***After decades of languishing in the cryptic haze of shabby bootlegs, the soundtrack to Roger Watkins' sleazy horror magnum opus Last House on Dead End Street (1977) is finally achieving the grand debut it deserves. Comprised entirely of tracks from the legendary KPM Music Library, the soundtrack is a unique blend of haunting experimental terror electronics—the pure atmospheric embodiment of the film's oppressive ominous vibe. Since none of the music is credited in the film, it has taken years of independent fan research to compile the complete electronic soundtrack. Library music aficionados had to identify each music cue by ear based solely on encyclopedic knowledge of the vast KPM discography. The fact that this identification succeeded all the way down to the exact source of synth sound-effects from the infamous vivisection sequence is a testament to the maniacal obsession this film breeds in its fans. For this vinyl-only release all tracks have been sourced directly from KPM's archival master tapes, exposing the full dynamics & penetrating intensity of this music. As an added bonus, some of KPM's masters run longer than the versions that they originally issued on LP and are included here in their complete expanded form. All artwork was scanned from a rare surviving 35mm print to properly capture its grindhouse grime. Isolated from the film, the music is an astounding & impactfully curated collection of sinister hidden gems from the mythic underworld of British 1970s avant-garde electronic music including Delia Derbyshire, David Fanshawe, Ron Geesin, Alan...
LP $27.85
02/12/2016
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Expertly archived compilation (asssembled by LA's Permanent Records along with Riding Easy) explores the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner lost rock tracks from the past 30 years. Features blowouts from SNOW, TOUR, ZEBRA, BOB GOODSITE, RAW MEAT, PUNCH, BACCHUS, LENNY DRAKE, THE TODD, and JOSEFUS.
LP $24.00
12/18/2015
CD $12.00
11/10/2015
CD $12.00
11/10/2015
LP $19.75
12/18/2015
***Fourteen rare and previously unreleased punk and post punk tracks from the more obscure original Manchester bands of the time. The majority supported established acts such as the Buzzcocks and Joy Division and some went on to form legendary bands in later eras (MIKE JOYCE, THE HOAX). In the spirit of the DIY ethos of the punk era, most were recorded in small studios and released in limited pressings and have become a must have for the discerning punk collector. Features tracks from V2, THE REPORTERS, ELTI-FITS, PURE PRODUCT, THE PANIK, THE ENIGMA, STEROID KIDDIES, THE HOAX, THE CRITICS, THE CHANGE, ARMED FORCE, THE STILL, FAST CARS, and THE THINGS.
LP $31.25
12/11/2015
CD $13.75
10/02/2015
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! 2015 marks Fat Wreck Chords’ 25th anniversary as a label! We’ve come a long way since starting out in FAT MIKE's (NOFX) kitchen a quarter century ago. Besides having one of the most qualitatively and quantitatively impressive rosters in the punk world, Fat Wreck Chords can also boast the creation of the most recognizable compilation series in the genre, including such classics as Survival of the Fattest and Live Fat, Die Young. The FAT MUSIC series is regarded as the gold standard of label comps. Going Nowhere Fat continues the proud tradition of the comp series with new hit songs from label heavyweights and some of Fat’s recent sensations. The collection also features previously unreleased offerings from NOFX, SWINGIN’ UTTERS, LEFTOVER CRACK, WESTERN ADDICTION, NIGHT BIRDS, and PEARS, along with cuts from BANNER PILOT, MASKED INTRUIDER, LAGWAGON, SNUFF, BAD COP/BAD COP, FLATLINTERS, GOOD RIDDANCE, STRUNG OUT, REAL MCKENZIES, LESS THAN JAKE, CJ RAMONE, ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES, MAD CADDIES, TOYGUITAR, and more. Twenty-five tracks in all.
CD $7.75
08/07/2015
2XLP $26.75
10/30/2015
Celebrating 25 years of Shrimper whose first cassette came out way back then. Features exclusive, brand new recordings by Calexico, The Babies, Simon Joyner, John Davis, Woods, Refrigerator, Franklin Bruno, WCKR SPGT, Liz Gilbert, Dump & Paste. Hand numbered/colored edition. Folded in the Callaci home by some of yer fave Shrimper recording artists. Edition of 300. Proceeds donated to EarthBagNepal for victims of Nepal earthquake.
