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FRESH BLUEBERRY PANCAKE - 'HEAVY'
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AGR010W - LP
843563149690
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**RESOLICITED. REPRESS ALERT** The first ever official reissue of one of the rarest U.S. private press rock grails, with only 54 copies initially circulated in 1971 as a demo. Featuring the Pittsburgh power trio's full story and photographic history. * sourced from the original master tape! * restored original cover art with Day-Glo orange spot printing * big format 8 page booklet + hype sticker * featuring proto-metal classics “Clown On A Rope” and “Hassles” •100 copies on White Vinyl only available from Forte Distribution
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Side A:
Hassles
Being In Town
Clown On A Rope
Bad Boy Turns Good
I Call Him Lord
Side B:
Down On The Farm
Wheres The Sun
Sleep Bound
Stranded
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MICHAEL TURNER IN SESSION - 'LIVE ON GTK'
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AGR011 - 7"
843563154106
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*RESOLICITED* We are beyond psyched to bring you tidings of this heavy rock gold... Michael Turner In Session were one of hardest hitting Australian rock bands of the early 1970s. Sadly they never made an album but left us with some mythic performance footage, aired in 1971 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's music show called GTK. After a lengthy process of sorting out the licensing details with the ABC, the tapes containing these stellar performances were unearthed from network's archives and transferred for Ancient Grease Records. It's our honor to release these restored audio recordings for the first time in music media format.
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Side A - ?Southbound Train?
Side B - ?Poor Girl?
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RIYL : Human Instinct, Coloured Balls, The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
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MASALLA - 'BURNIN' FEELING / SIMPLE WORDS'
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AGR009 - 7"
843563154090
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RESOLICITED ‘Burnin’ Feeling’ circulated on the bootleg masterpiece comp Angel Dust Psychedelia over a decade ago and subsequently became a heavy rock cult anthem. The original 45 is as rare as unicorn hair, with only 100 copies made. With no names shown on the record, the band had remained a complete mystery all these years. Ancient Grease Records launched a successful campaign with feet on the ground in Florida to find these heavy rock maniacs and made our breakthrough in late 2020. We are pleased to bring you the first official reissue of Masalla’s music. Recorded summer 1970 - Masalla were from the Daytona Beach, Florida area
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Side A - Burnin' Feeling
Side B - Simple Words
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RIYL : to party hard
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COLOURED BALLS - 'BALL POWER'
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JAW053 - LP
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*RESOLICITED*50th Anniversary Edition of this touchstone of Aussie Rock n Roll. This 1973 LP should need no introduction. Just in case it does, it's simply one of the finest albums to ever come out of Australia. COLOURED BALLS are the godfathers of Aussie punk, hard rock, psychedelic boogie, etc. They played too many different styles to be just any one thing. Lobby, Bobsie, Trevor, and Janis created something very special with this album and it sounds as fresh and vital as the date it was originally released. This pressing has been painstakingly sourced directly from the 1973 quarter inch mix-down master tapes and sounds incredible. This has been an entirely analog production chain and hasn't been touched by a computer at any stage of the process. Hear Coloured Balls as nature intended. Every copy includes bonus poster!
