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Grog Best of Compact Disc (CD) Cherried out Merch $8.99 Add To Cart |
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| Recorded in Missouri in 1991 by a mysterious youth duo featuring a member of the noise community who wishes to remain annonymous. Ranges from weird bedroom psych jams to totally retarded fart jokes to even more retarded use of found tapes to just a guy playing bass. I know that sounds terrible, but it actually transcends all that. Just make sure you skip to track 4 the first time you listen to it, I don't know if you're ready... 100 copies, "pro-burned", transparent art in jewel case. | |
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Shitty Vibe Smasher Sloths Through Time (Cassette) Cherried out Merch $4.99 Add To Cart |
| Ongoing "thick quiet electronics" collaboration between the guys that do Pulse Emitter, Budweiser Sprite, and Sisprum Vish. All the best parts from hours of recordings seammlessly joined, this one is in kind of a cloudy, murky style. 40 copies, reclaimed tapes, glossy cardstock. | |
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Lala S/T (Cassette) Cherried out Merch $4.99 Add To Cart |
| Totally awesome, unique debut solo tape from Lala Conchita R. Her mystifying anti-psychedelic microcassette backwash grows orchids with nothing but a rotten glass of water. 35 copies. Glossy cardstock. Hi-bias tapes. | |
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Daniel Menche Deluge/Sunder Compact Disc (CD) Beta-Lactum Ring $18.99 Add To Cart |
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| WOW! So Deluge first came out around 2000 on Beta-Lactum Ring as a limited Vinyl only release. It’s long been one our favorite Menche pieces. An sprawling piece that finds Menche playing Bass, Guitar, and Cello. It was one of his first works to explore the ultra-layered – ultra subtle progressions that he’s been laying out in the past few years. Really beautiful disc, and guess what folks!? The disc includes Sunder – a part, previously unreleased work. That is meant to be the direct sequel to Deluge. Comes in a cardboard gatefold with “Black Series” certificate, and is numbered #XXX/100. The full release is limited to 500 total. | |
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Jandek Austin Sunday Compact Disc (CD) Corwood $13.99 Add To Cart |
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| Another live double CD from Jandek! Austin Sunday is the 48th release overall and fourth live album by avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek. It is his sixth release of the year and documents Jandek's first ever American live performance, which took place in Austin, Texas in August 2005. The lineup of musicians features "The Corwood Representative" on guitar and vocals, along with local musicians, electric bassist Juan Garcia and drummers Nick Hennies (Weird Weeds) and Chris Cogburn. | |
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Astral Social Club ST Compact Disc (CD) VHF $14.99 Add To Cart |
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| A collection of tracks from super limited CDR releases over the past few years. Astral Social Club is a dense mega-mix of continually peaking sound-flow. Working a tricky hybrid ground between contemporary UK teams like Sunroof! and Vibracathedral Orchestra, and the influence of Kompakt-style pulsating electronic "techno," Astral Social Club's music shimmers and throbs in a truly psychedelic manner. Campbell and Tirath Singh Nirmala have radically re-worked these tracks to be unrecognizable from their original CDR issues, but they are instantly recognizable as part of the unrelenting Astral Social Club rainbow stream. Recommended. | |
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Daniel Menche Fractured Limbs Vinyl (LP) Anthem Records $5.99 Add To Cart |
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| Third in the Anthem Records Singles Series. One side of Percussion/Concussions from Mr. Menche. Limited to 211 copies. Hand numbered, sewn together sleeves. | |
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Wolf Eyes Human Animal Compact Disc (CD) Sub Pop $13.99 Add To Cart |
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| What can you say about this? It’s a really strong Wolf Eyes record in an endless sea of varying quality offered up by the group. Dilloway, no longer in the group, returns for help with the mix down. The ideas/compositions are solid. And it blows away most anything they’ve done in the recent past. Tortured reeds, scraped metal, harsh vocals, black ambience, and a lot of heavy bass. CD contains bonus track – cover version of No Fucker’s “Noise Not Music”. Recommended. | |
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Christina carter Electrice Compact Disc (CD) Kranky $14.99 Add To Cart |