MC $6.75
10/17/2015
***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Following on from the superb first volume, here is the second volume of electronics, synth pop, cold wave and minimal tracks culled from the archives of the legendary Color Tapes UK cassette label from the 1980s. These tracks originally came out as micro editions on cassette back then some of which are also unreleased too. It includes rare tracks by the likes of: Lives of Angels, Disintegrators, The Lord, WeR7, Mystery Plane and Berserk in a Hayfield. 180 gram vinyl edition with full colour poster plus a rare reprint of issue one of Color Tapes' own "Purple Twilight" fanzine from 1985, that features articles on such bands as Lives of Angels, Modern Art, Legendary Pink Dots, and Cleaners From Venus. A superb document from the 80's UK cassette underground scene. Remastered from the original source tapes by Denis Blackham, this is a must-have for synth and cold wave collectors! CD includes the unreleased bonus track "Fatal Crash Immersed the Start (Bass Mix), by MODERN ART, along with a 36-page fanzine. "There's some real gold inside, not least in The Lord's kosmic electro-garage-punk mission, 'Transvision', or the wiry EBM of Beserk In A Hayfield's 'Pulse', but also the swirling noise blow-out of WeR7's 'Masterful of Ceremonies (Edit)', and the flanging garage-punk strut of 'Elixir Vapor' by Disintegrators, plus a handful of icy, cold and crisp 808 workouts Lives of Angels and Body Electric." —Boomkat.
LP $27.85
10/13/2015
CD $10.50
01/08/2016
***12 tracks of stark cinematic strangeness from: PAINTED FACES, S.C.O.A.M., KEZIAH MASON, NO BODY, QRUX, HOLLOWFONTS, PLEASURE BROTHERS, WOUND, D. BURKE MAHONEY, HISS AND HUM and UNIVAC. “Right pig, right pig, left pig, right pig, right pig, clock, butterfly.” - Ryu Murakami
MC $9.25
09/29/2015
***Slovenly has ganged up with Black Gladiator to “KBD the 1990s” with a tore-up double LP called We're Loud: 90s Cassette Punk Unknowns. What we got here is 33 scuzzed out tracks by 19 unknown bands from micro-released and unreleased cassettes recorded across the USA between 1993 & 1999—totally off the radar and outsider as fuck—capturing a zeitgeist through one perverted addict’s travels. JAIME PAUL LAMB was at the helm of the whole thing, forming bands and recording them and others’ on his Yamaha MT50, and acquiring similar tapes from other punk vermin in between American halfway house pit stops. Some of the most completely tasteless and juvenile swill we’ve ever heard lurks in these grooves, many of them standing out as legit great lost classics: THE FUCKING PIGS paean to crotch-rot “Herpes Attack” is here, as is their proud proclamation “(I’m a) Date Rapist.” Hell, two songs on the first LP alone have “C U Next Tuesday” in the title thanks to MEGA & THE NYRDZ and THE BARF BAGS. Still, there’s more than just obnoxious sputum here. Vegas’ LES FLEURS DU MAL kick down two bona fide classic power-pop tracks, THE DROP OUTS (one of a ton of combos at the time with that moniker - this one from Costa Mesa) dump a Flipper-fied sludge bomb in “She’s a Jyrk,” VAN BUREN WHEELS romp and stomp with savage 60s style Pacific Northwest garage, and LUKEY & THE CHICKEN SLITZ and OBLONG BOXERS both make with bizarro...
CD $15.50
09/18/2015
2XLP $25.85
09/18/2015
The 78 Project is on a journey across America to make one-of-a-kind 78rpm records with musicians in their hometowns using a 1930s Presto direct-to-disc recorder. With one microphone. With one blank disc. In one 3-minute take. Along the way, a kaleidoscope of technologists, historians and craftsmen from every facet of field recording – Grammy-winning producers, 78 collectors, curators from the Library of Congress and Smithsonian – provide insights and history. In Tennessee, Mississippi, California, Louisiana, the folk singers, punk rockers, Gospel and Cajun singers in the film share their lives through intimate performances, and find in that adventure a new connection to our cultural legacy.With musical performances by: Reverend John Wilkins (Como, MS), Louis Michot, Corey Ledet & Ashlee Michot (Arnaudville, LA), Victoria Williams (Los Angeles, CA), John Doe (Fairfax, CA), Dawn Landes (Brooklyn, NY), Holly Williams w/ Chris Coleman (Nashville, TN), John Reilly & Tom Brosseau (Pasadena, CA), Gaby Moreno & Adam Levy (Los Angeles, CA), Jaron Lanier (Berkeley, CA), Ella Mae Bowen (Franklin, TN), Dylan LeBlanc (Franklin, TN), Coati Mundi (Murrieta, CA), The Bo-Keys w/ Percy Wiggins (Memphis, TN), John Paul Keith (Memphis, TN), Ben Vaughn (Wonder Valley, CA), Sea of Bees (Sacramento, CA), The Easy Leaves (Santa Rosa, CA) and Little Wings (Topanga Canyon, CA) And featuring: Todd Harvey (Library of Congress, Washington, DC), Jeff Place (Smithsonian, Washington, DC), Richard Matthews (Leeds Radio, Brooklyn, NY), Wayne Cory (Apollo Masters, Banning, CA), Joe Bussard (Frederick, MD), Bob Saliba (Randolph, NJ), Alan Graves (Port Tobacco, MD) and Matt Barton...
