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  • Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
    Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
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    A solo double bass LP from Zach Rowden. A minimal and  drone album that requires you to let go, and hear Zach’s discipline and from that – patience. Immediately intimate, […]

  • Cannibal Error (Revised)
    Cannibal Error (Revised)
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    A social history of the ‘video nasty’. In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-sized cartridge of [...]

  • Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
    Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
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    On 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls […]

  • Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976-1988
    Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976-1988
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    A visual history of the artists, fans, and fanzines of widely influential British punk. Zerox Machine is an immersive journey through the vibrant history of British punk and its associated […]

  • Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
    Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
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    In 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]

  • Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
    Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    The first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music. West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change, [...]

  • Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
    Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
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    New evidence in ‘Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control’ uncovers the origin of an organized group of racist terrorists committing [...]

  • The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
    The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Mystical and everyday reveries from the visionary American modernist In the early years of the 20th century, Charles Burchfield painted mystic and visionary landscapes, and with some of his [...]

  • Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
    Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
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    As the Seventies drew to a close and the media declared punk dead and buried, a whole new breed of band was emerging from the gutter. Harder and faster than […]

  • Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
    Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
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    Is Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters? Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. […]

  • Fluid Futures: Science Fiction And Potentiality
    Fluid Futures: Science Fiction And Potentiality
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    How does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know? Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open […]

  • Steven Legget – Bathhouse
    Steven Legget – Bathhouse
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    Label: Firecracker Recordings – FIREC 24LP Format: 2xVinyl LP, Album Country: UK Released: 2018 VG+/VG+. Red OBI included

  • DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
    DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    New sixteen-minute piece by DJ Speedsick of cut-up style harsh noise and claustrated blues guitar entrails descending into a vortex; comprised largely of archival recordings and audio extracted [...]

  • Karen Constance / Dylan Nyoukis – Day Music / Night Music
    Karen Constance / Dylan Nyoukis – Day Music / Night Music
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    Constance the insomniac presents us with Day Music. Heavy processed electronics, field recordings, mangled voices and tape wrangle constructed late at night in bed. Fend off the darkness fears [...]

  • tik///tik / Salt Swan – KCPC / Musk Lust
    tik///tik / Salt Swan – KCPC / Musk Lust
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    Amerige Records takes pride in reviving an overlooked classic, now reissued on vinyl and widely accessible for the first time. Originally distributed on cassette among friends in 2011, this [...]

  • Leslie Keffer – Represents: Live 2005
    Leslie Keffer – Represents: Live 2005
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    “Vocals, Radios.” As line items on record sleeves go, that’s fairly cryptic – it could mean anything. But that’s what Ohioan noise artist Leslie Keffer was working with on the […]

  • Baphomet Sex – All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed
    Baphomet Sex – All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed
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    Baphomet Sex is V. Jasper Fairbanks 4 track cassette player with looping cassette 10 channel mixer Genthalz C.U.N.T Earthquaker Organizer, Arpanoid, Astral Destiny Donner loop pedal Edition of 50

  • Leslie Keffer – She-Wolf
    Leslie Keffer – She-Wolf
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    Leslie Keffer: vocals, radios Previously unreleased material written and recorded in 2006 Edition of 50

  • Slacking – Roundhouse A Bootlicker
    Slacking – Roundhouse A Bootlicker
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    Debut vinyl release from Slacking. New American harsh noise. Mastered by Grant Richardson at Hex Audio Labs. Side B is an excerpt of a live collaboration with Mallard Theory.

  • Mallard Theory – Mallard Theory
    Mallard Theory – Mallard Theory
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    Short-form noise from Pittsburgh live staple Mallard Theory. Transparent green C10 cassette professionally duplicated with full-body sticker label and 4-panel insert.

  • Kapotte Muziek – Musik Ohne Ende
    Kapotte Muziek – Musik Ohne Ende
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Professionally-manufactured CD in full-color, 4-panel digipak. Includes bonus tracks from compilations (Tracks 5 – 7) Originally released 1988 via Prion Tapes Mastered by Nÿland at 4 & [...]

  • State Of The Union
    State Of The Union
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    All tracks previously unreleased from projects currently active in the United States. Featuring Pain Appendix, Dead Door Unit, Confounder, Ineffable Slime, Gates Of Janus, Max Julian Eastman, [...]