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| Recorded winter/spring 2006. Electrice sees Carter limiting herself to ONE guitar tuning and One key for the entire record. Which makes this sound loosely like a concept record, but really… It’s kind of what she does anyhow. The album is beautiful though! Tom and Christina seem to have really revitalized the Charalambides, and their solo work, with this and Vintage Burden being some of the strongest stuff I’ve heard in a mass of releases on CDR and other formats. Highly Recommended! Hauntingly beautiful solo guitar and vocal wanderings. | |
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Nudge Dustbattle Anthem Records $5.99 Add To Cart |
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| Continuing in the series, Nudge deliver a smoky dirge perfect for autumn. Lineup consists of Honey Owens (of Valet, former JOMF) alongside Brian Foote and Paul Dickow (ex-Fontanelle, Foote et al). 211 copies in an embossed, hand-stamped sewn jacket. | |
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Skullflower Tribulation Compact Disc (CD) Crucial Blast $15.99 Add To Cart |
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| New massive album from Matthew Bower (Total, Hototogisu, Sunroof!, Mirag). Seriously heavy guitar feedback/freak-outs that, in only a way Bower can pull off, tumble slowly into blessed out almost Kraut-rock territories. As always – beautiful stuff. High recommendations! | |
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Daniel Menche Jugularis Compact Disc (CD) Important $12.99 Add To Cart |
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| Continuing further down the, newly found, heavily percussive road of Concussions. This time mixing in a little more of the brutal sounscape/harsh ambient sound as well. I love it when an artist picks up and takes their sound in a whole new direction, and Menche has is currently in full transitional mode. This along with other recent work is some of the most exciting work in his ever growing discography. A beautiful disc! | |
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Cool Truth Brave Nu World Compact Disc (CD) Heresee $15.99 Add To Cart |
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| James Pobiega was a drunk/drug addicted street performer who performed daily on the streets of Chicago’s south side in the 70’s and 80’s. He’d often have a stack of self pressed 45’s sitting by his side that he would offer up for sale. What we have here is the first rewcord by the man in over ten years. All new material, recently recorded by Twig of Nautical Almanac – and issued in a limited vinyl only pressing. Pobiega’s sound is somewhere near a WAY damaged Jandek or if Howlin Wolf had been possessed by the ghost (yes..!) of Albert Ayler. Beautifully damaged stream of conscience free jazz blues. | |
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Oren Ambarchi Grapes From The Estate Vinyl (LP) Southern Lord $17.99 Add To Cart |
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| Previously available on the Touch Label – Southern Lord have issued this doubled vinyl monster of Ambarchi’s most well received record. This album, when first released appealed across the board to metal kids, IDM geeks, and avant garde loners. Slow building dronelike sounscapes that evolve until clouds of heavy sound shred apart – highly recommended, also it’s quite limited. | |
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Matt Valentine & Erika Elder w/ The Bummer Road Mother Of Thousands Compact Disc (CD) Time Lag $18.99 Add To Cart |
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| Beautiful future ragas and folk-blues. First official non-CDR release by M.V./EE. Featuring help from a huge cast of underground-folk folks! Mo' Jiggs, Sparrow Wildchild, Nemo Bidstrup, Tim Barnes & Samara Lubelski adding harmonica, percussion, flute, electric guitar, tambura, violin, ukelin, and more to the usual assortment of mystic strings. We got a handful of these on Double CD and Double Vinyl, both limited. On Portland, Maine’s – Time-Lag Records. | |
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Charalambides Vintage Burden Compact Disc (CD) Kranky $14.99 Add To Cart |
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| WOAH! New Charalambides record, and it's so good! Easily their most accessible work to date. I know most fans are dreading the word accessible in this review, but trust me it's a welcome thing. Tom and Christina Carter both in top form - this record infuses a little more post-rock sound than previous records. Still very much Charalambides haunting droney slurring blues/folk, but with a really solid SONG edge, and a lot of multi-tracking on the vocal parts. Highly Highly Recommended! | |
