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THE READIES - Mink Dagger and Medicine Cabinent 45 on CASS records $4.99
new music from one of your fav detroit rockers - Dan Kroha!

FAG TAPES FAG TAPES
new batch of cassettes from heath, and a zine to boot!

SLUT MOUTH $5.99
FT277 SLUT MOUTH cassette. crazy new recordings from D. Payne Fossils side-project. slammed psycho sounds from the freezing North. scrape this thru your heads! hand-painted, limited edition 25.

COLORGUARD - shared planet $5.99
FT275 COLORGUARD "shared planet" cassette. amazing new recordings from Krystina Battalene mind travel guitar / ??? bender from the shared planet of New Haven. everyone says the pizza there is real good. almost every time i go there the car gets broken into. but put this tape in and you will travel far away into the sounds of new worlds. two 15 minute tracks. hand-painted, limited edition 50.

FT270 MISCELANEA vol. 4 art-zine w/ cassette. $9.99
something to look at while you listen to the tape! weird, seemingly randomness head concussion style stuff this time in a deluxe, huge 8 1/2 x 11 format w/ cassette sealed inside an attached envelope AND 6 photographs by ZZZZZ pasted onto pages. no artists get credit. maybe i bootleg shit? old flyers, things i find walking the streets, photographs. gig photographs. weird tape. hand-stamped / numbered sealed edition 25.

SICK LLAMA - living live remixed!! $5.99
REMIXXXED HEAVILY BY DAVID PAYNE OF FOSSILS, MJC TAPES (I THINK?), LIVE PERFORMANCES RECORDED/REMIXED HAMILTON, ON & TORONTO CANADA. SICK !

we got a special deal on this one, and it is only $20.99 - get it from us and save!!
FT258 SICK LLAMA "sentenced to be quartered part II" 4 x cassette box set. sick llama style drug melting murder. drip with blood murder. but a murder a no murder less you don't deserve it. big music, weed, and beer and guns at this party how we serve it. bleeding tapes left out in the sun to scab over. tied to the ground until the whips lash the backs of four horses ripping all limbs away from body. you're quartered and helpless and hopefully you will die very soon. terrible sounds! housed in 4 x cs album, deluxe hand-painted, hand-numbered edition 9.

Avi Buffalo 7" What's In It For? on Sub Pop $6.49
AVI BUFFALO is the adopted name of Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg, an 18 year-old singer/songwriter from Long Beach, CA. AVI BUFFALO is also the name of the band he formed with friends & like-minded collaborators. Avi & Co. have already toured with and befriended Beach House, played Fuck Yeah! Fest & Monolith Festival, gained airplay on BBC1, KCRW, & KXLU among others, etc. Look for a full-length on Sub Pop in Spring 2010.

Brokaw, Chris lp Solo Acoustic Vol. 3 $18.99

Chatham, Rhys cd Bern Project on Hinterzimmer $18.99
In the summer of 2008, RHYS CHATHAM visited Bern, Switzerland for a guitar trio performance with local musicians that the club had recruited for him. Rhys was blown away by the skills of the drummer & bass player and talked about plans to form a trio - half a year later he was back in Bern & introduced JULIAN SARTORIUS (DRUMS) & MAGO FLUECK (BASS) to new compositions he brought along

Chicago Underground Duo cd Boca Negra on Thrill Jockey $15.99
Fifth DUO album feat. ROB MAZUREK (EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA, ISOTOPE 217, MANDARIN MOVIE) & CHAD TAYLOR (FRED ANDERSON, IRON & WINE, MARC RIBOT), recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Containing both composed & improvised music, powerful grooves along with ambient sound structures, folk song simplicity & polyrhythmic bursts of energy with lyrical melodic vignettes. CD packaged in 4 panel mini-LP style jacket

Chicago Underground Duo lp Boca Negra on Thrill Jockey $15.99
Fifth DUO album feat. ROB MAZUREK (EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA, ISOTOPE 217, MANDARIN MOVIE) & CHAD TAYLOR (FRED ANDERSON, IRON & WINE, MARC RIBOT), recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Containing both composed & improvised music, powerful grooves along with ambient sound structures, folk song simplicity & polyrhythmic bursts of energy with lyrical melodic vignettes. LP jacket feat. paste-on photo art card, incl. download coupon, limited to 500,

Cosmos lp Jar Of Jam Ton Of Bricks $17.99

Dinowalrus cd % on Kanine Records $13.99
3-person drum n' drone band out of Brooklyn. The band relies heavily on the use of self-sustaining electronic devices to push its sound into cosmic brain-melting freakouts, lush atmospheric haze, &/or juvenile twee-skronk. Didactic experiments in infinite reverb, uber- & anti- "dance-ability," delay-treated xylophones, dime-store voice changers, deep-fried drum machines, pop-neo-orientalism, layered fuzz, & layered haircuts

Galaxie 500 This Is Our Music $18.99
Galaxie 500 Today $18.99
restocks of these amazing lps!!! must have's for your collection

Joan of Arc Presents: V/A - Don't Mind Control Polyvinyl $17.99
2LP version, ltd to 500 on orange vinyl 41+ members strong - the JOAN OF ARC extended family comes together for 18 exclusive songs curated by JOA frontman Tim Kinsella. Features new songs by TIM KINSELLA, OWEN, CALE PARKS (ALOHA), VACATIONS (ex-CHIN UP CHIN UP), GHOSTS & VODKA (ex-CAP'N JAZZ), EUPHONE, CAIRO GANG, DISAPPEARS, BIRDSHOW, A TUNDRA, WHITE/LIGHT

Lindstrøm & Christabelle cd with bonus!! Real Life Is No Cool $16.99
restock on this hot title! dancey, trancey, soulful vocals, samples to rack your brain......

Lowe, Robert A.A. & Rose Lazar- Eclipses Thrill Jockey $15.99
Full-length of music from ROB LOWE (LICHENS) packaged with 12" X 36" double-sided color poster feat. artwork of LOWE & ROSE LAZAR. An extension of the Gyromancy art book+CD, Eclipses pushes out beyond natural terrestrial landscapes into those slightly more cosmic or alien in scope. Recorded at home utilizing semi-modular & polyphonic analogue synthesizers. LP-only release, limited to 750, incl. download coupon.

Mummies cd Death By Unga Bunga $14.99
second pressing!!! restocked!

Rose, Jack lp I Do Play Rock & Roll on Three Lobed $26.99
snagged a few of these in hopes of helping spread the gospel of jack......his new release is out mid-feb and is brilliant!

Royal Trux lp Untitled (3rd Album) $18.99
vinyl for the new one!

Spoon 7" Written In Reverse on Merge $6.49
...b/w Mean Red Spider" . Ltd edition, pink vinyl. "Written In Reverse" is the 1st single from Transference. Features an exclusive B-side "Mean Red Spider"

Thee Oh Sees Master's Bedroom Is In the Red $15.99
...Worth Spending A Night In" REPRESS! Somewhere beyond nostalgia, beyond the garage, somewhere beyond the fireside song & supposed goo-rock, John Dwyer (OCS, COACHWHIPS, PINK & BROWN) weaves his signature AM radio howl w/ the catchiest of driving tunes, along w/ gorgeous harmonies, heightened fidelity, thick spring-reverbed bombast, mighty drums (at times in pairs) & an undeniable pull

REV, MARTIN: Stigmata CD $17.99
Martin Rev, the avant keyboard half of NYC punk pioneers Suicide, releases a solo album on the Blast First Petite label. Stigmata was recorded in New York City and features 14 tracks that heave with glitched-out, digitally-distorted, synthetic orchestral sounds -- quite unlike anything he has released before. A timely "flash-forward" of an album, it has already been described as "genius" by Spiritualized main man, Jason Pierce, and continues Rev's now four decades of eclectic electronic musicianship. And to further celebrate the album's release, Neu Galleries (London) showed a series of Rev's "abstract instinctive scores" throughout November 2009. Blast First Petite also continues to celebrate Martin Rev's partner, Alan Vega's 70th birthday with the release of their Suicide covers series with tracks from Bruce Springsteen, Primal Scream, Peaches, Sunn 0))), Lydia Lunch, Iggy Pop, Julian Cope, Vincent Gallo, and many more.

GONG: Gong Est Mort, Vive Gong CD $16.99
Beware, cult record! Gong is a progressive space-rock band formed at the end of the '60s by Daevid Allen, in those days leader of Soft Machine. Recorded in the Pavillon de Paris in 1977, this live album is the ultimate testimony of the "historic" Gong. All the band's "classics" were played that night, during a "reunion" show that lasted several hours. Released originally by a small label in 1977, this release is almost a collector's item -- Virgin, the official record company of the band having made every effort to forbid it; in vain. You have to possess this album if you are a true Gong fan, since the "official" live recording released by Virgin was a pale copy of Gong Est Mort, Vive Gong. The songs, compared to studio versions, are transcended by the magnificent improvisation from Didier Malherbe and the astounding solos of Steve Hillage. Gong Est Mort, Vive Gong was an expensive record, and barely impossible to find. This prestigious re-edition will please all the true fans, without a doubt. Features the classic line-up of Daevid Allen, Gilly Smyth, Tim Blake, Steve Hillage, Mike Howlett, Didier Malherbe, and Pierre Moerlen.

HEARTSMAN AND CIRCLES, JOHN: Music Of My Heart CD $17.99
This is a reissue of an unbelievably rare private press album that's chock full of the good stuff -- all kinds of funky femme soul, cool n' groovy organ/flute/guitar jazz and a good ol' dose of the blues! It's the fourth installment in Jazzman Records' Holy Grail series, and the label is proud to present Sacramento multi-instrumentalist John Heartsman's hopelessly obscure, self-pressed, top-grade funky jazz & soul from 1977, carefully repressed on CD and vinyl (limited to 1,000 vinyl copies only). Now get this -- the original LP has recently hit over $5,000 (yes, over five thousand U.S. dollars!) -- TWICE -- at online auction! Now it's available in its original format with original artwork for a song, but be quick -- as ALL of the previous releases in this series have all sold out very quickly. John Heartsman is known as the guy who played on a thousand R&B hits. From the mid-'50s to the late '60s he recorded countless sessions, backing up the likes of Jimmy McCracklin, Lowell Fulson, Sugar Pie DeSanto, and many, many more. Then, in the early '70s, exhausted from constant touring and seedy late-night gigs, he took up a low-key residency at a small Sacramento jazz club. Here, Heartsman finally got to do his OWN thing. And his thing went down so well with the local audience that he decided to record some material and offer an LP for sale. The album was quickly snapped up by the Basin St. West regulars, and very few escaped the local area. A couple of decades later, and sadly, a little while after Heartsman himself had passed away, a couple of copies surfaced on the funk collectors' scene in L.A. and whispers and rumours of a set of sustained quality funky soul and jazz began circulating slowly. Very few copies have appeared since, making the LP almost as legendary as the long and hidden career of the man himself. And here it is! The full double album, never before reissued and seldom before heard, in its original design. The CD version contains extensive notes, pictures and background history on the LP and John Heartsman himself.

NILSEN, BJ: The Invisible City CD $15.99
BJ Nilsen is a sound and recording artist born in Sweden. He defines his work as "focused upon the sound of nature and its effects on humans, and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated." He has numerous recordings on Touch and has collaborated with the likes of Chris Watson, Christian Fennesz, and Z'ev. Recorded and mixed during 2008-2009 in Berlin. All tracks composed by BJ Nilsen using tape recorders, computer, organ, acoustic guitar, electronics, viola, Subharchord. Field recordings from: Sweden, Iceland, Norway, UK, Japan, Portugal and Germany. The Subharchord was recorded in the EAM Studio @ Adk, Berlin. Viola played by Hildur Ingveldardóttir Gudnadóttir. Track notes: 01. "Gravity Station": Subharchord, pitch-regulated viola, amplified chair dragged across floor, window shutters, grand piano, virtual Hammond organ, steel whistle coffee-pot, acoustic and electric guitar feedback run through B&K Frequency Analyzer Type 2107, Various DSP; 02. "Phase And Amplitude": bumblebees, acoustic guitar, Studer B67, various DSP; 03. "Scientia": birdsong feed-backed and overdriven through a B&K Frequency Analyzer Type 2107, B&K Sine Random Generator Type 1024, Subharchord, wing-flaps and bird eating. B&K Sine Random Generator Type 1024, virtual Hammond organ, door slam, glockenspiel, online voice decoder, Studer B67, Various DSP; 04. "Virtual Resistance": Subharchord, acoustic and electric guitar feedback run through B&K Frequency Analyzer Type 2107, cat climbing up door, virtual Hammond organ, broken Fishman parametric EQ, bowed acoustic guitar, footsteps on snow, Studer B67, various DSP; 05. "Meter Reading": virtual Hammond organ, various DSP, Studer B67 tape cut-ups, boat ramp; 06. "Into Its Coloured Rays": wasps run through B&K Frequency Analyser Type 2107, piano, dead trees leaning against each other, crows, Studer B67, various DSP; 07. "Gradient": acoustic guitars, virtual Hammond organ, B&K Sine Random Generator Type 1024, Studer B67, various DSP; 08. "The Invisible City": amplified chair dragged across floor, feed-backed Ferrograph Series 4, rain, acoustic guitar feedback, tape-loops of found sounds, various DSP.

