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Artist:	MELT-BANANA	Title:	13 Hedgehogs (Mxbx Singles 1994-1999)
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	AZ06CD
Price:	$12.00	Label:	Azap
Release Date:	5/9/05
*One CD. 57 songs from 13 singles and splits. First time on CD. 30-second MP3 excerpts:** HEDGEHOG 7-INCH Stick Out So Unfilial Rule Mind Thief Screw, Loose Scrubber Pierced Eye Ketchup-Mess First Defy SPLIT 7-INCH WITH GOD IS MY CO-PILOT Ketchup-Mess First Defy Iguana In Trouble IT'S IN THE PILLCASE 7-INCH It's In The Pillcase Rush &->Ward Picnic In Panic SPLIT 7-INCH SINGLE WITH DISCORDANCE AXIS a href="http://www.midheaven.com/fi/audio1/13hedgehogs13.m3u">Buddhism Core < Hangnail (Let It Go) No One Wants Next One Sicklist On Fire One Dimensional Not D, But M, Also SPLIT 7-INCH WITH PENCILNECK Mind Thief (Live) P-Pop-Slop (Live) SPLIT 7-INCH SINGLE WITH TARGET SHOPPERS Making Fuss, Fuss, Fuss Turtle Vs. Bunny (Who Won?) Pig To Dog Bird-Like Monkey In Cave, Singing In Drops SPLIT 10-INCH WITH STILLUPPSTEYPA Bad Gut Missed Fist. It's Not My Fault. Neck On Me. Stop The Cook-Cu Test. Scooped Brain In A Cup. Capital 1060. How To Parlare. Say, "Shoot!" Minus-Minus-To One. Lupita Screams Call Me Please-6824. Popsy Teeth In Red. Blackout Screen. To Be Continued? UNTITLED (PIANO ONE) 7-INCH $10 A Pile (Ax Version) Disposable Weathercock (Helpful 80 Points Version) SPLIT 7-INCH WITH PLAINFIELD Y-Axis Aquatic Bee ELEVENTH 7-INCH Wedge! Seesaw Semiology Cough, Coughed, Coughing Q For Quinine Bird-Like Monkey/Part 2 Least Clipper Baby Buggy Spitted Drill The Dentist SPLIT 5-INCH WITH XEROBOT Last Finger Split SPLIT 7-INCH WITH KILLOUT TRASH Wrest The Wrist (Just For Reflection) DEAD SPEX 7-INCH Dead Spex Sonic Brain Burst Ether Twisted Shoot The Moon 56 tracks from 13 different singles and splits Highly sought after and long unavailable tracks If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: Melt-Banana "13 Hedgehogs (MxBx Singles 1994-1999)" If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

Artist:	MELT-BANANA	Title:	Cactuses Come In Flocks
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	AZAP002CD
Price:	$12.00	Label:	Azap
Release Date:	9/13/99
*An album from the morning hours of the Melt-Banana history, the second release on Melt-Banana's label was originally released in 1994 on cassette by Scottish label Chocolate Monk. More than half the extant copies were lost between the Chocolate Monk dubbing deck and the nearest post office, thanks in no small part to the bar located between the two; consequently Cactuses Come in [the] Flocks has been heard by an extremely random sampling of extremely patient tape traders and hardly anyone else. The first half of Cactuses is a live recording from a 1992 improv festival that took place in a small room at Tokyo University; the second half is made up of four-track recordings created in mid-1994. As many voices from across the literacy rainbow are quick to point out, Melt-Banana is nothing if not a force to be reckoned with. Because they have unlocked the secrets of prime-number hardcore and gorged themselves on influences ranging from the Damned to Patty Waters, Jim O'Rourke to Merzbow, and Gertrude Stein to Mr. Bungle, they appeal to a fairly wide range of freaks and lovers of high-decibel controlled chaos. Compared to every kind of animal on every kind of drug imaginable, Melt-Banana and their weird blend of mystical awareness, hysterical screech, and moderately robotic attention to detail are magnets for believers in ampheto-core, avant garde appreciators, and no wave loyalists. 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Just GRUB & RUN Talk like POP shining hatcher F. Part one To the CORE F. Part two SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU BUNNY wasted a month waiting Plus 24 other blurts of genius & vision! If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the iTunes button immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.**

Artist:	MELT-BANANA	Title:	Cell-Scape
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	AZ05CD
Price:	$12.00	Label:	Azap
Release Date:	6/2/03
*A band who have justifiably been championed across the world, Tokyo's Melt-Banana** have been responsible for some of the most complex punk rock ever made ... that far outshines ninety-nine percent of most other bands out there. The band once described their live show as "Shooting machine gun and laser beam, chaos in order." And I think that pretty much sums them up. - Olli Siebelt, BBC No wave without the self-conscious pretension, avant garde composition compressed into one-minute-or-less bursts, urgency, intricate destruction, pure glorious abandon. Melt-Banana play the same way that Repulsion, Naked City, The Ruins, or The Boredoms all make you want to scream and dance and kill your neighbors. This is not music that we are conditioned to accept. This is you delirious with joy scraping your five senses off the floor.-Matthew Moyer, ink19 Melt-Banana are in a league of their own. There are other extreme hardcore bands out there who are experimental and unique but Melt-Banana are more than that. They area giants amongst infants. Masters amongst pupils. Kings amongst serfs. Nobody can do what they do and nobody can adequately use words to describe them. -Jeb, Crass Menagerie US tour in summer 2003, including an appearance at the Matt Groening-curated All Tomorrow's Parties in Los Angeles 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Phantasmagoria Shield for your eyes, a Beast in the well on your hand A Dreamer who is too weak to face up to Lost parts stinging me so Cold Chain-Shot to have some fun Like a white bat in a box, dead matters go on Key is a fact that a cat brings A Hunter in the rain to cut the neck up in the present shape If it is the deep sea, I can see you there Outro for cell-scape If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the iTunes button immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

