Knife Slits Water Distro
Updated October 2009
We carry vinyl by small independent labels such as Blackest Rainbow, Release The Bats, Night People, Not Not Fun, Kraak, Woodsist and many more.
Please send us an e-mail before you order!
- Buy Knife Slits Water releases in our online store (paypal required)
- Send the list of requested items plus your adress to : knifeslitswatermusik (a) gmail (dot) com.
- We’ll let you know asap what the final calculations are (including postage).
- Pay us through Paypal (or email if you want to pay differently).
7″ Vinyl Records
ADJEEF – Iek I’m a Freak 7″ EP
Repress of one of the most sought after gems of Dutch psych records from 1967.
Whaam Records // € 10.00
AIDS WOLF – DUSTIN’ OFF THE SPHYNX 7″ EP Newest release by the awesome Aids Wolf, again with amazing silk screened artwork and free bonus digital download. Skin Graft Records // € 10.00
AIRPEOPLE – STOCKHOLM 7″
3/4 of FUCKUISMYNAME with the former drummer of ENIAC are the AIRPEOPLE, and they’re playing brilliant Instrumental-Post-Rock! One-sided single in a limited edition of 300 copies, with just one track (playing-time 4:28 minutes). But really impressive, with a tight sound and a swinging groove.
Earth Water Sky Connection // €2.50
BLANK DOGS / IN HERE 7″ EP
Bedroom new wave post-punk cave pop, with 100 fathoms-deep layers of processing.
Down in the Ground Records // € 6.00
BLESURE GRAVE – IN THE FIRST PLACE 7″
San Diego goth-inspired duo Blessure Grave comes back with a two song release pairing up “In the first place” with “Human fly” originally by the Cramps. Limited edition of 600 copies.
Holidays Records // €5.00
BROMP TREB – TWINS 7″ EP
Two drum & amp; tape collage compositions on their second vinyl record. Apostasy! Two weird odes to springtime fertility using crude concréte percussion harmolodics.
Yeah! // €5.00
BROMP TREB / WARBER – SPLIT 7″
Steve of xbxrx/kit and Kristy of kit/lil pocketknife turn their spazzpunk m.o. towards the dancefloor and drive every beat straight to heck. Bromp Treb is neil/drummer of the amazing Fat Worm of Error, doing his best to explain what hiphop was like before it left dimension x.
Deathbomb Arc // €4.00
THE CREEPING NOBODIES / THESE ARE POWERS Split 7″
Includes the song ‘Cockles’ from These Are Powers (ex-Liars), and the song ‘EXULT’ from The Creeping Nobodies. Includes a CD’r of the tracks. Clear vinyl, and a lavender/opaque rice paper insert.
Army Of Bad Luck Records // €5.00
CRYSTAL STILTS – DEPARTURE 7″
Limited edition EP by Brooklyn’s spectral garage-pop quintet taken from the album ‘Alight of Night’. Departure is a concise atmospheric echoing masterpiece, but has a pop sensibility that is already grabbing the attention of many people.
Angular Recordings // € 6.00
FERGUS & GERONIMO – HARDER THAN IT’S EVER BEEN 7″ EP
Fergus & Geronimo are Jason Kelly and Andrew Savage. You might know them from Wax Museums and Teenage Cool Kids respectively. What started as a recording project between friends has manifested into another extraordinary addition to the Denton, TX roster of current bands. Upon first listen, one can instantly recognize these two lads are intimately familiar with their influences. Never mind the psychedelia, this is straight pop, no bullshit. Debut vinyl release.
Woodsist Records // € 5.00
FUCKUISMYNAME / PATTERNS – Split 7″
Beautiful new single featuring one exclusive new track by both these Post-Punk bands from Cologne/Germany! Great rocking songs! And just as it should be with a really good split-single, both songs represent the bands at their best!
ALTIN VILLAGE // € 2.50
GARY WAR – REALITY PROTEST 7″
Killer limited tour-only 7” from Gary War that channels the first Syd-era Pink Floyd album into a Texas flashback zone overwhelmed with technicolour F/X and that classic underwater production style. This one has more of a mainline to the classic garage band sound of their debut New Raytheonport LP, which makes it a necessary addition to your shelf.
Holidays Records / Sacred Bones Records // €5.00
HANNA HIRSCH/YOUNG FIT MALES SPLIT 7″
Two new songs from Hanna Hirsch, one of Swedens best and most underrated bands for the moment. Songs are Ingenting and I döden och tillbaks. Young Fit Males is a new band from Linköping, Sweden. Fast, Intense, alterna-hc reminiscent of early Hüsker Du and The Wipers. They have three songs on this record, and you need to hear all of them. Young Fit Males share two members with Svartenbrandt, another band you need to hear.
Self Released // €5.00
THE HOLY KISS – S/T 7″ EP
2 brand new songs from San Francisco´s The Holy Kiss. If you have liked their previous releases you will love this. Pressed on thick 70g vinyl (if you thought the regular czech vinyl was heavy…) and comes with a beautiful full color cover jacket with paintings made by the artist Merlin.
Release the Bats Records // €3.00
THE HUNT – 1000 NIGHTS 7″
Virgin offering from the Sacred Bones family. Sparse arrangements, desert guitars, and a charismatic frontman, New York City’s The Hunt lead a new crop of Death Rock bands bent on spreading their coarse invective. The Hunt begins.
Sacred Bones // € 2.50
JOHN WIESE – SPECTRAL HAND 7″
John wiese is one half of Bastard Noise, Sissy Spacek and did collaboraties with people like SUNN 0))), Wolf Eyes or Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth). He released a ton of records on labels like Electric Human Project, American Tapes or his own label Helicopter.
Meudiamorte // €4.50
LANDED / MEGAFUCKERS – Split 7″
Features one track by Landed from Providence/Rhode Island (with previous releases on labels like Vermiform and Load records) sounding equally as strange and obscure. And on the other side 2 raging Hardcore-killers by the obscure Megafuckers from Los Angeles, in the same vein as bands like Soddamn Inssein, Wrangler Brutes … Limited edition of 300 copies only!
Kill Shaman Records // € 2.50
LOOSERS / OWL XOUNDS 7″
Loosers from Portugal continues with their psychedelic free noise jams after releases on labels such as Qbico, Ruby Red, Meudiademorte and Woodsist. A quiet and subtle guitar-driven piece, feels like a slooow and hot Sunday afternoon. The flipside has more crude and dirty out there jazz madness from Brooklyn’s Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy, featuring Adam from Holy Mountains La Otracina.
Release the Bats // €6.00
LUCKY DRAGONS – VRAIS NOMS / TRUE NAMES 7″ EP
9 tracks / silkscreened artwork on recycled paper. Very limited.
Atelier Ciseaux Records // €6.00
MARRIED IN BERDICHEV – S/T 7″
Married in Berdichev is Brittany Gould, and is a vocal-based sound / noise project that spans the terrain between soft and soothing and jagged and abrasive. Voices and organic sounds are looped and layered over each other, sometimes providing the back bone of a Grouper or Inca Ore type piece. Brittany has collaborated with other artists such as Jandek, Kevin Sheilds (Caldera Lakes), Glochids and James Fella (Tent/City, Soft Shoulder).
Gilgongo Records // €5.00
MARTIN VOGEL – PICK A D / SWEET BEAT 7″
Martin Vogel has created the most blastin Teckno / Acid / Wierd stuff around. This man grew up in a swedish little town listening to 90ies breakbeat, Eno and Syd Barrett. What more can we say! Contains the now classic psychadelic skev B-side. Fancy DJ’s beware!
