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Magic Aum Gigi My Metal Machine Music

(Sparkling Spare Wheel)

"First solo release. Acid Mothers Temple soul collective member's Magic Aum Gigi have one solo track on the AMT family compilation "Do whatever you want, don't do whatever you don't want!!" MMMM is an experimental concept album described as drone trip music aka Raga Metal. Recorded in 1986."

LP: $25CAD

Magik Markers A Panegyric To the Things I Do Not Understand

(Gulcher)

The latest from East Coast psych-rock heavyweights MAGIK MARKERS. “In spite of their punk roots, the Markers' form tends toward extended breakdowns: this disc is divided into two "sides"--two long tracks--the first running to 19:41, and the other is 19:38. No rules is the rule here. For instance, dig the near-a capella section on the first "side"--whistlin', odd voices, clappin', just an occasional rattle or beep--very casual and simple but mesmerizing. Then there's the part on the second "side" where it sounds like everything is moving in outta-focus slow-mo, like after you've drank waytoomuch cough syrup (DXM)--'n yr legs 've turned t' melted, oooozing plastic. But my favorite part (swoon!) is when Elisa begins an erotic gutter-cat rant: "I'm your ramblin' rose...I'm your Sister Anne," obvious references to the MC5. Imagine THAT band jammin' with Yoko Ono--and yer about halfway to here. Elisa raves against the torrent of Quimby's roaring feedback and Nolan's exploding skins in an intuitive way that recalls Patti Smith's lost-in-the-whirlpool moments and/or Damo Suzuki's most tongue-driven gestures with Can. Whew.”--Eddie Flowers

CD: $13CAD

Magik Markers Boss

(2007, Ecstatic Peace/Arbitrary Signs)

Limited vinyl version on Magik Markers' very own label Arbitrary Signs. Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously-unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. In a 2005 interview in The Wire, Elisa Ambrogio said, 'I want [The Magik Markers] to concentrate on music and focus inward, to concentrate on our own language of sound. BOSS stands as the Markers' first stab at getting to the meat of this ambition. With a mix of blues simplicity, an almost Sonny Sharrock wailing and a janky Americana punk reminiscent of Pat Place and Roky Erickson, Ambrogio avoids preciousness like a rash. On BOSS, a tent rises right out of the empty plain and we are thrust into a full-blown revival show with no audience and no lights; it is just Elisa preaching, Pete blowing Gabriel's horn, and the mad wind of the prairie blowing all around. They are each hand-screened individual works of art & very very limited. Also available on plain old CD.

LP: $22CAD
CD: $15CAD

Magik Markers Songs For Sada Jane

(2006, Textile)

“Limited CD edition of this new off-the-wall studio album (first since the Ecstatic Peace album) from The Magik Markers with an expanded cast - guest appearances from John Shaw of Son Of Earth/Believers, Jason Mitchell, Pamela Martin and Joshua Burkett - and a suitably dilated palette that takes in totally wasted burlesque monochord that sounds like the blackest fairground ride of your life (with the most death-defying single note guitar solo since, fuck, some guy in black leather gloves and oversize sideburns) through post-Confusion Is Sex improvisatory logic, Pete Nolan on friggin organ, destructo, almost Solmania-esque jack-off jams, weird liquorice-huffing vocals and an almost acid-folk styled haze/dream atmosphere on the last track, totally nuts. Gotta be the Markers' wildest orbit of the source to date and a real surprise for anyone who thought they had em pegged. Highly recommended.”-Volcanictongue

CD: $21CAD

Magik Markers Inverted Belgium

(Hospital)

Brand new one-sided LP documenting the infamous face-gouging gig that Magik Markers played in Tienen, Belgium, May 9th 2005, this time totally remastered and sonically fucked-with by Dominik Fernow of Prurient to give it an extra sick veneer. It sounds incredible and might just be the most purely in-yr-face Markers release to date - “total slow motion noise dirge hell”. Beautiful heavy duty silkscreened double sided/wraparound sleeve. Highest recommendation.

