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CHRISTIAN RAINER
Mein Braunes Blut (Bar La Muerte; Italy) $8
Modern Italian chamber music with operatic female voice on most tracks. Released 2002. This is NOT rock, noise, improv, etc. Here's the Bar La Muerte review: "Christian Rainer is an artist in the round (visual arts, music, etc...). He composed this sublime chamber music CD, melting, epic, majestic in its piano, strings, voice and winds srrangements. He eats in a bit Rachel's, Godspeed YBE, and all chamber dark. You didn't expect this one from Bar La Muerte, uh?"

RED GLANCE
Swirls Away (Gulcher Records) $8
Gulcher catalog: "The early 1980s were a great time to make music. The liberating effects of punk unleashed a gush of energy and emotion into the mainstream of rock'n'roll. The early 1980s were a horrible time to make music. The liberating effects of punk seemed destined to be co-opted into the synthesized blandishments of new wave. Labels large and small were changing the face of corporate rock, but that face was heavily made-up, shoved under a pile of hair and over a skinny tie. The energy and emotion had to find its way underground, to backwaters like Athens, GA, Minneapolis and, well, Indianapolis. For a short while in 1982, a little band in the Hoosier capital found a big voice and hammered it for all it was worth. Weaned on everything from 60s British Invasion to Heavy Metal to Neil Young to Funkadelic, filtered through bands like the Velvet Underground, the Ramones and, most profoundly, Television, what came out was moody, sometimes dazzling rock'n'roll. What REM was working on in Athens and Husker Du in Minneapolis, Red Glance was doing in Indianapolis: re-examining rock's past and pointing toward it's future. Here are the roots of alternative rock, grunge, emo and whatever else you want to call where rock has gone and is still going. Unfortunately for them, Red Glance was short-lived and land-locked. Unlike REM, HD, and other contemporaries like the Dream Syndicate or the Replacements, they never found an audience or a contract. It would be a shame if Red Glance were ignored again. Not so much for the band--they are all getting old and gray and are used to being ignored. It would be a shame for you to have missed them twice. Just for you, Gulcher Records is proud to present SWIRLS AWAY, a collection of Red Glance recordings made over several months in the summer and fall of 1982. Never intended for public release, these recordings were all done live, into little cassette machines. Even at that, they carry quite a wallop and still sound as fresh as this afternoon. They are all that remain of what was a very good band."

THE RETREADS
Highway to Helsinki (Gulcher Records) $8
John Sewell/Mean Street: "Hailing from the musical backwater of Muncie, Indiana, the mighty Retreads are a rock-music equation that makes perfect sense. And I'm not talking about the 'heartland rock' morass that is synonymous with 'Little Pink Houses,' etc. That said, it kinda makes sense that a gut-bucket, fuel-injected hot-rod of a band like The Retreads would come from such a mundane burg as Muncie. Propelled by cheap beer, testosterone, maybe a few cheap drugs, and an unstoppable desire to rock like mofos, The Retreads are a no-bullshit band that works their magic well outside the machinations of hype and rock-scene politics The 'Treads exist out of sheer force of will, and that will is a mighty force indeed. The band started as teenagers with a Ramones fixation, but after a couple years of four-chord hormone-inspired buzzsaw pop, the guys saw fit to retool, revamp, and rock the fuck out! With the musical 'maturity' that occasionally happens to particularly rawk-crazed 20-year-olds of twisted vision, the 'Treads burrowed further into the uglier side of proto-punk and early metal, producing a sound that is an amalgam of Dead Boys, Stooges, MC5, AC/DC and Blue Oyster Cult, tempered with a hint of stoner rock and hardcore. But instead of just spewing out xeroxes of these earlier sounds, The 'Treads mashed a junkyard full of fantastic rock through their own private trash compactor. Leave it to Indiana's original punk label, Gulcher Records, to give credit where credit's due and dig a winner when it's heard. Originally released on The Retreads' own Cock Rock Records, HIGHWAY TO HELSINKI is a diamond in the rough, honed by anger, desperation, and sheer force of will. What more can be said? Rock out and 'Do It For The Dudes'! Retreads Uber Alles!"

REYNOLS
Live in Chicago (Carbon Records) $20
This is one of 100 copies with the regular jewel-cased CD packaged in a silk-screened cloth slipcase (not shown).