Moptaco Dics Records // € 5.00
MIT – GOOD BOOK 7″ EP
“A dance-floor killer of a tune – blistering funk-punk drumming, ball-busting fuzz bass and squeals and squelches of synth and moog”
Half Machine Records // € 2.50
MOON & SUN – APOCALYPSO 7″ EP
Sometimes day, sometimes night. Accompanied by crickets, dogs, sirens, cars, birds, frogs, church bells, bats & horses the recordings by Moon & Sun took place in the garden of the IBB house on Curacao. Constantly guarded, distracted and in league with Bruno and Tequila. Lonesome, gloomy vibrations interlaced with Caribbean tunes into a stream of Apocalypso music.
Self released // € 5.00
NO AGE – ERASER 7″ EP
New single of the song ‘Eraser’ that’s also featured on the new album ‘Nouns’ of this great noise pop duo. The B side has 3 covers on it by The Urinals, Nate Denver’s Neck and The Nerves.
Sub Pop // € 6.00
OPTIC NEST – TIGERS RUN WILDLY BLINDLY 7″
Full freak and downright messy music with a twist of The Residents and Suicide, but in a more “pop” way. First non-tape release by this new star on the musicsky. It’s Harmonic! Only 150 made! On Moptaco Dics!
Moptaco Dics // € 5.00
PARTS & LABOR – TOUR 7″ EP
Here’s two songs from Brooklyn’s Parts & Labor, culled from the final recording sessions with now-departed drummer Christopher R. Weingarten. The blissfully noisy “We Were Here” features German vocals from Kurt Beals (Pterodactyl), while the steady shoegaze of “Skimming Stone” finds P&L in a rare slowed-down but no less overpowering mood.
Altin Village // € 5.00
PATTERNS – PEOPLE I ADORE 7″
First EP by this new band from Cologne/Germany, playing a kind of vivid emo-punk in the vein of bands like the Sinaloa or Fuckuismyname, but with an odd edge to it that strongly reminds of 90s-bands like Party Of Helicopters! limited edition of 500 copies with special cover-artwork!
Altin Village // € 2.50
RACCOO-OO-OON – S/T 7″
Released along side their newest full length, “Behold Secret Kingdom”, Iowa City’s Raccoo-oo-oon’s self titled 7″ has three new and exclusive songs, going from dark, erie broken layers of cello, vocals and percussion (Mud Mound), to the precise, triumphant and uplifting, post-everything feelings of the actual song, “Behold Secret Kingdom”.
Gilgongo Records // € 4.00
REAL ESTATE – FAKE BLUES/GREEN RIVER 7″ EP
‘Fake Blues’ is the best weirdo lo-fi punksong of 2009.
Half Machine Records // € 5.00
REAL ESTATE- FAKE BLUES 7″ EP
Real Estate is songwriter martin courtney on vocals and guitar, matt mondanile (ducktails, predator vision) on guitar, etienne duguay (predator vision) on drums, and alex bleeker on bass. having grown up playing shows with friends from vivian girls and titus andronicus, the members of real estate have played together in a variety of incarnations since their middle school years in ridgewood, nj. real estate’s songs reflect influences from paul mccartney and the grateful dead to the clean and new jersey’s own yo la tengo and the feelies.
Woodsist Records // € 5.00
ROBIN WILLIAMS ON FIRE – JUNGLE GYM OF CRUCIFIXES 7″ EP
Over the top rebel-mockers, crowd pleasing self-abusers, nudists, treble enthusiasts, and all around good ol’ boys bring out the noise and the punk. Somewhere between XBXRX and Harry Pussy is the chaotic sound that has earned these fistory youth the title of “best band in LA” even though they are from San Francisco.
Deathbomb Arc // €4.00
RODENT PLAGUE – BLUE WAVE / RETURN TO ZERO 7″
Rodent Plague is the home project of Erin Sullivan, singer and guitarist of the A-Frames. Rodent Plague songs are composed from guitars, synths, drum machines and other reandom sounds to build an eerie kind of angular surf sound. Imagine if Brian Wilson was raised in the poltergeist house and recorded an album.
Kill Shaman Records // €4.50
TALIBAM! / BUT GOD CREATED WOMEN – split 7″
Dissonant, slightly disturbed music on both sides! But god created woman jump on your ears with chaotic tunes belonging to the no-wave scene raised by bands like Arab on radar and Ex-models. Talibam! start their one and only song with the core line-up Shea-Mottel and get filled by guest appearances leading them into a psychedelic jam session.
Holiday Records // €4.00
TOPAZ RAGS – TAROT HAREM 7″ EP
New downer/drug jazz trio featuring members of Robedoor and Pocahaunted. bleak, smoky bass lines and background drums groove against back-alley piano melodies and narcoleptic cult crooning. silkscreened sleeves, edition of 275.
Not Not Fun // €6.50
WHITE KNIVES – DEATH IS KING OF THE DANCEFLOOR 7″
A classic and one time recording made in 2003. And finally parts of that session is coming out. In a PIL kinda way they funk up their dark groove into eternity, covered in loveley sexy vocals. Rock de minimalism with a BIG and heavy sound. With members of The Skull Defekts and Cut City. A must have for everyone! 300 made!
Moptaco Dics Records // € 5.00
WOODS – SUNLIT B/W THE DARK 7″
Two brand new songs” “Sunlight” b/w “The Dark.” These guys are pretty unstoppable right now. Really nice. “…we’ve watched [Woods] go from acoustic hush to full-bodied sunburned psych before becoming something that combines both ends of the spectrum into perfectly catchy lo-fi folk rock nuggets. In another time these guys would be living in Laurel Canyon with the Byrds and Frank Zappa, but instead they live in New York, probably listen to A LOT of Grateful Dead bootlegs and make music we could drive forever to if we had cars.”
Captured Tracks // € 5.00
WOODS – TO CLEAN/RAIN ON (Live) 7″ EP
Taken from their critically acclaimed fourth album, ‘To Clean’ b/w ‘Rain On (Live on WVKR)’ (an exclusive UK only acoustic version of the album version).
“A distinctive blend of spooky campfire folk, lo-fi rock, homemade tape collages, and other noisy interludes, all anchored by deceptively sturdy melodies.” – Pitchfork
Half Machine Records // € 5.00
YOUNG GOVERNOR – VIRGINIA CREEPER/I’M A MESS 7″ EP
YOUNG GOVERNOR is Ben Cook (FUCKED UP, MARVELOUS DARLINGS, NO WARNING, VIOLENT MINDS, etc.), and this is his debut solo record. ”Virginia Creeper” and “I’m a Mess” were laid down by the Governor at East End Reclusives, in Toronto, Canada, a dumpy practice space responsible for
an impressive amount of recorded work in recent years. Although more pop-infused than the hardcore stylings of Ben’s present/past, Young Governor solo is arguably as raw and unpredictable as anything he’s done, if not more so. The needle-pegged, hyperactive pop of “Virginia Creeper” and “I’m a Mess” offer a glimpse of the Governor’s 2009 agenda, and frankly, teasers don’t get any better than this. Pressed on beautiful lavender vinyl with a full-color sleeve (layout by Matt Wong), limited to 750 copies.
Plastic Idol Records // € 5.00
10″ Vinyl Records
BERLIN VS BROOKLYN – S/T 10″
Berlin vs Brooklyn is a battle between two guys from Bordeaux armed only with a guitar, a drum set and a keyboard. One rule: make instumental noise rock. Outcome: you get your ass whipped !!!
Monotonstudio Records // € 5.00
DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA / THE DREAMS – Split 10″ -
Trio drums, clarinette, flûte, vocals. fantasmagoria no wave VS tropicold wave.
Silkscreened artwork by Sylie P.
