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	(VxPxC) Struggling With Heavy Clouds Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat CD-R £6.99 "Brand new CD-R from trio of Grant Capes, Justin McInteer and Tim Goodwillie recorded in LA. Wavering multi instrumental folk-psyche-drone jams across 4 tracks, total bliss! Again comes in the same lightweight paper as the WWVV with fold out all over artwork by Darryl Norsen. Limited to 110 hand-numbered copies." - BRR.
	(((Vluba))) Inventions For Inflatable Guitar Chocolate Monk Choc-163 CD-R £5.99 New album from Argentina's self-styled "Prehistoric Magical Psychic Band" makes for a fully rubbered tribute to Manuel Gottsching of Ash Ra Temple and Jimi Hendrix, with two tracks that work barely articulate flutters of electro-acoustic shadow play up from the depths of the vegetable mind. Somewhere between classic Creel Pone-style 20th century concrete abstraction and the tectonic non-organic drone of early Kluster.
	(VxPxC) At Moody’s Skidrow Beanery ‘66 Snakefork No Cat C14 Cassette £5.99 Last copies of this limited to 50 hand-numbered cassette with another extended shot of monolithic brain-bombing psych stasis. Comes in oversize wraparound card sleeves.
	(VxPxC) Dead Right There Sky-Fi Transmission #2 C90 Cassette £7.99 New album from these slo-mo destructo-rockers, all sealed inside original hand-written and stamped antique mailing envelopes that are actually from occupied Berlin. "90 minute document of two live events culled from the vaults of the early years of VxPxC. From delicate sprawling drone to outright tonal murkitude, this is guaranteed to melt ur brainstem. A lullaby for a nuclear winter." Sky-Fi
	1/3 Octave Band Navigation By Light Celebrate Psi Phenomenon No Cat CD-R £6.99 Deep space gloomp and wind-tortured drone-silence from the duo of Bill Wood - sometimes member of Campbell Kneale’s Birchville Cat Motel orchestra – and Jules Desmond. Huge lungs of void cut up with diamonds of percussion and lone metal tone in classic globe-gobbling style. Mastered by Campbell Kneale.
	12 Cent Donkey Where There Are No Roads Gulcher No Cat CD £7.99 Cranky new duo-guitar destructo-psych that gobbles up a whole load of post-Dead C formal obliteracy and floats it out into space in two monolithic glass coffins that flash with the kinda overdriven brainpower that illuminates the bulk of the Ben Reynolds back catalogue. An unexpected detour into stasis-wrestling avant garage for Gulcher.
	16 Bitch Pile-Up The Hairless Whisperer American Tapes AM-545 One-Sided LP £10.99 Limited one-sided art edition LP from this great, all-female electro-gunk bigband with paste-on B-side art from John Olson (Wolf Eyes et al), corrugated card sleeve and stamped insert/art cover. Woozy vocal schizophrenia ala UK tonsil torturers Blood Stereo/Dylan Nyoukis or even Sten Hanson's early tape-wonk while home-crunched electronics elicit squeals of pleasure and cells of circuit friction rumble the whole thing to a murky, oil-caked end. Not as full-on mud-wrestling as some of the Bitches past work and actually all the better for it. Weird as hell, this wouldn't have sounded out of place on Very Good records, wrapped in a long blonde wig. But this swanky American Tapes edition will do fucking nicely.
	16 Bitch Pile-Up/Mike Shiflet Make Like A Fetus And Abort/Extract, Behold Ecstatic Peace E#105 LP £9.99 "Ohio has been rampant on the Ecstatic Peace play lists lately with the release of a long player earlier this year by Leslie Keffer and a forthcoming split LP by Emeralds and Tusco Terror. Like Keffer, who's moved to Nashville (to be closer to Be Your Own Pet), 16 Bitch Pile-Up and Mike Shiflet are both ex-pats of Ohio. 16 Bitch to California and Shiflet to some weird small town in Japan. Mike Shiflet we've known for years as he has produced some of the more interesting tapes and whatnot of midwestern out-ness from his Gameboy label and from his legendary duo tour with Burning Star Core/ C. Spencer Yeh of a few years back. Like the amazing beard he has sported since childhood his music is a free-fall of acoustic wonder. He is also the cat responsible for turning on most of the world to the radical charms of three girls from Ohio wickedly named 16 Bitch Pile-Up. With a name like that you may have expected something just kinda funny but what made itself imminently obvious was that 16 Bitch was really and extremely into producing a wholly personal thrombosis of noise improvisation. Crystallized to the trio of Sarah Bernat, Sarah Cathers and Shannon Walter this trio has become one of the most consistently exciting live experiences of the last five years. These recordings by both artists were done when both were still residents of Ohio and reflect that time and space right before each other's exodus. They are raw and righteous and ready for you to take a bite. Edition of 500 copies." - EP.
	2779 Toowong Village Breakdance The Dawn BDTD-55 CD-R £8.99 “Consisting of xNoBBQx’s Matt Earle, his long-time partner in noise Adam Sussmann, and Ben Dropsy, 2779 are yet another of the seemingly endless permutations to arise from Australia’s Breakdance The Dawn crew. Like a lot of this collective’s music, Toowong Village manages to both be rigorous in concept and off-the-cuff in performance, and its conceptual fortitude (however vague or alien that may be) serves as a welcome backbone. Brutish punk drums, stripped back to the barest kit, plot coordinates for scratchy, No Wave guitar that’s always about to collapse, and bent circuits that scrawl over everything much like a child smearing crayon across walls.” – Jon Dale
	A.H. Kraken s/t In The Red ITR-154 LP + CD £11.99 LP/CD set from this brutalist thug-punk group out of France. The sound approximates the kinda mainlined sociopathic monomania of the whole Brainbombs/Amp Rep school of booze lubricated rock gnosis, with endlessly repeated minimal riffs bisected by reversed power chords and backwards rhythms to the point where the whole deal feels more like a single densely compacted huzz of fuzz and that balances cigarette-toting No Wave refusal with the kind of claustrophobic, basement-damaged dirge/dub environs of Metal Box-era Public Image Limited, The Pop Group et al. Comes with a bonus CD and a suave sleeve featuring a shotgun-toting femme redneck who digs death metal the most.
	AA Magazine #2 AA Records No Cat Magazine + Flexi Lathe £10.99 Best issue yet of this limited journal from Nate Young (Wolf Eyes/Hatred et al) and Alivia Zivich. The mag comes with a flexi lathe mounted on the cover and a spindle hole cut all the way through the pages so that the zine itself is actually playable on a turntable. Inside there are some truly bizarre repros of found photography, Zac Davis on astrology, Alivia Zivich interviews Blake Hargreaves about “Gitmo/Camp X-Ray”, Raphael Lyon on Mudboy and the “Terror Shroud”, Nate Youngs’ massive journal-review of Gods Of Tundra’s “Thousand Color Blaze” box set plus art and snaps. Recommended.
	Kaoru Abe Winter 1972 PSF PSFD-158 CD £12.99 Alongside noise guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi, the late saxophonist Kaoru Abe was in the vanguard of Japan's new music, articulating an approach to the saxophone that matched extreme velocity with an elastic facility with the instrument's most phantom registers and a sculptural approach to instant composition that saw him carve poignant shapes from massive blocks of silence. Abe died of a heroin overdose on September 9th, 1978 at the age of 29, making 2004 the 27th anniversary of his passing, one that was marked by special rites in Japan. As a memorial to this great sound-thinker PSF put together a special package, an official release of the rarest of Abe's recorded works, originally released as a bootleg in a plain white sleeve on the Osaka Soundworks label in 73/74. The early-70s were Abe's most prolific and inspired years and this live set from 1972 is a stone classic, a powerfully focussed set of solo saxophone that works the molten flow of his brain and fingers into lines of dense, ferocious beauty, from drooling, all-out blurt to exactingly articulated ice-cold blues. Mesmerising. Includes Japanese/English liners by PSF owner Hideo Ikeezumi.
	Kaoru Abe Solo 1972.1.21 PSF PSFD-40 CD £12.99 Beautiful collection of early solo work from this amazing Japanese saxophonist who can burn personal co-ordinates into cold, black space with alla the harrowing force of Ayler, Haino, Brotz et al. Performances on alto and bass clarinet that combine an intimate, lyrical style with ferocious phantom register evisceration. Highly recommended.
	Kaoru Abe-Hiroshi Yamazaki Duo Jazz Bed 1971.1.24 PSF PSFD-67 CD £12.99 For any Abe neophytes this is the one to start with; a high-wire duo set that sees Abe's breath conceptions shredded by Yamazaki's ferocious percussive assault. Yamazaki is best known for association with free-noise guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi as part of the guitarist's New Directions ensemble and this is a wild disc, with two long tracks recorded 24/1/1972 that pack as much blood and fire as already-canonical blow-outs like Adieu Little Man, Duo Exchange and Interstellar Space.
	Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno Another Band From The Cosmic Inferno European Tour 2005: Cosmic Funeral Route 666 Acid Mothers Temple AMTCD-016 CD £12.99 Two extended studio brain-blowers from the reinvigorated (no Tsuyama!) AMT, featuring Makoto Kawabata on guitar, bouzouki and tambura, Hiroshi Higashi on electronics, Mitsuru Tabata (Zeni Geva/Loud Machine 5000 et al) on bass and vocals and Koji Shimura (White Heaven) and Futoshi Okano on drums. A bit more evocatively dilated and less of the 3-D Technicolor gibber here, with Shimura planting tiny cymbals bombs in a huge hive of synthesised gloop, beams of E-bow, almost Sabs-styled metal thunder, eye-rolling chant and high, sky-scraping drone. A beautifully psychedelic set: The Cosmic Inferno are rapidly usurping The Melting Paraiso U.F.O as the mothership of choice. Released to celebrate the Cosmic Inferno Euro tour of 2005, this one is limited to 1000 copies and comes in a full-colour fold-out poster sleeve. Recommended.
	Acid Mothers Afrirampo We Are Acid Mothers Afrirampo Acid Mothers Temple AMTCD-017 CD £12.99 Delinquent Osaka duo Afrirampo have appeared in non-corporeal form on a bunch of Acid Mothers Temple sides but We Are Acid Mothers Afrirampo represents their first full-on collaboration and features the gob-stopping line-up of Oni on vocals, guitar, recorder and drums, Pika on vocals, drums and toys, Makoto Kawabata on guitar, violin, hurdy gurdy, glockenspiel, percussion, electronics and voice, Hiroshi Higashi on electronics and Atsushi Tsuyama on vocals, bass drums, guitar and recorder. A buncha wild proto-punk geography covered with this particular ticket, from agonising dead dog prison blooz that sounds exactly like what you’d figure the soundtrack to an all-animation remake of Crime’s San Francisco’s Doomed would’ve turned out like through the riff from Red Krayola’s “Hurricane Fighter Plane” used as a rubber mallet and a whole pit full of variously displaced limbs. This one marks the kind of inspired marriage of euphoric hormonal 60s doof and ecstatic acid rock not seen since Hendrix first gave the nod to The Monkees and this time it’s the girls that are wielding the axes. Fuck! Comes in a jewel case with full colour booklet. Recommended.
	Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno Hardcore Uncle Meat Acid Mothers Temple AMTDVD-002 DVD £14.99 "Complete version of the 2005 gig played by Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno in Zagreb. The gig was filmed with three cameras by the genius Croatian film artist Niko Potocnjak (Seven That Spells), who also edited the double DVD "History of Acid Mothers Temple" due to be released this autumn. The sound was recorded to sixteen-channel digital and mixed by Kawabata himself to create an astoundingly high-quality live package. Tracks include "Trigger in Trigger Out", "Pink Lady Lemonade", "OM Riff", etc. The lineup of Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno at the time of this gig was: Tabata Mitsuru : bass, vocals. (Zeni Geva, ex Boredoms, Leningrad Blues Machine), Higashi Hiroshi : synth, guitar, chorus. (Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.), Shimura Koji : drums. (Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Miminokoto, ex High Rise, ex Mainliner, ex Nagisa Nite, ex White Heaven), Okano Futoshi : drums. (ex Ghost, ex Subvert Blaze, Andromelos), Kawabata Makoto : guitar, chorus. (Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Gong, ex Mainliner). NTSC format, region free. Limited edition of 1000." - AMT.
	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO Myth Of The Love Electrique Riot Season REPOSECD-012 CD £12.99 Brand new album from the classic line-up, with Makoto Kawabata, Koji Shimura, Higashi Hiroshi, Atsushi Tsuyama and Hao Kitagawa cutting a series of themed suites that range from honey-dripping celestial drone vibration through all-out fuzz guitar synapse onslaught before melting into a beautiful new version of their live staple, "Pink Lady Lemonade". One of the most 'canonical' sounding/feeling AMT releases in a while. Recommended.
	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO Acid Motherly Love Riot Season Reposecd-016 CD £10.99 "Now firmly fixed to a solid 4 piece (Tsuyama Atsushi, Higashi Hiroshi, Shimura Koji and Kawabata Makoto) with added guest vocalists, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. return to their spiritual home of the UK Riot Season for yet another OUT-THERE ride through their weird and psychedelic world. Guitars howl, riffs grow BIGGER with each minute and brains get fried along the way. Recorded under falling ash and burning roof tiles, 'Acid Motherly Love' features every dimension of their legendary underground sound - from wild riff heavy jams, to quieter acoustic passages and spoken monologues, all capped by the trance inducing 15 minute-plus epic 'Santa Sanrodriguez'. Artwork features the obligatory naked Japanese babes in all their finery. God Bless AMT!" - RS.
	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Minstrel In The Galaxy Riot Season REPOSECD-07 CD £11.99 Latest from Makoto Kawabata’s freak-collective features guest appearances from Afrirampo’s Oni and Pikacyu across three tracks. The first is a slight, fluttering drone and the last is a beautiful folk song sung by Tsuyama that sounds like it’d fit perfectly on one of Jess Franco’s Eugenie films. In between there’s a huge 40 minute slice of furious guitar absolution. Another good one.
	Acre Monolith Arbor #72 LP £9.99 ”Portland's tone wrangler Aaron Davis (aka Acre) has been blasting the world with his massive-but-barely-there feedback swells for quite some time with releases on Black Horizons, JK, and more. His first LP offering brings about the Acre essence quite well. Massive walls of shoe-gazed feedback are some how tamed into smooth, quintessential drones. This is not the sound of synthesizers or keyboards, but a single tone being modified and replicated into a monolithic piece. Stasis so strong it is hard to realize the power of these two side long tracks until they end, forcing silence back upon the listener: direct hypnosis and transcendental zoning. In an edition of 200 records in pro-printed fold over sleeves.” – Arbor. Sold out at source.
	Aethenor Deep In Ocean Sunk The Lamp Of Light VHF #97 CD £8.99 "Deep In Ocean Sunk The Lamp Of Light is the debut release from the trio of Stephen O'Malley (Sunn0))))), Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo) and Vincent de Roguin (Shora). Taking its title from The Iliad, the music is deep, cosmic, and equally epic, completely unlike anything you'd expect from three such heavyweights. More in the tradition of Nurse With Wound's Spiral Insana or Klaus Schulze's Cyborg than any contemporary trend, the tracks float along in a masterful collage of activity, where careful scene changes highlight O'Sullivan's classic but artfully placed Rhodes bombs, de Roguin's organ, and O'Malley's guitar. Extraordinary effort has gone into editing, mastering, and shaping these pieces - they are not tossed off improvisations or 'side-project' orphans. The group recently completed a small European tour with Jackie-O-Motherfucker's Alexander Tucker, playing dates with Ulan Bator, The No Neck Blues Band and Netwerk. Both CD is housed in a beautiful, custom jacket, hand-printed by Alan Sherry of SIWA." - VHF.
	Afflicted Man Complete Recordings Senseless Whale No Cat 2xCD £16.99 You may recall the recent score of the out of print LP copies of High Speed & The Afflicted Man Get Stoned Ezy we had at Volcanic Tongue, now’s your chance to own it and all the rest of Afflicted Mans’ output. Highly recommended! "Too freaked out for punks and too punked out for freaks, STEVE HALL stalked the nascent British Punk/DIY scene under the guise of AFFLICTED (later AFFLICTED MAN)throughout the early 80s to the interest of almost no one. Hiding in plain sight, Hall unleashed a string of 7-inches and LPs that evoked a singular and unique take on the punk sneer made fashionable by the Sex Pistols and their minion. Primitively blending elements of psychedelia and dub over his feral, chainsaw approach, Afflicted Man unleashed a miasma of tripped out, fuzzy aggro thrashers that would eventually climax into a masterpiece of pedal stomping carnage-the unimpeachable Get Stoned Ezy LP-the likes of which are only now being fully digested. Easily one of the UKs strangest and ignored DIY punk bands. This collection includes the entire output; all three mega rare 7-inches plus the hard to find LPs The Afflicted Mans Musical Bag, Im Off Me Head, and the aforementioned Get Stoned Ezy. Complete Recordings is the type of release to make even the most knowledgeable of humbugs sit up and take notice. Essential in every way."
	Afrika Korps Music To Kill By Vulcher 0006 LP + 7" £12.99 Afrika Korps were a great punk rock 'n' roll group birthed from a mess of snot, featuring "an elite army of volunteer musicians" drawn from key DIY groups like O. Rex, The Slickee Boys, The Gizmos, The Look and Teenage Boys. Music to Kill BY was recorded 1976-77 by core members guitarist/vocalist Solomon Gruberger, guitarist Ken Highland (on leave from the Marines at the time), guitarist Kim Kane, bassist Jay Gruberger and drummer Ken Kaiser with contributions from scenester flesh of the quality of our Philadelphia bud Howard Wuelfing (of The Look and former Forced Exposure scribe), Martha Hull and Marshall Keith of the Slickee Boys, Thomas Kane, Patricia Ragan, Robert Goldstein, Chris Thompson, Charles Eichert and Laurie and Karen Hoch aka The Kaiser's Kittens. Inspired by frat rock, tough British Invasion sounds, dumb punk put-downs, The Ramones, KISS, Iggy and Alice Cooper, the Korps cut a great high-energy garage punk album with covers of tracks by groups like The Kinks and The Yardbirds, paeans to sweaty sex and picking up girls high on cheap beer and some fantastically primitive jams. As well as including the full album, Music To Kill by comes up trumps with a yard of out-takes and some choice 1977 live action. Wish I could've been there. Great liners from Mr Eddie Flowers again, as well as some choice pics. This ultimate vinyl edition comes with a bonus 7" EP featuring NYC 1977 outtakes and a clutch of tracks recorded live at the legendary Cantone's the same year.