TERRY RILEY
Shri Camel (CBS Records) $9

THE RONDELLES
Fiction, Romance, Fast Machines (Smells Like Records) $7

LOU RONE
Alone (Gulcher Records) $8
"Controversial" rock scribe Chris Stigliano explains (slightly edited): "Guitarist, vocalist, bandleader, Johnny Thunders hairpal and Von Lmo confidante . . . Lou has been all these and more. Lou began molding his chops in a variety of smalltime bands in the late-sixties before heading for the shores of Blighty in an attempt to create the new Cream. Upon return to these shores and steady prowling amidst the lower Manhattan watering holes known as Max's Kansas City and the 82 Club, Rone formed his band Cross, which besides releasing a just-try-and-find-it single, actually performed at the legendary CBGB Summer Festival in 1975 which drew international attention to the famed Bowery hotspot. Talking Heads, Blondie, Television, and the Heartbreakers were the groups that glommed all of the attention during those hot July/August nights, while Cross' Deep Purple-influenced heavy metal just didn't seem to ignite with the critics for some odd reason. After a gig with future Red Transistor/Blue Humans guitarist and Ed Wood biographer Rudolph Grey in Danger and a spot as guitarist in the crypto-metal proto-no wave band Kongress, Rone saw himself drafted into former McKinley Junior High pal Von Lmo's metallic no wave band, which coincidently was also named Von Lmo! After a few tumultuous months Rone was once again leading new versions of his old Cross followed by a succession of bands throughout the eighties with names like Double Cross, Kross, Triple Cross and (for a change of pace) Funhouse and the Lou Barrone Group. Triple Cross actually made it to wax via a 12-inch EP which sported some of Rone's better HM guitar stylings and a general late-sixties flashback that had me thinkin' Jeff Beck. Flash forward to '05 . . . Lou has left the hectic New York groove for the Amish-infested confines of Lancaster, PA, and in his spare time he's put together this CD for your enjoyment. It is a doozy, showing off Rone's unquestionably good guitar playing that proves that heavy metal (even the 'mainstream' kind) doesn't always mean you have to be sorry to your 'cultured' alternative friends. At times Rone sounds like an angry hoarde of raging scimitar-wielding Arabs on horseback out for Lawrence of Arabia's curlylocks, and at others he recalls the best of his fave guitar godz sorta cranked out and rechanneled for a new millennium. Heck, at times Rone even recalls his no wave avant-metal days with Kongress and Lmo, or at least hearkens back to the time when MX-80 Sound were trying to revive heavy metal as an intelligent music idiom."

JON ROSE
Violin Music for Supermarkets (Megaphone Records) $15

ROUGE
Live 1976 (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $11
Loud, dumb, barely competent Japanese glitter-rockers. The messy Dolls/Stones raunch includes "originals" like "No! (Born to Be School's Out)" (with a bit of Alice's "Titanic Overture" lifted for the chaotic opening), "Star Fuck," "Heavy Mama," and "New York Baby," but they do give credit to Chuck Berry for their mangling of "Johnny Be [sic] Goode." This is probably way better or way worse than you think, depending on the depth of the dent in your head.

R.U.N.I.
Il Cucchiaio Infernale (Bar La Muerte/Beware!/Wallace Records; Italy) $8
Italian rock band with touches of Kraut-beat electronica, 70s prog, Italian folk music, exploded funk, and heavy metal. Recorded in early 2000.

SAM GOPAL
Escalator (Stable Records; UK) $14
Pre-Hawkwind/Motorhead psychedelic rock band led by Ian "Lemmy" Willis (vocal, guitar, writer or co-writer of most songs). Recorded in 1968 and originally released in 1969, this includes the band's Escalator LP plus the "Horse"/"Back Door Man" single.

SAN AGUSTIN
Amokhali (Family Vineyard) $9
1999 recordings by post-rock improv trio from Atlanta. While drums break apart the rhythm into jazz-like non-grooves, two guitars hover and intertwine in interesting low-key ways that recall everything from Loren Mazzacane to early-70s Dead tapes. Shimmer shiver plunk 'n etc.

ERIK SATIE; ANNE QUEFFELEC (piano)
Trois Gymnopedies (Virgin Classics; England) $9

SCREW BONKERS (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $11
Unlike most bands, Japanese garage-glamsters Rouge took a step back to their pre-Dolls Stones roots in '77 instead of taking the punk route. Along with the name-change to Screw Bonkers, they added a Hammond organ to their basic line-up of vocals, guitars, bass, and drums. The playing here is perhaps a shade better than the inspired semi-comptent stumble of Rouge's Live 1976 CD, but it's still pretty primitive by most standards of that particular day. It's hard to tell the "originals" from their covers of "Brown Sugar," "It's All Over Now," and "Johnny Be [sic] Goode."

THE SEA ENSEMBLE
We Move Together (ESP-Disk/ZYX Music; Germany) $14
Reissue of 1974 ESP-Disk LP by Donald Rafael Garrett and Zussan Fasteau Garrett.

SEASONAL CONCEPTS
Seasonalize (SunShip Records) $8

ZAHAVA SEEWALD
Psamim: Ashkenaz Songs (Sub Rosa) $9

MURAT SES
Automaton (Kalan; Turkey) $20
Solo CD by member of legendary Turkish group Mogollar.

SEX PISTOLS
Fully Illustrated Book & Interview Disc (Sound and Media; England) $14
CD with 1994 John Lydon interview packaged inside full-color 128-page booklet.

