hi. friday and a long weekend ahead of us. We just received another new vendetta release - the NUMENOREAN - demo 2014 LP. A few gold ones are left … Besides that lots of new releases arrived like the LIFE´S BLOOD LP, restock of the new DO MAKE SAY THINK DLP, THE BUG vs. EARTH - Concrete Desert DLP + 12“, BEACH FOSSILS - Somersault LP, NEW INSTITUTE LP, JOHN COLTRANE & ALICE COLTRANE - Cosmic Music LP, LOSS - Horizonless DLP, new CHASTITY BELT LP, NO FAITH - Force Subservience LP and other Iron Lung stuff, new Lumpy stuff, MOLLY NILSSON - Imaginations LP, SLEEP - vol. 1 LP, SUBHUMANS re issues, THOMAS LEER DLP and other dark entries stuff, TONY CONRAD - Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain DLP and many more
besides that if you are in berlin this weekend - don´t miss LAS ROBERTAS (burger rec / artfag) & PIGEONS (BLN) at Monarch on Sunday June 4th
04.06. LAS ROBERTAS (Burger, Costa Rica) & PIGEONS (BLN)
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13.06. CITY OF CATERPILLAR (USA) & ME AND GOLIATH (UK)
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03.08. WET THE ROPE (ADAGIO830, USA)
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CITY OF CATERPILLAR tour
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ERIK NERVOUS - Ice Cream 7“ (total punk - ERIK NERVOUS's first release of 2017, following a stunning first season which ended with him being crowned rookie of the year, and let me be the first to inform you there is no sophomore slump happening here. This is Erik’s third vinyl release and in my humble opinion his best yet. “Ice Cream Cone” finds Erik at his most frantic. A fast paced bouncy minute and a half ode to stabbing someone in the face with an ice cream cone. Erik keeps the stabby theme up on the B-side with the jerky neck injury inducing hit “Children Stabbing Things.” Two songs, both about stabbing, both 100% TOTAL PUNK! Edition of 500 in hand-stamped red covers.) 7.00
PERVERTS AGAIN - My Accident 7“ (total punk - Six years in and here it is, our 50th single on Total Punk. Including represses that’s over 30,000 handstamped covers, hundreds of blisters, and countless hours of mind numbing labor. That being the case we wanted to go big with number 50. Cleveland’s PERVERTS AGAIN blew me away with last year’s Our Big Party 12” on Non-Commercial Records and were quickly elevated to favorite band status (not to mention their mascot game is on point). Well the Perverts are back with two more of their signature, warbled, repetitive punk incantations. Plodding bass and drums, slow macho riffs, and gang chants all moved forward by the monotone delivery and of the head Pervert. Weird, catchy, sarcastic, and 100% TOTAL PUNK. Look for an LP on Total Punk later this year. Edition of 500 in hand-stamped red covers.) 7.00
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AGE COIN - Performance LP (psoh - Posh Isolation’s elusive Age Coin duo impress with the cranky post-techno deviation of Performance; a lean, nervy and dread bass-fuelled follow-up to their Perceptions 12” - reissued by Luke Younger’s Alter in 2013 - and interim excursions in their other projects, inc. Vår, Marching Church, and the excellent Yen Towers. ) 20.00
BEACH FOSSILS - Somersault LP (Beach Fossils present their first recorded work since 2013. Somersault is a heartfelt indie album from Brooklyn, notable for featuring guest vocals from Cities Aviv and Rachel Goswell of Slowdive! Elsewhere, the band’s guitars etc. line-up is bolstered by strings, harpsichord and other lovely chamber instruments. ) 18.00
BLAZE FOLEY - Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings LP (Reissue of the first album recorded by the legendary Austin singer-songwriter who was tragically murdered in 1989. Recorded with Muscle Shoals studio musicians in 1984, the album was never distributed due to “some trouble with the law” resulting in the confiscation of most of the 500 copies originally pressed. These recordings find BLAZE FOLEY in a rare studio setting performing ten of his well-known compositions including the apparently timeless resistance song, Oval Room, originally written with Ronald Reagan in mind. The outstanding production values and musicianship breathe fresh air into these classic Blaze compositions. The original recordings have been digitally mastered by Austin engineer MARK HALLMAN. Foley’s songs have been recorded by Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, John Prine, Lyle Lovett and others. Lucinda Williams’ “Drunken Angel,” and Townes Van Zandt’s “Blaze’s Blues,” personal tributes to their good friend Foley, have added to a legacy once nearly forgotten. A major motion picture on Blaze directed by Ethan Hawke is in production and scheduled for theatrical release in 2018.) 18.00
THE BUG vs. EARTH - Concrete Desert DLP + 12“ (ninja tune - Bonus 12” included with the LP version features two of the album tracks vocalled by JK Flesh (Justin Broadrick)! Like master painters exploring a subject over a lifetime’s work, Kevin Martin and Dylan Carlson – The Bug and Earth, respectively – have each been mining and defining their genres for more than 20 years. They’re united by an interest in – really an obsession with – heaviness. They search for, examine and break the boundaries between beautiful and ugly, minimal and maximal, light and dark – but The Bug and Earth always make music that is heavy in the most thrilling of ways. These two uncompromising outsiders met via the visual artist Simon Fowler (Angels & Devils.) Simon arranged for Dylan to come to a King Midas Sound gig, but Martin’s trademark use of a powerful strobe light meant that the epileptic Carlson couldn’t enter the room. Undeterred, Carlson featured King Midas Sound’s music in a podcast, and the pair eventually decided to collaborate around “Angels & Devils.” ) 27.00
