release The Bats)
$10
Envenomist "Abyssal Siege" CD
Horrors from the deep have come to the call!
(PacRec)
$8
Eric Boros/Dave Phillips "021213" CDr
Second edition with a new cover, limited to 70 copies.
(Scrotum Records)
$8
Eric Ostrowski "Magnificent Forest" CD + DVD
Limited edition of 500, CD and DVD combo from Eric Ostrowski (Noggin). DVD has a bunch of experimental films, the CD has 75 minutes of solo violn work. Featured on the dvd are several experimental short films: skull and blackberries, the hummingbird, sidewalkography, the woodpecker, boom chickadee, bumblebee, pink elephant, valentine, and a bunch more. total running time on the dvd is approximately 42 minutes. dvd is ntsc open region. Packaged in hand screened gatefold jackets!
(End Sound)
$16
Evol "Magia Potagia" CD
Evol is a computer music duo formed in 1996 by Roc Jimènez de Cisneros and Anna Ramos in Barcelona. Their recordings and performances explore the many sides of digital noise and algorithmic-driven composition. Harsh and bloody trips along the most extreme path of academic music, putting together sonic brutality, crazy algebra, fractal structures and a slight ironic touch. When they are not working on Evol, they are probably playing Playstation, building Lego robots, trying to run their home-imprint Alku, spreading digital Chindogus from imbecil.net or feeding Perkele, the luckiest chinchilla in Europe.
"Magia Potagia" is a document of the work Evol have been doing within the field of algorithmic composition for the past three years. It features three tracks from two different periods, all of them 100% computer-generated and almost no edited at all, to preserve their fractal nature.
(mego)
$12
Facialmess & Hana Kodama LP
Contrasting LP of Facialmess' brutal noise and Hana Kodama's subtle ambience.
(Cipher Productions)
$22
Fe-Mail and Carlos Giffoni "Northern Stains" CD
Northern Stains is the result of a collaboration between experimental phenomenon Carlos Giffoni and Spunk/Fe-Mail members Maja Ratkje & Hild Tafjord. This trio finally met when Giffoni booked Fe-Mail to headline the sunday night of his genere defining Brooklyn based 3 day No Fun Festival in 2005. Early in 2006 Giffoni boarded a flight to Norway and Northern Stains was born in Spunk's Oslo studio.
(important)
$12
Fire in the Head / Hum of the Druid split LP
Split LP featuring artwork by Nick Blinko.
(Cipher Productions)
$15
Fire in the Head "The Remedy Has Become the Affliction" CD
The Remedy Has Become The Affliction is a document of delusion in the guise of salvation, of lies that become truth, of blind faith and abject failure, of the tormented and the torturer and of the nightmare of "being". T.R.H.B.T.A. is the carrion we collectively accept and ingest as reality, a dirty needle in the neck of an abjectly complacent society and a further descent into the bowels of unmitigated psychosis.
The disc contains remix/reconstructions by Guilty Connector and Hum Of The Druid while the cover and interior of the digipak features original artwork created specifically for this release by Gee Vaucher of Crass. Limited to 300.
(NCC)
$10
Flash*Ram "Wet-Ware Overload" CDr
Ah, yes! More quality digital noise from Flash*Ram! Digital noise to fry yr brain! This one is harsh and brutal as all get out! Comes packaged in handmade sleeve in a ultra limited edition of 20! Act now!
(Flash*Ram)
$4
Flash*Ram "All Mistakes On Purpose" CDr
Ultra limited edition of 15 packaged in handmade sleeves. The only description we can give for this one is "Oops!".
(Flash*Ram)
$4
Flatline Construct "Pound for Pound" tape
Flatline Construct casette tape.
(Nurse Etiquette)
$6
V/A Francisco Lopez's "Absolute Noise Ensemble" 2xCD
Francisco López's absolute noise ensemble 2CD set featuring: alain wergifosse, albert mestre, antón ignorant, carlos medina, césar góngora, christian dergarabedian, daniel menche, ferrán fages, francisco lópez, games addiction, ilios, io casino, joe colley, jorge haro, koji asano, masami akita, mego laptop orchestra, michael gendreau, michael northam, oren ambarchi, philippe faujas, roc jiménez, ruben garcía, russell haswell, shunichiro okada, víctor nubla, zbigniew karkowski, zipperspy, alan courtis, amy denio, antonio garcía, audiopeste, bernhard günter, don campau, elliott sharp, eric muhs, frank koustrup, geoff dugan, gonçalo falcâo, john hegre, john hudak, john wiggins, jon tulchin, jorge mancini, jørgen teller, lasse marhaug, ludovic poulet, mason jones, mike honeycutt, minuit, oren ambarchi, ralf wehowsky, reznicek, scott konzelmann, stephen fenton, steve peters, tetsuo furudate, wojciek. Deluxe gatefold packaging.
(Blossoming Noise)
$12
Friendly Bears/Infidel? Castro! split 12"
A face off between two of New York City's finest, yet criminally unknown, groups of head rolling subway dementia. Friendly Bears take the long side with 4 songs of juttering, hypnotically repetitive obtuseness. Jarring yet unabrasive, and smoothed over totally by that cool and tax dollar collected trumpet playing by Mr. Tim Barnes, formerly of Candidria. A serious sweatshop workout by these up and comers and their debut release with hopefully much more to come.
Infidel go dark red and polarize your memories of th' Bears spider web sensibilities in a demonstrative, God-like way. Cut up harshness filled with more off-sampling than the last three Matmos albums. This side'll make your neighbors think your parents never treated your right. A remix and combination of both their past album "Case Studies In Bioentropy" and their forth coming full length "Bioentropic Damage Fractal." Musique Concrete meets abstract metal? This is the violence of hygiene. Limited to 350 copies!
(epicene)
$10
Frode Gjerstad/Lasse Marhaug "Red Edge" CD
From label:oh man. must be that these norwegeians get bored out of their minds inwinter. something keeps them rocking out an insane number of releases.
these two boys have joined forces before, but that doesn't mean you've heard anything like this. gjerstad unleashes free noise flotation saxophone licks from somewhere between his lips and his lungs. marhaug backs him up with electronics that range from glitch-like to to lo-fi to just straight rumbling. he manages to run all over the place, but frode's overpowering sax (and his consistency with it) keeps him in line.
co-released with carbon, sunship and breathmint. first gameboy disc to come all shrinkwrapped and fancy-like. it even has an anti-theft device so if you try and lift it from the virgin megastore, you are so busted.
(Gameboy)
$8
Fun From None "Live at the No Fun Fest 2004-2005" DVD
Brooklyn in the year 2004 saw a meeting of the most unlikely minds. All the party wreckers of civilization that have been rattling in the closet for the 80's and 90's recording and performing that thing that is called "noise" and quietly drew close circle for a true oddity - a summit of some of the HI NRG soundmakers using every instrument within reach.
You hold in your hands a document of this strange thing. An open window in culture has allowed you to see this trade convention. The trade this convention is busking, you ask? the business of making human minds wrap themselves around furrowed brow sweat soaked oscillator operation, lap top foppery, cutlery amplification, guitar strangulation, and every other way to physically move air to the ear you can imagine. This is a DVD document of crazed live actions of sound pirates doing a log clog of frequency jam well outside the regular FM beamed crap that pollutes this stuffed melon hellhole: Battleship Earth. What are you waiting for, suit up.
Track listing:
to live and shave in LA,
alan licht's 1970,
kim g and the sweetride,
giffoni/nyoukis,
wolf eyes,
hair police,
nautical almanac,
double leopards,
ranaldo/hooker/miller,
prurient,
magik markers,
giffoni death unit,
jazzkamer,
heathen shame,
dead machines,
mouthus,
nihilist assault group,
16 bitch pileup,
monotract,
macronympha,
borbetomagus.
(Load)
$19
V/A Funeral Songs CD
1. RAISON D'ETRE - Procession,2. TERTIUM NON DATA - The End of Hunger,3. AMBER ASYLUM - I Saw You Fall,4. AGNIVOLOK - Pannoczka,5. C17H19NO3 - Burning,6. SHINJUKU THIEF - The Procession of Souls,7. RAISON D'ETRE - Forgotten Mound,8. ALIO DIE - Little Pain,9. GRUNTSPLATTER - A Day In August,10. DREAMS IN EXILE - My Queen,11. NASOPHARYNGEAL - A Funeral Dirge for B.R.,12. CHAOS AS SHELTER - Night Cortage,13. HOUSE OF LOW CULTURE - Edward,14. 27 - Matera.
(Crowd Control Activities)
$12
GX Jupitter-Larsen "Expanded Slam" 10"
"Expanded Slam" and "Extended Slam", two new compositions by one of America's most consistently explorative and radical artists. Presented in a blazing gatefold package designed by Jupitter-Larsen, including an essay on the permawave, the polywave and the hoopla. Utterly delightful. Edition of 500 copies.
(Hronir)
$20
G-Park "Reuters" LP
Latest work by swiss artist Marc Zeier presents 9 musique concrete compositions based on ice, wind, plankton, a whip, a bow, a suitcase, and other recordings made in the last few years, reminiscent of his 90's albums 'Seismogramm' on Schimpfluch and 'Yack Park' and 'Geopod' on Zabriskie Point.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$22
Gal "Relisten" CD
The work of Austrian sound artist Bernhard Gal is concerned with the discovery (as opposed to the imposition) of musical structures within the nuances of everyday life. The stammering in the spaces of spoken language, the ubiquitous noise of urban environments, the steady stream of buzzes and whirrs that are a byproduct of mass transportation, all become subjects examined under Gal's extraordinarily precise microscope. He explores ideas about time and language, extrapolating and enlarging and repeating the often overlooked details and minutiae until their inherent sonic beauty supersedes their typical mundane habitat.
Following last year's critically acclaimed "Defragmentation/Blue" CD (Plate Lunch, GER), Relisten is Gal's first domestic US album. Each of the six tracks is its own self-contained piece, spurred by some personal association to the composer. However, taken all together, one can travel by sound from New York City (where Gal spent a year's residency at the Leo Baeck Institute) to the subways of Vienna and beyond. The piece lv, nv uses adaptive filters to uncover hidden musical elements always present at a Vegas casino. Another, Tong-hua yie-shi could be described as real-time musique concrete, created by walking through a Taiwanese night market equipped with a stereo microphone, DAT, and headphones.
"Relisten operates between the world's soundscapes and their detachment from context", says Gal. "The personal discovery of music within nature as well as within the routines of everyday life keeps fascinating me. Sometimes I return to a certain place only to record its sound."
Howard Stelzer (Intransitive Recordings, Boston)
(Intransitive)
$12
Galax "Never Ending Space Trackin" CD
3 extended freeform space freakouts from my friend hiroshi hasegawa (cccc, astral traveling unity, astro) on synth and ring modulator and keichi miyashita (mandog) on guitar and tape echo with a 1 track guest from hiroshi higashi (acid mother temple) synth. All live content from mid to late 2006 in japan.
(Archive)
$10
Gate To Gate "I Turn Black Keys" CD
Confused like a two-headed snake trying to bite its own non-existant tail, Gate to Gate churn through gross tones, bass shudder and worst of all - vocals - with exactly the maladroit precision you'd expect from such a beast. This release presents one new 38 minute mess of blackened clatter and clunk, as well as collects their two extremely limited cassettes BANE and HOUSE WITH THE CLOCK IN ITS WALLS in remastered form. Heavy-handed and heavy-footed industrial noise by all accounts. from the blackened minds of Greh (Hive Mind, Chondritic Sound) and Mike Connelly (Hair Police, Wolf Eyes, Gods of Tundra). nearly 80 minutes of PURE SLUDGE.
(Troniks)
$8
Gerritt "...sails the sea of displacement" 12 inch
A dark and murky tale of higher dimensional travels and communications. Comes packaged in killer orange Dielectric sleeve. Limited edition of 500! Highly recommended.
Aquarius records review->While traces of his industiral noise side occasionally surface, this is a way more subtle and creepy beast. Percussive clatter sounding like pipe fights and rushing water, gurgling and bubbling, hissing static, and throbbing crunch are stretched and spread out over a dark and spare soundscape. Very haunting and disorienting. Creepy, squealing clanks and clunks, horroscapes of high-end creaks and indescribable knocks and bumps, coalesce into lugubrious non-rhythms, culminating in the epic final track that is more empty nothingness than anything requiring close listening and evoking dark musty hallways, lonely dirt paths, and all sorts of unspeakable darkness.
(Dielectric Records)
$4
Goatvargr "s/t" CD
A harsh journey of sound structures summoned from the deepest caverns of Hell by the scene's most prolific madmen, Nordvargr (SE) and Goat (USA). Working with each other's source material, they offer up a brutal and violent masterpiece. Not just a head on noise album, but a refined symphony of bestial lust, worship and violence. Goatvargr is an assault on the senses, appealing to both the metal and noise scenes (for fans of MZ.412).
(Cold Spring)
$8
Government Alpha "Venomous Cumulus Cloud" CD
Long-running Japanese noise legend Government Alpha returns with his newest sci-fi odyssey, a cataclysmic adventure of volcanic blazes and time machine blasts. A six track, forty minute barrage of extremely loud electronics. Tip! Edition of 1,000.
(Troniks)
$8
Gruntsplatter "Chronicling the Famine" CD
The second release on Desolation House comes from Gruntsplatter, who have found a comfortable balance between Dark Ambient and the more violent side of Industrial/Noise music. Recommended for fans of Brighter Death Now, atrax morgue, cold meat industry, etc... Comes packaged in super slick digipak, released in a limited edition of 1000.
(Desolation House)
$10
Gruntsplatter "The Death Fires" CD
Soot choked atmospherics,
splintered frequencies & rhythmic subtlty gurgle in rotten sockets and drift down
untouched crevasses in the stale earth to a primal place of instinctual violence and
visceral fear, where intellect is abandoned in the face of a saturating unknown. "The
Death Fires" is a delicately vicious and highly personal pilgrimage seeking the
essence of expiration.
(Crowd Control Activities)
$10
Gruntsplatter "Pest Maiden" CD
GRIM, OPPRESSIVE deathscrapes, haunting atmospheres, impending doom, hypnotic rough edges and obsessively constructed heavy electronics that detail the plague devastation. Originally released as a 7-inch and cassette on Troniks (1999). Remastered by Thomas Garrison (Control) for your ultimate death trip.
(Troniks)
$8
Guilty Connector "Mother's Bloated Corpse" CD
Killer full length Cd from Guilty Connector. This CD compiles hard to get GC tracks from various out of print splits, and compilations! Brutal noise! Recommended!
(Utsu Tapes)
$8
GX Jupitter-Larsen "Cinema Noise" DVD
"GX-Jupitter-Larsen's first use of the camera was a 1979 piece in which he smashed up several videos by hitting them with a video camera. From 1982 to 1986 GX submitted a silent blank video to over forty video festivals. It was screened in nine. This DVD features ten of GX's videos (1983-2006) which filter a lexicon of recurring themes through a spectrum of movie motifs and narrative strategies. You'll see skiers stop to build an empty hole in the snow, nomadic bikers debating the polywave, a spy being led from one mysterious note to another, lesbian vampires working on their garlic farm and a visitation that gives a professor the inspiration to invent a gadget that transforms lives. What you'll hear is pure noise, most of which is derived from amplified erosion."
(Troniks)
$12
Haino/Null "Mamono" CD
Collaborative studio album from Keji Haino of the legendary FUSHITSUSHA & KK Null the man behind ZENI GEVA. Limited to 1000 copies beautifuly printed with vegetable based inks using both traditional letterpress & offset printing methods on custom black folders.
(Blossoming Noise)
$10
Hair Police "Prescribed Burning" LP
arising from the smoldering ashes of early morning fallout settles six reverberated blackened altars settled in the embers of industrial noise. slow motion feedback dissolve and dance macabre with raped guitar entanglement and roving percussive loops. scathing hard noise eruptions like drool through the hounds teeth that hold tight and lets loose the bizarre ordeal that is hair police. prescribed burning worships wet atmosphere and tape cut obsessive noise with raw chaos! always away from the pack yet defines the cult.
Limited to 600 copies with the traditional silk screened 2 sided fold out cover.
(Hospital Productions)
$16
Hair Police "The Empty Quarter" LP
New 2007 recordings from the Beatty/Tremaine/Connelly trio. Limited LP version.
(Trouble Man)
$14
Hair Police "The Empty Quarter" CD
"New 2007 recordings from the Beatty/Tremaine/Connelly trio. Digipack. 1000 copies." Recorded in Ypsilanti, MI, Jan/March 2007. Killer!