	Afrika Korps Music To Kill By Gulcher 405 CD £6.99 Afrika Korps were a great punk rock ‘n’ roll group birthed from a mess of snot, featuring “an elite army of volunteer musicians” drawn from key DIY groups like O. Rex, The Slickee Boys, The Gizmos, The Look and Teenage Boys. Music to Kill BY was recorded 1976-77 by core members guitarist/vocalist Solomon Gruberger, guitarist Ken Highland (on leave from the Marines at the time), guitarist Kim Kane, bassist Jay Gruberger and drummer Ken Kaiser with contributions from scenester flesh of the quality of our Philadelphia bud Howard Wuelfing (of The Look and former Forced Exposure scribe), Martha Hull and Marshall Keith of the Slickee Boys, Thomas Kane, Patricia Ragan, Robert Goldstein, Chris Thompson, Charles Eichert and Laurie and Karen Hoch aka The Kaiser’s Kittens. Inspired by frat rock, tough British Invasion sounds, dumb punk put-downs, The Ramones, KISS, Iggy and Alice Cooper, the Korps cut a great high-energy garage punk album with covers of tracks by groups like The Kinks and The Yardbirds, paeans to sweaty sex and picking up girls high on cheap beer and some fantastically primitive jams. As well as including the full album, Music To Kill by comes up trumps with a yard of out-takes and some choice 1977 live action. Wish I could’ve been there. Great liners from Mr Eddie Flowers again, as well as some choice pics.
	Afrika Korps Live At Cantone’s 1977 Gulcher 409 CD £6.99 Phenomenally good teenage punk ‘n’ roll action from this endearingly snotty super-group. Live At Cantone’s was recorded the day after Gizmo and Korps member Kenne Highland married Miss Lyn, editor-publisher of the notorious Boston Groupie News and functioned as a rockin’ reception. This is the full gig in sick, unedited form, recorded at a venue that saw an insane amount of hot rock action at the close of the 70s. The perfect companion to their studio set, Music To Kill By, this is bloody as all hell, with shredded Chuck Berry riffs and British Invasion-style hooks put to the service of some loudmouth teenage threat. Comes with liners and an absolutely beautiful cover.
	Afrirampo Kore Ga Mayaku Da Tzadik TZ-7258 CD £13.99 Totally wild, brand new high-energy avant/garage studio album from Osaka, Japan’s Afrirampo, the spiritual heirs to the Kansai-crown of groups like Boredoms and Hijokaidan. A little few more noise/metal moves apparent here, with a fuzz guitar sound that almost matches Confusion-era Sonic Youth or Mars (even Mission Of Burma at points!!??) crossed with the kind of zoned progressive energy, screaming fits/scrabbly free-form dynamics and spiked cartoon humour that left us so slack jawed at their recent performances. They even throw in a few ballads. Highly recommended, with a great sleeve and some choice nudity. On John Zorn’s Tzadik label.
	Afternoon Penis I Want You To Write Dreamtime Taped Sounds No Cat C35 Cassette £6.99 “Nate from Mouthus/Religious Knives. This cassette is a two sided scenario. Side A is the seeker, about to discover a new path. Side B is the thinker, about to interact with new information. This is the smoked out entity of an encounter.” – DTS.
	Ilyas Ahmed The Vertigo Of Dawn Time-Lag 042 LP £18.99 First 'official' solo release from this always-impressive solitary US-based stringslinger. The run of hermetically-packaged CD-Rs that Ahmed released on his own label makes for one of the most thrilling and consistently ass-flattening series of postcards from oblivion to make it out of the DIY underground in the past few years, with apocalyptically-nuanced guitar instrumentals, scores for solitary bells and smears of acid country all rendered in a barren, deeply personal style. His Time-Lag debut feels like the beginning of another chapter, with a host of wild, stylistically-punked avant modes put to the service of his own desolate vision. The whole deal starts with a primitive, out of-focus setting for horns and brass that occupies the raised ground between Heathen Earth-era Throbbing Gristle and New York Eye And Ear Control and it immediately flags-up the slightly more aggressive bent of his new work. From there the LP takes off in a bunch of direction, reconciling loner blues and Skip Spence-style narcoleptic ballads with some pulverising raga guitar blats, all -cut up with backwards guitar, hand percussion and massively potent drones. If your idea of alone takes in Jandek, Skip Spence, Roy Harper, Steve Took and Joshua Burkett then you just met your doppelganger. This stunning vinyl edition comes pressed on 180gm audiophile vinyl and packaged in a custom fabric textured, golden hued, heavy gatefold cover with black and blood red printing, plus insert. Un-numbered limited edition of 750 copies. Highly recommended.
	Ahousen Ahousen PSF PSFD-172 CD £12.99 "Tokyo underground group! Avant-psychedelic." Debut release from the quartet of: Katsu (guitar), Suu (sax, voice), Akira (bass) & Tail (drums). "Lunatic avant-free-rock, honed in guerrilla street performance. Debut album from one of the most exciting discoveries from the recent Tokyo Flashback 6 compilation. There's an entrancing sense of moon-kissed lunatic wildness about Ahousen (the group's name means Ship of Fools). Their avant-rock meets free jazz meets enka melancholic sound is entirely their own, a crazed communion with dead voices, honed to blistering perfection in guerrilla performance on the night-time streets of Shinjuku. For those of a genealogical bent, the group has some history. Guitarist Katsu played with original Tokyo Rockers legends Lizard in the seventies. Drummer Tail has played with Suishou no Fune." -- Alan Cummings.
	Ainotamenishis Live '418 Holy Mountain #17 LP £12.99 Vinyl upgrade for what was originally a limited self-released album from this new Japanese underground two guitars and drums trio who playing heaving, angular post-Beefheart punk rock squawl in the tradition of Oshiri Penpenz and appeared on PSF's Tokyo Flashback 6. There's more of a barbed punk/No Wave attack to their sound than much of the PSF roster, with less effects and more frenetically spiked electricity with the vocalist blurting long lines of vocal shred while the guitars make like a post-punk hurricanes and the drums just fucking vibrate. Think Gasaneta, 3/3, Michio Kadotani, Rotten Telepathies, Red etc. Features a few quieter, primitive acid-ballad style tracks that are somewhere between Org and PSF.
	Air Conditioning/Vegas Martyrs/Coughs/The New Flesh Tiger Tongue Pussy Cactus: Terminal Fantasies For Malefic Youth Hospital Productions HOS-178 LP £12.99 Four-way split from a bunch of American groups that straddle harsh noise, monolithic post-Butthole Surfers acid rock and amphetamine punk fury. Air Conditioning sound as brain-pummelling as ever, with thunderous doofs of electricity and avant garage crank. Vegas Martyrs are the more No Wave fixated project of Dominik Fernow (Prurient/Hospital), Joe Potts and Richard Dunn. The New Flesh play primitively massive garage rock oblivion ala The Dead C while Coughs mix avant rock with skronky No Wave sass. Edition of 400 copies wrapped in thick double-sided card sleeves and pressed on green vinyl. Already sold out at source. "Many years in the works. Collects a certain type of young and anxious style of band that lives somewhere between dirge, noise, and punk but all share a unique but equally mean spirited and negative atmosphere." - Dominik Fernow.
	Edip Akbayram & Dostlar Nedir Ne Degildir? World Psychedelia WPC6-8476 CD £15.99 Full reissue of Turkish psych God Edip Akbayram's second album, recorded 1975-76. An inspired amalgamation of longing traditional melodies, acid/funk/rock moves that are somewhere between your favourite giallo soundtrack and a more complexly beautiful Iron Butterfly, fuzz guitar, sqouching keys, wah-wah on everything and heavy devotional drones. Akbayram's ululating vocal style remains totally hypnotic and fans of worldwide psych osmosis as well as anyone who dug the Erkin Koray releases should dive right in here.