CHASTITY BELT - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone LP (hardly art - A few years ago, while in a tour van somewhere in Idaho, the members of Chastity Belt—Julia Shapiro, Gretchen Grimm, Lydia Lund, and Annie Truscott—opted to pass the time in a relatively unusual fashion: They collectively paid one another compliments, in great and thoughtful detail. This is what we like best about you, this is why we love you. ) 18.00
DAUDYFLIN - Ofbeldi LP (iron lung - Absolutely furious Icelandic hardcore punk. And for you non-natives the title Ofbeldi translates to Violence which is a very appropriate description of the sounds you'll find here. Twisting dagger fuzz guitar, murder-chorused bass, brass knuckle beats and vocals that melt a body down like an acid bath. A real mean ear fucker. Touring the US in July 2017 so watch out for that! Includes a download.) 18.00
DESIRE - Under Your Spell LP (PRESSED ON 180-GRAM OPAQUE ELECTRIC PURPLE VINYL!!! A collection of classic DESIRE tracks remixed and remastered. Features "Under Your Spell," "Don't Call," "Mirroir Mirroir (Instrumental Dub)," "Under Your Spell (Vocal & Synthesizer)," "I Can Dream About You (8 Track Version)," "and "Don't Call (Vocal & Synthesizer).“) 22.00
DIREWOLVES - The Great Year LP (throatruiner - Three years after their debut album "Aegri Somnia", Lorient, France's DIREWOLVES return with "The Great Year". This new six tracks EP focuses on the more energetic facet of their sound, refining the band's revigorating blend of melodic crust and screamo-influenced hardcore. Recorded & mixed by Guillaume Doussaud at Swan Sound Studios (Amanda Woodward, Aussitôt Mort…), mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Studios (Coliseum, The Sword, Jawbox…) and with artwork once again designed by Førtifem, "The Great Year" is another implacable display of the band's abrasive yet anthemic vision of punk/hardcore.) 12.00
DO MAKE SAY THINK - Stubborn Persistent Illusions DLP (constellation - Do Make Say Think has been widely celebrated as one of the preeminent instrumental rock bands of the 90s-00s. Stubborn Persistent Illusions is the group’s first album in eight years – and a stellar addition to one of the most consistent, inventive, exuberant, satisfying, and critically acclaimed discographies in the ‘post-rock’ canon. Following Other Truths (2009), the five members of DMST pursued other creative projects, while all continuing to stay firmly rooted in Toronto. An invite from Heartland Festival and Constellation to play the label’s 15th Anniversary shows in Europe in fall 2012 brought DMST back to the stage in very fine form – the band worked up a bevy of gems from their catalogue and absolutely killed live. Stubborn Persistent Illusions is built from this distinctive toolkit, at once familiar and as fresh as anything DMST has committed to tape. A short Bhuddist poem about boundlessness and recurrence informs this profoundly imagistic listening experience, amplified by the beautiful original album art paintings commissioned from Marianne Collins. Do Make Say Think enter their third decade with a new album that helps reaffirm the promise of genuinely emotive, narrative, restorative and life-affirming instrumental rock music – and will surely rank among the group's best.) 28.00
DZELTENIE PASTNIEKI - Lentu Gabalini LP (dark entries - Dzeltenie Pastnieki are a Latvian new wave band formed in 1979 in Riga, Latvia. Their name means “The Yellow Postmen" in Latvian. The constant core members of the band have remained Ingus Baušķenieks (bass, keyboards, vocals) and Viesturs Slava (guitar, keyboards, vocals), with Zigmunds Streiķis (keyboards) and Ilgvars Rišķis (drums). They released six albums between 1981 and 1987. All were recorded at the band’s home studio and distributed on 1/4" reel-to-reel tape and compact cassette, with no artwork. Their sound ranges from electronic post-punk to experimental tape manipulation all sung in Latvian. ‘Lentu Gabaliņi’ is a 10-track compilation featuring songs from each of the band’s six albums, all songs appearing on the vinyl for the first time. pilsēta’ (The Depressing City) was assembled from out-takes, alternate versions, and solo tracks by individual members of the band in 1986. ‘Naktis’ (Nights, 1987) could be seen as a 'back to the roots' effort that made use of the progress of home studio advances made by Baušķenieks over the previous years. All songs have been mastered from original tapes at Bicycle Systems, Rīga, by Ingus Baušķenieks and remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The jacket features an photo of the group from 1981 with textured wallpaper designed by Eloise Leigh to represent tape pieces. Each copy includes a double sides 11x11” insert with never before seen photos and liner notes.) 20.00