(Harbinger Sound)
$11
Hair Police "S/T" CD
basement noise dirge death skuzz hell. compiles the long out of print hospital cassette and mortuary servants ep while adding new exclusive mud/noise constructions from the drawn dead sessions.
(Hospital Productions)
$8
Hair Police / Vicki split LP
Split LP by Hair Police and Vicki.
(SNSE)
$12
Hans Grusel's Krankin Kabinet/Diatric Puds & The Blobbettes split CDr
A split from these 2 Bay Area Classics!
(a cold duck production)
$6
Heavy Seals "Jazz Bust" CD
Xeaxx Xeaxx (pronounced "Heavy Seals") is a group consisting of: Brace Paine (The Gossip / Die Monitr Batss) + John Wiese (Sissy Spacek).
Xeaxx Xeaxx play music like Magic Johnson plays Basketball (very rarely & coughing & sweating alot while doing so). John Wiese plays dolley, forks, shampoo bottle, shower, comb & Brace Paine plays the guitar, the lips, hair straightener, blowdryer, glass of milk & one nacho cheese dorito.
Xeaxx Xeaxx is NOT musique concrete! They are the musical equivalent of cum covered sheets. Xeaxx Xeaxx are NOT experimental noise they are sexy temperamental boys. Xeaxx Xeaxx are NOT punk avante-garde men of the night they are the funk version of vanna whites hard boyfriend, who is also a knight.
The Xeaxx Xeaxx have found great influence in womens haircuts, Yoko Onos fingertips, Brace Paines fathers ability to fix a car & kill two deers in one day, John Wieses' video collection & John Wieses' girlfriend ("I hope they are very happy together and maybe one day they will get married. I have never met her but i'm sure she is a delightful girl & if she makes John happy then that is good enough for me. Congratulations John! Can i be the best man? I promise i wont lose the ring, but if i do i will buy a new one i swear! As long as it isnt more than $4,000!! JUST KIDDING MAN I LOVE YOU, SERIOUSLY!!!" -Brace Paine).
(Troniks)
$8
Hecker "Live @ WDR" tape
Produced and performed by Florian Hecker. Recorded live at WDR Mehrzweck-Sendestudio, Cologne 26.09.2007. Edition of 200 Copies. Pro-duplicated & printed 60 minute cassettes with luxurious embossed silver-foil print cover.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$13
Hijokaidan "Polar Nights Live" CD
Hijokaidan has since 1979 been one of the leading voices in Japanese noise music. Starting out with a broad line-up of performers, eventually in the course of the 80-ies the Hijokaidan sound became easily identifiable with the shredding guitar-sound of band-leader Jojo Hiroshige and the high-pitched piercing voice of Junko. Few noise acts have such an instantly recognizable (and intense) sound.
Although Hijokaidan's status as noise superstars they rarely perform outside Japan. The pleasure was then ever greater for the All Ears festival in Oslo Norway to present Hijokaidan at their festival in january 2006. Polar Nights Live documents these historical and astonishing performances.
Jojo and Junko performed as a Hijokaidan two-piece on the opening night of the festival, a rarely heard line-up. Their performance got such a tremendous response that they came back for an encore (Otomo Yoshihide, longtime Hijokaidan fan who also performed at the festival, proclaimed "Incredible! Hijokaidan never does encores!"). The second night Jojo collaborated with guitarist Per Gisle Galåen (DEL, The Birds), unleashing thick layers of psychedelic and distorted guitar fog, which fans of of Fushitsusha, Les Rallizes Denudes and Jojo's non-Hijokaidan work will appreciate. The final night saw Junko hooking up with noise-nik Sten Ove Toft (Ryfylke) for a hellish meltdown of twisted electronics and the most intense voice in music.
Unlike most other noise acts Hijokaidan has not spoiled their fans with a huge number of releases, which makes Polar Nights Live an even more unique statement of pure noise sound.
(Pica Disk)
$15
Hive Mind "Cast Through Shallow Earth" LP
Synth music for the exploration of desolated lands, slow and detailed side long movements of pure tonal sound. after millions of years when everything has withered away and nothing survives what will remain in this earth? minerals, boiling lava, smoke, and corrosion in a shallow earth.Limited edition of 400 copies.
(No Fun)
$16
Hive Mind "Sand Beasts" CD
One 38 minute burnt offering laid to smolder on damp grave soil. electronic throbs like searchlights revealing rotten creatures clawing at the muddy earth. first release featuring a two person hive mind lineup (shawn of sirkut electronics and greh of chondritic sound/gate to gate/black sand desert/cleanse/etc).
(Troniks)
$8
Hive Mind & John Wiese "Trick Satanism" 10"
Heavy sessions from a spooked space collab recorded in at TERROR HOUSE in late Summer 2004 used as source sounds reprocessed by wiese to merge this mutant. heavy-duty staring contest. pro-printed full color cover art by john olson (american tapes/wolf eyes/dead machines/etc). it's exactly what you think it is... limited edition of 555.
(Chondritic)
$10
Honed Bastion CD
Awesome new project from Nick Dead/Bird! Killer creeper style, really fucking good!
(seizure palace)
$10
Imagho & Ultra Milkmaids "By Mail..." CD
Really cool collaboration disc that was made via mail exchange. Released in Japan.
(SSSM)
$10
Incapacitants "Burning Orange" CD
Incapacitants needs no introduction; the duo of fumio kosakai and t.mikawa; veterans and originators of japanese noise music; cult band number one for noise fanatics worldwide; a band whose infamous status as the best live noise act ever has continued to grow over the years because the duo almost never plays outside of japan.
in january 2007 incapacitants performed live, for the second time in europe in 25 years, at the all ears festival in oslo norway for an overly enthusiastic audience (people from all around europe had travelled to see their heroes). the band later described the two shows as highlights of their career.
burning orange documents these concerts. the cd consists of two complete sets; one incapacitants as a duo and on the second joined by finnish noise-connoisseur tommi keränen (testicle hazard) as a trio under the name of fumio tommiakawa (a take on gomikawa fumio; the trio of pain jerk and incapacitants).
the sound of incapacitants is described in the liner notes of burning orange by tommi keränen as "an inspiring, pure, all-encompassing, ecstatic storm of sound that has a power of near-religious proportions – and that alone, without any unnecessary gimmicks". that celebratory ecstasy certainly comes across on burning orange, of which keränen also handled the post-production under the supervision of mikawa.
(Pica Disk)
$15
Incapacitants/Sewer Election LP
this track by the Incapacitants was originally intended for a compilation on Lasse Marhaug’s Jazzassin label a few years back. For some reason this never appeared and we thankfully got this in our shaky but amused hands. So, what did we get? A weak an’ol’ Japanese couple bursting out with a singalong? HELL NO. This is a trustworthy show-off in approach. The standard trademark frenetic vocals, yes. An intense organic and thick pile of nonsensical bodymassage from start to end, yes. Fuck it, the pure energetic electronic sound of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai remains unrivalled to this day and you can never get enough wiping out your state of being.
Dan Johansson, the man behind the moniker Sewer Election has gained quite a lot of attention in the noise community the last years. Perhaps not for reinventing the genre (who’s interested in that anyway?) but fittingly licking the balls of frustration forward into perfection. This particular track shows a continuation of his latter day style = a monotonous noise wall intertwined with serious brainmelting stasis, skipping the intense cut-up style of the early days altogether. As fine as a bottle of Bäska Droppar, rippled with metamphetamine from the gutter.
Oh, let’s not forget the Usual Unnecessary Information Section: First intended as a split 10”, however we all agreed the extreme nature of these sounds demanded nothing less than a 12” vinyl on 45 rpm for a maximum quality experience. Color covers, 500 copies pressed. Enjoy!
(Segerhuva)
$17
v/a "International Compilation" CD-R (Volume 1)
Tracks from: CD Slopper, Osaka Bondage, Astro, Japussy 2000, #/Tau, I.D., Technoise, Pita, Thirdorgan, Russell Haswell.
(Alienation)
$9
v/a "International Compilation" CD-R (Volume 2)
Tracks from: Zbigniew Karkowski, Evil Moisture, Owstone 2001, Alienlovers in Amagasaki, Flutter, Contagious Orgasm, Warmdesk, CGC, I.D., Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock, Pimmon, Pita, Beatyon.
(Alienation)
$9
v/a "International Compilation" CD-R (Volume 4)
Tracks from: Masayuki Akamatsu, Damion Romero, Phroq, PheromonsterDISK, Messeir31, EVOL, Powerbooks for Peace, Disinfectant Automovil, PXP, Thirdorgan, Team Doyobi, Fragnist.
(Alienation)
$9
v/a Intransitive Twenty-Three 2xCD
Awesome double disc comp! Tracks from: (disc one) Birchville Cat Motel, Thomas Ankersmit, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Hideaki Shimada, Giuseppe Ielasi, Artificial Memory Trace, Frans De Waard, Atau Tanaka, Le Quan Ninh, Olivia Block. (disc two) Animist Orchestra, Nerve Net Noise, Eric La Casa, Gal, Alexandre St. Onge, Haco/View Masters, Magali Babin, Jonathan Coleclough & Colin Potter, Nmperign, Lethe, Francisco Lopez.
(Intransitive)
$12
James Twig Harper "Intuitive American Esoteric Vol. 2" LP
The second in this series of one-sided, hand-cut (here with an incredible image) 12-inches from NAUTICAL ALMANAC's JAMES "TWIG" HARPER. Direct metal mastered.
(a bunch of labels)
$15
v/a "Japanoise" CD
Some of the most riveting hypnotic noise ever heard from these Japanese artists. I assure you, your collection is not complete without these tracks. Tracks from:Pain Jerk, K2, C.C.C.C., Melt-Banana, KK Null, MSBR, Masonna, Incapacitants,MO-TE, Government Alpha. Essential!
(Little Mafia)
$10
Jazzkammer "Panic" CD
With great power comes great responsibility, and nobody knows this better than the Norwegians. With Oil reserves and government surpluses to set teeth gnashing in jealousy across Europe they certainly have the power bit sorted, but responsibility? Well they’ve already given us Black Metal, and now they seem to be quite happy making ear crushing noise, with Lasse Marhaug at the forefront – distortion pedal in hand. Apparently the ‘theme’ of this particular recording is urban degradation and decomposition - something which is also illustrated beautifully inside the cd booklet, but Jazzkammer's duo of Marhaug and fellow noisy Norwegian John Hegre take hold of their trusty guitars to explore these themes with a gutsy vibe that's hard to describe. Their last album, the utterly stunning ‘Metal Machine Music’ took their sound into devastating new directions, and ‘Panic’ feels like a logical continuation, providing us with crushing drones and feedback that should be patented with the Norwegian flag attached. With the glorious droning bass-heavy doom of Sunn O))) in mind, the two musicians battle their way through one gigantic 35 minute piece, battling with their axes, layering field recordings, drones and sheets of white noise. Surprisingly much of this disc is quite warmingly ‘ambient’ for want of a better word, with nods to romantic guitar dronesters Stars of the Lid, but mid-way through the distortion erupts like Mount Etna laying waste to countless eardrums in the process. Like the soundtrack to a melancholy documentary about the decline of modern society, this gives us a deep emotional core but also a strong narrative laced with despair and unease. ‘Panic’ is a simply huge release from two of Norway’s most gifted sons.
(Bottrop Boy)
$19
Jazzkammer "Pulse" CD
Jazzkammer are Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre from Norway. Together they have been making music as Jazzkammer since 1998. Past releases include Timex, Rolex (a remix album), Pancakes and a live album with Merzbow. Jazzkammer are relentless sound explorers with no set style or specific 'sound' -- they move swiftly from hardcore overload electronics and sonic freakouts to lowercase soundscapes and location recordings. Once described as 'sonic architects', Marhaug and Hegre insist they are merely trying to make 'good music'. Pulse was recorded in Singapore during the SARS-crisis in April of 2003. It was inspired by a theatre piece of the same title that they were working on at the same time, though the music on the CD does not resemble that of the play. The album Pulse is a single beautiful 32-minute piece; its basic structure is a drifting electronic drone that slowly unfolds and mutates, with subtle layers of location recordings and vinyl-static adding color and depth. Like last year's Pancakes, Pulse has a cinematic feel to it, a feeling that is further enhanced by the photos of acclaimed photographer Yuen Chee Wai that grace the cover and 12-page booklet.
(Bottrop Boy)
$19
Jazkamer "Metal Music Machine" CD
The latest from Norwegian noise king LASSE MARHAUG and JOHN HERGE of KAPTEIN KALIBER as JAZKAMER (formerly JAZZKAMMER). Turning their focus toward heavy metal, the duo with the aid of JORGEN (SIR DUPERMANN) TRAEN of TOY, IVAR BJORNSON of ENSLAVED and IVER SANDOY and OLAV KRISTISETER of MANNGARD, push the boundaries of metal to new extremes. Packaged with artwork by SAVAGE PENCIL.
(Smalltown Supernoise)
$17
Jazzkamer & Howard Stelzer "Tomorrow No One Will Be Safe" CD
Ever wonder what would happen if two Norwegian Noisemen travelled across the USA with an obsessed tape improviser? Tomorrow No One Will Be Safe documents the 2004 Jazzkammer / Howard Stelzer US tour, featuring a track each (Jazzkammer: Richmond, Virginia / Stelzer: Columbus, Ohio), as well as a collosal collaboration between the two (Bloomington, Indiana). Live compositions of space & silence punctuated with feedback screech and tape squeals, always threatening to self destruct but somehow maintaining its sense of tense exploration. Edition of 500.
(Troniks)
$8
Joe Colley "Hive" 3" CD
Source sounds from beehive, recorded 2003 Placer County, California using condenser, stereo contact and hive embedded contact mircophones.
Raw unprocessed recordings, equalization, playback through cymbals, metal surface and Korg MS20 analog synthesizer.
(Ferns)
$8
John Wiese "Circle Snare" CD
Consider "Circle Snare" a hard-wrought souvenir. Composed and realized in the midst of a comprehensive Scandinavian/European tour in 2008, John Wiese found himself tangled deep in dialogue with his instruments and ideas. Wiese increasingly scrutinized his native tongue and vocabulary, seeking new forms of grammar and cadence, as only extensive dives in unfamiliar waters can inspire. His given electronic anatomy of drum machine, microphones, tapes, and MSP folded out of their hard accustomed formations, breaking out into a more cogent and vital arsenal. "Circle Snare" is the cumulative result -- a finely detailed and dimensional evolution of an already unique voice. Those who have been stalking Wiese all along -- through the landmark statement "Soft Punk," to the recent "Dramatic Accessories" LP -- will find "Circle Snare" to be a revelatory work. As Wiese continues to travel and work relentlessly and restlessly, we have no choice but to keep up; the circle is a spiral from the side, and the greatest trap is standing still.
(No Fun Productions)
$10
John Wiese "Soft Punk" CD
After almost ten years of performing solo and over fifty releases in every conceivable format, John Weisse finally unleashes his debut full-length. Soft Punk is thirteen songs of harsh yet beautiful soundscapes that explore the realm of piercing cut and paste assemblage and harsh noise. Wiese has been called a "master in his field" (Pitchfork), and "groundbreaking artist" (Dusted) and has played art galleries and installations throughout the world as well as tours with Sonic Youth, Sunn and Wolf Eyes.
Wiese has been working toward this goal for almost ten years and the results are staggering.
(Troubleman Unlimited)
$10
John Wiese "Soft Punk" LP
After almost ten years of performing solo and over fifty releases in every conceivable format, John Weisse finally unleashes his debut full-length. Soft Punk is thirteen songs of harsh yet beautiful soundscapes that explore the realm of piercing cut and paste assemblage and harsh noise. Wiese has been called a "master in his field" (Pitchfork), and "groundbreaking artist" (Dusted) and has played art galleries and installations throughout the world as well as tours with Sonic Youth, Sunn and Wolf Eyes.
Wiese has been working toward this goal for almost ten years and the results are staggering.
(Troubleman Unlimited)
$12
John Wiese "Arrhythmia Wave Burst and Panner Crash" 3 inch CD
Incredible JW 3 inch CD that consists of live sets he did in 2004 opening up for Sonic Youth, SunnO))), and the Haters. Your face will melt and then explode, just as the audience's did! Limited editon of 500.
(Helicopter)
$8
John Wiese "Black Magic Pond" CD
JOHN WIESE (SISSY SPACEK, BASTARD NOISE, et al.) returns with a compounded recycling report from the East Coast and his debut solo outing on Blossoming Noise, following LHD’s release Young & Restless. In Wiese’s output, Black Magic Pond sits somewhere between the density of his Arrhythmia Wave Burst and Panner Crash, but working within the same conceptual framework of his recycling trilogy Magical Crystal Blah.
