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FRANCIS HAROLD & THE HOLOGRAMS - 'HANG THE GOAT / INVISIBLE EMPIRE'
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GU21 - 7"
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Finally got some more of these coming back! SOLD OUT AT SOURCE!!! Yes! some real punk rock action from the USA, 2 tracks from Francis Harold and the Holograms..are you ready?...For fans of Pissed Jeans, Drunk With Guns, Tad, the nasty side of punk rock... the best side of course! Sadly, the band is no more, but turn this up..its pretty amazing!!
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THE DOUGH ROLLERS - 'LITTLE LILY'
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TMR216 - 7"
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The Dough Rollers' "Little Lily" is an inner ear explosion with the energy and tension of a train rolling off the rails... and the rails are Ford's pleading whiskey damaged vocals. Continuing with this brilliant outmoded form of transportation as music metaphor, "The Sailing Song" rolls along with high seas majesty, The Dough Rollers as drunken shipmates and Jack Bryne's solo is a bottle of rum smashed on the rocks. The boat never sinks though, cause this shit isn't a boat after all but a freaking life raft. So get on board and let the Dough Rollers pillage your village!
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NATE YOUNG - 'REGRESSION 'BLINDING CONFUSION''
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NNA059 - LP
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IN STOCK NOW! Over the past few years, iconic noise artist Nate Young has been carefully crafting his own signature solo sound, as evidenced through his progressive recordings and performances with American experimental music staples such as Wolf Eyes, Stare Case, Demons, and Moon Pool & Dead Band. After the completion of his recent Regression trilogy (part one being the self-titled disc on Ideal in 2009; 2011′s “Stay Asleep” LP on NNA as part two; and part three “Other Days” on Japanese label Rockatansky in 2012), Young begins a new chapter in his personal sound world, and it is perhaps his biggest leap forward musically thus far. Regression “Blinding Confusion” enters a new era, retaining the techniques and studies from his previous work and raising them to new levels. Intense compositional building and structure seep through each track, traversing new ground melodically while still upholding Nate’s patented over-bearing weight of dread and slow-burning darkness at all the right moments. Deep, percussive brutality and pulsing neurosis mesh with somber burial hymns, held together by Young’s technical prowess and mastery of his chosen gear. Each frequency is given it’s own unique role and characteristic voice, deeply chilled by the arid space of decay via tape manipulation/disintegration, howling its way through the grooves of the record like a cold wind of dead space that billows throughout, unrelenting. Atonal, morphing, and modulating bass lines pulse and plod their way through, like the unseen presence of the undead ascending a creaking stairway, leading upwards toward a nebulous void. This establishes a truly horrific atmosphere while honoring primitive technology, refined with a thick dose of originality. Self-recorded at Burning Log Studios and M.U.G. in Young’s native zone of Detroit, Michigan, combined with high definition mastering and cutting by Lupo at Calyx in Berlin, Germany, make “Blinding Confusion” the defining artifact by one of the United States’ most talented voices in noise and experimental music.
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Maybe this isn't a horror movie but simply a dream,
and the only real danger is waking up from its
entrancing sounds.
-Marc Masters, Pitchfork
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NILS FRAHM - 'JUNO REWORKED (LUKE ABBOTT & CLARK)'
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ERATP049LP - 12"
4050486099216
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After releasing Nils Frahm’s two-track solo synthesiser EP ‘Juno’ in a highly sought after 7” edition, Erased Tapes now re-release the original Juno tracks with guest reworks by Border Community's modular synth wizard Luke Abbott and Warp veteran Clark. Both known for their like-minded use of analogue synthesisers in their music, it makes them the perfect artists to rework the originals. Similar to Frahm’s online project ‘Screws Reworked’, where he invited fans to download his solo piano songs to reinterpret them with their own medium of choice, it’s far from being the typical remix EP. Aptly titled ‘Juno Reworked’, it will be released worldwide in the form of a limited 12" Vinyl and Download. ‘Peter Broderick loved the sound of this synthesiser so much, he asked me to record some solo sketches with it. This is what I came up with. I didn't use any overdubs or punch-ins. See it as a synthesiser solo performance.’ – Nils Frahm The cover photograph was taken by Peter Broderick and is a result of an unexpected double exposure between his image and the one taken by the camera’s previous owner. Dedicated to his dear friend, the Juno tracks carry the titles ‘For’ and ‘Peter’ and were recorded and mixed by Nils Frahm in his Durton Studio in Berlin.
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A1. For (Luke Abbott Rework)
A2. For
B1. Peter (Clark Remix)
B2. Peter
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'Early Aphex Twin-style ambient liquidity' Record Collector
The result is two utterly sublime pieces Boomkat
If MUTEK gave out a Most Valuable Player award for 2013, it very likely would have gone to Frahm? XLR8R
Leaving the crowd breathless with exhilaration (9/10) MUTEK Boiler Room Live Review Exclaim!