	Akitsa Goetie Hospital Productions HOS-163 CD £9.99 Reissue on Domink Fernow of Prurient's Hospital imprint of the classic first album by this primitive black metal group. Parts of this sound almost like La Novia-era Acid Mothers Temple with monk-chanting vocals, repeat bliss riffing and the hiss of pure electro-malevolence giving way to crude throat shredding, horse-pounding rhythms and insect-guzzling guitar fuzz. Somehow unites DIY bedroom punk satori with satanic doom moves in a way you never would have figured. "Reissue of the first Akitsa full length. Masterpiece of distressed raw black metal with wide range of playing from blasting wall of violence to primitive and young punk to dilapidated and malevolent doom. Essential for fans of Bone Awl, Ildjarn, early Absurd etc." - Hospital Productions
	Akitsa Sang Nordique Hospital Productions HOS-164 CD £9.99 Reissue on Domink Fernow of Prurient's Hospital imprint of the renowned second album by this primitive black metal group. This one has an even murkier sound than the first, with riffs sounding like a more baroque metal take on The Cramps' "Human Fly" while satanic vocals peel themselves from the bottom of smoke-infested lungs. The overall feel is of elegiac stasis, with riffs that build to nowhere crashing into juggernauts of nada and the kinda DIY anti-tech punk rock stance that works as the perfect antidote to the overly airbrushed, technique-obsessed sound of most dud doom. "Reissue of the second Akitsa full length. Very low end punkish primitivist chunky underwater black metal with hard youth spirit and epic minimalism. Essential for fans of Bone Awl, Ildjarn, early Absurd etc." - Hospital Productions.
	Tetuzi Akiyama/Oren Ambarchi/Alan Licht Willow Weep And Moan For Me Antiopic AN-009 3" CD £5.99 Beautiful live trio stylings from these renowned string-slingers who together generate the kind of spectral blues that hang in the air with all of the ghostly, lugubrious weight of Loren Mazzacane's Saint Joan recordings or Jeff Cotton's lunar work with Mu. Recommended.
	Tetuzi Akiyama & Greg Malcolm Brombron 12: Six Strings Korm Plastics KP 3027 CD £9.99 “Korm Plastics is proud to present the eleventh release in the Brombron series. Originally a co-production between Staalplaat and Extrapool, it is now hosted by co-curator Frans de Waard. In the year 2000 Frans de Waard and Extrapool started the Brombron project. Two or more musicians become artists in residence in Extrapool, an arts initiative in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, with a fully equipped sound recording studio. These artists can work in a certain amount of time on a collaborative project; a project they always wished to do, but didn't have the time or the equipment to realize. For this twetvth installment all the machines were switched off, microphones installed and duets for two acoustic guitars were recorded by Tetuzi Akiyama and Greg Malcolm. Improvising along the way, along set theme's as well as new ones, they have come up with the most unlikely release in the Brombron series thus far. Greg Malcolm has been around for ages performing unusual music in variety of contexts and combinations. His current obsession is solo simultaneously played multiple guitar performances. Tetuzi Akiyama plays the guitar with primitive and practical implications, by adding a desire of his own to the instrument's characteristic nature in minimal and straight method. He delicately and sometimes boldly controls the volume of the sound from micro to macro level, and tries to quantize his physical system.” Korm Plastics
	Tetuzi Akiyama & Jeffrey Allport Live At The Western Front Simple Geometry SG-002 LP £14.99 "The Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama performs an improvised set as a duo with Canadian percussionist Jeffrey Allport on July 1, 2006. This recording is of the first and only time these two well-regarded improvisers have ever played together. Living on opposite sides of the Pacific, this show became an opportunity for Allport and Akiyama to each perform some of their most advanced techniques in improvised music with a player whose style was truly compatible. Allport approaches every side of his drum, the rim, the snares, the steel clamps, and of course, the skin to produce a challenging repertoire of sounds that defy the drum's gambit, segues from Tibetan drones to electronic clicks and cuts, distant steamships to nearby popcorn. Akiyama's preternatural improvisations along the neck and body of his guitar meditate patiently on each bluesy sound, almost as if his fingers were playing along the surface of a slow-moving river. Every note that Akiyama plays becomes a sensational interruption causing ripples, splashes, and oxbows in the flow of the music. Performed live at a sold-out Western Front, Vancouver's oldest and most significant artist-run venue, Akiyama and Allport propose a rich new vocabulary for music. Two tracks on vinyl mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura. This LP documents an unprecedented collaboration between two modern masters of far left improvisation." - SG.
	Donald McPherson & Tetuzi Akiyama Vinegar & Rum Bo'Weavil Weavil-12 LP £13.99 Vinyl edition of what was previously a CD, hand-numbered in an edition of 550 copies with wraparound card sleeve and insert: Great set of improvised acoustic guitar face-offs from avant Japanese guitarists Tetuzi Akiyama and free New Zealander Donald McPherson. Various hypnotic strategies cohere to wildly variant effect, with beautiful - almost Fahey-esque - melodies squatted by wayward, Jandek-style string navigations, percussive stops and melancholy clumps of chords. First ever CD from Bo'Weavil too, in deluxe fold-out art card sleeve and limited to 1000 copies. Very beautiful and highly recommended.
	Tetuzi Akiyama Pre-Existence Bo'Weavil Weavil-15 LP £13.99 Beautiful vinyl reissue in textured sleeve of Akiyama's acoustic entry in Locust's Wooden Guitar series. Here he pulls together a host of alternate routes around the guitar, working the dizzy plonks and percussive attack of Derek Bailey and the lush architectural conceptions of John Fahey into constructs that hover somewhere between improvised instants, minimal sound constructs and full-on parading of the guitar's ability to deliver tactile, barbarous oomf while simultaneously massaging both the brain and heart. Either way, this is a beauty and - the more you continue to dig into it - a genuinely far-reaching take on six string aesthetics.
	Tetuzi Akiyama The Ancient Balance To Control Death Western Vinyl West-049 CD £10.99 Whole new mode of tongue from Japanese avant guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama, with his blues-infused avant guitar moves topped with weird multi-track vocals that give the individual songs the feel of Matthew Valentine’s Spectrasound orbits, Neil Haggerty jams or even a more drug stupor take on Wayne Rogers’ more stripped down blats. Compound alla that with some finger-picked guitar that could almost be Richard Youngs (cut with a Bailey-esque feel for the percussive use of harmonics as well as maracas, harmonica and electronics) and you’ve got yet another confounding chapter in a career that keeps on puzzling.
	Susan Alcorn And I Await The Resurrection Of The Pedal Steel Guitar Olde English Spelling Bee OESB-05 LP £14.99 Alongside Heather Leigh Murray of Taurpis Tula/Scorces et al, Susan Alcorn is one of the few avant garde pedal steel players in the world today (indeed, it was Alcorn that first gifted Murray her pedal steel). And I Await The Resurrection... is Alcorn's fifth solo album and it is a mind-blower, a series of beautifully solemn pieces for pedal steel that combine intricately constructed hypno-madrigals with all of the danger and energy of free improvisation and the kind of feel for single notes suspended in space that matches Jandek (who Alcorn recently collaborated with), Blind Willie Johnson, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Scorces, Donald Ayler and Keiji Haino. All the recordings were made at home and represent some of Alcorn's darkest, most elegiac material. The first track, "Heart Sutra", is a psychedelic miniature inspired by the Buddha's Sutra Of The Heart Of Transcendent Wisdom, with single notes orbiting a central bass motif with the weirdest rhythmic logic. The breath-taking 16 minute title track references Messiaen's "Et Expecto Ressurectionum Mortuorum" as Alcorn plots a course through single notes that vibrate like tiny, hopeful pin-points of light held deep in the darkest night. The whole deal comes packaged in a heavy duty gatefold sleeve with a gorgeous line-art cover and full notes by Alcorn in a limited edition of only 750 copies and it has both the feel and sound of a classic private press side. One of the most sublime reconciliations of American Primitive roots, high modernist intent and dark psychedelic majesty in a dog's age. Highly recommended.
	Alumbrados A Generation Of Vipers Important Imprec-102 CD £10.99 Modal, space-blurring ethno jams from this new project birthed by Bardo Pond brothers Michael and John Gibbons using guitar, sitar, cumbas, electronics and percussion.
	Alvarius B s/t Abduction ABDT-004 CD £13.99 Reissue of this all-instrumental side (originally a limited LP) from Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls that bundles the best of his guitar/harmonica settings across the space of the 1980s. All titles recorded live to cassette. A little more ‘obscure’ than his brother Rick’s guitar conceptions, Alan’s music is based around buzzing rips through metallic eastern sonorities, luxurious takes on American esotera, tiny insect-sound sonatas and intensely humid spirals of avant folk hypnosis. Includes four bonus tracks that didn’t appear on the vinyl.
	Alvars Orkester Searching & Moving Ideal 026 7” £6.99 Brand new hand-numbered edition of 100 copies on white vinyl from this great European psychedelic noise project. A-side mixes crunching machine noise with a high-end aspect that's similar to Maryanne Amacher's more physically-intrusive work while the B features two tracks that combine hypnotic droid logic with plenty of binary throb. Recommended.
	Alvars Orkester Organic Woodtrip 1991-1992 Kning Disk KD-009 CD Box £11.99 Handsomely presented collection of early material from this European electronic cell who navigate the spaceways with a flightdeck packed full of analogue kit. Aspects of Hawkwind at their most extra-terrestrial, CCCC, Kosmiche tonefloat and slow ribbons of glassine Mirror-esque drone. Edition of only 200 copies with CD in paper wraps inside a beautiful wooden box with sliding lid. Features four tracks from the Woodtrip cassette from 1992, three tracks from the Organic compilation cassette from 1991 and 3 unreleased tracks from 91.