  • Illusion Of Safety & Z’EV – Illusion Of Safety & Z’ev
    Illusion Of Safety & Z’EV – Illusion Of Safety & Z’ev
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    “At the conclusion of the Z’EV & Illusion of Safety performance at Enemy in Chicago in 2007, Z’EV approached me to work together on a release. In 2008 he provided […]

  • K2 – Hybrid Dub Metal Musik
    K2 – Hybrid Dub Metal Musik
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    K2 / “Hybrid Dub Metal Musik” A-1: Tokyo Would Be Carthago (12’32”)* A-2: Trade Friction in Medieval (7’57”)* B-1: Love To The Extent to Biting My Hands (20’42”)** *Recorded at […]

  • Smell & Quim + Expose Your Eyes – Non-Stop Pathological Gland Sucking
    Smell & Quim + Expose Your Eyes – Non-Stop Pathological Gland Sucking
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Stalwarts of UK noise S&Q + EYE unite for their Slaughter Productions appearance. Relentlessly harsh, yet endlessly shifting collage. Loops and mangled tape editing. Strange and rewarding [...]

  • Dead Door Unit – Abandon
    Dead Door Unit – Abandon
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    Philadelphia-based K. Geiger is active under the guises of Dead Door Unit, Master Grave Services, and his imprint French Market Press producing ultra-limited noise tapes (often 7 copies or less) [...]

  • Randy Greif – The Shadow Traders
    Randy Greif – The Shadow Traders
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    Greif’s final work of his early cassette era, initially released under Swinging Axe Productions in 1988. Quite the widely-distributed tape, several tracks were featured on V/A compilations by [...]

  • Slacking – Behind Closed Doors I & II
    Slacking – Behind Closed Doors I & II
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Compiles the out-of-print tapes “Revolutions of Mortal Spoils” and “Wheeling Around the Panting Scrag” on one compact disc, plus an additional bonus track! Essential Americanoise.

  • Hell And Back
    Hell And Back
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    “A document of life events. Last Day With My Garbage, Share The Wealth, Confounder, Ozymandias & Joe Roemer, Dead Door Unit”

  • Emil Beaulieau – America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist
    Emil Beaulieau – America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally released via RRRecords. Crucial document containing over an hour of live and studio footage. NTSC format videotape

  • My Teeth Need Attention #3 – 7″ & zine
    My Teeth Need Attention #3 – 7″ & zine
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    This issue of My Teeth Need Attention includes interviews with Jackson Wingate (Flipped Out, Burnt Hills), Joe Piccirillo (Minimum Table Stacks), photos, fiction, reviews, and more. Jackson has [...]

  • Rock Candy – Swimming In
    Rock Candy – Swimming In
    $8.00 | Add to cart

    Delve into Rock Candy’s first ever released recordings – enter their universe of far out features, including sounds from the electric guitar, organ, drum machine and “vintage” keyboard. An [...]

  • TASTE – I dipped my comb… (Loud experimental rock)
    TASTE – I dipped my comb… (Loud experimental rock)
    $24.00 | Add to cart

    I dipped my comb in shochu and ran it through the hair of the night is the brand new release from the intriguing trio 番長 Taste, consisting of Mark Anderson […]

  • The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
    The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into [...]

  • A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
    A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.” Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any […]

  • Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
    Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a […]

  • Technical Space Composer’s Crew – Canaxis 5
    Technical Space Composer’s Crew – Canaxis 5
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Canaxis 5 is the only studio album to be released by the Technical Space Composer’s Crew, released in 1969 by Music Factory. On later issues, the artist credit would be […]

  • V/A – …And Shiva Came For Charlie
    V/A – …And Shiva Came For Charlie
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    Label: Ri Be Xibalba – OQ’EBAL 002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+

  • SUSS – Birds & Beasts
    SUSS – Birds & Beasts
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    SUSS’ fifth release, Birds & Beasts, on Northern Spy Records, finds the New York-based ambient trio digging deeper, populating its stark, ethereal soundscapes with primal currents of sound [...]

  • Suss – Suss (2022 self titled)
    Suss – Suss (2022 self titled)
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    A lot has happened to SUSS since their last vinyl release, 2020’s Promise on Northern Spy Records. That album ended up on many best-of lists that year, and was cited […]

  • Mushrooms: A Separate Kingdom
    Mushrooms: A Separate Kingdom
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    Oxmoor House, 1979 hardcover edition, first printing. Small amount of staining to dust-jacket. David Jenkins’s mycological writings, accompanied by Loni Parker’s beautiful watercolors [...]

  • Whole Earth Catalog: Spring 1969
    Whole Earth Catalog: Spring 1969
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    Portola Institute, 1969 second printing. Noticeable rubbing & chipping/wear to spine. Some rubbing to front cover. Foxing to pages. “The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC) was an American [...]