DVD $20.25
08/14/2015
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! A Fat Possum compilation sampler of pain, redemption and just plain rocking brought to you by some of the label's greatest blues artists. Features eleven tracks from T-MODEL FORD, JUNIOR KIMBROUGH, 20 MILES, R.L. BURNSIDE, NECKBONES, CECIL DAVIS, JELLY ROLL KINGS, ELMO WILLIAMS, ROBERT CAGE and HASIL ADKINS.
LP $23.75
07/28/2015
CD $4.50
02/17/1998
***Soundtrack to the film Different Drum, written and directed by Kevin Chenault. Tod is an unemployed musician and Lydia is pregnant. They used to date each other and with a wedding as the reason, the young ex-lovers drive from South Dakota to Indiana. The trip is filled with detours, interesting strangers, and physical injuries. And great music, heard in its full glory on this Gulcher soundtrack! With music from XRAY EYEBALLS, HYPOCRITE IN A HIPPY CRYPT, THE HARDY TREE, UNDERGROUND YOUTH, DEL MAS ALLA, UBI ESCALONA.
CD $13.50
07/17/2015
MP3 $9.90
07/17/2015
FLAC $11.99
07/10/2015
Five years flies by in a flash, but feels like an eon. Sunset Silk reflects on the label’s half-decade dim glow in the distance of dance with new tracks and remixes by Prison Garde, Jupiter Jax, James Booth, C.L.A.W.S., Cruise Family (a vintage unreleased 11-minute recording), Strategy, Sapphire Slows, Afterhours, Roche and his brother CB Radio, as well both Bobbys: Draino and Browser. Though the rhythms come far-flung – Montreal, Malta, Vienna, beyond – the approaches feel unified, faded, fogged, and heavily felt. Woozy coastal house, MIDI new wave, cosmic techno, Oakland dark jack, ripper acid, vapor grooves – the forms fluctuate across 60 minutes of shapeshifting SILK. Body music for the arc of sinking suns. Mastered in Portland, Oregon by Alter Echo.
MC $6.75
06/16/2015
MP3 $5.99
06/16/2015
FLAC $6.99
06/16/2015
***Medical Records is celebrating it’s 5 year anniversary as well as 50th release! For this 50th release we have chosen to release our first retrospective with a twist. This double LP features a hand-picked selection of tracks intended to highlight our past reissues on the first 3 sides. All reissue tracks and new tracks have received additional remastering and mastering. Features songs from LOU CHAMPAGNE SYSTEM, GAY GAT PARK, DRINKING ELECTRICITY, CHRISTOF GLOWALLA, DISCO VOLANTE, TONY CAREY, NEAR PARIS, I SIGNORI DELLA GALASSIA, PAUL NELSON, LAUGH CLOWN LAUGH, ALOA, IKO, ILLUSTRATION SONORE, ROLADEX, KLINE COMA XERO, ((PRESSURES)), and LE CLICHE. This double LP is housed in a specially designed gatefold heavy sleeve featuring the Medical logo in a “color blindness test” on the front with the gatefold filled with thumbnails of all 50 past releases. Presented on high-quality 160-gram colored vinyl.
2XLP $23.50
06/09/2015
***We are spoiled in Austin in terms of the quality of punk rock bands, and we’ve tried to present a variety of it here as best we could. GHETTO GHOULS, SPRAY PAINT, MASSAGEINIST, EMPTY MARKETS, and BREAKOUT could easily be seen on the same show in this town for $5 at Hotel Vegas, Beerland, Red 7, or Mohawk. Still guitar-based but weirder and harder to pigeonhole would be SOFT HEALER and HIDDEN RITUAL who provide a smoother side of the scene. Over the past few years there has been a growing number of truly world class electronic-leaning bands. A big ol’ hat tip is due to the work Holodeck Records is doing. SURVIVE and TROLLER are two of our favorites and we are happy to have them both on this. With AUNT’S ANALOG we’ve only briefly touched on the vibrant noise scene that is in and of itself worthy of multiple compilations. From free jazz to acid damaged disco SHIT & SHINE have been releasing non stop critically acclaimed albums for many years now and CRAIG CLOUSE brings the heat once again. It’s impossible to present all of the bands we love that live here on one single LP. We’ve excluded bands already featured on the excellent Casual Victim Pile I & II, and also Bring Beer compilations. Those should be checked out if you like what you hear!”—Monofonus Press
LP $15.00
05/12/2015
MP3 $9.90
05/12/2015
FLAC $11.99
05/12/2015
Robotic Empire is thrilled to announce the label’s second tribute to Nirvana; this time, the seminal Nevermind album is given the cover treatment by a diverse range of bands. With artwork inspired by and mutated from the original album, Whatever Nevermind features contributions from Boris, Cave In, Circa Survive, Kylesa, La Dispute, Nothing, Pygmy Lush, Thou, Torche, Touche Amore, White Reaper, Wrong and Young Widows. The special Record Store Day 2015 edition is available on colored vinyl and is accompanied by a large poster and high-quality digital download. Last year’s In Utero: In Tribute release was well received by fans and media alike, with the vinyl selling out on release day, the digital release receiving a spotlight on the iTunes storefront and overall coverage across high-profile media including Alternative Press, SPIN and The Guardian.