HIGGINS, DICK: The Thousand Symphonies CD $20.99
"Alga Marghen presents the first edition ever issued of Dick Higgins' music. Fluxus founding member, in 1958 Dick Higgins studied Composition and Experimental Music with John Cage in his class at the New School for Social Research in New York together with, among others, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Toshi Ichiyanaghi, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Jackson Mac Low. In the Spring of 1968 Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts told Dick Higgins of a project that was afoot at Douglass College, where both were teaching at the time, to organize a show around guns. At that time the USA police seemed to have nothing better to do than to chase down teenagers for possessing miniscule amounts of marijuana and throwing them in jail, thus ruining their lives. Dick Higgins decided it would be more worthy if one could set all the policemen in the USA to composing symphonies themselves. So he proposed that the beautiful music paper be machine gunned and that symphonies be derived from the result. Geoffrey Hendricks arranged for Captain Toby of the South Brunswick Police to do this, which duly happened with a 9mm MP40 Schmeisser submachine gun, filmed by Alison Knowles. A volunteer orchestra, conducted by Philip Corner and including Charlotte Moorman, performed nine of the resulting symphonies at Douglass College on December 9th. The Douglass concert was taped, but the only copy disappeared when the Ars Viva! Gallery in Berlin, Germany, went bankrupt in 1984. The whole situation was documented with photographs in Source Magazine in 1970. As Philip Corner, conductor of the recordings presented here, said: 'Leave it to Dick Higgins to come up with the most spectacular way to generate a page of patternless notes. Once over this dramatic gesture with machine-gun bullets leaves a stack of paper full of holes. I had not thought of this before but there must have been a conscious connection to the social turmoil of the 60's - all too unfortunately, come back around to high relevance these days.' First press limited to 500 copies with digipack sleeve, also including a 16 page booklet with full documentation presenting 2 texts by Dick Higgins from the 1960s as well as a Philip Corner testimony, original photos and original scores."

WALKER, PETER: Spanish Guitar CD $17.99
"In 1966, Peter Walker's Rainy Day Raga translated the sound of Eastern ragas into the consciousness of America's LSD generation. The record is still considered a classic of its genre, cited as a primary influence on the new psych/ folk sounds of today's generation. Like the great blues guitar pickers before him, Walker disappeared from public and recorded life for decades, yet continued to practice and study all along. Spanish Guitar is the culmination of this past era, finding Walker continuing where he left off with Rainy Day Raga, tracing his beloved Indian sound to Spain, where the gypsies redefined Spanish music and created what is now known as flamenco. This record is to flamenco what Rainy Day Raga was to raga -- an inspired sound that views all of Walker's studies with his Western lens, so unique and beautifully played that it seems like an entirely new genre. This is a sound unlike anything elsewhere -- a transcendental sound, one that until now only belonged to the heavens." Recorded live in California, 2006.

BURNING STAR CORE: Inside The Shadow CD $14.99
"A reissue of an obscure tour-only recording from 2005 brings to the light the flickering dance of Mr Yeh and his dives into organic drone music. Unlike the majority of his electronic compositions, Inside The Shadow reveals three textures brought to life with violin, chimes and bells that defy most of the contemporaries' limitations to synth-only exercises. Yeh proves the heart of landscape-oriented linear composition is only limited by the imaginations of the creators and brings warmth to an otherwise cold genre with the flame of Inside The Shadow."

GIFFONI, CARLOS: Severance CD $14.99
"After developing his calling card on Adult Life and The Eternal releases, Carlos Giffoni defines his signature with compositional electronic music. Melding the analog drone colliding tonality of the past expressions and inducing minimalist sequencer details, a pure electronic landscape is cultivated that nurtures the formation a man makes in stepping from the mysteries of youth into adulthood."

SPARKS: The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman 2LP $38.99
"With the release of The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman, Ron and Russell Mael's 22nd album, the worlds of Sparks and musical theatre have finally become one. Originally commissioned by Sweden's national public radio station Sveriges Radio to write and produce an original radio musical, Sparks created the musical fantasy based on the internationally acclaimed film director Ingmar Bergman. Says Ron, 'As Americans, we have almost abandoned radio drama, and it was truly exhilarating for us to work in a medium where the imagination of the listener is so integral a part of the work. Aside from our love of Bergman, we have a love of Orson Welles and his use of the medium of radio was something that inspired us in this work.' The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman is just over 60 minutes of wonderfully original music that tells a fantasy 'what if' story. Though his films' themes have traditionally centred on matters of death, faith, God's existence, and the struggle to find love and meaning in our lives, in the musical Bergman is confronted by the lure of a mythological Hollywood seemingly at odds with all he stands for -- a Hollywood that tempts him and ultimately tries to control him. What starts as an exploration by Bergman of the possible mutual benefits of his working in Hollywood turns into a Kafkaesque nightmare, one that ends with the aid of a most unlikely savior." Includes 12-page booklet.

VA: Dengue Fever Presents Electric Cambodia CD $14.99
"This music was recorded in the 1960s and early '70s soon after Cambodia became an independent nation. It was a period of rapid modernization that not only influenced music, but also architecture, sculpture, painting, dance and cinema. For many, it was Cambodia's own artistic renaissance, a time pointing to a hopeful future. This golden era came to a sudden end when the Khmer Rougetook control of the country in 1975 and brutally attempted to destroy any trace of modern society. Sadly, while many of the recordings of modern Cambodian rock and roll survived, most of the artists who created it did not. Over the last decade Dengue Fever has culled this compilation of their favorite Cambodian rock and roll from many different cassette tapes. The great music you'll find here is a testament to the spirit of a modern Cambodia that existed not so long ago, and should be remembered today."

SHINDIG: Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 14 Jan-Feb 2010 MAG $8.99
"Radio Dada: The heroic saga of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Procol Harum: Keeping the ship afloat in the '70s. The Bosstown Sound: Ultimate Spinach, The Beacon Street Union and more! Mimsy Farmer: From Riot on Sunset Strip to Dario Argento. Amorphous Androgynous: Exploding in your mind with new psych adventurers." 99 full color pages.

ROSE & THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS, JACK: Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers CD $16.99
"This raw and rocking collaboration between Jack Rose and The Black Twigs features some of the most swinging, hard-hitting string music waxed in many a decade. Rose's solo playing has always had a tough edge, with his prodigious technique often employed to drop right-hand bombs. His use of a thumbpick originates from years of duets with Twig Mike Gangloff, struggling to make his guitar heard over Gangloff's crashing banjo. The front line of Rose and Gangloff's strings are joined by Isak Howell's no-nonsense guitar and harmonica and Nate Bowles' variety of expert percussion. The four lock together with a sure-footedness honed by frequent touring and a singularity of intent to rock. Gangloff takes the vocals, howling out standards like 'Little Sadie' firmly in the old-time tradition -- without reserve. A few of the tracks here are updates of Rose & Family classics, with the group turning the stately 'Kensington Blues' upbeat and issuing an assured take on 'Bright Sunny South,' first recorded by Pelt (with Rose and Gangloff) back in 2001 on their gonzo classic double-disc Ayahuasca."

THE THREADS OF GRASS - Sun Tunnels lp on Abundance records $15.99
this is a stellar record by chad gilchrist with just about every detroit musician possible......zach wallace, aran ruth, erika hoffman, elliot bergman, warren defever and about 25 more...... beautiful psyche folk completely worthy of your time! a new favorite at our house.

DIRTBOMBS - Race To The Bottom 12" on Cass $7.99
hmmmm, not sure what to think here......the dirtbombs do a 23 minute experimental noise piece. not your usual dirtbombs, but it is the usual limited pressing you would expect from cass records

TURBO FRUITS - Colt .45 7" on Cass $4.99
these guys have a record out on Ecstatic Peace!

NIHILIST DISCO - S/T 12" on Love What You Feel $8.99
limited edition
The debut release by Austin, TX, artist Disco Nihilist combines acid and deep house to create a timeless EP. Influenced heavily by old school Chicago house and New York’s great Nu Groove records, all four tracks were made with simple hardware and recorded to cassette tape giving this record a physical presence that computer-produced tunes can’t touch. Despite the limited production tools, each track has its own distinctive flavor: pumping chords, looped bleeps, dub echoes, and jacking beats make for a diverse yet coherent sound throughout the EP

NIHILIST DISCO & DAETRON VARGAS - 12" on Construction Paper $8.99
limited edition
Hot on the heels of his debut 12? on Love What You Feel, Disco Nihilist teams up with Daetron Vargas to kick-start another brand new US label called Construction Paper.Disco Nihilist’s lo-fi rhythms are augmented with Daetron Vargas’ melodic sensibilities on the A1 cut that locks listeners into its hypnotic groove. The collaboration continues on the B1 with a low down acid track that strips the groove down to the bone. Ruthless hardware minimalism is also the philosophy here, with swung 707 beats and tweaked 303 that are only slightly augmented with delay to deliver a driving dancefloor joint. In true old-school style, the “Drum Mix” of A1 completes the B side, sure to please all the jocks who fiend for more new rhythm trax. Rounding out the release is a stunning solo jam by Daetron Vargas, in the A2 position, whose bare-bones production belies its considerable emotional qualities. Daetron’s track sounds like a lost first-wave Detroit gem that has spent the last 20 years decaying on a basement shelf. The primitive fidelity gives the track a raw edge that cannot be duplicated in-the-box with “vintage” plug-ins. This release is yet another step in the establishment of the new deep house and techno underground in the United States that combines old equipment and production techniques with modern ideas to take the sounds forward. The interaction of man and simple machines can produce infinite sonic results, and this 12? showcases two producers’ distinctive takes that mesh together in a most satisfying manner. This release will be strictly vinyl with no digital distribution. GOT THESE 2 ITEMS DIRECT FROM THE LABEL!!!

BASINSKI, WILLIAM: Vivian & Ondine CD $14.99
"In May of 2008 I was in my studio in NY preparing for a concert at Issue Project Room. I realized I had been touring for a year and was still touring the same piece I had performed there the year before. I was interrupted by a call from my youngest brother, Patrick. As we chatted, he told me that his wife, Andrea was overdue with their daughter, Vivian. I replied in sympathy that 'Vivian' was a movie-star name and that I imagined with a name like that, she would have people waiting on her for her entire life. I got back to work and found yet another lunchbox of ancient tape-loops to go through for possible inclusion in the new piece. I came across the main theme and thought... well, this is gorgeous; let's see if we can use this to coax Viv to come out. I went through the rest of them and found another dozen or so that mixed well used randomly, just under the threshold. The next night I performed the piece at Issue with their 16 channel hemispherical speaker system set to move the sounds randomly around the room as if waves in a pool. We all had a really good time. It was mesmerizing. The next day I got word that Vivian had been born and my cousin, Terence's first granddaughter, Ondine had been born as well. I couldn't think of a more beautiful title for this piece than to name it after these two beautiful girls. This version was recorded with microphones and two Norelco tape decks live in my studio in Los Angeles in one take in September 2008. A version of this piece was commissioned by Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio of Los Angeles for her extraordinary project, Strawberry Flag, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles. It has been an honor to be a part of this wonderful project." -- William Basinski

SMITH, LONNIE: Move Your Hand LP $12.99
Gatefold exact repro reissue, originally released in 1969. Recorded live at "Club Harlem" Atlantic City, NJ. Featuring Rudy Jones (tenor sax), Robbie Cuber (baritone sax), Larry McGee (guitar), Sylvester Goshay (drums) and Lonnie Smith on organ and vocals. "The band was tight. There was a feeling of togetherness on that small bandstand. >From the first note on, everything fell into place. Whether they played 'Charlie Brown' or 'Sunshine Superman,' the blues permeated everything they played.... Right in the groove and probably the high point of the session was Lonnie's sensational 'Move Your Hand.' His infectious, humorous vocal really turns this track into 'something else'."

MOBLEY, HANK: Hi Voltage LP $12.99
Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1967. Featuring Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Jackie McLean (alto sax), Hank Mobley (tenor sax), John Hicks (piano), Bob Cranshaw (bass) and Billy Higgins (drums). "Hank's path along the road to maturity took him on a level course through the latter days of the bebop era. While many musicians of the day were trying to smooth out some of the rough edges of bop (in certain cases this led to the so-called cool counter-revolution), Hank already had his own thing pretty well together. During the middle and late 1950s he seemed just as much at ease with the typical combos of that period (the hard bop phase) as he had in his earliest days. Some critics have detected in him a slight Coltrane influence. It would be difficult indeed for any tenor saxophonist with open ears not to have absorbed a touch of Trane during the 1960s, but the inherent quality of the Mobley sound, and the craftsmanlike way in which he has evolved his own facility of phrasing (let's call it the Mobley Mobility) precludes any strong resemblance between the two."

NURSE WITH WOUND: Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine 2LP $32.99
...And An Umbrella. Regular 2LP edition (boxed edition with t-shirt and badge is now deleted). Three sides of music, 1 side etched, this is the long-awaited re-issue of the timeless Nurse With Wound debut release from 1979. Described by Sounds at the time as a record that "makes The Faust Tapes sound like Carousel," nothing has changed to alter this view over the last 30 years, and to say that this work is the "Sgt. Pepper of the avant-garde" would not be hyperbole. 2LP set with the extra track "Strain, Crack, Break" (never previously available on vinyl) on side three and an etching on side four. Printed inner sleeves featuring the famous NWW list.

SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN: A LP $18.99
"A is Sunburned's second album with producer Kieran Hebden, a.k.a. Four Tet. Directed by Kieran like actors in a film, Sunburned is taken off the bandana smokestage of their previous collaboration -- Fire Escape -- and put onto a sweat-soaked 4am lysergic dance floor. Kieran uses the band like his live instrument laptop and sampler. The results are truly stunning which makes this record into one of the best moments of each artist's respective musical careers. With artwork by California visionary and band favorite Raymond Pettibon, A has looks that kill along with the sounds that thrill." Includes double-sided poster of Pettibon artwork.