Bibimap Records // €8.00
GOLIATH BIRD EATER /SASQROTCH – SPLIT 10″
LA’s rep as a hometown to heaviness is backed up by a lotta props: Richter Scale-wrecking earthquakes, Vin Diesel racing an army camo hummer down Sunset Blvd on a daily basis, Buzz Osbourne loitering at pretty much every flea market within walking distance of a greasy spoon, etc. Oh, and the sick & twisted Sunn amp-manglings emanating from the respective lairs of Goliath Bird Eater and Sasqrotch. Duh. GBE is the half-decade-strong gauntlet through which Eagle Rock-based Teen Choice Award-winner Bobb Bruno gives voice to his solitary metal ruminations, and oftentimes riffs germinate in his brain/fingers for YEARS before being finally committed to 8-track tape. After a string of shaky drummers but SLAYING tapes/CDRs, he solidified shit enough to lock this timeless psych-crusher in the can. “Blood Silk Road” slow-rides a one-note rock monolith into the void before post office local (and Wilco wild card) Nels Cline steps in to wail an absurdly eyeball-shredding guitar solo that crescendos the song into a black light hurricane of repetitious death. Kill me now please. Highland Park’s Sasqrotch cruise in a scummier mindset, rolling together depraved sax attacks, freakish costumes, and even the occasional bouzouki curveball intro into their mythically hirsute spliff before torching it in a blaze of drums and drop-tuned oblivion.
Not Not Fun // € 12.00
SWANN DANGER – S/T 10″
Swann Danger is an Oakland, California based band that includes Andy Zevallos on bass, samples, and drum machine and Cynthia Mansourian on guitars and vocals. This 5 song debut was recorded with Dan Rathbun at Polymorph in Oakland (Dead And Gone, Heart Of Snow, His Hero Is Gone, The Vanishing, The Phantom Limbs). Both Cynthia and Andy were members of the band Heart Of Snow, which put out an ep on GSL before breaking up in early 2002. Swann Danger is doing pretty much the same thing, just better! Slow, dark and claustrophobic songs, somewhat reminiscent of bands like Xmal Deutschland and mid era Siouxsie And The Banshees. 5 songs in about 24 minutes. Död och dekadens!
Release the Bats Records // €6.00
UTMARKEN COMPILATION 10″ (RTB#50)
Gothenburg 2009. There’s something in the air and something is stirring in the eclectic underground. Brewing magic, movements in every corner and truly exciting times. This is a small document of the first year of Utmarken with four acts contributing one track each.
Street Drinkers, the soloproject of Viktor from Ättestupa, uses layers of synths and vocals to create minimal and dreamy music reminiscent of Wet Hair and Peaking Lights, but with a unique Swedish touch. After the feedback-mayhem on the Gothenburg Blood Cult Tape, Källarbarnen is now back with a more subtle and somewhat mellow track, here using synths, drums, bass and vocals. All lights are out and everything is falling apart. White is Dan from Ättestupa/Sewer Election, and the project should be known from the tapes on Harsh Head Rituals and Segerhuva. Hitting it hard with distorted synthbuzz and vocals, it ends up like the bastard child of Suicide via filth, crime and abuse. Ättestupa ends everything with the best song they have done, a haunting and intense piece called Änglamakerskan. Freezing winds evokes the mean spirit of an long forgotten era. Total Swedish coldness and there is no way back.The 10″ comes with liner notes by Matthias Andersson as well as a photo collage from Utmarken. All tracks were recorded at Utmarken between fall 2008 and spring 2009.
Release the Bats Records // € 12.00
12″ Vinyl Records
AFTERNOON SAINTS – THE SHIRLEY JANGLE 2xLP
The three-sided LP “The Shirley Jangle” is a unique collaboration by some extraordinary talents, working under the moniker of The Afternoon Saints, better known individually as Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Günter Müller and David Watson. “The Shirley Jangle” is an intimate and subtle meeting place of noise, sound art, and experimental improvisation. Three sides of bubbling audio biosphere and a fourth-side etching by Lee Ranaldo, made specifically for the project. LEE RANALDO, guitar. DAVID WATSON, bagpipes and guitar. CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, turntables. GÜNTER MÜLLER, percussion and electronics. This unique collectors item with exclusive art work by Leah Singer is limited to 500 copies
Kraak // €14.00
AIDS WOLF – CITIES OF GLASS LP
Their brandnew Weasel Walter produced release and their second full-length album. AIDS Wolf embraces the hate. If they can’t draw you in, they will make you run away cursing and bitching. Modern gloom with heady zeal. Gatefold sleeve and ofcourse Seripop artwork.
Lovepump United // €14.00
AIDS WOLF VS ATHLETIC AUTOMATION – Split LP
In the wake of their respective debut albums, Providence’s Athletic Automaton and Montreal’s AIDS Wolf came face to face, stripped bare of armor, wielding weapons of choice. With the battle lines drawn, each band tallied forcefully, committing individual tracks to tape. But as the war waged on, members defected from side to side, new alliances were formed, and the hard lines blurred.What emerged from the battlefield was an entirely new entity: bloodied, unbowed, and undefeated. Gatefold-sleeved vinyl LP, intimately designed by Montreal’s Seripop. Athletic Automaton is guitarist Stephen Mattos, formerly of Arab On Radar; and drummer Patrick Crump. AIDS Wolf vs. Athletic Automaton is the dawn of a new age: a crystalline declaration of independence for an uncivilized world
Skin Graft // €11.00
ATTAR CUPS – S/T LP
This Maine based crew features a host of psychedelic jam talent… Nemo of Drona Parva and head honcho of Time-Lag Records, Sparrow Wildchild of The Bummer Road, and the three members of Visitations, whose record on Time-Lag last year was one of 2007’s best! So this is the second recording from this crew, the first being last years Sloow Tape. This beast is different to the Sloow vibe, still with a super nice jam band sound, but projecting to a maybe more ’song’ (in the loosest possible way) based plane, a little like Visitations. Edition of 299 hand numbered copies.
Blackest Rainbow // €12.00
ÄTTESTUPA LP
There is a myth that elders in the old Sweden was thrown down from a big mountain or height when they no longer was for any use in the farms and households. This place was called Ättestupa. And that is the name of a new band from Gothenburg. Dealing with an old era of Sweden, this is music that reeks of plague, desolate countrysides, heathen rituals and long, harsh cold winters. The debut album is a journey back to a forgotten world, an anti-urban masterpiece. With members from Leafes and Sewer Election, it would be easy to call Ättestupa off as an mix of those two acts when it comes to the sound, but there is definitely way more to it than that. With traces of dark folkmusic, 70’s German prog and even some small black metal hints, this is mean-spirited stuff with an truly unique atmosphere. Slow and monotonous percussion, deeply buried vocals, crude electronics and droning guitars, tortured synths and flutes… Extremely lo-fi and extremely bleak. Two tracks (‘Tjälen’ and ‘Den Stora Sjukdomen’) and a playtime of 40 minutes.
Release the Bats // €12.50
BAD DUDES – EAT DRUGS LP
Featuring ex-members of Miracle Chosuke, the Bad Dudes play prog-rock to the max. These Basketball fanatics can sure show you a good time. Impressive dueling guitars, keys a la Zepplin, rawkus bass, and one of the best drummers ever seen…
Deleted Art Records // € 5.00
BARN OWL / TOM CARTER – Split LP
Blackest Rainbow continue there vinyl outings with a superb split by Barn Owl (NNF) and Tom Carter (Charalambides).Their sound is super dreamy and almost spiritual, with slow tribal percussion and lots of spooky atmospherics. Like a trip through a dark mystical forest. Tom Carter’s side of this split LP is a single long piece where he and his guitar become one as he grapples with it to produce a whirlwind of feedback, drones and psychedelic madness.