LP: $20CAD

Magik Markers Feel The Crayon

(2006, Not Not Fun)

Second and final pressing (after the first individually-decorated run was all-but lost) on purple vinyl with a new insert and pro-printed sleeves. Limited to 300. "This one showcases The Magik Markers at their most song-based, and there are some fucking massively affecting rock moves here, especially on "Hero For Our Times Pt 1/2" where they sound like Confusion Is Sex-era Sonic Youth shooting heavy metal gnarl. Great recording quality too."

LP: $21CAD

Mahikari s/t

(2009, Birdman)

A chance meeting around an axe-wound-shaped microphone and Mahikari is born. On one side, world-famous Acid Mothers Temple guitar god Kamoto Kawabata . Showblazing on stage other is Seiichi Yamamoto , the guitarist ending The Boredoms' sound from the beginning to Vision Creation Newsun. Two of the greatest guitar players of all time cut mind-churning psychedelic meltdowns with ex- Thin White Rope bassist Stoo Odom , following the path paved by their respective bands as well as Fushitsusha, Solmania, CCCC, KK Null, and Highrise. The first Mahikari record is a blistering colossal attack of legendary proportions, available on super-limited-edition vinyl.

LP: $21CAD

Kawbata Makoto/Anla Courtis/Rokugenkin Kokura

(Riot Season)

" Kokura is the fruit of a collaboration between Acid Mothers Temple/Mainliner main man Kawabata Makoto, Argentinian guitarist Anla Courtis (Reynols) and Japanese underground musician Rokugenkin. Based around hushed, mellow guitar drones and hypnotic, yet restrained guitar wails, Kokura captures the sound of life beneath a hurricane. Like Sunn O))) on half volume!"

LP: $21CAD

Mammal Let Me Die

(Animal Disguise)

First full-length Mammal LP in years, edition of 500 copies in suitably enigmatic/private press style sleeve. Totally nihilistic atmosphere with titles like “Days Into Days”, “Fog Days Gone”, “One More Day”, “Some Day” and “Long Way Home”. Sound is based around heavy lonesome thuds of percussive noise, more like huge metal needles spot-dropped onto slow-spinning expressways of glass and sandpaper than anything approaching beats. Should appeal to fans of lonesome electronic lurch ala TG, Tolerance et al. Recommended.

LP: $16CAD

Martux_M/Kaffe Matthews Dissectio/Environmental Cleaning Moments

(Mixer)

"Two composers thriving to create musical aesthetics out of cold, clinical electronic sound. Although Kaffe Matthews' recorded works are mostly based upon improvisational sessions and Martux' is purely composed, both clearly show that it's ideas that weigh, more so than the use of affective or anecdotal material. Martux_M, aka Maurizio Martusciello, created a strong and demanding new work out of 'Natures Vives II', one that is all now. The 3 pieces bounce between high and low -- big and small, in a most radical way. At first it leaves the impression that these loose parts show no coherency at all, but as the piece develops over time and unravels it's bigger compositional structure, the puzzle is made to fit. This is not a source for instant satisfaction, but one that asks for repeated listening, growing in its powerful dynamics and very well balanced emplacements in a generous fundament of silence. In all its minimalism, there's so much to hear, not a tick too much or a tone too little. Kaffe Matthews continues where 'Dissectio' had evolved into; a gently deve-loping and wringing body of tones, showing an almost opposite way of how to deal with more or less similar sound-components. Matthews has developed a unique sound over the years, one of great subtlety and high intensity at the same time. 'Environmental cleaning moments' might be one of her more quiet works, with great transparency too. These tracks often do not consist of more than slowly modulating tones with different timbres, fine-tuned to get the typical rough-cut sound Matthews gives along to all her work. A certain sweetness is hidden in there, but always with a sharp edge..."