GLASS ROCK: Tall Firs Meet Soft Location LP $18.99
"Glass Rock is a song, is a band, is a way of life. Glass Rock is the crystallized movement formed by the molten lava makeout of the two bands of the album title: Tall Firs meet Soft Location. It's a werewolf and a rhino on a first-date rampage of Korean Food and poppers, doing the Cabbage Patch on the boardwalk, kissing babies with beer breath, all with truthful love in their hearts. The core elements of the Soft Location sound are Kathy Leisen's haunting voice and boneyard guitar, and Matt Kantor's slo-mo jet fuel bass jamminating. Add Tall Firs: Ryan Sawyer's could-blow-your-pants-off-but-prefer-to-slowly-work-them-over-your-hips drumming and Dave Mies and Aaron Mullan's creamy dual-savant guitar stylings: two dudes who don't even know how the other guy's guitar is tuned but nonetheless have brought the tandem knockout reverb dropkick since 1991. The band actively refuses to discuss influences, even with one another. With two pairs of childhood friends in the band, the music just happens and the listener is left to speculate. The dilettante thinks Chan Marshall or an Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison caught an extra-rad time machine ride and now inhabits every moment from 1955-2013 simultaneously. The serious aficionado is thinking Martha Reeves, Amon Dull II, the Gories, Otis Redding. But Heads know: This thing is wigs, Pepsi commercials, Sam Cooke, hardcore festivals, and free stuff on craigslist. In reality, Glass Rock are a prisonyard football team: a motley collection of wizened lifers, small-time pimps, and the wrongly convicted. Leisen is their Burt Reynolds. A painter on the Outside, she woke up back in the huskau of a recording studio after Awesome Michael ratted her and Kantor out to Ecstatic Peace. In the yard Tall Firs were hanging around bench-pressing twice their body weight. This record documents their crushing and dramatic defeat of the prison guards, and their harrowing escape during the ensuing melee. There is nothing contrived about this band. Neither derivative nor hybridized, GnR II are truly Chimeric. This ain't reference-rock. This is the half man/half shark/half alligator sung of in days of yore, with inflatable Sasquatch feet and one popsicle arm. This thing will get bestial with you on the dancefloor, and will hold you tight on a pre-dawn canoe ride; staring at the stars crying at the wonder and terror of it all."

VA: Chamber Music (James Joyce) 2CD $22.99
Originally released in 2008. The idea was simple: find contemporary artists influenced (however loosely) by James Joyce's style to finally turn the poems into musical works. The only directive was to not mess with the words! Five years in the making comes this epic 36 artist interpretation of James Joyce's 1907 collection of poems, Chamber Music, charting love from innocence to experience. Curated by James Nicholls from the Virgin Passages and with contributions from major established artists (Mercury Rev, Ed Harcourt, Minus 5, Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth with Text Of Light) and cult players (Jessica Bailiff, Gravenhurst, Mike Watt, Bardo Pond), this represents a sweeping but unified expression of Joyce's early, love-hungry verse. Beautifully packaged double slipcase CD and double gatefold vinyl with artwork by Stephanie Black. Other artists include Monica Queen, War Against Sleep, Venture Lift, HTRK, Califone, Owen Tromans, Airport Studies, Mary Lorson, Willy Mason, Noah John, Ian Kearey, David Hurn & Abigail Hopkins, Coldharbourstores, Lori Scacco, Great Depression, Puerto Muerto, Flying Saucer Attack, Sweet Trip, Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta, Sphyr, Mountain Men Anonymous, Tenebrous Liar, Green Pajamas, Christian Kiefer, Duke Garwood, Lovetones and Kinski.

VA: Chamber Music 2LP $24.99
also on lp!!

MATEO & JORGE TRASANTE, EDUARDO: Mateo Y Trasante CD $17.99
"As many of you who have followed along with us while we chart a course through the rich musical heritage of Uruguay know full well, a military dictatorship took control of the country in the early 1970s, causing most well-known musicians to emigrate. The nation's most influential musician, enfant terrible iconoclast Eduardo Mateo, had no chance to do so. And yet it was during this dark period that Mateo reached his zenith as a composer and arranger in case of this album, with a lot of help from world famous Afro-folk percussionist Jorge Trasante. On Mateo y Trasante (1976), Mateo's second post-El Kinto album, he goes further than ever before in his sonic explorations of different percussion variations and guitar techniques, evolving a more complex musical style. Even Mateo's voice underwent a relevant mutation for the album, which many people thought the result of a deep mental illness. (Trasante explains that Mateo was deeply influenced by Arabic music, and used the new modulations he discovered to get into different characters with his voice.) Many of Mateo's old fans and fellow musicians could not really connect with his new musical personality and this work went unnoticed. According to Mateo biographer Guilherme de Alencar Pinto, only around 343 copies of the album were sold; yet this record is now considered a legitimate work of art, and indisputable evidence of Mateo's genius. This Lion Productions edition comes with a 32-page booklet which contains abundant information on the making of the album, as told by Jorge Trasante, lyrics in English and in the original Spanish, historical background on the Uruguayan scene, a score of incredible photos, and a brief overview of the legendary Sondor label. Our sincere thanks to Enrique Abal Oli for allowing us to use his amazing photos, and to Daniel Figares for allowing us to translate text from his book Mateo y Trasante: Treinta Años 1976-2006, which is the source for all of Jorge Trasante's musings on this epochal album included in this reissue. Printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy."

GREEN: Green CD $17.99
"Green arrived in the mid-1980s, amidst a Chicago scene that included bands like Naked Raygun, Big Black, and Ministry (and eventually, Material Issue and Smashing Pumpkins). Green bypassed the major label-express that many of those other bands rode to fame and fortune, and continued to make records their own DIY way, records which were lauded in the pages of Trouser Press, Spin, and The Village Voice, among others. And with each passing year there are an increasing number of folks who are convinced that their debut LP is worthy of those Mojo/VH1/Spin/ lists of the top 50 or 100 rock albums of all time. From the first pulsating, exuberant notes of the intro, the band knows what they want to say: kids get ready, gotta rock steady, because they Gotta Getta Record Out, they are trying to Curry Your Favor, they play the records, and maybe most of all, they want to be Big in Japan! One astute reviewer said: The band darts through decades of pop history as impatiently as the Spiral Scratch-era Buzzcocks, with band leader Jeff Lescher's voice ranging from Princely falsetto to gravel-tinged field holler, but most often sounding as though someone stepped on Paul McCartney's toes in 1965. And as another reviewer quite rightly said, 'This is such a flawless pop masterpiece that I'm not even ashamed to trot out terms like 'flawless pop masterpiece.'' Green may be the bees knees for anglophile power poppers, but they deserve more notice than that; they were the kind of all-embracing band, with a taste for punk, glam rock and soul and with a twitchy sort of energy of the sort that burbled around in the late-80s, pre-grunge underground (a little Feelies anyone?). It remains a mystery why other bands are fixed in the collective memory as the era's best at the very least, Green should make a list of top obscure pop groups of all time! Booklet has band history and lyrics, plus many a fine photo, all courtesy of Lescher. Seven bonus tracks, including the CD debut of the band's 1984 EP The Name of This Band is Green. Printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy." "Their (first) 45 had two absolute masterpieces: 'Gotta Getta Record Out,' which yelps and shouts along like the best of the old Bongos or Jam or Feelies or somebody, and 'I Don't Want To Say No,' which is the sort of white Motown that assholes like the Replacements could never get right. This is not a punk record, except perhaps in spirit, but it isn't any worse for that." -- Steve Albini

MAZZY STAR: She Hangs Brightly LP $18.99
"Mazzy Star, essentially the duo of David Roback (Rain Parade) and Hope Sandoval, formed in 1989 out of the ashes of Opal, Roback's previous band with former Dream Syndicate member Kendra Smith. She Hangs Brightly, their debut album was originally released on Rough Trade in 1990. A dreamy, psychedelic affair every bit as good as their sophomore breakout LP."

VA: Thai Pop Spectacular CD Sublime Frequencies $16.99
restocked!

VA: Shadow Music CD on Sublime Frequencies $16.99
restocked!

SUN RA: United World In Outer Space LP $25.99
"Decades before his time, political and musical revolutionary, Sun Ra, developed a new plane of cultural existence where black people were all-powerful beings from outer space, sending their intergalactic message through jazz music. Recorded live in 1975 at Cleveland's legendary jazz club, the Smiling Dog Saloon, when Sun Ra and his Arkestra descended on the city for a week-long residency. You can imagine how the uninitiated's jaw must have dropped when Ra and his 15 musicians marched out onto the stage decked in glittery space costumes, playing percussion instruments and chanting. This high quality live performance is top-shelf Ra playing a kind of spaced out world music with hints of disco. Ra sings, plays the Moog, piano and organ, while everyone else plays alternately some kind of percussion or reed instrument, sings, dances, and claps hands. Check out his other-worldly version of Duke Ellington's 'Sophisticated Lady', featuring John Gilmore on sax, and his extended Moog solo!"

Brown, Ian vinyl lp My Way $32.99
yes - THAT ian brown, the man who fronted the Stone Roses for SOOOO long.......

Jesu lp Opiate Sun $16.99
One time only limited edition of 2,000 copies. 200 copies on YELLOW vinyl....

Do Make Say Think Other Truths cd on Constellation $17.99
beautiful new release by this fantastic band

Trevor, Ryan lp Introducting on Drag City $18.99
Introducing Ryan Trevor is the third release in the GZoaola cDtiics kZoo Disk series. Incredibly rare & homespun pop LP from minor LA songwriter Ryan Trevor. A near-exact repro of an insanely catchy song cycle of Macca-melodies, subverted by copious amounts of phase, fuzz & a bedroom production ambience that would certainly make Bob Pollard, Ariel Pink or The Godz jealous. Furthermore, GZD honcho Plastic Crimewave estimates this music (circa 1977) to be "somewhere between Emitt Rhodes and R. Stevie Moore." Vinyl only!

FRANKIE AND THE SEMM / PANICSVILLE split 12" on TQR&R $11.99
crazy ass 12" of noise and bizarre recordings by our own mike d......features an intimate look/listen of the night time world of faggot junkies in L.A. flop houses. fascinating, and horrifying - with this record, you can have both!

Stone Breath cd Shepherdess & the Bone- $14.99
Stone Breath returns with their first new album in over 5 years. A visionary creation of Eastern-influenced rural acid folk. >From fingerpicked acoustics; to clawhammer banjo excursions; to the side-long exaltation that is "The Shepherdess of the Fiery Wheels," Stone Breath manifest their best work to date; an entire set of originals with the strange & beautiful harmonies & instrumentation which graced their past work. They are clear in sight, united in purpose, and shining in the darkness. Comes with booklet featuring lyrics, info & full psychedelic illuminations

Computer Perfection cd We Wish You Well On Your Way To Hell $14.99
Former members of PAS/CAL. A half-baked psychedelic/pop/jangle/kraut concoction

King Khan & BBQ Show cd Invisible Girl $14.99
King Khan & BBQ Show lp Invisible Girl $17.99
The long-awaited 3rd full-length album will not disappoint the band's admirers or their devoted cult following. Marks a return to the trademark doo-wop-laced, anthemic garage rock that earned the band their fame & their infamy

Grizzly Bear lp Horn of Plenty $18.99
last chance to own this great record on record!

Davis, Betty cd Is It Love or Desire $15.99
Entire 1976 album previously unreleased! A little known gem in the Davis catalogue, this album was shelved after a creative difference between Davis and her then label. Her most personal & expressive record of 10 hard-hitting tracks. Originally intended artwork with liner notes by Oliver Wang housed in a lavishly packaged digipak. Includes rare photos, archival material & recent interviews with Davis

McDowell, Fred lp S/T on Mississippi $14.99
Reissue of the Arhoolie LP originally titled "Fred McDowell - Volume 2". A beautiful set by the MissiRsseipcpoir bdlsues legend. One of Fred's best. Intense Delta blues

Chll Pll cd Aggressively Humble $15.99


Annie cd Don't Stop +Bonus $15.99
Dynamite sophomore release from Scandinavian pop princess AnnieS. uBpoethrs imoumneddiately listenable & utterly beguiling, this "pop with strange edges" is mainstream & underground, all at once. Sometimes expressive, sometimes funny, but always totally fresh & utterly human.

Radian cd Chimeric $15.99
MARTIN BRANDLMAYR, STEFAN NEMETH, & JOHN NORMAN reunite 5 years after their last record. This is not a polished album. Within their context it is raw, broken, even dark sometimes. Steady, multiple rhythms, layered on top of each other disappear into chaos & turn back into discreet structures in the next moment. References of rock music, executed with the precision of a sequencer; mutated, restructured

Sun Ra: I Am Strange 7" $5.99
Previously unissued early recordings. "Sixties spoken word mysticism from Saturn, with otherworldly instrumentation! Absolutely brain bending and everso essential!"

Fuckpony: Let The Love CD $15.99
Let The Love Flow is a self-contained album with powerful, melodic arches and a great, dramatic understatement of house for ravers in love and for raved-out lovers who are still going, long after peak-time.

