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May-September'98 Updated 12/1/98.
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MELT BANANA Charlie (AZAP AZAP001) CD/LP
Self-released opus from manic Japanese post-everything ensemble. Mystical yet nearly hysterical (and let's not forget moderately robotic) quartet soaks our heads in their mathcore spongebath. Guest appearances by members of Dieselhed, Wintermittens, the Three Doctors Band and Mr. Bungle. Released the week of September 28th (on CD) and October 12th, 1998 (on LP).
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BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL Siberian
Earth Curve (DRUNKEN FISH DF43) CD
Campbell Kneale is a New Zealander with and impeccable ear for layering feedback, cymbals and electronic squall. Does the stillness of Thomas Koner get you There on a regular basis? Maybe some Aube-cious high-end volume stirs your coffee? Pull into the BCM parking lot and discover instant validation. Released the week of October 5th, 1998.
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BLUE TILE LOUNGE Half Cut (SMELLS LIKE
RECORDS SLR24) CD
Perth, Australia pedal-pushers god-bliss us all with some 'scape-defining spacerock. None of that analog-come-lately hooey, either. Shipping the week of October 5th, 1998.
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ABSTRACT TRIBE UNIQUE Mood Pieces (MASSMEN
001) CD/2LP
Appearances on Ninja Tunes' "Black Whole Styles" comp, Industry's "Beats and Lyrics" collection and Conscious Evolution's "Caught Up In The Rappcha" comp primed hip-hip tastebuds; URB, Mic Check and Rap Pages have all sung praises. This release was originally scheduled for release on the Grand Royal label, but then Capitol Records reorganized their urban promotions department and. . . well, you can guess the rest. Hip-hop with mystique and presence. Released the week of September 14th, 1998.
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DIRTBOMBS Horndog Fest (IN THE RED ITR55)
CD/LP
Mick (Gories) Collins, joined by two drummers and two bassists, churns out punk/noise/blues drenched in sex and beer. This record will remove all our inhibitions and make us feel better about our opposable thumbs and upright (for now) position. Very much of the moment. Released the week of August 31st, 1998.
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PHOBIA Means of Existence (SLAP A HAM
SLAP 47) CD/LP
Dreadlocked SoCal crustlords grind through 17 steaming ingots of lead-pipe crush-o-rama. Anti-war, anti-cop, anti-vivisection, and pro-grind. Political as fuck, heavy as shit-- consider "Mentally Murdered"-era Napalm Death as a reference point. Released the week of August 31st, 1998.
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V/A I Stayed Up All Night Listening To Records (ANYWAY ANY50) CD
Dump, Tobin Sprout, Ron House, Robert Pollard, Mike Rep, Jenny Mae, Franklin Bruno, Don Howland, Robert Griffin, Simon Joyner, Lizard McGee, Jake O'Clay, Bill Fox, Ted Hattemer, Dan Spungeon, Earnest, Waybald, Chris Biester, Gilmore Tamny, Karl Hendricks, Paul Nini, Scotty Tabachnik, Smelt Daddy and Jerry Wick. All tracks are either previously unreleased or different from available versions. Released August 17th, 1998.
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BETTIE SERVEERT Plays Venus In Furs and
Other Velvet Underground Songs (BRINKMAN BKM74)
CD
Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, November 1997. Like the title says: "Beginning to See The Light," "Stephanie Says," "What Goes On," "Venus In Furs," "Sunday Morning," "Black Angel's Death Song," "European Sun," "I Can't Stand It," "Rock and Roll," "Afterhours." Released August 3rd, 1998.
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AISLERS SET Terrible Things Happen (SLUMBERLAND
SL55) CD/LP
New project from Amy of Henry's Dress, Alicia from Poundsign, Yoshi from Scenic Vermont and Trackstar's Wyatt. A post-mod beat bonanza. Released July 27th, 1998.
