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Updated 11/21/03 Release dates [among other things] subject to change. Our mailorder pages feature all the titles below-- and more-- sorted by release date at the following links:
10/27/03,
11/3/03,
11/10/03,
11/17/03 and
11/24/03.
Our October 2003 new release page can be found here.
If you need to dwell on the present and/or peer further into the future, Revolverwise, there's no better starting point than our news page.
 VARIOUS ARTISTSAmos House Vol. 3 (WISHING TREE WTR023) 2xCD Released the week of November 10th, 2003
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The third installation in Amos House charity compilation series features twenty rare and exclusive tracks. Proceeds go directly to Amos House, a Rhode Island-based non-profit charity organization dedicated to providing direct support for people in need by offering resources that help them achieve greater stability and self-reliance in their lives. Some of today's finest artists have come together to generously contribute their work to help such a deserving cause, and with their enthusiasm and continued support, the awareness of this series has grown considerably.
30-second RealAudio excerpts: "Find Your Own Fire" - Emily Sparks Released the week of November 3rd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Coming from Houston, settling in Oakland, friend to the Cuts, loved by the Modey Lemon. Makes sense this acid-tinged, macabre piece of beauty falls on the lap of Birdman. Think Roky Erickson, Syd Barret, Mayo Thompson, post-ax wielding Skip Spence; the songs on Medicine Fuck Dream are hypnotizing, mind-altering, dark, fuzzy bits about love, love and death, love and war, and Technicolor love from the leader of Texas' Mirrors (not the old Mirrors from yesteryear). Greg Ashley has a new band called The Gris Gris, whose Birdman debut will be coming early next year. Ashley will be touring with the Gris Gris during the last months of 2003 playing songs from Medicine Fuck Dream as well as others.
Greg Ashley is a troubled young man and that's the good news. He writes and sings like he's felt it ten times harder than you hear it. Listen the second time and the avalanche catches up to you quickly. This kid's a star and recognition begins right now. --Greg Dulli, 2003
30-second RealAudio excerpts: Karen Loves Candy
Released the week of November 10th, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder From the murky border between the urban jungle and the smoldering
forests of Hades comes Crack: We Are Rock. Spawned as a cough syrup-fueled dream somewhere in the Midwest ca. 1995, founder King Riff brought his vision to San Francisco and performed under the Crack:WAR banner with a revolving cast of savants and sociopaths. Eventually teaming up with black metal poseur Obscuratron, the line-up solidified with the addition of L'Erin and Le Kim, sirens with a poetic vision who had fallen off the back of a caravan in a Satanic children's circus.
After touring the US and Japan, Crack:WAR dropped Silent Fantasy on an unsuspecting public. Combining electronics gone wrong with glue-sniffer schoolyard taunts and festering disco rhythms, Crack:WAR gave robo-chic the surrealist bathroom beatdown it savagely deserved.
Crack:WAR immersed themselves in their collective obsessions (specter-infested woods, fiendish horsemen, and New Age warfare) and now unleash a full-length fever dream-journey into a psychedelic future where rainbow-coated simians control the machines and bloodied unicorns sip wine with shrouded reptiles.
"As thrilling as getting a stiletto crammed into your chin by a mistress with a whip" --The Stranger 30-second RealAudio excerpts: Wedlock
Released the week of November 3rd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder Over the last 17 years, The Dead C have produced some of the most strident, uncompromising and downright nasty rock screech to exit from their homeland of New Zealand, without sacrificing an ounce of the grace and finesse required of tamers of gigantic, wild sandworms. Their eighteen full-length albums and numerous seven-inch singles have garnered worldwide respect from vertebrates and invertebrates alike.
The Dead C's improvised noise rock verges on disintegration with a trademark hazy disorientation, invariably evoking hypnotic and heavy moods. But The Dead C are no bummer. They have always sought liberation from shallow and easy rock conventions; amid the murk of cardboard box guitars, underwater vocals, and ramshackle drumming, a new consciousness emerges. The recognizable, sullen strumming, mumbling and lyrical ennui of painter and educator Michael Morley (also known for his solo work as Gate), anchored by percussionist Robbie Yeats and punctuated by the atonal bursts of writer and Corpus Hermeticum label boss Bruce Russell (also known for his solo work as A Handful of Dust), coalesce in a solid front that mocks the efforts of schmaltz-peddling hacks.
The Damned was recorded during sustained and intensive sessions from 2001 through 2003, at the Driving Range studio in Port Chalmers. Final mixing and production took place in 2003 at My Pit in Port Chalmers.
The Dead C's The Damned is a rank, rank fairytale gone wrong. --Dylan Nyoukis, Decaer Pinga
30-second RealAudio excerpts: Released the week of November 3rd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
As their description by one writer as "Crass meets The Who" should make obvious, The Fuse! must be seen and heard to be believed. Three razor sharp Hispanic kids (known mysteriously as F-1, F-2, and F-3) from Downey, California (yup, home of the Carpenters), instantly surpass all revolutionary rhetoric by literally attacking their instruments as well as physically assaulting the audience. The Fuse! don't need to spend all day perfecting their chops; their guitar is going right through your skull as you dance uncontrollably to an insane racket of total discontent. But there are actual songs on Fisherman's Wife, too. They are the sound of the new frustration.
Anyone who has peeked into F-2's journal while he frantically scribbles in it at the Three of Clubs (where he's always sipping some pink tropical drink) knows that he's nothing short of a mad, pissed genius. The Fuse! are way too impatient to be part of the aping-Gang-Of-Four-and-PiL scene, and are way too violent for boring punk-blues scholarship. Big sigh of relief there, right? Two years into their chaotic career and they've already had a documentary made about them - before releasing an actual recording.