Foster, R: Two Headed LP $13.99
Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1972. "Ronnie Foster's debut album Two Headed Freap is a set of contemporary funky soul-jazz from the early '70s, which means it sounds closer to the soundtrack of a lost blaxploitation flick than Back at the Chicken Shack, Pt. 2. Foster certainly does display a debt to Jimmy Smith, but his playing is busier than Smith's and a bit wilder. Ironic, then, that his playing is in service to the groove and blends into the mix of wah-wah guitars, funk rhythms, electric bass, harps, and percolating percussion. Everything on Two Headed Freap is about glitzy groove -- it sounds cinematic, colorful, and funky." -- All Music

Ambarchi/Fennesz/: Tea CD $16.99
It's the people involved in Afternoon Tea -- originally released in 2000 on German label Ritornell and now reissued on Black Truffle with a new master, bonus tracks and newly discovered live recordings after years of being out of print -- that ensured it was more than a happy accident. The twin guitar presence of AMM's Keith Rowe and Oren Ambarchi and kindred spirits of the laptop -- Sydney's Pimmon, Vienna's Christian Fennesz and Peter Rehberg -- made it a momentous day. With all the players coming together during the 2000 What Is Music? Festival (co-curated by Ambarchi), Afternoon Tea stands as a highpoint of the then-emerging intersection between Powerbook performance and guitar improvisation. All subtlety, nuance and detail, it is a revelation of restraint. Built on a steadying flow of burbling rhythm, the quintet slowly weave around each others' sonics in layers, creating a tonal palette immersive in its atmosphere and magnetic in its compulsion.

LILES, ANDREW: Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) CD/DVD DUALDISC $19.99
Previously released in a limited edition 2LP version, now available for the first time on a digital format -- the DualDisc expanded edition of the critically-acclaimed Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) by Andrew Liles (Current 93, Nurse With Wound). Ouarda features contributions from, amongst others, Danielle Dax, Rose McDowall and Edward Ka-Spel. Side one of this disc is an audio CD including an extra track and a slightly remixed version of the LP. Side two of the disc is a DVD which includes a film by Michael Tang with musical adaptations by Colin Potter; Old Tom's Marrow, a film by Andrew Liles and 3 amazing 5.1 mixes by Freida Abtan. Packaged in a beautiful super jewel-box with a full-color 8-page booklet with stunning Liles artwork. DVD is NTSC all-region

Kirby, L: Memories Live Longer Than Dreams lp $26.99
Layered drones and distorted crescendos somehow sound like Yellow Swans and Vangelis battling it out for supremacy over 13 minutes of immense, visceral music. "Don't Sleep I'm Not What I Seem, I'm A Very Quiet Storm" is a 14-minute piano treatment that's at once deeply beautiful and somehow strangely disturbing -- evoking long-submerged memories. A fitting end to this substantial, important body of work

FROST, BEN: By The Throat CD $16.99
This is Reykjavik-based composer/producer Ben Frost's second release for the Icelandic Bedroom Community label. Frost first took the spotlight and smashed it to pieces in 2007 with his breathtaking and critically acclaimed release Theory of Machines, which Boomkat called "the future of electronic music" and The Wire called "simply awesome -- Arvo Pärt as arranged by Trent Reznor." It's impossible to truly classify where he is coming from musically, but it would be safe to say his fans would also have records from Neurosis, Tim Hecker, Sunn O))) and Fennesz in their collection. To simply call him an experimental electronic musician, however, does him no justice whatsoever. Where Theory of Machines came sterilized in fluorescent light, By The Throat is blood red and cloaked in shadow.

WILLIAMS, EDWARD: Life On Earth: Music From The 1979 BBC TV Series CD $17.99
The groundbreaking natural history program Life On Earth hit UK TV screens 30 years ago, in 1979, and this is the first time the beautiful music composed for the series by Edward Williams has been commercially issued. It's quite extraordinary that something so utterly beautiful has remained unissued until now. The music itself is hard to categorize -- of course it's soundtrack music, but it hints at classical, at library music, touches on the avant-garde, and has a strong ambient feel and an unusual timeless quality. It involves over 70 musicians, with the composer placing much of the played music through his vintage 1973 VCS 3 synthesizer.

SIGUR ROS: Gobbledigook 12" $13.99
"Gobbledigook" is the spectacular opener on Sigur Rós' album Með Suð � Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust -- and is one of the most hymn-like songs they've written thus far. Fellow Icelanders Stephen Stephenson aka President Bongo (Gus Gus) and Jack Schidt transform the complex, polyrhythmic original into an exceptionally ethereal club track. The percussive groove takes over the tribalistic atmosphere of the original, catapulting it into the future. Thomas Fehlmann's remix is sensational, and somehow turns this song into a schaffel.

OS MUTANTES: Os Mutantes LP $16.99
180 gram exact repro reissue, officially licensed from Universal. "Absolutely brilliant debut from 1968 with a wild & crazy mixture of psychedelia & Brazilian music, with killer fuzz guitars, effects, Beatles influences. An incredible set of great songs that sound today even more fresh and modern than in 1968!!! Includes an astounding fuzzed-out cover of Jorge Ben's 'A Minha Menina.'"

OS MUTANTES: Jardim Elétrico LP $16.99
180 gram exact repro reissue, licensed from Universal. Originally released in 1971. "One of the absolute highlights of the album is the humorous 'El Justiciero,' which features Spanish lyrics and also some Spanish-style guitar play. Other great songs are 'Tecnicolor,' which has lyrics in English, the melodious and slightly Beatlesque 'Virgínia,' and 'Tudo, Tudo, Tudo,' a song that features a bluesy mouth harmonica. On these and other tracks on the album, the music of Os Mutantes is just as playful and creative as ever." -- All Music Guide

VA: Singapore A-Go-Go CD $16.99
Sublime Frequencies works its way down to the tip of the Malaysian peninsula with this superb collection of Singaporean '60s beat, pop and "off-beat cha-cha" classics compiled from original vinyl 45s. These 22 supercharged beat-a-go-go tracks defy a common held belief that the Chinese couldn't rock, groove or swing back in the 1960s. The vocals are sung in the dialects of Mandarin and Hokkien and they soar, with catchy hooks atop groovy, clever beats. There's plenty of electric guitar, organ and crazy percussion rocking and twisting behind it all, at times reaching quite a mad and freaky state of affairs. The record's finale, "Happy Lunar New Year," sung by Linda Yong, may be the weirdest New Year's greeting ever recorded. Every single cut is a winner and it never lets up, from start to finish.

BIBIO: The Apple And The Tooth CD $13.99
"Hot on the heels of his highest selling, critically-acclaimed album Ambivalence Avenue (Best New Music on Pitchfork), Bibio has assembled a companion album comprised of 4 all-new tracks and 8 remixes from luminaries such as Warp's own Clark, Friendly Fires' visual collaborator Rob Lee, as well as Bibio himself. From the clattering, beat-forward re-imagining of 'Dwrcan' by San Francisco's Eskmo to the babymaking, lush downtempo snap of Leatherette's 'Lover's Carvings' remix, to Bibio's own Parisienne carnival re-contextualization of 'Palm of Your Wave', The Apple And The Tooth illuminates the dramatic range of sounds and influences Ambivalence Avenue employs and portrays."

Lac La Belle cd $9.99
the group with Nick Schillace and Jennie Knaggs and joel peterson Evocative of bygone eras and hollowed traditions, the music of Lac La Belle fits comfortably next to old timey Americana, but blazes its own trail away from the purist camp.
Formed in 2008 as Jennie and the Sure Shots, the group began as an expansion of the set of country, honky tonk and cowboy tunes that singer Jennie Knaggs had been performing around Detroit. Nick Schillace and Joel Peterson are enthusiasts of the early decades of recorded music who had distinguished themselves in the creative music scene there. They saw the potential for a new group that could absorb and transmute the vocabulary of early Americana. Schillace and Peterson learned Knaggs’ expansive repertoire and then the trio went to work hammering out its own identity. The name change to Lac La Belle signaled the new direction and the group consolidated energy into songwriting and several tours.
“[Lac La Belle]...play old-school swinging Western, country and backwoods Americana. Comprised of three of Detroit's most talented musicians — multi-instrumentalists and music aficionados Joel Peterson and Nick Schillace and the owner of that sweet and plaintive warble, Jennie Knaggs — Lac La Belle play pitch-perfect originals in synch with the old-timey classics that are also included in their repertoire.” - Megan O’ Neal, Detroit Metro Times
"[Lac La Belle's] old-timey revival music is distinctive in that, rather than providing a contemporary twist on music using throwback instrumentation, the band's sound is straight out of early Americana. Knaggs provides warbling vocals and yodels, and her backing band -- Nick Shillace and Joel Peterson, both well-known musicians in their own right -- holds down a startlingly authentic old-time country sound." - Andy Mulkerin, Pittsburgh City Paper

Black Hollies 7" Gloomy Monday Morning on Safety Meeting $5.99
...b/w Heart of the Country" Ltd to 500. Single off of "Softly Towards The Light"

Mummies cd Death By Unga Bunga on Estrus $14.99
CD only Mummies release! What the fuck! For the first time ever: 22 tracks of pure fool's gold, like you've never heard them before...now, with bass! Apparently THE MUMMIES did have a bass player, as these master tapes reveal. Tracks culled from their now ridiculously overpriced, collector's item 45s, incl a very special, never before released, hide-the-salami bonus track

Orkustra 2LP Adventures In on Mexican Summer $25.99
...Experimental Electric Orchestra From The San Francisco Psychedelic Underground" SPECIAL ORDER. January 2010 release. Uncommon recordings from BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL's past band. This will be the definitive ORKUSTRA release, compiling almost all of the recordings the band made (on a 4 track in their rehearsal space)

Pains of Being Pure at Heart - 12" Higher REMIX on Slumberland $8.99
...Than The Stars" Four brand new songs typical of what they do best - breathe fresh life into indie-pop w/ exuberance, charm, & of course quality tunes. Remixes from SAINT ETIENNE & SKANFROM

Tyvek 12" Blunt Insturmental EP on Night People $14.99
1 sided 12 inch (silkscreened PICTURE DISC) from these art punk garage rockers, who have a bunch of killer prior material on labels like Siltbreeze, Sub Pop, M'Ladys, X, & Whats Your Rupture. A sort of step forward into a more groove oriented, noisy jammy territory while simultaneously returning to the sound of the early singles. A real raw art punk feel like early Swell Maps or The Fall

VA: The Bombay Connection: Funk From Bollywood Action Thrillers CD $17.99
...1977-1984, Vol. 1. This is the first volume in a planned series of 6 CDs presenting the best, rarest and most exciting songs from the colorful history of Bollywood music, most of which are still gathering dust in Indian vaults and are unknown to the Western public. Bombay Connection Vol. 1: Funk from Bollywood Action Thrillers 1977-1984 showcases the sound of the Indian action film of the late '70s and early '80s. Under the influence of films like Shaft and Dirty Harry, a new kind of Indian action film came into being in 1970s India. To match the loud fights and fast chases, Indian composers developed an exciting brand of Bollywood funk. Wah-wah guitars, congas and funky Moogs were effortlessly blended with tablas, dhols and Indian melody lines. This album compiles 13 of the best, incredibly original Bollywood funk grooves, painting scenes of frantic chases through the back streets of Bombay, sexy seductive dances by female spies and secret plots conceived in subterranean headquarters by fake-moustached villains. The series is compiled by Bollywood connoisseur, researcher and top collector Edo Bouman, who carefully selected the songs, assuring that each of these tracks is an ear-tantalizing gem, compiled into an enjoyable, consistent listening experience. The Bombay Connection series will cover a multitude of exciting genres from the 1950s to the late '80s, including Bollywood horror, hippie psychedelics, spy flick suspense music, and stomping 1980s Indian disco. The 6-panel digipack comes with a colorful 30-page booklet containing well-researched info and a wealth of pictures. For the very first time, extensive research has been done into the history of Bollywood film music: interviews with composers and musicians have been conducted, and Bombay Connection has spared no energy or expense to locate the original stills and posters of the films. This is also the first Bollywood compilation CD to feature the Hindi song lyrics and English translations. Thus the booklet provides a wealth of information and pictures, sketching the original context in which these songs were made and enjoyed.

VA: Africa Boogaloo: The Latinization Of West Africa 2LP $21.99
Gatefold 2LP version. Honest Jon's presents a collection of music from '60s and '70s West Africa that is heavily influenced by Latin sounds from the era, representing a mutual cultural exchange that would have a permanent impact on the evolution of each region's trademark sound. Much of what makes modern Latin music so irresistible came from Africa in the first place. When the first waves of African rhythms, reconstituted in the Caribbean, returned home on radios and records, Africans -- especially in West and Central Africa -- received them with great enthusiasm. Staid dance bands that replicated European music soon began to swing as Caribbean accents settled in their rhythm sections. By the 1950s, Africa had produced its own Calypsonians, and more than one African musician changed his name to give it a Latin flavor. Some even composed songs in Spanish, while others wrote nonsense lyrics that only sounded like the real thing. No band mixed local and Latin styles more successfully than Orchestre Baobab and its leader Balla Sidibe. The mesmerizing "On Verra Ca" finds Baobab leaning in the direction of the stuttering mbalax sound that Youssou N'Dour carried to great popularity. Other Senegalese bands followed the trend, like the Rio Band, Orchestre N'Guewel, and Laba Sosseh from Gambia (like his compatriot Amara Toure) who styled himself as a salsa singer after his hero Johnny Pacheco. From Benin, Gnonnas Pedro sang in every pop style imaginable, but he seems especially at home in an Afro-Cuban embrace, as you will hear on the 1977 recording "Adigbedoto." The closing track also comes from Benin, a 1976 recording by the celebrated Orchestre Poly Rythmo -- though the singer, Pierre Tchana, hails from Cameroun. "Quiero Wapacha" features another Camerounian singer, Charles Lembe, and also from Cameroun is legendary African Jazz saxophonist, Manu Dibango, who is featured here alongside Le Grand Calle and Cuban flutist Don Gonzalo. Orchestre OK Jazz recorded any number of Afro-Cuban inspired sides: "Micorrason" is one of the band's earliest songs, recorded soon after their formation in 1956. There is no better evidence of the push-me-pull-you, back-and-forthing between two cultures than the Afro-Latin compilation we have here. All the flow from an unparalleled period of exuberance and creativity after World War II had ended and before homegrown tyranny had yet to descend on the land. It was Africa's moment, optimistic and free. You can hear it in the music. --Adapted from text by Gary Stewart, author of Rumba On The River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos.