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JASON BILL & JACK ROSE Via St. Louis (DRUNKEN
FISH DF36) CD
Charalambides guitarist Jason is joined by Pelt member Jack. "Via St. Louis" captures to tape a weekend spent plugged into a (mostly) functioning 4-track and staring into the white dot center of the sun. Released July 27th, 1998.
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GASP Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People (SLAP
A HAM SLAP46) CD/LP
Full length debut from twisted LA foursome who hover in the
nebulous, non-existent middle ground among power violence, sludge, noise
and Captain Beefheart. Aggressive, heavy and completely unpredictable; fans
of the absurd will revere it. Hardcore fans will worship it. All others
will flee in fear. Released July 27th, 1998.
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V/A
Fit For Kings (DRUNKEN FISH DF37) CD
A collection of extrinsic New Zealand mood, all previously released on eight-inch lathecut polycarbonate discs as part of a limited edtion series. With Parmentier, Witcyst, Crude, the Aesthetics, Children's Television Workshop, the Pointsman, Casagrante Apparatus and White Saucer. Released July 27th, 1998.
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BRUCE RUSSELL Projects For A Revolution In New York (SILTBREEZE SB71) LP
Debonair Dead C. leader and Siltbreeze logo model Tom Lax let loose in February 1997 in the basement of an abandoned Masonic lodge. Disembowled piano, pots, pans, rocks, sticks, a triangle, a distant siren, an electric fan, and some sort of freaked out Kiwi intonarumori, with the cool guitar hum 'n drone of Surface of the Earth's Paul Toohey added after the fact. Primitive and twisted feedback-laden steel-string action over a background of tape-loop drone skree. Mercy. Released July 27th, 1998.
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BURNED UP, BLED DRY Cloned Slaves for Slaves (SLAP A HAM SLAP48) 7"
Fort Smith, Arkansas' most violent and gutteral hardcore combo. Released July27th, 1998.
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SONIC YOUTH Silver Session (SKR SKR1)
CD
Issued as a tribute to KUSF music director Jason Knuth. Proceeds benefit the San Francisco Suicide Prevention Hotline. Released July 13th, 1998.
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EXCRUCIATING TERROR Divided We Fall (PESSIMISER PESS27)
CD/LP
The best in power violence and death/grind since 1991, when Excructiating Terror began touring the West coast and Mexico. Mondo heaviosity with cough-syrup-defying nods to early Napalm Death and Extreme NoiseTerror-- over-the-top, down-tuned, dual vocal grind/crust just the way you like it, chief. Released July 13th, 1998.
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V/A Cry Now, Cry Later Volumes 3/4 (PESSIMISER
PESS026) CD
Second set chronicling the double-seven-inch series of comps that set the standard in extreme hardcore, grind and doom. After a long, dark age of out-of-print-ness, they are now available as the second volume of one CD (Volume 1/2 released June 8th). with extra tracks AND a deluxe 28-page booklet including all the original artwork. Prepare to be crushed: MAN IS THE BASTARD/LACK OF INTEREST/SOILENT GREEN/LOOMIS SLOVAK/CROOM/EXCRUCIATING TERROR/CAVITY/FLAME RETARDED/AGATHOCLES/SUPRESSION/DIVISIA/CAROL/SPAZZ/LOS CRUDOS/GASP/HALFMAN/NOOTHGRUSH/CHARLES BRONSON/LOCUST/DETESTATION/ABNEGATION/SEVEN FOOT SPLEEN/AGAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED. Released July 13th, 1998.
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NOD Magnetic Anomaly (SMELLS LIKE
RECORDS SLR025) CD
Rochester, NY ensemble throw the baby out with the bongwater and destroy all available preconceptions regarding the non-Estrus garage rapscallity of what has been delivered to a Nod-deficient world. Miss Jonathan Richmond circa 1981/Rough Trade era? Always wanted to hear those lost the Idiot demos? Released June 8th, 1998.