LP+7" $22.00
04/18/2015
MP3 $9.90
04/18/2015
FLAC $11.99
04/18/2015
***BACK IN STOCK!!! REISSUED ON CD WITH 52 PAGE BOOK WITH EXTENSIVE LINER NOTES, BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PHOTOS, AND A BONUS 7-INCH.Rocky Mountain Low is a unique portrayal of a late-1970s American Punk/New Wave scene. It is the first time that a Punk/New Wave scene, from its inception in 1976 through to the end of 1979, has been documented in its entirety. In their presentation of Colorado’s musical reaction to the initial wake of Punk Rock in the late 1970s, the compilers have set the bar unattainably high for future would-be historians. While Colorado’s late-1970s underground music scene was small and existed on the margins of the larger, more well-known scenes, its documentation is important in that what is being presented is a complete and accurate portrayal of part of the cultural movement that was taking place at the time. Thorough and comprehensive research viewed through an objective lens provides a previously unseen snapshot of America’s musical underground of the period. This documentation shows that the Punk movement of the late 1970s was anything but paint-by numbers—a concept that seems to have been sadly lost on younger generations. Until now, very little has been known about what transpired in Colorado’s musical underground in the late 1970s. Did you know that Wax Trax, who later became world famous for their record label in the 1980s, started as a store in Denver in 1975? Their early story is told here. Or that Jello...
2XLP+CD $25.50
05/04/2009
CD+7 $14.50
04/14/2015
Monofonus Press label compilation, features tracks by: S U R V I V E, The Rebel, Ghetto Ghouls, Futuroscope, Diagonals, Led Er Est, Los Cripis and Flower Man.
MP3 $5.99
01/27/2015
FLAC $6.99
01/27/2015
***BACK IN STOCK!!! New Lower Price! Collection of rare UK cold wave tracks taken from Color Tapes label cassettes released in micro editions between 1981-1985. Color Tapes was the brainchild of future SUN DIAL leader GARY RAMON: "Living in East London, it was a very grey and bleak time. Huge imposing tower blocks, gasworks and concrete just about everywhere. You couldn't walk through some areas without the risk of being shot at by an air rifle, or worse. Luckily, salvation was in the music. The musical landscape was changing. I saw a very early gig by an unknown all-synth band called Depeche Mode at a dingy pub under a flyover called The Bridge House in Canning Town, London. Following this I saw Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five and started buying records by the likes of Afrika Bambaataa. At the other end of the musical spectrum, we were picking up records by Stockhausen, John Cage, Pierre Henry and Moondog, and combing junk shops for anything else that looked interesting!" The UK cassette scene and DIY ethos were thriving. Color Tapes was born. Home multi-track recorders were luxury items. They had to make do with sound on sound recorders, bouncing between reel-to-reel and cassette machines if they wanted stereo. What you're about to hear for the first time since those days is a snapshot of Color Tapes: released material and other unissued tracks too. This compilation is the first of a series of Color Tapes/Lion Productions releases of material from the...
LP $20.95
09/11/2015
CD $10.50
12/23/2014
A cultural experiment as much as compilation, She Knows More Than She Thinks is the result of St. Petersburg musician Galya Chikiss deciding “to show something beautiful, unusual, unknown, and talented from different sides,” by uniting six different solo female DIY electronic artists from Russia and Ukraine within a shared document. She saw it bluntly: “Everybody exists in her own world, lonely and closed. Suddenly I’ve thought – it’s a cool idea – to connect them.” The purity of her motive belies a curatorial instinct heavy on contrast and enigma, as gauzy Soviet ghost-pop gives way to cultish percussion/chant loops, and electro Siouxsie fever sequences dissolve into fragile moon safari space chansons. Other modes repped evoke operatic new wave, insectoid industrial, tape-hazed folk, bedroom organ sleepsong, and 1980’s Moscow MTV, unspooling like a magnetic tape mural of unseen pockets of distant domestic radicalism. The cast includes: Blablarism (Kiev), Peekaboo (Moscow), Tosya Chai (St. Petersburg), Anya Kutz (Petrozavodsk), Ladan (Kiev-Odessa), and Chikiss’ own project. Despite the two nations’ complex international relations, the camaraderie of this collection belongs to people not places: “There is no political and feminist subtext in this story – just music and inmost things.” Pro-dubbed tapes with synthetic snow-maiden in ultraviolet artwork by Galya Chikiss. Mastered by Brian Pyle. Edition of 150.