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URINALS - 'NEGATIVE CAPABILITY'
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ITR244 - 2xLPs
759718524413
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In The Red is proud to announce this double-vinyl release of The Urinals’ Negative Capability, originally released by Amphetamine Reptile on CD in 1996. Before changing their name to the less restricting 100 Flowers and becoming one of the most respected underground post-punk-pop acts in the US, Los Angeles’s seminal trio released eleven songs during their 1977- 1980 tenure—ten on their three 7-inch singles and one more on a 7-inch compilation, all on their own Happy Squid label (they were about the only Los Angeles band to do that back then). This retrospective triples their output to 31 songs! Want to hear America’s Wire, only twice as primitive (if that’s possible), with one quarter the sound quality? Even when they are covering the Soft Machine’s “Why Are We Sleeping?” they sound like a three-step primer on minimalism, in scratchy, fast, burping, nutso punk with clipped vocals. You can see why the Minutemen covered “Ack Ack Ack Ack,” but it’s the real solid, melodic stuff—such as the Last-inspired harmonies of the great A-sides “Black Hole” and “Sex,” and “Scholastic Aptitude,” and the instrumental “Surfing With the Shah” (which foreshadows the coming of 100 Flowers and later offshoot Trotsky Icepick)— that makes so many Angelinos remember this goofy but great trio so fondly. Negative Capability has an unrelenting, authoritative intelligence and sense of humor. —Jack Rabid • Complete ’77-80 discography includes all three 7-inches plus three songs from long out-ofprint compilations, several unreleased studio and rehearsal tracks, and material from the band’s archive of live tapes • Includes digital download card
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THE ENTRANCE BAND - 'DANS LE TEMPETE'
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SPIRITUAL010 - 12"
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“Anybody seen a knight pass this way I saw him playing chess with Death yesterday His crusade was a search for God and they say It’s been a long way to carry on” These lyrics could easily summarize the life and times of The Entrance Band: evolving, building and destroying with each live performance and release. Still water is death, constant progression is the only wave to ride upon. Guy Blakeslee, Paz Lenchantin and Derek James are a diverse trio merging the freak-outs of the rock underground with a universal melody and groove that keeps their musical vessel set on the path of exploration—arrival and departure are the same in this galaxy. The purely original sound of these three artists playing together is not limited to popular scenes, styles or sonics. The Entrance Band feeds on the kind of psychedelic blues rituals, tribal funk hypnosis and space punk telepathy that Kurt, Jimi, Fela and Arthur Lee jam to up in the cosmos as they look down to see where the deep roots of their psychedelic tree has spread. Dans La Tempete marks The Entrance Band’s second release for Spiritual Pajamas following last year’s instrumental Fine Flow EP, and features soon-to-be classic covers: Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac’s “The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)” and Scott Walker’s “The Seventh Seal.” Three Entrance Band originals show the way forward. The garage howl of “Back in the City,” the spiritual storm of “Le Manque” and the sublime groove of instrumental “Mellow Fantastic” anticipate tomorrow’s journeys, eagerly awaiting what lies ahead.
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1. Back in the City
2. Le Manque
3. The Green Manalishi
4. The Seventh Seal
5. Mellow Fantastic
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THE MALLARD - 'FINDING MEANING IN DEFERENCE'
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Perhaps you've heard of the trajectory our beloved friend Greer McGettrick and her cohorts in The Mallard have traced across the current musical landscape…a promisingly home-baked debut full of twists and turns that nonetheless felt of the time and lived in…tours and tours and tours…songs on splits and compilations, including both Son Of Flex and our covers record of The Velvet Underground and Nico…shifting band members and band members shifting instruments…the now infamous Noise Pop performance where they played as Throbbing Gristle at one of the oldest and most venerated venues in San Francisco, The Great American Music Hall, to a thoroughly bewildered audience…all the while getting faster darker and sharper…and after coming back from SXSW, the sudden dissolution - with an album finished, and already being printed and pressed with us, their now-swan song Finding Meaning In Deference. It's a conversation interrupted to be sure, but one that you should be listening in on. There's an unapologetic maelstrom of dark energy simmering beneath the surface of these tunes, but it never subsumes some of the group's best songwriting efforts yet. The myriad guitar/vocal interplay is sharp as ever, the pissed-off is turned up to 10, but there's an ever-present bop and hook to even the most bummed-out tunes here. If you never got to see them, I'm sorry - but this record catches them in excellent form at the zenith of their powers, a guitar somehow hung from the rafters for the rest of eternity - we're sad to see them go, but thrilled to share this excellent record with the world.