  • The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
    The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
    $150.00 | , , Add to cart

    Feral House, 2004 paperback edition. Some light corner & edgewear to the wraps. Writing on front page. Probably the single greatest work of conspiracy literature. Needs to be read to […]

  • Rapid Eye 1
    Rapid Eye 1
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    Creation Books, 1995 third revised edition. Small amount of staining to front cover, along with some edge/cornerwear to wraps. Tiny indentation to front cover as well, as if by pen. […]

  • K2 / John Wiese – Multiple Density
    K2 / John Wiese – Multiple Density
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    K2/John Wiese Multiple Density CD Helicopter/Troniks HEL 81007, TRO-351 Kimihide Kusafuka and John Wiese capitalize on their common language of concrète cut-up sounds for their first ever duo [...]

  • T. Mikawa* / John Wiese – Live At 落合 Soup
    T. Mikawa* / John Wiese – Live At 落合 Soup
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    T. Mikawa/John Wiese Live At 落合 Soup CD Helicopter/Troniks HEL 81009, TRO-353 In a follow-up to their duo debut, 2016’s Oblique No Strategy, T. Mikawa (Incapacitants, Hijokaidan) and John Wiese [...]

  • Merzbow / John Wiese – EKA Varna
    Merzbow / John Wiese – EKA Varna
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    Merzbow/John Wiese EKA Varna CD Helicopter/Troniks HEL 81008, TRO-352 Nearly 20 years after the release of their landmark collaboration Multiplication, and nearly 25 years since their first live [...]

  • Sissy Spacek – Hunter Killer
    Sissy Spacek – Hunter Killer
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    Sissy Spacek Hunter Killer CD Helicopter HEL 99098 2015 Disfathom-era multi-track recording with Mike Du Bose on vocals. INTENSE GRINDCORE.

  • Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
    Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
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    Sissy Spacek Mirror Aggressor State CD Helicopter HEL 99099 On the heels of their F.O.A.D. LP and mid-west/east coast tour, a new full-length album from the Isaac Horne/Charlie Mumma/John Wiese [...]

  • Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi ‎– In The Past Only Geniuses… 2LP
    Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi ‎– In The Past Only Geniuses… 2LP
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    Label: Black Truffle – BT050 Format: 2xVinyl, LP Country: Austrailia Released: 2019 VG+/VG+

  • Muslimgauze ‎– Blinded Horses
    Muslimgauze ‎– Blinded Horses
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    Label: Limited Editions – LIMITED 2 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1985 VG+/VG+, with some light marks/sleevewear

  • Amelia Courthouse – Broken Things LP
    Amelia Courthouse – Broken Things LP
    $22.00 | Ships on/around Sep 06, 2024 Add to cart

    On her first album since ruby glass (SPINSTER, 2019), sound artist and composer amelia courthouse (aka Leah Toth) builds on her previous album’s textures, moods, and evocations of memory, adding [...]

  • Sun Araw – Beach Head
    Sun Araw – Beach Head
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    Label: Sun Ark Records – SA01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue Country: US Released: 2010 VG+/VG+. Still in shrink

  • Ted Byrnes CD Bundle
    Ted Byrnes CD Bundle
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Limited To 20,  3 CD bundle including: From Torn Light Records: Ted Byrnes & Michael Foster – Solfege From Arkeen: Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space Ted Byrnes […]

  • Phew – Phew
    Phew – Phew
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Pass Records – KEN -1007 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue Country: Japan Released: 1987 VG+/VG+

  • Camille Dietrich – Grates of Love
    Camille Dietrich – Grates of Love
    $10.00 | Ships on/around Aug 23, 2024 Add to cart

    Camille is the rawest cellist working today, straight up, no qualifiers. It’s hard to separate her from her dad and co-conspirator Don Dietrich in the same way it’s incredibly difficult […]

  • Guilherme Granado – Christi Annu Ali Vyianna
    Guilherme Granado – Christi Annu Ali Vyianna
    $10.00 | Ships on/around Aug 23, 2024 Add to cart

    When Ab from Cartas de Cartalunya (OCFC-002) sent me Christi Annu Ali Vyianna I thought it was another of his alter egos because it shared the same dreamscape Brazilian cyclical […]

  • Aster – Things That Just Happen
    Aster – Things That Just Happen
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    Label: R.E.L. Records REL21 Format: LP Country: US Released: 2013 [duo of Ashley Paul & Eli Keszler]

  • Yves Bouliane – Champ (10 Operations)
    Yves Bouliane – Champ (10 Operations)
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    Label: Tenzier TNZR054 Format: LP Country: Canada Released: 2015

  • Glaciers – Superposition
    Glaciers – Superposition
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    TODD A. CARTER – PIANO, RHODES, SYNTH, PERCUSSION, TOYS, ORGAN MICHAEL HARTMAN – PIANO, SYNTHS, DRUMS, PERCUSSION RECORDED AT BEL_AIR SOUND STUDIO NOBLE SQUARE 2019 – 2022 [...]