LP: $19CAD

Kawaguchi Masami's New Rock Syndicate Cat vs Frog

LP: $20CAD

Takayanagi Masayuki Independence - Tread On Sure Ground

(r:2007, Tiliqua)

New release in Tiliqua Records' ongoing Archival Series is this quintessential album by Takayanagi Masayuki. It was his debut recording as a leader with his newly erected unit The New Directions, a trio consisting out of bassist Yoshizawa and drummer Toyozumi ‘Sabu' Yoshisaburô. Recorded at the Teichiku Kaikan studios on 18 September 1969 (released in 1970), Independence – Tread on Sure Ground , is largely regarded as the first true classic of Japanese free jazz. The group thrashes out an entirely new Japanese methodology for improvisation based on Takayanagi's theories about progressive art. As Alan Cummings explains in his liner notes, the group's sonic outburst is pregnant with an urgent intensity similar to a violent rotating windstorm. “An electric guitar string is pinged with a sour and markedly unlovely resonance. It is left to fade away naturally, its dying whisper replaced with a wavering feedback tone that grows steadily in volume and thickness. Against the slow feedback wave, a sudden loud percussive crash, urgent staccato rolls across the toms, and the dry rasp of a rattle. A choppy, non-sequential series of chords from the guitar, still mouth-puckeringly bitter is set against the warmer resonance of an alternately bowed and plucked double bass. Each instrument sounds self-contained, like lunar bodies spinning on their own axes at different tempos, but locked together by unfathomably complex rules of motion. Additional percussive rattles and scrapes have been overdubbed to fill in the blank space. Tendrils of feedback snake in and out, like cosmic dust from some cataclysmic celestial event. The playing is exploratory and deliberate, technically adept and keenly judged, easily sustaining interest and motion across the track's eleven minutes. Its sense of focused concentration is more akin to the European free improvisation of AMM or The Spontaneous Music Ensemble than the violent ecstasies of American fire music.” (AC – from the liner notes). The CD reissue includes also the bonus track “Mass Projection” which was originally issued on the compilation album Guitar Workshop (Teichiku, 1970). This CD is housed in a high quality mini-LP styled gatefold sleeve, completed with obi and extensive 4-paged illuminating liner notes by Alan Cummings. Original artwork is faithfully reproduced. One time only limited pressing.

CD: $30CAD

Menstruation Sisters Samantha (My Wack Panther)

(2009, Ecstatic Peace)

"Unlike anything book or animal, the Menstruation Sisters destroy wholly" -- Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth. "Menstruation Sisters hail from Sydney, Australia. Basically a duo comprised of wildboy poet ululationist and guitar strangler Nick Kamiussis (aka Rizili aka Riz) and OZ wonderkid Oren Ambarchi (Sunn 0))), Burial Chamber, Grave Temple, John Zorn etc etc), and sometimes aided by Brendan Walls and others. Their first LP, Ma , was in an edition of 100 copies, all of which had razor blades, balloons and hypodermic needles applied to one side. As an objet d'art it became a highly desirable item for noise believers (and was recently reissued -- sans appliques -- by No Fun Productions). Every once in a while an LP drops out of nowhere only to further confuse whomever is fortunate enough to grip it. 2005 saw the Holy Africa 7" on White Denim, in 2001 the infamous Goog LP on Saucerlike, in 1999 the Dead At Slugs LP on Menlo Park and in 1998 the Triple Bogey On A Ma Par Hole 3x7". All of these are essential documents of one of the most bizarre, genuinely inspired free time outfits working the avant-mind body love/noise worship axis today. This newest LP has been patiently waiting to be released for the last few years, initially a multi-label project instigated by Menlo Park and now fully realized by Ecstatic Peace. Long a champion of Menstruation Sisters after witnessing an out-of-nowhere set at NYC's legendary lost underground experimental oasis The Cooler in the late 90s, Thurston Moore invited the Sisters to open for Sonic Youth in Sydney shortly thereafter and, as inspired and weird as the NYC set was, the Sonic Youth gig was perhaps one of the most astounding question marks of music the seasoned Moore had ever experienced. So we present you Samantha (My Wack Panther) -- a new and beautiful peek into the edge of musical menstruation."

LP: $18CAD

Paul Metzger Cantical of Ignat / All Glass

(2008, aRCHIVE)

One track played on modified acoustic guitar and one track played on modified Banjo. For those unfamiliar with Saint Paul's Mr. Metzger his works offer and amazing mix of Indian ragas crossed with a junk yard band feel, highly evolved and incredible unique. Recorded by myself in 2007 at BigJar in Philly a fantastic piece of documentation offered in unaltered form. The CD edition comes housed in a slightly taller sleeve with two color silk screen work by Alan Sherry of SIWA on a heavyweight 140lb paper. The front cover is die cut with and inserted picture from the performance printed on vellum, all hand glued and assembled by myself. Graphic work by Demian Johnston. Edition of 500 copies.