Blackest Rainbow // €12.00
BEAR BONES LAY LOW – VALLEE DE DITH LP
This is the ultimate take on Moolah and Ash Ra Temple. Excellent riffing, brain-melting space synth and far-out hippy meditation. Heavy solo krautrock jams. Think South-American style Neu! Think free, think space!
(K-RAA-K)3 // €12.00
BILL QUICK – MARAVILLOSA GENTE LP
Long in the works reissue of this amazing and little know gem, “beautiful people”, from 1972. Born in miami florida to an american father and venezuelan mother, bill split the usa to madrid spain in the early 70s. Once there he quickly landed a recording deal with famous producer alain milhaud of the explosion label, and set to work on this, his sole lp release. Sessions went down with an impressive cast of up to eleven players in the studio, including salvador dominguez & chema pellico (cerebrum), jess lam (jess & james), and frank rojas (sangre). One of the albums real hidden treasures, though, was the assistance of unknown texan mark gottschall, who co-wrote the title track and adds perfect vocal harmonies as well a second acoustic guitar. A finely balanced mix of sounds that drifts between throbbing electric full band groove and gentle acidfolk. When bill wants to rock, things get downright funky, with a wickedly hard-hitting rhythm section, pumping organ, scorching electric leads, and flipped out acoustic guitars all locking into some seriously tight jams. Then the next minute the mood swings and you’re deep into some beautifully fragile and introspective folk meditations; often just two acoustic guitars, bill’s lyrics, and huge, angelic, vocal harmonies all weaving together into lush tapestries of sound. A few tracks fill out a more folkrock vibe with flute, autoharp, piano, slide guitar, banjo, and more. The whole album has an air of mystical psychedelia, yet never strays far from pop craft, and there’s a real sun-blasted quality to it all that just makes you want to crank the volume… The album was released only in spain and brazil, to very little interest, and quickly became yet another great album lost to obscurity… Reissued for the first time, packaged in a heavy weight gloss coated exact reproduction of the original cover, including the the original double sided insert, as well as a huge new full color foldout insert which reproduces at nearly full size the totally different brazilian version of the album art. Plus extensive notes by album musicians salvador dominguez & mark gottschall, and alex carretero (guerssen records, spain). Also a small photo of some rare picture sleeves 45s, promotional inserts, lyric sheets, etc. even the lp labels reproduce the original psychedelic full color explosion label art. Pressed on 180gm audiophile grade vinyl & limited to 1000 copies.
Time-Lag Records // € 15.00
BLANK REALM – HEATLESS ARK LP
We’ve touted this Brisbane clan on multiple occasions in the past (the Mind Peril and The Returner tapes on NNF) but they say the third time’s the charm and clearly that’s true because not only is Heatless Ark Blank Realm’s vinyl debut, it’s also by far the weirdest, deepest, punkest, freakiest, aka BEST album the band’s ever made. And so for all these reasons (and more) we are happy as heaven to offer it up for the world. The porous BR line-up allows for a lot of instrumentation flux and this transience translates on record here to a strange range of agendas: open electric ecstasies (“Fabulous Terror Index”), dissonant outsider-wave art-punk (“Saint Tegram,” “Heatless Ark”), loner Jandek-y demos (“Blues Helix,” “Blues Helix 2”), slow-diving femme-sung dream-gaze (“Till I Clear My Own Name”), and beyond. Varied, wild, and intensely ambitious, this LP establishes Blank Realm as high on the high heap of the rich Australian underground, with miles more expansion potential. Hopefully western world touring plans can congeal soonishly to drive the point home. Black vinyl LPs in beautiful metallic ink smoke-ritual jackets (these jpegs don’t do them justice) screenprinted by art-wizard Ryo from Topping Bottoms. Edition of 400.
Not Not Fun Records // €14.00
CHRISTIAN FAMILY UNDERGROUND – FOR THE DEPTH OF YOUR UNION LP
Summer 06 Family Underground (DK) recorded with Dave Nuss of NNCK at Black Dirt Studios in the woods of upstate NY. The yield was as characteristically unhinged as one might expect: sweeping electronic sounds backed with wood and bone percussion spirit-conjure. However also harvested was some new and especially tasty crop: sung and spoken song, electric guitar/conga “rock,” and an odd ghostly sheen coating the entire proceeding. Nuss comments on the session: “I remember when we were recording, momentarily leaving the studio and going out into the night and feeling it thicken like a partition separating us from this intense state of clear consciousness we had in the recording, which was like… humankind’s natural state. And then thinking about Jesper from FU, an adopted Vietnamese living in DK, and how much he resembles Michael Jackson, and realizing that across continents no man can be divided from himself. We had to make this music to provide for us some fantasy of fulfillment that would carry us through the weekend like rejuvenated suns born again climbing to heaven, after being washed in the deepest bluest sea….”
Woodsist // € 12.00
CRYSTAL STILTS – ALIGHT OF NIGHT LP
Garagey post-punk with 60s psych flavors and classic pop hooks. Alight of Night is a dark hypnotic, haunting slice of rock primitivism. Great record with special silk-screened jacket.
Slumberland Records // €13.00
DATASHOCK – VOL IV LP
Their music is defined almost entirely by psychedelic multidimensional live-improvisations stemming from 70ies Kraut-rock influenced by contemporary electronic music and psychotic dronescapes. If, however, you would want to use other bands from past and present as a reference, names like Tangerine Dream or Sunburned might come to mind. Datashock’s music has a similarly warm and organic feel to it.
Textille // €12.00
DEAD LETTERS SPELL OUT DEAD WORDS – LOST IN REFLECTIONS LP + 7″
Gothenburg based composer and sound artist Thomas Ekelund has delved into a time-consuming investigation of the complex, multi-faceted world of solitude and introspective darkness. His pallet is strictly greyscale, but the tones he uses are deeper, more honest and more heartfelt than anything else out there. Here, hurt is transformed into absolute beauty. And here, dampened drones make pop art.
Release The Bats // €14.00
EAT SKULL – SICK TO DEATH LP
Eat Skull are a quartet hailing from Portland, Oregon, co-masterminded by Rob Enbom (Hospitals / Hole Class) and another original Hospital, Rod Meyer. They bring to the game an extrasensory appreciation of New Zealand’s South Island Sound (Great Unwashed, Axemen), Cleveland art-damage skronk (Modern Art Studio, X-X), and the wretched excess of forgotten Midwest hardcore (Stiff Legged Sheep, Chemotherapy). In other words, just what you need!
Siltbreeze // €13.00
EMACIATOR – COVETING 12″
Misery wears many masks, but Tulare, California fatalist Jon Borges has etched his mark on most of them. For at least half a decade he’s pursued increasingly suicidal tendencies under his Pedestrian Deposit guise (which is currently on hiatus), splicing subdued loops of morbid beauty against savage canyons of harsh noise histrionics. Lately, though, he’s been straying more and more from this aggressive exercise in contrasts in favor of his Emaciator alias, which draws from the same dark wellspring of bitter memories and bipolar rage but, instead of unleashing it in grand frenzies, bottles everything up inside until it seeps out the pores. Early efforts/cassettes retained a strain of buzzing nausea reminiscent of his PD days, but the last 12 months have witnessed a complete abandonment of any ties to the past. Times are still bleak, sure, but the grey prisms of brooding ambience Borges now conjures and slowly collapses convey a depth of mood and subtlety far surpassing simple signifiers like Indifference, Resentment, Remorse. Coveting collects together five exquisite Emaciator compositions (including two particularly riveting songs that were debuted live at Echo Curio last winter) for a harrowing 40 minutes of troubled solace, crisscrossing suicide guitar lines, and entranced self-reflection. Meditation is a myth; desire does not sleep.