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Goslings Spaceheater/Perfect Interior Compact Disc (CD) Crucial Blast $13.99 Add To Cart |
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| Back in stock! Spaceheater/Perfect Interior collects the first two EP's from husband-and-wife duo the Goslings, originally released as short-run CD-Rs on low-fi/indie noise imprint Asaurus Records in 2003-2004. Working with a signature palette of melted,low-fi indie pop and muggy/smeared psych-drone ambience ground through overdriven amplifiers and shot out into pools of swirling basement shudder, The Goslings adorn their gorgeous powermurk with eerie field recordings, ghostly subterranean vocals, and crackling cable buzz.If SUNN O))) had, in actuality, been a psych-addled late-80's dreampop outfit on 4AD Records | |
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Phil Niblock Touch 3 Compact Disc (CD) Touch $23.99 Add To Cart |
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| Phill Niblock's third release on the Touch label. Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968's barricade hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. In the history books Niblock is the forgotten Minimalist. His influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V. Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca. Touch Three is minimalism in the classic sense of the word, if that makes sense. Niblock constructs big 24-track digitally-processed monolithic microtonal drones, and the result is sound without melody or rhythm. Movement is slow, geologically slow. Changes are almost imperceptible, and his music has a tendency of creeping up on you. | |
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Masters of the Scene (Abba Tribute) Various Compact Disc (CD) Nihilist $14.99 Add To Cart |
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| The much anticipated and “definitive” ABBA tribute is here! Your favorite ABBA anthems are distorted, decapitated and reborn by artisans of the most elite order. Amongst these are: Sudden Infant (also Schimpfluch Gruppe), Evil Moisture, Canned Hamm, Guilty Connector, Ungrateful Deadbeats Strangulated Beatoffs), Sockeye, Kazumoto Endo, Manggenerated, Vertonen, Plastic Crimewave Sound, VIKI, Spider Compass Good Crime Band (Caroliner etc.), Gunshop, Foamula (Metalux/ Magic is Kuntmaster), Absorb, Irr.App(ext) and more! Limited to 500 copies. | |
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Metalux & John Wiese Exoteric Compact Disc (CD) Load $14.99 Add To Cart |
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| A cold and chopped journey awaits you in this collaboration between electronic duo Metalux and sound levitator, John Wiese. Vocals are chopped and oscillation wave forms move themselves into long sheets of ribbon thin taffy with confusing intent. The middle ground in this collaboration has a coldwave appeal that clicks with fans of throbbing rythmic noise like Wolf Eyes and Forcefield. This record is not noise however, more a full blown Kevorkian cocktail of reverberated malaise. The seven unnamed tracks flow one into the next with a rebounded tape smack that does not forget foot bounce, while keeping the main dome fully occupied with variable speed vox fukkk and equipment groan. This one is for the heads and takes notions of either artist to places where neither artist is safe going. This is for late nights and early mornings. | |
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Pauline Oliveros Primordial Lift Compact Disc (CD) Deep Listening Institute $14.99 Add To Cart |
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| A reissue of the Primordial Lift album from Pauline Oliveros (accordion, electronics, vocals), along with Tony Conrad (electric violin, ring modulator), Andrew Deutsch (electronics, toy piano), Anne Bourne (cello, voice), Alexandria Gelenscer (electric cello), David Grubbs (harmonium), and Scott Olson (low frequency oscillator). Originally released by Table of the Elements, this new version features 30-minutes of additional material not featured on the original release. | |
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Prurient Black Vase Compact Disc (CD) Load $13.99 Add To Cart |
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| Dominick Fernow is Prurient. He attacks large amplifiers, shirtless, with two microphones swirling into the invisible electro-magentic fields around the amps and makes tubes burst, capacitors swell, and fuses burn. Black Vase is a null transmission, from a shirtless terrorist deep in the zone. The total effect: like a bullet lodged deep in your consciousness . . . too dangerous to remove. The sound is dynamic, not a blurring fuzz, but a symphony of sickness so grand the gods themselves have taken note. Fans of harsher noise take note. | |