CD: $20CAD

Paul Metzger Gedanken = Splitter

(2008, Roaratorio)

Paul Metzger's modified banjo is tricked out with additional sympathetic raga strings, although Gedanken Splitter is informed by more than Eastern drone music alone. Recorded in the same period as 2007's Deliverance on Locust Music, this is more jagged and aggressive; Metzger winds improvisations around thornier threads than on his previous releases, and moves even further away from anything resembling typical banjo fare. Mesmerizing and singular.

LP: $18CAD

Paul Metzger Deliverance

(2007, Locust)

Minnesota's Paul Metzger is an unsung hero of the unaccompanied string instrument and a master musician of an instrument of his own invention. On Deliverance - a real time performance on his overhauled 21 string banjo - you'll be treated to some of the most deeply satisfying & impulsive outer cosmos ragadelia you're ever likely to hear. Clocking in at nearly 60 colossal minutes, Deliverance is 3 tracks of unfiltered aural transcendence; a hypnotic raga epic that's by turns a slow burning meditation & an urgent mind / body duel. Paul's playing may summon up the spirits of Sandy Bull's searching inventiveness, Billy Faier's out Tacoma sides, J.P. Pickens' tweaked Americana, Henry Flynt's searing harmonic drones or Big Jim Sullivan's psychedelic exotica, but at the end of the day, Metzger is no idolater and we're all a little luckier to have him around to occupy his own singular post in this post- Fahey world. Available on CD and limited 180 gram virgin vinyl housed in a stunning gatefold jacket.

LP: $18CAD
CD: $15CAD

Mouthus Saw A Halo

(2007, Load)

Slow and hushed shimmer that both crushes and sautés neurons on impact. Mouthus is a Brooklyn-based duo of Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson who have crafted a considerable body of work since forming in 2002. Of the many records on labels they have released over the years: Ecstatic Peace, Psych-o-Path, Important, Troubleman, Music Fellowship, this record comes as their FIRST studio record. Recorded in nude fidelity at Rare Book Room by Samara Lubelski, this recording realizes the furious skin pound and crackling amp burn the duo is so capable of, and adds an organic clarity. Mouthus are very much in the school of NY bands like Excepter and Sightings that merge hard and sometimes velvety psych sounds with a pioneering spirit of experimentation... Mouthus do not forget the ROCK and in fact melt flatware into silvery puddles. Over the course of two segmented suites, the band journeys deep into the no-mans land between the kick drum and guitar amplifier and returns with the golden teeth of the dead.

LP: $18CAD

My Cat Is An Alien/Praxinoscope For The Tears of Land, Prayers From Outer Space

(2009, Important)

Limited edition of 300 hand numbered copies packaged in heavy duty screen printed metallic ink jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Very deluxe - one of those packages that feels amazing in your ears and in your ears. Click on the image for a photo of the package. My Cat Is An Alien's new surprising master work is a concept-album split with their side project Praxinoscope. As always, in a world full of compromises, MCIAA represent fierce independence and complete freedom. Take Roberto's own words in the liner notes as the best introduction to this work: "One day we realized it was no more possible to discern archaic art and post-modern art in our palette; it was clear that they were both reflected in the same hall of mirrors. In other words, alien art and archaic art are the same thing. All archaic art deals with death, sex, transcendence and Eternity.We're all living days suspended in the Void. The difference is in consciousness: this is real artists' duty. Beyond and other than this, only oblivion."