(Blossoming Noise)
$10
John Wiese "Magical Crystal Blah Vol.2" CD
Back by popular demand! Totally awesome compilation of artists remixing material from John Wiese's MCB Vol.1 CD. Remixers are: Gerritt, KK Null, Christian Renou, Mike Shiflet, Panicsville, Raionbashi, Freiband, Damion Romero, RLW, Zbigniew, Karkowski, and Joe Colley! Limited edition of 500.
(helicopter)
$8
John Wiese "Teenage Hallucination:1992-1999" CD
Teenage Hallucination is a compendium of Wiese's initial recordings as a teenager to his seminal early vinyl appearances. From pure analog bedroom havoc to intense cut-up harsh noise blasts, Wiese steadily developed his highly personal and specific style of extreme music while trying to survive the St. Louis experience.
52 tracks in nearly 80 minutes of the best material from his Catwoman 7", split LP with The Haters, split 5" with Panicsville, collaborative tracks with GX Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters) and Corydon Ronnau (Sissy Spacek), and featuring many completely unreleased and unheard tracks of isolated midwest basement obscurity.
Full liner notes by T.Mikawa (Incapacitants/ Hijokaidan) and Seymour Glass (Bananafish). Limited to 1,000 copies.
(Troniks)
$8
John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh "New York / Atlanta" CD
Document of what Wiese and Yeh (of Burning Star Core) considered the two best sets of their 2007 tour. Combinations of warped electronics, low-level machine crackle, fully-collapsed drones, strangulated sound poetry, deconstructed violin blurts and hallucinatory electro-acoustic environs.
(Helicopter)
$10
John Wiese + Daniel Menche "Behold the Scathing Light" 3" CD
Killer collabortaion between these two noise giants! Menche has been holding it down in Portland for years. John is half of Bastard Noise and part of Sissy Spacek. This one is a 3 inch CD, but with the clear part around the disc so its actully 5 inchs and can play in most CD players. Packaged in slim jewelcase with awesome full color insert! You need this!
(Helicopter)
$8
Josh Lay "Heirophant" CDr
Josh Lay’s Heirophant is an intense listening experience. Filled with growling, regurgitating drones that tear your speakers into shards. Also features a collaborative track between Josh and Nicholas Szczepanik!
(Sentient Recognition Archive)
$10
Juhyo "Mesothesis" CDr
Formed in the depths of a snow-choked Minnesota winter, Juhyo brings together the boxed-in mechanical crush of Surrounded with the dark soundscapes of Oblong Box for a rolling avalanche of icy, desolate noise. Hand-inked disc in digipack with three inserts, limited to 100 copies.
(Housepig)
$5
Junko Urabe Henritzi "Ecstacy of the Angels" CD
The formidable trio recorded live. Michel Henritzi creates bleak, fractured landscapes with snare drum, wood and metal junk, turntable and feedback. Cult favorite Masayoshi Urabe adds uneasy atmosphere with alto sax and guitar. The banshee vocals of Junko bring almost undescribable dread to the mix.
(Opposite Records)
$10
Junko & Mattin LP
Second studio collaboration by Junko Hiroshige of Hijokaidan (Voice) and basque Computer-Actor Mattin. Two Pieces 'Stop It' and 'Too Late' recorded in Tokyo at Waseda Studios and Loop-Line by Taku Unami on July 11-12th 2006. Mastered & cut by Rashad at D+M.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$22
Justice Yeldham "Cicatrix" CD
"Cicatrix" is a four part CD of Lucas Abela's glass to face noise project Justice Yeldham. Part one is Yeldham's first studio effort, 2 is 'digital soundchecks' segments of soundcheck from his one and only tour where he digitally manipulated his glass tunes, part 3 is live tracks and part 4 is a video segment that youtube.com rejected 'contents inappropriate'. The cd comes house in a deluxe card pouch with a 24 page booklet of photos of Lucas performing around the world.
(Sweatlung)
$12
Ju Suk Reet Meate/Oblivia/Sixes/Sharkiface/Loachfillet "Dr. Octopuss Parts 1 & 2" LP
Insane collaboration between members of Smegma and Sixes and Loachfillet and Sharkiface! Associated with the 1800's Memorial Band.
(Fish Pies)
$12
Kenneth Atchley "Fountains" CD Lionel Marchetti "Sirrus" CD
"Long time sound installation artist from San Francisco debuts (finally) with this beautifuly packaged CD. Booklet contains various pictures of the "Fountains" exhibit that was used to make the recording. "These fountains were formalized over a period of 4 years: reading J. Antonio Maravali's The Culture of the Baroque; glossy fashion magazines, British dance journals; books of folds, multiplicities, architecture, the lives and deaths of poets and painters; listening to CDs and radio Handel, various Bachs, F. Couperin, Schubert; all for hours by fountains in the temporary clarity of nicotine, sitting absorbed in the white spray of water, in audience of street opera, traffic, office buildings; deafening sound of patrons and music in overly designed ephemeral restaurants; bass of automobile sound systems doppler along sycamore lined Grand Avenue; rain falling in alley outside my apartment; contemplating Kelly, Rothko and geometry of public spaces; drinking wine slips ! from glass through conversation to fountains down water steps and steep office canyons study and sink into catalogs of monochrome paintings and years torn from elegance and noble materials by speed of blur of noise of mid-air contemplation of The Moment Poised.
Of the Artifice of Stasis: fountains flow from accoustic spaces between compressed crystals and metal, diaphragms and water, vessels and pumps, airless circuits and field recordings: trashcans, metal tubs, tap water, PVC tubing, over sealant and mats, beneath black polyethylene and waterproof tape, through speakers and headphones at three minutes and ten seconds of track one stereo is a representation of identity; while in discreet channels, identity - though not specificity - subsides and noise becomes this plaza of unnamed and future into a new fountain. This is not of waves, nor ripples on the surface; but on top of that: the foam, the embellishment." -- Kenneth Atchley
(Auscultare)
$10
Kevin Drumm and Daniel Menche "Gauntlet" CD
Adorned with cover art no doubt intended to throw you off the scent (teenage ice skaters by the looks of it, a far cry from 'Satanstornade' is it not) 'Gauntlet' is a single track produced with prolific Portlander Menche on 'organ and noise' and his foil Drumm on 'guitar and noise'. Drumm has spent some time now perfecting his signature tabletop guitar abuse and that has never been more evident than now with fuzzed out guitar lines forging the backbone of the album's opening act. Eventually the plucked arpeggio (which could easily be the opening riff of some 90s metal hit or other...) gets swallowed into the mire of white noise and bending fuzz - something which whether they like it or not reminds me more of My Bloody Valentine than Merzbow. It's no bad thing either and the dense fog of harmonic noise is soon violated by Menche's effected organ, which is expertly mixed to disorientate headphone listeners until an abrupt noisy epiphany is reached at around eleven minutes in, which grows into a soup of electronic dissonance and fractured pink noise. Eventually the noise drops away like an avalanche to reveal Menche's droning organ which carries us mournfully into the piercing final act. What could easily have been an ear pummelling assault into the extremities of aural punishment (for that escapade you should really check Drumm's 'Sheer Hellish Miasma', also on eMego) actually turns out to be a genuinely enjoyable experience, and connoisseurs of the guitar noise genre (Skullflower etc) should find much to bury their heads into here.
(Editions Mego)
$16
Kevin Shields / Rale / Cristopher Cichocki DVD
First in a series of 3" DVD-r singles by Cristopher Cichocki, this split boasts 2 tracks with sonic eruptions courtesy of Los Angeles' Kevin Shields and Rale. With imagery as methodically arranged as the audio it's accompanied by, this single further exemplifies Cichocki's video compositions as a cornerstone in the evolution of avant-garde media.
(Table of Contents)
$9
Killer Bug "Beyond the Valley of the Tapes" 2xCD
Acknowledged as a guiding influence on many of today's noise heavy hitters, Kazumoto Endo's Killer Bug terrorized Japan during the mid '90s, crushing much of the competition and putting him along side such luminaries as Merzbow & Pain Jerk in the TRUE HARSH NOISE field. Remastered from the original tapes, Beyond the Valley... presents over 140 minutes of rare brutality, including the Vaginal Disco cs (originally released on Mother Savage Noise Productions 1995), Brutal Rainbow cs (Noise 1995), Cunt Explosion 7" (Releasing Eskimo 1995), Your Wife is Mine 7" (Self Abuse Records 1995), and MORE. The best noise from 1995 returns to destroy 2005. The ESSENTIAL & FINAL Killer Bug document.
(Troniks/Ninth Circle)
$12
KK.Null "Ergoshere" CD
Ergosphere was recorded live during Kazuyuki Kishino’s (ZENI GEVA, etc.) tour of Russia in late 2005, specifically on his only two solo dates, live at Moscow Palace of Youth in Moscow Russia October 5, 2005 and “Festival Hea Uus Heli” Kanuti Gildi Saal in Tallinn Estonia on October 7, 2005. An uneasy balance of lull and divide.
(Blossoming Noise)
$8
KK Null "ERG per Galaxy" CD
ERG: A measurement of kinetic energy.
A snowflake falling on Earth = 1 erg.
ERG per GALAXY: The total amount of kinetic energy in a galaxy.
Kazuyuki calls this album one of the best works he's ever done.One of the finest works of KK Null's career, here is electronic music created without synthesizers, guitar, or computers. This brings to mind radio transmissions from other planets and electrical storms being shaped by KK's hand. Intensely trance-inducing!
(Opposite Records)
$10
KK Null "Prime Radiant" CD
'Prime Radiant' is noise as a spray of blood-red roses, a vast wash of colour concealing six inch thorns. Kazuyuki Kishino has been at the forefront of the Japanese noise scene for over 20 years, both as guitarist/leader of extremist sludge rockers Zeni Geva and as a solo artist exploring the outer territories of electronica. Along with Masonna and Merzbow, he is part of a trinity of noisemakers whose work seems to operate at the very limits of human endurance. Like theirs, Null's work transcends its surface violence and reveals something rich and strange at its core. What makes this montage of live and studio work marginally less forbidding than usual is its abrupt change of mood and texture; rather than pummelling an idea into the dust, he covers a lot of sonic ground here, albeit a terrain of savagely blasted extremes. Kishino has said that he tries to imagine through his work what music from other galaxies might sound like. If the little green men are all listening to this stuff for fun, 'Prime Radiant' is a scary prospect for sure." - the Wire
(blossoming noise)
$8
KK Null/David Brown "Terminal Hz" CD
David Brown plays acoustic guitar while noise legend KK Null manipulates. Not what you might expect!
(Ground Fault)
$8
Knives "Switchblade Princess" 7"
Final document of the crash & burn/pure hatred duo of Phil Blankenship (The Cherry Point/LHD) & Jon Borges (Pedestrian Deposit). Glass shards of black death for the TROUBLED YOUTH & BLACK MINISKIRT set. lim. 333 copies & going fast. double A side record.
(Troniks)
$4
Lap Dancer "Noise for Skirt Manipulation" CDr
Revolving around pedals, microphones, laptop and found objects, Lap Dancer's "Noise for Skirt Manipulation" strikes with impeccable precision. The 24 minute live improvisation, "Driving on Windy Days," while featuring no overdubbing or editing, blossoms in rich fullness and swirls through shades of varying distortion, continually shifting and mutating are the crescendos and resolutions. The remaining three pieces feature harsh microphone and pedal play and a squealing collage of sharp feedback. In its brevity, “Noise for Skirt Manipulation" smoothly manages to seduce, sedate and strangle the listener.
(Opposite Records)
$8
Lasse Marhaug / John Wiese "LMJW" 7 inch
Beautiful new collaboration between John Wiese and Lasse Marhaug.
Two tracks of harsh and heavy noise for 10 minutes of music, recorded in Oslo in January 2008. Limited edition of 200.
(a dear girl called wendy)
$14
Lasse Marhaug "Bring Me The Head Of Lasse Marhaug" LP
A brand new album from Norwegian laptop specialist LASSE MARHAUG (JAZZKAMMER). Two side-long noise-scape pieces that'll curl your toes while massaging your mind. Beautifully packaged with full-color sleeves--a Peer Pressure Zombie first.
(peer pressure zombie)
$10
Lasse Marhaug "If the Revolution Could Start Right Now" 7"
lasse marhaug has a discography as long as your arm and a list of previous collaborators that would scare the pants off us if they were all in the same room, but that wouldn't matter if he didn't drop the heavy jams. and ketchup cavern number 2 is the heaviest yet! this is a physical record, instead of someone twisting knobs it sounds like someone slapping you around and yelling in your ear for five minutes and five seconds. total radness!
1-sided 7" record, limited to 248 numbered copies.
(Ketchup Cavern)
$6
Lasse Marhaug "Spaghetti Western Rainbow" CD
Killer new Lasse Marhaug CD! Teams up with Keith Fullerton Whitman and packaged in awesome embossed jacket!
(utech)
$13
Lasse Marhaug "The Great Silence" CD
The Great Silence is probably the BEST recording I have ever heard from Lasse. It was recorded in Jørgen Træen's (professional) studio, and it's produced by Golden Serenades (Træen + John Hegre)... While Lasse himself has said that the disc is "as primitive as it gets", I wouldn't really agree... What it is, is a devastatingly PURE display of the finest kind of harsh noise, and yet another in the long line of records showing Marhaug's incredible feeling for vital and living noise. Highest recommendation for this one... fucking ESSENTIAL! -- Tommy Carlsson
(Troniks)
$8
Lasse Marhaug "Problems Solved" CDr
New track from this Jazkammer member very good noise, lim 113, packed in a 12x20 sleeve.
(Scrotum Records)
$8
Le Depeupleur (Zbigniew Karkowski & Kasper T. Toeplitz) "Disambiguation" CD
Third CD by this project of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kasper T Toeplitz. Both musicians use computers, and create electronic sounds - no samples, no found sounds - all pure electronic. Both names are known in Noise circles for their collaborations with artists such as Merzbow, Tetsuo Furudate, C.C.C.C. or Francisco Lopez, to name a few. 'Disambiguation' features on ongoing stream of grey, heavy and disturbing noises, with blocks of solid and almost material sounds and an urgency to the music. Ltd x 500 copies in a card slip case.
(Auf Abwegen)
$12
LHD "Curtains" CD
The duel flameflowers power-up again , this time for a crushing full length! This is highly thought out, extremely harsh noise. Well crafted with love and care in Los Angeles. Highly Recommended!
(pacrec)
$8
LHD "Young and Restless" CD
Sonic dissemination from LA with love. Long lost first album finally sees the blight of day. Over sixteen minutes of LA SMOG TONES. Harsh crust from the hearts of Phil Blankenship (the cherry point) & John Wiese (bastard noise & sissy spacek). CD limited to 1000 copies.
(blossoming noise)
$8
Lionel Marchetti "Sirrus" CD
"Recorded at the age of 22 back in 1989 (but just recently released), "Sirrus" stands as one of the earliest documentations from French musique concrete composer Lionel Marchetti. This is a trilogy based upon abstract interpretations of natural phenomenon using a variety of speaker techniques coupled with musique concrete tape splices. As a whole the album is a decentralised construction, where the various interludes throughout the album appear to hold resemblances to a narrative that continues from point-a to point-b, but are stopped short of reaching a resolution with a harsh edit that leads into another interlude of sound. At times these interludes are wild flanges on analogue electronics, other times they are dense multi-tracked recordings of clattering wood (very much like Xenakis's "Concret PH" with its amplifications of burning charcoal), others are controlled feedback squeallings from microphone and speaker constructions, and others again are eerie drones toppled by bursting noises. Quite complex and powerful, this is easily my favorite composition from Marchetti."
(Auscultare)
$10
Lionel Marchetti & Seijiro Murayama "Hatali Atsalei" CD
For his second Intransitive album, Lionel Marchetti returns to his favorite subject: the modern musique concrete composer as shaman. Amid an atmosphere of heavy mystery and engrossing, sublime confusion, Hatali Atsalei (L’Echange des Yeux) seems to be informed by radio drama, improvisation, and documentary recording. According to Olivier Capparos’ liner notes, the album provides a “rather faithful” experience of Ancient Greek ritual: Hatali Atseli, the exchange of eyes. Marchetti the alchemist takes the listener to the scene of an imaginary sacred rite, drawing us in with hints of narrative, only to throw expectations aside with the slice of razor on tape. Fire, water, wind instruments and percussion are blended with the voice of collaborator Seijiro Murayama to create something which is not quite a representation of ritual, but is a ritual itself that becomes completed by the act of listening.