KUTI, FELA: Beasts Of No Nation/Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am 12" $14.99
"Fela Anikulapo (Ransome) Kuti's life and career were more than anything an attempt to fuse the worlds of music and politics irrevocably. Kuti spearheaded the new fusion of West African originated 'Afrobeat'---a genre of which he was and is the indisputable leader---with a determined militancy inspired by pan African radicalism and to a lesser extent U.S. black nationalism, and, in the process, made him as many enemies as followers; but always carried by the unfettered musical intuitiveness & improvisation that lent his politically abrasive forthrightness an undeniable mass appeal, transcending well beyond his own specific conditions and appealing on a universal musical scale really unmatched by many musical moguls...a true 'empire' that has transcended Kuti's own death and lives on (perhaps unfortunately) in the form of his kin & idolizers alike. His music, that joyous instrument of social change, was his catalyst & albeit integral vessel for radical agitation. It's not that the countless albums stand on their musical merit alone, the truly free method to the relentless and melodically entrancing reiteration of his own Afrobeat---a music that in itself needs no heady articulation to be enjoyed, and it's basically universal popularity testifies to this. But the very volatility of his music at once elevates the songs into something more than relegated culture. On the contrary, you can still sense the urgency in these records, essential battle tools against colonialism and political apathy, igniters of the great fire of agitation while remaining essential and undeniable landmarks of exceptional musical invention. This exclusive 12" pressing of some of Fela's finest work, the undeniably masterful 'Beasts of No Nation' and 'Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am,' presents a formidable example of Fela's finest work, the best possible examples of his own personal unity of theory & practice that has created over 30 full-length albums & an unshakable legacy that lives on with justifiable necessity."

VA: Warp20 (Unheard) CD $17.99
"Warp20 (Unheard) is an eleven-track collection of secret treasures rediscovered from the Warp vaults, stretching across the entire 20 year span of the label's history. The unheard and rare pieces include Boards of Canada's near-mythical 'Seven Forty Seven' (the first music Mike and Marcus have let out since Trans Canada Highway), pre-Incunabula era Autechre, Broadcast (a Nico cover, 'Sixty Forty' performed for a John Peel session) and *Nightmares on Wax* (DJ E.A.S.E. and Boy Wonder productions from the time of Dextrous) to name just a few." Also includes tracks by Plaid, Elektroids, Clark, Flying Lotus and Seefeel.

Black Jaspers lp S/ T on In the Red $15.99
Features KING KHAN (of THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW, SHRINES, etc.) & JASPER HOOD (of MOORAT FINGERS) getting together for an exercise in the lowest-common-denominator, lowest-fidelity punk stupidity imaginable

Bolotin, Jay cd S/ T on Locust $14.99
lp $19.99
Remasterd & reissued for the first time since it's elusive release in 1970. A singularly enchanted album on unhurried, low key loner ballads with the confidence & honesty of a seasoned journeyman. Described by Kris Kristofferson as "one of the three best songwriters in the country," and championed by the likes of Merle Haggard & Porter Wagoner

Can cd Soundtracks on Mute $11.99
CD reissue. Malcolm Mooney passes the baton to Damo Suzuki for this collection of film music featuring contributions from both vocalists. The dichotomy between the 2 singers is readily apparent: Suzuki's odd, strangulated vocals fit far more comfortably into the group's increasingly intricate & subtle sound, allowing for greater variation than that allowed by Mooney's stream-of-consciousness discourse

Ghostly Intl Presents Moodgaget - a V/A cd on Ghostly $14.99
Ghostly affiliate Moodgadget Records exclusively releases music by up-and-coming artists; with the NocturnInalt eSrunitaet,i oMnoaoldgadget not only "exposes the diversity in electronic music," it unites dazzlingly talented, like-minded artists working in wildly divergent stylistic fields into a grand, unified whole. Like its predecessor, the Moodgadget-curated Rorschach Suite & Synchronicity Suite, the Nocturnal Suite plays like a lovingly assembled mixture, compiling brief, catchy, electronicminded pop songs built for obsessive repeat listening. The Nocturnal Suite encompasses dance music, indie rock, synth-pop, experimental instrumentals - and, yes, electronic music - but its emotional core is its biggest asset.

MacDermot, Galt lp Shapes of Rhythm $12.99
MacDermot, Galt lp Woman Is Sweeter $12.99


Irisarri, Rafael Anton Daydreaming lp on Miahsma $21.99


Hollows lp S/ T on Addenda Records $13.99
Listening to HOLLOWS' debut, you might recognize the wistful harmonies & classy charm of the Shangri-Las, the propulsive rhythms of vintage surf rock, the hormonal crunch of the best '60s garage psych, & the bristling smarts of the Raincoats. These young ladies are firmly rooted in Chicago's DIY punk scene, but effortlessly layer genre over genre, distinguishing themselves with this brisk beauty of an LP. First 500 on yellow vinyl, incl. free digital download. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Homostupids cd Load on Load $11.99
Cleveland's Homostupid's new record is a tunnel ride through a reverb soaked youth hall that spreads confusion like manure in the spring soil. Fast, noisy, garage rock. A buffet of great taste & unparalleled ear fakery. Don't worry, it's skull music so you can rest your nappy dome assured.

Homostupids lp Load on Load $12.99
Vinyl. Limited to 500! Cleveland's Homostupid's new record is a tunnel ride through a reverb soaked youth hall that spreads confusion like manure in the spring soil. Fast, noisy, garage rock. A buffet of great taste & unparalleled ear fakery. Don't worry, it's skull music so you can rest your nappy dome assured.

Sultan, Mark new 7" I Am the End on In The Red $5.99
2 brand new songs from Sultan (aka BBQ) that draw liberally from R&B, doo wop, psychedelia, punk, & soul

GRISTLEISM: Black Soundbox $29.99
Industrial Records Ltd. are pleased to announce the birth of GRISTLEISM, the newest member of the Throbbing Gristle family. Bastard offspring of now-famous ambient loop player the Buddha Machine, GRISTLEISM is part industrial sound machine, part noise instrument. Featuring 13 original and uncompromising loops, GRISTLEISM delivers a mix of signature TG experimental noise, industrial drone, and classic melodies and rhythms. Available in three colors -- black, chrome and red -- the palm-sized unit (size: w67mm x h69mm x d35mm) features a built-in speaker, volume control, pitch-shift control and loop selector switch. Note: GRISTLEISM does not feature an audio output socket or a DC power input socket. GRISTLEISM features more loops and almost twice the frequency range of the Buddha Machine. GRISTLEISM is powered by two AA batteries and is the world's first and only portable TG aural exciter! GRISTLEISM was born from a collaboration between Industrial Records, Throbbing Gristle and Christiaan Virant (the creator of the original FM3 Buddha Machines) and is packaged in an exquisite "Chinese paper-cut" wrapping, featuring a repeating TG logo pattern, foil embossing and UV ink.

DR. BOOGIE: Dr. Boogie Presents Heavy Jelly: Essential Instrumentals LP $15.99
LP version. This is the fifth volume in Sub Rosa's collection devoted to rare and lost recordings from the '20s to the '60s, following Dr. Boogie Presents Rarities from the Bob Hite Vaults (SR 271CD/LP), Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me! Female Blues Singers -- Rarities 1923-1930 (SR 268CD/LP), Shim Sham Shimmy (SR 279CD/LP), and Dr. Boogie Presents 26 Deranged And Smokin' Cool Cats (SR 286CD/LP). This time around, musicologist and radio personality Walter De Paduwa aka Dr. Boogie has assembled a collection of hot-shot instrumentals culled from the original 45s -- tunes mainly dominated by a sax and organ, and always backed by a strong rhythm section. The first half of the '60s was a perfect test ground for whoever wanted to make a record for a fistful of dollars. The 45 rpm was king, and among the other genres of the day, instrumentals occupied a sizeable chunk of production. The best-known instrumentals came from California in the late '50s, thanks to the surfers who quickly adopted a new guitar sound from Texas. Simultaneously, all over the United States bands started recording lots of diverse and surprising instrumental tracks. They did so for various reasons: lack of a good singer, as filler for a B-side, or for a shot at the charts with a different, jukebox-ready mix of an already-released song. The mark of a good instrumental was often a gimmick, i.e. that little something -- a riff, an intro, a repetitive chord -- that would act as the piece's signature item. The tracks here were shamelessly designed for no other reason than to fill up the dancefloor, to great effect.

AMBARCHI, OREN: Intermission 2000-2008 CD $15.99
Intermission brings together a range of material Australian sound artist Oren Ambarchi has contributed to compilations and limited-edition vinyl releases between the years 2000 and 2008. Highlights include two live recordings -- an early, fragile solo guitar recording taken from a radio broadcast in 2000 and "A Final Kiss On Poisoned Cheeks," his powerful 12" recorded live in Vancouver in 2007 and originally released on Table Of The Elements. Additional tracks include "Iron Waves,"an exclusive track in collaboration with vocalist Paul Duncan and "Intimidator," featuring Australian pianist/composer Anthony Pateras, originally released on Southern Lord. These are special anomalies in the Ambarchi canon, but nonetheless feature the hallmarks of his unique sound-world, all underpinned by his trademark deep guitar tones and meticulous attention to detail. All tracks are newly remastered, many of which are available on CD for the first time. Oren Ambarchi's works are hesitant and tense extended songforms located in the cracks between several schools: modern electronics and processing; laminal improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; the deceptive simplicity and temporal suspensions of composers such as Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier; and the physicality of rock music, slowed down and stripped back to its bare bones, abstracted and replaced with pure signal. From the late '90s, his experiments in guitar abstraction and extended technique have led to a more personal and unique sound-world, incorporating a broader palette of instruments and sensibilities. On releases such as Grapes From The Estate (TO 061CD) and In The Pendulum's Embrace, Ambarchi has employed glass harmonica, strings, bells, piano, drums and percussion, creating fragile textures as light as air which tenuously co-exist with the deep, wall-shaking bass tones derived from his guitar. Ambarchi works with simple constructs and parameters; exploring one idea over an extended duration and patiently teasing every nuance and implication from each texture; the phenomena of sum and difference tones; carefully-tended arrangements that unravel gently; unprepossessing melodies that slowly work their way through various permutations; resulting in an otherworldly, cumulative impact of patiently-unfolding compositions.

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, THE: One CD $10.99
"4 track EP recorded between Iceland & Berlin with a US tour in between. The Brian Jonestown Massacre move forward with this EP, as an announcement of their forthcoming full length album Who Killed Sergeant Pepper?. The first two tracks on the EP are from the forthcoming album & the other 2 are exclusive to this release. The track 'This Is The First Of Your Last Warning (Icelandic Version)' features again the beautiful vocals of Icelandic artist & film maker Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir. 'Bruttermania' is a track recorded with Russian vocals by Felix from the Russian band Amazing Electronic Cave."

SUN RA & HIS MYTH SCIENCE SOLAR ARKESTRA: The Antique Blacks CD $19.99
"Another much sought after and long unavailable title recorded in 1974 with a smallish ensemble consisting (probably) of stalwarts Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, Danny David, James Jacson, Akh Tal Ebah, Clifford Jarvis, Artakatune, and a new electric guitarist, Sly, and released on Saturn in the same year. This sounds like a studio recording and carefully thought out - most of the compositions appear only on this record (apart from versions of 'Nature's God' and 'Space Is The Place'), and include a chain of very interesting accompanied /interpolated) spoken texts: 'There is a Change in the Air,' 'The Antique Blacks,' 'The ridiculous 'I' and the Cosmos 'Me'' as well as a very long and scary coda to 'Space is the Place.' Ra plays Rocksichord and Moog throughout (solo on track 7 and at the end of track 8). Theatrical and political; a fascinating release."

OS MUTANTES: E Seus Cometas No Pais Do Baurets LP $16.99
180 gram exact repro reissue, licensed to Universal. Originally released in 1972, this is the last album to feature all three founding members of the band (although Hoje é o Primeiro Dia do Resto da sua Vida was released that same year as Rita Lee's solo album). Songs include the surprisingly synth-oriented "Balada do Louco," freak outs like "Cantor de Mambo" and "Dune Buggy" and the anarchic anthem "Posso Perder Minha Mulher, Minha Mãe, Desde Que Eu Tenha O Rock And Roll."

VA: Freedom Rhythm & Sound 2CD $24.99
Subtitled: Revolutionary Jazz & The Civil Rights Movement 1963-82. "This album coincides with the release of the massive hardback deluxe book, Freedom Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz, original cover art compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, released on Soul Jazz Records featuring the cover artwork of many seminal revolutionary jazz albums created between 1965-83. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the civil rights movement of the 1960s loom large as self-determination, economic power and musical freedom led to revolutionary jazz artists finding new paths -- both musical and economic. Concurrent with the emergence of the counter culture and underground rock movement in the 1960s and years before the D-I-Y cultural revolution of punk in the 1970s, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and others 'took control' of their own work by recording, releasing and distributing their own music themselves. This album, released alongside the book, features many of the major artists who make up the book as well as many hidden gems of records made on very small run cottage-industry jazz labels from this period -- the original DIY records! The album comes with extensive sleevenotes and photos." Includes a 28-page booklet. Artists include Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Joe McPhee & John Snyder, Oliver Lake/NTU, Staton Davis' Ghetto/Mysticism, Steve Colson & The Unity Troupe, Mary Lou Williams, Joe Henderson, Philip Cohran & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble, Gary Bartz NTU Trrop, Pheeroan akLaff, The Hastings Street Jazz Experience, Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand, Ralph Thomas, Archie Shepp, Horace Tapscott & The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Errol Parker, Amina Claudine Myers, The Pharaohs, Edward Larry Gordon, Michael White, Roy Brooks & The Artistic Truth and Lloyd McNeill.