2LP: $50CAD

Neokarma Jooklo Trio Time's VIbes

(2009, Conspiracy)

And the cosmos has hatched a new egg of progression... The Neokarma Jooklo Trio are a wildflower in the Italian music scene using cosmic improvisation and meditation techniques that gently hoover into musical religion. With uptempo tribal percussion and trance-inducing slightly Middle Eastern and Asian Gamelan influeces, they summon the greater ancient spirits of nature. Ethereal drones are woven to a magical flying carpet, then drenched in reverb and delay to dig deep in an emotional visionary barrel. Soothing chimes and bells that floatingly enter your space are blurred by it's stoned execution. Neokarma are constantly looking for the perfect balance, patiently waiting and letting the instrumental flow dictate the direction. All in a spacial, almost minimalist fashion, where chords and shifts are breathing in all their shivering glory.
And with every improvised song, a new chapter unfolds and brings a glimpse of a better tomorrow. A hopeful soundtrack delivered in bleak , desolate times. A dance around the campfire where cosmic beliefs walk hand in hand with their earthly presence. A sincere ethnic take on calming the masses to further absorb a world of visions that never abandon post. Spring is almost here... i can smell it. A deep trip in the astral and infinite ways of human spirit and mind. Italy's new power rangers. Highly recommended for fans of Yahowa 13, Makoto Kawabata, Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Guru Guru and Avarus.

LP: $35CAD

Various Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-1976

(2008, Soundways)

Since 2002, Soundway Records has been synonymous with high-quality and groundbreaking compilations of music from Africa, the Caribbean and South America. Nigeria Special is the most ambitious project yet for the label -- a truly in-depth, double album look at Nigerian music in the early to mid-'70s, encompassing a broad range of styles. Compiler and DJ Miles Cleret has spent five years working on this album -- involving trips to Lagos and around Nigeria interviewing musicians and researching recordings, as well as a suitable amount of time scouring dusty record stores and warehouses for elusive sounds. This compilation presents some of the best un-reissued and forgotten sounds from Nigeria, covering the amazingly vibrant and diverse styles that emerged and flourished at the time. Everything from highlife, jazz, Afro-beat and blues to more traditional styles are represented to give as comprehensive a survey of the scene as possible. The 32-page booklet covers a history of the time plus in-depth information on the artists and musicians, as well as a look at the amazing pop-art cover designs of Nigerian records.

VOL 1 LP: $30CAD
VOL 2 LP: $30CAD
2CD: $30CAD

Various Nigerian Discofunk Special

(2008, Soundway)

...The Sound of the Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-79. Lagos, Nigeria, 1974-1979: the funk & disco capital of West Africa. More nightclubs, bars, spots and dancefloors than any place along the coast from Dakar all the way to Kinshasa. Nigeria Disco Funk Special is an amazing collection of heavy dancefloor grooves from urban Lagos in the '70s -- hot and driving slices of funk, disco and boogie that show just how vibrant the music scene was in one of West Africa's most populous and culturally diverse cities. In the '70s, it wasn't just James Brown who influenced the musicians playing in the nightspots of Lagos -- the loose-structured and elongated jams that he was pioneering in America had been a part of Nigerian music much longer than that. This album is the sound of Cuban-heeled and micro-minied Lagos youth soaking up the sound of the American discotheque and putting their own inimitable twist on the proceedings. The CD and double gatefold vinyl include rare tracks from famous musicians like Bongos Ikwue & The Groovies and Mono Mono's Joni Haastrup, as well as selections from cult bands like Asiko Rock Group, SJOB Movement and Jay-U Experience. Other artists include: The Sahara All Stars, T-Fire, Voices Of Darkness and Dr. Adolf Aonotu.

LP: $25CAD
CD: $19CAD

Various Nigerian Rock Special

(2008, Soundway)

...Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria. Nigeria Rock Special shines a light on the flipside of the well-documented sounds of highlife and Afrobeat coming out of Nigeria in the 1970s -- young bands caught up in the wave of psychedelic and progressive rock that was sweeping Europe and the States in the late '60s and early '70s. As time goes by, the many layers of musical output that formed around the world throughout the 1960s and '70s continues to be peeled back to reveal many welcome surprises. The explosion of rock n' roll that erupted out of the USA in the '50s fanned out around the globe from its epicenter and by the mid-1960s, kids all over the world were picking up guitars and checking themselves in mirrors. Nigeria was no exception. Spurred on by Cream drummer Ginger Baker's visits to Lagos and his band Airforce (featuring many Nigerian musicians), the sound of fuzzed-out rock reverberated around the universities and nightspots of Lagos and Ibadan. The craze that followed hit the youth and student population of Nigeria hard -- mixing fuzz guitar and heavy African rhythms with elements of Led Zeppelin, Traffic and The Chambers Brothers. Fifteen of the best cuts from the scene are available here for the first time in 30 years. Artists include: Ofege, The Action 13, The Hygrades, The Wings, Ofo The Black Company, The Elcados, Mono Mono, Tabukah "X", The Funkees, Colomach, Joe King Kologbo & His Black Sound, Question Mark, Original Wings, Tunji Oyelana and BLO.