	Am Fishman Alights Darkling Upon The Shore Audiobot BOT-167 CD-R £8.99 Follow-up to the great Bird Flu disc on XDEY, this is another beautifully occult-inflected float through twilight sonorities from this mysterious group guise of Mr Matt Anderson, with aspects of William Basinski’s forlorn minimalism cut-up with a blur of low-grade tape smoke and sheets of black rain. Beautiful. Limited to 70 copies.
	Elisa Ambrogio & Axolotl Yankee Psychic Hygiene/Target Neglect In Two Or Three Parts Spirit Of Orr No Cat 7" £5.99 "Explosive subtle motion and jarring delicateness collide and co-mingle through these two long sides on this collaborative joint of classic coloured seven inch vinyl. Here we find much more than just a single demonstration of West Coast melding of East Coast minds, there is something else in the water. Ambrogio is the one half of the Magik Markers, as well the newly recruited member in Six Organs of Admittance. Axolotl is the SF Psych mind of Karl Bauer. Full colour covers in shiny plastic sleeves, limited and colour vinyl." - SOR.
	Amolvacy Ho-Ho-Kus Black Velvet Fuckere No Cat LP £12.99 “At least pray God to give me patience in my suffering.' So concludes 'Lover Go From Hence,' a tale of tumultuous romantic upheaval on the new Amolvacy record Ho-Ho-Kus. Here we have hearts wrenched from guts and firmly planted in the dirt; but also sprouting new romance, seduction, and... the church? And the French? Francois Rabelais wrote Garantua And Pantagruel -- a major influence on this album -- in the early 16th c. to caricature the faux morality of his time. Amolvacy offer Ho-Ho-Kus in the same cantankerous spirit, but this time perhaps to parody their own morality. Love, marriage, sex, affairs, betrayal, and loneliness are all exposed in naked vulnerability and placed on the chopping block for emotional dissection. Lead vocalist Sheila Donovan (ex-Tall Boys) is a longstanding member of the Laboratory Theatre Company in NYC, and her partners are Aaron Moore of Volcano the Bear and Dave Nuss of the No-Neck Blues Band. Together they are the Amolvacy family. All things were shared in the making of this record, nothing hidden, no secrets left untold." Pressed on clear vinyl, in a die-cut sleeve.
	Amon Dude s/t Ikuisuus IS-007 CD-R £6.99 Debut release from this new cartoon electro thug-punk unit formed by Arttu of Finnish monsters Avarus.
	Amon Duul Paradieswartz Duul Wah Wah Records LPS-060 LP £18.99 Excellent vinyl reissue of this classic side from the original, communal line-up of the first Amon Duul, their sole album for the legendary Ohr label and still their best. Released in 1971, Paradieswartz… pretty much set the standard for drug-dosed higher-minded polyphonic folk trance and lumbering cultic dooms, a blueprint further expanded on by everyone from Ghost through The No-Neck Blues Band, Tower Recordings and The Vanishing Voice. This new reissue comes with the addition of a couple of key single-only tracks, “Paramechanical World” and “Eternal Flow”. Limited to 500 copies. Highly recommended.
	Andwellas Dream Love And Poetry Light Flash 003 LP £16.99 First ever legit vinyl reissue of this UK/Northern Ireland underground monster released by CBS in 1969. Sound is excellent and the bent of the music is a raging technicolour melange of pop-art action, thudding prog/power riffage and dosed acoustic poofery that works the nexus of eye-wateringly beautiful UK freak modes like nothing else. Should appeal to fans of weighty UK thug punkers like Dark, Wicked Lady, Jessie Harper et al. Exact reissue with laminated sleeve. Highly recommended.
	Anemones s/t Great Pop Supplement GPS-18 7" £4.99 New 45 on Great Pop Supplement from Canadian band Anemones who play classic slouched 1970s street drones ala Modern Lovers, Television and The Velvets. Limited to 300 copies in A3 full colour double-sided ferris wheel posters with stickers and numbered inserts.
	Angel Corpus Christi Divine Healer Gulcher 415 CD £8.99 Angel works her unique brand of heart-breaking personal alchemy on a bunch of unlikely covers and a clutch of originals with the help of a group of names like MX-80’s Rich Stim and Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500. Opens with a great fuzz and harmonica reading of Motley Crues’ “Home Sweet Home” and takes a few body swerves via “Eve Of Destruction”, Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” and Bruce Anderson’s “Clown Sex”.
	Angel Corpus Christi Louie Louie Gulcher Gulcher-601 CD £8.99 The performer known as Angel Corpus Christi is part of a maverick tradition of American street-corner that includes the sidewalk stylings of Dion & The Belmonts, Louis Hardin aka Moondog’s one-man band, Alan Vega and Martin Rev’s electric doo-wop and the songs of Lou Reed. Despite spending extended periods beneath the radar, Angel has emerged as one of the premier proponents of the accordion as a viable drone/pop instrument in the past few decades. In fact it’s tough to think of anyone outside of Tara Burke of Fursaxa who has so beautifully reconciled the instrument’s inherent psychedelic qualities – its ability to generate lungfuls of drone – with a melodic, often melancholic, approach to popular song. Angel is also an accomplished interpreter of other people’s material. Much of her 80s output concerned itself with the idea of New York as some kind of mythic construct as well as a place where some of the most vital culture of the 20th century lived and died and as such she incorporated cover versions of underbelly anthems like Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream”, Richard Hell’s “Blank Generation” and themes and monologues from Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver into accordion/vocal suites that were as idiosyncratic and personally American as any of Harry Partch’s miniatures. Anyone who spends any considerable time thinking about the idea of New York will at some point have to wrestle with the back catalogue of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground. And throughout her career some of Angel’s best work has been her re-scoring of Reed tracks like “The Day John Kennedy Died”, “Femme Fatale” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Heart”. But until now, she has never attempted a long-form tribute to the premier (albeit self-appointed) poet of the New York streets. Titling the set – and starting it off with – “Louie, Louie”, Richard Berry’s pubescent call-to-arms, is a masterstroke, simultaneously a love poem to Lou Reed and a situating of his works in the pantheon of early American rock ‘n’ roll. Back when they were still active, Reed would often insist that The Velvet Underground were simply a rock ‘n’ roll group from Long Island, and all of the most astute contemporary commentators – Lester Bangs, Wayne McGuire, Fusion’s Robert Somma - were quick to draw comparisons between The Velvets and early vocal groups like The Moonglows, The Drifters and The Crystals. Indeed, it was lunatic dance tunes that Reed penned for Pickwick back at the dawn of The Velvets in 1965, tracks like “The Ostrich” and “Sneaky Pete”. Besides, Reed has always had an affinity for indecipherable vocal codes, and “Louie, Louie” ranks up there with “Sister Ray”, “European Son” and “The Murder Mystery” as one of the most consistently mis-heard and endlessly suggestive lyrics of all time. And that’s how Angel approaches the source material here; reducing Lou’s songs to their most primal phonetics, re-arranging them as weepy ballads and strident pop songs and making overt their basis in Lou’s rock ‘n’ roll heart. Over the course of Louie, Louie, Angel’s track choice is pretty astute, displaying the kind of insider knowledge of the various unlikely highs and endlessly rewarding lows of Reed’s back catalogue that only a true fan could boast. So there’s no “Heroin” here, no “Perfect Day”. There is, however, “I Wanna Boogie With You”, one of Reed’s sharpest/dumbest lyrics from one of his best – if still critically unsung – albums, 1979’s The Bells. Here, with the help of Galaxie 500/Luna’s Dean Wareham, she segues it into a stoned version of Serge Gainsbourg’s “Je-Taime”, turning Reed’s threats to “do” your baby sister into something a little more, uh, persuasive. “Disco Mystic” is another inspired shot. Not sure if Angel checked with Reed’s collected lyrics for the words to this one but she has the whole LA-cocaine-guru-wraps-a-funky-porn-shoot feel down to a thudding tee. Her versions of “Femme Fatale” and “I’m Set Free” are both instrumental and as such feel more like codas or extended atmospheric postscripts than straightahead cover versions. The melancholy reading of “Femme Fatale” now feels more like the end credits on an inexorably ill-fated love affair, while “I’m Set Free”, originally one of Reed’s most poignant lyrics, gets a real ride-in-the-sun treatment complete with some wowing old-wave guitar from Chinaboise/MX-80’s Rich Stim, whose fingerprints are all over this disc. For “Caroline Says”, Angel plays against the icy feel of the lyrics with some comparatively up-beat drum machine and bass that lend the track a whole other kind of shiver, while her inspired version of “Tell It To Your Heart” effectively rescues it from the wretched clutches of Reed’s jobbing bassist/occasional vocalist, Fernando Saunders. Besides all of the covers there are a clutch of Angel-penned lyrics that function as great stand-up sketches of the man himself, from memories of him drunk and coming-on in his local branch of Tower Records to perhaps the most-timely and close-to-the-bone cut on the album, an investigation into the vagaries of Lou Reed’s hair, with some particularly pressing questions directed towards the do he wore to The Velvets’ induction into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame. It was “a real eyesore”, says Angel. Let’s hope Lou still listens to his fans. So forget alla that opera and alla them French movies – and while you’re at it, take 50 minutes out from alla those noise cassettes and free-folk CD-Rs - and take the time to re-acquaint yourself with the source: the songs of Lou Reed, in the form of an Angel. Amen to that. Comes in an inspired Transformer-tribute sleeve and features guest appearances from Rich Stim, Dean Wareham and Sonic Boom.