WIRE, THE: #310 December 2009 MAG $9.50
"On the cover of this month's issue: Sensational (Brother from another planet). Features: Ben Frost (The Iceland based Australian producer's wolf howls and machine screams grab Mark Fisher by the throat); Lubomyr Melnyk (Julian Cowley gets swept up in the torrential flow of the Ukrainian pianist/composer's continuous music); Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lapotin's Hypnagogic electronics view the future through a 90s hiphop lens); Global Ear: Sydney; Cross Platform: Nico Vascellari (Black Metal symbolism infiltrates the shamanic practices of this Italian musician and performance artist); Invisible Jukebox: Carlos Giffoni; The Primer: King Crimson; Epiphanies: Getting his head together in the country, Cyclobe's Stephen Thrower learns how to just say Yes."

UGLY THINGS: #29 MAG $8.99
"Contents: Our biggest and best issue yet! Our top cover stories include a huge feature on Australia's mighty Masters Apprentices as well as a tribute to the late, great Sky Saxon of the Seeds. We also have in-depth stories on '60s beat group The Fenmen (featuring pre-Pretty Things members), UK pop-psych faves the West Coast Consortium, outrageous LA proto-punks The Imperial Dogs, and seminal California garage folk-rockers The Wildflower. Also, Doug Sheppard unravels the twisted tale of '70s hard rockers Stepson, Ron Ryan reveals the juicy details of his role as the ghost writer of some of the Dave Clark Five's biggest early hits, and Phil Milstein relates his experiences with doomed junkie chanteuse Nico. All this plus Midwest garage combo The Nomadds, Ollie Halsall and Timebox, French Riviera punks Dentist, The Remains, The Shadows of Knight, and an exclusive chat with Tony Cahill of The Easybeats. Not forgetting our famously extensive review section covering all the latest reissues, and R&R-related books and DVDs." 224 pages, perfect bound/full-color glossy cover. Cover price: $8.95

WAX POETICS: #38 NoveMber/December 2009 MAG $9.99
"On the covers, front: Curtis Mayfield, back: Ralph Bakshi. Contents: Editor's Letter, Re:Discovery, In Memoriam, Shadows And Phonographs, Brotherman, Can You Dig It?, Adrian Younge, 80 Blocks From Tiffany's, Light On The South Side, David Holmes, Library Music, Iceberg Slim, Ralph Bakshi, Curtis Mayfield, Spike Lee, Scott Sanders, Analog Out." 113 pages, full color, high gloss, incredibly well done & essential. 38th issue of this U.S.-based production.

Dinosaur Jr. 7" Pieces on Jagjaguwar $5.99
...b/w Houses" 2nd single from Farm. Featuring bizarro (& amazing) artwork from renowned poster artist Marq Spusta, the 7-inch includes an exclusive b-side of a cover of "Houses," originally written & recorded by Elyse in 1968.

Irisarri, Rafael Anton lp Daydreaming on Miasmah $21.99
NOW ON VINYL! Those of you left spellbound by Deaf Center's haunting & beautiful "Pale Ravine" album will be pleased to know that this continues in the tradition of murky, theatrical & deeply imaginative music quite wonderfully. Even Lynch is hinted at again w/ the album's clear highlight "Lumberton" & as the emotive piano shimmers around radio static & lightly picked guitar, it is impossible not to get drawn into the gaseous ambience of pure, uninterrupted bliss

Melt Banana 7" Initial T. on Init $7.99
7 inch version. 3 brand new exclusive songs that pick up where their last full-length, Bambi's Dilemma, left off

Mi Ami 12" Cut Men on Thrill Jockey $13.99
STREET DATE 12/8. Brand new 12" recorded with Phil Manley of Trans Am. A-side was recorded live with only vocal overdubs, capturing the energy & tension of a live performance with stunning clarity. B-side is a dub, a heavy, deep, & oblique re-visioning of the A-side that transformed into a song of unique character & energy. Limited to 750 copies worldwide in a custom jacket silk-screened by Crosshair in Chicago

Shrinebuilder lp S/ T on Neurot $23.99
2LP version. Highly anticipated debut recording from unbelievably heavy collaboration between Scott Kelly (NEUROSIS), Al Cisneros (OM, SLEEP), Scott "Wino" Weinrich (ST. VITUS, OBSESSED, HIDDEN HAND), Dale Crover (MELVINS)

Steppas Delight 2 V/A 2CD on Soul Jazz! $19.99
Long overdue second installment of top dubstep tracks from Soul Jazz. A mixture of recent 12s from the label and new exclusives, this volume features top names such as RAMADANMAN & APPLEBLIM, KING MIDAS SOUND, CLUEKID, BENGA, LD, BRACKLES, UNTOLD, and more

All Smiles Oh For The Getting & LP on Small Aisles! $17.99 lp
$13.99 cd
...Not Letting Go" JIM FAIRCHILD'S (GRANDADDY, MODEST MOUSE) triumphant follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed "Ten Readings of a Warning" is thick with bright, smart chord progressions that undercut the damning lyrics, all sung with gently assertive aplomb. SOLON BIXLER (GREAT NORTHERN), NIK FREITAS (MYSTIC VALLEY BAND), & JOE PLUMMER (MODEST MOUSE) also lend their talents

Trans Am What Day Is It Tonight? Thrill Jockey $19.99
STREET DATE 12/8. Includes over 70 minutes of professional live recordings spread out on 2 LPs & a full length DVD, all presented in a gatefold jacket incl. MP3 download coupon. Limited to 1500 copies worldwide. Tracks span TRANS AM'S entire 15 year recording career and are culled from shows around the globe

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada LP $17.99
2009 repress. Originally released in 1999. "The sonic crests and swells that this nine member band achieves is apt reminder of the physicality godspeed you black emperor! works with. Three guitars, two bassists, two drummers and a string section coordinate together with a nimbleness that defies the expectations you might have of a nine piece band. Add field recordings and you have an unparalleled listening experience."

MINOR THREAT: Minor Threat LP $12.99
Originally released in 1981 as two 7" EPs. New yellow cover reissue, remastered and including an 11x17 insert with photos and lyrics.

FUGAZI: Fugazi LP $12.99
Fugazi's debut 7 song EP, originally released in 1988. Printed inner sleeve with lyrics. "This 12" EP (on black vinyl) was recut from the Silver Sonya masters in 2008 at Chicago Mastering Service."

.VA: My Estrogeneration LP $14.99
"First ever NNF vinyl compilation (more in the future hopefully?) finds the spotlight landing fairly on the fairer sex, and the glare is glorious. 11 diverse femme musical energies corralled across 12 inches of black vinyl, all exclusive contributions, and the breadth of zones and interzones traversed is a beautiful thing to hear. Carry on my wayward non-sons. LPs in jackets with artwork by Pocahaunted bassist/scholar Diva Dompe, plus a full-color double-sided insert. Edition of 500. This year's Estrogeneration includes: Zola Jesus, Tickley Feather, Pocahaunted (vintage unused track from Gold Miner's Daughters sessions), Inca Ore, Topaz Rags, HNY, Talk Normal, Islaja (featuring Samara Lubelski and Blevin Blectum), L.A. Vampires, U.S. Girls and Valet."

TOPAZ RAGS: Capricorn Born Again LP $14.99
"Grey clouds stay grey. Low light situations birth low-lit moods. It's all bummer clockwork. West Coast lurk-jazz triad Topaz Rags return to vinyl with their debut long player, Capricorn Born Again, an eight-song comedown recorded/mixed from spring-to-fall of '09 via a complex 4-track/boombox assemblage method. Everything creaks and hisses, there's smoke in the air, players at the end of their ropes, lyrics washing over faded raga ballads, slinky electric piano bar depressions, shadow gauze cavern pop. The bell jar is half empty, obviously. Slow dive and sink in. Black vinyl LPs (mastered by Pete Swanson) in jackets designed by Amanda. Edition of 400."

ECHOLOGIST: Snow Blower EP 12" $13.99
Under his Echologist moniker, Brendon Moeller offers up four slabs of massive, dancefloor-oriented techno. The EP kicks off with the unrelenting and funky dub techno workout, "Dirt," its background white noise reverberating and ricocheting, creating an irresistible flow. Next is the sub-aquatic "Giant," with a wall of sound reminiscent of volcanic lava flowing downhill. "Swell" is a nod to Maurizio, but with a shoegazing feel that's as psychedelic as techno gets. "Ritual" is a DJ tool with crisp, oscillating synths.

BENOIT & SERGIO: What I've Lost 12" $14.99
"The second release on thesongsays seems to find what we might call 'romantic techno' in a happier place. Sort of. While Bruno Pronsato's The Make Up The Break Up focused on the darker side of romance, Benoit & Sergio's What I've Lost raises a similar question: can we ever be really satisfied? Benoit & Sergio chose 'Full Grown Man,' as the opener. The bravado of the initial vocals -- 'I Need A Lady To Understand I'm A Full Grown Man' -- references the masculine posturing of, say, Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love,' but also calls attention to the vulnerability and neediness of this masculinity. And when we are seduced into drinking a little wine at the track's midpoint, we realize that this seduction is a mere maneuver to avoid a deeper loneliness. If, lyrically, 'Full Grown Man' points to certain emotional complexities, so, too, does the music: somber synth lines overlay short, brassy stabs, as the intricate sequencing shifts its moods like so many teenage boys. Floating atop a bassline befitting Galaxie 500 or Yo La Tengo, 'What I've Lost' is too beautiful and moving to confine within the often all too arid or hyper places of dance music. 'What I've Lost' belongs to the dance floor at the end of the night, to the slow dance, to the one who might one day betray you."

ZELIENOPLE: Give It Up LP+CD $22.99
LP version. Includes a bonus CD featuring a full album's worth of soundtrack material entitled Gone. Chicago-based trio Zelienople present their second album for the Type label. Zelienople have been around for quite a while now, and in that time have become staples in the underground music architecture. Percussionist Mike Weis has appeared on recent recordings with alt-folk legend Scott Tuma, and Weis, Tuma and guitarist/vocalist Matt Christensen form the band Good Stuff House. Despite all this activity, their passion still lies in Zelienople. Multi-instrumentalist Brian Harding completes the trio, which has forged its most essential work to date with Give It Up, a record which succeeds as a perfect summation of their progress. With previous albums, the band have garnered no shortage of comparisons to Talk Talk, Slowdive and Bark Psychosis, and while these comparisons still stand, here Zelienople have pushed the influences into the background to reveal a daring and fresh sound. Poppier than its predecessor His/Hers (TYPE 024CD), Give It Up is a collection of rolling songs, from the Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore-esque opener "Aging" to the doomed Americana of "All I Want Is Calm," and the hazy ambience of "Water Saw." As we pass through the effortless percussive shuffle and dream-like riffing of "I Can Put All My Faith In Her," perhaps the closest the band have ever come to writing a pop song, it's hard not to fall under their spell. It is a record with scope and an enviable restraint, and a record which revels in the band's experience and pedigree. This is an album of crystalline, mysterious beauty; it is something which might take multiple listens to truly uncover, and is infinitely rewarding once you do. Cinematic, but startlingly unpretentious, this is music perfectly primed for the colder seasons. Light a log fire and enjoy.

Birdman, Bobby cd New Moods on Fryk Beat f $14.99
Upbeat pop anthems jostle up against shimmering slow a cappella numbers, while New Orleans bounce, dancehall, & hyphy funnel noisily into each selfproduced pop number. Sun-drenched guitars & his characteristic, unfuckwithable new-school croon wash over drumline weirdness & tyrannical sub bass, like a rogue wave on the Malibu beaches he frequently surfs
Daptone Gold V/A cd on Daptone $14.99
Daptone compilation featuring rarities, classics, & previously unreleased tracks from SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, THE BUDOS BAND, BINKY GRIPTITE, LEE FIELDS, ANTIBALAS

Jansch, Bert L.A. Turnaround $18.99

Jansch, Bert Rare Conundrum $18.99

Jansch, Bert Santa Barbara Honeymoon $18.99

Jessica 6 12" Fun Girl Remixes on Midnight Sun $8.99
All DFA affair here, with Nomi Ruiz of HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR new side project getting the re-rubs from LSioveu nSdpencer (STILL GOING) and WORLDWARWALTER.