(Intransitive)
$12
V/A Locked Grooves 2x7 inch
This double seven inch release can best be described as difficult. It was difficult to finish after being shelved for five years while I sorted out my divorce, child custody, and life in general. Finished, it will be a difficult consumer product if you are lucky enough to get one of the 300 hand numbered units.The two singles will come wrapped in a card stock sleeve wonderfully designed by Bri Hermanson and hand screened by Bearded Lady in Austin, TX. The sleeve will be further packaged in a clear plastic sleeve and a bolt will lock everything tight. Once you unbolt the package, all four sides play from the inside out and lock on the outside groove. Many of you will have to trick your turntable into playing them. If you are clever enough to get to the music, your ears will be treated to the stimulating sounds of noise, free jazz, drone, and trance represented within it's grooves.Track listing:
Side A: COCK E.S.P. - Cock VH1
Side B: MASON JONES - If Seeing Is Believing, What Do Your Ears Tell You?
Side C: FELLAHEEN - Brotzmann
Side D: ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - Three Postcards Of Tin Foil Island, Falling...
(Little Mafia)
$8
Lockweld "8 Cuts" LP
Here is the ultimate in specialty vinyl! This is a sawblade shaped record, four tracks on each side documenting an awesome return from Lockweld! Everything you love about them, harsh power tool driven industrial anthems. Recommended.
(NCC)
$12
Lotus Eaters "Wurmwulv." CD
The third record from the LOTUS EATERS. 3 songs recorded between 2000 and 2003 -clocking in at over 50 minutes. Ambient, gutwrenching beauty.The Band: Stephen O'Malley: Khanate, Sunn O))), Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer, etc etc etc
James Plotkin: Atomsmasher/Phantomsmasher, Khanate, OLD, Flux, Namanax, Solarus, Romance, and collaborations with Michael Gira, Mick Harris, Mark Spybey, Brent Gutzeit, and Fenech
Aaron Turner: Isis, Old Man Gloom, House of Low Culture, Hydra Head Records co-owner, etc etc etc.. Packaged in killer dvd digipak with art from Stephen Kasner!
(Troubleman Unlimited)
$14
Lull "Continue" CD
A cavernous soundscape composed of spacious drifts and dense, rumbling drones. This is the fourth full-length from Mick Harris under the Lull moniker. Hypnotic journeys into the abyss...
(Release)
$10
Lull "Moments" CD
99 individual tracks which, when listened to sequentially form one smoothly flowing, though evolving and spooky, atmosphere... or, when subjected to the whims of your CD player's Random/Shuffle mode, the whole is broken into 99 discordant shards. Mick Harris!
(Release)
$10
Machinefabriek "Huiswerk" 7"
the same day i bought a second-hand boss dr. sampler i connected my guitar to it and recorded the basic material for these two 4-minute tracks. less drone, more composed. a bit like my huis ep i guess, that's (partly) why the title hints to that. it's machinefabriek's more playful side.
limited to 500 copies , packaged in a full color offset-printed glue pocket sleeve designed by rutger.
(Ketchup Cavern)
$9
Mammal "Let Me Die" LP
A brand new full-length from Detroit brutalizers MAMMAL, and their first proper new release in two years. Easily the band’s most powerful offering to date, Let Me Die unleashes a dark electronic fury that will leave ears bloody, broken, and begging for more. Six tracks pressed in an edition of 500 copies.
(ADR)
$12
Marc Behrens "Entity Mulheim" 2xDVD
Double DVD release documneting a sound and video installtion done by Behrens in 2005, dealing with the sounds, images and people of one specific urban area in Cologne, Germany. The DVDs are NTSC, region free, with 12 page booklet in german, english and turkish.
(Aufabwegan)
$25
Marc Behrens "Animistic (for Donatella)" CD
Limited edition of 500 copies, CD in DVD case with 7 colour postcards!
Animistic [for Donnatella] [29:52]
Decaying Study 3 [11:30]
On "ANIMISTIC [for Donatella]":
ANIMISTIC [for Donatella], CD album in DVD case with 7 full colour photo cards.
This CD contains two pieces, 'Animistic (for Donatella)' concentrating on mixing location recordings with 'played' objects to obtain a complex soundscape in three parts that is inspired by the idea of an animist understanding of nature. 'Decaying Study 3' on the other hand offers a dense and dynamic drone-like composition built from the generative transformations of two sound files. The cover features 7 full colour cards in a DVD box that show photographs by the artist, complete with liner notes and texts explaining the nature of the location recordings.
Marc Behrens is an artist and designer working in several fields.
He has conceived musical compositions, installations, performances, objects, videos, and design.
Born in Darmstadt, Germany, M. Behrens is a citizen of Konungarikena Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV).
His discography spans releases on such labels as sirr, trente oiseaux, hypnotism, intransitive, wachsender prozess to name but a few. He has collaborated with francesco lopez, paolo raposo, john duncan and others.
(Auf Abwegen)
$15
Masonna with Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock "Clitoris Projectile Pump Action" CD
First published as Tape/Object by Schimpfluch / Coquette in 1995 in an edition of 33 copies. Masonna and R&G Studio and Live-Actions material with guest-appearance by Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) Edited & mixed by Rudolf Eb.er at Schimpfluch-Commune Int., Zürich (Track 1) and Maso Yamazaki at Acty Hanazono, Osaka (Track 2). Remastered by Rudolf Eb.er at Hate Operations, Osaka, 2007. Fullcolour cover & disc. Edition of 600 copies.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$16
Melek-Tha "Evil is Too Strong" CD
Full-length release of ultra evil/satanic compostitions.
(dark vinyl)
$10
Merzbow "Tempi/Matatabi" 2x7"
The drumming on this set of singles is by Masami Akita himself and was recorded way back in 1974 and is in an aggressive free/improv style. The noise is reminiscent of the screeching/howling thunder and lightning of the analogue days of Merzbow. Combined to create a brand-new release. The result is an exhilarating blast of ecstatic overload as drums and noise combine and fight against each other. Double 7" single in gatefold sleeve limited to 300 copies - transparent yellow, orange and green vinyl!
(Dot Dot Dot Music)
$25
Merzbow "Loves Emil Beaulieau" CD
Part of the long running RRRecords "Pure" series. This disc is Merzbow playing tribute to Emil Beaulieau.
(RRR)
$8
Merzbow "Merzzow" CD
MERZZOW combines animal concepts and deconstructions of 20th century music, ambient drones and a deep grinding groove, synth tones and harsh bursts of liquid electricity in a varied and dynamic 70 minutes that is sure to please all you fans. This 11-track CD is even accessible enough that it makes a perfect introduction for your friends who have never heard Merzbow music before.
(Opposite Records)
$10
Merzbow "Venereology" CD
Masami Akita as MERZBOW construsts "music" of the most extreme variety. Using handmade metal tools, an insidiousfeedback system and apocalyptic audio levels, MERZBOW is the final nail in the coffin of the aurally extreme. MERZBOW's Venereology literally destroys the boudaries of extremity, proving once and for allwhy Masami Akita is referred to as the "God of Noise". Heed the warnings!!
(Release)
$10
Merzbow vs. Nordvargr "Partikel II"
The second part of the Partikel trilogy is finally here! Another beautifully constructed collaboration from the two noise giants - Japanoise King Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) and Swedish Lord Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc). The styles on 'Partikel II' range from total noise barrages to more subtle dark ambient pieces. Essential! Presented in a luxurious matt laminate digipack.
(Cold Spring)
$12
Metalux & John Wiese "Exoteric" CD
A brand new collaboration between electronic duo METALUX and sound levitator JOHN WIESE (BASTARD NOISE, SISSY SPACEK). Seven seamless tracks that mix throbbing rhythmic noise with chopped vocals, oscillation wave forms, and groans. For late nights and early mornings.
(Load)
$10
Michael Bernstein & Mike Shiflet "Live, New York" CDr
Synthesizer, laptop and beard power combined for the second time in September, 2006. Invited to play the ErstQuake festival by Joh Abbey & Chris Wolf, Bernstein & Shiflet hit the stage for a set focused solely on modulation and movements, not exactly what the crowd wanted to hear.
CDR edition of 100.
(Gameboy)
$10
Michael Gendreau "Vitoj" CD
Long-time San Francisco based sound artist, internationally known from his extensive discography as Crawling With Tarts, releases his second full- length solo work titled Vitoj.Continuing his microscopic exploration of dense sonic landscapes within volatile stases, Gendreau eavesdrops on pressurized states of compressed gas within hydrogen tanks, diaphanous vinyl recordings of archaic voices, and perilous work environments in the far east.All explored in real-time, this series of recordings further explore the volatile balance of Gendreau's physical and psychological states‹scientific detritus working as an acoustician and social/cultural detritus in everyday nomadic life‹reaching the threshold of exhaustion where his realizations are discovered in modes of "half-sleep." Vitoj offers a glimpse of these stases in dreamlike form.
(Auscultare/Ground Fault)
$10
Michael Roulade "Naem" tape
This is the debut release on Nihilist for M.R. although he has appeared on Panicsville's "Perverse" & "Sterile" cds, as well as designing the artwork for the Imperfection of the Organism LP (SNSE). M.R. is one of the greatest artists of our time, with hundreds (literally) of unreleased albums. The music herein are some of the best examples of collage, electronics, noise & other uncategorizeable sound work. Why then, you may ask, have I never heard of Michael Roulade before?
Well, I feel that the world has not yet been ready for Roulade or his ideas. The text that adorns the inner J card only exemplifies this point.
You will most assuredly be thrilled with this release, as are we, only to be followed up with a forthcoming 10 C-48 boxset further documenting the cryptic creative output of Michael Roulade.
This release is in an edition of 50 copies!
(Nihilist)
$8
Mike Shiflet "Ichinomiya" CD
With simultaneous beauty and isolation, this album isn't a dedication to the my home in rural Japan but rather an attempt to replicate the mindset the village inspires and put the listener in the same headspace. Please listen to the disc in its entirety. Turn everything else off and play loud. - Mike Shiflet
(Troniks)
$8
Ming "Namaste" CDr
1: "Neck Destroyer" (04:03),
2: "Tarnished Mercinaries" (08:05),
3: "Vehicles Bristle" (12:20),
4: "Hate Creations Unravelled In Triumph" (05:25),
5: "Silver Namaste" (07:46).
(Gravity Swarm)
$12
MNEM "No Cosmic Ox" 7"
"Analog electronics, reel-recorders and tape loops."
(negative foundation)
$6
Mnem "For Delta Relics" CD
Super good droning noise from Turku, Finland. Reel-to-reel tapes rotated, recycled, looped, and manipulated analogically. Awesome art by Stephen O'Malley!
(Kaos Kontrol)
$9
Mouthus "S/T" 2xLP
Industrial Psych Rock from Broolyn troglodites of heavyness. Twice the volume, twice the destruction, twice the machinery, twice the head ache of psychedelic industrial joy! Play it at whatever speed you want.
Limited to 350 copies.
(No Fun)
$30
Mummers "Skeleton Species" CDr
Weird sound from Brutal SFX scene.
(autometrik)
$6
Mutant Ape "Women of the S.S." tape
New ultra-raw tape from this ultra ugly British wanker!
(Nurse Etiquette)
$5
My Cat is an Alien "Different Shades of Blue" LP
"A remastered, re-edited vinyl reissue of the Different Shades of Blue CDR from MY CAT IS AN ALIEN. Originally released on U-Sound Archive, the album features an improvisation recorded February 12, 2004 in Torino, Italy. Space ambient soundscapes with minimal textures from the heart of the cosmos. Limited edition of 700 copies. Imported from Italy."
(Small Voices)
$15
Navicon Torture Technologies "Pure Skin" CD
Compiling a slew of limited cd-r releases and new, unreleased material, PURE-SKIN documents the newest phase of NTT.
Manufactured with infected prayers to demented love, hysterical reflections on obsessive lust, and psychotic meanderings of loss and recrimination, PURE-SKIN is constructed from the same decrepit DNA as previous NTT offerings, while Leech has incised a new focus and purpose into the organic circuitry of the doomsday device that is NAVICON TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES.
Power Romance Prevails.
CD is packaged in a four panel Digipak with visually decadent artwork by Karbine Labor Industries. Limited to 300 copies.
(NCC)
$10
Navicon Torture Technologies "Dripping With The Power Of Her Flesh" CD
On ::DWTPOHF::, NTT demonstrates an aural evolution of both maturity and
cruelty - a rich, malevolent blend of feedback, distorted textures and
thunderous orchestral majesty. On this release, he offers his most
confessional, seductive work and throws before our eyes, full of confusion:
soiled clothing, open wounds and the bloody apparatus of destruction - 100%
Power Romance.
(Immanence)
$15
Necropolis "Necrosphere" CD
Hailing from the Siberian land of Irkutsk, Russia, Necropolis came to Cold Spring's attention when they released the extremely limited (85 only) CDR "Necrosphere" - the soundtrack to the author's dreams and based on field recordings made in Taiga and disused military missile shafts. Cold Spring is reissuing this immense Dark Ambient creation - remastered with brand new, stunning artwork and an extra 14-minute long track.
(Cold Spring)
$10
Nerve Net Noise "Dark Garden" CD
Dark Garden, the new album of thrillingly idiosyncratic analog buzz by Nerve Net Noise (aka: homemade synth duo Hiroshi Kumakiri and Tagomago), is the perfect entry-point for listeners new to their singular sonic world. Where previous albums have explored a single sonic idea at a time, Dark Garden is their most varied and (relatively) accessible album yet. Which is not to say that it won’t cause heads to turn everywhere this is played in public.
Dark Garden is an album of short, song-like synthesizer pieces, taking cues from manga, science fiction, early electronic music, and minimal techno… but as always, the Tokyo band resides firmly in their own inexplicable universe. It assimilates fractured beats, bubbling pulses, and impatient drones into an album that’s somehow both playfully alive and coldly menacing. In his liner notes, synth builder Kumakiri describes spirits that lurk in the shadows and watch people go about their lives, existing in a parallel world that brings to mind fairy tales and myth. Nerve Net Noise’s music is similarly just out of reach, present in the natural world but not quite a part of it. For fans of Klaus Schultze, Jessica Rylan, Henri Pousseur, or Pan Sonic…
(Intransitive)
$12
Neuntoter Der Plage "Last Wish b/w Acid Reign" 12"
Extremely cold and minimalistic terror drones accompanied by ghastly, inimitable vocalizations. NEUNTÖTER DER PLAGE is the long-running project of Ryan Opperman, aka Redrot/Xombie/Post Mortem Junkie, and operator of the Skeletone label. After many cdr and cassette releases on labels such as Truculent Recordings and Slaughter Productions, among others, this is the vinyl debut of the project.
(SNSE)
$10
V/A No Tribute "Music of the Nihilist Spasm Band" CD
Formed in Canada in 1965, the Nihilistic Spasm Band began playing
non-traditional insturments in a non-traditional way. This peculiar mix of well known noise, electronic, and freeform musicians has been brought together to honor NSB as musical innovators. This CD is for fans of the Nihilstic Spasm Band as well as fans of these artists who should get familiar with NSB. Tracks from: Baku, U Can Unlearn Guitar, The Pin vs. Bellchamber, Unconditional Loathing, Jacopo Andreini, Winter Carousel, Roughage, V/VM, Dapper, Madame Chao, Alan Licht, Snell & Quim, Inca Eyeball, Carlos Giffoni, Reynols, Cock E.S.P., Del, Pengo, Glands of External Secreation, Panicsville, Wolf Eyes, Wrong, Newton, Hijokaidan.
(Little Mafia)
$10
Nyarlathotep "Skillful Means" CDr
Tentacles of the sleeping old ones, reaching out from the Plains of Leng? No! Crawling chaos and bone-breaking noise, reaching out from Arizona! Nyarlathotep spews six tracks of hard chattering hymns to the elder gods, guaranteed to warp geometry and leave a slimy trail back to the crypt. Six tracks, 55 minutes. Hand-screened disc in digipack with insert, limited to 80 copies.
(Housepig)
$5
Oakeater "Intrusion" tape
Debut release from this Chicago trio! Comprised of Seth Sher (COUGHS), Jeremy Fisher (PANICSVILLE), and Alex Barnett (BRENT GAND IS DEAD), Oakeater builds tension of malignant proportions. Dark listening environments for late night forest foraging. Early comparisons yielded BOY DIRT CAR... their first show is included with this release (which incidentally was what bore said comparison). Limited edition of 100 copies with silk screened covers.
