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Next World Sound Vol. 2 - Featuring Rudis, Dubowski, gataTECH, Krispy Kat Whack
Hyperspace Communications
***Volume two in this series of electronic ambient compilations that recall the golden era of New Age ambient recordings suitable for meditation, yoga, and general chill. LX RUDIS is usually cited a former member of San Francisco's UNITS and is also known for his work in video games and consoles. He has been active in experimental and improvised music both as a solo artist and in groups for decades. JACK CURTIS DUBOWSKY is a composer, author and filmmaker who works in concept music, improvisation and live performance. His output inclueds two dozen albums, three books, one documentary feature film and around 300 compostions of classical music, choral music, film scoring and multi-media projects. gataTECH is SONIA HERNANDEZ, a member of the International Brotherhood Of Electrical Wonders series that features performers who create their own instruments either outright or by modifying existing devices through the art of circuit ending. She plays solo experimental sound with a little aggression that can still get you up and make you move. . KRISPY KAT WHACK is two guys, two piles of gear and a portable wall of sound. No-Cal experimental meets So-Cal exoerimental. Game and weird music backgrounds, small electronic rigs. Tasty textures commodified. T. MILEY and DAVID JAVELOSA.
2XLP $33.95
04/19/2024
***Cyber Steam Cabaret is a steam punk opera featuring cabaret ballads, video game anthems and electronic free jazz! Composed and produced by David Microwave Javelosa of Los Microwaves and Baby Buddha. Packaged in a nostalgic parody of the '70s classic Deja Vu. The lead track "Spacetime Howard" has been mixed by Geza X. The B side lead is a notorious video game rarity "Night Club Scene" that has generated over 100 thousand Youtube views and likes.
LP $25.50
08/18/2023
***The first is a series of electronic ambient compilations featuring a list of the best in the genre. Next World Sound Volume One features Thomas Miley and Jane Grey, with cover art by Danielle Eubank. This series will recall the golden era of New Age ambient recordings suitable for meditation, yoga, and general chill.
LP $25.50
08/18/2023
***"Experimental electronic instrumentals reminiscent of early Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Euro and West Coast synth wave. Haunting gatefold computer graphics by SF artist Ruby Ray." Limited to 500 copies.
LP $26.95
09/02/2022
"Ultimate synth lounge collection of last century modern tunes by DAVID MICROWAVE JAVELOSA from 1998, Space age, lounge electronica, chip tune, game sounds." Limited to 500 copies on pink vinyl.
LP $26.95
09/02/2022
Baby Buddha is David Javelosa and musical partner Charles Hornaday playing instruments and providing their own whacked-out vocals. Baby Buddha really was less of a band than a project; a side project in fact, for some members of another group, Los Microwaves. Baby Buddha would eventually record and release an album, 1981’s provocatively-titled Music for Teenage Sex on Robbie Fields’ L.A.-based Posh Boy label. Happily, the project’s guiding creative light, David Javelosa has recently seen to a vinyl reissue of the now-40-year-old record, mystifyingly retitled Music for Teenage Sects. Definitely among the stranger releases of the new wave era, Music for Teenage Sex/Sects could perhaps only have been created when and where it was made. But on the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the music sounds as weirdly wonderful as ever. "We Are Not” sounds like Human League stuck in a car with The Residents. And their cover of “All Shook Up” sounds like a musical kin to those inscrutable eyeball guys too; it wouldn’t be out of place on Meet the Residents. “Little Things” is a house-of-mirrors, scary track, with spoken-word vocals by Los Microwaves’ Meg Brazill and label head Fields. The album cover is slightly different as well: it displays a bedroom scene like the original LP, but with the young female model absent. The new release (on Javelosa’s own Hyperspace Communications label) is pressed on beautiful translucent blue vinyl and comes in a gatefold sleeve with a lively collage of photos, buttons, gig posters. Limited to...
LP $23.95
12/24/2021
***This playfully titled release features David Javelosa (on synth and vocals) along with Meg Brazill (on bass and vocals) plus drummer Todd “Rosa” Rosencrans. Side One features five studio tracks, none of which were included on the band’s 1981 Posh Boy LP, Life After Breakfast. Three of these tracks were recorded in ‘82; there’s no information regarding the provenance of the other two songs. The records’ second side collects five live recordings, capturing Los Microwaves onstage in New York City (The Peppermint Lounge) and Boston as well as at San Francisco’s own I-Beam, a venue that often played host to the band. Those tracks date form roughly the same ear, 1980-83. Sonically the songs variously recall Blondie, Flying Lizards, Gang of Four and a far less dour Human League. Importantly, the band rocks, even when it’s employing a spare drum kit, solid but elemental bass, and monophonic analog synthesizers. The stripped down aesthetics of the group – necessitated by its minimalist instrumental approach – are nonetheless thrilling. Even if you weren’t there in 1980, this’ll take you back.
LP $23.95
12/24/2021
***Reissue of David Microwave solo material from 1980-83. David Javelosa (aka David Microwave), founder of Los Microwaves with Meg Brazil and Todd Rosa, were a San Francisco trio in which synthesizers predominated. Although they issued 45s as early as 1979, their debut album came out in 1981, by which time leader Javelosa had done a five-song, 12-inch EP on his own, using musicians outside his band. Javelosa's solo effort offers straightforward synthesized pop music with swirling keyboards (including familiar-sounding organ), acoustic drums and engaging vocals. The record shows polish, but retains a slightly amateurish sense, making it paradoxically complex and simple at the same time.
LP $18.85
10/22/2021