MC $6.75
12/16/2014
MP3 $5.99
12/16/2014
FLAC $6.99
12/16/2014
***The episodic track by Swedish industrial trio IRM is constructed with elements from Indications of Nigredo (Segerhuva 2008), Order4 (Cold Meat Industry 2010), and Closure (Malignant 2014)—unified into a new, holistic composition which contrasts aggressive noise segments with illusionary moments of lavish quasi-folk. The track by JOHN MURPHY’s KRANK is a dark collage of fragmented noise, acoustic samples and female vocals. ERIK JARL (of IRM) contributes a subtle piece of circulating drone with a tranquil surface that makes partially hidden harshness more audible. ANENOME TUBE and HUMAN LARVAE’s lucid piece combines the knock-on effect of the former’s flow of sounds with the heaviness of latter’s doom-like industrial. The ninety-two-minute DVD by IRM’s MARTIN BLADH includes his earliest short film Pig and Tomboy (2005), the epic pentalogy Cycle (2006), and the conceptual installation video DES (2009), among others. All the films present unvarnished set pieces of the human body subjected to subtly implied violence within claustrophobic spaces, where the camera itself, the voyeuristic eye, is the only free player. The accompanying art catalogue includes collages and Polaroids, short essays by Bladh, and introduction text by CARL ABRAHAMSSON. Edition of 350.
CD+DVD $30.35
12/16/2014
The 78 Project is on a journey across America to make one-of-a-kind 78 RPM records with musicians in their hometowns using a 1930s Presto direct-to-disc recorder. With one microphone. With one blank disc. In one three-minute take. Inspired by folklorist Alan Lomax, The 78 Project celebrates the artistry and craft that captured America’s musical forms of a century ago, exploring the deep historical significance of American folk songs in the process. This album is the companion to the critically acclaimed documentary The 78 Project Movie, which was shot during a year spent driving across America, visiting artists to cut once-in-a-lifetime recordings. In Tennessee, Mississippi, California, Louisiana, these folk singers, punk rockers, gospel and Cajun singers from The 78 Project Movie share their lives through intimate performances, and find in that adventure a new connection to our cultural legacy. “The ineffable romance of old recordings makes for magic … ripe with wonder.” —The Austin Chronicle “I didn’t imagine anything like The 78 Project, in which we discover that not only are dead media platforms not dead at all, but that they can be gateways into their own peculiarly new universes of creativity.” —William Gibson for The Oxford American “… [R]ises above simple vintage worship and does more than just glorify the past—it helps us experience it.” —The Village Voice “The 78 Project grabs American music by the roots.” —USA Today
LP $16.00
11/11/2014
MP3 $9.90
11/11/2014
FLAC $11.99
11/11/2014
On the same day Ba Da Bing releases an album by Dunedin legend Hamish Kilgour, the label is honored to present the city’s current artists. The tiny city of Dunedin, located in the Otago Region of New Zealand, is synonymous with smart bands, incredible melodies and a wholly distinct and innovative music. Thanks to The Clean, The Chills, The Bats, The Verlaines, and The Dead C, Dunedin has amassed a worldwide reputation for innovative music. Local label Fishrider Records has taken on the mission of compiling and producing an album that casts a light toward the Dunedin of today. These bands have all created their own sound away from the shadow of their city’s past, yet like many of their predecessors they retain the air of slightly disturbed melancholia along with a sense of space and distance from the rest of the world. Whether it is dark synth-pop, teen angst noise pop, guitar-and-organ jangle, or all-out psychedelic weirdness, these songs all come from a place on the edge of the world where the young still read books in abundance and fend off boredom by creating music and art in cold houses. Yet again, an extraordinary number of incredible groups are populating the scene, and the songs on Temporary are the best of the best—a Dunedin Double Plus Good, if you will.
LP $16.00
09/30/2014
CD $9.50
10/07/2014
MP3 $9.90
09/30/2014
FLAC $11.99
09/30/2014
***We combined both Bay Area Retrograde (BART) Volume 1 and 2 on a single CD! BART is Dark Entries’ compilation of underground music from San Francisco (and the greater Bay Area) made between 1978-1988. Towards the end of the ‘70s, San Francisco’s experimental music scene clashed with the aftermath of punk and gave birth to a vibrant underground. By the early to mid ‘80s the DIY music scene of the Bay Area was a hotbed for experimental and quirky new wave, post punk, and synthpop, quite similar to New York’s No Wave scene and Berlin’s Neue Deutsche Welle. This compilation connects the (transit) lines between these varied musical offerings and tells the secret story of eleven forgotten Bay Area bands. BART Volume 1 features a Korg-heavy assault from Danville’s utterly obscure Nominal State; two little-known left-field electronic dance gems from Batang Frisco and Quiet Room; Berkeley’s answer to darkwave, Necropolis of Love; a synth-driven drama fest from drag performance troupe Wasp Women; quirky lo-fi gothic pop from one man band Distant Thunder; a gay Hi-NRG anthem delivered by Danny Boy and the Serious Party Gods; two lesser know gems from SF synth legends Voice Farm and Los Microwaves; and the futuristic pulsing synth-punk of Standard of Living and the Units. BART Volume 2 features slow, dystopian horror from pioneering industrial group Factrix; crushing, motorik noise from acid punks Chrome; amphetamine-driven synth punk from Red Asphalt; an early demo, never released on vinyl, from legendary post punk band Tuxedoomon; chilling atmospheric drone from...
