ISOUNDERSCORE



'dimmer's 'remissions' is the second full-length album from longtime sonic architects of interactive feedback circuits, thomas dimuzio and joseph hammer. this 2xlp effectively represents four side-long pieces from their live shows throughout california taken place between 2006 and 2007. essentially a follow-up to their 2007 album on los angeles' melon expander, 'remissions' expands upon the immense recursive tape looping and resampling that is found inherent in their work but achieves a weight and time displacement that greatly overshadows their dark preceding full-lengh. all four pieces were recorded at: norcal noisefest in sacramento (2006, 'sky wire'), the luggage store gallery in san francisco (2006, 'sun dog'), the smell in los angeles (2006, 'gases that emit light'), and artsf's noise pancakes series (2007, 'giant eagle'). live sampling, processing, feedback, looping by thomas dimuzio. tape manipulation and processing by joseph hammer. design and layout by thomas dimuzio, joseph hammer and brandon nickell. limited to 500 copies on full-color sleeves with cover photography by john dalton.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

JUNKE KUNST / EHRENTRAUD



Catalogue published by Junge Kunst Wolfsburg e.V. and Galerie Christian Ehrentraud, Berlin. About 60+ pages (21x19 cm) documentating Roigks works from the last couple years, with fullcolour photographs from Installations & Objects and black/white drawings, english & german texts about the artist. Also included is a full length Audio-CD with installation-sound works and musical pieces by Roigk. ---LABEL DESCRIPTION

KETCHUP CAVERN



 'Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, the free improv freak unit Fossils have unleashed about a billion limited-run releases documenting their weird journey since 2005. Built on mystery, busted electronics, internal machine feedback, treated tapes & amplified junk, Fossils paint abstract new visions on steel cave walls. The 2009 Fossils players include David Payne, Steve Smith (Thousand Year Frog), Daniel Farr (The Living Stump) & featuring the saxophone stylings of Rob Michalchuk (Poor Little Music label). Young Guns was recorded sometime 2008 at mjc hq. Ketchup Cavern's first jazz record. Numbered edition of 119, color paste-on/screenprinted artwork, handmade sleeve. No computers used in production or design. Mastered from cassette for maximum audio fidelity. Thurston Moore in Exclaim: '...and one of my favourite Canadian bands is called Fossils; check them out.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'Lasse Marhaug has a discography as long as your arm and a list of previous collaborators that would scare the pants off us if they were all in the same room, but that wouldn't matter if he didn't drop the heavy jams. And Ketchup Cavern number 2 is the heaviest yet! This is a physical record, instead of someone twisting knobs it sounds like someone slapping you around and yelling in your ear for five minutes and five seconds. Total radness!

1-sided 7


The same day I bought a second-hand Boss Dr. Sampler I connected my guitar to it and recorded the basic material for these two 4-minute tracks. Less drone, more composed. A bit like my Huis EP I guess, that's (partly) why the title hints to that. It's Machinefabriek's more playful side.

Limited to 500 copies (381 on black vinyl, 119 on color*), packaged in a full color offset-printed glue pocket sleeve designed by Rutger.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


 'Pair of dungeon bummers recorded in the trio formation at the same east L.A. hillside studio where the Raiders LP/CS was tracked. Deeper into the isolation, down to the resin, a long lost walk through dog alley. Written/taped/mixed from Feb-April 2009. Edition of 538: 433 black vinyl, 100 white vinyl, 5 black/white marble (sold out). Includes MP3 download card (192 kbps).'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


 '22 songs in three and a half minutes. Edition of 184, mastered at 45 RPM for maximum fidelity/enjoyment, broken-photocopier packaging. Charlie Mumma, Drums / Corydon Ronnau, Vocals / John Wiese, Electronics. Recorded PDX/LA November 2008.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'A compilation of noise and experimental composition from 4 Vancouver artists: Flatgrey, The Rita, Sick Buildings and Taskmaster. This release highlights some of the key players in Vancouver's harsh noise/anti-music community. Each artist involved has one side to unleash a torrent of harsh noise/cassette collage/overloaded distortion/mechanical grinding. Mastered at 45 rpm for maximum sound quality, pressed on red vinyl in an edition of 300 copies, packaged in a b&w offset-printed sleeve featuring a photo of the parties involved at the corner of Hastings and Main.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

KYE









'The Shadow Ring formed in the seaside town of Folkestone, England in 1993. Over the course of a decade, and through eight LPs Graham Lambkin, Darren Harris and later Tim Goss scraped out a unique musical pathway for themselves, armed with only the barest of tools. With each release the Shadow Ring presented themselves as a group in constant flux. Naive acoustic improvisations, dour bedroom sci-fi epics, cryptic D.I.Y. theatre and glacial electronic soundscapes all became fair game in their hands.