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SPIKE IN VAIN - 'JESUS WAS BORN IN A MOBILE HOME'
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SCAT83 - 2xLPs
753417083011SCAT83X - 2xLP (COLOURED)
753417008311
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*BLACK VINYL IN STOCK** Ready for some more racket from the titans of the tritone? The deans of decay? The earls of entropy? Until recently it was unknown how prolific Cleveland’s Spike In Vain were in their three year run, roughly Fall 1982 through Fall 1985. Had all the group’s songs been recorded, they would’ve filled five LPs handily. While only the debut album Disease Is Relative, compilation appearances, and a virtually unknown cassette were issued during their run, 2021 saw the band’s unreleased second album Death Drives A Cadillac pulled out from its secret lair, and 2023 will see the release of the Jesus Was Born In A Mobile Home cassette via this much expanded double vinyl edition. Upping the original’s twelve track program with an additional fifteen unreleased or rare tracks, this compilation provides a panoramic view of this mercurial, many-headed beast of absurdity, discord, and death. This release is loaded with surprises for even die-hard fans. Among other highlights, there’s a nine minute version of “Opus.” While the recording on Disease Is Relative is essentially three short songs smushed together, this later live version doubles that, with all new material seamlessly tacked onto the original. “Winter’s Black Hand” is a shocking outtake from the second album with the same insane, harrowing quality as “Children In The Subway.” There’s a 1982 rehearsal recording of “Tenement Housing,” the closest the band ever came to a straight up punk song. Or the rambling, shambling, and devastating “Drunk And Ugly Soul Food (As I Understand It)” from an early 1985 radio session. Along with other live recordings of songs that never saw the inside of a studio and a few more outtakes, Jesus also gathers stray songs from compilation albums with much improved sound. The majority of the tracks here were mastered from the original reels, while others had to be rescued from cassettes. Veteran engineer John Golden has done a knockout job dealing with the wide variety of source materials, lending it cohesion without sacrificing the skullsplitting rawness of some tracks.
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1. Little Voice That Betrays 2. Lullabye Nocturne
3. You?re Gonna Watch Me
4. The Road To New Guinea (God Man Up!)
5. Ugly And Damaged (Live 1983)
6. Winter?s Black Hand
7. Count Basie?s Ghost Pt. 2
8. Michael Landon Pukes On Your TV
9. Ten Hail Marys 10. Killing Frame Of Mind
11. Strangeland County
12. Helga At The Square Dance 13. Seconds
14. Rejected By No. 12 (1983 Version)
15. Tenement Housing 16. Love Isn?t Hollow
17. Ugly And Damaged 18. The Funeral
19. Glass Doorknob 20. A Grave Left Behind
21. Opus I + II 22. Swamp Baby Blues
23. Real Cool Time 24. Deathstyle
25. E.K.G. 26. Dogsleds In Heaven
27. Drunk And Ugly Soul Food
(As I Understand It)
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Genuinely sick Cleveland damage from
hardcore /post-punk band from years
1982 to 1985
? First time on vinyl for all but three tracks
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BOBBIE LOVESONG - 'ON THE WIND'
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WOODSIST104 - LP
795154138043
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Bobbie Lovesong is the alias of American recording artist Madelyn Strutz. On The Wind is the debut full length from Bobbie, who produced, performed, recorded, and mixed the album herself in Taos, New Mexico. The album is a collection of psych-pop oddities and fizzy space-age interpretations of jazz standards that are informed in equal parts by Larry Heard’s breezy dream sceneries, LSDblotted Americana and kaleidoscopic ’60s pop. Bobbie went to Taos, New Mexico in 2020 to live communally with a small group of musicians as the lockdown stretched on for months. Retreating into an unfinished Earthship, she passed the days writing and recording music, with nothing more than a laptop microphone and a few instruments. At once surreal, timeless and extraterrestrial, On The Wind can be heard as a hallucinatory sonic love letter to Taos.