SHIFTS
Monochromes (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers; UK) CDR $20

SHIFTS
Pangaea (Elsie and Jack Recordings) $10
Elsie and Jack: "Shifts, another pseudonym for Frans de Waard, a co-founder of Beequeen, also renowned for his ongoing experiments for recycling music with Kapotte Muziek. de Waard likes to treat his various guises with a broad stroke of monochrome paint...each name is something else, something different. Shifts as an idea has existed on paper for a number of years--only recently fully materializing in the form of two 7"s released on de Waard’s Korm Plastics label. d e W a a r d = m i n i m a l i s m and Shifts embraces the traditional concept of minimalism implementing multi-layered drone guitars and overtones that create an overwhelming atmosphere. Pangæa is indeed a concept album, inspired by the process of the earth's plates drifting apart into the four separate continents becoming the world we know today. The plate tectonics that cause the drifting is echoed in the music...blocks of sound are repeated in several layers to create an unworldly soundscape. There are four distinct sections to be noted here--although indexed as one track. There is a guitar sound to be spotted in the first and in the last section, the large middle section is just guitar generated overtones. Shifts, an altogether successfully realized observation from the ever prolific Frans de Waard." Released 1997.

MATTHEW SHIPP TRIO
Circular Temple (Quinton Records) $25
This is the original 1992 CD release. With Matthew Shipp (piano), William Parker (bass), and Whit Dickey (drums).

SILT FISH
Zabaranda (Public Eyesore) CDR $7
Hailing from Sheffield, England, Silt Fish is the duo of Andy K. and Mr. Quale, with assistance from Quayle's brother Jez. They specialize in eerie folk-like music built around composed songs--not improv--but informed by lo-fi recording techniques, dark psych overtones, and a way-outsider vibe. The lyrics are dense, odd, and filled with paganesque stories of worms, walking sticks that sprout from the ground, granny's dressing gown, and "The House With the Dreadful Nibbling in Its Roots."

SISTER PAUL
The Edge of the World (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $18
Captain Trip catalog description: "They are a great speed glam punk trio. Twin vocal wail over a thunderous speed groove! A total of 12 tracks including punkish cover of Bay City Rollers and Bob Dylan songs are recorded." OUT OF PRINT FROM THE LABEL.

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SISTER PAUL
Howl! Howl! (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $18
Captain Trip catalog description: "The 3rd album of Sister Paul! A total of ten tracks including cover versions of Kiss and Velvet Underground songs. The Damned meets T Rex!? " OUT OF PRINT FROM THE LABEL.

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'68 COMEBACK
Golden Rogues Collection (Sympathy For The Record Industry) $10
Collection of singles released on Sympathy, Sub Pop, Sugar Ditch, Casting Couch, In The Red, Get Hip, and 1+2. Plus lots of previously unreleased material. 24 tracks total.

'68 COMEBACK
Mr. Downchild (Sympathy For The Record Industry) $10

SLICK PIG
Bottled Distortion (no label) $15
Self-released disc of noisy punk-metal by a teenage one-man band known as Slick Pig. Released 2001.

SLINGSHOT EPISODE
Fault Lines Sleep for Now (What Else? Records) $8

LaDONNA SMITH & DAVEY WILLIAMS
Transmutating (Shaking Ray Records) $11
Released 1993.

SOFT MACHINE
As If (Elite; UK) $12

SONGS: OHIA (Secretly Canadian Records) $9
Bloomington, Indiana, 1997.

SONIC YOUTH
Goo (DGC) $9
Original 1990 pressing.

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SONIC YOUTH
"Dirty Boots" (edit) / "White Kross" (live) / "Eric's Trip" (live) / "Cinderella's Big Score" (live) / "Dirty Boots" (live) / "The Bedroom" (live) (DGC) $18
This CD includes an edited version of "Dirty Boots" plus five live tracks, with a total running time of 30:11. Released 1991.

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SONIC YOUTH WITH EYE YAMATSUKA
TV Shit (Ecstatic Peace) CD EP $15
Original pressing. Sonic Youth with Boredoms singer Eye Yamatsuka doing four different versions of Youth Brigade's "No Song II," recorded live in late 1992 on the Dirty tour.

SPACEMEN 3
For All The Fucked-Up Children of This World We Give You Spacemen 3 (Sympathy for the Record Industry) $25
The first Spacemen 3 recording session from 1984. Out of print.

SPACE STREAKINGS
Hatsu-Koi (Nux/Charnel House) $18
Noise-speed-punk band from Japan. Co-produced by K. K. Null.

SPACE STREAKINGS
7-Toku (Skin Graft Records) $14
1996 disc by noise-speed-punk band from Japan. "The recording and balance engineer was Steve Albini."

SPEED
Live at Loft '85 (Captain Trip Records) $10
Captain Trip catalog: "Speed was a legendary band formed by Kengo and Shinichi Aoki (ex.-Murahachibu) in 1976. This CD includes unreleased live recording from 1985. Cover art: Shinobu Ishimaru."

THE SQUARES
Answer (Squares) $8
1990 release from indie rockers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

STRAIGHT OUTTA MONGOLIA
The Redundancy of Saying Sorry (Fencing Flatworm Recordings; England) CDR $20
S.O.M. returns with another little batch of his irresistible techno-mutant-pop. Plop. Op. "Baby Drove a Spaceship 2004" and "Looks Can Be Fatal," etc. With assistance from Random Number, Fluxorgy, and James Cutts. Yeah, this baby can drive my car off the cliff into some other watery dream. Waaaaa! Twinkle. Released 2004. Fencing Flatworm has sadly folded, so get these while you can!