Artist:	MELT-BANANA	Title:	Charlie
Format:	LP	Catalog Number:	AZAP001
Price:	$8.25	Label:	Azap

Artist:	MELT-BANANA	Title:	Charlie
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	AZAP001CD
Price:	$12.00	Label:	Azap
*Another all-out spazztak of scream-and-careen mathified skree core from Tokyois most tightly wound springs. Fourteen tracks of mind altering, brain boggling, and spine crushing shrapnel punk with vocals that hit your head like high-pitched knives and music that bores through your flesh like some kind of new super drill. Sure they look nice enough, but donit get your ears too close, these yaros bite. Like getting stabbed in the face and bragging about the conquest later. Embarking right this second on a trans-continental tour that will bring them perilously close to each and every one of you. Our advice, go see them you obviously havenit been using those ears for any good purpose anyhow. Guest appearances from MR. BUNGLE, the THREE DOCTORS BAND, THE WINTERMITTENS, and members of DIESELHED. If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the iTunes button immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.**

Artist:	MELT-BANANA	Title:	Speak Squeak Creek
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	AZAP004CD
Price:	$12.00	Label:	Azap
Release Date:	6/18/01
*Produced by Melt-Banana and K. K. Null of Zeni Geva, engineered by Steve Albini, recorded in a Chicago basement, June 1994, the 24-track 30-minute Speak Squeak Creak was originally released in '94 by Null's Nux Organization label, was sporadically available throughout the decade, and is now reissued by the band's own label - on vinyl for the first time. The band for this recording consisted of Yasuko, Agata, Rika mm' and Sudoh.** They have long been admired by everyone - from the highest brows within the ranks of the avant garde such as John Zorn and Mike Patton, to shorts-draggin' munters who need to carry their wallets on a leash - for their riotous cacophony in which free jazz, math-rock, speed-metal, and grindcore all enjoy equal opportunity deployment. Vocalist/principal songwriter Yasuko regards Speak Squeak Creak as the band's "base camp. Everything started from this album. Pop with rhythm and noise," but what she really means is "a cross between God Is My Co-Pilot, Napalm Death, and Love Sculpture's version of Khatchaturian's Sabre Dance." ...Melt-Banana whiplashes through 25 blistering, ear-shattering, no wave-inspired songs, most of which wiz by at less than two minutes...[The] music lurches and flows even as it sizzles in a difficult and corrosive avant-stew... -Option ...This Japanese quartet takes all the scrabbling, atonal dissonance of deconstructionist rock and no wave (DNA, God Is My Co-Pilot, Dawson, Big Flame) and imbues it with the hysteria and acceleration of hardcore and speed-metal... -Alternative Press Produced by K.K. Null, engineered by Steve Albini First time on vinyl Admit it: you're insane with curiosity about what a track called "Chicken Headed Racoon Dog" sounds like 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Tail in Garbage (TEKEPAKE) RRAGG IN x OUT = BUG SCRUBBER So Unfilial Rule DUST HEAD A Teaspoon of SALT STICK OUT Plus 17 other blister-lancing blasts!! If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the iTunes button immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

Artist:	MELT-BANANA	Title:	Teeny Shiny
Format:	CD	Catalog Number:	AZAP003CD
Price:	$12.00	Label:	Azap
Release Date:	10/30/00
***Melt-Banana describe their third self-released album as "pop and nice," a claim to which numerous incredulous subscribers to the band's mailing list have replied, "No pop!" and "Extreme, please!" This angular Pythagorean-core HC quartet supposes that the words "pop" and "nice" have slightly different nuances those outside their native Japan are failing to see; perhaps they mean "pop" not in the Celine Dion sense, but in the Andy Warhol sense, "nice" not as in smashing a bunch of garbage together and expecting fans to swallow it out of habit, but as in well-crafted, hairball mania. Even as the band acknowledges that *Teeny Shiny* is punk, noisy, screeching, and fast, they steadfastly maintain that it is pop and nice for them. Even though a mad scientist from 2788 has given vocalist / lyricist Yako a heart the size of a lion's (engorged with futuristic steroids) and her voice goes spitting and whizzing above it all as 5,000 volts surge through her skinny torso; and given that the mad scientist has screwed with guitarist Agata's brain so that his guitar-playing resembles a synth and two turntables; and even taking into account the Melt-Banana rhythm section's ability to keep up with a machine gun demonstration without breaking a sweat - conditions that all apply to Teeny Shiny, fictionalized or not - they're not backing down from the assertion that their new album is pop and nice. Sometimes you just gotta trust people. Five-month tour of Europe will begin before you know it. U.S. tour begins September 30 Melt-Banana is without peer; no one even remotely resembles them (well, a warped copy of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" might come close) 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Free the Bee Flash Cube, or Eyeball Lost in Mirror First Contact to Planet Q Warp, Back Spin Third Attack Cub, Not Cube Flip and Hit Bright Splat (Red Point, Black Dot) Skit Closed, Windy... Moon Flavor {Hidden Bonus Track} If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the iTunes button immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here. For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

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