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THE MALLARD - 'FINDING MEANING IN DEFERENCE'
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CF023 - LP
CF023CD - CD
819162012253
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Perhaps you've heard of the trajectory our beloved friend Greer McGettrick and her cohorts in The Mallard have traced across the current musical landscape…a promisingly home-baked debut full of twists and turns that nonetheless felt of the time and lived in…tours and tours and tours…songs on splits and compilations, including both Son Of Flex and our covers record of The Velvet Underground and Nico…shifting band members and band members shifting instruments…the now infamous Noise Pop performance where they played as Throbbing Gristle at one of the oldest and most venerated venues in San Francisco, The Great American Music Hall, to a thoroughly bewildered audience…all the while getting faster darker and sharper…and after coming back from SXSW, the sudden dissolution - with an album finished, and already being printed and pressed with us, their now-swan song Finding Meaning In Deference. It's a conversation interrupted to be sure, but one that you should be listening in on. There's an unapologetic maelstrom of dark energy simmering beneath the surface of these tunes, but it never subsumes some of the group's best songwriting efforts yet. The myriad guitar/vocal interplay is sharp as ever, the pissed-off is turned up to 10, but there's an ever-present bop and hook to even the most bummed-out tunes here. If you never got to see them, I'm sorry - but this record catches them in excellent form at the zenith of their powers, a guitar somehow hung from the rafters for the rest of eternity - we're sad to see them go, but thrilled to share this excellent record with the world.
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LA MACHINE - 'PHASES & REPETITION'
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CF021 - LP
CF021CD - CD
819162012246
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"The year was 1996 (a guess really), when I had LA MACHINE play in our Olneyville warehouse space. It was the first time I danced in front of other people. (I was later told I was really good). I think maybe it was the first time I can recall where I stood in front of something I would consider modern psychedelic music. Not a rehash of some ghost from the past but something new to me. We had a plethora of hardcore, improv, and noise bands in New England... but this... this was something different. It was churning and it had a haunting floor-scraping ass on it. It had hints of nausea and a cyclic simplicity that to this day I still love and listen to often. Loudly, stoned, driving through the desert, laughing. They played and my friends skated the quarter pipe my flate mate had built...it was my first successful party and I thank La Machine for it. RICK PELLTIER and JOHN LOPER have compiled these tunes for us to release post-mortem, but who knows...maybe they will come back to haunt a warehouse near you...OoOoOoOH. Every song reminds me of when I was younger, stronger, and faster. But now I know enough to realize how lucky I actually was to have this stuff around me. And now you can too. Enjoy."-John Dwyer (4.30.13). Lovingly remastered from the original cassette with new original art by WILLIAM KEIHN.
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FROM THE EDGE OF THE WORLD - 'CALIFORNIA PUNK 77-81 (BOOK)'
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VIA1001 - BOOK W/ CD
857176003935
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Born in New York, Ruby Ray migrated to San Francisco in the mid-’70s. She entered the underground scene while working at Tower Records in North Beach. When she acquired her first camera, she quickly turned it into a weapon. Ray shot using a Nikon FM and Tri-X 400 film, the fastest film of its time. While documenting new bands and people for Search & Destroy magazine, she wielded her lens like many young DIY artists were brandishing guitars—bold, carefree and absolutely necessary. As a fixture on the first wave punk scene, Ray photographed with a stark intimacy. There are candid shots of the Sex Pistols’ fateful trip to San Francisco, Darby Crash slashed and bloodied, Exene Cervenka sitting amongst discarded tires like tombstones, and The Avengers’ Penelope Houston writhing on stage. From the introduction by Jon Savage: “For a brief period, Los Angeles and San Francisco hosted vibrant subcultures that threw up sounds, noises, ideas and images that remain some of the 20th century’s most vivid youth statements. You can hear how in the few records that were made at the time… These pictures are a record of a lost moment that is finally receiving the attention that it was always due.” From the Edge of the World comes with a 16-song bonus CD that compiles some of bands photographed in the book: Germs, The Zeros, The Dils, The Avengers, Crime, The Screamers, Chrome, The Bags, Mutants, Factrix, The Sleepers, Negative Trend, Noh Mercy, Pink Section, The Offs, and Z’EV. Ray accurately prophesied that her scene’s art would endure and strove to depict it precisely as it was—breathtaking.
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FOLLAKZOID - 'II REMIX'
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BYM020 - 12"
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This album—released on the Chilean BYM label—brings together the finest musicians of Sacred Bones Records, PSYCHIC ILLS and MOON DUO, into one unique work, featuring songs from acclaimed Santiago group FOLLAKZOID’s II album. This assemble becomes the top of the crop easily, with steady motorik, hazy psychedelia and space atmospheres, taking the kosmiche Chilean music to NYC and then launching it into Outer Space. Features the cut “9” remixed by Psychic Ills, backed by “Trees” remixed by Moon Duo. For fans of: The Soft Moon, Psychic Ills, Wooden Shijps, Moon Duo, The Holydrug Couple, CAVE, and Hawkwind. Limited edition pressing of 500 copies with 400 available for worldwide distribution—were getting 75… tune in!!!