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SUBARACHNOID SPACE AND WALKING TIMEBOMBS
The Sleeping Sickness (Elsie and Jack Recordings) $10
Psych-rock jams from a collaboration betweeen SubArachnoid Space (San Francisco) and Walking Timebombs (Texas). Recorded '96; released '99.

SUICIDAL RAP ORGY
Genital Warfare (Dual Plover; Australia) $18
Dual Plover catalog: "Hip-hop from the blue mountains, what isolation can do to a gangster is terrifying if this offering has anything to say about kids today. tracks like 'anal sucking fun' and 'terds are the master' are good indicators of such trends." Released 2003. Out of print from the label.

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SWEDEN
Same Dif (Dual Plover; Australia) $16
Dual Plover catalog: " . . . the long awaited earspliting audio autopsy of sweden on their long-awaited debut lp 'same diff' featues living legend SWEDEN on vocals and second-hand records, accompanied on electronics and treatments by Garry Bradbury (SIZE/severed heads) plus special guests the inmates of Fanny Deacon's Retirement Home on percussion. a caberat nosie style re-enactment of cataclysmic musical moments from the 60's and 70's starting with the sinister opening bars of 'White Rabbit' to the orgasmic climax of 'Macarthur Park,' not so much the music you want to hear but the music you deserve, complete with a 20min cdrom video component highlighting sweden's notorious live history spanning from 1988 including the grotesque but strangely compelling 'dickstretch.'" Released 2001. Out of print from the label.

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ROOSEVELT SYKES / VICTORIA SPIVEY
Grind It! (Total Energy) split CD $9
Produced by John Sinclair.

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TABATA
Brainsville (Elsie and Jack Recordings) $9
Solo album by Zeni Geva guitarist Mitsuru Tabata. Released 1998.

TANGERINE DREAM
Alpha Centauri (Relativity Records) $10
Reissue of second album by Tangerine Dream.

TARGET SHOPPERS
Bad Bear Act (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers; England) CDR $20
Live show from 12/99 by the Trent-On-Stoke free-rock glam-punk "power trio" of Marky Loo Loo, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations), and Joincey (Wagstaff). More than an hour of sound.

JOHN TERRILL
Frowny Frown (Affirmation Records) $9
2001 solo CD by leader of 80s art-punks the Dancing Cigarettes. From Bloomington, Indiana.

THINK
The Drift (The Last Visible Dog) CDR $20

THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282
I Hope It Lands (Communion) $10

MAYO THOMPSON
Corky's Debt to His Father (Drag City) $10
Reissue of 1970 album by Red Crayola founder.

THORAZINE
Crazy Uncle Paul's Dead Squirrel Wedding (Hell Yeah) $7

HENRY THREADGILL
Carry the Day (Columbia Records) $9
Released 1994.

HENRY THREADGILL
Makin' a Move (Columbia Records) $9
Released 1995. Co-produced by Bill Laswell.

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TIGERSMILK
From the Bottle (Family Vineyard) $9

TO LIVE & SHAVE IN L.A.
Tonal Harmony (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers; England) $20
1997 CD by Tom Smith and company on the now-defunct BWCD label.

TOMBSTONE VALENTINE
Hidden World (Aether Records) $9
1998 release by Indiana psychedelic rock band.

TONE FLOAT
Musik Von Tone Float (Timothy's Brain) $8
Captain Trip catalog: "Neo-Krautrock played by three German musicians in Texas."

T. REX
Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (Chronicles) $9

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T. REX
Light of Love (Chronicles) $8
1997 remaster of the original 1974 album.

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A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
Beats, Rhymes and Life (Jive Records) $15
With special 3D cover.

TSURUBAMI
Kaina (The Last Visible Dog) CDR $30
2000 release from Acid Mothers Temple side project with Kawabata Makoto (guitar), Higashi Hiroshi (bass), and Emi Nobuko (drums).

TUMOR CIRCUS (Alternative Tentacles Records) $9
1991 CD by Jello Biafra and friends.

TUNGSTEN GRASSHOPPER
Pyrrhic Victories (Fencing Flatworm Recordings; England) CDR $20
'Lectronic bug wheeze, tappy tap mic efx, glitch and twitch, plastic dinosaur poo, EQ wind gush, non-dense slow-poke katydid dances. and music for cats. You too, if you like to boogaloo with spiders and orange moonglow. Mo' good-humored 'perimental sounds from the excellent Fencing Flatworm label over yonder in Leeds, England-still-swangs-like-pendulum-dew. Fencing Flatworm has sadly folded, so get these while you can!

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2 BOBS
I'm With Stupid (Eldo Farms) $9

TWO DOLLAR GUITAR
Let Me Bring You Down (Smells Like Records) $9

TWO DOLLAR GUITAR
Burned and Buried (Smells Like Records) $9

UBZUB
Alien Manna for Sleeping Monkeys (Electro Motive Records) $10
Acid-smirk tinker-toy noise-rock from the S.F. Bay Area.