CD $16.00
09/30/2014
***Bay Area Retrograde (BART) Volume 2 is Dark Entries’ second compilation of underground music from San Francisco (and the greater Bay Area) made between 1978-1983. Towards the end of the 70s, San Francisco’s experimental music scene clashed with the aftermath of punk and gave birth to a vibrant underground. By the early to mid 80s the DIY music scene of the Bay Area was a hotbed for experimental and quirky new wave, post punk, and synthpop, quite similar to New York’s No Wave scene and Berlin’s Neue Deutsche Welle. This compilation connects the (transit) lines between these varied musical offerings and tells the secret story of eleven forgotten Bay Area bands. BART Volume 2 features slow, dystopian horror from pioneering industrial group Factrix; crushing, motorik noise from acid punks Chrome; amphetamine-driven synth punk from Red Asphalt; an early demo, never released on vinyl, from legendary post punk band Tuxedoomon; chilling atmospheric drone from Ki Di Me; leftfield new wave from Indoor Life featuring Patrick Cowley on synths; Los Microwaves more sinister side project Baby Buddha; gay drag icon Timmy Spence delivering an unknown camp classic, a pure instrumental electro-pop workout from Human Being Men; TR-808 fueled synth pop from Menlo Park duo Wonders of Science, and a poetic yet somber and haunting song from the mysterious Zru Vogue. All tracks have been carefully remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Each LP is housed in a large 6-panel, 2-sided fold out poster designed by Eloise Leigh, featuring original photos and...
LP $20.65
09/30/2014
***San Francisco Is Doomed is a compilation put out by Crime On The Moon. The compilation includes 13 songs written by bay area artists as a response to the tech boom. The Compilation includes tracks from Thee Oh Sees, Erase Errata, Valley Boy (solo project of Shannon Shaw), Mikal Cronin and several others.
MC $6.00
06/24/2014
MP3 $9.90
06/21/2014
FLAC $11.99
06/21/2014
***Pet Records is proud to present the long-awaited second volume of Mystic Males. Featuring thirteen rare sides by “tripped-out troubadours from 1966-1973,” this is a totally mind-bending collection of rare and obscure 45s by proto-hippies and recent graduates from ‘60s punk groups like Boenzee Cryque and Third Bardo. This volume is heavy on the mystic. Lots of sitar, weird ethnic percussion, unexpected fuzz guitar breaks, groovy beats and modal moaning. This is mellow acid psych at its utmost trippiest. Features TYREE FORREST, DARIUS, JEFF DUNN, GERRY POND, SHALYNN, ED POWERS, DICK ST. JOHN, PAUL STOOP, RICHARD CORONADO, STEPHEN HARTLEY, MALCOLM MITCHELL, ART GEE and JEFF MOON. Limited to 500 CDs and LPs.
LP $17.25
05/27/2014
CD $12.25
05/27/2014
After extended delays and legal wrangling, Robotic Empire’s long-awaited tribute—over seven years in the making—to Nirvana’s seminal In Utero LP is finally complete, with twelve diverse bands covering the entire album. In Utero, In Tribute, In Entirety features Thursday, Circa Survive, Jay Reatard, Ceremony, Whirr, Young Widows, Mean Jeans, Daughters, Thou, Pygmy Lush, These Arms Are Snakes and Black Math Horseman twisting the Nirvana classics into their own visions.
LP $20.25
04/15/2014
MP3 $9.90
04/19/2014
FLAC $11.99
04/19/2014
***VIARE is a 12" compilation featuring four distinct tracks, each occupying their own wildly unique sub-genre of the house experience. "Virgo Cluster" by JONAS REINHARDT fuses elements of cosmic disco and krautrock into a live transcendental package, with amazing guitar work by PHIL MANLEY (TRANS AM, LIFE COACH), and a bonus remix by the Beat Broker (digital only). "Seven Miles Down" from London's TIMOTHY J. FAIRPLAY (THE ASPHODELLS) is a testament to Zombie Horror Cinema, featuring a pulsing dub-house beat that dives into cavernous sonic territory. "Guave" by PLAzA is a playful dancefloor workout, that evokes a slow acidic line and classic Chicago house elements. Lastly, "Back Outside" from ROCHE is druggy outsider house at its best, with an enormous subby bassline that complements a classic alien warehouse vibe. Edition of 500 copies.