	Angel Pavement Maybe Tomorrow Tenth Planet TP-057 LP £13.99 Gorgeous looking collection of every flower-chomping 45 and the complete unreleased album from this ethereal UK pop/psych unit who were a luminous addition to the legendary Morgan Blue Town stable in the late 60s. Post-Zombies/Left Banke-styled baroque pop cut with that all important tea-supping whimsy, leaving the whole deal a few sugarcubes short of a full bowl. Sleeve by Phil Smee, comes with liners and pics. Recommended for fans of England-as-Middle-Earth. 1000 numbered copies on 190g vinyl.
	Apostasy Peace Squad s/t Apostasy AP-011 CD-R £7.99 Live document of an Apostasy action featuring members of Son Of Earth et al that converged on Amherst Common on April 20th 2003 in the name of peaceful co-existence and the furtherance of the modes first laid down by The Familiar Ugly on The Red Krayola's Parable Of Arable Land. Besides the group there are interjections from passers-by and variously dazed on-lookers that give the whole piece the feel of a classically punk action-prank. Comes wrapped in the usual inside-out Global Priority sleeve and comes with a large poster. Now out of print at source.
	Isis Aquarian Echoes Of A Crone: Series 1 The Source No Cat CD-R £13.99 Edition of 50 copies CD-R released by Father Yod’s (of Ya Ho Wha 13) Source Foundation featuring Isis Aquarian reading from Yod’s teachings with a suitably zoned instrumental backdrop: “These teachings come from our Spiritual Communal days with Father/Ya Ho Wha and the Source Brotherhood Family. It is a meditative reading with music to activate memory. What we were given 33 years ago has now been substantiated by other teachings, science validating what we had on faith and my 5 month odyssey throughout the churches, monasteries, museums and sacred places of Europe. Teachings are everywhere in symbols, sacred codes and some not-so-hidden! There is another paradigm shift happening and we are finding that the teachings from all paths are now being revealed for the advancement of mankind. We are each a thread, which woven together will complete the tapestry, thus making us all one. They say in the end, your whole life will pass before your eyes. Make it worth watching! No more Secrets.”
	Armas Huutamo Aurinko On Kaunis Asia Lal Lal Lal Lal-26 7" £5.99 "If you're already ready for more manic teenage improvised art punk from Finland here it comes! Unlike those pre-teenagers in the Demars, Armas Huutamo is the real thing! They are right in the middle of their teens! That means you can hear all the beautiful anxiety, creative energy and forever growing new pubic hair the age involves. The awesome songs presented on this 7" have been picked from 50 other songs the duo made during the hyperproductive summer of 1998." - Lal Lal Lal.
	Art Bears The World As It Is Today ReR AB-3 CD £9.99 New digipak version, of the third Art Bears album, originally released 1980. "If you thought Henry Cow was a pretty political band to start with, you may be even more taken aback by the Art Bears, which was put together following Henry Cow's demise by former Cows Chris Cutler (percussion), Fred Frith (guitar, violin), and Dagmar Krause (voice). On The World as it is Today and its predecessor, Winter Songs, the Art Bears move away from the long-form art rock of Henry Cow and get much, much more politically explicit: song titles like 'The Song of the Dignity of Labour Under Capital' and 'The Song of Investment Capital Overseas' almost sound like Monty Python gags today, but if any humor was intended it was clearly meant to be mordant. Frankly, the lyrics are so overwrought and portentous that it's hard to take them seriously. But the music is something else again. Cutler and Frith are natural collaborators; Cutler's drumming always rides a very fine line between the scattershot and the funky, while Frith bounces his horror-show guitar noise and carnival piano off of Cutler's grooves with manic abandon and fearsome inventiveness. And Krause's singing is just as inventive; she whoops, croons and screams her way through the density of Cutler's lyrics without a hesitation or misstep. Easy listening it isn't, but it's sure worth hearing. Frith fans, in particular, should consider this album a must-own."
	Arthur July 2008 Arthur No Cat Magazine £1.00 Free with any order over £20.00 if you ask! The £1.00 covers the postage to ship it to you. Sorry but due to its weight we can't ship Arthur on it's own. Latest issue, with a cover story on Jason Spaceman, excellent autobiographical article from cinematic/occult legend Alejandro Jodorowsky, how to hex a corporation, mugwort, Erik Davis, Julian Cope, The Entrance Band, underground comix, reviews and Byron Coley and Thurston Moore’s Bull Tongue column.
	Arthur Doyle’s Free Jazz Soul Orchestra Bushman Yoga Ruby Red RR-19 CD £10.99 “The Arthur Doyle Electroacoustic Ensemble always sounded real good on paper, hooking up feral saxophonist/vocalist Arthur Doyle with a bunch of young free noise improvisers in a way that would serve to highlight and expand upon Doyle’s almost complete break with jazz language while simultaneously joining the dots between his early ground-breaking approach to the shackles of form and the revolutionary praxis of current future primitives. But somehow the recorded evidence never really matched the accompanying mental scenario that the whole scheme seemed to imply. Bushman Yoga, however, is the perfect ticket. Here the core of the ensemble is slimmed down to the trio of Doyle on saxophone and vocals, drummer Ed Wilcox (of Temple Of Bon Matin et al) doubling up on harmonica and “mouth noises” and Jay Reeve on electronics. For each of the two live shows documented here they are joined by a local guest, with Bryan Martin playing flute and snare in Birmingham (Doyle’s birthplace) and James Harrar On playing winds, xylophone and kora in Atlanta. The small ensemble approach suits Doyle’s current hyper-concise style, as he obsesses over perfectly formed melodic instants that are comparable to Moondog in their execution through African love calls, harmonica and scat-singing duets and some wild sound poetry.” – David Keenan/The Wire.
	Philippe Arthuys Le Crabe Qui Jouait Avec La Mer Creel Pone No Cat CD-R £8.99 New release in this great series, dedicated to charting "unheralded classics of electronic music: 1947 to 1983". Every release comes beautifully packaged in perfect shrunken replica sleeves with an embossed sticker with each title pressed in a limited edition of 100 copies. The series puts back in print a number of record collector fantasies alongside a ton of unlikely idiosyncratic one-offs, and taken together it makes for one of the most ambitious and consistently dazzling series-runs of the entire CD-R revolution. If you've finally worked your way through the legendary Nurse With Wound list, this makes for a whole new stratum of unknown tongue. "Good to see that we're back on track... here's a beyoot of a 1955 radio-play, based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling, featuring one of the only full-length bits of musique concräte by the ortf/ina-grm aligned composer Philippe Arthuys. Heavy French texts perhaps make this one for the completists, but then again with it's all-ages appeal, it's kind of the first creel-pone that's for everybody (well; everyone that speaks French...) absolutely gorgeous cover with it's depiction of psychedelic crustaceans only sweetens the deal... early and covetable, I'm feeling it..." - Creel Pone.
	Ash Ra Tempel s/t Spalax Music HR-14144 CD £12.99 Cool CD reissue of the first mind-blowing acid-rock masterpiece by one of the most consistently great Krautrock ensembles. Ash Ra had as much in common with the heavier west coast ballroom blitzers as they did with their tone-floating countrymen and their music was profoundly informed by extended experiments with hallucinogens as well as liberated rock forms and modes of communal ritual practiced by tribes like Yah Ho Wha 13 et al. This first album was released in 1971 and features the trio of Manuel Gottsching, Hartmut Enke and Klaus Schulze at their most gravity-shaking. Highly recommend.
	Ash Ra Tempel Join Inn Spalax Music HR-14246 CD £12.99 Reissue of the fourth massively dilated psych/trance side from one of the greatest Kraut communes ever to dunk for acid in the Swiss mountains. Features the classic line-up of Manuel Gottsching, Hartmut Enke, Rossi Muller and Klaus Schulze and includes the legendary time/space vaporising version of "Jenseits" that extrapolates the heavenly movement of the earlier Schwingungen album further into milky space. Highly recommended.
	Ash Ra Tempel Join Inn Spalax Music HR-14246 LP £14.99 Reissue of the fourth massively dilated psych/trance side from one of the greatest Kraut communes ever to dunk for acid in the Swiss mountains. Features the classic line-up of Manuel Gottsching, Hartmut Enke, Rossi Muller and Klaus Schulze and includes the legendary time/space vaporising version of "Jenseits" that extrapolates the heavenly movement of the earlier Schwingungen album further into milky space. Highly recommended
	Ashtray Navigations/Nackt Insecten Mouth/Astrid (9 & 6) Sick Head #14 C40 Cassette £5.99 “‘Mouth’ gave me visions of Phil Todd circumnavigating the globe, skimming over the clouds in a silver glider before swooping down and busting through the Earth's crust to body-board recklessly on subterranean rivers of lava. I doubt that was what Ashtray Navigations had in mind but it's a nice image. 20 minutes of dense warped outer-space sound and buried ecstatic guitar heroics. The B side by request features a couple of Smackt Injecten keyboard workouts. (The last guitar strings broke back in October). Watch out for super high flying ill-advised vocal drool.” – SH.