Behind the Walls ; Tape Review from MacheteMob Blogspot - "Purportedly a collab between members of Panicsville and Coughs, this tape is a haunted drifting sound track to bad dreams. Unhuman voices speak partially heard nothings, sheets of feed back and physical bass tone swoop down and occasionally pummel the dreamer. There is a wide range of material here, ranging from pounding industrial, to layers of swirling effected blur. Very good. This release reminds me somewhat of the Andy Ortmann "Night Mania" album Nihilist released last year. I always look forward to hearing new Nihilist releases, as they seem to me to be much closer to absurdly disturbing sounds of R&G, Sudden Infant, Nurse with Wound, etc. then the modern American noise drivel. Rejoice in the purity of emptyness."
(Nihilist)
$12
Omei "When All Your Ghosts Are Tired" CD
Omei expresses itself through the idea of "One thought for a thousand years." The same memory played over and over until it drives you. The mind to the grindstone with nothing ahead but hours and hours of empty slow time. Two long pieces of grinding, sometimes turbulent minimalist drone and industrial from Chris of SICKNESS side project. The first track takes minimal synth loops (with additional material from James Keeler of Wilt) that slowly loop and march into a grinder of distortion to be spit out - angry and venomous. Aggressive but spent. The second track is field recordings (with additional material from Joe Colley) smashed together and blended into an atmosphere of empty warehouse sounds and abandonment. Negative and burned. Constant movement and shifting, panning and empty reverb.
(Misanthrope Studio)
$8
V/A Old Tyme Lemonade CD
Eclectic compilation of independent music from Providence including noise, grind, hardcore, electronic, and experimental. Tracks from:
Landed,
Noise Nomads,
Necronomitron,
Mindflayer,
Knights of Timbre,
Em Dath Rir,
Prurient,
Dropdead,
Mahi Mahi,
Seratone,
Football Rabbit,
Suffering Bastard,
Smashed Femur Dance Party,
Throne of Blood,
Kites,
Lightning Bolt,
Knifestorm,
Meerk Puffy,
White Mice,
Patootie Lobe.
(Hospital Productions)
$8
Oscillating Innards "Grey Variables" LP
"Long awaited 1st full-length LP by American vital slugger Gordon Ashworth
is finally out. Two long tracks documented in Portland, Oregon 2006-2007.
Fierce and solid burst with shrill metal junk roar, whirl high-frequency
feedbacks and brutal vocal, is a circumspect composition of laying heavy
assaults from physical strength and depressive electronics. Explosion breaks
the silence, the silence erodes explosion.
Hand-numbered limited edition 280 copies, comes on clear vinyl in heavy
polysleeve with a silkscreened paper band and a postcard. 45rpm for maximum
frequency and sparkling dynamics."
(Dogma Chase)
$27
Oscillating Innards "Nadir Emergence" CD
Molded and refined throughout 2007 and 2008, Nadir Emergence is the first official CD and second full-length of Oscillating Innards;
a document of the recurring and parallel themes of artistic/romantic failure and the forces of insignificance and degradation. Encompassing and hybridizing elements of electroacoustic harsh noise, deliberate tonal studies, atmospheric drone collage and severe power electronics, Nadir Emergence is a dense and breathing environment of evocative sound and lyrics, steeped in continually growing and failing tones, recurring and degrading melody, and vehement sentiment.
This is deeply personal music of smoldering roots and crumbling achievement; the secret infidelity and defeat of timbre.
(Troniks)
$8
Oscillating Innards "Irretrievable" 7"
Debut 7" from west coast harsh noise/ambient madman Oscillating Innards. Abrasive walls of junk & crunch, tranquil & melodic drone, and obsessive structured compositions recorded in autumn of 2005. Silk-screened covers, edition of 300.
(Troniks)
$4
PBK/BMG "1" CDr
Michigan master PBK has been making beautifully composed noise since I was in grade school and BMG - (aka Brent Gutzeit) should be known to most as CEO of Television Power Electric and as an established Kranky recording artist. These two have a wealth of knowledge in the experimental music realm and skills with almost as much range.
With their vast combined talents, the gentlemen produce five uniquely diverse works here, spanning the borders of various subgenres and utlizing everything they could get their hands on. In their warped world guitars become gongs, computers are transformed into human hearts and vinyl breathes. Believe it.
CDR edition of 100.
(Gameboy)
$10
Pain Jerk & John Wiese "Terrazzo" CD
Collaboration between the golden boy of Los Angeles & the Tokyo noise legend.
(Harbinger Sound)
$10
Peeesseye "Commuting Between the Surface and the Underworld" CD
Commuting Between the Surface & the Underworld continues Peeesseye’s pattern of ignoring virtually all patterns but those that spring forth from the swarm of earthquakes in their collective brain. Recorded following an unamplified tour of US noise venues with groups including Nautical Almanac, Life Partners, and Sharks With Wings, this record brings vocals, a more pronounced rhythmic pulse and piles of acoustic instruments to the foreground alongside the waves of electronic density that have characterized past releases. Guests on Commuting Between the Surface & the Underworld include three frequent collaborators of Peeesseye: Clare Cooper, the Australian harpist who adds pedal harp and guzheng (Chinese harp) to two tracks; trumpeter Nate Wooley, who adds brass on “Distant Mud;” and the reclusive conceptualist Shawn Edward Hansen, who provides additional percussion and vocals to two tracks. The resulting record is a perverse twist on spaced rock and post-noise ritual - mayhem in the mansion, shivers in the shack.
(Evolving Ear)
$10
Phantom Limb & Tetuzi Akiyama "Hot Ginger" CD
Yet another side to Tetuzi Akiyama’s work is explored here, this time his improvised guitar work is in collaboration with the electric organ and guitar drone of Phantom Limb, for this half-hour long piece recorded at Freepoint radio in Brooklyn. Hot Ginger begins in a state of unsteady fizz, which eventually materializes into a fully-formed organ drone, which itself develops to incorporates the subtle application of amp hiss and reedy feedback tones. About halfway through, there’s a sense of joyous crescendo, with the elongated tones ascending into a noisy barrage of harmonic coherence. It’s after this stretch that Akiyama’s guitar enters into a full flow of slippery sustain and slide guitar phrases. The final moments of the piece gather more solid form, with guitar arpeggios floating atop stony organ drones and lapping delays. A gorgeous piece of abstract improvisation, complete with beautiful silk-screened artwork. Limited to 500 copies.
(archive)
$8
Pod Blotz "The Swamp Command" LP
Awesome LP from Pod Blotz! Creepy sound straight from the swamp, its a jungle in here!
(Fish Pies)
$12
psi "Artificially Retarded Soul Care Operators" CD
Captured live and in the studio over the past two years, Artificially Retarded Soul Care Operators is the definitive pee-ess-eye blast of true and pure sacrificial brain-rot. A fifty-minute collection of densely cultivated mitherings from the unforeseen masters of complete silence.
Featuring beautiful full color gatefold cover art and poster by Fritz Welch and Stephen O'Malley.
(evolvingear)
$12
Prurient / Kevin Drumm "All Are Guests in the House of the Lord" CD
A collaboration between Hospital Productions chief Dominick Pernow (aka Prurient) and noise icon Kevin Drumm, All Are Guest In The House Of The Lord was originally released as a cassette, a most fitting format for such debased, extreme music. 'On This Slab' is pretty stunning, featuring droning synths, what sounds like a recording of a Strauss waltz hammered by distortion and severe filtering - plus there's Pernow's screamed proclamation of the album's title. Next, 'There Died Venus' is awash with dark grey pulsing bleakness, while bells ring out as if you're hearing an unholy call to prayer. 'Though The Apple Is Rotten' is like a recording of stale air, heavy with location sounds and stagnant hiss, all of which serves as a suitable precursor to the ten minute bad vibe fest 'In Long Rows'. Situated at the most misanthropic end of harsh noise music, this thing's a supremely nasty piece of anger mismanagement.
(Hospital Productions)
$12
Prurient "Cocaine Death" CD
Cocaine Death is a compilation of three of Prurient's finest Hospital cassette releases as well as two unreleased tracks. The previously released material forms a triptych exploring the relationship between futile pleasure, substance and escape; escape being a myth. Cocaine Death (originally C-10 packaged in an envelope, limited to 46 copies) is perhaps the most sought after of the recent Prurient cassettes. The content is based on the glamour and destruction of toxic nightlife. The B-side features guest vocals from FFH and continues the themes with the addition of bondage. This material is a considered classic modern Prurient. Caribbean Overdose (originally a C-10, packaged in a standard shell package and limited to 100 copies) explores a different but strangely direct topic of the sexual reproductive life of plants. There is nothing common or typical about the sounds and direction of this material. Further examination into the life of scientific advancement and education. Tylenol Murders (originally a C-10, packaged in an oversized envelope and limited to 10 copies) takes the sounds and concepts of the aforementioned releases and expands the sounds to further limits of cracked static, strained vocals and strange melodic loops. This sought after limited material is seeing the light on this release to most Prurient listeners for the first time. Since the inception of both Prurient and the Hospital Productions label, cassette releases have been an essential format for the communication and participation in the industrial/noise culture. packaged in digipack with 16 page color booklet.
(Hospital)
$12
Prurient "Whip Enthusiasts" 7"
Pressed in an edition of 300 copies; White vinyl; White labels with minimal black text; Unmarked white cardboard sleeves - sealed on three sides; Black and white insert; For this single, Dominick Fernow seems to have crafted the ultimate Prurient statement for BloodLust! - two tracks that seamlessly combine Fernow's "Pleasure Ground"-style minimal-synth leanings with his most caustic, raw, black metal lust - resulting in a truly brutal mutated style of power-electronics; private series number eighteen.
(Bloodlust!)
$10
Prurient "The Baron's Chamber" CD
Dominick Fernow commands waves of heavy sick death by way of destructive measures. The one who makes babes ears bleed is here to send a clear message; AIDS. This disc is that message. As far as the presentation, There are no glossy ambiguous photographs waiting to be interpreted. Just hard-core graphic images, simply a glimpse into "the Baron's Chamber".
(Hospital Productions)
$8
Putrefier "Simulated Vapours" LP
1999 lp from mark mark durgan; remarkably still available. slightly more full-on caterwaul than the space-infused later work, but still pretty damn impressive...
(Harbinger Sound)
$15
Putrefier "Hypertension Classics Vol. 2" 4xCD
Putrefier aka Mark Durgan has been an active member, albeit below the radar, of the UK noise scene since the inception of Putrefier back in 1986. Firstly, starting with his own Birthbiter label which as well as cassettes also was one of the first distribution services to start importing ZSF, Selektion and many Japanese oddities into the UK. Keeping a low-profile has enabled Putrefier to work at his own pace and keeping to his own vision. Throughout the last twenty years records and cassettes have been limited but this latest release should be the start of a fresh outburst of activity. His recordings have turned up on labels such as Broken Flag, Artware, MSBR, RRR and more. This boxset though is the latest release on Harbinger Sound a label with whom he has had a working relationship with now for many years. It features the long out-of-print "Hypertension Classics" double 7" which was sold at shows in Japan during the year 1999 only, plus over four hours worth of quality recordings dating back to 1996 but with most constructed during the 1999-2001 years. If you want pointers think of the possibilities of good Voice Crack, the INA-GRM extremities & "Crash for Hi-Fi" era Merzbow being dropped into a pinball machine! Yes, it is that good!
After many shows alongside the likes of Ramleh, The New Blockaders, Merzbow, Pain Jerk, Incapacitants, MSBR, Thirdorgan, Emil Beaulieau. Schimpfluch Gruppe / R&G, and many others , Putrefier should be embarking on an East Coast tour of the USA during April 2006 alongside Smell & Quim, Onomatopoeia & Deepkiss 720.
(Harbinger Sound)
$35
R. H. Y. Yau "Coagulation: Selected Works 1996-2000" CD
"Completely brutal docomentation of Yau's abject noise actionism completed between 1996 and 2000. As pure as it gets, this collection features rare compilation material and previously unreleased actions, including rare collaboration tracks with Kazumoto Endo."
"Eighteen short, painful blasts of vocal-induced distortion that are easily on the same pain threshold as Merzbow's wall-of-noise works, but without the time commitment Merzbow demands. Coagulation is like a stripped-down Hollowing album, with the same infinite layers of sound mashed together to create chaos (and sometimes all run through a distortion pedal to create thick, blistering walls of static), but without the melodic elements. The main source of Yau's recordings is voice, and for all we can tell there's nothing here BUT voice, just pounded and processed into something unrecognizable most of the time." Robert Beveridge
(Auscultare/Ground Fault)
$12
R.H.Y. Yau / Tralphaz split 7"
Killer split 7 inch from these heavys! Highly Recommended!
(Troniks)
$4
Raccoo-oo-oon "S/T" CD
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.
(Release The Bats)
$12
Radiosonde "Music for Chemtrails" 3 inch CD
Killer 3 inch from Scott Arford.
(self released)
$6
Raglani "Living Room" CDr
Incredible tonal drone work! Beautiful! Screenprinted inserts.
(Pegasus Farms)
$8
Raglani "Man Myth Magic" CDr
Another winner from Joe Raglani, man behind the Pegasus Farms label. Screen printed inserts.
(Pegasus Farms)
$8
Raglani "Of Sirens Born" CDr
Raglani's from St. Louis? He's either spending way too much time on the banks of the Mississippi or whistfully looking to further shores because "Of Sirens Born" is a maritime daydream like nothing else Missouri has ever produced.
Arguably the most beautiful and undisputedly the most melodic gameboy release ever, this disc comines lustrous synthesizer work with beautiful guitar lines and a chorus of accompanying electronics and instruments to tell an "Odyssey"-like instrumental tale of a man's heart and it's direct relation to the rush of the tides.
CDR edition of 100 with covers made using various blue & green Japanese papers/prints.
(Gameboy)
$8
Raglani & Scenic Railroads split CD
Raglani's contribution to this split comes in the form of three tracks motivated by a more focused attention to narrative elements and the microrelations between layers of sound. Musical and nonmusical sources dissolve into one another, filling the air with solid memories. Structurally, these pieces are Raglani's most fully realized, and they contain his most explicit nods in the direction of melody. Another chapter in the ongoing negotiation for an affectively deeper form of electroacoustic music. Along with Scenic Railroad's (Mike Shiflet and Joe Panzer) 4 digital improvisations, this disc plays excellently off each other creating a disc with a consistent, organic flow. An edition of 500. co-released with Shiflet's Gameboy records and printed at the infamous thumbprint press.
(Pegasus Farms)
$8
Raionbashi / Krube "Ansatze Zum Taumel" LP
From the first split second on Krube. grabs your attention with his hyper tight musique concrète that combines sounds from everyday objects, body openings and non-definable machinery. An old accordion may surface but it doesn't prevent him from continuing straightforward cut-ups, thus exploring scary maybe even unknown territory. If he's to perform at your local venue, leave mama at home and witness.
Raionbashi's bunker soundscape seems to be breathing with anxiety. In celebration of his earlier release In Teufels Küche critic Dan Warburton stated that all sounds are "absolutely exquisitely worked and placed with extraordinary attention to detail [...] that makes Löwenbrück, like Milton, a true Poet." His new composition "Musik und Skepsis" goes even further: slow-motion horror musique concrète that'd drive Artaud, Nietzsche and Cioran to fall on their knees in a state of euphoria. No doubt.
Raionbashi, established in 1999, is Daniel Löwenbrück, curator of many shows and festivals in Berlin; he runs the magnificent shop/mailorder rumpsti pumsti and the label Tochnit Aleph. Krube. is a Berliner too. During his job as a concert organizer for innumerable punk and hardcore acts in Saarbrücken he started his solo project in 1999 and eventually moved to the capital four years later. Ansätze zum Taumel is Krube.'s first official release to date. Raionbashi has gained quite a reputation for his releases on Hanson, Absurd and Entr'acte.
Original front cover painting by Rudolf Eb.er
Mastered and cut at D+M, Berlin
Edition of 500, vinyl only
(Hronir)
$20
Raionbashi "In Teufel's Kuche" 10 inch
Follow-up release of 2006 'kollekte' lp on hanson records.
All voices, noises, instruments, body-functions by Daniel Loewenbrueck.
Performed, recorded and mixed 2005-2008 at no-go-area, Berlin.
Mastered at clunk, and cut at D+M, Berlin, by Rashad Becker.
Edtion of 500 copies. 33rpm.
(Absurd)
$15
Redglaer "American Masonry" 10"
Killer 10" from Bob Bellerue of Il Corral fame! Tons of heavy low end with crunch change-up suprise!