The group recorded for some of the premier underground labels of the era: Siltbreeze, Corpus Hermeticum, Swill Radio, and their own Dry Leaf Discs were all at one time or another called home. The Shadow Ring were also champions of the absurd - never playing live in their home country, they instead performed 23 shows across the US between 1995-97. The life of the Shadow Ring finally came to pass on the banks of the Hudson River in 2003.

Life Review offers a celebration of the Shadow Ring's oeuvre - from the green chaos of 1993's Don't Open The Window 7

LE SOUFFLEUR






LESSONS ABOUT HISTORY



'Lessons About History is a brand new weapon in the Swill Radio umbrella. LAH will specialize in digital objects of live and studio performances culled from the Swill Radio archives presented to the public for the first time. The exceptional musical interest and historical value of these recordings should help the listener shed some light on the vast and mysterious world of Swill Radio.  The series begins with a legendary IFCO radio show from 1999 with Karla and me joined by Graham Lambkin. This was our second show with Graham, the first being earlier in the day at the then-nascent Flywheel in Easthampton MA. (The Hardest Working Band In Rock!) We all worked together so well that it wasnt long before Tart was formed, but thats another story. This set showcases IFCO at its most languid, spacey, and electronic. Ill-fitting machine dreams. Excellent recording straight from the radio feed. A gorgeous representation of IFCO live during our Anti-Natural period. Professionally printed CDRs in full colour jackets'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

LITTLE ENJOYER



Total killer from Trumpet abuser Greg Kelley. co-released with GAMEBOY RECORDS.


All music by MattinBarnes. Tim Barnes-prepared drum & effect pedals, analog feedback, gong. Mattin-GNU/linux computer feedback. Packaging is individualy hand printed paper w/ letterpress text. NICE!

mp3 samples: MP3 Excerpt

LIVE BAIT








LOST TREASURES OF THE UNDERWORLD



FINALLY! A full-length LP from MIKE SHIFLET. Especially stoked to spin this after last years amazing and overlooked split w/ MYKEL BOYD...that rec was def on my best of 09 list that I never made... The title side of this guy starts off sounding like someone vacuuming in the next room...a sound I fucking LOVE! Everything is a bit relaxed and nice for a while, but at some point the vacuum dust starts multiplying in the bag and starts blowing all the dust back out all over the fuckin room...this sends off the dust alarm which ends off that side.. A Perfect Noise slab... Edition of 300 copies in full color printed sleeves. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

MALSONUS



VIOLENT HARSH ELECTRONICS from Jonathan Canady aka DEATHPILE aka ANGEL OF DEATH. The cover is so fucking raw I couldn't bring myself to scan it... BRUTAL.


Many a noise dudes dream is to score a horror movie...well Deathpile's Jonathan Canady did it for this modern underground horror flick 'THE MIND'!! And it fucking RULES... Serious old school analog horror synth... totally in the zone of the MANIAC and BURIAL GROUND soundtracks... Dark synth for every horrible mood imaginable... Fear, Disgust, Sadness, Violence, Defeat, etc... HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for synth heads and horror goons... Limited to only 250 fuckin copies on a REAL FUCKING CD.... Grip it!



MAUERSTADTMUSIK



'Two minimal electronic tracks from 1980, one previously unreleased. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies in full colour cover with full colour label and insert.' ---LABEL DESCRIPTION

MEATBOX



Very LIMITED (only 300 copies!) pro-pressed CD of PAIN JERK w/ JOHN WIESE. HARSH NOISE at it's FINEST.

MELON EXPANDER



HIGHLY RECOMMENDED CD of modern electronic composition. Masterfully crafted Music Concrete...this CD rules!

MEXICAN SUMMER



Killer private press quaalude rock...not something I usually carry, but this one really struck me because of my love of music from movies like THE VAN and POM POM GIRLS... not too far out, but VERY stoned...some groovy synth lines...I dig it..thought a few of you may as well.---Aaron Dilloway

'The first of many reissues on the Mexican Summer slate brings forth a 1976 private press affair from Georgia’s Robert Lester Folsom, a high-quality and shimmering, unbuttoned-collar collection of marina rock and sunset ballads. Vaguely psychedelic and professionally rendered, this is a strong and consistent brace of soft rock, staid yet breezy, and one of the only MS releases you can likely share with your parents (or grandparents) without strange looks or much argument. When this van’s a rockin’, don’t bother knockin’!'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

Limited edition...comes with MP3 download code


AMAZING Double LP set of Bobby BeauSoleil's mid-60's psychedelic freak band THE ORKUSTRA. Really strange melodic, lo-fi smokey tunes. Comes in HEAVY DUTY Gatefold w/ 18 page booklet w/ liner notes and amazing paintings/photos. Limited to only 1000 copies!!! Comes with mp3 Download code as well. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

'I had recently arrived in San Francisco when, in the fall of 1965, I conceived of assembling what I described then as 'the first electrified symphony orchestra.' My 18th birthday had just passed and I possessed only modest abilities as a musician, but, being prone to such crazy notions, the concept seemed perfectly reasonable-this was the Haight-Ashbury of the mid-sixties, after all! A few months later a stable musical ensemble somewhat resembling my original conception had come into existence.