DREAM MACHINE - The Illusion LP (catsle face - When Matthew Melton told us he had two brand new records for us to hear, a final Warm Soda record as well as a new band with his wife Doris called Dream Machine, I must admit there was a little sadness that Warm Soda had run its course. Then I put on Dream Machine and poof, a puff of smoke and a familiar looking magician appears, beckoning for me to jump through his top hat and we’re off! The vibe makes a deft jump from Warm Soda’s terse power pop to tongue in groove swinging proto-metal a la Iron Butterfly, Deep Purple, Heart, and more than a hint of LA’s dark masters The Doors…Doris absolutely murders the organ all over this thing, along with some perfectly placed synthesiser pepper - it’s just jammed with hooks and pulsing vintage vibes but in an unassailably clever and accomplished manner. This band is going to be the background party band of the summer I can already tell, this sounds like a saturday night satanic ritual in a sunsetting Austin backyard, everyone dressed to the nines and we’re fuckin goin’ there man. If I didn’t know Melton already I would have lost my shit seeing this out in the wild - expertly played, fantastically recorded (at A = 432 hz, by the way) and just a real tasty party platter of a record here for you.) 18.00
ELDER - Reflections Of A Floating World DLP (It’s time to get euphoric. With EDLER's fourth full-length album, an epic piece of rock music will be released unto the world. And we think that’s a reason to celebrate. Band members and friends NICK DISALVO, JACK DONOVAN and MATT COUTO already dismissed any last remains of stoner metal stereotypes on Lore (2015). Their current album, which was written following the long and acclaimed Lore tour in moments of intense creativity, is a journey into prog rock and psychedelic worlds. Six monumental songs, huge in sound, each of them their own cosmic expedition. What begins as driving mid-tempo rock filled with heavy guitar riffs repeatedly erupts into melodic tangents and clever variations. The high demands that DiSalvo places on his own songwriting seem to become more unfettered from minute to minute—as does the pleasure of listening to him. Guest musicians MICHAEL SAMOS and MIKE RISBERG have added additional guitars, pedal steel and keyboards to the trio, making Elder’s sound more voluminous than ever, and the influences found here range from '70s prog dinosaurs such as Yes, King Crimson or Pink Floyd to their kindred spirits in the European psychedelic and space rock scenes. And it is of course a cliché, but Elder bring their own organism to life from all these influences.) 31.00
GARY WILSON & TREDICI BACCI - Another Lonely Night In Brooklyn LP (feeding tube - "Totally great live LP by GARY WILSON (the world's forgotten boy) with a cover photo that makes him look like a dead ringer for the late Mike Kelley, back when Mike was a fake hippie. Anyway, Gary shouldn't need much of an introduction. If you don't know him, you might well access one of the many other LPs of his we've done. But then again, Another Lonely Night In Brooklyn might be just the place to start your own little wagon rolling down the road of Gary Wilson fandom. The tunes on this album are representative of the live set Gary's been doing lately, with a heavy emphasis on tracks originally recorded around the time of his 1977 breakout LP, You Think You Really Know Me. What lifts things to a higher-than-usual level is the lovely musical backing provided by TREDICI BACCI. This New York City unit formed to perform classic-era faux Italian film music, but they really find their own special place as Gary's backing group. Wilson's best songs of longing and loss have always been built around strong narrative centers as much as melodies, but Tredici Bacci's expansive accompaniment manages to give these narratives a width that is positively cinematic. And I'm not trying to put down Gary's other backing bands or anything, but I think anyone who's familiar with Wilson's work will have a similar response. The songs are not re-cast, but they feel a lot less compressed now, and this open-ness gives them a universality they didn't always have. No one would ever dare suggest that Wilson isn't a weirdo of the first order, but the sound of this album (and the jocularity of Gary's on stage raps) might well bring him to a whole new audience. Let the era of Wilson-Mania begin."—Byron Coley, 2017. Housed in silkscreened fold-over covers by NEIL BURKE. Includes a bonus CD version. Edition of 500.) 25.00
GRACE SINGS SLUDGE - Life With Dick LP (Life With Dick is the new album by Grace Sings Sludge (The Sandwitches, The Fresh and Onlys). It’s the continuation of a world Grace Cooper began illustrating as one of the lead songwriters of the San Francisco band The Sandwitches, and on her previous three collections of solo home recordings (released as limited run cassette tapes). As with the other solo albums, Cooper does the artwork for the album. Her delicate yet disturbing pen and watercolor creations are the perfect accompaniment to her songs, as though they’ve emerged from the same troubled dreams. Though understated, a sense of urgency permeates this record. Cooper’s voice dances through the songs with a chameleon quality that’s sultry and commanding on “In Spite of Doom” and desperate, vulnerable and sharp on “Can’t Play” and “Everlasting Arms.” Her lyrics contain the weariness of giving in to a love requited, and the unsettling realities of maintaining that love. In some pieces it seems she no longer knows where to direct her endless yearning. She observes on “Bad Timing Pt. 2”: “Two boats they don’t meet up in the night, they glide by each other and forever out of sight... they might just be the lucky ones.” The spookiness of Cooper’s sound—a sound influential in some of The Sandwitches’ best songs like ”Joe Says” and “In the Garden”—is still present here and especially on the darker second side. Piercing guitars and heartbeat drums on “Everlasting Arms” warn that “something’s growing in the basement” and something comes “from within.” The recording quality of this release is raw but it is far from being a “garage record.” It is a recording brought down from the attic, with no date and with no intended audience, and is best listened to alone.) 20.00