(Anarchymoon)
$10
Redwound "Dark Dog Blaze" one-sided LP
Killer one-sided 12 inch collab from Redglaer and Circuit Wound! Flip side is screenprinted.
(Anarchymoon)
$17
Robedoor "Live Raw" tape
(Nurse Etiquette)
$6
Robert Rich "Trances/Drones" 2xCD
As the clich goes, third time's a charm, at least that must be the reasoning behind the latest ambient reissue, the 2-for-1 deal of Robert Rich's early works, recorded and released in various forms between 1981 and 1984. This 2-CD set was originally remastered and reissued in 1993. If the credits are correct, the latest version has not been remastered again, so the only difference this time out is new cover art, and a two-sentence paragraph at the end of Rick Davies liner notes.
So if you already own the 1993 reissue, musically speaking there isn't reason to get it again, but collectors will no doubt want to nab this for the new cover art, which is muted mahogany tones, but otherwise similar to the previous release. Ok, that's way too much digression into minutiae, how does it actually sound for those not already acquainted with this seminal work? 'Cave Paintings' opens with crickets and dark echoes that seem to moan in the distance. It is quietly haunting, but also soothing, even comforting in a dark sort of way. The feel and the texture is more important than the structure. It is easy to see how this formed the basis for Robert Rich's sleep concerts. 'Hayagriva' is a live recording from just such an event. Though relatively tame on my home system, in concert I'm sure the deep, booming drones must have rocked the ground the patrons were attempting to snooze on. 'Sunyata (Emptiness)' adds bamboo flute and tibetan bell for an other worldly feel. Disc two opens with 'Seascape,' a 30-minute muted sonic exploration. Like Michael Stearns on 'Morning Jewel,' here Robert Rich combines nature recordings in Mexico, in this case ocean sounds, with minimal ambient textures, courtesy of the Prophet-5 and lap steel guitar, two of Rich's trademarks. Of the six tracks, only the 12-minute 'Resonance' clocks in at less than 20 minutes, so if you are into smaller sound bites with melody and structure, this obviously isn't the place to be. But if 2+ hours of mind expansion without illicit substances is your idea of a good time, look no further. Totally darkened room optional.
(Release)
$15
Roel Meelkop "5 (Ambiences)" CD
The music of “5 (Ambiences)” deals with ways of approaching and conceptualizing ambient sound, of abstracting sounds from the world until they become much more than documentary observations. The music plays with some referential material (are they field recordings? digitally generated? does it matter?), a very wide dynamic range (to encourage active listening), evocative and even dramatic structures but also forbiddingly impersonal distance. It toys with the notion of “ambient music” (as new age wallpaper) by using ambiences to create deeply involving compositions which change as one changes one’s listening focus. This music is open to any interpretation, or no interpretation at all.
(Intransitive)
$12
Roel Meelkop "5(zwischenfalle)" CD
5(zwischenfaelle) is the latest release by dutch electronic musician ROEL MELLKOP. It is a special release in Meelkop's catalogue because it is consist of five piece that were originally used in the context of sound installations running over a certain period of time in specific special surroundings. For 5(zwischenfaelle) Meelkop has set himself the task to compress these soundscapes into five dense and still minimal audio pieces that could work outside the context of the original installations. 5(zwischenfaelle) is focussed on single sound events and stark beautiful dynamic movements in a certain area of sound and does not have the bruitistic research-like feel of other solo works by Meelkop. 5(zwischenfaelle) makes for concentrated unpolished ultra minimal listening with maximum effect. For all friends of Bernhard Günter, Francisco Lopez, Joe Colley/Crawl Unit or Marc Behrens this is a definite work!
(Aufabwegan)
$15
Roman Torment "Skin Game" CD
Straight outta LA, Killer Harsh Noise!
(PacRec)
$8
Rudolf Eb.er "23 Brutal Humouroid Dramas" CD
Finally the all new studio-album by Rudolf Eb.er recorded at the mental hospital. All accoustics 2004 by rudolf eb.er at schimpfluch-commune japan. A radical psycho-accoustic document. Comes with 12 page full colour booklet. Listen for therapeutical use only.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$15
Russell Haswell "Recorded While It Actually Happened" tape
All Recordings made in the field. ('near-field' & 'direct-contact' + 'artificial-worldizing'!). Edited, Compiled and Mastered @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk, UK. 2007-2008. Edition of 200 Copies. Pro-duplicated & printed 60 minute cassette.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$13
Russell Haswell "Second Live Salvage" 2xLP
This is the long-awaited follow-up to the award-winning Live Salvage 1997-2000 CD (MEGO 012CD, 2000). Hot on the heels of recent collaborative releases with Florian Hecker (as Haswell & Hecker) on Warner Classics, Warp Records and Editions Mego, Coventry, UK's Russell Haswell presents the second volume of his Live Salvage archive series. This series documents improvised real-time, computer-generated audio presentations given over the past 10 years in different types of venues, all with contrasting acoustics and audiences. Editions Mego is proud to announce this double vinyl LP set. As NME asserted of this series, "now you can experience the terror in your own home."
(Editions Mego)
$30
Ryke "Resuscitation" CD
Collaborative work started in 1998 between R.H.Y. Yau (Auscultare & 23Five Inc.) and Kazumoto Endo (Killer Bug) is finally completed in 2006. Harsh spastic action concrete. Housed in a digipak and limited to 360 copies worldwide.
(blossoming noise)
$13
S.Isabella "Pleroma" CD
Wickedly sick comp/collaboration concept CD.
Featuring: Artificial Memory Trace, Astro, Bernhard Gunter, Connect the Dots, Dead Body Love, Government Alpha, K2, Lasse Marhaug, Macronympha, Meeuw, MSBR, Odal, PBK, Stabot Mors, and Steve Eto.
(Xerxes)
$10
Scott Arford "Radio Station" CD
Recorded 2003-2004 at 7hz, san francisco.
(antifrost)
$12
Scott Arford/Randy H. Y. Yau "Edit for Unconsciousness" CD
The dark, black and white case denies the variety of activity going on here. But 'Edit..' has this vast display of modes that affect the senses like a blindfolded ride through a blacked-out city. Delightful tension and fleeting sonic spectacle are the main experiences here. Four basic tracks encapsulate four different pieces, each with several worlds inside of itself. Yau's 'Realia' is a restless collection of nervous mechanical and organic noises, culminating in a sudden blotch of noise cut off as with a meat-cleaver. Then the 'Headworms' track by Arford meanders in and tinkles around with various objects, collaged utterances from the throat of incidental electronics, the cluttered spiritual clumsiness of messing-about with quiet sonics. But 'Drift Counter' is very nice, a twenty-three minute float through the drifting ranges of warm static and fuzzy mist, undulating and singing, a full experience that leads you into Yau's closing piece of roughly the same length. I'll leave that one for your experience. Excellent material.
(Auscultare/Ground Fault)
$10
Scott Arford/Randy H. Y. Yau/Michael Nine "7hz" CD
7hz, founded in 1995 by Scott Arford, has continued to function as San Francisco's premiere venue for noise and experimental media. A space where new combinations of image, sound, and experience can be realized. Since its inception it has had the privilege of hosting performances for many of the world's most interesting, progressive, and challenging sound and media artists. This CD represents some of the best recordings by each of the 3 people that live at 7hz and make it the wonderful place that it is. Randy has appeared on Ground Fault (GF009 - RHY Yau "The Hidden Tongue"). Scott is also no stranger to Ground Fault (GF003 - Radiosonde "Meter Sickness"). Michael Nine is better known for his work under the name Death Squad. This is the fourth collaborative CD between Randy Yaus Aucultare Reseach label and Ground Fault Recordings.
(Auscultare/Ground Fault)
$10
Sewer Election "Sex/Death" CD
Raw, textured grit amid turbine electronics & harsh metalic hell, Sex / Death is devastating noise decadence from Sweden's Dan Johansson. Reissue of the speaker shredding two tape set originally released on his own Harsh Head Rituals label, the wreckage has now been remastered to appreciate every crunch & mangled detail but retain its gutter filth & power. Edition of 1,000.
(Troniks)
$8
Sewer Election "Last Breath" CDr
Sweden's finest forgoes his usual dense harsh noise in favor of equally dense dirty drones. It's still a wall of sound, but far from impenetrable. This wall is more likely to crumble with the slightest touch and leave you buried beneath the rubble. It's a different, but equally effective, methond of simultaneous attack and defense.
A short but epic piece, "Last Breath" unravels in under 20 minutes, but the coma it will induce is guaranteed to last for hours if not days. Indeed this disc makes a perfect soundtrack for those precious moments spent dying, living, or lingering anywhere between the two.
CDR edition of 100. Dedicated to Dagmar Lassander.
(Gameboy)
$10
Sick Lama "Born Again To Die" LP
'There are a lot of mugz you don't wanna know,: VD doctors, the Grim Reaper, the inside of a Fed Ex body bag, ex-mates, cops, silence, dentists, republicans, country music stars, ...list goes on and on....THEN= there are mugz you just want to get some sunshine from- you know who they are= just plain rad mugz, stokerz= and i gotta say....the Michigan Crew has Sick Llama'z BACK.....Heath AKA Juice AKA Fag Heath AKA Morellama= is just a ball of huge eyeballing goodness..how can you be mad at him? We used to have heavy skate shred sessions with the goofball and he would destroy the streetz, and still be smiling at the end, never breaking a sweat. You want this dude on your team. And you want the soundtrack to your boiling brain to be his Born Again to Die. Its got this amazing kinda arms-up-in-air-i-give-up-what-is -this-godamnn -sound style beaming through it. Heath man....dude aint really gonna give any clues back....cant count how many timez the crew has cornered the mug and been like: 'Yo man....what the hell is going on inside 'Live Birth' ?' Did you just record cars under an overpass and slow it down?", '....ha......that one...that's a weird one right?', 'Well,...tell us....the fuck?', '..........', And repeat over the coarse of 120+ Fag Tapes, Heath's label AKA the Pyramids of Michigan. He never has properly answered a sound question, we all have our clues/ideas.. Probably wrong. Sick Llama holds the rotten essence of Midwest Basement Mystery Mind Sound inside the marrow of his weird skull, right behind the strawberry blond tuffs, unblinking bug eyes, and scandi-molded mildew skin. Born Again to Die is his debt, and any signs of progression are tossed out the windows of Ham Studios. I mean its electronics, tape hiss, and ....?????? Heath really doesn't get any better or more refined, just....... stranger AKA more strange. My man Connelly says every Fag Tape has at least a 30% 'hands off' factor, meaning, seems like Llama has a nice mutant groove going on and then just jets for 10min, leaving the machine motionless. If you can tell what the hell is going on inside these grooves...bottle it and sell it, it would be ideal to have on tap.......it could be like taking a skinny dip inside the caverns of a black pool filled to the brim with soul-frying electricity waves. Born Again To Die= maybe our kid's rat kids will COMPREHEND. Then maybe they can attempt to decode FUNKY PANDEMONIUM....'---JOHN OLSON (WOLF EYES, BOY DEPT BOYZ), MAY 2007
(Hanson Records)
$15
Sissy Spacek "California Ax" 4xCD Box
Up to this point Sissy Spacek have only released 4 proper albums, all of which could
probably be squeezed together onto one CD. What we have in this release is 4 new
full length albums recorded throughout 2007. Tinsel Dripping Ink (disk 1) is 26
tracks in 45 minutes covering all territory from grindcore, noise, electro-acoustic
improv, musique concrete, noisecore, and electronics. It's primarily made up
of new work, but also roots through the cutting floor for the best bits that didn't
make it onto previous efforts for one reason or another, with a few tracks dating
as far back as 1998. Police (disk 2) is 11 tracks in 40 minutes of electro-acoustic
improv with girls on drums. Abreq Ad Habra (disk 3) gets it's title from an
Arabic phrase pre-dating "Abracadabra" that translates "hurl a lightning
bolt even unto death" which we'll choose to misread as "hurl an even
lightning bolt until death." This disc contains the most raw recordings Sissy
Spacek have ever released, the first being a 40 minute inferno recorded on KXLU
and the second from a 20 minute live set in 2002 in St. Louis. 13-Tet Los Angeles
(disk 4) is a live document of a 13 piece lineup that performed two sets at The
Smell in Los Angeles in December 2007 and is also the first live performance of
a score by John Wiese. There are also many contributors to this set aside from original
members of John Wiese and Corydon Ronnau: Mitchell Brown, Sarah Cake, Kevin Drumm,
Gerritt, Kate Hall (Mika Miko), Joseph Hammer (Solid Eye), Aaron Hemphill (Liars,
Skull Sküll), Jesse Jackson (Flaspar), Greg Kelley (Nmperign), Tim Koh (White Magic,
Ariel Pink), Danny McClain (Grand Ulena), Giles Miller, Oblivia (Smegma), Andy Ortmann
(Panicsville), Sam Ott (The Fucking Angels), Tom Recchion (Airway, LAFMS), Damion
Romero (Speculum Fight), Jarrett Silberman (Skull Sküll, Young People), Dean Spunt
(No Age), David Scott Stone (Melvins, Get Hustle), and Shannon Walter (16 Bitch
Pileup).
(Helicopter)
$35
Sissy Spacek "French Record" CD
Sissy Spacek's fifth album. Featuring Kevin Drumm, Kate Hall, Sam Ott, Corydon
Ronnau, John Wiese, and C. Spencer Yeh.
(Dual Plover)
$10
Sissy Spacek "S/T" CD
In 1999 Sissy Spacek made their first recordings as a conventional blur/grindcore duo consisting of Corydon Ronnau (vocals) and John Wiese (bass and drum machine). Shortly after, the band entered a recycling period in which Wiese produced a number of albums and eps, the first of which was this s/t CD (originally released on Helicopter), transforming their original source material into hardcore musique concrete. Listed in Studio Voice's "New No Wave 200" and declared a new genre by Koji Tano, the consensus was simply stated: "not for the faint of heart."
Long unavailable, PACrec is pleased to reissue this classic recording.
(Troniks)
$8
Sissy Spacek "SISSISSPSSKSSISSRS" CD
Limited CD edition. Manic torrentials of multi-multidirectional percussion, guitar, voice, and electronics from the mouse of John Wiese. Dynamite shack collage exclaims, "I must get out of these clothes!" For those with faint hearts, etc.
(Helicopter)
$8
Sixes "Gallows" one-sided LP
New one-sided kill from Sixes!
(Troniks)
$10
SIXES "Cursed Beast" CD
Reissue of killer limited SIXES LP! Packaged like a mini version of the LP with same artwork and 3 color screen printing! "Cursed Beast" was the product of two years of recording work by SIXES, faced with nothing but recording problems and nightmares, anger and hatred seething into a gnarled account of his time and frustrations, the Cursed Beast.
Heavy rhythmic manipulations, guitar skrees, haunted vocals, drones and burly noise all processed and mixed in a foul pit of hate.
(Troniks)
$8
Scenic Railroads "Airports & Apartments, Volume One" CDr
Dropping the in-joke titles for a change, Scenic Railroads present some live documentation capturing tracks from 2005 actually recorded during a layover at Washington Dulles airport and in the dining room of the then soon-to-be-evacuated Shiflet residence.
The first weekend of April, 2005: Pope John Paul II was pushing out his last slow breaths. Stuck in a seemingly-endless layover in Washington DC, there seemed to be no escape from the airport TVs blaring CNN's over-the-top reporting. The only options were headphones & noise.
Mid-July, 2005: The last performance before the group was put on "contintental separation" hiatus. Recorded in the almost completely empty apartment 12 hours before the keys were turned over & 167 E. Tulane ceased to be grounds of operation.
CDR edition of 100 with covers made using various red & pink Japanese papers/prints.
(Gameboy)
$8
V/A Six Doors CD
"Six Doors" features six fantastic tracks ranging from the single-source sorcery of AUBE, the caveman electronics of BASTARD NOISE, guitar versus electronics dronework from GUILTY CONNECTOR & TABATA, submerged synths from LUASA RAELON, lonesome Rhodes from UNICORN, and dank atmospheric creepout from OBLONG BOX.
(HousePig)
$8
Sky Burial "S/T" CDr
SKY BURIAL is a project from Massachusetts' Michael Page, more well known for his main endeavor FIRE IN THE HEAD. His work as SKY BURIAL takes a more droning and cyclic approach, an angelic avalanche of shifting tones, drones and rythms. Reminiscent of SKULLFLOWER or VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA, but staking a claim all it's own.
Six tracks and 46 minutes, this is a silkscreened cdr in a silkscreened, hand-sewn heavy canvas pouch, strictly limited to 150 copies. Highly Recommended!