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1. Organic Orange
2. Watching From A Window
3. Desert Air
4. Eat The Apple Before It Falls
5. Fly Me To The Moon
6. Into Blue
7. Sun Star & Moon
8. Road For A Moment
9. Inner Sea
10. Two Faces In The Castle
11. Interlude
12. Doses
13. Reincarnation Of A Lovebird
14. Why?d It Gotta Take So Long?
15. Misty
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Psych-pop oddities and fizzy space-age
interpretations of jazz standards, recorded
in an unfinished Earthship in Taos,
New Mexico
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CHEATER SLICKS - 'ILL-FATED CUSSES'
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ITR372LP - LP
759718537215
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Cheater Slicks, the take-no-prisoners Columbus, Ohio-based trio, return to Los Angeles’ In The Red Records with the thrilling, musically diverse Ill-Fated Cusses, their first album in eight years and their first package for the label in twenty years. The ten-track collection follows Piano Tunnels, a freewheeling, improvisation-based benefit collaboration with vocalist Bill Gage, whom the band has known since the then newly-formed trio and the singer’s group BILL were working in the Boston area in 1987. Other players joined this record other than core members Tom and Dave Shannon and Dana Hatch. Will Foster, who recorded the record, is heard playing various keyboards and MIDI instrument emulations on the finished record. Most interestingly, James Arthur, of Fireworks and the Necessary Evils, was drafted to play bass, and he appears on every song on the album. Cheater Slicks had not deviated from the two-guitars-and-drums formula since its early days in Boston, when bassists Dina Pearlman, Allen “Alpo” Paulino of the Real Kids, and Merle Allin, brother of the notorious GG Allin, all rotated through the group. After thirty-five years in business, it makes about as much sense to pigeonhole Cheater Slicks as simply a “garage-rock band” as it would to call the Rolling Stones a “blues band.” Ill-Fated Cusses, more than any other album in the group’s discography, explores a broad musical palette on its nine original songs and one cover, Memphis rockabilly icon Charlie Feathers’ stark barroom murder ballad “Cold Dark Night.” This latest chapter in the Cheater Slicks saga moves into bracing new territory without sacrificing the uncompromising blood ’n’ guts tactics that have long made them a formidable force in American rock ’n’ roll.
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GUIDED BY VOICES - 'SANDBOX'
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SCAT84 - LP
753417008410SCAT84X - LP (COLOURED)
753417084018
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***ON LIMITED GLACIAL BLUE VINYL!!! Even back in 1987, Guided By Voices was not content to release just one album in a year—Sandbox was released in the summer of that year following Devil Between My Toes’ appearance that February. Likewise, in similar GBV style, the sound and approach of the two albums could not be more different. Where Devil mostly mines a darker, lo-fi psychedia, along with several instrumental explorations, Sandbox is sunny, direct, has a bigger, crunchier sound, and zero instrumentals. Where Devil has a murky and impressionistic black and white photo of a rooster for a cover, Sandbox sports a full color photo of the band relaxing on a lawn on a sunny day. Let’s also recall that unlike today, in 1987 a full-color album jacket wasn’t just a little more expensive than a black and white one, it was way more expensive. Right up front, the band was communicating that this was a more commercially ambitious endeavor, while behind the scenes they rented better gear for a bigger sound, and tackled more sophisticated arrangements and honed in on the hooks and harmonies of the songs. Of all the band’s early self-released albums, Sandbox differs the most from the sound fans would later associate with the group, which is in itself a recommendation. Nowhere else will you hear the perfectly rendered three-part harmonies of “Long Distance Man,” direct Beatles quotes, or Robert Pollard reveling in his southern Ohio drawl. It’s also true that one of the more enjoyable aspects of the record is finding all the places where the band’s future is indeed foreshadowed. Simply put, Guided By Voices just can’t help but be a little weird, even when attempting something like a power pop album. At the close of the opening track, Pollard announces, “Ladies and gentlemen! Back by popular demand for your entertainment and spiritual enlightenment...Electric Jam Soul Aquarium!” a truly “wtf is happening here” moment. Or the stripped down gloom of “Trap Soul Door”—a track that could be right at home on nearly any later GBV album wherein Pollard intones, “Just one spark can start a hell of a fire.” Little did he know how true that statement would become.