HARRY TAUSSIG & MAX OCHS - The Music Of Harry Taussig & Max Ochs LP (Fifty years ago, HARRY TAUSSIG and MAX OCHS were featured on a sampler LP, Contemporary Guitar - Spring '67, alongside John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Bukka White. Both guitarists were "re-discovered" by Tompkins Square in 2005, and have since released new recordings for the label. On May 26th, Tompkins Square will release The Music of Harry Taussig & Max Ochs featuring newly recorded material, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Takoma sampler they first appeared on. The pair will also meet for the first time and play select shows on the West Coast. The May 28th concert in Berkeley will also feature Tompkins Square recording artist Richard Osborn, a student of the late Robbie Basho.) 18.00
HOUSEWIVES - s/t LP (HOUSEWIVES are: Industrious music for industrious people. A few years ago, London, England’s Housewives, in the finest of post-punk traditions, began making an intensely focused racket. Their debut took the form of a five-song limited-edition cassette put out by Faux Discx. This self-titled EP had a startling power and hypnotic force that is all too rare in this era of practiced disaffection. Instead of pretending to be bored by this evershifting world, Housewives' approach revealed a microscopic attention to detail. Despite their using the traditional instruments of rock n’ roll, Housewives invert these powerful totems to their own ends. This is music that earns its praise from such high priests of refusal as Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now). Like an Adam Curtis documentary, Housewives' music that takes on social constructs, looking for a way to disassemble these ridiculous structures. Delivered at a volume-enhancing 45 rpms, Housewives’ 12” EP is a diamond-hard gem of post-punk.) 20.00
INSTITUTE - Subordination LP (sacre dbones - Since their first demo in 2013, the Austin expats in Institute have edged their raw anarcho punk blitz into something much more expansive and nuanced. 2014’s Salt EP marked the beginning of the band’s working relationship with Sacred Bones, and it explored longer, more experimental song forms. Catharsis, the band’s debut full-length, was another huge push forward, with a slightly cleaner production and some krautrock influence creeping in around the edges. Subordination sees them push themselves further out of genre, incorporating hard rock and glam and writing some of the most diverse material of their career. The songs on Subordination address the lonely sham of playing by the rules, the search for money and power, the annihilation of a true personality, and the standards of normalcy that from childhood conditions us to feel abject.) 20.00
JANITOR SCUM - Scenes From The Grocery Store LP (lumpy - Upbeat noisy new wave from this genius one woman group outta Calgary. Scratchy guitars and abrasive pouting vocals tracked over a thudding drum machine makes for a punk/wave mess to remember. Nine tracks with an incredible and infectious closing number “Vacuum Rebuilder.”) 18.00
JOHN COLTRANE & ALICE COLTRANE - Cosmic Music LP (John Coltrane transformed the inner architecture of jazz, throughout the mid-1950s and 1960s and long after his premature death at age 40 in 1967. No other American musician could be said to be at the spiritual center of the ‘60s musical universe as Trane influenced Albert Ayler, La Monte Young, Jimi Hendrix and everybody in between. Cosmic Music, originally self-released by Alice Coltrane in 1968 and later issued by Impulse!, features two tracks (“Manifestation” and “Rev. King”) by John Coltrane’s legendary final quintet that were recorded in San Francisco on February 2nd, 1966 and two more (“Lord Help Me To Be” and “The Sun”) from Alice Coltrane’s very first session as a bandleader, recorded six months after her husband’s passing. “Manifestation” opens with the group already in mid-flight: Trane’s fierce tenor leads the way with Pharoah Sanders’ blistering sax and Alice’s powerful chords hearing his call. On “Rev. King,” Trane introduces a lyrical theme and then the composition erupts into fiery incantations, while Jimmy Garrison’s bass throbs alongside the propulsive, gravity-defying drumming of Rashied Ali. Foreshadowing her majestic debut, A Monastic Trio, “Lord Help Me To Be” brings Alice’s celestial piano playing and inspired improvisations to the foreground with Sanders, Garrison and drummer Ben Riley rumbling in tow. “The Sun,” a meditative ballad with subtle urgency, perfectly closes the album’s contemplative circle. As John Coltrane recites on the final track, “May there be peace and love and perfection throughout all creation.”) 25.00
LEJSOVKA & FREUND - Music For Small Ensemble & Computer DLP (mie - I’ve always thought it’d be really cool to have someone write something smart and poetic about a release of ours, but here I am again trying to type this out myself and not have it be boring and embarrassing. I don’t know, I guess I’ll just be blunt and direct and hit “send” ASAP. Music for Small Ensemble & Computer is a collection of what I call the “DIY shitty classical” pieces me and Linda have been working on for a couple years. Using an inherited piano, freeware, and the basement floorcore spirit of discovery to trespass into a typically more rarefied style. And thankfully a few actually-trained friends lent their skills to the mess. To me, it’s the sound of the two of us struggling to find peace and stability for ourselves, family, and small community in an often chaotic and hostile world. I’m really excited about this collection. We previously released these pieces on as-limited-as-possible 12” runs and went through them very quickly, so it’s cool that MIE is giving them a wider issue. Linda and I have made quite a few records now, but to me this is really the closest to being “us”. Put a headphone jack in my tombstone and have this playing. Does any of this make any sense?-- Keith Freund.) 25.00