U CAN UNLEARN GUITAR
No Strings (Yelpco/Sunship Records/Little Mafia Records/Breathmint) $8
"Best of" CD by U Can Unlearn Guitar a.k.a. Andrew Marshall Alper. Acoustic (mostly) "folk" songs of absurdist views and wiseguy humor mixed with tracks of noise, loops, etc. You get 21 cuts from nine albums released since '96.

UNIVERS ZERO
Uzed (Cuneiform) $7

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THE UNKNOWN CASES & PHEW (Funfundvierzig; Germany) CD EP $6
Japanese singer Phew did a kinda classic self-titled album in 1981 with Hoger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, and Conny Plank. Twenty years later, this short disc (17:19) finds her working with a current German "club" band called the Unknown Cases. The music is dreamy post-Krautrock techno/trance, with Phew's vocal interjections and statements weaving in and out. The first mix of "Mishiho" has a nice Yoko-dub-techno thang goin' on.

UNSTABLE ENSEMBLE
17 Ways (Faimly Vineyard) $9
Improv from Bloomington, Indiana. Released 2001.

URBAN DANCE SQUAD
Mental Relapse (Arista Records) CD EP $15
With "Fast Lane" (danceteria version), "No Kid" (electric), "Hitchhike H.D.," "Deeper Shade of Soul" (live), and "Prayer for My Demo" (live).

URBAN DANCE SQUAD
Life 'n Perspectives of a Genuine Crossover (Arista Records) $8

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THE USA IS A MONSTER
Tasheyana Compost (Load Records) $9

VARIOUS ARTISTS
The Aerial: A Journal in Sound #1 (The Aerial) $20
Released 1990. With Loren Mazzacane & Suzanne Langille doing a version of Lonnie Johnson's "Haunted House" (clocking in at 6:06). Plus tracks by David Moss, Terry Setter, Christine Baczewska, Rich Jensen, Last Souls, Malcolm Goldstein, Floating Concrete Octopus, Jerry Hunt, Stuart Sherman, and Bern Porter.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
CIMPosium Volume 2 (CIMP) $9
1997 compilation with the Steve Swell Quartet, the David White Quintet, the Sonny Simmons Quartet, Joe McPhee & David Prentice, the Mark Whitecage Quartet, the Kevin Norton Trio, J. Scianni/D. Duval/J. Rosen, the Lou Grassi Saxtet, the Odean Pope Trio, the Lee Shaw Trio, the Ivo Perelman Trio, Michael Bisio & Joe McPhee, the Marc Edwards Trio, the Paul Smoker-Vinny Golia Quartet, and Joseph Scianni.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Czech Alternative Music Vol. III: 1996 (Indies Records; Czech Republic) $10
With Priessnitz, Fiction, Rany Tela, Vaclav Koubek, Puvodni Bures, Psi Vojaci, Pavel Fajt & Pluto, Narajama, Zuby Nehty, Uz Jsme Doma, Freak Parade, Despondancing, Jolly Joker, Here, Majerovy Brzdove Tabulky, Vaclavek/Ostransky - Domaci Lekar, Oldrich Janota, Jiri Dohnal.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Eat It If Ya' Got It: A Disposable Thumb Promo Sampler (Disposable Thumb Recordings) CDR $20
Promo-only release from this now-defunct label. A solid batch of sound from Disposable Thumb Recordings. You get three unreleased tracks by Orange, Manifold; one track from Twegen Tu's debut CDR and two tracks from their unreleased second CDR; two tracks by Pexbaa from an unreleased CDR; and a track from Simon Wickham-Smith's Rapt CD.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Hurts So Good: The Cock E.S.P. Remix CD (V/Vm Test Records; UK) $11
99 tracks by 88 artists, including Carlos Giffoni, Pengo, the Caretaker, Blatch, Madame Chao, OvO, Dixie Prix, Duo Kanel, Radio Shock, Mike Shiflet, DJ Smallcock, U Can Unlearn Guitar, V/Vm, Cock E.S.P., and many more.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Launch #39 CD-ROM magazine $15
Published in 2000. Excellent/Near Mint Condition. Includes exclusive video performances and interiews with Patti Smith, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Gay Dad, and Rah Digga. Plus excerpts from the Sex Pistols movie The Filth & The Fury, three short clips of Fela Kuti live, more performances, reviews, etc.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Le Jazz Non (Smalltown Supersound; Norway) $12
"A Compilation of Norwegian Noise" from 2000. Liner notes by Bruce Russell of the Dead C. With Lasse Marhaug, Supersilent, Larmoyant, Del, Der Brief, Elektro Nova / Electro Nova, Jazzkammer, Kjetil D. Brandsdal, Arm, Fibo Trespo, Continental Fruit, and Two Shot Sons.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Mandragora Mix (Mandragora Records) CDR $12
"Mandragora mix by Paradise Camp 23 (in 5 parts for easy listening). All sounds sampled from the Mandragora Records catalog. Featuring the pure psychedelic noise of Paradise 23, Crackhouse, Voodoo Mechanics, Pezanate, & Bull Anus."