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YOUNG GINNS (s/t) (HONEY BEAR HB20)
CD
Unwound members Justin and Brandt were stranded at the DC abode of one Tim Green in winter 1991. Basement SST frenzies were the delusion of the day, and eventually Brett Frost heard the call to dissipation so actutely he temporarily set aside his Nyquil and acted out his wildest Darby dreams. What began as a mathrock diversion transmogrified into a punk rock nightmare. Lucky you. Released June 8th, 1998.
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V/A Cry Now Cry Later Volumes 1/2
(PESSIMISER PESS025) CD
Some of our older readers may remember those two double-seven-inch comps that set the standard in extreme hardcore, grind and doom. After a long, dark age of out-of-print-ness, they are now available as the first volume of one CD with extra tracks AND a deluxe 28-page booklet including all the original artwork. Prepare for violation: SPAZZ/13/CROM/FISHSTICKS/STAPLED SHUT/CRISIS/FLEABAG/EYEHATEGOD/DESPISE YOU/MEAT SHITS/GRIEF/16/IABHORHER/CAPITALIST CASUALTIES/CATTLEPRESS/EXCRUCIATING TERROR/DYSTOPIA/LACK OF INTEREST/FACTORIA DE MIEDO, plus bonus trax by BLACK ARMY JACKET/COJOBA/PISSPOOR/UNRUH. Released June 8th, 1998.
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JOEL R. L. PHELPS 3 Downer Trio
(PACIFICO 07) CD
You know, the guy from Silkworm. He, along with Robert Mercer and William Herzog, make up the Downer Trio. The sparse, distinct power of 3's mournful twang conjures memories of Gram Parsons, Palace and Souled American. A living, rocking, breathing record. Released June 15th, 1998.
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GODSTOMPER Saturday Morning Power Violence
(SLAP A HAM SLAP44) 7"
11-song salute to kid's television from guitar-less (bass/drums/vox) Bay area duo. Brutal. Released June 15th, 1998.
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LA LENGUA ASESINA Hotel Opera (SMELLS
LIKE RECORDS SLR025) CD
From Two Dollar Guitar member Tim Foljahn, solo for the first time. Lower in key and uniquely intense, these 13 rambling, ephemeral soul ballads are heavily touched by the ghosts of an anglo-folk past. Released June 22nd, 1998.
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TOWER RECORDINGS Furniture Music for Evening Shuttles (SILTBREEZE SB54) CD
In a time when most of their peers are attempting to come to terms with Eastern-tinged modal blap, stroke LaMonte Young's beard, or try on kosmische Krautrock cadet uniforms, the Tower Recordings have chosen to fan the fires and fill their lungs with the smoke of left field prog, stoner folk and hippie psyche. Three tokes for single-mindedness! Released June 22nd, 1998.
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JENNY MAE Don't Wait Up For Me
(ANYWAY ANY47) CD
Since leaving Vibrolux in 1994, Columbus, Ohioan Jenny Mae has released at least ten singles, plus a full-length album "There's A Bar Around The Corner. . . Assholes" (1995). I had this melatonin dream about Neil Young and Julee Cruise waking up together in the trunk of Mark Eitzel's '67 Polara. Déja vu about to become flesh, a sturdy, firm, loosey- goosey hangover of a record, where regret meets disdain, but seldom at the expense of fun. Released May18th, 1998.
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KING SOUND QUARTET The Get Down Imperative
(IN THE RED ITR052) LP
Loud and lewd rocking and rolling: Mick Collins (Gories, Blacktop), Tim Kerr (Poison 13, Jack O'Fire, Lord High Fixers), Alex Cuervo (Blacktop) and Stephanie Friedman (Lord High Fixers, Sugar Shack) all in one room with the tape deck humming. A side-long version of "Space Is The Place" pins even ears that refuse to be pinned. Pounding garage punk, raw soul, and free jazz abound here. A portion of this recording will not be found on the upcoming (can we get back to you?) CD. Vinyl released May 18th, 1998.
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