	Ashtray Navigations Fuzzbottle Phenomena Memoirs Of An Aesthete #2001 CD-R £7.99 The safe money always maintained it wouldn’t stay dead for long: Phil Todd’s briefly comatose Memoirs Of An Aesthete is back with a brand new Ashtray Navigations recording, four tracks of circling fuzz/raga electric guitar implosion that would marry Herzog-era Popol Vuh with murky English psych, endlessly degraded tape hiss and gridlocked, Dreamweapon-style brain waves. Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies in plastic wallets.
	Ashtray Navigations Bananaurora The Yellow Harvest Memoirs Of An Aesthete #39 3" CD-R £5.99 Numbered edition of 100 3" CD-Rs that bundle three tracks from Phil Todd's action-punks, all solo blats. Runs from weird canary-besotted field recordings (who would've pegged Todd for a bird fancier?) through Casio beats and hoovering fuzz guitar that sounds like a home-taped Harmonia tribute before dissolving into heavy, tone-throttled black space. Excellent. Again.
	Ashtray Navigations Beast Series/Ssssnares Memoirs Of An Aesthete #47 CD-R £5.99 Two-fer reissue that bundles two early 21st century sides from Phil Todd's Ashtray Navigations, the more minimal Beast Series and the heavy cut-up 20th century avant-gardisms of Ssssnares. Hand-numbered edition of 100 copies.
	Ashtray Navigations Throw Up In The Sky/With Fine Clinking Magnets Qbico #58 LP £12.99 New LP by Phil Todd's astral-travelling Leeds-based commune, with art by Phil and sky coloured vinyl. Two long, still, subtly-transmuting drone pieces invaded by some of Phil's stumpiest raga guitar confusion to date.
	Ashtray Navigations Dirt Mummies And Bloody Amps Freenoise FLP-01 LP £14.99 First full-length vinyl release from Phil Todd in a dog's age collects a bucket of totally great duo and trio moves (featuring Phil Legard and Mel Delaney) recorded Dec 2005-Mar 2006 that combine totally wiped-out modally-inflected metal with throats full of magnetic tone, light-blurred angel vox and shots of pure white flash for some fully illuminated candyfloss ritual. “Loud Canary Tea” continues the puzzling canary theme that has shown its beak over the past few Todd projects: knowing these bitter Northerners it's probably something to do with how they were all forced down t'mines or summit. Still, now that their existence is no longer primarily subterranean they do making fucking great psych/rock power blues and this is another thrilling instalment. Limited to only 200 copies in stuck-on handmade sleeves. Highly recommended.
	Ashtray Navigations Four More Raga Moods Ikuisuus IKU-004 CD £10.99 Follow-up to Phil Todd's long-revered Four Raga Moods side presents four more slow-glowing trance bombs that combine lucid, transparent guitar gliss with spectral folk, subliminal drones and guest appearances from Alex Neilson, Ben Reynolds, Mel Delaney, Chris Hladowski, Matt Cairns, Andy Jarvis and Pete Nolan of Magik Markers et al. Fold-out full-colour four-panel digipak. Includes “The Pete Nolan Effect”, one that we're all familiar with, right? Highly recommended, one of the best Ashtrays this month.
	Sarah's Charity & Ashtray Navigations Chocolate Concrete No Label No Cat 3 £5.99 Numbered edition of 75 copies featuring a heavy oscillators/electric tamboura live collaboration recorded at The Termite Club’s Deaf Forever festival in March of 2007.
	Ashtray Navigations Hands Under Water Reaching For Nothing 1995-1997 Revival No Cat CD-R £7.99 “Vintage recordings dug up from 1995-97, including material for the 1st ashtray navigations LP which was never issued plus a track which never made the final cut of Four Raga Moods because it sounded too much like the work of someone else (can you guess who?) back in the mid-90s when YOU were listening to Pearl Jam, Ashtray Navigations sounded like this. Numbered edition of 100.” – PT.
	Ashtray Navigations Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes Revival No Cat CD-R £7.99 Another new reissue on Phil Todd's new reissue label Revival, edition of 100 copies. These recordings date from 1998 and were originally released by Solipsism before being upgraded by Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers in 2000. This 3rd edition restores a particularly evocative Ashtray session from a period where Todd was more into the whole mystery zone of barely-articulated percussive ritual, distant singing drones and ambient outdoor sounds ala NNCK et al. Recommended.
	Ashtray Navigations Yesterday's Teeth Cast In Gold Pseudo Arcana No Cat CD-R £8.99 Four tracks recorded 1996/97 that run the gamut of metallic high-lonesome guitar psych through some brain-scrambling field-recordings and the usual drizzle of melancholy, supremely personal Northern blues. Recommended, as is everything birthed from his fingers.
	Ed Askew Little Eyes De Stijl IND-032 CD £8.99 Ed Askew cut one of the best and most obscure LPs in the original ESP-Disk's vague rock/folk/freak series, issued eponymously and since reissued as Ask The Unicorn, before apparently dropping off the edge of his world. Years later, thanks to detective work by - naturally - Mr Clint Simonson of the De Stijl imprint, it turned out that not only was Askew still breathing but he had actually recorded a follow-up to his ESP disk in 1970 that had lain in the can for decades. Originally released as a limited vinyl edition by Simonson himself, Little Eyes blew even his revered ESP side to ribbons and stands as one of the most magical outsider/freak artefacts to ever escape the prodigious gravity of the decade in which it was birthed. Askew has a highly idiosyncratic vocal style that is equal parts quizzical bubble-gum chewing kind on shrooms and doe-eyed real people Richard Brautigan character. Perhaps the closest comparison would be to Tom Rapp or Judee Sill's old buddy Tommy Peltier. His instrumental conceptions certainly owe a massive debt to Dylan circa 64/65 - who the fuck didn't - especially his spine-tingling harmonica work but it's the beautiful arc of the songs that will keep you coming back, the way he combines rough, fluffed performances with eye-watering lyrical sentiments, heartbreaking phrasing and weird, clunky chords played on a 'Marin tiple'. If you ever dug the whole late-60s freak-folk fall-out as documented by Pearls Before Swine, Bleib Alien, Tim Buckley, Fugs, Roots Of Madness et al you are gonna crease. Simply put, one of the most beautifully cracked singer-songwriter albums of a timeless age. Only the hardest of hearts could resist it. This new CD edition comes with six incredible bonus tracks culled from various radio broadcasts across 1970 and 71 and liners by Byron Coley. Highly recommended.
	Asthma Live Before 99 AA Records 021408 Cassette £6.99 Live recording of a pre-Basketcase group called Mr Asthma from sometime before 1999, re-worked and edited by Nate Young of Wolf Eyes in 2008. Their sound was more Industrial and junk yard than many of their contemporaries, applying blast furnace walls of feedback and F/X to the clank of metal on metal, hulking rhythms, bowed strings, loops and TG-styled head-hunting horns, all applied with a classic American Tapes-style feel for dislocated drone thunder.
	Asthma Live Before 99 AA Records 021408 CD-R £6.99 Live recording of a pre-Basketcase group called Mr Asthma from sometime before 1999, re-worked and edited by Nate Young of Wolf Eyes in 2008. Their sound was more Industrial and junk yard than many of their contemporaries, applying blast furnace walls of feedback and F/X to the clank of metal on metal, hulking rhythms, bowed strings, loops and TG-styled head-hunting horns, all applied with a classic American Tapes-style feel for dislocated drone thunder.
	Astral Social Club Monster Mittens Dirty Knobby DK-004 7" £4.99 Wildly psychedelic new single from Neil Campbell of Vibracathedral Orchestra’s solo project. This one sees him in collaboration with Axolotl’ s Karl Bauer for an intense warp of loops, drones and third-eye hypnotics. Edition of 500 copies.
	Astral Social Club Neon Pibroch Important Imprec-155 CD £9.99 New album featuring alchemically re-worked live and studio jams from Neil Campbell (A-Band/Vibracathedral Orchestra et al). Lucid electronic minimalism combines with a feel for elaborate technicolour architectures, illuminated circuitry and the application of ritualised trance moves to punk primitive drones for a series of gorgeous psychedelic constructs. The sister album to the vinyl only Super Grease, also on Important.
	Astral Social Club Astral Social Club #11 Astral Social Club No Cat CD-R £7.99 Brand new instalment from Neil Campbell ex of Vibracathedral Orchestra's latest drone/psych/electro project. Limited to 100 copies this set features seven tracks that run from amphetamine/exotica takes on primitive hand drum and skin vibration, totally fractured deep-space dub grunts, railroading psychedelia and glorious, overtone rich hymns to oblivion ala classic Vibra/Sunroof.