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JOHN DWYER, RYAN SAWYER, ANDRES RENTERIA - 'POSH SWAT'
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RIP106 - LP (COLOURED)
795154136414
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** 700 copies clear / rosa coloured vinyl uk exclusive** Posh Swat, an all percussion improvisation album with John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer & Andres Renteria. Trap kit, Hand percussion, homemade percussion instruments and electronic percussion over flow here with extra weirdness. Sick pop rhythms grinding thru the wasteland. Sand in your hair and bugs in your teeth. Hand on your knife, knife in your sheath. Grimy bass burps thru a fried stack. And the crack of the snare is a mighty pink smack. Bells, whistles conga and vibes. This is a drug record. One thousand times. Art by Brian Bamps. Recorded, edited and mixed at Stu Stu Studio by John Dwyer. Masted by JJ Golden. offset printed slip-in cover + inlay + DL-code clear & solid rosa mixed vinyl For fans of Niagra, Black Pus, Container, Bruce Ditmas and all things beat driven and drum craven. JPD CREDITS John Dwyer: Homemade Percussion Instruments, Electric Drums, Effects & Vocals Ryan Sawyer: Kit Drum & Percussion Andres Renteria: Hand Drums & Hand Percussion Recorded & mixed at Stu Stu Studio by John Dwyer. Mastered by JJ Golden. Artwork by Brian Bamps All Songs Artificial Head ASCAP
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Side A Intro The Spent Sadist Chit Chat Scavenger Red Clay Wall Dungeon Crawler Bug City
Side B The Sythe Is Remorseless Bricked Rune Scatter The Hostile Womb More Will Be Revealed
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For fans of Niagra, Black Pus, Container, Bruce Ditmas and all things beat driven and drum craven.
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IBEX CLONE - 'ALL CHANNELS CLEAR'
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183GONE - LP
733102727482
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Imagine a world apart from our own—an agrarian utopia where the corroded cables of the 20th century lie in moss-covered heaps and the Mississippi River runs clear. New structures rise from the detritus, gnarled patchworks of the natural world and everything else humanity left behind. This is a world where Nirvana and NAFTA never happened, punk didn’t break but bloomed, and guitars jangle in the breeze. This is the world of Ibex Clone and their new album, All Channels Clear. Formed by members of essential bands from the modern era of Memphis rock and roll, Ibex Clone reconfigures the paranoiac punk of Ex-Cult, NOTS and Hash Redactor into something altogether different, a vision of music from a timeline that split with ours a long time ago. Guitarist George Williford’s dizzy six- and twelve-string explorations form a lush thicket for Alec McIntyre’s fluid basslines to slip in and around, anchored by Meredith Lones’ steady, driving rhythms. Williford’s powerful vocal melodies ward off impending death and decay with visionary lyrics about humanity’s place in the ecosystem, the balm of love and friendship, and the complex feeling of being alive in this version of the world of tomorrow. With All Channels Clear, Ibex Clone develops the woozy, folk-tinged post-punk of their excellent debut From Nowhere into a catchy, complex approach to the pastoral power pop of XTC, the Meat Puppets, and Guided By Voices. These ten beautiful tracks tunnel back through the shredded remains of folk, pop, blues and psychedelia to rediscover the real, the human, and the good in this world. Listen close and you’ll hear the ramshackle chime of Big Star, the fingerstyle melodicism of John Fahey and Gimmer Nicholson, and the wild experimentalism of Amon Düül II. Ibex Clone doesn’t offer an antidote or a soundtrack to a world in rapid decline, but instead a window into something much stranger and, maybe—if one can find the path—better.
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1. Nothing Ever Changes
2. There Is No Light
3. Black Hole Blues
4. All Channels Clear
5. Sound Of The Skyline
6. Dream Yourself Red
7. Hollow Tubes From Heaven
8. Industry Quickening Pace
9. Funeral
10. Friends Divine
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Utopian pastoral pop from members of
Ex-Cult, NOTS, and Hash Redactor
For fans of XTC, the Meat Puppets, and
Guided By Voices
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GTM - 'PROTO'
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GTM.002 - 2x12"
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GTM's debut album 'Proto' is unlike anything on Earth, or everything on Earth all at once. Following on from the first EP on their label, South London outfit GTM have crafted an incendiary hyper collision of electro and techno in true kaleidoscopic splendour. This release is a trippy electronic excursion. Available as a 2x12" album housed in a typographic sleeve, it is a writhing, optimistic bomb of a cut mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering (Aphex Twin, u-Ziq, Warp etc.) After a long era of abstract industrial grayscale form, Proto is here to remind us that dance music doesn't always have to conform - in full technicolour!