30-second RealAudio excerpts: The Fisherman's Wife
Released the week of November 3rd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder No longer a kid, Kid606 finds himself at the forefront of America's independent electronic music world, striving against adversity, surpassing expectation, and breaking the rules. Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You promises to bring listeners to a fiery musical climax, by merging thoughts and ideas previously spewed out by Kid606 while advancing to the next level where over-the-top, danceable, power-electronic, technopunkhyper, rave-gabber-junglist madness reigns. "The Illness," "Woofer Wrecker," and "Ecstasy Motherfucker" are pure tension-and-release dancefloor stormers, oozing with sweaty, breakbeat energy, dynamic noise, and grinding acid riffs. "Who Wah Kill Sound?" and "Buckle Up," featuring accomplished UK dancehall MC Wayne Lonesome, are the album's tribunal ragga junglist anthems where thunderous beats and booming basslines collide with thrashing gabber kicks, dirty rave blasts, and monstrous, police-siren wails and screeches.
Kid606's most accessible and innovative work to date moves rapidly across a consciously schizoid emotional spectrum you just won't find anywhere else. This angst-induced thrill ride is inspired by today's fucked-up, computer-complicated world, and 2 Bad Mice, Jeff Mills, Aphex Twin, and The Prodigy's early work.
Released the week of November 3rd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder Should you hear anyone mutter, "Ow. Everything hurts, the world's gone to shit and I'm so sad," the proper response is "Buck up, princess," which basically means "pull your pants up and stop whining."
Josh Martinez is back in business with a brand new professional bootleg that should put to rest any doubt that he is here to make it huge. Containing guest appearances from Awol One, mcenroe, and Governor Bolts, with production from world famous producers DJ Moves, jel, Westainporcelain, Maker, and mcenroe, Buck Up Princess is serious business: next generation rap music, moving from banger to anthem and back again, leaving you with sweaty palms, a nervous tic, and the need to love and be loved.
Martinez has built a solid reputation around the world for his engaging wordplay, butter melodies and high-energy live performances. Buck Up Princess is the result of two years of 'round-the-clock grinding, constant touring and a desperate ploy to grab the world's attention, if only long enough to move it with the music (minus all the large trucks, cardboard boxes and new addresses). It's sincere and spectacular. Believing the world needs less crying and more good times, Six Months offers Buck Up Princess, the album, the lifestyle. So stop whining and get on with it.
30-second RealAudio excerpts: Another Day
Released the week of November 3rd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Just when you thought Darwinism was dead, Mochipet mutates music into an indefinable force that dumbfounds the best Scrabble players. This CD not only explodes musical genres, it takes deconstructionism to a whole new level of insanity. Your brain... a blender... a big, fat, mushy, musical rice cake! If you could ever imagine Frank Zappa marrying Aphex Twin and having surrogate children by the likes of NoMeansNo, Yes, Wang Chung, Johnny Cash, DJ Qbert, Nelly and ThunderCats, then you can picture Mochipet's Violent Turd debut.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, where politicians box and girls in huts make cars crash, David Wang has been composing mischievous music since his mom bought him a stiletto guitar at the age of 15. After years in punk-disco-classical-blackmetal bands, Mochipet is his newest avatar. The potency of Mochipet releases on Germany's bpitchcontrol and his own btrendy have been compared to "licking a page of micro-dots, bring on the hallucinations..."
Released the week of November 3rd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
After releasing numerous albums under the radar, Beyond Space Entertainment decided it was their time, and what better way to build a name for themselves than with a compilation featuring well established artists from all around the country? Having tired of comps with as many recycled tracks as exclusive, Beyond Space delivers nothing but new, exclusive songs from sole, alias (deep puddle dynamics, anticon), odd nosdam (clouddead, reaching quiet), passage, The Bommar Monk, telephone jim jesus (restifrom bodies), Adeem & Shalem (production for Sage Francis's The Makeshift Patriot), Circus and The Shape Shifters, and up-and-coming artists JD Walker, Tadow, Emynd, and Ognihs. With this release Beyond Space Entertainment shows what a compilation should be-- all new songs showcasing a wide range of talent.
30-second RealAudio excerpts: "Introdiction" - Emynd
Released the week of November 3rd, 2003 order from Midheaven mailorder
Memphis musician/producer Jim Dickinson is a legend in his own right (having played keyboards on the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses," performed on Bob Dylan albums, produced Big Star and Alex Chilton albums, etc., etc.) and he definitely knows a thing or two about blues roots and field recordings of legendary and should-be-legendary blues artists from the south. Dickinson captures raw and spontaneous performances from some of the most important blues artists in the Memphis / Mississippi area on these exclusive recordings by Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes (whose performances feature the guitar work of Ry Cooder), Otha Turner, Mose Vinson, Johnny Woods and Alec Teal. These pure examples of Delta blues were committed to tape at Sam Phillips studios, Ardent studios, the Orpheum Theater, and various fields in and around the Memphis area. Raw, gritty and real-- just how the blues should be heard.
Dickinson says, "The Blues is ... a musical tradition born from the dark prison of slavery. Torn from family and homeland, separated from custom and culture, the call and response of the African work song took on new emotional depth. A lonesome sound in the darkness-- a howling dog or passing train-- echoed by harmonica or guitar became a raw, powerful statement of hard times, long work, and fast pleasure; a voice in the southern night complaining about the human condition.
"The fleeting nature of the present creates in man the desire to capture the moment. The movement of time compels us to record. The record becomes a totem, a pageant with a potential for recurring cultural impact, a sacrament between artist and audience, an unique event preserved and repeatable."
30-second RealAudio excerpts: "Roll Me Over Slow" - Alec Teal and Butter Biscuit |
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CRACK: WE ARE ROCK
THE DEAD C.
THE FUSE!
KID 606
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