(House Pig)
$8
Smegma "Nattering Naybobs of Negativity" CD
The second in the series of Harbinger Sound's efforts to present the Smegma back catalogue. This album originally came out in the UK only back in 1987 and is backed by the studio side from the 1988 cassette release "Morass". 21 tracks in total. Dedicated to Tom (Pig Champion ) Roberts. CD features an eight page booklet with photos and a pre-1988 Smegma discography. Limited to 1000 copies.
(Harbinger Sound)
$10
Spine Scavenger "Shackles of Man Measured Time" LP
Modular synth sickness from former Wolf Eyes member Aaron Dilloway. Limited edition of 400 copies.
(Troniks)
$10
Still "Remains" CD
Former Dälek Turntablist, Still (Hsi-Chang Lin) goes solo and unleashes a dark ambient masterpiece that borders on sonic terrorism. Created using only Technics 1200's and an array of effects pedals, Still's REMAINS is not a "turntablist" record in the traditional sense. Drawing from (and adding to) the history of alternative turntable use, REMAINS is an ambient record whose textures at times run side by side with the work of PHILLIP JECK or APHEX TWIN. Two laborious years were put into the 35 minutes that comprise the album. Each track was painstakingly mapped out and played live in the studio. Opening with aggressive noise and evolving into delicate ambience, REMAINS supersedes the preconceived range of the turntable, infusing emotion into an otherwise inhuman instrument.
(Public Guilt)
$10
V/A String of Artifacts 2xCD
Awesome compilation where you have to solve a crossword puzzle to found out wich track is who! Comes packaged in box! Featuring:Liz Allbee, At Jennie Ritchie, Black Bear Combo, The Bran...Pos, Mitchell Brown and Albert ortega, Caroliner Rainbow, Leticia Castaneda, De Honden Koes Jes Fabriek, Fat Worm of Error, Fckn Bastards, Tom Grimley, Gromskull, Hans Grusel's Krankin Kabinet, Nora Keyes, Masonic Youth, Metalux, Mono Pause, Monstrosity Brinkman, Nautical Almanac, Panicsville, Pod Blotz, Points of Friction, Quem Quaeritis, Tom Recchihon, Ritulistic School of Errors, Damiono Romero and Jarrett Silberman, Sixes, Smega with Wild Man Fisher, Slid Eye, Spider Compass Good Crime Band, Stilluppsteya, Sun City Girls, Tarantism, Tres Quatro/Friends Forever, Wolf Eyes.
(fish pies)
$15
Strotter Inst. "Anna Anna" 7"
Using five, old manipulated Lenco turntables and various cut or scotched records and found objects, Switzerland's Strotter Inst. (aka Christoph Hess) creates polymorph sound and rhythm structures. The tracks on "Anna/Anna" are more atmospheric than past works and at times resemble field recordings of "lurching" frogs. The listener is met with a single black 7" record(with no labels) in a clear sleeve. Once the record has been removed, the artwork and liner notes(which double as a map to instruct the listener on how to play the record) are revealed and can only be read though the clear sleeve. The tracks (two per side) play inside out and outside in ending in the center of the record in the same locked groove.
(Public Guilt)
$5
Subterranean Source "Vivid Circles" CD
Released on desolation house in a limited edition of 1000. The debut release for both Subterranean Source and Desolation House Records brings us a release stocked with dark and brooding Ambient music, similar to the likes of Amon or Raison d'ætre. Comes packaged in super nice digipak! The following gear was used in making this CD:Macintosh G4 with various software, Digidesign Audio 001, Yamaha 03D Digital Mixer, Soundcraft Studio 24 ch. Mixer, Tascam DAT DA20 MK II, Emu Emulator IV sampler, Emu Esi 4000 Turbo sampler, Roland S 760 sampler, Roland JD 800, Korg Wavestation SR, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Roland D50, Korg Z1, Yamaha DX 7 II, various sound processors.
(Desolation House)
$10
Sudden Infant "My Life's A Gunshot - Retrospective 1989-2009" 4xLP
20 Year retrospective of Joke Lanz's Sudden Infant project featuring 49 rare and unreleased tracks, as well as some classics. Luxurious set released on 4 LP's housed in 2 seperate fullcolour gatefold-covers, featuring paintings by Joke Lanz. Comes with 12"x12" booklet with a 4-page essay about S.I. by G.X. Jupitter-Larsen. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at D+M, designed by Bill Kouligas.
"Born in Switzerland, now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz (aka Sudden Infant) is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet improvisation and Noise. In his Sudden Infant guise, Lanz creates a unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic noise bursts, using contact microphones, loops, tapes, etc. The result is an extreme form of musique concrète that juxtaposes spasmodic gibbering with a battery of disorienting electronics." - The Wire"
(Hronir)
$60
Sudden Infant "Radiorgasm" CD
Reissue of the extremely limited first Sudden Infant LP from 1991, transfered from the original master tapes. Classic Sudden Infant / Schimpfluch noise dramas featuring Joke Lanz, B. Lingg, Inzekt & Dave Phillips.Recorded live at radio LoRa Zurich on 30th November 1990! Artwork by Francoise Duvivier. Essential listening. Joint release by Blossoming Noise (USA) and Harbinger Sound (UK).
(Blossoming Noise)
$10
Sudden Infant "Ear Wash" CD
Brand new, Sudden Infant full-length! Joke and Franz are at it again, quality full length of no-limits noise. Joke Lanz plays turntables, electronics, sonic trash, & voice. Franz Lieberherr plays trombone, flexible pipe & voice.
(SSSM)
$9
Sutcliffe Jugend "The Fall of Nature" CD
the fall of nature is a epic, grandiose drone piece almost one hour of pure electronics that echoes the masters of the form. the album grows in intensity throughout the recording making for an unexpected release. there are many sides of darkness and many ways to express it. the fall of nature is the balance of sound, in a listenable format. the initial feeling is that of an almost holy, heavenly sound, the skies opening in tribute to the nature which is falling. yet fans of classic sj will be plenty pleased at the psychotically manic conclusion that will not disappoint any fans of pe terror. this music takes aim at several nerve centers at once. this is not just noise, drone or pe but something new that mixes various elements of each together for the first time. co release with groundfault recordings. - Hopspital Productions
(Hospital Productions)
$12
Sutcliffe Jugend "This is the Truth" CD
Ground Fault Recordings and Hospital Producitons would like to announce the upcoming release of "This Is The Truth", the first Sutcliffe Jugend studio album in eight years. "This Is The Truth" quite possibly stands as one of the most original and perfectly balanced noise compositions of the last 10 years. It references and uses classic Sutcliffe Jugend of old while bringing in an entirely unique and fresh element one does not hear in noise. This album is a brilliant blend of foreboding tension, and anxiety while using the most lively, disturbing, and textual elements of noise. All of which are brought together with the phenomenal detail and balance of an accomplished electronic composer. Songs that you think will explode leave you hanging with tension, while others erupt with violence out of nowhere. It's an absolutely brilliant album that was worth the wait.
(Hospital Productions)
$12
V/A Sweetness Will Overcome CD
Here it is: the first Segerhuva compilation, a massive 74-minute budget priced CD with a 20-page booklet in jewelcase. The CD is filled from beginning to end with a strong and exciting line-up of both well known and newer groups, mainly from Sweden, but also with contributions from Finland and Japan. We are thrilled to be able to present a solid mix of sounds, from the most punishing ultra-harsh electronics, via the primitively thuggish all the way to the cocktail-sipping arty. Yes, we have room for all -- please join the party. "Sweetness Will Overcome" features a wide range of artists making it a diverse and interesting affair. Our tribute to a stagnating but in a strange sense healthy scene! Without further preaching: all tracks are new and exclusively recorded for this compilation, all served with pleasure and pain.
Contributing artists:
Sewer Election, Koeff, Skin Area, Mnem, Jarl, Moljebka Pvlse, Institut, Government Alpha, Sharon's Last Party, Treriksrøset, IRM, Ochu, Martin Bladh, Irgun Z'wai Leumi, Barrikad and Blod.
(Segerhuva)
$8
Taliban / Paranoid Time "Air Lice" 10"
TALIBAN is the free noise duo of Miles Haney and Joel Rakowski. Miles also runs the label Tapeworm Tapes and has a recording project called Evenings. Taliban has prior releases on: American Tapes, Gods Of Tundra, Fag Tapes, and Tapeworm Tapes, among others.
PARANOID TIME is the harsh noise project of Pat Yankee, operator of the SNSE record label. Paranoid Time has past releases on: Animal Disguise Recordings, PacRec/Troniks, Militant Walls, Harsh Head Rituals, Tapeworm Tapes, and Gaping Hole, among others.
(SNSE)
$10
Telepherique's Mail-Art Orchestra CD
Incredible concept release from Telepherique! Submissions were sent in from these artist: Roger Rotor, Celluloid Mata, Shingo Sogiura, Contagious Orgasm, Salt, Vromb, Aube, Brume, Ultra Milkmaids, Telepherique. Then Telepherique edits, arranges and composes the release. Recommended!
(SSSM)
$10
Telepherique and Contagious Orgasm "CYOUWA" CD
Incredible collaboration of digital noise and samples/field recordings! Highly recommend, don't miss this one! Comes packaged in super cool translucent paper sleeve.
(SSSM)
$10
V/A The End of the Fear of God CD
"All source material by Swiss hardcore/noise legends Fear Of God (1987-88), reworked/covered by (in order of appearance): RLW, N.O.G., Norbert M. Slang, Rudolf Eb.Er, Sudden Infant, Strotter Inst., Soviet Subliminal Seduction, Suntour, Andrew Phillips, Schurer, Unholy Grave, Kevin Drumm, Bela Kiss, Evil Moisture, Killer Nuts, Hecker, Yamatsuka Eye, R.H.Y. Yau, The Idealist, Gorebitch, Massaccesi, Kure Kure Takura, Dylan Nyoukis, Mike Patton & Kid 606, Genetic Transmission, Eric Boros & Jason Flowers, Stress, Jason Kahn, DJ Smallcock, Imperative, Shoji Goto, The Glands Of The External Secretion, Jim O'Rourke, Dropdead With Outosushi, K2, Doris Tomasoni, Kouhei Matsunaga, Eva Revox, Merzbow, Kein Babel, Blackjewishgays feat. Django, Eva D., Ommyth, Medieval Moisture, Humectant Interruption, Saicobaba, Rabid Dogs, J.C., Dave Noyze, Djkillroy Vs. Von Wurstfinger, Rm74, Raionbashi, Vicious Circle, Ecrase-Merde, Atta, Shite Minor, Voice Crack, Thomas Ankersmit, Silvum, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Takedown Uav, The Haters, Russell Haswell, The Nautilus Deconstruction, Chicken & Monkey, Bloodstar Vs. Saalschutz, Pita, Seaman Staynes & Master Baits, Zbigniew Karkowski and The Machine Gun TV. This is the stone on Fear of Gods grave. 12-page booklet including "You Cant Reason with Logic", a short-story by G.X.Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters. Compiled by Dave Phillips & Tochnit Aleph. Mastered by Rashad at D&M. Edition of 1000 copies." - Tochnit Aleph.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$15
The New Blockaders / Thurston Moore / Jim O'Rourke "The Voloptulist" CD
An unbelievable line-up on this one, UK noise icons The New Blockaders team up with erstwhile Sonic Youth bandmates, Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke with more than a little help from the reliably jaw-dropping Chris Corsano. The disc is divided into two pieces, the first being the collaboration with Thurston, which turns out to be a particularly obscure drone piece, constituted from hissing feedback tones, tape crackle and some sort of chaotic, mechanical sound sources. The piece evolves infinitesimally over the course of its fourteen minutes, rendering an uncompromising, though highly textured vision of analogue sound sculpting. The other, shorter piece '840 Seconds Over' continues in its predecessor's campaign of high frequency feedback manipulations this time with the addition of some caterwhauling noise oscillator free jazz and typically virtuosic improv drumming from Corsano. It's a real force to be reckoned with, and the crispness of Corsano's kit works perfectly against the hiss and fizz from the tape-heavy, droning elements. It's all over rather too soon (the whole thing clocks in at just over twenty-one minutes), but you can hardly expect anyone to keep up these levels of intensity for prolonged periods, can you? Superb, top-flight noise.
(Hospital Productions)
$12
The New Blockaders + Thurston Moore "The Voloptulist" LP
Originally released as a limited CD by Hospital Productions in 2005. This is the equally limited LP version with variant artwork. TNB is arguably the most notorious and interesting proponent of ground zero UK noise/industrial history. A mysterious and oddly evocative practitioner of abstract noise purpose TNB has released some of the most consistently challenging recordings of the genre. What we have here is JIM O’ROURKE on one side and THURSTON MOORE on the other taking TNB “music” and collaborating with it in distinctly different ways: O’Rourke utilizing the free-life percussion power of CHRIS CORSANO and Moore employing the spirit-index of shortwave.
(Ecstatic Peace)
$15
The Rita + Wilt "Werewolf in the Black Space" CD
This tantalising meeting of the minds first saw light in two ridiculously tiny cassette editions on Wilt's own ORCO label. This CD reissue maintains the roughly-sawn quality of the original, adds a lengthy new track, and replaces the artwork with some sexy, bloodied ladies for your entertainment. With such disparate takes on their craft, it's no surprise this CD finds both Wilt and The Rita dragging each other's imposing form into new areas; approached either as a re-imagining and re-contextualising of The Rita, or a brutish noise immersion for Wilt, 'Werewolf In The Black Space' surpasses any obvious confrontation for six moody, bloody, invasive and violent tracks of inspired texturising and midnight stalk which will appeal to those interested in either project's output. 6 panel cover booklet and traycard. Edition of 500 copies.
(Cipher Productions)
$13
The Rita "Thousands of Dead Gods" CD
The Rita returns with his second full length cd, his ultimate tribute to the GREAT WHITE SHARK. Almost academic in his noise purity obsession, The Rita mercilessly charts every nuance of crunch & crumble, the space between demolition, white out & heavy flood. Dead Gods pushes nearly 60 minutes thick of RAW WALL, recorded live using source sound from great white shark cage diving.
(Troniks)
$8
The Rita "Bodies Bear Traces Of Carnal Violence" CD
ABSOLUTELY UNCOMPROMISING. Pure sound influenced by Italian Giallo violence & harsh noise cassette culture. Extreme, dirty, low-end electronic crust. First proper cd release from this long-running Canadian cult act, following notable cdrs on Self Abuse Records & Chondritic Sound as well as several self released cassettes. Two tracks, 60+ minutes, including a collaboration with Texas sleaze sicko Mania (Taint). black gloves and razors.
(Troniks)
$8
The Skull Defects "The Drone Drug" CD
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)
$12
Thomas Ankersmit/Jim O'Rourke 12"
Side one features "Weerzin" by Thomas Ankersmit, composed & recorded in 2004 (computer, saxophone, Serge & EMS Synthesizer). Side two composed & recorded by Jim O'Rourke in 1992 (oscillators & guitars). Edition of 750 copies. Cover photo by Alexandra Leykauf.
"Very glad that Jim O'Rourke has fallen out of his dry-slump there and has unearthed a few very nice tape pieces from the early 90's, which he's now farming out to various labels for LPs & splits and things... personally, my all-time favorite Jim pieces are from around this time (see: Disengage, Young Persons' Guide To Drowning, The Ground Below Above Our Heads, etc.) Thomas Ankersmit's side is pretty damn impressive to boot; a wash of Serge & EMS synth freakout layers with saxophone and computer processing." - Frans De Waard, Vital.
(Tochnit Aleph)
$15
Thurston Moore / Graham Moore split LP
A collossal meeting of the Mooores! Thurston Moore (Ecstatic Peace label dude and Sonic Youth frontman) goes head to head with Graham Moore (TLASILA, Black Meat and Blossoming Noise label CEO) for a no holds barred noise attack! Thurston delivers a scathing 24 minute opus of gut twisting skin scraping skree. Graham takes a more collage style approach to his side using everything from body belching to a touch of classical avant abstract. Initial pressing of 500 copies of marbled 140 gram vinyl with pro-pressed jackets.
(Nihilist)
$15
To Live and Shave in LA "Horoscopio: Sanatorio de Moliere" CD
Horóscopo, Vatican temporal assassin, is ordered to fall 300 years through time to prevent Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière) from writing the scabrous Tartuffe. A portal divides, doors fly open... Horóscopo’s eyes roll back into his head, and an empty scabbard clatters across marble. "Taisez-vous, et songez aux choses que vous dites." The Nightgaunts descend...