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RIYL: Nuron + Fugue, Drexciya, Warp Records.
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AMBASSADOR HAZY - 'GLACIAL ERRATICS'
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CFUL0265 - LP
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Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records are delighted to make available for you the debut release by Ambassador Hazy – Glacial Erratics – previously pressed as a private press edition of 100 records back in 2020. Ambassador Hazy is a solo recording project by Sterling DeWeese who was previously in a slew of obscure bands including Heavy Hands, Dirty Rainbow, Terrapin Gun, Madison Electric and Black Fantastic. Glacial Erratics is really a comeback record as Sterling had totally stopped playing for 7 or 8 years after he got married and started a family and the business of life took over – but the calling was always there and as his youngest began to grow – the time became available for Sterling to answer the call. First though he needed to get his ½”reel to reel 8 track back in working order and set up a studio space and fit it out with gear. It required the small matter of converting part of the basement into a studio, building the walls, and adding enough soundproofing to hopefully keep the neighbors and his wife happy – but such a thing was not going to stop Sterling. Soon he was playing again with some local musicians and recording some of those performances live to tape but the hassle of getting everyone together at the same time was hard so in the downtime Sterling began focusing on recording on his own. Thus the name Glacial Erratics was born, as it was all a bit of a hodge podge (i.e. erratic) and ended up being done over several years (i.e. glacial). Once there was enough material finished, between band tracks and solo tracks Sterling compiled them. The resulting album is a kaleidoscope of contagious hooks and artfully crafted songs, laid to tape and brought to life in brilliant colour. "Black Smoke Rising" is a blur of fuzz guitar and stuttering snare hits as Sterling tells us ‘I believe in the future – don’t take it away’ and over 14 tracks you are treated to artfully crafted acid pop gems that are riddled with potholes and weird left turns, with hooks that seem to bubble out of nowhere before receding into themselves. The lo-fi aesthetic works perfectly, with the songs benefiting from the warm fuzz tones of the instruments and vocals recorded onto that now fully functioning ½” tape machine. Sterling eventually self released ‘Glacial Erratics’ after seeking advice from his good friend Josh (Travelling Circle, Lime Eyelid) who had recently self released his LP – the record eventually reached John Westhaver (TBWNIS) who buzzed me immediately to tell me to wrap my ears around the genius wiggy pop perfection that is ‘Glacial Erratics’.
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AMBASSADOR HAZY - 'THE DOOR BETWEEN'
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CFUL0260 - LP
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Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records are delighted to present to you the new Ambassador Hazy LP ‘The Door Between’ Following last year's much loved and long sold out ‘The Traveler’ Ambassador Hazy is back with ‘The Door Between’ (the title taken from an old detective novel) which is a perfect metaphor for album's explorations into consciousness and perception, seeing the connectedness between all things while also embracing one's solitude and separation from others. Themes that were amplified as the record was recorded alone in a basement during a pandemic. With some new mics and toys featuring on this recording, Sterling experiments a bit more with recording techniques and different sounds which bring about a more overtly psychedelic sound than on ‘The Traveler’ and with a few songs being more explicitly drug related (and or induced). The Door Between is about being an outsider, or at least that feeling of being outside of things and the ways one might find connection be that through drugs, music, love. So while Orange Halos starts the proceedings the overtly upbeat and infectious melodies we have come to know and love from Ambassador Hazy – by the time you reach ‘Going Down’ you are dropped into Martin Rev/Suicide synth/drum machine head trip. So join Ambassador Hazy – maybe crack open a beer, smoke a joint, take a tab or just sit in your favourite chair – Drop the needle on ‘The Door Between’ and let it transport you to that other place.