LP: $25CAD
CD: $19CAD

Hermann Nitsch Die Geburt Des Dionysos Christos

(2009, Vinyl On Demand)

VOD is very proud and honored to release this excellent minimal and drone recording of Hermann Nitsch performed on the Brucknerorgel linz as well as on the organ at his private castle in Prinzendorf at the Zaya, Austria, both in 1986. The original has been released on Edition Hundertmark in a strictly limited edition (200 copies). An absolutely famous recording. Packaged in a swooden box, a la the previous SPK box on VOD.

3LP BOX: $200CAD

No Neck Blues Band Aftypiclipse

(2008, Sound@1)

One of our favorite free rock outfits returns, with a sort of homage to another one of our favorites. This live set from 2006's All Tomorrow's Parties festival finds the No Neck Blues Band offering a sonic hail to brethren in noise, Jazzfinger, or maybe not, who knows what goes on in those guys' heads, maybe they just they just thought writing "For Jazzfinger" on the cover looked cool. And if we try, maybe this NNCK set -does- sound a bit like Jazzfinger, but it also sort of sounds like NNCK. Either way, we're not complaining, since we weren't there, so we're feeling lucky just getting to hear this stuff. Originally released as a super limited, and now out of print cd-r, the set has been all gussied up, resequenced and re-mastered and is a monster. The A side seems to be one loooooong track, creaking and groaning and abstract, grinding slabs of low end growl, speaking-in-tongues vocals, random clatter and clank percussion, a foresty folky tribal primal free for all, but eventually the drums kick in, and the band lock into a murky stoned groove, a simple Can-like beat, and a rumbling bass throb, while the abstract skree above continues to swirl and stumble. Guitars moan and wail, detuned angular melodies unfurl drunkenly, vocals whisper and hiss, like it's some sort of disembodied hellish krautrock, which eventually coalesces into a gorgeous high end dronescape, sounding like a more lo-fi hippie Sunroof!, all that creaking and groaning and wailing woven into brilliant bolts of fiery psychedelia. The flipside begins on more familiar NNCK territory, dense flurries of hypnotic percussion, chanted vocals, shakers and bells, tribal percussion, pizzicato strings, super intense and propulsive. That jam simmers down into a Grateful Dead meets Can groove, super abstract laid back blues, with the band finally living up to their name. Eventually NNCK explode into a druggy expanse of FX drenched psychedelia space rock, that splinters into some aggro free jazz, and finally finishes off in a blaze of effulgent ur-drone glory. - Aquarius

LP: $22CAD

No Neck Blues Band At 6am We Become The Police

(2009, Locust)

"NNCK LP soundtrack for the upcoming nnck movie of the same name, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer. this album presents recordings from the first NNCK rehearsal space at 195 Chrystie St. NYC in the years 1995-97. Two pieces were recorded for Harmony Korine's * Gummo * soundtrack but never released. Others are quintessential NNCK moments, including the first session joined by Butoh princess Michiko Takahachi, who instantly became a permanent member. The closing of the 195 Chrystie St. studio in 1997 marked the end of NNCK downtown as they set their sites for Harlem. This soundtrack and the upcoming film closely document this transitional period."- Dave Nuss

LP: $22CAD

No Neck Blues Band Clomeim

(2008, Locust)

Clomeim is  the new studio album from New York's No-Neck Blues Band. Clomeim is an evolution, a vital document of Change in The No-Neck Blues Band's 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point. For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is  NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a  discipline & a clarity of vision they've rarely displayed before,the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation. After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged--a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of 'Heresie' era Univers Zero, and Krautrock zenith Faust at their finest hour. Clomeim is that rare hybrid - a rock exterior with a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover and a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages.