What I had imagined would be an 'orchestra' of a dozen-or-so musicians proved in practice to be unmanageable. Instead, a coalition of five instrumentalists from various musical traditions—rock, classical, jazz, folk and blues—emerged as the core group. For what was essentially a reconceived rock band, the instrumentation was extremely unusual, comprising some combination of violin, oboe, standup bass, guitar, bouzouki, flute, organ, drums and percussion. All of the melodic instruments were modified for electric amplification.

The Orkustra's brief day in the sun did not allow an opportunity to record a formal album. However, some recordings of the band's practice sessions and live performances were made. These precious few artifacts have been carefully restored and compiled by Mexican Summer into a comprehensive double LP album.'---Bobby BeauSoleil, Summer 2009


2 track white label promo 7 inch...300 copies only.

MIDDLE JAMES CO.



Andrew Coltrane & David Payne Collaboration LP.

MILITANT WALLS



KILLER reissue of DBL cassette originally released by OLD EUROPA CAFE in 1995. Super crude lo fi buzzing harsh noise. MANDATORY for lovers of SCUM. Co-released w/ PACrec.

MISANTHROPIC AGENDA



LOUD AS HELL psychedelic electronics in the full power intensity of Wiese and Drumm. His live shows are BRUTAL, and I had to listen from the other room cuz the strobes almost made me lose it. I think it was even LOUDER in the room I was in!!!


'From beautiful northern and southern California comes the duo of Gerritt and John Wiese. Since the release of their first EP, The Disappearing Act ("unbearably intense" -The Wire), they have continued their live collaboration up and down the West Coast. Panoramic Glass And Mirror immerses the listener into a blend of sound layers, confronted with a melodic and haunting atmospheric approach while still retaining immense power. Side A was crafted from live recordings by John Wiese, while side B was produced from studio sessions by Daniel Voss (Leviathan, Lurker Of Chalice, Deathroes, Yellow Swans). Limited edition of 400 clear vinyl, 100 black.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'On his fourth studio album, Jason Crumer has further honed his craftsmanship and focused his vision. Recorded with meticulous precision, every sound is placed, mixed and arranged with purpose. Crumer coaxes an unprecedented depth of sound out of layers of electronics and field recordings. Romantic in nature and cinematic in scope, 'Walk with me' exemplifies Crumer's remarkable approach. The album furthermore attests to his relentless honesty and total dedication to his art.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'Gerritt runs the Misanthropic Agenda label out of Berkeley, California. Los Angeles resident John Wiese is a member of LHD and Sissy Spacek, and both have been freelance members of drone metal unit Sunn O))).


'Burning in hell with no relief. Double flamethrower unit. Phil Blankenship (The Cherry Point) & John Wiese. Los Angeles harsh city crust.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

mp3 samples: Limbs exceprt


''This aural document contains the entirety of Merzbow's critically acclaimed 'Frog' LP, plus a bonus disc packed with over 58 minutes of additional material - including a remix and an enhanced CD-ROM video/screensaver. Presented here on CD format for the first time, such an effort truly encompasses the expansive brillance of this incredible masterpiece. 'Frog' is an explosive journey through a living, breathing biosphere filled with amazing digital amphibians, reptiles, and insects. Immerse yourself in the habitat of sonic exploration!'---LABEL DESCRIPTION


Impressive collab from two of the scenes hottest newcomers.


'Sissy Spacek's fourth release for Misanthropic Agenda is a documentation of a duo piece developed in 2008 by Corydon Ronnau and John Wiese for breaking glass. Two performances in Los Angeles and San Francisco are included in their entirety. Hand numbered digipack in an edition of 300.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION




Sparce SS Big Band composed improv...percussion, electronics, guitars, woodwinds, double bass, koto, weird!

MISTAKE BY THE LAKE



HArsh noise from 1 half of HOT AIR BALOON RIDE!


Steve Makita (Lockweld), Wyatt Howland (Skin Graft), Andrew Kirschner (Relentless Corpse). Edition of only 100 copies. Handmade covers.