VARIOUS ARTISTS
New York Downtown: Jazz and Other Sounds (Knitting Factory Works) $9
1996 comp featuring Prima Materia w/ Rashied Ali, Don Byron Quintet, DJ Spooky, X-Legged Sally, Samm Bennett's History of the Last Five Minutes, Myth Science, Steve Naive, Rebecca Moore, Kiss My Jazz, Suck Pretty, Arto Lindsay Trio, Briggan Krauss' Good Kitty, Wayne Horvitz, Fertile Crescent, Matt Darriau's Paradox Trio, Mark Dresser, Camp Stories Soundtrack, Thomas Chapin Trio & Strings, and a few short excerpts from other artists.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
No Tribute: Music of the Nihilist Spasm Band (SunShip Records/Little Mafia Records/Carbon Records/Breathmint) $17
With tracks by Baku, U Can Unlearn Guitar, The Pin Vs. Bellchamber, Unconditional Loathing, Jacopo Andreini, Winter Carousel, Roughage, V/VM, Dapper, Madame Chao, Alan Licht, Smell & Quim, Inca Eyeball, Carlos Giffoni, Reynols, Cock E.S.P., Del, Pengo, Glands Of External Secretion, Panicsville, Wolf Eyes, Wrong, Newton, and Hijokaidan. Now out of print.

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VARIOUS ARTISTS
Old Skars and Upstarts (Alive) $8

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VARIOUS ARTISTS
Old Skars and Upstarts (Alive) $7

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VARIOUS ARTISTS
Passed Normal Volume 5 (Fot Records) $15
"International collection of new and/or unreleased music" by David Thomas & the Pedestrians, Daevid Allen & the Magick Brothers, Mother Gong, Tim Hodgkinson, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Lol Coxhill, Henry Kaiser/Jim O'Rourke, Ivor Cutler, Mecca, Catherine Jauniaux/Ikue Mori, Frank Pahl with Major Dents, Ray Mason, the Sediments, Voodoo Mark/Pink Bob, Fred, Grrr, Street Art, Jason Willett, and Amy Denio.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Phi-Phenomena (Breathmint/Carbon Records/Freedom From/Ignivomous/ServUs Industry/SunShip/Yelpco) $17
With Asthmatic, Madame Chao, Cock E.S.P., Dixie Prix, Doersam, Eloe Omoe, Gang Wizard, late, Layndryroom Squelchers, Malta, newcenturyschoolbook.com, Newton, Ortho, OvO, Pengo, QXW, Rexor, the Suck, U Can Unlearn Guitar, Unconditional Loathing, and John Wiese. Released 2001. Now out of print.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Set the Controls for the Heart of the the Aether: The Aether Records Sampler Volume One (Aether Records) $8
With In The Summer Of Mushroom Honey, Mazinga Phaser, Mushroom, Twin Planet, Beneath The Lids Of The Sleeping Sun, Many Bright Things, Kaminumada Yohji, Tombstone Valentine, The Waters Of Life, and Faraday Cage.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Synthetic Singles (Synthetic) $12
With Les Black's Amazing Pink Holes, Bluto's Revenge, Nimrod, Noise Floor, the Uninspired Five, Sosumi, the Meek, Screwtractor, and the Radio Alarm Clocks.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Tryptaphonic Mind Explosion (Mandragora Records) $10
Released 2002. With Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Reynols, Circle, Escapade, Primordial Undermind, Robot Vs. Rabbit, Mandog, Interferents, Pine Tree State Mind Control, Paradise Camp 23, At The Eat, and Delayed Sleep.

VERMONSTER
The Holy Sound of American Pipe (Time Bomb; Japan) CD + 3" CD $14
With Kate Biggar, Josh Burkett, Jimmy Johnson, Tom Leonard, Dave Lynch, Joe Malinowski, and Wayne Rogers.

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VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
Music for Red Breath (no label; UK) CDR $30
Self-released CDR from the band. Recorded March 1999. Neil Campbell: "Music for a film by Justin Allen--full 74 minutes of moods, from tiny loops and hums to full-on one chord rock and the usual homespun exotica in between."

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VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
Hollin (no label; UK) CDR $30
Self-released CDR from the band.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
Long Live the Weeds (no label; UK) CDR $30
Self-released CDR from the band. Recorded 1999/2000.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
Lino Hi (Giardia) $25
Now out of print. Neil Campbell and company recorded in 1998/1999.

VIOLENT STUDENTS
Violent Students (Parts Unknown Records) $10

VIOLENT STUDENTS
Street Banger EP (Richie Records/Testoster Tunes) $10

VIRGIN EYE BLOOD BROTHERS
Rec'd Live in the Deepest Hole in Louisville (Arbitrary Signs/Black Velvet Fuckere co-release) CDR $30
Original impossible-to-find release of this 2003 set by Pete Nolan (Magik Markers) and Kris Abplanalp. Packaged in cool hand-stitched cover, with insert.

VOCOKESH
The Tenth Corner (Strange Attractors Audio House) $10
Released 2004.