LP: $35CAD
CD: $19CAD

No Neck Blues Band Live At Ken's Electric Lake

(2007, Locust)

Nearly ten years of swimming up stream through the sonic flotsam & jetsam, the folks have gotten freaky , noise is the 'new noise', the chin scratchers have joined the metal circus and the No Neck Blues Band remain as relevant today as ever. Their indoor /outdoor audio assaults in upper & lower Manhattan are the stuff of legend but on 1998s Meets the Clear People with Mystery Gypped: Live at Ken's Electric Lake the band took a distinct turn, crossed the Canadian border, hooked up w/ some Sunburned folks and made a sudden diaspora to a rural retreat in the country for a full day's session of acid-head tribal percussion clatter that is utterly different than anything the band had put on the public record up to that time. Looser, groovier & more in that communal state of mind than ever, NNCK's long out of print fifth release from 1998 is a classic testament to the urban dwellers' gone wild & ranks as among their finest displays of tribal churn and choogle in the band's 14 year history. Neo dada attacks were swapped out for psychedelic vibrations, midrange mystery for outdoor atmospherics. Ken's is a peak communal moment for New York's most enigmatic, longest running experimental collective. This 2 cd set is fully remastered from the original source tapes, features new track IDs for easy, convenient armchair roaming and comes packaged in a stunning 'japanese style' gatefold tip on cd jacket.

2CD: $22CAD

Nord Ego Trip

(r: 2009, PCP)

Major deluxe art-edition reissue of one of the most legendary/rare sides from this key Japanese underground group. Nord were active from 1981 to 1985 and are best known for the amazing self-titled Industrial/psychedelic LP they released on the massively collectable Pinakotheka label, the same imprint that were responsible for Keiji Haino's debut LP Watashi Dake. Their sound takes in a bunch of classic klang – the austere minimalism of Conrad Schnitzler and Cluster, the murky, organic psych of Maurizio Bianchi, 20th century avant garde modes, Suicide, the Kenneth Anger soundtracks, Throbbing Gristle, the Broken Flag axis et al – while transmuting them all via that classic form-gobbling Japanese style. 1985's Ego Trip was their third and final vinyl release, the follow-up to 1984's LSD, and it features four tracks of extended, repeating keyboard narcosis, heavenly wraiths of post-Industrial noise and pulsing, F/X saturated minimalist structures. There's an extremely malevolent air to the proceedings, heightened by the relentlessly cold keyboard tones but it's all illuminated with rainbows of microtone-dizzy electronics that build to slow, euphoric peaks that are hypnagogic in their gravity. Think Keiji Haino plays the keyboard music of Maurizio Bianchi and you're halfway there. Either way, this has long been one of the most desirable of Japanese underground obscurities and this stunning new art edition restores the original packaging, complete with insert and handmade black sandpaper cover (specially designed to destroy the rest of your record collection) and it comes in a numbered edition of 300 copies. Highly recommended.

LP: SOLD OUT

Nurse With Wound Bacteria Magnet

(2008, Dirtier)

The Bacteria Magnet was written, recorded and remixed at the Bear Den, Brighton, UK. "Cruisin' For A Bruisin" and "Thrill Of Romance...?" appear in an alternative guise on the CD Huffin Rag Blues. "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" and "The Bottom Feeder" are exclusive to this record. This record is housed in a gloss-laminated sleeve, with a printed inner card and full-color labels. Players include: Steven Stapleton, Andrew Liles, Freida Abtan, Suzi Firenza, Taundewei L. Hodge and Jay Jay.