TLASILA: Rat Bastard, Ben Wolcott, Don Fleming, Mark Morgan, Andrew Wilkes-Krier, Chris Grier, and Tom Smith, with Thurston Moore.
(blossoming noise)
$12
Tonio Hubilla & Jesse Novak "Yr Boyfriend Equals Dead" CDr
Emo-noise for nerds with glasses! Tonio is the man behind Flash*Ram! This one is limited to 24 and packaged in hand made sleeve. Act Fast!
(Flash*Ram)
$4
Toroidh "Europe is Dead" CD
Euro-classical, militeristic compositions. Released in UK.
(Cold Spring)
$10
Torn Hnatow "Lullaby" CD-R
The brothers Hnatow lay down four long tracks of noise with plenty of variation. Limited edition of 20 copies, each comes packaged with a diffrent picture of the sky. Check out this up and coming project!
(self-released)
$8
Torn Hnatow "s/t" CD-R
The brothers are at it again! Kick ass EP from Eric and Tim. Includes the track "ReRecycled", a Torn Hnatow remix of almost all released Gerritt material! Comes packaged in hand painted cases, possibly kissed by electricity?
(Guilded Throne)
$5
V/A Total Slitting of Throats CD
The definitive WALL document for the dedicated purist! One 60+ minute track of impenetrable force, combining the overlapped efforts of Mania, Treriksröset, Sewer Election, The Rita, and The Cherry Point. Originally released as a limited edition CDr on Sam McKinlay's Militant Walls imprint in 2005, PACrec is proud to expose this "powerful minimalist deconstruction of the harsh noise object" to a wider audience. Edition of 500.
(Troniks)
$8
Toy Bizarre & Pierre Redon "Saisons" CD
this collaborative effort brings us some of the most beautiful and
atmospheric instances of composition with nature. the four tracks, some
solitary works, some creatied by using field sourcings of the opponent,
feature subtle wildlife field recordings, detailed electro-acoustic
passages, swelling metallic drones and amplified silences.
toy.bizarre is the long running project by cedric peyronnet, who has
specialized in location recordings often documenting a specific site and
displaying an open ear to the beauty and potential of natural sound fields.
Peyronnet has released numerous works on different labels around the world
(drone, 20city, ferns, duebel, staalplaat and more), has collaborated with
brume, roel meelkop, eric la casa, dale lloyd and others.
pierre redon is a young and brave sound worker who is also active in the
fields of photography, design, installation work and the organizer of sound
walks in his native france. since 2002 toy.bizarre and pierre redon record
and perform together. pierre redon contributes electronic sounds and guitar
drones to the album, as well as his wonderful design.
(Aufabwegan)
$15
Trephine "MD" CD
Years in the making... For the uninitiated, Trephine play a unique blend of metal/prog/punk/ noise/math rock which finds their instrumental, guitar/bass/drums assault joined by found object percussion. To help make their strongest release yet, Trephine called upon three masters of their craft-- producer/engineer, Jon Smulyan, mastering engineer, Alan Douches, and visual artist, Stephen Kasner. Slayer riffs and Propane tank percussion collide for eight tracks of pure surgical doom!!!
(Public Guilt)
$10
Tribes of Neurot and Walking Time Bombs "Static Migration" CD
Neurosis side-project collaboration with Pain Teens guitarist Scott Ayers. Features eight tracks of exceptional experimental music.
(Release)
$10
TV Pow "Powerful Friends and Devoted Lovers" 2xCD
Collection of remixes, including:
Oren Ambarchi, Motor, Boris Hauf, Thymme Jones, Otomo Yoshihide, M Behrens, Ken Brown, Vadim Sprikut, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ernst Karel, Leif Elggren, Ancient Greeks, Tu M’, 7000 Dying Rats, Sutekh, Burkhard Stangl, Greg Kelley, Jazzkammer, Drillchop 9, Olivia Block, Panicsville, Mike Shiflet, Amnon Wolman, Koura, Stilluppsteypa, Freiband, Stephan Mathieu, Vertonen, Reynols.
(Bottrop Boy)
$23
Unicorn "Playing with Light" CD
Awesome new Unicorn CD! Audio by Unicorn. Film by Stephanie Miller. Great concept, you can use the cd to go to a link on the internet to watch the film part in quicktime! As always, a quality Thumbprint Press printjob! Check it out!
(house pig)
$8
Unicorn / Torso split CD
Unicorn is the solo work of American noise veteran Bill Nelson (Bastard Noise, Sleestak). Torso is the blistering noise of Halifax's Sandy Saunders. This 70 + minute split explores minimal drone, deafening power, and all the spaces inbetween. The cover design and custom printing is by Bill's Thumbprint press.
(Divorce)
$10
Upsilon Acrux "Volucris Avis Dirae-Arum" LP
Insanely complex tech prog. Otherwordly melodies combine with sharp stop on the dime memorizations pushed through a cannon of brutality. Calling the San Diego area home this five piece (two drummers, guitar, bass, and moog) have completely destroyed your formerly limited thoughts on "progressive" previous to Volucris Avis Dirae Arum, their fourth album. A joint release between Epicene and Rice Control (CD available on Planaria), this vinyl version is limited to 500 copies on clear vinyl, enclosed in transparent acetate covers and resealable slip cases!
(epicene)
$10
V. "PA.USA Turnee 2002" CD-R
Taken from the live US tour with Cornucopia and Ultra Milkmaids. 100 copies only with full color sleeve and insert!
(Assemblage)
$8
V/A Aryan Asshole Records Compilation volume two LP
This LP features the next thirteen lathes released since the first comp. Includes tracks from ISIS & WEREWOLVES, EX-COCAINE, MIRROR/DASH, PENGO, CHRISTINA KUBISCH, BIRDS OF DELAY, SICK LLAMA, JACKIE STEWART, EVIL MOISTURE, PRURIENT, RUSTED SHUT, CARLOS GIFFONI, 16 BITCH PILE-UP, DEMONS. All the messy atmosphere of lathes on freshly pressed vinyl, weird! Banned in Canada due to the jacket (guess why).
(AA Records)
$22
V/A Composition 3 CD
Second release in Flying Swimming's Composition Series. This is a 3-way Split Release with new & exclusive works by Trevor Wishart, Haswell & Hecker, and Rashad Becker. Edition of 500 copies with Cover-artwork by Unika Zürn.
(Flying Swimming)
$17
V/A Dog Bone 2 x 7"
Dog Bone 2x7" with The Cherry Point, Obstacle Corpse, God Willing, Privy Seals
Sublime disturbances from these 4 harsh noise monks. Thick pummeling abuse from The Cherry Point, huge dynamics, deep and a very different style from what i'm familiar of his. Obstacle Corpse brings in a pcp-anime soundtrack full of wild ravings and shreddingtones. Thick gnarl from the creep-drone surgeon God Willing, like drilling through glass and chains. Live set by Privy Seals that catches him in his prime wail-wall, explosions of volcanic rage.
Edition of 161 copies, red vinyl with red labels, color insert, in 3-color chipboard glue-pocket gatefold sleeves by SeizurePalace, even an obi strip.
(Anarchymoon)
$23
V/A Vancouver 2x7"
A compilation of noise and experimental composition from 4 Vancouver artists: Flatgrey, The Rita, Sick Buildings and Taskmaster. This release highlights some of the key players in Vancouver's harsh noise/anti-music community. Each artist involved has one side to unleash a torrent of harsh noise/cassette collage/overloaded distortion/mechanical grinding. Mastered at 45 rpm for maximum sound quality, pressed on red vinyl in an edition of 300 copies, packaged in a b&w offset-printed sleeve featuring a photo of the parties involved at the corner of Hastings and Main.
(Ketchup Cavern)
$13
v/a Variious 2xCD
Another killer double disc compilation from Intransitive! Tracks from: *O, Klas Augustsson, Marc Behrens, Justin Bennett, Brume, The Brutum Fulmen, Richard Chartier, Taylor Deupree, Kevin Drumm, John Hudak, Jason Lescalleet, Roel Meelkop, Jerome Noetinger, Pimmon, Michael Prime, Jos Smolders, Howard Stelzer/Brendan Murray, Martin Tetreault, Toshiya Tsunoda, Voice Crack, John Watermann.
(Intransitive)
$12
Vertonen "Facing Leinth" CDr
Blake Edwards has been a man behind the scenes for quite some time. His CIP label was putting out Joe Colley discs when most kids were still mispronouncing Merzbow. In fact, CIP and GMBY have been on similar wavelengths for so long I thought it was about time to ask Mr. Edwards to contribute something to the catalog.
"Facing Leinth" is one of Vertonen's mellowest outings in quite some time. No turntable abuse, no chains or scrap metal, just pulsating waves and composed noise of the highest order. It's a long ride on a dark train to thevery end of the line. Fans of his Ground Fault disc "The Ocean is Gone..." will definitely enjoy this.
CDR edition of 100 with covers made using various black & purple Japanese papers/prints.
(Gameboy)
$8
Walter Carson "Weighted Ghost" tape
Epic follow-up/companion piece to the notably outstanding "Recalcitrants" Gods of Tundra LP, as well as possibly the final addition in the infamous WEIGHTED GHOST series; available for complete public consumption. and argueably, one of the best in the thick mystery series. oddly calls to mind some assorted Pierre Henry & Allan Bryant composistions. W.C. claims to record his works in various bedrooms; can only imagine how the colours must melt and the walls shake around him in resonance to his psychedelic madness. the carson man continues to shake minds and stir souls. edition of 88 hand-numbered copies.
(Nurse Etiquette)
$6
Wire Werewolves "Frigid Soil" 7"
Some of the most brutal and epic noise-infused black metal sludge from Evan Pacewicz (Moth Drakula, Roman Torment) and Jay Howard (Circuit Wound, Bacteria Cult). The city of angels has never seamed so dark. pressed on single sided red vinyl with as silk screened b-side. Limited to 300 copies.
(aagoo)
$7
Wi77!N6 "Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake" CD
The new CD release from the visionary and sorely under-documented late 90's duo Wi77!N6 (that’s “Willing,” kids), is out now in an edition of 300.
Recorded and shelved in Bushwick, Brooklyn back in 2000 by drummer/pounder/scraper/whistler Fritz Welch and completely unprepared guitarist Ian Christe when any number of Bushwick denizens of today’s (or was it yesterday’s?) New No Fun America were still taking driving lessons, Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake is like a time capsule of detuned, metal-tinged guitar, guileless synth blurts, splattering faux gamelan percussion, and disembodied voices. At the very least, it certainly points the way to Welch’s more layered work with Peeesseye. But it's really just about the best record Evolving Ear has ever put out, and it comes in a vomit inducing glossy Digipak covered in Fritz Welch's artwork and really rather tasteless design by Ian Christe.
(Evolving Ear)
$11
Wolf Eyes / Sickness "There is a Part of Me That You Will Never Know" LP
The first ever collaboration between noise institutions Wolf Eyes and Sickness makes its way into your inner ear via Dominick Fernow's always terrifying Hospital productions. As tends to be the case with so many of the American noise scene's primary movers and shakers, this LP manages to successfully juggle all-out howling noise assaults with more restrained, cloudy atmospherics. Between them, Mike Connelly John Olson, Nate Young and Chris Goudreau make a surprisingly focussed, uncluttered murmur through the early stages of 'A Diet Of Speed And Beer', the first side droning and screeching into life with some low pressure sandblasting tactics, interspersed with the odd pop and thud here and there, presumably heralding the switching on and off of effects units. It has to be said though: it's only when the players crank their output to maxed-out levels that the sheer brilliance of the quartet reveals itself - particularly on B-side '47 Polaroids' when part way through a stamping rhythm imposes itself upon the otherwise chaotic structure, recalling the headache beats strewn across Human Animal. Awesome.
(Hospital Productions)
$15
Wolf Eyes / Failing Lights / Spykes / Nate Young 2 x LP Picture Discs
Also known as the 'solo' record. This is a reissue of a double cassette that came out a while ago on Gods Of Tundra. Each member of Wolf Eyes does a side solo, and then the band does a tune together.
Failing Lights = Mike
Spykes = John
Nate Young = Nate
Wolf Eyes = Wolf Eyes
Intense double picture disk LP housed in plain black gatefold cover. Ltd to 1000 copies.
(Troubleman Unlimited)
$25
Wolf Eyes with John Wiese "Equinox" CD
Equinox is the fourth collaboration between Wolf Eyes and John Wiese. Following several Olson-produced releases on his American Tapes label, Equinox is the first collaborative album produced by Wiese and features the line-up of Aaron Dilloway, John Olson, Nate Young and John Wiese.
"After jamming onstage early in this period at the Casbah in San Diego and using the material to put out the “Live" 7" - this CD further pushes the electronic confusion hurricane into truly brain fungus clawing vine sound territory. Wiese's horror/libarian approach to noise sculpture and his surgical skillz at scattering sound is fully matched and paired with the lurking, sweating Anti-Intelligence live Wolf Bombast. Including totally strange piece with the crew watching fireworks in Echo Park and chuckling it up with brews in hand after a three hour drive from homeland Michigan. Hopefully your CD player in car will spit this disgusting sound platter black at you to stuff inside a lacquered decay piece of road killed raspberry splatter babies." - John Olson
Released in conjunction with their East Coast and Midwest tour for September & October 2006.
(Troniks)
$10
Worm Hands "Orange Mound" CDr
Electronics from Dave Gretman and Joshua Levi. Recorded live at Radio Cherokee. Screen Printed inserts.
(Pegasus Farms)
$8
Yellow Swans with John Wiese "Portable Dunes" CD
This collaboration between psychedelic slurry merchants Yellow Swans and big noise on the big noise scene, John Wiese, begins very much as you'd expect, with a towering hunk of din and colourful mid-fi abrasion. Once 'That's A Lot To Ask' has finished scraping out your ears, 'Evicted CD-R' kicks in with high frequency sine wave tones and near-silence, slowly building up a dark, cloudy atmosphere before plunging headlong into what sounds like an orchestra tuning up in a very big cave, amplified to ridiculous extents. 'Disco Girlfriend' is more consistently abstract, establishing a flaked-out, caustic ambience before 'Happy New Year' mellows out with some airy chimes and only the very slightest, hovering drifts of static. Finally, 'Lost In The Blood' embarks upon a quietly droning journey that finishes with an ominous foghorn conclusion, floating off into the distance.
(Helicopter)
$10
Yellow Swans "Psychic Secession" CD
Beaming down from the sky like a ray of white-hot light intent on saving us from outselves, the Yellow Swans come up with their second studio record. Thier other record was “Bringing The Neon War Home” on narnack Although the band has countless releases documenting their live aktions, “Psychic Secession” is a work of uncomprimising vison, weaving together all sides of this duo’s 20-sided die. Moments of quiet hum but up against crunchy speaker burners to make this record essential listening.
(load)
$10
Yellow Swans / Devil Lock split 7"
YELLOW SWANS create their recordings with a variety of instruments including 1/4" tape, guitar, voice, drum machines, microphones and mixer feedback. The band has a large collection of releases on their own Collective Jyrk Label, and have recently have released full-lengths on Load and Narnack Records. DEVILLOCK is the project of JUSTIN MEYERS, owner of the Tonefilth record label. He is responsible for dozens of small pressing, noise recordings. Tonefilth has put out releases by the likes of Hive Mind, Burning Star Core and the Cherry Point. His releases are known for their handmade packaging and artwork which includes this 7-inch and such projects as the recent Yellow Swans’ Psychic Sessions CD out on Load Records.
(Modern Radio)
$6
Yellow Swans & The Cherry Point CD
Live at Camp Blood, a psychic seance of toxic neon junk, collaborative retch and wrangle. The is the new sound of vomit crunk, a heaving mess of strangled feedback & black mood confusion, death grasp electronics, mangled guitar and mutilated voices congealing into an unpleasant future.
Just who could have survived and what was left of them? NO ONE / NOTHING. Not recommended for fans of music!
Full color artwork in jewelcase: cover by Jesse Jackson, designed by John Wiese, mastered by Pete Swanson.
(Troniks)
$8
V/A Zum Audio Vol. 3 CD
Compilation featuring:Channels 3 and 4, Beak Full of Rubies, Coughs, Child Abuse,John Wiese, Silver Daggers, Lakes, TG, Huts, Antifamily, KIT, Micose and the Mau Maus,Stefan Udell, Axolotl, Bromp Treb, We Quit, Can't,Deerhoof, My Little Red Toe, Dim Diamond, Yellow Swans, Shoplifting, Ghost to Falco.
Mastering by Weasel Walter, cover artwork collaboration by George Chen and Lart Cognac Berliner in a gatefold sleeve.
(Zum)
$8