VOLVOX
Bad Earth (Dual Plover; Australia) $25
Dual Plover catalog: "Volvox was a 3-piece working melbourne from 1991 to 1996. lester vat - glenn norman - dave taskas (collectively know as REG EGG). BAD EARTH was their first release from 1991, originally it was only available on cassette and limited to 100 copies. how do you discribe the music? I can't do the gonzo music jouralism thing and say dusty springfield meets late period technotronic cause they honestly don't belong between anyone being a true audio-brut offering. simply put, the music of volvox behaves just like its namesake. volvox is the little protozoa that could. Once apon a time when clones ruled the earth, it and only it crushed the staus quo with a little invention called sexual reproduction, better know today as fucking. basically, it created diversity on earth by allowing organisms to create new genes rather than propagating their own. unfortunately or fortunately for us, the modern day musical gene pool wasn't affected by volvox." Out of print from the label.

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VOLVOX
The Damage Begins at the Mouth (Dual Plover; Australia) $25
Dual Plover catalog: "legendary melbourne band beyond convention. although in the years of their existence (1991 to 1996) they never played outside said city, this band will live forever. severe nervous damage gave vocalist lester vat an unfair advantage, backed by the equally unusual instrumentation's of george taskas and glen something or other." Out of print from the label.

VOTE ROBOT
In Meorm NA (Scratch Recordings; Canada) $9
Vote Robot is two Canadian guys doing low-key electronic stuff that includes plenty of noisy glitchin', klangy grooves, spontaneous melodies, wheezy loops, and blissed-out floatscape. The 12 short tracks give the disc an odd, rock-like feel. Released 2001.

V/Vm
One Amazing Day (V/Vm Test Records; UK) $12

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WAGSTAFF
Wagstaff Would Not Go to the Opera
(Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers; England) CDR $20
BWCD catalog: "Thirty-minute conceptual noise/folk release from this English institution/constitution. A three part meditation on love, racial awareness, and the 'high art' question." Joincey (A Warm Palindrome, Green Monkey, etc.) breakin' it down like a less, um, precise Anglo version of Jandek . . . and shakin' it up like Sun Ra leading a kindergarten prog band. Good lyrics too. Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers is sadly defunct, so get this while you still can!

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THE WALKING RUINS
Fall of the House of Ruin (Ruined Records) $15
Original 1996 release; original mix (Gulcher CD was remixed); liner notes not included with the Gulcher reissue. The band features John Barge and Ian Brewer, formerly of 80s teen punks the Panics. These dudes' vision in '96 was pretty much the same as '81: they blast through nineteen short'n'fast manifestos, including "Lost Cause," "Withered Hand," "Won't Take My Medicine," "Cult Leader," "Stalin's Crayon," "Alien Autopsy," "Frat Row," and a cover of Vom's classic "Punkmobile."

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DAVID S. WARE
Go See the World (Columbia Records) $8
Released 1998.

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A WARM PALINDROME / FEVERDREAMS / BADGERLORE
Three Owls Six Ears (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers; UK) $20
Out of print; Phil Todd's BWCD label is now defunct. Three-way split CD featuring 20 minutes by each artist. A Warm Palindrome was a folk-improv-noise band that included Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations. Feverdreams is a solo electronic/guitar project from California. Badgerlore is a duo featuring an ex-Deerhoof and Ben Chasny a.k.a. Six Organs of Admittance.

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THE PRESTON WAYNE FOUR
Themes from Wayne Manor (Dino Records) $8

SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH
Two4Dancin' (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon; New Zealand) $25
Out of print from the label. Campbell Kneale: "Surely no introductions are necessary. Mr Wickham-Smith is a truly unique voice and TWO4DANCIN' sees him at his most profoundly grand . . . a double album released simultaneously on a single CD. Damn near exploding at the seams with wonderfully resonant contradictions, its exquisite textures are capable of blissfully enveloping daily life AND driving your neighbours completely batty. Reminiscent of fleeting limelight-hogs like 50Cent AND the enduring greatness of '60s minimalism. A slave to an infinite, block-rockin' beat which melts into deep transparency revealing a subterranean omniverse of casiotone-mantras, silicon-chip psalms, and the mystical babblings of angels and derelict gutter-drunks. And yes . . . it's a 'dance' album. Free your ass and your mind will follow."

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SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH
Buckminsterfullerene/Pange Lingua Gloriosi (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon; New Zealand) 2CDR $35
Out of print from the label. Campbell Kneale: "The two previously untangled tracks that became inextricably tangled on TWO4DANCIN' are once more untangled and laid out in their original, blasted, minimalist glory on two very full discs. For my own part, I swing wildly between considering this the most 'commercially accessible' C/Psi/P release, and the most unfathomably brutal record ever conceived! Whatever the case . . . your head is gonna jiggle its ass off, your feet are going to lose their minds, and you are definitely going to be late for work tomorrow."