LIFE'S BLOOD - Hardcore A.d. 1988 LP (LIFE'S BLOOD were a legendary short lived band from New York City. Formed in 1987, The band played 20 shows and recorded two radio shows, a demo at Don Fury, one 7-inch, "Defiance," released on Combined Effort Records and appeared on the seminal New Breed tape comp in 1988. In these short 14 months as a band they left an indelible mark on the history of hardcore punk, as their sharp, earnest, and challenging lyrics backed with remarkably sturdy, dissonant and distorted hardcore songs emerged at a time where the focus of underground hardcore had been blurred by commercialism, crossover and violence. Hardcore A.D. 1988 collects 27 songs from their Defiance EP, demo tape, compilation tracks, their posthumous split EP with Sticks And Stones, WFMU and WNYU recordings and live tracks, Members went on to play in BORN AGAINST, MENACE DEMENT, SINKING BODY, MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT COLLAPSE and MY RIFLE. Features new liner notes from guitarist ADAM NATHANSON, extensive band notes compiled by bassist NEIL BURKE and a ton of photos and flyers. The LP comes in a Stoughton tip-on gatefold with a 11x22" insert and download card.) 18.00
LOSS - Horizonless DLP (prfound - Six doomed years in creation since their debut album Despond, Nashville, Tennessee melancholic death / funeral doom metal band Loss have completed their anticipated masterwork of pure doom death worship Horizonless, one of the most anticipated metal releases of the year. Reaching further into the void and traveling even more beyond the realms of hopelessness and despair, this album is a journey devoid of all hope and redemption, one where heartbreak, total death and never-ending despondency prevails. Produced and engineered by Billy Anderson (Pallbearer, Bell Witch, Neurosis, Red House Painters) in the band’s hometown, giving the band their most monumental sound yet, Horizonless (which also features guest vocals from Wrest of Leviathan) forges the band’s sound tapestry into more vast and sprawling territory: heavier, darker, more melancholic, and sorrowful. Where their previous album laid down the foundation that gave them the reputation as the saddest and bleakest band in the movement, this latest forges that funeral march onwards towards ruin, decay, and utter oblivion.) 32.00
MIKA VAINIO - Reat LP (elektro - The first release in 8 years on EMD brings Mika Vainio in full action. Tracks with beats, groovy, experimental and/or hardcore all on one album, initiating the continuation of the label's activities with a series of releases. The logo on the cover can be read "reat" and means both a bad behaving child and something really evil. It is also a logo of a big company, whose name will not be mentioned, since EMD is not an advertising agency, to be highlighted here for the newcomers.Mika Vainio invents sublime electronic scapes with a poetic approach. Half of the tracks have his caracteristic imprint the other half reach out to another wasteland or universe, at a minimum. A trust-worthy cooperation between two underground submarine sandwiches.) 18.00
MOLLY NILSSON - Imaginations LP (night people - That we live in a world changed is beyond question. Since 2015’s Zenith, Berlin-based songwriter Molly Nilsson has surrendered to the world, traveling from Mexico to Glasgow, observing the changing socio-political landscape and imagining a better world. For an artist who has so successfully created her own environment and gradually let others in, her 8th studio album Imaginations sees Nilsson directly engaging with her surroundings, engendering change and allowing love in. Imaginations dreams big, recasting storming, stadium-sized pop into the internal language of the solo auteur. Imaginations is not escapism, it’s a kaleidoscope and an alternative view, an agent of change. On Imaginations Molly is recasting her interior monologue as a prism through which to see the world, a means to live differently and to reject the status quo. We can Think Pink, change our destiny together. This is an optimism about the future when we need it the most. “New boys, new girls.. give me your smile and I’ll give you mine” Clearly, we are living through a transformation but with alchemists like Molly Nilsson, we’re never alone in the process.) 21.00
THE MUFF DIVERS - Dreams Of The Gentlest Texture LP (lumpy - Chicago group’s debut LP. 10 songs of catchy drum machine Glam with a hearty reverence for KISS and the Ramones. Some high voltage pogo speed punk rock n roll! Mastered by GEZA X.) 22.00
NO FAITH - Force Subservience LP (iron lung - Members of DISCORDANCE AXIS, DEMON BROTHER and VACCINE combine forces on Forced Subservience, a constant hammering heart of power violence bursting from inside a wall of harsh power electronics. An unstoppable mix of fury, vitriol, sound and scum for the modern era of world failure. This LP, their second, primarily serves to expose the corruption of war and the abuses of authority society has come to accept as commonplace. Its a sad state of affairs today. The alarms are sounding... Recorded, mixed and mastered by WILL KILLINGSWORTH. Includes a download.) 18.00