LP: $20CAD

Nurse With Wound Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums

(2008, Beta Lactum Ring)

A dirty brown vinyl and a book bound LP sleeve. In the terpsichorean tradition of traumatizing and titillating treacalese collector geeks the world over, Beta-lactam presents a limited LP release by Nurse With Wound. This is a full fledged, full length, full bodied album of previously unreleased material, and just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder... It would seem that the musty odour exuded by pierced rectums is exhilarating; even scintillating. With rounds of disembodied voices, arias of crackle and rumble, jets of ascendant and descendant sound, bursts of silent, nurse wounding flak worthy of The Great Cage, well, if my thermometer reads correctly, "Rectums" is not unlike "Gyllensköld" in its sonic attacks and rectal decays. I find it especially enlightening with Ann-Margaret singing in the background on the television, but you will realise hours of listening pleasure even without the random Ann-Margaret caveat. Honestly though, Volks, if'n I heard this record and did not know who it was, I would buy it on the spot because it just happens to be AWESOME, dude. All I'm saying is that thy ear drum is worth piercing with the "Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums," possibly whilst driving around in a Pierce-Arrow reading Pears Anthony with, of course, a butt plug firmly and resolutely installed.

LP: $27CAD

Nurse With Wound Soliloquy For Lilith

(United Jnana)

Originally recorded and released in 1988, Nurse With Wound's ambient opus was years ahead of its time, a ground-breaking set of atmospheric sound patterns designed for ritual ceremonies. Hailed as a masterpiece on release, it soon became a firm favorite of NWW fans and topped the world ambient chart for over three months! Originally a limited-edition three-album set housed in a handsome 12-inch gold and black foil embossed box, this new edition, a CD facsimile of the original vinyl set, contains the entire album plus 40 minutes of superb quality, previously unreleased music from the original sessions. A gold foil blocked cover and new parchment insert makes this one of United Jnana's most elegant and desirable releases to date

3CD: $55CAD

Jim O'Rourke 6 Ocillators

(2006, No Fun)

Two archival works drawn from an intense period of musical thought for O'Rourke. A-side is a repeating sound-field of huge wowing tones that slowly envelope your senses ala Ikuro Takahashi's rape-alarm settings. B-side is solo guitar investigation. Limited to 500.

LP: $20CAD

Andy Ortmann Provocative Electronics

(2008, Pan)

" Provocative Electronics is an exploration in analog synthesizers and recording techniques. As in the days of musique concrete and the beginning years of synthesizer development, Ortmann experiments with tones and his own brand of electronic tweakage. Provocative Electronics is not a homage, but yet another document in the ongoing history of Electronic Music. For fans of the 20th century Greek composer Xenakis, minimalist John Cage, or pioneer of musique concrete Pierre Schaeffer, Mort Garson, Milton Babbitt, Tom Dissevelt, Ruth White, Delia Derbyshire, Lejaren Hiller, Raymond Scott, Jean Jacques Perrey and Pierre Schaeffer. Andy Ortmann is also known for his work with the transgressive experimental group Panicsville, psych freaks Plastic Crimewave Sound and sole curator of the equally bizarre Nihilist Records label (USA). The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs."

LP: $35CAD

Our Love Will Destroy The World Stillborn Plague Angels

(2009, Dekorder)

The gates of Birchville Cat Motel crack, creak wide, and crash, unleashing a gush of soul-fried bleakness and love-damage stained with a defiantly metallic pose. Thats "METALLIC... as in, has the surface qualities of metal" not "METAL... as in, has the surface qualities of Metallica"... step back you fucking freaks. Although the broken bricks of BCM are still plain to see amid the burning wreck and ruin, 'Stillborn Plague Angels' represents the first fully formed sentence in a new chapter of Campbell Kneale's ongoing tome of star-spangled, psychedelic, noise-OM. Cholesterol-shaving guitar peeks over the trench to survey an adrenalised landscape of endless roaring catastrophy... Everything louder than everything else!  Our Love Will Destroy The World is the new one-man project by New Zealander Campbell Kneale after disbanding BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL. In the past Kneale has released albums on Ecstatic Peace, Corpus Hermeticum, Last Visible Dog, Conspiracy and his own Celebrate Psi Phenomena label. He has colllaborated with Lee Ranaldo, Neil Campbell, Bruce Russel, John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Yellow Swans, has toured throughout Japan, Europe, America and Australia and also records und the names Black Boned Angel and Ming.

LP: $23CAD