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SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH
Rapt (Disposable Thumb Recordings) $20
Out of print from the now-defunct Disposable Thumb label. Released 2004. Here it comes again: the ever-extending exploratory super compositions of Mr. Wickham-Smith. As if to prove the chip on his shoulder will fall with beautiful ease, S!!! begins with "Heaven's Gate Sankitran," nearly 36 minutes of monotonous (say the squares) delirious hilarious voice-manipulation minimalism. Steve Reich meets Jerry Lewis?! before gittin' down to total ecstatic dizziness. Next track ("Meiji13") offers up a big roarin' fuzzdrone--feedback hover and a zillion-notes-per-second explosions-into-static that feel like the middle of a great Velvet Underground guitar breakdown. Jjjuuuhhhh. Track tres ("Perihelion"): slowwwwwdown "oriental" mindmelt oooooo so flex-eye-ble. Nice. The final three short tracks ("At Backwater Pond," "The Snowshoe Hare," "Sleeping in the Forest") are collectively titled "Three Versions of Appreciative": "a setting of three poems by Mary Oliver . . . composed at the behest of the Highgate and Muswell Hill United Nations Association." Sounds to me like some otherworldly voice decoding--from the planet Muswell--static 'n whine, is it a violin somewhere, a music box in another? The End. Whew. Yes, music fans, it's another real good one. And now some stats from the D. Thumb catalog: "Simon Wickham-Smith is a composer of acoustic and digital music. His compositions reflect his ardent interest in minimalism, electro-acoustic and experimental, harmonically shattering sounds. His collaborations with Richard Youngs are familiar to many, and his equally visible solo efforts are filled no less with intrigue, mystery, intellect and passion. At ease with the apparent contradictions of melody and noise, Simon draws inspiration for his compositions from musics around the world, whether they prevail upon his natural inclinations or as the source material for his treatments. On his latest release, with beautiful hand-printed foldover jackets of his own design, Simon continues to explore his obsessions and fascinations with reverence, wry wit and a skillful ear. Aesthetically similar to 2002's dyrø (PseudoArcana), the CD is an exercise in wonderment and rapture via the friendly conduits of electronic drone, cut and paste minimalism and mischievous white noise. Oftentimes a confluence of contrasting disciplines and perspectives, the document is a rich work of intricate spells merging tension and release. Says Simon of Meiji13: 'It's a very uncharacteristic foray into program music: the fuzz over the top is like a patina of age, like hearing Caruso singing I Pagliacci.' Oh yeah--ecstasy and corrosion."

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WONWONS
Original Punk Super Stars (Public Eyesore) CDR $7
Japanese group doing neo-retro surf instrumentals with an avant-garde vibe.

WOOLDRIDGE BROTHERS
The Unreel Hits (Gulcher Records) $6
Gulcher catalog: "Who are the Wooldridge Brothers? Likely a band you've already heard, without realizing it! Several Wbs songs have landed in some unusual places, including the movies Contact and Changing Habits, TV soaps Party Of Five and The Young & The Restless, and E! TV's Nearly Famous reality show. But the strangest appearance yet for these thoroughly Midwestern brothers was finding two of their compositions on the 'Anna Nicole Smith Show'! And why Gulcher Records?! As a matter of fact, Scott and Brian Wooldridge are making their second Gulcher appearance! Way back in 1981, when the brothers were learning to drive and cutting their teeth in the new wavey Post Raisin Band, Gulcher included their power pop classic 'Pink Lincoln' on its Various Hoosiers compliation, Red Snerts. Relocating to Milwaukee, Scott and Brian spent the 1980s polishing their songwriting in the Squares, and by decade-end had refocused as the eponymous Wooldridge Brothers. Prolific songwriters, the Wbs explored a range of styles on their three 1990s albums, Skeleton Keys, Star Of Desire, and Uncovering The Sun. Falling somewhere between Wilco and Nick Lowe, 'alt-pop-alt-country' could be their multi-hyphenated genre! A SXSW showcase scored a publishing deal, and the Hollywood song placements followed. By Y2K, fans were clammoring for unreleased material heard at Wbs live performances, circulating on tapes and MP3 players. In 2001, Brian and Scott released 13 of those songs on the original, limited-edition Unreel Hits, promoted through their website. Gulcher Records recognized a diamond in the rough is still a diamond, added three bonus tracks, and proudly presents this 2003 reissue of The Unreel Hits, a collection of Wooldridge Brothers demos and outtakes spanning seven years and three albums."

FRANK WRIGHT
Your Prayer (ESP-Disk/ZYX-Music; Germany) $10
Reissue of the original ESP-Disk LP recorded in 1967. With Frank Wright (tenor sax), Arthur Jones (alto sax), Jacques Coursil (trumpet), Steve Tintweiss (bass), and Muhammad Ali (drums).

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YELLOW SWANS
Doubled Yellow Swans: Global Clone (PACrec) $10

YELLOW SWANS
Drift Yellow Swans (Acuarela; Spain) $11

YELLOW SWANS
Dove Yellow Swans: Live During War Crimes #2 (Release The Bats) $10
Five live tracks from a European tour by Portland, Oregon noise duo Pete Swanson and GMS. Features one track previously released on Fuck It Tapes.

ZeN
Bakirköy Akil Hastanesinde (Kodmuzik; Turkey) $25
On this 1999 release, Istanbul's groovin' ZeN demonstrate a fierce, fluid maturity. Using the various elements that define their music--Turkish rock and folk music, Krautrock, dub and funk, the broad region of psychedelia--the band flows with delightfully raw improvised abandon. The guitars are more prominent than on their Father Yod/Ecstatic Peace CD, and the playing has tightened up considerably.