	Astro Jazkamer Hair Stylistics Motorcycle Fuck With The Ghost Rider Archive #37 CD £8.99 "A completely violent little disc documenting this live 2007 Tokyo performance pitting some really heavyweights in the underground world of "noise" on stage together. (Lasse Marhaug, Hiroshi Hasegawa of CCCC, Masaya Nakahara, Reiko A of Merzbow, and John Hegre). Housed in center opening heavy stock sleeve with circular diecut adorning with graphic work from Mr. Lasse himself. Pressing of 600 copies." - A.
	Astro/Hiroshi Hasegawa The Echo From The Purple Dawn Important Imprec-197 CD £9.99 Released alongside the Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple CD, The Echo From The Purple Dawn is an expansive new composition from Hasegawa’s (ex-CCCC) Astro project, combining malevolently vibrating field recordings with oscillators and ring modulators to create a deep sound environment that trades sensory bombard with austere Krautrock dooms and overloaded psychedelic circuitry. Also comes with a bonus live track recorded at the Tokyo Keizai festival organised by Tetsuo Kogawa.
	Astro/Hiroshi Hasegawa Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple Important Imprec-198 LP £14.99 Excellent new limited LP (500 copies) from Hiroshi Hasegawa’s (ex-CCCC) Astro project. This is a fantastic sounding and beautifully packaged set that features Hasegawa recorded live using oscillators, EMS synthi, ring modulator and vocals. Some of the most overtly microdot-inflected noise to come out of Japan in a while, with Hasegawa combining monolithic levels of fuzz and ruthlessly a-musical EMS with a hypnotic tonal background in a way that ties up several decades of all-night flight, joining the dots between Hawkwind’s space ritual, Conrad Schnitzler’s Gelb and the last Consumer Electronics LP. One of the best ‘Japanese noise’ records in an age and highly recommended.
	Aswara s/t Fuck It Tapes FIT-058 Cassette £6.99 Technicolour synth/drone moves from this Philadelphia-based outfit that features Rafi from Death Chants. Three tracks in 30 minutes, recorded at the NNCK-affiliated Black Dirt Studios. Cover art by Jeremy Earl, limited to 100 copies.
	Attar Cups Untitled Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat LP £13.99 Hand-numbered edition of 299 copies with colour paste-on sleeves from this communal Maine-based free folk unit that features Nemo Bidstrup of Time-Lag/Drona Parva, Sparrow Wildchild of MV’s The Bummer Road and three members of Visitations. Long acoustic jams that share headspace with Tower Recordings or even a more folk/less Fall reverent Shadow Ring, with minimal, repeating acoustic jags that fall just the right side of lonesome to re-kindle memories of My Company Is Misery-era US Saucer.
	Aughra/Gallows Split No Horse Shit #10 C30 Cassette £5.99 "Deep sea drones and oxygen free moans. Hypnotizing guitars and muck filled veins. Aughra and Gallows team up to deconstruct the senses and experiment in abstraction. Features a remix of the Aughra track by Wether. Aughra is Brent Eyestone from the Magic Bullet record label and bands such as Forensics, Corn On Macabre, Waifle, and others. Gallows is Joe B who used to do a project called Methadrone. Limited to 50 copies. Packaged in printed manilla envelopes."
	Auk Theatre/The Collection Of The Late Howell Bend Split Dreamtime Tapes Sounds No Cat C30 Cassette £6.99 “An expanded listening session that breaths towards visions of Korla Pandit, Tom Dissevelt and early 1900's fair / carnival folklore. Two tracks contain the aural documentation of the wanderers of the Auk Theatre. Two tracks from the Collection, another project of Auk Theatre mind Irene Moon. A beautiful blend of organ tunes and more introspective signals.” – DTS.
	Aural Fit Aural Fit 2 PSF PSFD-179 CD £12.99 Follow-up to this Japanese psychedelic power trio's gob-smacking self-released debut. Their first full-length for PSF, this one almost outdoes Mainliner in terms of totally over-the-top fuzz-damaged production, with a bottom end that's as crunchy as Blue Cheer and as wiped-out as Nanjo Asahito's Christmas card list. The vocals are wild; aggressive, barked, monosyllabic and the lead guitar seems to coalesce out of distortion, tape warp and densely compacted highs and lows to birth serpentine forms that meld the time-warping potential of early Makoto Kawabata at his most formally extended with a more damaged punk rock/No Wave style that could almost be Les Rallizes Denudes-play-Germs-play-Motorhead with the addition of Billy TK for exaggerated axe ecstasy. Can't recall anything quite as adrenaline-charged and obliviously wasted as this since maybe one of the more brutal Univive sides. The guitarist/vocalist is called Mondo, they look like the Scientists circa Atom Bomb Baby, there are four massive tracks on the disc that never let up with the fuzz=satori stance and it all comes packaged in a hard card shrunken LP style sleeve with Obi. It's at times like this when you remember all over again why PSF is the greatest label in the world. Highly recommended.
	Avarus Kimi On Tintti Lal Lal Lal #16 Cassette £4.99 2004 cassette from our favourite Finnish psychedelic action unit, live recordings from 2002/2003 that scale the apex of high. Black and white artwork with fold-out black and white insert and white stickered cassette.
	Avarus Kirppujen Saari Arbor #67 LP £12.99 “Long touted as the forefathers of Finnish freeform psychedelic music, Avarus, a collective bearing members from The Anaksimadros, Kemialliset Ystävät, Maniacs Dream, and more, document their first tour of the United States on "Kirppujen Saari". The sounds contained show a departure and growth from typical Avarus recordings. The A side long track begins with a psychrock romper complete with full “band” instrumentation, slowly it deconstructs itself into the abstract electric/acoustic stylings and sonic spattering familiar to their previous work. Slowness builds into full on clatter filled walls of vocals, toy keyboards, horns, strums, and other acoustic junk, creating a unique and massive drone. The opposing side is pure acoustic drones composed of vocals, horns, and tribal beats. Room filling ambiance, corner clatter, and morphing silence also find a way to unobtrusively build themselves into the piece. In an edition of 350 LPs on coke bottle clear vinyl with printed labels by Bart of Sloow Tapes and pro-printed full colour foldover art by the band.” – Arbor. Completely sold out at source.
	Ax Astronomy Freek Records FRR-027 CD £11.99 Original copies of one of the more obscure tho massively potent UK underground sides from the solo project of Anthony DiFranco. Franco was a key early member of Skullflower as well as recording for Broken Flag under the pseudonym JFK. The AX sound takes off from the Valkyrie wall of noise style of Skullflower, while out-weighing much of the static gravity of pre-doom avatars like Melvins and Earth. 1997’s Astronomy is a classic warp of electricity, with single chord guitar hymns to the deranging potential of flesh and fuzz giving way to impossibly mutated microtone-thick electronics, all of which have a tactile ‘rock’ feel that makes it sound more ‘avant’ than ‘power’. An excellent unsung UK album, highly recommended.
	Ax Nova Feedback Freek Records FRR-027 LP £17.99 Original vinyl copies (each one personally signed by Anthony) of one of the more obscure tho massively potent UK underground sides from the solo project of Anthony DiFranco. Franco was a key early member of Skullflower as well as recording for Broken Flag under the pseudonym JFK. The AX sound takes off from the Valkyrie wall of noise style of Skullflower, while out-weighing much of the static gravity of pre-doom avatars like Melvins and Earth. 1994’s Nova Feedback is a massive black hole of tortured guitars, monolithic single-note metal levitations and beautifully destroyed avant-crank euphoria, all of which has a tactile ‘rock’ feel that makes it sound more ‘avant’ than ‘power’. An excellent unsung UK LP, highly recommended.
	Axolotl/Infinity Window Split Sick Head #16 Cassette £5.99 Excellent new split cassette from these two, on Nackt Insecten’s label. The Axolotl side is a free-fall straight into the mouth of nada and is very beautiful while Infinity Window pilot new age keys and devotional atmospheres into zones of irradiated trance.
	Axolotl Live Loci #3 CD-R £6.99 New limited edition live album from Karl Bauer’s Axolotl, with a series of drones, percussive all-night flights and white light broadcasts recorded live during his 2007 tour. Features blats from London, Glasgow, San Francisco and Amsterdam. Packaged in the usual shrunken DVD-style cases.
	Axolotl Memory Theatre Important Imprec-120 CD £9.99 New CD from Karl Bauer's Axolotl project that compiles tracks from a bunch of out of print releases: Chemical Theatre (Gipsy Sphinx), Oran Ur (Jyrk) and Object Phantom (Spirit Of Orr). What we said about Chemical Theatre: "Here Karl Bauer uses violin, vocals, electronics and percussion to assemble huge fields of strafing white light that somehow reconcile the all-night flights of Terry Riley and the clouds of lung generated by Yoshi Wada with flickers of microdot vision and stoned oblivion poems. His set at Subcurrent was absolutely outstanding, accelerating Partch-like percussive miniatures into huge vertical architectures and this is another great blat of rigorously thought-out modern American sound."
	Axolotl/Yellow Swans/Gerritt s/t Root Strata RS-25 LP £13.99