NUMENOREAN - demo 2014 LP (vendetta - I was captivated from the first moments by the reverberating solo guitar melody and continued to be carried away by the song as it evolved, moving through soft passages of sorrowful meditation and powerful waves of riffs coming down like sheets of rain, and concluding with the strumming of an acoustic guitar." - NoCleanSinging ) 13.00
RAZZIA - Rest Of 1981 - 1990 LP (Die LP erscheint im Inside-out Cover, inklusive 6-seitigem Einleger. Insgesamt 14 Titel wurden auf 140g Vinyl gebannt. Das Cover und das Schallplatten-Etikett der B-Seite sind auch auf „Volume 2“ handnummeriert. Die ersten 333 Exemplare im limitierten moosgrünem Vinyl sind exklusiv bei COLTURSCHOCK erhältlich. Der zweite Teil der „Rest of“-Reihe ist zwar mit Material aus den Jahren 1981-1990 ausgestattet, aber der Schwerpunkt dieser Compilation liegt auf der Frühphase von RAZZIA und daher stammt ein Großteil der Songs aus der „Tag ohne Schatten“-Ära. Die Tracklist besteht ausschließlich aus raren und unveröffentlichten Übungsraum-, Demo- und Live-Aufnahmen und bis auf den Studio-Track „Abschaum erwache“ ist keines der Lieder (bzw. Versionen) jemals vorher auf Vinyl oder CD erschienen. Enthalten sind beispielweise Songs wie: „Er oder ich“, „Chaos“, „Hängt ihn auf“, „Wer, Wie, Wo“, „Wiedersehen“ oder die Ur-Version von „Slalom d´a Mort“, die 1985 unter dem Titel „Auf dem Weg ins Nichts“ noch mit anderem Text auf deutsch eingesungen wurde. Die Stücke zeigen, was die Band in ihrer Frühphase ausgemacht hat: Rauer, aggressiver Punk, gespickt mit den für RAZZIA typischen Gitarrenmelodien, mit denen sie spätestens 1986 auf ihrem zweiten Album „Ausflug mit Franziska“ neue Maßstäbe setzten. Die zum Großteil von Kassetten stammenden Aufnahmen aus dem RAZZIA-Archiv wurden für dieses Projekt bestmöglich gemastert, ohne dabei den Originalaufnahmen ihren Charme zu rauben. Wer aber High Quality erwartet, liegt hier definitiv falsch. Wir reden von den frühen 80ern und die waren rau, roh und vor allem authentisch!!!) 16.00
ROE ENNEY - Glare LP (root strata - A somnambulant journey through psychedelic bedroom fantasy-scapes, Glare is Roe Enney's first proper LP after only a few under-the-radar cassette releases on Phaserprone, Discriminate, and Piero since 2011. Recorded over the last couple years in the late evening at the cusp of the witching hour, Glare unfolds like a manifesto on the devolution of communication. An experiment of thresholds: electronic, political, poetical, Roe Enney touches on the likes of Tara Cross or Anne Clark, but only briefly before hurtling into a subterranean world of closed-off obsessions. Enney on the release: "The electronic artist is always enmeshed in a battle of thresholds. What does one do? This is because she, the electronic spirit, is always in the process of change. This spirit is never stable, it is tenuous. It is a moving hierarchy, a royal island with a v. real topography, with its own guard, observation deck, casino. The music on this record firmly pledges allegiance to this island, and yet it is out somewhere on the shore, perhaps 'dreaming of elsewhere.' Yet one cannot help what one is. Perhaps the record is cast-off." Mastered by Sean McCann; Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Includes download code.) 18.00
SHIN JOONG HYUN - Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea’s Shin DLP (Inspired by jazz, soul, and traditional Korean music, SHIN JOONG HYUN started his career in the mid-1950s, performing for US troops stationed locally after the Korean War armistice of 1953. While his English language skills were limited, the young player had no trouble communicating through his trusty electric guitar, but Shin was no mere 6-string slinger for hire, he was able to communicate something far beyond your average professional musician. Production work and extensive songwriting followed, not to mention a steady stream of electrifying performances. Gaining momentum by the moment, Shin developed popular success across South Korea molding protégés like singing duo the Pearl Sisters and folk-psych songbird Kim Jung Mi into top pop stars. From there it was hit after hit. The late 1960s rock explosion and an influx of imported music from The Beatles, Jimmy Smith, and The Jefferson Airplane all informed and inspired Mr. Shin to elevate his own craft. Even experimental trips via a crew of local hippies also took the music man to new heights despite Korean law forbidding such rebellion. Drug use was illegal and punishable as a serious offence. Park Chung-hee, then President of South Korea began to closely monitor Shin’s “subversive” activities. After refusing to write a song in praise of the political leader, the musician was labeled unpatriotic and his career was instantly snuffed-out through a series of surveillance, torture, and institutional confinement.) 30.00
SLEEP - vol. 1 LP (tupalo - restock - Volume One is the debut album. It was the only album recorded with second guitarist Justin Marler, before he became an Orthodox monk. Volume One showcases a darker sound and stronger doom metal influence than Sleep's later work. ) 18.00
SUBHUMANS - 29:29 Split Vision LP (blurrg - 29:29 is the 6th full length release by Subhumans, following on from 1986's EP LP, this was originally released in 1987 on Bluurg.) 21.00
SUBHUMANS - From Cradle To Grave LP (REMASTERED AND REISSUED!!! From The Cradle To The Grave is the second full length album by the SUBHUMANS. It was originally released in 1983 on Bluurg records. CD packaged in a deluxe digipak, LP pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Both formats include a booklet and poster.) 21.00