Not Not Fun // € 14.00
ETERNAL TAPESTRY – THE INVISIBLE LANDSCAPE
Last year’s Mystic Induction LP captured PDX wah junkies Eternal Tapestry at their hairiest hour, awash in color trails and nightshade flashbacks. Since then they’ve reverted back to their original power trio line-up, circled the tube amps, and written a fresh, flooring set of brand new electric rippers. And The Invisible Landscape is the fruit of this from-bliss-to-blistering evolution/revolution. It’s packed deep with six kraut-punk psych-shredders, huffing fumes from the twin guitar hero dogfighting of Dewey Mahood and Nick Bindeman while drum demon Jed Bindeman does barrel rolls and nosedives into the eye of the storm. There’s also a rawness and warmth to the production that helps the songs bleed into the ear with more electricity than before, and the riff/vocals interplay is streamlined for optimum mainlining. A fiery high point for a fiery high band. Hit it or quit it. Randomly colored LPs (hues range from silt grey to swamp green and beyond) in pro-printed jackets with art by the band plus a photocopied insert. Final repress of 400 copies, mystery-colored vinyl.
Not Not Fun Records // €14.00
EX-COCAINE – ESTA GUERRA LP
On their second effort, Ex-Cocaine throw down hard, evoking a gnarled bonfire with flames that roar thunderously like the detuned and burns evenly like the smelted. Working pretty much from a template of congas and electric fuzz, these heavy mellow bros conjure up swirling eddies of lo-fi, psych that are pretty unbeatable.
Siltbreeze // €13.00
EX-MODELS – CHROME PANTHERS LP
Razorsharp no-wave-punk blasts, as if SHELLAC or the JESUS LIZARD would play DEVO-songs in an ARAB ON RADAR-style way.
X-Mist Records // € 5.00
EXTRA LIFE – SECULAR WORKS 2xLP
Extra Life is a New York-based band led by guitarist/vocalist/composer Charlie Looker., a core member of the noise/chamber group Zs and collaborator for Dirty Projectors, John Zorn, William Parker and John Zorn. Formed in 2007, Extra Life combines elements of dark romantic pop a-la Bowie’s Berlin period, aggressive math rock a-la Slint,
Modern Classical Compositions and Medieval vocal music, which the album title, “Secular Works”, refers to.
LOAF // €14.00
FACTUMS – ALIEN NATIVES LP
Factums are a contempo three-piece hailing out of Seattle who claim to have ties with A-Frames and The Intelligence. Alien Native shows a band burrowed deep in the mystery and menace of the nascent gnarl of experimental art rock/no-wave.
Siltbreeze // €13.00
THE FRESH & ONLYS- GREY EYED GIRLS LP
The Fresh & Onlys combine sparkling, frisky new wave that harks back to both the embryonic NZ Dunedin scene & more distinctly post punk era Liverpool! Fuzzy shambling nuggets that come in somewhere between Swell Maps & the Bunnymen but share that kinda oddly focussed lo-fi ghost rock vibe with the likes of Crystal Stilts. The songs are incredibly addictive gems that improve with each listen.
Woodsist Records // € 15.00
GANGLIANS- s/t- 12″ Mini-LP
The album combines elements of the reverb drench garage rock owith a temperament toward lo-fi drum machine bedroom pop. Vocals drift into the stratosphere as every possibility is explored in an attempt to craft the perfect broken pop song. Elements of the Beach Boys can be heard scattered about the record with the suggestion of song writing ambition coupled with a preference for traditional tape based recording techniques. In parts it’s strange and spooky, in parts it’s naive and wild with enthusiasm yet these folks obviously know what they want to achieve and are doing a damn fine job of it too..
Woodsist Records // € 12.00
GARY WAR – GALACTIC CITIZENS 12″ EP
Six-track mini-album from Gary War, which appeared as bonus material on the CD edition of the Sacred Bones album, Horribles Parade. The sound is as fully submerged as on previous releases, with beautiful keyboard melodies and pulsing Syd-era Floyd style bass parts bubbling into vocals that sound as if they have been recorded with microphones wrapped in silver paper. Indeed, at points it sounds as if the music is all F/X, with the original signal removed to the point where all that is coming across the wire is ghostly afterimages and dying waves of reverb and delay. Fantastic modern DIY psych-pop.
Captured Tracks // €11.00
GAY BEAST- DISROBICS LP
Gay Beast are a skronky neo-wave group of kiddos from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fantastic silk screened covers and black vinyl. Hand numbered pressing of 500! Excitng record.
DNT Records // €13.00
GOLDEN JOOKLO AGE AND PEAKING LIGHTS – COLLABORATIVE LP
An incredible instrumental jam in three chapters recorded at Black Dirt Studios in upstate New York in May 2008 when the two bands met for a tour in the East Coast of the USA. Golden Jooklo Age and Peaking Lights melted their fluxes travelling the astral ways of sound and this is the postcard they sent us from the lands of future psychedelia.
Holidays Records // €12.00
GOWNS – RED STATE LP
Brilliant noise-folk from these super talented and well-known artists. Gowns bring a whole new poratrayal of synthesized sounds and organic instruments.
Kill Shaman Records // €12.00
HEAVY WINGED / INCA ORE LP
Wild collaborative lp by these 2 deep psych visionaries. one side is a studio collab merging HW’s pummeling psych-frenzy with cascading waves of IO keyboard bliss. the other side is a rare, unhinged live recording of the single time these outfits ever performing together…imagine HW with a freaked out lead singer. strange and great.
Not Not Fun // €14.00
HUMAN ADULT BAND – MUGWORT AND SAGE ONE SIDED 12″ EP
Gunk n Roll kings from New Brunswick, NJ. Since 2003, they’ve released numerous handmade tapes and cd-rs on their own DIHD label, as well as Phase! Records and Bone Tooth Horn….and they have played countless shows alongside tons of amazing bands like… The Usaisamonster, Lazy Magnet, Byron House, King Darves (who has also contributed drums for HAB), Blues Control, Ducktails, Mouthus, Panopticon Eyelids, Drums Like Machine Guns, Car Commercials, Blastocyst, Earth Crown, Slasher Risk ….just to name a few…Limited to 250 copies.
Scumbag Relations // € 12.00
KITES / EART CROWN – SPLIT LP
This is a cold vision of a dark trash covered future full of Sci Fi nightmares and strange out of body experiences. This is the final Kites recording and is perhaps the strangest and most chaotic piece in the prolific discography. Annihilation synth and tape collage, cut up, sped up and dialed to oblivion. Earth Crown steps it back, slows down the pulse, lets the edges of the static curl around the drone to the breaking point, where the damage is let loose, purged out and built again. This LP is a reminder of how cold, desolate, and haunting life can be. Silkscreened by Shawn Reed, Art by Kites and Earth Crown.
Night People // € 13.00
KÖHN – We need more space in the cosmos LP
An ode to lost hero’s such as Klaus Schulze and Jean-Michel Jarre. Kosmik synth trance! Come back by Belgium’s electronica high priest. Remindig much of late 70’s kosmik synth explorer. Zotte langspeler!
(K-RAA-K)3 // €12.00
LITTLE GOLD – ON THE KNIFE LP
Christian DeRoeck spent most of the past decade writing, touring & recording with the Brooklyn indie/punk band Meneguar. In late 2006, He and bandmate Jeremy Earl decided to combine their bedroom recordings and release them together, as Woods. In early 2008 Christian left both bands. He teamed up with his old friend, multi-instrumentalist Dylan Edrich (Chain and the Gang), and Little Gold was born. Like his earlier work with Woods, the songwriting is earnes. Little Gold has begun to incorporate more improvisational and psychedelic sounds into their mellow, country-rock oeuvre.