Lowe, Robert A.A. lp Fazo IV on Rainbow Body $22.99
"La Kvalito de Speguloj" Limited to 300 copies on 150 gram vinyl!! Comes with full colorR peocsoterrd isnsert. Lowe constructs haunting, beautiful, at times hypnotic rhythms & melodies using synthesizers. There is a tranquility in these tracks - something very meditative & therapeutic

Mudhoney Live At El Sol cd on Munster $21.99
Recorded live in Madrid, Spain on July 12th, 2007

Mudhoney Live At El Sol lp on Munster $29.99
Limited to 1,000. Recorded live in Madrid, Spain on July 12th, 2007

Tycho 12" Coastal Brake on Ghostly $18.99
Limited to 500 comes with ISO50 designed poster. A sweet slice of dream-beat that gliIdnetes ronvaetri othnea locean surface like a high-speed waverider. Coastal Brake's vintage synthesizers set the pointillistic scene, blipping & popping around a near-Balearic rhythm like melancholy drops in a river, rising and falling and building to a shimmering climax. It?s not quite dance music - more like Tycho's soft-focus take on the escapist beauty of house music

DJ MEHDI: Red, Black & Blue: Some Remixes By DJ Mehdi CD $16.99
Highly-acclaimed French hip-hop and electro producer DJ Mehdi presents a selection of his favorite remixes in anticipation of his next full-length album. Red, Black & Blue gathers classic, unreleased, and hard-to-find gems, all mixed by the man himself, DJ Mehdi. Artists include: Busy P, Murs, Joakim, DJ Mehdi & Fafi, Etienne de Crecy, Staygold, David Rubato, New Young Pony Club, Holy Ghost, Sam Sparro, Architecture In Helsinki, Seb Martel, Chromeo, Sebastien Tellier, Steed Lord, Santigold, Cassius, Manu Key, and CSS.

STARVING WEIRDOS W/ TOM CARTER & SHAWN DAVID MCMILLEN: Live At The Accident! LP $24.99
"Crazy 3-way collaboration from some of America's best underground musicians. Charalambides' Tom Carter is joined by Shawn McMillen, sometime member of Warmer Milks and Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast, with the added power of Starving Weirdos. This two track collaboration has been around since 2007 and it landed in my mailbox a few months back, and man, it's a real beauty. Side A is a total hypnotic slice of ravaged drone, the four musicians seamlessly blend their own styles of underground bliss outs to sheer perfection. Side B opens with a crazy loop of applause, waving back and forth with a growing repetitive plug-in to then opening it up to create new levels of total sonic weirdness. Slow shimmering black chasms engulf the positivity until it's awash with lo-fi scrapes and buzzing electrical nightmare. The loop eventually drops back in with total far gone chimes, jingling away at acid burnt psychedelic keys and a thundering bass loop. A totally bizarre jam, which just opens more potential ventures up for these artists. Hopefully we'll see more from this collaborative team soon. Limited to 400 in pro-printed wraparound sleeves."

CONRAD & GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE, TONY: Taking Issue LP $23.99
"An exclusive vinyl release of the live violin collaboration between avant-garde legends Tony Conrad and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge featuring percussion by Morrison Edley. Presented by filmmaker Marie Losier and recorded live in January, 2009 at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. LP limited to 500 hand-numbered copies." Includes a full color insert featuring pictures and notes by Marie Losier.

NURSE WITH WOUND: Paranoia In Hi-Fi CD $5.99
With a nod and a huge gesture of respect towards the pioneering efforts of Virgin Records in the 1970s with the release of The Faust Tapes LP for 50p, here is a Nurse With Wound full length CD in a decent jewel case, with proper artwork that sells for 99p. This will only be available in high street shops, there will be NO mail order, either from Dirter, Andrew Liles or anyone of the usual mail-order outlets. That's the idea -- you have to go into a record shop to buy it. In today's world of downloads, free CDs with Daily Mail, and high street record retail dying on its arse, this is our way of doing our bit to get people to go into their local store. The shop owners won't be able to order the swimming pool on the strength of the profits from this, but it's hoped that it will make a few thousand NWW fans go into a shop that they might not have, and who knows, they might even buy a Coldplay CD while they're there. Info about the music as written by Andrew Liles is below, he says it's the greatest album ever made and he should know... Paranoia In Hi-Fi collects 30 years of Nurse With Wound recordings in one easy to swallow CD. This CD confirms what all Nurse With Wound followers have known for many years, and will open the ears for new listeners to the fact that Nurse With Wound have always been an outstandingly innovative and ceaselessly creative force. Never staying still NWW are unpredictable, disconcerting, humorous and always original. With a flagrant disregard and disinterest in musical styles, cliques or fashions the uniquely independent and autonomous NWW have made over 50 albums with no regard and no interest in their critical or commercial reception. Mixing the sublime with the ridiculous Steven Stapleton and NWW uncompromisingly carve their own distinct style that has a musical language and visual landscape entirely of its own. Drawing inspiration from far flung corners including DaDa, Perez Prado, Surrealism, Krautrock and a whole cascade of other ideas NWW have created a diverse back catalogue of material from ambient classics (Soliloquy for Lilith) to the disturbed (Homotopy to Marie) and many other easy listening nightmares. NWW is an idyllic and fascinating tropical island way out there on a limb, the visitors who make it to their shores seldom ever want to leave. Paranoia In Hi-Fi covers almost all of NWW's wild and eclectic sinister whimsy and shows that in Steven Stapleton's world everything is possible...possible, possible.

PRESTON & DANIEL MENCHE, JOE: Cerberic Doxology 12" $14.99
"Joe Preston and Daniel Menche's Cerberic Doxology represents a new LOW in collaborations. A new LOW in depth, a new LOW in bottom frequencies, and a new LOW in drone, noise, heavy, metal, Basso Profundo, and Gregorian Chant. Cerberic Doxology is an album of rich subtleties and dramatic textures: a dense, dark, tonal topography surveying the dizzying heights and cavernous depths of the human voice. Constructed of only sonorous and rumbling vowel sounds, its absence of consonants still resonates with layers upon layers of audible friction. This new version of Cerberic Doxology represents a work that is slightly shorter and quicker in pace to fit the vinyl format. What's presented, then, is a piece foregrounding the seamless mastery of Daniel Menche's ambient and textural recording work. Limited to 500 vinyl copies, the Cerberic Doxology EP is an 18-minute analog piece. The B-side of this limited edition pressing contains 20 different samples from the work featured in 20 separate locked grooves. Daniel Menche and Joe Preston appear as vocal co-collaborators with The Man Choir on SunnO)))'s Southern Lord release, Monoliths & Dimensions."

MENCHE, DANIEL: Kataract CD $17.99
Editions Mego presents a limited edition release by Portland, Oregon sound artist Daniel Menche. Daniel Menche: Waterfall recordings and electronics. All waterfall field recordings were captured around the Pacific Northwest of the USA, mixed and recorded throughout 2007-2009. Another sizzling power block from Menche, this time capturing the intense force of various Pacific Northwest waterfalls to create a mind-blowing audio sculpture. This single track slices its way through a sonic spectrum of over 39 minutes of high-end processing. One hell of a beauty and a beast! Packaged in stunning, almost disturbing artwork in an edition of 500.

GILBERT, BRUCE: This Way CD $17.99
This Way, originally released in 1984 on Mute, was UK guitarist Bruce Gilbert's first solo album, realized in that brief period between Dome winding down operations and Wire reforming for the first time. A stunning study of controlled ambience and subtle minimalism which is still regarded as an all-time favorite at Editions Mego. The bulk of the album is taken up by the mighty "Do You Me? I Did / Swamp" pieces which were commissioned for a piece of the same name by choreographer Michael Clark. A grey tonal poem of amazing, bleak beauty building up to the ecstatic crescendo of the third movement. Elsewhere, short notes on the possibilities of abstract electronic noise are included in the form of "Here Visit" and "U, Mu, U," which still hold their sense of urgency a quarter of a century after being initially recorded. This is also the first time the complete album is available domestically on CD. Previous CD issues were the This Way To The Shivering Man on Mute (with "U, Mu, U" missing), and the Japan-only 3CD box with This Way, Shivering Man and Insiding previously-released by Alfa Recordings. This 25th anniversary reissue is remastered by Russell Haswell and contains a rework by Dave Coppenhall on Angela Conway's original artwork.

HOLCOMB, ROSCOE: The High Lonesome Sound LP $18.99
"Originally released in 1965, this is Holcomb's first full album for Folkways. The man for whom the term The High Lonesome Sound was coined certainly shows why here. This is Appalachian folk music, both beautiful and harsh, harrowing and tender. Essential recordings from this Kentucky native lovingly reissued in a perfect replica of the original Folkways jacket and including a reproduction of the original information booklet."

GRISTLEISM: Red Soundbox $29.99
Red-colored version. In stock now! Industrial Records Ltd. are pleased to announce the birth of GRISTLEISM, the newest member of the Throbbing Gristle family. Bastard offspring of now-famous ambient loop player the Buddha Machine, GRISTLEISM is part industrial sound machine, part noise instrument. Featuring 13 original and uncompromising loops, GRISTLEISM delivers a mix of signature TG experimental noise, industrial drone, and classic melodies and rhythms. Available in three colors -- black, chrome and red -- the palm-sized unit (size: w67mm x h69mm x d35mm) features a built-in speaker, volume control, pitch-shift control and loop selector switch. Note: GRISTLEISM does not feature an audio output socket or a DC power input socket. GRISTLEISM features more loops and almost twice the frequency range of the Buddha Machine. GRISTLEISM is powered by two AA batteries [not included] and is the world's first and only portable TG aural exciter! GRISTLEISM was born from a collaboration between Industrial Records, Throbbing Gristle and Christiaan Virant (the creator of the original FM3 Buddha Machines) and is packaged in an exquisite "Chinese paper-cut" wrapping, featuring a repeating TG logo pattern, foil embossing and UV ink.

CRUMB, ROBERT: Hot Women CD $16.99
Subtitled: Women Singers From The Torrid Regions Of The World. Originally released in 2003, this is a 2007 pressing. For cartoonist and music-lover Robert Crumb, the best music was created between 1925 and 1935. What he likes so much about songs from this decade is their adherence to a culture of live music, free from any modern commercial forces -- but he also could not do without several gems from the 1940s and 1950s. Crumb now proves his love for this music in a selection of songs from women singers from southern countries all over the world -- Greece, Turkey, Africa, India, Mexico, Italy, Spain, and many more. Women whose passionate voices make you think of torrid desert landscapes or tropical islands. Women singing of pain, of love, of their circumstances and cultures. As an ardent collector of old 78 RPM records, as a virtuoso guitar-, banjo- and ukulele-player, as a co-musician on and publisher of various records and CDs, Robert Crumb is one of the most knowledgeable experts on this musical era that has been largely forgotten. And of course it goes without saying that this CD is most wonderfully designed and illustrated by the famous artist himself.

VA: My Estrogeneration LP $14.99
lady comp on not not fun

VAINIO, MIKA: Vandal EP 12" $14.99
Part of Raster Noton's Unun series, Mika Vainio's Vandal EP shows his preference for working in analog. He develops a dynamic sound that harkens Pan Sonic, working from a rather abstract structure towards arrangements which more and more suit a club setting. Straight beats, noise and the lack of clicks & cuts are the ingredients for his contemporary version of electronic club music. Mika's sound stands for being physical, raw and profound beyond all clichés.

Can: Soon Over Babaluna CD $11.99


VA: Face A Frowning World: An E.C. Ball Memorial Album CD $14.99
"Featuring Jolie Holland, Jon Langford, Michael Hurley, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and many others. E.C. Ball of Rugby, Virginia, drove a school bus, ran a service station, and, with his wife Orna, made some of the most joyful, eerie, affecting, and enduring traditional country music around. First recorded by John A. Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1937, they sang ballads, comic songs, and mountain gospel music on records and the radio in a style entirely their own. Face A Frowning World is a tribute to the music of E.C. and Orna Ball, and a thirty-year memorial to E.C., who died in 1978. Played in large part by the Health & Happiness Family Gospel Band of Louisville, Kentucky, and many others."

Animal Collective 10" Brothersport $13.99
limited and not easy to come by - we only have 2 available

Chris & Cosey cd Musik Fantastique $21.99
BROUGHT IN FOR THE FIRST TIME

Fine/Metzger/Seru SPLIT LP Medusa's Lair $19.99
Filleted over two sides of wax, here we have a rare meet up of three of the brightest lights in the twin cities' musical orbit. On March 21, 2009, Paul Metzger - best known for his transcendental gypsy raga guitar and banjo meditations - jumped in the ring with percussionist Davu Seru and veteran multi-instrumentalist Milo Fine for an evening of uncompromising spontaneous composition. Medusa's Lair is stunning, inscrutably wily, living music. One time edition of 300 LPs pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl." Milo Fine: Drum Set (Bowed Cymbals), B Flat Clarinet, Prepared Piano Remains, Voice; Paul Metzger: Modified Guitar; Davu Seru: Drum Set

Future Islands 7" Feathers And Hallways $6.99

Grizzly Bear LP Yellow House $19.99
RESTOCKED!

Mi Ami 12" Cut Men ON Thrill Jockey $13.99
RESTOCKED! Brand new 12" recorded with Phil Manley of Trans Am. A-side was recorded live with only vocal overdubs, capturing the energy & tension of a live performance with stunning clarity. B-side is a dub, a heavy, deep, & oblique re-visioning of the A-side that transformed into a song of unique character & energy. Limited to 750 copies worldwide in a custom jacket silk-screened by Crosshair in Chicago

Overstreet, Rev. Louis lp At St. Luke's Powerhouse on Mississippi $14.99
...Church Of God" Reissue of the Arhoolie LP recorded in 1962 at his church in Phoenix, AZ with a slightly alteRreedc torardcks listing. Includes 2 tracks previously unissued on vinyl. Recorded very live during a church service, Overstreet plays electric guitar & bass drum in an intense & driving style while his 4 sons & the congregation take care of tambourine, backup vocals, & hand claps. A powerful record of gospel energy & testament

Rockmore, Clara lp Art of the Theremin on Mississippi $17.99
This LP, originally recorded & released by Delos International in 1977, feat. the eerily beautiful theremin accompanied by piano. A record of stark simplicity & emotional intensity. First ever vinyl reissue of this material. Gatefold tip on cover with extensive liners detailing Clara Rockmore & the history & inner workings of the theremin

Six Organs of Admittance cd Manifestation on Strange Attractors $13.99
Released in '00, The Manifestation was a clear, one-sided vinyl 12” featuring a primitive etching of the sun on the B-side. The music is an extended raga of genre-defying madness, a dizzy melding of acoustic fingerstyle, shamanic chants, chimes, hand percussion, space jam & ghostly vocals that effectively blurs the cultural boundaries of eastern & western folk music. Completely remastered, the reissue is housed in a lovely 6-panel digipak foldout & includes 20+ minutes of music made exclusively for this reissue, plus hand-written project notes penned by Ben Chasny. Guest starring David Tibet of Current 93, who composed his vocal piece for exclusively for this reissue

Thee Oh Sees lp Help on In The Red $12.99
restocked!