SUBHUMANS - EP LP (REISSUED!!! EP LP is a collection of EPs THE SUBHUMANS put out before their first LP. The Day The Country Died, was released. This complete collection was originally released in 1986 on the band's own label, Bluurg Records.) 25.00
SUBHUMANS - Time Flies + Rats LP (Bluurg records are proud to announce the reissues of the SUBHUMANS back catalog. Remastered and presented in a deluxe digipacks (CDs) and gatefold sleeves (LPs) with all original artwork, these re-releases give you another chance to hear one of the original UK punk bands at their very best. Time Flies/Rats is the third release by the Subhumans. It was originally two 7-inch EPs which were later combined to make this album, released in 1983 on Bluurg records.) 21.00
THE TERMINALS - Antiseptic LP (ba da bing - The Terminals are the best rock band New Zealand has ever produced. Period. There’s heavy competition, but believe it. No group has lasted over three decades and maintained such intensity, structure and mood better than the core team of Steven Cogle and Peter Stapleton. Cogle’s voice is a quavering incantation of deep spell-casting, throwing more dirt onto already gritty guitar squalls. Stapleton’s rhythm section propels songs through lightning charges of tempo and energy. Age has only embedded the band’s mastery of deep sonic realms. The ten years between their last album, Last Days of the Sun, and the release of Antiseptic whip by in a flash when these records are played next to each other—they never disappoint, they never relent. This latest album does mark some changes, however. Longtime guitarist Brian Crook now lives in the California desert, so Nicole Moffat has replaced him, providing violin and vocals. Mick El Borado thickens the atmosphere with his improvisational keyboard playing. A group that has stayed together so long knows instinctively where a song can go, although it is often the maverick pieces—ones that at first don’t seem to belong—that end up on the records. Their work together has become only more sagacious, and The Terminals don’t waste an intended or improvised note. This is a peerless rock album—think of another group who’ve stayed as heavy, as broke, and consistent for this long.) 18.00
THOMAS LEER - 1979 DLP (dark entries - Thomas Leer is an innovative electronic musician from Port Glasgow, Scotland. He began singing for a local band at age 13, and was writing his own music by 18. By 1977, he had moved to London, where he fronted Pressure, a Clash-esque punk group with fellow experimental Scottish musician Robert Rental. After hearing Kraftwerk, Leer became interested in synthesizers – not long after, he was exploring the experimental techniques of Eno, Zappa, Beefheart, Faust, and Can. In 1978, Thomas released his first single, “Private Plane”/“International”, on his own Oblique Records that we reissued in 2015.) 25.00
TONY CONRAD - Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain DLP (superior - Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain is the quintessential work of artist/filmmaker/composer Tony Conrad. Comprised of both film installation and minimalist score for amplified strings, Ten Years leaps across genre and medium to connect his revolutionary structural filmmaking with the experiments in long-duration sound that Conrad had begun in the 1960s as part of the Theatre of Eternal Music. "Ten Years began with image before sound," writes Andrew Lampert, "a row of quadruple projections arranged side-by-side, all the shuffling stripes cascading into each other. Over the next two hours the music throbbed and the projectors incrementally shifted inwards, their beams gradually uniting to form one pulsating, overlapping picture." For its 1972 premiere at New York's The Kitchen, Ten Years included Conrad on violin as well as Rhys Chatham and Laurie Spiegel performing on instruments of the composer's own making. Chatham played the Long String Drone – a 6-foot long strip of wood with bass strings, electric pickup, tuning keys, tape, rubber band and metal hardware – while Spiegel carried out an arrhythmic bass pulse throughout. Superior Viaduct is honored to present this previously unreleased recording of Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain's breathtaking premier performance. As Chatham recounts in the liner notes, "When I first listened to this recording after not hearing it for over 40 years, it transported me back to the early Kitchen and the heyday of early minimalism, played outside the Dream Syndicate.”) 32.00
TRAUMA HARNESS - Halloween Songs Vol. 1 LP (A collection of three Halloween-themed tapes released between 2012 and 2015 by this beloved long running St. Louis band. Channeling elements of post-punk, synthpop, and '80s horror movie music, TRAUMA HARNESS provide a delightful and ominous soundtrack for autumn. It’s tin can punk blended with a pop nightmare; if you’re waiting for October this should hold you over. Includes covers of John Carpenter, Alice Cooper, and Seige!) 17.00
TRAUMA HARNESS - Tried My Hardest LP (Smoking debut album from St. Louis finest punk group. They definitely love Wire but also include some nods to power pop and synth music of the late '70s. Memorable radioactive post-punk songs peppered with gloomy dust. A strong release. Art by AMOS of Tenement.) 17.00