Adagio 830 Records // € 13.00
MADE IN MEXICO – ZODIAC ZOO LP
Debut full-length album from this Providence, Rhode Island band comprised of members of Arab on Radar. A twelve-track mix of post-punk, no wave, prog, and rock inspired by a combined love of Captain Beefheart, Devo, Chrome, Amon Duul II, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, and Sleetmute/Nightmute.
Skin Graft // €12.00
MACRO EDEN COMPILATION 12″ LP
An 18 band one sided LP on gray marble vinyl featuring Temple of Bon Matin, Hop-Frog’s Drum Jester Devotional, AMK, Sander Roscoe Wolff, Books on Tape, Kyozin Yueni Dekai, I Heart Lung, Foot Village, Tres Quatro, No Age, BARR, Debaser, Sharon Cheslow, Hestbak, Bavab Bavab, Organisms, Fanboys, and Whitman. The record itself is a document of how 18 different bands responded to the challenge of writing a 45 second song.
Macro Eden Records // € 8.00
MAGIC LANTERN – S/T LP
Inspired by the psychedelic approach to musical tone and structure in various eras and genres of rock (not at all excluding Germany and Japan in the ’70s). Over the course of a year they recorded every jam and compiled a full-length’s worth of home-studio demos which later became their self-released CD-R. The jams from their CD-R were used as the blueprints for the band to develop a raw, stripped-down sound that emphasized hypnotic rhythms and improvised guitar duels.
Woodsist // €13.00
MAGIC LANTERN – HIGH BEAMS LP
For fans of good old psychedelic rock but this is more sludgey and freeform. It proper rocks man. Nice production sound too. Cool psyche collage insert too. Listening to this record makes you think that this southern Californinan band have such a great time soaking up the rays of the sun, smoking weed and playing rock n roll. A fantastically good rock record.
Not Not Fun – € 14.00
METH TEETH- EVERYTHING WENT WRONG LP
“Meth Teeth reside in Portland OR. and in some ways embody the rainy day big country vibe of the city with its youth culture dreamers, old druggies, and rustic history. There is something that is really hard to pin down about Meth Teeth, the songs rely on simple ramshackle rhythms, upbeat shinny guitar interplay, and big fat chord churners, and alot of tambourine banging away on the snare drum. Ultra catchy summertime rockers keep you sad and lonely, and upbeat and hopeful all at once.”—Shawn Reed/Night People
Woodsist Records // € 15.00
MOUNTAINHOOD – DEATH POD LP
Brand new one sided LP from Michael Curtis Hilde following his recent LPs on Time Lag’s Red Records sub division, as well as a string of ultra limited self released CDRs and releases for Yod and Reverb Worship. This is a far gone trip, thats totally out there and very hard to pin down, the closest categorization for this beast would be folk, but its like some total mutated, distorted lurker mirror image. Wild psychedelic strings and heavy bedroom vibes run throughout this delicate beauty. Limited to 300 in pro-printed black and white wraparound sleeve featuring amazing artwork by Michael.
Blackest Rainbow // €10.00
MYTHICAL BEAST – SCALES LP
Vinyl edition of this nomadic psych-soul trio’s beloved 2008 studio debut, released on CD on Greg Weeks’ (of Espers) Language of Stone label. This edition has swank glossy jackets, plus an 11×11 pro-printed insert. One time pressing of 500.
Not Not Fun // € 12.00
THE NEW EARTH GROUP – S/T LP
Instrumental progrock, acidjazz, freakrock from the harbour of Rotterdam.
Gatefold, white vinyl.
Willie Anderson Recordings – €10.00
NTHNTHSTHSTH (UTON & ANTONY MILTON COLLABORATION) LP
Finland and New Zealand meet again on this second collaborative album from Uton and Antony Milton (first one released as a limited CDR on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon back in 2004). A perfect clash of two beautiful worlds over 2 sidelong journeys divided into 5 shorter segments intersecting with each other. Field recordings, layers of majestic droning sounds, buried voices, percussion… Recorded in Linnavuori and Wellington from 2005 to 2007. Full colour artwork by both Jani Hirvonen and Antony Milton and liner notes by Jon Dale.
Release the Bats // € 12.00
OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD – FUCKING DRACULA CLOUDS LP
Stunning new LP from Campbell Knele’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. Limited to 400 copies.
Blackest Rainbow // €12.00
THE PATRON SAINTS – FOHHOH BOHOB LP & 7″
Maine’s cosmic mystery trio captured for eternity, just for you… While everyone & their mother seems to have some sort of bedroom folk/psych project going these days, you’d be hard pressed to find another unit as pure in spirit & process as these here bodies/buddies. One of those rare vortexes of creation existing totally apart from all hype, pressure or pretense; in other words, timeless. Always balanced on that fine and beautiful line between cosmic joke & aching depth. A simple & unadorned unfurling of strummed & fingered instruments, heartaching female vocals, woodland creatures, earthy male vocals, contrasting half written & totally spontaneous songs, twisting lyrics, haunted melancholy, lysergic joy, and a heavy dose of spooked new england lore. In a way, the recording scene itself is an almost perfect parallel to the sounds & vibes captured here: three shadowy figures laugh & sing around a dim campfire.
Time-Lag Records // € 16.00
PEAKING LIGHTS – IMAGINARY FALCONS LP
This is the debut full length LP by Madison Wisconsin’s Peaking Lights. Members Indra Dunis (Numbers/Rah Dunes) and Aaron Coyes (Rah Dunes) created a stunner that’s full of hypnotic analog electronics, pulsing drum sounds, perfectly somber pop layered keys, blown psych guitar, and Indra’s warm drifting vocals. This record is all its own, everything it needs to be, and it won’t disappoint any expectations of its harmony and beauty. Groovy, spacey, heartfelt music for a new age. Art work and silkscreen by Shawn Reed.
Night People // € 13.00
PLEASURE FOREVER – BODIES NEED REST LP
Bodies Need Rest is a posthumous collection of unreleased and rare Pleasure Forever recordings.This album consists of four cover songs from an unfinished EP, plus four rare tracks forming a comprehensive timeline from the band’s beginning. This album includes 5 previously unreleased Pleasure Forever tracks as well as two B-sides previously released on Sub Pop and one track from the out-of-print Buddyhead Gimme Skelter compilation.
Conspiracy Records // € 12.50
THE PRESENT – THE WAY WE ARE 2xLP
The Present is the music project of New York musician and producer Rusty Santos (Panda Bear, Animal Collective), Jesse Lee of Gang Gang Dance/White Magic and Classic pianist Mina. The Present create a music that seems somehow familiar. Like they’ve already seen your dreams and your nightmares. In order to define the music you’re about to hear it might help to list some of the things it is not: it is not a pop album, neither is it a classical or jazz album. It’s not an ambient album or a rock album either but there are elements of all of these within its dense musical structure. Touchstones include the music of La Monte Young, Dmitri Shostakovich, Wolfgang Voigt, Cluster, Black Dice, Aphex Twin, Can, Arthur Russell, Boredoms and Brian Eno and yet it sounds like none of these.
LOAF // €14.00
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT- SHITGAZE ANTHEMS 12″
“I only listen to OK Computer and Cranes. The Fall sucks, DIY sucks, we suck, you suck.” said Matt Horseshit in a recent interview.”Why should anyone listen to you then?” replied the reporter.”Because we’re FUN, duh”. Matt is a dick, of course, and Rich is hilariously clueless mostly, and by all means most of the stuff on this SHITGAZE ANTHEMS EP should’nt work, whether it be the white-boy dub section, the cliche acoustic ballad with backwards guitar, the blatant Dylan rips, or the overall amateur playing, but for some reason these elements that usually reek of pretention and failure actually endear you to the band and their songs.