Under the Radar Issue #29 Holiday 2009 magazine $4.99
Best of the DECADE! Top 200 albums of the 00s. Artist surveys: Camera Obscura, The Dodos, El Perro Del Mar, Final Fantasy, The Hidden Cameras, The Horros, The Invisible, Ladytron, Sondre Lerche, Jamie Lidell, Loney Dear, Los Campensinos, Mew, Midlake, Okkervil River, Stars, Telekinesis, The Twilight Sad & Vivian Girls. Plus more features!! $4.99 list

Wrekmeister Harmonies Live In NYC Capitan Records $19.99
Chicago-based sound artist J.R. ROBINSON has been creating live, ambient tonefields in museums around the US & Europe. On this recording J.R. met with electric guitarists MARK SHIPPY (US MAPLE) & CHRIS BROKAW (CODEINE/COME) for a set at NYC's Mercury Lounge, the result is a sprawling yet focused 33 minute "soundtrack to the end of the world." LIMITED TO 100 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES

FAHEY, JOHN: America 2LP $31.99
"Originally released in 1971, America is one of the artistic high points of John Fahey's career. And yet, for nearly 30 years it was not heard in its entirety, as what was originally intended as a double album was pared down to a single LP. 4 Men With Beards is proud to present the complete America double album, released on vinyl for the first time ever. Fahey himself had this to say about America: 'Out of all the songs I ever wrote, I consider only two of them 'epic' or 'classic' or in the 'great' category and they are both on this record.' Deluxe gatefold packaging that includes a reproduction of the original illustrated booklet. Limited edition of 3,000 numbered copies." 180 gram vinyl.

ANIMAL HOSPITAL: Memory 2LP $19.99
Double LP version on white vinyl with hand-stamped chipboard packaging. Limited, hand-numbered edition of 350 copies. "Animal Hospital is Kevin Micka's one-man musical recording and performance entity. Burying himself in a pile of electronics -- shelves of effects, mixing consoles, amps and delay units -- Memory is Kevin's latest venture into layered, processed guitar composition. Although composed in this experimental fashion, Memory is a completely realized recording -- a beautiful scape of shiny guitar tones, vocal washes, and dramatic build-ups, all of which cohere into a single musical vision. Memory is about as deliberate a title as you can get, and rightfully so. Recorded in an old bank in west Virginia, an antiquated movie theater lobby, apartments, studios, and Cape Cod, the album's realization is similar to a personal recollection of the past; a layered, non-linear, and often vague familiarity of places, things, people, known and unknown in our minds. Fueled by coffee and heartache, Memory serves as a highly personal account of its creator manifested into an amalgamation of musical themes, both delicate and brutal. Most notable about Memory is its intimacy -- the emotional thread tying his vast compositional approaches together. As an effort to connect Kevin's memories with ours and even to engage in one another's wanderings -- psychic exchanges between composer and listener -- Kevin searches out raw beauty within his repertoire of sounds. He performs guitar, drums, vocals, music boxes, and other gadgets with meticulous care; a detail for precision often discarded by experimental recordings."

ZURICH: Zurich LP $23.99
"Limited edition of 500 copies pressed at RTI and packaged in heavy duty jackets screen printed at Monoroid. Featuring members Tony Wilson (Knives ov Resistance), Neil Halstead (Slowdive/Mojave 3), & Sarah Peacock (Seefeel). Zurich began as a 1994 musical partnership between Neil Halstead then of Slowdive and Tony F. Wilson. The two recorded a handful of tracks together at a time when Wilson was co-promoting and DJing at the club/live night Quirky in South London where he booked acts including Pan Sonic, Hafler Trio and Autechre. Halstead was shortly to begin work on Slowdive's final and most experimental album, Pygmalion. Recorded at a time when the popularity of ambient techno was at its peak, these recordings are remarkably austere by comparison. Whilst 'A Harsh Truth' displays the Oriental gracefulness of a Sakamoto/Sylvian collaboration, 'Tzarist''s gothic industrialism shares more in common with the early works of Coil. Following the release of Pygmalion and Creation letting go of Slowdive, Halstead would disband Slowdive and abandon sound experimentation to create more song-based material in Mojave 3. Shortly thereafter, Wilson began collaborating with drum & bass producer and engineer Joe Gray on more rhythm based, yet still atmospheric productions. 'Too Scared to Breath' features the voice of Seefeel's Sarah Peacock and sounds not unlike prime Autechre and Aphex. Militia (Dynamic Warfare) on the other hand mirrors the post-metal dub of Techno Animal and Scorn. All of the recordings were lost until very recently when Touch recording artist Mark Van Hoen found the two tracks on old CD-R's and cassettes he was given by Wilson. Wilson produced and recorded in the Knives ov Resistance project for the Aurora Borealis label and is currently working on a project with Ted Parson (Swans/Prong)."

Gristleism: Chrome sound box $29.99
chrome version in now - in case you did not mail order it, you can pick one up from us! all 3 colors now in stock.

Tune-Yards: Bird-Brains LP $17.99
"Merrill came from parents who sewed their lives together with music, and at age seven she proceeded to hum her way through days. She hummed her way through the family record collection: Old Timey fiddling, Revolver, Django. She hummed her way through mid-'80's pop radio and an obsession with Christmas music. She hummed her way through folk music camp, through Smith College and a theater degree, through anarchist puppet training, through brazen, all-women a cappella singing, through heat rash in Kenya, through deeply scrutinized puppet performances in Europe, through her lonely, swirling 20s. The hum seems to have become a yell. In 2008 she released BiRd-BrAiNs, which she had recorded over a span of 2.5 years on a hand-held voice recorder. Sampling snippets of her life as a nanny on Martha's Vineyard and later as a young musician in noisy urban settings, she weaved sounds together to make substantial rhythms and then layered her ukulele and vocals over top." In hand-made sleeve.

FEHLFARBEN: Glücksmaschinen LP $17.99
LP version. Tapete presents an album by one of Germany's most legendary indie acts, Fehlfarben, comprised of former members of DAF, Mittagspause, S.Y.P.H. and Der Plan -- a "who's who" of the most influential bands of the late '70s German new wave and punk scene. Their epochal 1980 album Monarchie Und Alltag was one of the '80s most important albums, as well as being a top-seller, including the Neue Deutsche Welle anthem "Ein Jahr (Es Geht Voran)." Now, quite unexpectedly, they present Glücksmaschinen (loosely translated to "bliss machines"). It's important to listen to these 8 tracks without any notion of the historical importance/ballast of the band that produced them, for Fehlfarben prove that they still reign as post-punk/new wave masters. Produced by Moses Schneider (Tocotronic, Kante, Beatsteaks), this album was recorded mostly live, with no overdub sessions to even out the sound. Fehlfarben haven't sounded this fresh and vital since the peak of their heyday, with driving, abrasive guitars, and of course, vocalist Peter Hein's rousing lyrics. Thirty years after Monarchie Und Alltag, it would do well for every young band to have half the clarity and power of Fehlfarben in 2010.

POP, IGGY: The Idiot LP $18.99
"Originally released in 1977, this was the first album Iggy Pop made after the dissolution of the Stooges, several jailings and a self-imposed stay in a mental institution. Produced by David Bowie, and including music written almost entirely by him, this is Iggy's most introspective and heavy work. Much more mechanical than the sleazy proto-punk of the Stooges, The Idiot was a huge influence on the post-punk sound of folks like Joy Division and Magazine. An absolute classic." 180 gram vinyl.

POP, IGGY: Lust For Life LP $18.99
"Released less than a year after The Idiot, Lust For Life is a return to the sloppy, sleazy, blues-y, swagger of the Stooges. Though the record is again produced by David Bowie, he takes much more of a backseat musically, allowing for Iggy Pop to take center stage in his return to form. His best solo album and an absolute classic from this legend." 180 gram vinyl.

OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD: Fucking Dracula Clouds LP $19.99
"Stunning new LP from Campbell Kneale's post Birchville Cat Motel project. Continues with the vibes set on his superb LP for Dekorder, total psychedelic filth noise. Two side long heavy pieces of gushing electric destruction, one sound lurches in and tears down another one, which it rebuilds an even more ferocious version of the original sound. Pressed on 180gram vinyl. Limited to 400 copies in pro printed wrap around sleeve on 400gsm silk card." SNYDER AND BOB THOMPSON, DOUG: Daily Dance LP $18.99
"Daily Dance is a genuinely unique artifact from rural Ohio; a mythical frenzy of distorted guitar and improvised drums creating walls of psychedelic noise. Originally released in 1973, its sound is unparalleled for its time and precedes its closest kin, New York's no-wave explosion, by a solid 5 years. 'They generate waves of energy through cascading feedback squall and drumbo bash and shimmer. A few tracks will start with something vaguely resembling a 'groove,' before they quickly deteriorate into their lonely Buckeye din.' - Dante Carfagna. Cantor Records is proud to make Daily Dance available on vinyl for the first time in 35 years. Daily Dance was remastered from the original tapes, pressed at RTI, and is lavishly packaged with a heavy Stoughton paste-on jacket, informative Obi/U-Card, and an extensive 20-page booklet of liner notes. RIYL: Fushitshusha, Dead C, The Stooges, Velvet Underground."



OH NO: Dr. No's Ethiopium CD $17.99
"36 hip hop instrumentals inspired by and sampled from rare 60s and 70s Ethiopian soul, jazz, funk, folk and psychedelic rock. Super-producer Oh No follows up his heralded Dr. No's Oxperiment by diving again into Stones Throw and Now-Again label-head Egon's record collection for a region-based instrumental beat album. This time he's offered up an album inspired-by and sampled-from rare 60s and 70s Ethiopian funk, jazz, folk, soul and psychedelic rock. Even if you've never heard an instrument tuned to the qenet modes before, even if you're more into ballads than you are tezetas, Oh No's transformative effect on his source material will blow you away in its otherworldly funkiness. This project is a limited edition release on Oh No's own Disruption Productions imprint."

FLAMIN' GROOVIES: Flamingo LP $17.99
"Grand pact with Sony/BMG has resulted in official Norton reissue of two long out of print masterpieces on posh footlong prefered vinyl format! Flamingo (1970) and Teenage Head (1971) are delivered in full original packaging-- Flamingo with the original gatefold! We are proud as peacocks to present Mr Roy Loney and Mr Cyril Jordan, the eternal, infernal rock n' roll high masters of it all!"

FLAMIN' GROOVIES: Teenage Head LP $17.99
"You hope, you wish, you pray, and thirty years later, presto-zesto! Norton presents the Groovies' 1971 masterpiece, from original master tapes -- absolutely essential!" Tracklist: High Flyin' Baby/City Lights/Have You Seen My Baby?/Yesterday's Numbers/Teenage Head/32-20/Evil Hearted Ada/Doctor Boogie/Whiskey Woman.

MCPHEE, JOE: Alto LP $17.99
"Alto joins Tenor and Soprano to complete a discrete trilogy within Joe McPhee's catalog of unaccompanied waxings. Recorded live at a Lower East Side bar in 2009, McPhee's explorations on alto saxophone and clarinet are alternately fiery and contemplative, imbued with the masterful intelligence that's marked his work for over forty years. A limited edition of 525 copies on 180 gram vinyl, with a Judith Lindbloom silkscreen print on rice paper and liner notes by Hank Shteamer. Digital download coupon included."

WIRE, THE: #311 January 2010 MAG $9.50
"2009 Rewind - Our legendary annual survey of the past 12 months in underground music. We present our Top 50 Records of The Year, plus the top records in each genre, all voted for by our elite squad of contributors, who also give us their personal highs (and lows) of 2009. We also survey the year's trends and developments. Plus, a selection of high-polling musicians deliver their verdicts on the year. Features: Position Normal (English eccentric and audio collagist Chris Bailiff puts David Stubbs under heavy manners); The Village Orchestra (Glaswegian producer Ruaridh Law feels the force of soft techno and hard ambient with Lisa Blanning); Yan Jun (The sound artist, writer and unofficial godfather to the Chinese underground talks drinking games with Clive Bell); Global Ear: Leipzig (Biba Kopf reports from the German city's musical front line); Cross Platform: Paul Rooney (Audio ephemera and the spoken word unlock hidden social histories for the London multimedia artist); Invisible Jukebox: Josephine Foster (The Colorado born, Spain based singer and songwriter gathers round the gramophone to sample The Wire's mystery record selection); Janek Schaefer (The architect turned turntablist discusses his sound art and pre-school discos with Chris Sharp); Monolake (Groove designer, software evangelist and sound fetishist Robert Henke talks circuitry with Derek Walmsley); Epiphanies (Cathi Unsworth navigates the nourish streets of London with Gallon Drunk as her map)."

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