12" $9.45
04/01/2014
***BACK IN STOCK!!! “Live at Death By Audio 2012 is a playable flexi record book featuring kick ass tracks from JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD, TIM HARRINGTON as OBFS, BLACK PUS, RUINS ALONE, FUTURE ISLANDS, ERIC COPELAND, TY SEGALL, THEE OH SEES, METZ, GROOMS, and A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, all recorded LIVE in 2012 at the Brooklyn venue Death By Audio. This puppy comes packed with artwork by BRIAN CHIPPENDALE, DAVE SINGLEY, PERRY LUBIN, MATT LEINS, RON REGE JR., JON VERMILYEA, and BRENDAN NAKAHARA. To top it off is a full download of the whole comp PLUS the entire live set from Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segal.
5X7 FLEXI BOOK $27.50
03/18/2014
The 78 Project is a documentary journey across America that records today’s musicians as they perform the songs that inspired a century of music—exactly as those works were originally recorded: instantaneously onto 78 RPM lacquer discs. Inspired by folklorist Alan Lomax, The 78 Project celebrates the artistry and craft that captured America’s musical forms of a century ago, exploring the deep historical significance of American folk songs in the process. With just one microphone, one authentic 1930s Presto recorder, and one blank acetate disc, musicians are given a single, three-minute take to cut a 78 RPM record, finding in that adventure a new connection to our cultural legacy. “Wow! I feel like I knew what it’s like to be in Bristol in the 1920s, recording those first Carter Family records. That was time travel.” —Rosanne Cash “It’s everything I was saying about emotional. It’s a whole other thing.” —Richard Thompson “New York is buzzing with retro-chic products these days, but few can match the authenticity of a project that aims to bring alive the sound, touch and even smells of recorded music’s first golden period.” —BBC News
LP $16.00
02/04/2014
MP3 $9.90
02/04/2014
FLAC $11.99
02/04/2014
***154 minutes of music from a bunch of acts from across the US. The T/E Christmas Tape is an annual tradition begun in 2006 and appearing nearly every year since, in varying forms. This year's edition is housed in a die cut cardboard box, screenprinted on all sides and contains a miniature booklet. Good luck getting it open. It's the Hellraiser Puzzle Box of Christmas themed noise compilations. Be warned. Features tracks from Fluxmonkey, Onewayness, Ironing, Wether, Outmode, Vibrating Garbage, Telecult Powers, Moth Cock, Birds You Once Knew, Skull Katalog, Zack Kouns, Collapsed Arc, Long Distance Poison, Bonus Beast, Malocculision, Black Thread, Craow, Sun Poisoning, Chemtrails, Fslux, Watchword, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, Mark McGuire, Bone Rotten, Ilza, Wyld Stallyns, Quicksails, Fun, Skin Graft, Grasshopper.
2XMC $22.25
02/04/2014
***Eight Hamilton HC outfits unleash eight short blasts about Steeltown's seedier side with tracks about Evelyn Dick, Loujack Cafe, mobsters, & more local mayhem. This is a short, fast and loud follow up to Schizophrenic’s Destroy Music: Start Your Own Band 12” 2012 compilation. Features tracks from AT WHAT COST, BORN WRONG, DEBT’D, DISMANTLE, LAID TO REST, LEFT FOR DEAD, PICK YOUR SIDE, and SOCIAL DIVORCE.
7" $5.60
12/24/2013
BACK IN STOCK - LAST COPIES - NOTE NEW LOWER PRICE!!! A collection of thirty-two 1960s mod, garage, and freakbeat bands covering The Kinks. By the end of the 1960s The Kinks had clearly inspired a veritable army of artists who for one reason or another felt the need to put their stamp on a Davies composition. Often times deciding to do so over releasing even their own material in the belief that Ray and Dave, speaking through them, could convey their feelings and the feelings of the day better than their own words ever could. Others just wanted to cash in on a known hit making songwriter. Both camps are heavily featured here and it’s usually pretty obvious which was their respective persuasion. Both takes end up being fascinating however, as you are able to hear the respective artists try to decide where they were going to take what were usually well fleshed out compositions. Few exceed the energy of the Kinks’ performances of these masterpieces, but everyone here put their own interesting stamp on their favorite track and there are many unexpected takes that will interest the casual and hardcore fan alike. Davies’ original compositions still feel as fresh as the day they met the world, but many of the versions heard here have been, until now, very hard to locate, even if you knew of their existence. There is no shortage of fuzz guitars, organs, reverbed out vocals, larger than life drumming, foreign accents, and sixties studio...