Woodsist Records // € 12.00
RACCOO-OO-OON – BEHOLD SECRET KINGDOM LP
Behold Secret Kingdom is the first proper fullength release from Iowa City’s Raccoo-oo-oon after several limited cd-r/tape/vinyl releases. 8songs that takes the band’s psychedelic and dynamic free-form punk from previous releases to new heights. Darker, denser and almost brutal at times, Behold Secret Kingdom is also the heaviest recording they have done. It only takes a few seconds into ‘Black Branches’ and the mood is set for the rest of the album immediately. The trademark tribal-like drums is still present, as is the vocal drones and the furious saxophone swirls. Behold Secret Kingdom is a epic masterpiece, there is really no other way to describe it.
Night People // € 12.50
RACCOO-OO-OON – SAME 2XLP”
Everything’s coming to a end with the swansong from Iowa City’s Raccoo-oo-oon. Following up 2007’s critically acclaimed Behold Secret Kingdom, the final album takes everything up a notch and shows a band taking their last breath and laying down the last bricks in their fairly short history. A fucked up future-prog mayhem that is all over the place and at no known place at all at the same time. Minds are melting, new grounds are covered and things will never be the same. Genuinely uncomfortable, desperate and just beautiful, this album will surely be remembered as the most important recording that Racco-oo-oon ever put to tape. A playtime of close to 75 minutes over 7 tracks.
Not Not Fun // € 22.00
ROBEDOOR – RAIDERS LP
Following their 2008 East Coast tour with Woods and Pocahaunted the Robedoor agenda has mainly been: hibernating in the City Terrace zone above east LA, adding a drummer/modular synth dealer, and letting the smoke rise. Raiders is the first RBDR LP since 2008’s Endlessly Blazing and is the result of almost six months of slow-burn transformative tape machine meditation helmed by Mr. Ged Gengras. Bummed guitars, loner drone tones, low caverns of reverbed drums and rumble, echo dislocation, and dead voices cascade down into the isolated highways. Song modes are carved out and then left to rot. Features early trio live set staples like “Indo Shadow” and “The Downcast Eye.” You can’t stick your hand in the same black river twice. Change or be changed. LPs in jackets with cover photo by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Final repress of 250 copies on black vinyl.
Not Not Fun Records // €14.00
SECRET ABUSE – VIOLENT NARCISSUS LP
Secret Abuser Jeff Witscher is an enigma wrapped in a riddle rolled in cassette tape and plugged into a battered pair of towering PA speakers. He’s lived everywhere, met everyone, and inspired legions through his loner lifestyle, utopian fashions (“refugee chic”), and spellbindingly intense music. Up from Rainbow Blanket, through to Impregnable, and across the arid plains of Roman Torment and Deep Jew, Witscher’s maintained a singularity of vision and total commitment to execution that has wrecked us, personally, to the point of speechlessness at least a dozen times. Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones crossfade into tortured minor key guitar laments before being slowly subsumed in a droning ocean of choked vocals and sulking, selfish electronics.
Not Not Fun // € 14.00
SKULL SKÜLL – VIET CAL 12″
Noise-project by one member of Liars and one member of Young People each armed with a guitar.
Hand Held Heart // € 5.00
SOCCER COMMITEE / MACHINEFABRIEK – LP
4th or 5th collab by these two dutch artists whom you should know by now – soccer committee for het elegant minimalistic songwriting, machinefabriek as one of the most profilic drone/improv/electronic artists. this is their first collab on vinyl, pretty much focussed on the newest material by soccer committee. Comes on white vinyl and ltd to 200 copies.
Morc Tapes // €12.00
SOCIAL JUNK – CONCUSSION SUMMER LP
Somewhere between the Bible Belt brutality of Sword Heaven and Tusco Terror and the sticky southern electronics of Pax Titania or even recent Wet Hair, SJ navigate an interesting interzone, boiling together ominous loops, mangled sax, heavy riffs, various vocal moods (pissed, lost, aggro, angelic), militant tribal drumming, and a mess of electric atmospheres into something genuinely gripping and wholly their own. Concussion Summer rumbles through noisy drum circles, hypnotic thrash, and even a couple creepy ballads, with Noah Anthony and Heather Young’s co-dependent chemistry channeled into eight concise hybrid pieces of perfect/classic JUNK.
Not Not Fun // € 14.00
SORE EROS – SECOND CHANTS LP
Dreamy cosmic Americana. Sore Eros (featuring the supremely off-kilter genius of Gary War, Kurt Vile & friends!) are the latest psych-Yank hopes launched onto these humble shores, a curious long player arriving in my fat lap through the Shdwply imprint. Being scared of vowels is of no real concern when yr putting out records like this. Fans of Animal Collective, Panda Bear (etc etc etc)…are going to blow their minds with this……Vinyl only release
Shdwply Records // €14.00
STARVING WEIRDOS / TOM CARTER / SHAWN MCMILLEN LP
Crazy 3-way collaboration from some of America’s best underground musicians… Charalambides Tom Carter is joined by Shawn McMillen, sometimes member of Warmer Milks, with he added power of Starving Weirdos. The four musicians seamlessly blend their own styles of underground bliss outs to sheer perfection. Together they jam out a totally weird and bizarre sound with lots of scraping, mild feedback, loops, percussion and lord knows what else.
Limited to 320 in pro-printed wraparound sleeves.
Blackest Rainbow // €12.00
STARVING WEIRDOS – B/P/M Series 1 LP
Absolutely mind melting release from this consistently amazing American duo. Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay spent sometime recording legendary Humboldt based pianist Darius Brottman Pyle and McKinlay have a side each on this LP.. Side A opens with some straight piano clinks layered with incidental sounds that occured during recording sessions, creating an amazing feeling of beautiful surrealness , leadings into multi-layered piano movements over and over. Side B begins with an powerful, erratic, forceful playing, coated in psychedelic loops and reversed sounds, then returning to a more straight piano playing. Bizarre, but equally genius and beautiful release. Artwork by artist Mick Wiggins.
Blackest Rainbow // €10.00
SUN ARAW – BEACH HEAD LP
Sun, surf, and self-hypnosis: all the core particles for a perfect Pacific zone dream-day/daydream. And Beach Head is the soundtrack, in case you were wondering. Hot on the heels of May’s masterful coconut-dub Boat Trip EP comes Magic Lantern-bearer Cameron Stallones’ latest loner luau under the Sun Araw umbrella. Unlike his NNF debut, The Phynx, Beach Head drops the drones and cosmic distortion (for the most part) in favor of slippery banana peel smoke stacks, undulating tropical hallucinations, and crystal/coastal moods. It’s a total hit parade, top to bottom, might as well glue it to the turntable and weld the whole rig into yr yellow convertible and park that shit in the sand. Fans of Ducktails, imaginary Jimmy Buffet demos, and long walks on the beach will sleep easy on this grass mat.
Not Not Fun // € 14.00
SUN ARAW – HEAVY DEEDS LP
This is some sheer blessed out shimmer: SUN ARAW, initially launched solely as a recording project for Magic Lantern guitarist Cameron Stallones, quickly transformed into a stunning live act as well, bolstered by a string of rapturously received LPs – ‘Beach Head’ on Not Not Fun and ‘Boat Trip’ on Woodsist. Drawing equally upon 70s kraut-psych rock, Spacemen 3-style drug blues and woozy tropical world music, Sun Araw’s universe is a rapidly expanding one. Cameron’s electric gospel landed him on a number of prominent music review “Best Of 2008″ lists, and the trend seems to only be beginning.