ULRIKA SPACEK - Modern English Decoration LP (Ulrika Spacek return with the release of their second album, Modern English Decoration. Much like their debut album released in early 2016, the band chose to record, produce and mix the entirety of the record in their shared house – a former art gallery called ‘KEN’, so named because of a cryptic inscription found above the front door. Not just a studio and home, KEN is essentially the band’s hub, a space in which the surrounding ephemera of videos, artwork and even band photos are all created. And focus is the abiding term: this is an album designed to be just so - a 45 minute commitment, a surrender.) 22.00
VATICAN SHADOW - Rubbish Of The Floodwaters LP (ost gut - Some resurrect themselves after near-death experiences in politics, while others continue to appear politically alive even when they have actually died.” In time for the 20th anniversary of his label Hospital Productions, Dominick Fernow offers the first release of his Techno-focused moniker Vatican Shadow on Ostgut Ton, following up on his Berghain residency and joining Ostgut Booking in 2016 with his Vatican and Prurient projects. ) 12.00
THE WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND - Vol. 3 LP (Released in July 1968 on Reprise Records, Vol.3: A Child’s Guide To Good & Evil is considered to be the band’s most accomplished work and a masterpiece of the psychedelic genre. Released just nine months after Vol. 2, the band explores their incredibly creative psychedelic pop song writing with an accomplished mastery of studio techniques . Featuring iconic original artwork by JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD (Beatles, Rolling Stones) A long awaited reissue from the master tapes. “One of the 40 greatest Psychedelic Records of all time.”—Mojo Magazine. Limited edition MONO pressing. Packaged with printed inner sleeve with master reel photos.) 25.00
V/A - Saigon Supersound Vol. 1 DLP (What started as an idea in 2012 now becomes reality with the release of Saigon Supersound Vol. 1, compiled by Jan Hagenkötter. A compilation about the story of a musical era in Vietnam that was almost lost, made of tracks from 1965 to 1975, the so-called "Golden Music" period in the south of Vietnam, where—under difficult circumstances—a lively pop culture had developed. This period is characterized by the fusion of Vietnamese music with western pop music. The compilation includes some tunes reissued for the very first time since their original release. Compiled by JAN HAGENKOTTER, a music-lover and DJ who is also the mind behind the renowned music publishing company and record label INFRACom! after relocating to Saigon in 2012. Features: Carol Kim, Hùng Cường & Mai Lệ Huyền, Duy Quang & Thái Hiền, Thanh Vũ, Connie Kim, Hòa Tấu, Phượng Mai, Khánh Ly, Kim Loan,Thanh Thuý & Văn Thanh & Hoàng Liêm & Thanh Mai, Kiều Oanh, Thanh Lan, Châu Hà & Thanh Mai, Mai Lệ Huyền, Vân Sơn & Thùy Dung, Hoàng Oanh,Phương Dung, and Ngọc Giàu.) 31.00
TAPES
CULT OF OCCULT / GRIM VAN DOOM - split TAPE ("The split album by the sludge bands Cult Of Occult and Grim Van Doom starkly contrast the two very different approaches that the two bands bring to the same genre. But, if anything, that contrast grabs the listener. Cult Of Occult’s half of the album is one, twenty-two minute long track titled “Black Sea”. It rumbles like a distant demon patiently clawing its way out from hell, one massive handful of earth at a time. Plump, earthy bass tones, ominous, cymbal-heavy drumming, hellishly guttural vocals and filthy guitar distortion are set to a tempo that makes Sleep look like a grindcore band. All of these elements remain constant throughout the twenty-two minutes of “Black Sea”, giving the song an endless, trance-inducing feel.) 6.00
OBED MARSH - Innsmouth TAPE ("Obed Marsh's debut album 'Innsmouth' is a raw and unadulterated foray into the nightmare realm of early-twentieth-century horror, and the the blackest sludge-drowned depths of funerary doom metal. Crossing the threshold between the horrors of the sea and the corruption of man, 'Innsmouth' paints a dark picture of mental illness, conspiracy, murder, civil unrest, and the morbid progeny of Lovecraft's infamous "Deep Ones" to the tune of dissonant, harrowing chords, slithering guitar leads, and an unforgiving, organic percussive force below.“) 6.00
RAKTA - Rakta At KEXP TAPE (During the epic U.S. leg of the tour they did in 2016 promoting the 'III' album they stopped in at Seattle's KEXP to record a live radio set. It came out phenomenally so, with the cooperation with the station executives, we put it on a cassette for you to enjoy. Pro printed and masterized to perfection. Limited to 200 copies) 8.00
VERWOED - Bodemloos TAPE (Formally known as Woudloper, VERWOED emerged in 2014, with a mammoth self-titled demo tape released through Breathe Plastic Records the following year. While sharing similarities in sound and dynamics, VERWOED greatly surpasses Woudloper with this latest release by delving deeper into paranoid, almost hallucinogenic textures, entwined with dense, melodic ambiance that will leave you with one huge mind-fuck of a listening experience that is as terrifying as it is satisfying.) 6.00
WILDERNESSKING - Levitate TAPE (breath plastic - This 2 track tape record sees Wildernessking expanding on their sound. Never afraid of exploring new territory, the band gives listeners a 5-minute-a-side look into their varied palette.( 6.00
MAGAZINES
MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL - #409 | June 2017 MAG (As extreme as your coming summer weather, MRR starts the blistering with features on BAND OF ACCUSE, NACHTEXEN, KALEIDOSCOPE, FUCK YOU PAY ME, GAZM, and PROTEX, plus Thrillhouse Records' 10th Anniversary and the Break Free, Damaged City and Everything Is Not OK III Fests. All that sizzling action along with the usual collection of columns, news items, action-packed photos and reviews.) 5.00