2XLP $25.25
12/10/2013
Because of its unique geography—situated at the borders of Europe and Asia, between the Caspian and Black seas—the Caucasus has been at the crossroads of multiple empires as well as home to an exceptionally diverse population, resulting in a rich mosaic of history, culture, religion and language. Early Arab travelers referred to the region as the “Mountains of Tongues,” a term that reflected both the geographic and linguistic variety. An incredible number of languages and traditions still exist, but many have yet to be thoroughly documented and are close to disappearing completely. Since the fall of the Soviet Union the majority of attention the Caucasus has received from the outside world has been as a result of wars in Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The countries of this region have also struggled to forge national identities, a process that has often resulted in the exclusion of smaller folk cultures (ethnic Azeris from Georgia, Kurds from Tbilisi, Avars and Lezgis from Azerbaijan, or Molokans in the South Caucasus, all groups that don’t fit the category of “national” folk music). Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects from the Caucasus includes recordings of songs in languages that have rarely been caught on tape (Lezgi and Batsbi), instruments that only exist in extremely small numbers (the Tushetian chianuri, of which there are only two, and the agach komuz from the remote territory of Dagestan) and performances from a variety of underrepresented ethnic minority communities. These musicians, whether they recognize it or not, are guardians...
LP $13.00
11/12/2013
MP3 $9.90
11/12/2013
FLAC $11.99
11/12/2013
“In 1992, Alternative Tentacles—the label co-founded by Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra—decided to celebrate its 100th release with the largely in-house DK tribute Virus 100. Solipsism aside, the disc succeeds: Everyone from Neurosis and Napalm Death to Mojo Nixon and L7 contribute renditions of DK’s manic, twangy, hardcore anthems. The approach ranges from faithful to hilariously skewed, though Virus 100’s most infamous track is Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy’s grinding, funk-industrial version of ‘California Über Alles,’ which first appeared weeks earlier on the band’s debut, Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury. Even Faith No More’s crooning piss-take of ‘Let’s Lynch The Landlord’ works, perhaps because Mike Patton reverse-engineered the treatment that Biafra previously gave Elvis’ ‘Viva Las Vegas.’” —The AV Club (10 Surprisingly Good Tribute Albums) “… a brilliant tribute album to one of hardcore punk’s all-time greatest bands.” —PunkNews.org
CD $13.00
10/29/2013
MP3 $9.90
10/29/2013
***Double Mono is a record with sounds hard panned between the left and right channels featuring THE OCTOPUS PROJECT, AU, PALAXY TRACKS, JOHN SABA JR., DEVIN MAXWELL, III, JIM ENO and ERIN FLANNERY & ZACH LAYTON. The album was put together in conjunction with a group show of art and design for anaglyph 3-D glasses. Artist and designer PHILLIP EDWARD NIEMEYER is the man responsible for the curation of the project. (STREET DATE - 9/03/2013)
LP $12.25
09/03/2013
BACK IN STOCK!!! !! The long awaited second volume in Italians Do It Better’s After Dark series. Features tracks from GLASS CANDY (four songs), DESIRE, MIRAGE, APPALOOSA (two songs), CHROMATICS (three songs), SYMMETRY, TWISTED WIRES, FARAH, and MIKE SIMONETTI. Fifteen songs in all. Pressed on Clear Vinyl. Received a Best New Music 8.3 rating from Pitchfork.
CD $9.25
07/16/2013
3XLP $20.95
08/27/2013
***FRANK FAIRFIELD curates another reissue of 78 rpm records—this time with the help of a few of his collector friends. The collection focuses on some of the most seldom acknowledged varieties of Anglo-American vernacular music. You'll hear unusual performers, uncommon intrumentation and great fiddlers from California to Ohio, New Mexico to West Virginia. Forget "Americana", this collection shows Anglo-American down-home music as it actually was and in many cases (although largely unrecognized) still is. With painstaking audio restoration by the great MICHAEL KIEFFER.
LP $15.50
05/28/2013
CD $14.00
05/28/2013
Back in 2011, Mint Records got really high off of paint fumes while silk-screening the covers to the CiTR Pop Alliance Volume 2 compilation. This March, they’re going to open the windows and do it all again—get ready for Volume 3! CiTR’s Duncan McHugh (the host of Duncan’s Donuts) has recruited fourteen of Vancouver’s finest, including Jay Arner, Movieland, Korean Gut (RIP), Peace and more. Many songs are unreleased, and all proceeds from the release will go back to CiTR 101.9 FM—the birthplace of Mint Records. Only 300 of these gems are being pressed, carefully silk-screened by the station’s volunteers and numbered by hand, so don’t wait around.
LP $17.50
03/05/2013
MP3 $9.90
03/05/2013
***Volume 2 in Castle Face’s Group Flex series of Flexi Disc books. You get six 7-inch flexi discs with 12 bands and 7 pages of print (on translucent stock) so the whole thing is like a crappy 3D look into the brain and art of JOE ROBERTS (terrifying). Featuring exclusive tracks from WARM SODA, THEE OH SEES, TY SEGALL, MYKAL CRONIN, THE MALLARD, RUNNING, THE FRESH & ONLYS, KELLEY STOLTZ, WHITE FENCE, BLASTED CANYONS, SIC ALPS, and BURNT ONES. Includes a download card and comes in a specially printed heavy polybag.
6X7 FLEXI BOOK $24.00
02/05/2013