Not Not Fun // €14.00
SUN ARAW / PREDATOR VISION – Split LP
Matt from Ducktails’ psycho-psych band Predator Vision’s vinyl debut after a pair of scorching tapes. Their side here is bit more fogged out and pensive, rolling in its own heavy hypnosis, improvised rock without the baggage. A total masterpiece of Funkadelic rhythm guitar, tripped out organ and pulsing percussion.
Not Not Fun // €14.00
TOPAZ RAGS – CAPRICORN BORN AGAIN LP
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.
Not Not Fun Records // €14.00
U.S. GIRLS – INTRODUCING…….. LP
If the alluring moniker used by Megan Uremovich conjures images of volleyball teams or cheerleading squads, forget it. Like fellow DIY ingenues Sally Strobelight and Inca Ore, U.S. Girls’ approach is deceptively ethereal and delightfully haunting; lithe, lysergic gamma rays of keyboard murk beamed over percussive bonk sort of resemble Diamanda Galas reinterpreting Suicide’s Red Star. And dig that cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Prove It All Night,” done in such an effortless!
Siltbreeze Records // €13.00
US GIRLS - GO GREY LP
2nd full -lenght release by U.S. Girls is an even more fully realized excursion into a hazy alternate universe where pop vocals and muzzy scree fuse in harmony. Go Grey conjures up ambient aerosols while luminous kaleidoscopes of sound sizzle, peak, and explode. Megan Remy is a chanteuse from (perhaps) the future, guiding all who choose to sail an evocative trip through her unique aural hallucinogenic landscapes. It’s a journey of lush vistas, warm currents, and complex beauties. 23nd-Century-style, of course. So come aboard and see why U.S. Girls is being hailed the Eno of the ’50s–the 2250s!
Siltbreeze Records // €13.00
V/A MY ESTROGENERATION LP
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, Valet.
Not Not Fun Records // €14.00
WET HAIR – GLASS FOUNTAIN LP
Welcome back. One of NNF’s total favorite active bands return with a second full-length (most of which was recorded during the same sessions that birthed their debut LP, Dream) and we are pleased as spiked fruit punch. The Reed/Garbes duo mainly sticks to their guns, mining the same post-Suicide art-trance vein they perfected on Dream, but with Glass Fountain there’s an added emphasis on the disembodied, oscillator pop mode that Wet Hair often toy with. Fountain’s five tracks include some of the band’s simplest but catchiest songs (“Crucifix In The Waves,” “When The Right Time Comes,” etc), mesmerizing organ melodies over plink-plonky vintage drum machines with weirdo soulful singing and outer space electronics, like an outsider-punk Silver Apples or something. Hard to say exactly what universe Wet Hair are operating in and that’s probably part of why we love it so much. A killer record that gets better each spin. In jackets with art drawn and designed by the band, plus a pro-printed 11×11 insert. Edition of 600 (400 on opaque lavendar vinyl, 200 on black).
Not Not Fun Records // €14.00
WOODS FAMILY CREEPS – S/T LP
An incarnation of nycs wondrous Woods, as the trio of jeremy earl, jarvis taveniere, and g lucas crane. Infectiously bent acidfolk mashed into faust IV style electronically dosed pop grooving, all awash in odd studio effects, motorik percussion, cracked fuzz, unique vocal gush, twisted lyrics, and burning psych jams…
Time Lag – €12.00
WEST COAST POST-ASIATIC COMPILATION 12″ LP
The term Post Asiatic may come across as another ridiculous entry in the dictionary of contemporary sub-genre music but the name is the most appropriate encapsulation for what has easily become the most interesting musical movement in nearly twenty years. Due to space limitations the West Coast Post Asiatic compilation fails to include the majority of artists on the Western Coast of the US who focus on or dabble in Asian/Eastern influenced avant-garde art. However; it offers a glimpse into the fierce beauty and embracing expressionism these artists are conveying. The compilation includes work from Amps for Christ, Soriah, hop-frog’s drum jester devotional, Auto Da Fe, Sikhara & Refrigerator Mothers with sound that travels from electric sitars & winding guitars to tribal animalistic percussion, cyclic drone chanting, gamelan-esque free-spasm metal percussion to dreamy Chinese dulcimers and moon guitars. The marble vinyl is limited to 505 copies and varies in color.
Macro Eden Records // € 8.00
XBXRX – WARS LP
xbxrx’s wars is a collection of weird, spastic hardcore-derived songs with electronic sounds and monosyllabic shouts in time with the beat. The attack is lean, but often brutal. These are all good qualities.
Polyvinyl // €11.00
YIKES – WHOA COMAS / BLOOD BOMB 12″ EP
Fucked up gutter-wonk punks Yikes return with a curious 1 sided LP on Labil records called ‘Whoa Comas/Blood Bomb ‘. It’s a right old reverb drenched distorto racket that sounds like Big Black crossed with Coachwhips & Bo Diddley and lasts a mere 7 tunes. Mingus is reminded of early Cramps. Viva la Revolution!!!! This is numbered of 350 in a cool hand printed sleeve.
Labil Records // € 5.00
ZOLA JESUS – NEW AMSTERDAM LP
New Amsterdam is a collection of four songs recorded live at WNYU plus seven unreleased songs from Madison, WI’s Zola Jesus, one of the most intriguing and capable singers to recently emerge from the modern underground. The live set features a full band backing her and sounds somehow different from the previous material, while the homemade tracks on the other side consist of walls of fuzz drum machine melting with those unique vocal-driven melodies and atmospheres. With silkscreened covers on thick colored cardboard paper.Previously released as a CD-R by Sacred Bones Records.
Holiday Records // €14.00
ZS – THE HARD 12″ EP
One side is music, the other side is etched. Zs play loud and/or soft angular repetitive music with saxophone, guitar and drums. Since the bands inception, they have existed between the worlds of DIY punk and academic experimental music. Zs’ broad acceptance can be attributed to their singular approach to instruments, sound, and musical style.
31G // €12.00
CASSETTES
ANDY ROCHE (BLACK VATICAN)
Dvd’r comp. / 3 videos, limited to 50 copies with handmade packaging.
Atelier Ciseaux Records // €6.00
CAVE – Psychic Psummer cassette
Neo-Projects // €4.00
ELECTRIC OMEN – ABANDON ALL HOPE CASSETTE
Rumbling darkness, like an earthquake at night, unexpected and terrifying by Sindre Bjerga. Bleak black and white covers. Pro dubbed cassettes. Limited to 60.
Blackest Rainbow // € 5.00
EMUUL – The Ghostwood Estates cassette
Blackest Rainbow // €5.00
FYOELK – Trampolin cassette
Erode Releases // €4.00
HEAVY WINGED – The Thinner Rge Air cassette
Blackest Rainbow // €5.00
JAVELIN – Andean Ocean cassette
Stenze Quo // €4.00
LASER POODLE – Phase To Face
Stenze Quo // €4.00
MICHAEL JORDAN – Tubthumpin cassette
Discos Compulsivos / LUV LUV // €4.00
NERVE CITY – Hell cassette
Amateur Depression // €5.00
NO SNOW – s/t cassette
Discos Compulsivos / LUV LUV // €4.00
PEWTR – WHICHEVER WAS CASSETTE
Pewtr is the man behind Spirit of Orr, as well as being a member of Sunburned Hand of the Man. Here you have some awesome solo outing of post Loren Connors / Sandy Bull styling, with a blend of pure outsider blues, americana and psychedelia. Pro dubbed cassettes. Limited to 100 copies.
Blackest Rainbow // € 5.00
STEFAN KUSHIMA – Magnetic Levitation cassette
Blackest Rainbow // €5.00